Post by ricebunny on Sept 18, 2008 22:05:37 GMT -5
Name: Mei Mei Hao
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Group: Citizen, nobility
Nation: Fire
Bender?: Yes
Physical Appearance: Petite, only five foot, she has long black hair down to right above her waist. She usually wears half of it up in a bun and the rest pulled into two ponytails with two braided loops of hair that fall to her shoulders and are attached to her top bun and to the front of her head. While most of her hair stays like this, it has a habit of escaping and forming random strands of hair that frame her face.
On special occasions she wears it in a large bun with braids crisscrossing it in a star-shaped pattern, with a large braid circling the bun and held with a butterfly clip. She has pale skin that her mother insists that she maintains by not going outside without a parasol. Her eyes are gold colored(a sign of nobility) and almond shaped, and are very expressive. She has a circular, symmetrical face with low cheekbones and round cheeks, with a small nose that curves slightly upward at the end and a small mouth with full lips that have a slight pout. She only enhances her features with make up for special occasions, and usually doesn’t pay a lot of attention to her appearance. Mei Mei has small hands, that are deft at swiping sweets when no ones looking. While decently attractive, she is far out shown by her older brother and sister who are regarded as two of the most beautiful people in the city.
Clothing/Armor: On normal days around the house she wears a long sleeved loose fitting burgundy colored shirt over a tighter pale gold short-sleeved undershirt and a floor length burgundy skirt. The skirt is tight at the top, but fans out at mid thigh. The overshirt has a V-shaped neckline, exposing the undershirt. Above the waist there is amber colored belt tied in the back with a bow, and the over shirt and skirt have a six inch trim of the amber color. All of the material is silky, and has a slight sheen to it. She also has plain black sandals that are easy to slip in and out of.
For formal wear she has a royal purple V-neck over shirt with the sleeves falling down to her knees. This shirt has small designs of saffron flame and a wide trim that same gold color. The under shirt is an amber color. The under skirt is royal purple, floor length and has an eight inch amber trim. The over skirt is only knee length and a mauve color with vertical saffron colored lines of flame about three inches apart. She has golden yellow colored shoes with a three-inch heel that makes her appear much taller.
Weapons: She is a trained fire bender, about only a low/intermediate level. Mostly she was trained to use her firebending for household needs, like heating up a bath or heating up tea. Mei Mei also carries a small dagger when traveling, about five inches in length with a silver handle engraved with the image of Shao Lin, a legendary female fire bender.
Personality: Mei Mei usually acts reserved and quiet, like a proper Fire Nation noblewoman, but inside she is extremely passionate and curious. While her mother did her best to repress this natural curiosity, Mei Mei can’t help but ask some inopportune questions from time to time, which usually results in harsh punishments. Only her family and Ta Min know about her true nature. Due to her curiosity she spends most of her time reading ancient poetry and practicing her calligraphy, although her mother used to somewhat discourages this as well saying that she shouldn’t become to smart or else her husband won’t like her. She can sometimes shock people with ancient proverbs and insights. Mei Mei has never been interested in guys, although she didn’t think much of it until she fell in love with Ta Min, her friend from the Royal Fire Nation Academy for Girls.
She has a sweet tooth, and has a habit of focusing more on the desserts at dinner parties than the actual people. Mei Mei is naturally shy, which can put her at odds internally, especially when her curiosity takes over. She is quite willing to let people externally lead her, even though she has very distinct opinions that she usually doesn’t share. Although spoiled all her life, she doesn’t complain even when put in uncomfortable situations. Her biggest pet peeves are her siblings, who have always been favored by her parents. While her mother loved Mei Mei, she never got as much attention as her older brother and sister. While her older sister is the most intelligent of the family, her brother obviously got the inheritance and to take over the family business. Because of her older siblings Mei Mei has a bit of an inferiority complex, which makes her question her self worth quite often.
Mei Mei has a habit of fading into the background, especially around people with large personalities. She holds fierce loyalty to the Fire Nation, and fully supports the war in order to “help the heathens to live better lives”. She tends to believe all of the Fire Nation propaganda that is put out, and doesn’t understand much about other cultures or life styles. Because she's lived such a sheltered life, although she feels sorry for the impoverished, she believes that it is fate that they were born that way and that they should simply accept it. She is extremely racist, but more in a way that she pities those who come from other nations because they don’t live in the most glorious nation ever.
Background: Mei Mei was born to one of the wealthier families in the Fire Nation because her father, Shu Jing Ma, owns a lot of land outside of the capital, and is a financial advisor to the Fire Lord. Until Mei Mei was eight she lived with her father, mother and older brother. Azana Ma, her mother, came from another wealthy family with a genealogy that traces back to the days of Avatar Kyoshi. While Azana has an uptight and demanding personality, she loves all of her children dearly and used to spend the majority of her time preparing her daughters for marriage. Her oldest sibling is Shen, who is tall and considered to be extremely handsome. Even though he is not as smart as his sisters he is still the heir to the Ma name and fortune. He is 32, and married to the beautiful cousin of the Fire Lady’s family, which helped to elevate his family’s status. He spends most of his time with his father, learning how to handle money. Kai Lu, Mei Mei’s older sister, is 27 and has two children. She is extremely vain and cruelly intelligent, and enjoys visiting Mei Mei to brag about her “brilliant” children and husband.
When Mei Mei was a quiet and serious child, who didn’t like talking to strangers and had a hard time making friends. Although her parents could provide her with her every whim, she was never interested in dolls and toys as the other children of her age were. She preferred to spend her time in the garden playing with a toy stuffed turtle duck named Da, setting up private tea parties for it and having lengthy conversations with him. She was discovered as a bender when she sneezed at dinner and the tablecloth lit on fire. Her mother was overjoyed when she found out that Mei Mei was a firebender, because it meant that it would be easier to find a husband for her. Being so quiet, she failed to make friends outside the family until she went to the Academy.
