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Im a fan and its not tha im not interested but i m no good at rping premade characters from shows or games.. I end up messing up by adding my own personallity into ti and it messign things up alot of times.. but i just wanted to ask a question..

Since Aang is over 100 years old.. though his body retains his 12 year old memory appaerence etc....wouldn't it be like reverse pedifisim if they made out?? like instead of aktara it was ang that was that? just had to ask that out of the blue..
 
umm *shrugs* about as pedophiliac as Arwen and and Aragorn

since physically and mentally Katara and Aang are only about a couple years apart from each other..not pedo at all in my book
 
The only reason he still looked 12 after a hundred years was because he was encased in ice, preserving him. Now that he is out, he ages normally, so I assume he looks appropriately 20 in this.
 
...and another note..I kind of already mentioned in the IC that it was Aang that invited the Freedom Fighters to the Four Nations...thing..

Where is the IC I can adjust accordingly, though I'm not sure what the freedom fighters would be doing in a world where all the major powers are good.

If we don't know that Azula is out then consider it future sight. It hought we were starting far enough in that the charachters would be in the process of gathering already, not still at opposite ends of teh globle.
 
I know, I know, I know.

I know the title of the show is "The Last Airbender."

This seems to be a pretty fundamental concept behind the programme.

But.

I have to ask. Just for, y'know, the sake of asking.

Would it be possible to play another Airbender?

(If not, I'm amenable. ^_^; But I had to ask, you know?)
 
...Could say someone else ended up in a natural disaster "oops".


And totally unrelated...
Fucking HELL that was a big spider that just decided to crashland into my laptop keyboard! I just screamed and damn near threw my comp!
 
This is true. :: sheepish ::

But I was thinking more along the lines of Air Nomad souls being reborn in the bodies of other Nations' peoples. That in the hundred years since the Air Nomad genocide, the karmic wheel has turned just enough that the balance of the elements is starting to be restored.

While in their prime, every single Air Nomad was born with Airbending gifts, other nations have select few born with Bending potential. (Like that time they were rooting out Earthbenders and isolating them on that derrick or something.)

I thought maybe, just maybe, Nature being Nature and Spirit being Spirit that Airbenders were starting to resurface. Here and there. A fractional percentage.

(It's. Just a thought. I'm not very good at thoughts.)
 
Oooh.
Good thought, though.

Would make sense to me...

Luke Skywalker was The Last of The Jedi Knights until he started finding and training new ones. ^_^;

Anyway, the idea is that she's got the knack but minimal training, what little she can do is self-taught. And she's a little bit abrasive, on account of feeling like a freak, an Airbender born to a family of Earthbenders. (Given that Airbending and Earthbending are elemental opposites, an' all.) So she's mostly kept it a secret.

Dunno how she'd meet up with the others. (She could be from Ba Sing Se, since that's where the meet-up's happening...)

...I like spiders mythologically and conceptually a lot more than I like them in person.
 
Anansi is always one of my favorite mythological characters. I play him whenever I get the chance, because he is forever awesome.

*Hijacking over*
 
Anansi is always one of my favorite mythological characters. I play him whenever I get the chance, because he is forever awesome.

*Hijacking over*

He's one of mine, too.

I loves me some storyteller trickster gods.

This is the same reason that I play a spider-person whenever possible, so I can work Kwaku Ananse into dream sequences an' stuff.
 
I dunno.

It was just a sort of brainstormy thingy.

(And if the idea's not cool with you, I totally dig that. I could maybe fumble my way through Katara, though I'd have to rewatch some stuff before I felt properly comfortable in the part...

I just think Airbending is keen.)
 
Awesome, Chas is going to join. Double awesome, she's going to be a (near) bald monk. heheh

I'm presuming on that last part, of course. One would figure a number of new Airbenders who were raised within other cultures probably weren't so thrilled about the whole head shaving idea.

