Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-30881236-20161228221659

Character Name: Erik Stryker

Title: Cobra

Bender Type: Poison

Age: 19

Appearance:  Erik has unkempt and wavy black hair and grey eyes that glint with coldness. Erik is young with no facial hair. He has a strong build and is clad in all black. His wristbands contain hidden blades that are soaked in his poison, he uses them to quickly assassinate his targets. His face is always hidden in his hood.

Personality: Before Xerof's death, Erik was a kind and compassionate boy who was rather "wimpy". But after Xerof's death, Erik became colder and cut off all emotional ties he had. He became darker and felt no restraint to kill. Erik further fell into the darkness when he found out the Rebellion's plans about Erik. This clouded Erik's mind with the goal of retribution and nothing else. Throughout his life Erik was always leaning to an introverted side.

History: Erik was born in poverty in Fire Nation Capital in the Fire Nation. Unable to take care of him, his mother and father gave him up when he was only 3 months, giving him no memories of his biological parents. He was then adopted by Xerof, a firebender scientist who was researching in the hidden locked potential inside all beings, benders and non-benders alike. Xerof was also determined to make Erik stronger than ever, for Xerof secretly plotted to have Erik assassinate the Avatar, this was to shift the scales for the Rebellion, who Xerof secretly supported. Unfortunately, Erik was extremely weak in bending. It just wasn't natural for him. It was nearly impossible for Erik to reach Xerof's standards, making Xerof angry and abusing Erik.

When Erik was 16, Xerof's anger broke and Xerof secretly experimented on Erik illegally, torturing and operating on Erik relentlessly, traumatizing Erik. Xerof used his previous research and inserted a lacrima into Erik, opening the secret potential that Erik had inside of him, and added poison to it. This poison lacrima transformed Erik into the very first poisonbender, with the ability to manipulate and produce deadly poison. Erik was now stronger than ever, and realizing his power, Erik immediately was scared. Erik did not want to hurt anyone. So when Xerof ordered Erik to travel to Republic City and kill the Avatar, Erik was horrified and didn't want to do it.Xerof threatened and abused Erik more and more that Erik broke and accidently killed Xerof with his poison. The noise came out and the justice/military force came there, and seeing Erik's power, decided to kill Erik. After killing Xerof, Erik's mind rebooted and his point of view of life changed. That night, Erik slaughtered all the guards and fled out of the Fire Nation.

For the next few years Erik took up the life of the mercenary and journeyed across all nations completing contracts. Throughout all nations his codename could be heard- Cobra. But on his last contract, he was assigned to kill a waterbending scientist in the Northern Water Tribe. Erik found out that this scientist was connected to Xerof and that they were both connected to the Rebellion, and that Xerof had consipirated with the Rebellion to use Erik as the ultimate weapon for the Rebellion and bring the Rebellion to victory. Erik, full of hate, dug deeper and found out that there were Rebellion leaders hiding in Republic City planning a massive ambush for the Rebellion to take over the city. Filled to the brim with a burning urge to seek vengeance on the Rebellion, Erik decided to leave for Republic City to kill the Rebellion leaders and begin his quest for revenge.His way out of the Northern Water Tribe was via a ferry that would take him to his desired destination, and to his retribution. When the looming structures came into view, Erik could only think of his revenge. Erik had arrived in Republic City.

Character Alignment: Neutral Amoral

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Height: 6'1

 