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Kurogane    "To keep balance, you must be able to accept anything and do anything to achieve that goal."

Earthbender 20 Years Old Blue and Orange Morality

Personality Kurogane can be concisely described as a revolving door, switching from being kind to malicious to skeptical in a single sentence if he so chooses. Due to his...unique philosophy of worldly balance he constantly switches allegiances and social standings, often only at a moment's notice. Just about anyone or group Kurogane comes across is viable for him to punish, reward, help personally, kill or maim without hesitation, discourage, or even inspire depending on how he believes it will balance the situation or problem. Kurogane often does many of these things at the same time, inspiring people to fight against their enemies only to viciously betray them when they get the upperhand over said enemy. Whether abhorrent or saintly, if Kurogane believes it will balance out the world he will gladly do any action without remorse. Despite this he remains cheerful and holds an almost constant optimistic outlook, enjoying the fact that he is helping the world in some meaningful way. None of the few that have tried to darken Kurogane's disposition have survived his brutal murder sprees against those who seek to depress him. Kurogane is not someone whose wrath you would like to incur.

Despite his ever changing persona the one single facet that stays true throughout Kurogane's personality is his absolute hatred of hypocrisy. Despite having the tendency to betray everyone he comes across he doesn't dislike them, the opposite in fact. He admires those who follow their convictions to the very end, even those whose convictions are to kill him. However he views hypocrites as lower than insects or even the dirt he walks on and controls with his earthbending. If a hypocrite ever crosses paths with Kurogane they have a target painted on their back and an agonizing death waiting for them.

History Kurogane's parents Gopan and Jaya were once wealthy Earth Kingdom nobles who lives illustrious lives in the Upper Ring of Ba Sing Se, who were also known as some of the most vain and petty people the Upper Ring has ever housed. However this pettiness eventually cost them their lifestyles when another noble family mentioned their notoriety as vain and selfish people. Angered beyond the point of reason, Gopan and Jaya invited many nobles over for a gala and attempted to poison every single one of their guests. However their plan was found out and they were quickly exiled to the Lower Ring and stripped of all their privileges. Soon afterward they had their son Kurogane.

Despite their best attempts to make Kurogane into a worthy noble heir, he was willful and often ran off to play with the children of the slums rather than learn the customs of the nobles. After a few years of this his parents gave up on trying to make him a proper heir, rather they decided to use him to take revenge on the nobles that had exiled them by using Kurogane's earthbending. His father began teaching his son how to attack and destroy anything and everything with his earthbending, hoping to toughen him up for when he would kill the nobles. Though Kurogane preferred to create with his powers over time he began to enjoy the destructive nature of his father's teachings as well, to the point where he stopped using earthbending around his friends in fear of accidentally killing them.

A few months after completing his training, Kurogane's parents learned of a noble visiting the Lower Ring to intermingle with the commoners and decided that this would be the best chance for Kurogane to begin his career as a slayer of Earth Kingdom nobles. However the noble fought back, and Kurogane was hesitant to kill him. Between his parents calling for the noble's blood and his friends and the injured noble begging him not to kill Kurogane...snapped. By the time he had come to his senses he had killed the noble, his parents, his childhood friends, and almost fifty other innocent bystanders with his earthbending. Horrified, Kurogane fled the city and ended up in the Si Wong Desert.

In the sands of the great desert Kurogane was determined to die, and once he was sufficiently lost and overheated he happily succumbed to the intense heat. Fate had other plans, however; an old sandbender found him passed out in the sand and took him back to his lonely abode to heal. When awoken Kurogane was angry he was saved, but the old man suggested letting him become his assistant rather than waste away in the burning sands. Believing there was no where else to go, Kurogane accepted and became the old sandbender's assistant. He helped fight off bandits, gather food and water, and even build a sand sailor for them to travel with. While helping around Kurogane and the old sandbender talked about philosophy, with the old man believing in preserving the balance of the world. He spoke of how everything and everyone is part of one great being, and if we try to destroy each other it would only end up causing a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. Kurogane listened intently, and over the two or three years as the old man's apprentice became determined to help keep the world in balance no matter what.

When he told the old sandbender of his new objective in life, the old man was overjoyed that his assistant had taken his words to heart. He suggested they go to Republic City, where between the Rebellion and constant in-fighting had been thrown out of balance for a very long time, and Kurogane eagerly agreed. However they were beset by a large group of bandits just outside the desert looking for revenge. The old sandbender took them all out, but before he could finish them off he was killed by Kurogane. In his mind, the old sandbender was disturbing the worldly balance by defeating all his foes rather than simply leaving them to fight again and Kurogane was forced to intervene. He then killed the bandits, as they were equal in power to the old sandbender and so it "set the scales right again", before leaving. He travelled throughout the Earth Kingdom, maintaining the balance he so fervently protected, and after a year he finally made it to Republic City. He was ready to bring back balance to the city in any way possible.

Misc. Information Height 6'1''

Weight 160lbs

Parent Names Gopan and Jaya  