Anywho, I've been toying with the idea of bringing in another character. Main idea is a young Firebender who is/becomes aligned with Azula's group. Been a while since I've played a darker character in a group thread.

Or I could come up with a Waterbender, if we wanted all four elements represented. Would just need to decide on a way of working him into the story.
 
Sharp-edged Cherry Blossom

Name: Xiá Xuán Liu
Age: 18
Appearance:
Home Land: The Lower Ring, Ba Sing Se, The Earth Kingdom

Abilities: Airbending (extremely limited self-taught techniques, including but not necessarily limited to: considerable agility, selectively heightened hearing and sense of smell, and minuscule projectile deflection), decent combat skills (prefers twin short swords), beginner's grasp of philosophy.

Bio: Born to a poverty-stricken family in The Lower Ring of Ba Sing Se, Xia found herself sidelined as a young girl when her older brother, Zhuang, began demonstrating potential as an Earthbender. Thus, her family marshaled their limited resources behind their son, hoping to get him recognised sufficiently that he would attain a scholarship to The University of Ba Sing Se. This, they hoped, would cause him to grow up to become a famous Earthbender, a master craftsman and artisan or even a member of the elite "Terra Team," and that his fame and fortune would allow them as a family to leave the sullied nowhere that was The Lower Ring and perhaps advance to The Middle Ring, if not The Upper.

Xia, on the other hand, possessed no ability to shape Earth, and indeed seemed destined for failure at whatever she strived to do. Since she was considered a hindrance rather than a help to the family's goal, she was often berated and often ignored.

Embittered by this, preoccupied by her misfortune, bereft of guidance, Xia very nearly gave herself over to the crime and violence of The Lower Ring. She became adept at fighting, if not masterful, and would often challenge thugs to combat in an attempt to prove herself. She would have been killed many times over, had she not been possessed of a seemingly preternatural agility and swiftness, capable of running fast and leaping high and scampering up vertical surfaces.

(This ability to evade and escape only served, unfortunately, to cause her further inward humiliation. If only she were an Earthbender like her brother, who could put down roots in a solid stance, standing and fighting... she was no Earthbender. She was a waste of her family's time.)

Only one thing saved her: a traveling fortune teller read her astrology, and gazed upon her in wonder, tears rolling down her face. The fortune teller refused to explain, but sent her off with a cryptic message: 'Heaven has sent you back to us. And your future is in the skies.'

In her struggle to understand this conundrum, Xia began to split her time: her days were given to the rough-housing and brawling of The Lower Ring and her evenings she would spend quizzing theology and philosophy students of The University, demanding wisdom of them. Often, she would argue them to a standstill, though more often they would refuse to speak with her -- her bitterness caused her to speak the words of philosophers with bite and with snark and they found this "unseemly."

Recently, in the years since the ending of the war and the crowning of Zuko as the new Fire Lord, she has discovered vague new abilities like the gusting of breezes. This troubles her greatly, as she has enough grasp of history to recognise this as Airbending but not enough of a grasp of spirituality to understand how this would even be possible. Thus, she has kept these abilities very much a secret, attempting to train herself -- though still she is limited by the Earthbending mindset, solid anchored rooted strength. (This, perhaps interestingly, is the opposite problem that Avatar Aang had while learning Earthbending: he thought like an Airbender, and thus Earth was confounding to him.)

In the last year or so, Xia has begun to wonder if the fortune teller's reference to the sky was perhaps a reference to the highest points in Ba Sing Se, that she would only find her future if she ascended to The Upper Ring. Unfortunately, as a citizen of The Lower Ring, she is not permitted above The Middle Ring, and has thus far been unsuccessful in her attempts to enter. She continues to puzzle over how to sneak in.
 
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(Yeah, not so much with the bald.

:: chuckles sheepishly ::

Maybe if Aang starts training her, which, hey, I'm not gonna assume.)

Is this character okay, Lily? :: hopehopehopehopehope ::
 
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