HOME | DD

Description
O.o Well, this is my submission for the . The challenge was to create a believable re-incarnation of the Avatar...but my character sort of took on a life of her own, so I'm not sure if she still fills all of the requirements... Anyway! Moving on. Her outfit is (very) loosely modeled on the traditional Tibetian woman's apron, minus the stripes and with a whole lot of Avatar Fire Nation style mixed in. Let me know what you think!

Age: 17
Nation: Fire
Name: Roa
Gender: Female
Personality: Usually much sweeter than portrayed in the picture, you must forgive her Avatar State. Roa is earnest, a hard worker, slightly less than quick in the humour department, and a real ‘girly’ girl…she loves pretty dresses and keeping clean, and is particularly finicky about mud. Needless to say, the traveling side of the Avatar life style does not suit her well at all, not at first. However, she enjoys the explorative side of traveling (so long as it does not include mud) and loves meeting new people…though her enthusim begins to dampen as she encounters more and more prejudice against her nation.
Appearance: Eyes, black (except when in the Avatar State); Hair, reaches to mid back and worn loose or tied back with a few loops of cord, also black. She was agast to learn of her heritage for the sole reason that she feared she would have to cut her hair when she entered the Temple. (A vain Avatar…) In the five years of her training, she has become extremely long-legged and is only just beginning to fill that length out…her leggy appearance, with her hair tied back in a ponytail for training, has earned her the nickname “Colt.” Given her body type, Roa is an excellent runner…though she does not consider running to be ‘fun’ and would rather participate in the various dance troupes that can be found in the Northern Air Temple city, something her father, and the monks, find scandelous.

Biography:
Roa is the first Fire-nation Avatar since the Fire-Nation invasion, nearly two hundred years ago. Her parents and grandparents are all of the middle-class fire-nation, though there are rumours about an Earth-nation ancestor about four generations back; neither of her parents are benders, however. Her father is a carpenter who tinkers with metallurgy on the side; her mother runs an informal daycare for all of the young families around the neighbourhood. She has two brothers, one older and one younger, and one pet, an arthritic eighteen-year-old family cat that never moves from the sunny spot by the front door and has to be manually picked up and carried indoors when it rains.

Though the previous three Avatars (Aang, a waterbender, and an earthbender) squashed most Anti-fire nation sentiments, prejudices still have a tendancy to flare up in the more isolated villages. The peoples of the Water and Earth kingdoms have long memories and longer grudges…it takes time for a war of a hundred some-odd years to be forgotten in a culture composed primarily of oral histories. For the most part the prejudice is (mostly) harmless jibes and differental treatment of identifiable Fire nation descendants…but there have been rumours lately of the seemingly harmless prejudices turning ugly.

