Forum:Kyzyl Kum

FoggyMoor (talk) 22:16, August 27, 2014 (UTC)

Name: Kyzyl Kum (kee-ZIL koom)

Age: 26

Species: Earthbender

Appearance: Tall, thin, and gangling; traditional sandbender garb

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Personality: While Kyzyl is technically and adult, his brain is that of a child. He has a very rudimentary knowledge of the social and political aspects of life and finds it difficult to focus on more than one thing at a time. He is usualy non-combative but can lash out if things don't go his way. If he finds himself in a difficult situation, he is quite likely to get frustrated, leave the scene, and forget it ever happened. Fortunately for Kyzyl, he is a fairly skilled bender of sand. Unfortunately for Kyzyl, his parent-less upbringing was marred by his Uncle, and Kyzyl believes himself to be the Avatar. He is obviously not the Avatar, but he can do decent impersonations of bending the other Elements with sand (for example, bending red sand to make it look like fire).

History: Kyzyl Kum was born to a small tribe in the Si Wong desert. His Mother died during childbirth and his Father was rather negligent of the newborn. Days after birth, his village was attacked by a juvenile sandshark, leaving most of the village in ruins. The few remaining survivors gathered themselves up and moved to the next town over, baby Kyzyl in tow. Their story was told to the other town's Elders who linked all the misfortune to the infant. This is how Kyzyl got his name; the Elders dubbed him Kyzyl Kum, or 'Red Sand,' for the blood he allegedly spilt.

After this public condemnation, the only member of his otherwise large extended family who would rase him was a man claiming to be Kyzyl's uncle, known only as 'Uncle.' Uncle was a bad man and Kyzyl was raised believing himself to be the Avatar and all elements to be composed of sand ("Spirit Sand," that is. The kind only an Avatar could bend). Uncle was the one who instilled this belief on young Kyzyl for no other purpose than the amusement of dramatic irony.

When Kyzyl was 25 years old, his town was visited by Avatar Renshu. Kyzyl became confused and Uncle comforted him by saying, "That man is an imposter. He is simply capitalizing on your greatness. Stop him." Kyzyl could tell that his bending wasn't as good as Renshu's so he came up with a different approach.

Kyzyl decided that he would travel to Republic City and get a bunch of people to know about him. Then, everyone could vote on who the Avatar really was and Renshu would be exposed as a fraud.

(By the way, I know that sand bending isn't a beginning skill, but for someone born and raised in the desert, wouldn't it make sense for them to be skilled with sandbending and unskilled with more traditional Earthbending?)

FoggyMoor (talk) 22:16, August 27, 2014 (UTC)