Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-25855640-20141212014738

Character Name: Ni-Chou

Bender Type: Non-bender

Age: 23

Appearance: Attached an image

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Personality: Ni-Chou is someone who loves books. She tries to learn as much as she can on her own before she even applies something into practice. One thing she cannot stand is being told what to do or being bound by tradition. She prefers being in the company of those that do not try to limit such freedoms, and openly opposes anyone being forced into doing anything against there will. However, having studied so much, she has come to accept that law enforcement and laws are necessary truths for society to function.

Her main goal is to learn as much as she can and find someone with similar ideals to pass it on to, like a protégé or pupil. She is willing to associate with all sorts of people, but will not stay with people that force loyalty, similarly to the likes of Kuvira or Azula.

Something she does not stand for is punishing the weak for being weak, and often picks fights with local thugs. She also used this to make her self-taught martial art style (Hisho-style) usable.

History: Ni-Chou was born in a small fire nation city. After learning all she could from her school's limited library, she left home at 16 in pursuit of further knowledge. Traveling from city to city, stealing food wherever she had to for survival, she eventually found a city with a large library, where she spent the next two years of her life, reading all she could about everything in library. The librarian saw her studiousness and offered to have her work at the library, maintaining the books. She happily accepted and began her life, practically living at the library. All was well and good until one day, she witnessed a mugging. Crippled by fear, she did nothing to stop as the mugger violently beat and robbed a lady's belongings. That day she told herself, "Never again" and began to study the library's books on martial arts, practicing during her free time.

This library life went on for about another year, when she reached the end of what she could learn from this library. She then wanted to find knowledge that could not be found in books. She asked around and learned that a nearby small village had some of the best herbal medicine practicing healers around. She thanked the librarian for allowing her to work there, took what money she had saved, and took off. As she was about to leave the city, she heard a scream from the outskirts of town. She smirked and immediately ran over to the scream she heard. A woman with a child were being cornered by thugs. She put down her belongings and boldly stepped forward and shouted, "Another step and your life is forfeit". The thugs looked and laughed at Ni-Chou. The largest of the group said, "Time for some fun boys" as he charged at her. She then got into a defensive pose she had read about and flipped the thug on his butt as he tried to punch her. He got up immediately and tried to swing again, she dodged and struck the groin, gut, and as he knelt over, struck the nose, knocking him out cold. As she turned to the other two, they looked at each other, looked at Ni-Chou and took off. She dusted off her clothes and handed some money to the child as she left for the small city.

When she arrived, almost all of the people ran inside their house at the sight of here. Whispers could be heard coming from the small, yet humble homes people were living in. When she arrived at town hall, she knocked on the closed door. No one answered. Ni-Chou looked around, trying to see if anything was out of place, but the empty town seemed like just that, an empty town. Before she could get to the first house, a large man walked out from behind another house and boomed, "You're a long way from home little lady." Ni-Chou said, "Home is for those unwilling to risk. My home is nowhere and everywhere." The man retorted with "Huh?" pausing for a few moments before grinning evilly and saying "Your pretty hair will make for a nice trophy you know." The man then charges at Ni-Chou. Ni-Chou takes a breath and takes up her defensive pose and attempts to flip the man as she had done the first, but this one was much larger, so she merely dodged his charge. She readied herself for his retaliation. She charged again and this time she managed to trip him, before striking at the back his head, effectively knocking him out. At the sight of this, the villagers started to emerge from their homes, and Ni-Chou saw this village was all elderly or children. The mayor emerged from town hall and spoke to Ni-Chou. His soft, old voice told her, "All of the young people in this village went to republic city, allured by the glitz and glamour of city life. No one is left to protect this village." Feeling bad for the people of this village, Ni-Chou proposed, "I've heard this village has some of the best healers around. If you teach me how to do that, I will train you in what I know of self-defense and strategy.

Ni-Chou spent the next 2 years studying medicine and teaching the children and elderly how to protect themselves from basic thugs. Bandits attacked the village on occasion, but Ni-Chou and the village easily drove them away. After her second year, she had mastered all this town had to teach and asked, "What is Republic city?" The village only could tell her stories they heard about the glamorous life and the diversity there. When Ni-Chou said that she wanted to go, the town already knew that small town life wasn't for here. So they made her some nice clothes, gave her some food and money, and sent her on her way to Republic City.

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 120lbs

Parent Names: Chun and Ryu-Li

Sexuality: Heterosexual

 