Akhilesh

Personality
Due to living in opposite enviroments, Akhilesh has a relatively complex personality. He is an inherently good person, believing not necessarily in the sacredness of all life as the Air Nomads do, but that all life deserves respect. Although mostly respecting the authority, he is willing to break it if it isultimately for the better. He attempts holds up to an 'honesty is the best policy' philosophy. He is very empathetic, yet able to control his own emotions most of the time. However, he has a weakness, which is the fact that his personality as a whole often succumbs to the pressure of outside factors, mostly people he thinks high of.

History
Born in the Mining village to Chaman, an earthbender coal trader and Sengemo, a non-bender Air Nomad. His father had high hopes for him becoming a master earthbender, a feat he himself was unable to achieve due to his own father's lack of support and egocentrism, which also forced him to earn his wealth without any help from his family. So Chaman decided to train his son in the ways of earthbending as soon as possible.

After years of rigorous training, young Akhilesh adapted to the eartbending style, but there was little actual bending power involved until he was one day able to blast off a rock. It took a while until his father noticed that he was actually airbending and not earthbending, which was rather disappointing for him. However, he soon set a new goal to make sure his soon reaches his full bending potential, no matter the bending art. This led to Akhilesh being sent to the Southern Air Temple to train.

Being 8 when he started the air-bender training, Akhilesh was initially unable to adapt to the new enviroment and way of life. He was able to only control the air blast for the first year of his training. However, after another 6 months, he was finally able to begin using other powers. This marked the begining of his true training period.

Through his training, Akhilesh was able to master the initial air-bending powers, and the negative jing, as well as perfect his neutral jing. However, as he had been told often, he was unable to fully reach his airbending potential due to his earth-bender style of fighting and thinking. So once he was 18, he went back to Mining village to train by himself, and attempting to find a different approach to airbending.

After many months of meditation and training, his 19th birthday came. Akhilesh told his parents that he has decided to join the Citizenship Project and move to Republic City. Although his parents initially were strongly against it, gradually they accepted his decision and helped him prepare for his journey.