Post by Aang on Nov 12, 2006 16:18:36 GMT -5
Full Name: Aang.
Race: Airbender.
Nation: Air Nomads.
Birthplace: Southern Air Temple.
Age: 12 (technically 112).
Gender: Male.
Birthday: October 17th.
Eyes: Grey.
Hair: None.
Markings: Airbender tattoos.
Weight: 110.
Height: 5' 3 3/4".
Clothing: Typical Air Nomad dress.
Weapon: The simple staff/glider used for Airbending.
Personality: Aang is fun-loving, naive, and adventurous. He craves the stimulation of new people and places; in short, he's the consummate tourist. His frequent off-course detours frustrate both allies and pursuers alike. Yet Aang has always prided himself on a complex social network of friends extending over all four nations, and a little thing like war won't stand in his way. As well, he looks forward to playing with all the exotic fauna in each place he visits. Whether it's penguins, hog-monkeys or gigantic eels, no fit animal Aang sees goes un-ridden. But while Aang can be a showoff and a jester, therein lies his fatal flaw of taking foolish risks. Relatively cavalier in the face of danger, Aang can get into terrible trouble. Luckily for him, his friends are there to help him out.
Aang feels a terrible guilt and burden in his duties as Avatar. Very much the reluctant hero, he wishes he'd been there to help his people a century ago, but he'd still rather live a child's carefree life. This initially caused him to conceal his true identity from friends, and still has a tendency to slack off in his studies of the Bending Arts, even though he naturally excels at it.
Being the last Airbender and having no living peers (with the exception of the centurian King Bumi), Aang cares deeply for those close to him, even to the point of deceiving and hurting others to keep the group together. In "Bato of the Water Tribe," Aang heard that Katara and Sokka might leave the group to visit their father, so Aang hid the map showing his whereabouts and lied about ever having it in the first place. In "The Desert," Aang destroyed three Sandbender gliders when he found out they had kidnapped Appa and sold him.
Family:
Mother: Unknown.
Father: Unknown.
Siblings: None.
Father Figure: Monk Gyatso (now passed).
Sky Bison: Appa.
Brief History:
Raised by Airbender monks, Aang grew up in the idyllic surroundings of the Southern Air Temple. Aang was a carefree young boy, given to frequent travel, play and possessing an almost effortless mastery over his native element. His world drastically changed when the monks revealed that he was the Avatar, destined to master all four elements and bring peace to the world.
Usually, the Avatar is told of his/her true identity only after turning sixteen; however, Aang's caretakers feared that a war between the Four Nations was on the horizon, and that the Avatar would be needed to help maintain balance. Aang soon began to feel overwhelmed with the burden of his position. His peers ostracized him for his airbending skill, while his caretakers pressured him to mature into his responsibilities too quickly.
The only monk sympathetic to Aang's feelings was the elder Monk Gyatso, Aang's Airbending teacher and guardian. When the burden weighed heavily on his favorite student, Gyatso worked to instill a sense of fun through jokes and games. He sincerely believed that Aang should be allowed to grow up as a normal boy. The other monks disagreed. Citing Gyatso's attachment to the boy as an interference, they decided to send Aang away to the Eastern Air Temple to focus on his training, oblivious to the fact that Aang had overheard their caucus.
Confused and frightened by what he'd learned, Aang fled from his home on his flying bison, Appa, towards the South Pole. While over the Southern ocean, a sudden storm caused Appa to plunge deep into the sea. Entering the Avatar State, Aang reflexively used Airbending to surround himself and Appa in an air bubble that quickly froze into a glowing blue iceberg, putting them in a state of suspended animation beneath the surface of the icy waters surrounding the South Pole for one hundred years.
In the present day, two teenage siblings from the Southern Water Tribe - Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka - discovered and freed Aang from his iceberg prison. Aang soon saw that in his absence, fears of war had became a reality. The very year he vanished, the then-leader of the Fire Nation, the ruthless Fire Lord Sozin, took advantage of the Firebending-enhancing powers of a mystical comet to launch a war on the three other nations. To Aang's shock and disbelief, the Fire Nation's opening gambit had been a genocidal assault on the Air Nomads. The Air Temples were stormed and the monks and Air Nomads slaughtered in an effort to break the Avatar Cycle, leaving him as the last known Airbender in existence.
Aang has since realized that the future of the Four Nations rests in his hands. It is his duty to defeat the Fire Nation and restore peace and harmony. To achieve this goal, Aang and his newfound friends (and pets) set off on a quest to find and learn from Master Benders, while evading capture by the Fire Nation.