So it was to an atmosphere of strife and unrest that Roa was born, though when she was a child she was hardly aware of it. She grew up in the delightfully mechanical jumble of the Northern Air Temple, a cosmopolitan region where the solidifying lines being drawn between nations had yet to encroach. Roa had friends of every nation, barring Air, of which no individuals seemed to be left; the treacherous political landscapes that her tutors at the temple described to her seemed laughable and far away from her home.
When she was a child she had an air of dense innocence about her that was nearly impossible to crack, and she believed in the good of everyone. Her faith in others and her signature candid friendliness lessened somewhat as she began her travels abroad and encountered some of the painful prejudices still held against her nation. But at present she is still clinging, rather desperately, to her original beliefs.
She is extrodinarily earnest and rather dense when it comes to humor. Her friends often tell the most outrageous lies in her hearing, just for the satisfaction of seeing her eyes grow wide in stunned disbelief…and then hear her groaning, as they reach the punchline and she realizes that she has once again been taken in.
Because of the Firenation’s current bad name, she feels as though she has something to prove and tries doubly hard to be the ideal Avatar. This often leads her to frustration, as she (quite obviously) needs to have more time to mature than she is willing to accept. The stories of the legendary Aang, and of how he mastered all four elements in just one summer, are her guiding light…though she has been at her studies for five years, and there still seems to be a phenomenal amount left to learn…
As with Aang, it was decided to keep her true identity from her until she was twelve, so that she might have the opportunity to experiance a regular childhood. But her parents, who had insisted on this, were hard-pressed to explain away the bizzare and sometimes frightening dreams that plauged the young girl’s sleeping hours; dreams of terrible battles, of innocent laughter, of the experiencing of anguish or despair or love. Dreams where it seemed the Dream-people were more than just figments of her imagination, and were instead real people who, somehow, she knew...
Despite her uneasy dreamland, during the day young Roa lived a life of contentment, with a loving family, a good group of friends, and a peaceful home. She showed an aptitude for firebending, which was of course encouraged…but her parents, though pleased as punch, cautioned her not to show her talents off outside of her home or the temple. Even in the multicultural community of the Northern Air temple, outside opinions were beginning to influence the day-to-day life.

~~~~

*Though Roa doesn’t know it yet, those past lives of hers are preparing to send her on a quest that, eerily, parallels one that a distant ancestor of hers undertook…the search for the last Airbenders. She needs to discover if the small, nomadic band of airbenders still exists, and reintegrate them into the society...because the next Avatar cycle is Air...

Description
O.o Well, this is my submission for the . The challenge was to create a believable re-incarnation of the Avatar...but my character sort of took on a life of her own, so I'm not sure if she still fills all of the requirements... Anyway! Moving on. Her outfit is (very) loosely modeled on the traditional Tibetian woman's apron, minus the stripes and with a whole lot of Avatar Fire Nation style mixed in. Let me know what you think!

Age: 17
Nation: Fire
Name: Roa
Gender: Female
Personality: Usually much sweeter than portrayed in the picture, you must forgive her Avatar State. Roa is earnest, a hard worker, slightly less than quick in the humour department, and a real ‘girly’ girl…she loves pretty dresses and keeping clean, and is particularly finicky about mud. Needless to say, the traveling side of the Avatar life style does not suit her well at all, not at first. However, she enjoys the explorative side of traveling (so long as it does not include mud) and loves meeting new people…though her enthusim begins to dampen as she encounters more and more prejudice against her nation.
Appearance: Eyes, black (except when in the Avatar State); Hair, reaches to mid back and worn loose or tied back with a few loops of cord, also black. She was agast to learn of her heritage for the sole reason that she feared she would have to cut her hair when she entered the Temple. (A vain Avatar…) In the five years of her training, she has become extremely long-legged and is only just beginning to fill that length out…her leggy appearance, with her hair tied back in a ponytail for training, has earned her the nickname “Colt.” Given her body type, Roa is an excellent runner…though she does not consider running to be ‘fun’ and would rather participate in the various dance troupes that can be found in the Northern Air Temple city, something her father, and the monks, find scandelous.

Biography:
Roa is the first Fire-nation Avatar since the Fire-Nation invasion, nearly two hundred years ago. Her parents and grandparents are all of the middle-class fire-nation, though there are rumours about an Earth-nation ancestor about four generations back; neither of her parents are benders, however. Her father is a carpenter who tinkers with metallurgy on the side; her mother runs an informal daycare for all of the young families around the neighbourhood. She has two brothers, one older and one younger, and one pet, an arthritic eighteen-year-old family cat that never moves from the sunny spot by the front door and has to be manually picked up and carried indoors when it rains.

Though the previous three Avatars (Aang, a waterbender, and an earthbender) squashed most Anti-fire nation sentiments, prejudices still have a tendancy to flare up in the more isolated villages. The peoples of the Water and Earth kingdoms have long memories and longer grudges…it takes time for a war of a hundred some-odd years to be forgotten in a culture composed primarily of oral histories. For the most part the prejudice is (mostly) harmless jibes and differental treatment of identifiable Fire nation descendants…but there have been rumours lately of the seemingly harmless prejudices turning ugly.

So it was to an atmosphere of strife and unrest that Roa was born, though when she was a child she was hardly aware of it. She grew up in the delightfully mechanical jumble of the Northern Air Temple, a cosmopolitan region where the solidifying lines being drawn between nations had yet to encroach. Roa had friends of every nation, barring Air, of which no individuals seemed to be left; the treacherous political landscapes that her tutors at the temple described to her seemed laughable and far away from her home.
When she was a child she had an air of dense innocence about her that was nearly impossible to crack, and she believed in the good of everyone. Her faith in others and her signature candid friendliness lessened somewhat as she began her travels abroad and encountered some of the painful prejudices still held against her nation. But at present she is still clinging, rather desperately, to her original beliefs.
She is extrodinarily earnest and rather dense when it comes to humor. Her friends often tell the most outrageous lies in her hearing, just for the satisfaction of seeing her eyes grow wide in stunned disbelief…and then hear her groaning, as they reach the punchline and she realizes that she has once again been taken in.
Because of the Firenation’s current bad name, she feels as though she has something to prove and tries doubly hard to be the ideal Avatar. This often leads her to frustration, as she (quite obviously) needs to have more time to mature than she is willing to accept. The stories of the legendary Aang, and of how he mastered all four elements in just one summer, are her guiding light…though she has been at her studies for five years, and there still seems to be a phenomenal amount left to learn…
As with Aang, it was decided to keep her true identity from her until she was twelve, so that she might have the opportunity to experiance a regular childhood. But her parents, who had insisted on this, were hard-pressed to explain away the bizzare and sometimes frightening dreams that plauged the young girl’s sleeping hours; dreams of terrible battles, of innocent laughter, of the experiencing of anguish or despair or love. Dreams where it seemed the Dream-people were more than just figments of her imagination, and were instead real people who, somehow, she knew...
Despite her uneasy dreamland, during the day young Roa lived a life of contentment, with a loving family, a good group of friends, and a peaceful home. She showed an aptitude for firebending, which was of course encouraged…but her parents, though pleased as punch, cautioned her not to show her talents off outside of her home or the temple. Even in the multicultural community of the Northern Air temple, outside opinions were beginning to influence the day-to-day life.

~~~~

*Though Roa doesn’t know it yet, those past lives of hers are preparing to send her on a quest that, eerily, parallels one that a distant ancestor of hers undertook…the search for the last Airbenders. She needs to discover if the small, nomadic band of airbenders still exists, and reintegrate them into the society...because the next Avatar cycle is Air...