Race: Airbender.
Nation: Air Nomads.
Birthplace: Southern Air Temple.
Age: 12 (technically 112).
Gender: Male.
Birthday: October 17th.
Eyes: Grey.
Hair: None.
Markings: Airbender tattoos.
Weight: 110.
Height: 5' 3 3/4".
Clothing: Typical Air Nomad dress.
Weapon: The simple staff/glider used for Airbending.
Personality: Aang is fun-loving, naive, and adventurous. He craves the stimulation of new people and places; in short, he's the consummate tourist. His frequent off-course detours frustrate both allies and pursuers alike. Yet Aang has always prided himself on a complex social network of friends extending over all four nations, and a little thing like war won't stand in his way. As well, he looks forward to playing with all the exotic fauna in each place he visits. Whether it's penguins, hog-monkeys or gigantic eels, no fit animal Aang sees goes un-ridden. But while Aang can be a showoff and a jester, therein lies his fatal flaw of taking foolish risks. Relatively cavalier in the face of danger, Aang can get into terrible trouble. Luckily for him, his friends are there to help him out.
Aang feels a terrible guilt and burden in his duties as Avatar. Very much the reluctant hero, he wishes he'd been there to help his people a century ago, but he'd still rather live a child's carefree life. This initially caused him to conceal his true identity from friends, and still has a tendency to slack off in his studies of the Bending Arts, even though he naturally excels at it.
Being the last Airbender and having no living peers (with the exception of the centurian King Bumi), Aang cares deeply for those close to him, even to the point of deceiving and hurting others to keep the group together. In "Bato of the Water Tribe," Aang heard that Katara and Sokka might leave the group to visit their father, so Aang hid the map showing his whereabouts and lied about ever having it in the first place. In "The Desert," Aang destroyed three Sandbender gliders when he found out they had kidnapped Appa and sold him.
Family:
Mother: Unknown.
Father: Unknown.
Siblings: None.
Father Figure: Monk Gyatso (now passed).
Sky Bison: Appa.
Brief History:
Raised by Airbender monks, Aang grew up in the idyllic surroundings of the Southern Air Temple. Aang was a carefree young boy, given to frequent travel, play and possessing an almost effortless mastery over his native element. His world drastically changed when the monks revealed that he was the Avatar, destined to master all four elements and bring peace to the world.
Usually, the Avatar is told of his/her true identity only after turning sixteen; however, Aang's caretakers feared that a war between the Four Nations was on the horizon, and that the Avatar would be needed to help maintain balance. Aang soon began to feel overwhelmed with the burden of his position. His peers ostracized him for his airbending skill, while his caretakers pressured him to mature into his responsibilities too quickly.
The only monk sympathetic to Aang's feelings was the elder Monk Gyatso, Aang's Airbending teacher and guardian. When the burden weighed heavily on his favorite student, Gyatso worked to instill a sense of fun through jokes and games. He sincerely believed that Aang should be allowed to grow up as a normal boy. The other monks disagreed. Citing Gyatso's attachment to the boy as an interference, they decided to send Aang away to the Eastern Air Temple to focus on his training, oblivious to the fact that Aang had overheard their caucus.
Confused and frightened by what he'd learned, Aang fled from his home on his flying bison, Appa, towards the South Pole. While over the Southern ocean, a sudden storm caused Appa to plunge deep into the sea. Entering the Avatar State, Aang reflexively used Airbending to surround himself and Appa in an air bubble that quickly froze into a glowing blue iceberg, putting them in a state of suspended animation beneath the surface of the icy waters surrounding the South Pole for one hundred years.
In the present day, two teenage siblings from the Southern Water Tribe - Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka - discovered and freed Aang from his iceberg prison. Aang soon saw that in his absence, fears of war had became a reality. The very year he vanished, the then-leader of the Fire Nation, the ruthless Fire Lord Sozin, took advantage of the Firebending-enhancing powers of a mystical comet to launch a war on the three other nations. To Aang's shock and disbelief, the Fire Nation's opening gambit had been a genocidal assault on the Air Nomads. The Air Temples were stormed and the monks and Air Nomads slaughtered in an effort to break the Avatar Cycle, leaving him as the last known Airbender in existence.
Aang has since realized that the future of the Four Nations rests in his hands. It is his duty to defeat the Fire Nation and restore peace and harmony. To achieve this goal, Aang and his newfound friends (and pets) set off on a quest to find and learn from Master Benders, while evading capture by the Fire Nation.