Mei Mei lived with her family until she was eight, when she was sent off to the Royal Fire Nation Academy for Girls. There she was trained in all the arts a girl of her class should know, along with some firebending, if only enough to control it and for uses around the house. She was also exposed to ancient history, and a bit of ancient poetry. She was fascinated by the poetry, and her interest was cultivated by one of her teachers who had several compilations of it. She also loved calligraphy, and spent most of her time practicing it until she became excellent at it. When she was thirteen her mother got word of a Captain in the Fire Nation Army looking for a bride. The marriage of the two families would be mutually beneficial, so Azana met with the Captain’s mother and a date was set for marriage. Mei Mei accepted this without complaint, although she didn’t quite understand the significance of the fancy party at the time. All she remembers of it now is changing several times and that the food was quite tasty. Her life went back to normal afterwards, as her husband went back to continue fighting in the war.
Shortly after the Captain left his mother died, so Mei Mei continued to live with her family. When Mei Mei was fifteen she met Ta Min, another girl who was from a noble family with a slightly lower social status. They became fast friends and began to spend all their time together. Mei Mei eventually fell in love with Ta Min, and was overjoyed when she reciprocated the feeling. They spent four years having a secret love affair, which were the happiest years in Mei Mei’s life. They managed to keep their love a secret partly by how careful they were and partly because it was so unthinkable for them to have that kind of relationship. The only person who ever suspected was Mei Mei’s sister, who now regularly uses this information to blackmail Mei Mei into submitting to her bidding. Unfortunately when Mei Mei was nineteen Ta Min was married to a wealthy landowner living near Yin Rei, causing her to move there. Mei Mei was heartbroken and cried for days until her mother forced her to go outside and get a hold of herself. Soon after her husband, Jian Hao, returned from the war. He was now a Major, but had been coerced to retire after loosing his right arm in battle. Gruff and impersonal, he is 47 years old and isn’t quite sure how to treat Mei Mei. He moved into his family home, and Mei Mei moved in with him shortly after. Although sad to leave, her mother is only a carriage ride away, and promised to visit as often as she could.
After moving in, Mei Mei soon found out that the only reason that Jian had married her was to fulfill his dieing mothers last wish, to see him married. Instead of being insulted, Mei Mei was glad to hear this because it spared her having to feign love for him. Life with Jian was a new experience for Mei Mei. Jian hadn’t been around girls her age is a long time, so he treats her a lot like he would a new recruit. He mostly leaves her alone and spends his time being part of the War Council at the palace. His one requirement for her is that she raises at sunrise with him every morning and practices firebending with him. While vaguely interested, she isn’t very talented at it, which is a constant source of irritation for the both of them. Jian has ordered her to do this ever since he heard a rumor that he may be sent back to the Earth Kingdom to manage a small town that has recently been captured. If this occurs he will take Mei Mei with him, and he says that she has to know proper self-defense against the ‘heathens’. The couple have a relationship not unlike that of distant cousins who have a slight distain for each other. While Mei Mei has never truely hated anyone, she still mildly dislikes him but feels almost indebted to him for saving her from a marriage to someone sexually interested in her. Jian was rendered impotent from a disease that he caught during the war.
Meanwhile Mei Mei got news that Ta Min was pregnant, and very happy to be so. Reading the code that they had once used to send secret love letters, Ta Min said that although she will always love Mei Mei, she has to move with this new life in order to be happy. Heartbroken, but resolute, Mei Mei decided to make the most out of life in Lun Yang with Jian. Because of her social status she is able to access the royal library, where she borrows and copies old poetry and manuscripts. Mei Mei considers the old librarian to be one of her closest friends, and he helps her interpret some of the older poetry and looks the other way when she borrows books. She hopes one day to bind it into a book so that she can give it as a present to Ta Min, although if any officials find out that she is spending most of her time transcribing they might be rater upset.
Sample RP: Mei Mei sat uncomfortably on the floor, so she began shifting her weight from side to side. She moved only slightly so that Xiexue, the hostess of this dinner, wouldn't notice. Mei Mei glanced to her right and saw Jian staring at his food with a pained expression. She allowed herself an inward smile, imagining how much he must hate this. While she had never liked these dinners either, Jian absolutely hated them and had spent the majority of the carriage ride complaining about them. Oblivious, Xiexue continued to ramble on about the new fabrics that has just arrived and how she was going to have her tailor make her a new outfit. Out of all of the dinners Mei Mei dutifully attended with Jian, she disliked Xiexue’s the least if only because the large woman never seemed to notice that no one was really paying attention to her.
Suddenly Mei Mei noticed a servant adding a tray of lemonberry tarts to the spinning tray in front of her. Immediately all of her attention was focused on those tarts. As the tarts had finally been spun to her end of the table she coyly took only one and added it to her plate. Pretending to be reaching for her water, she skillfully took three more and hid them in her long sleeves before the tray was turned to the next person. Her inward smile broadened as she daintily took a bite from the tart.
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Group: Citizen, nobility
Nation: Fire
Bender?: Yes
Physical Appearance: Petite, only five foot, she has long black hair down to right above her waist. She usually wears half of it up in a bun and the rest pulled into two ponytails with two braided loops of hair that fall to her shoulders and are attached to her top bun and to the front of her head. While most of her hair stays like this, it has a habit of escaping and forming random strands of hair that frame her face.
On special occasions she wears it in a large bun with braids crisscrossing it in a star-shaped pattern, with a large braid circling the bun and held with a butterfly clip. She has pale skin that her mother insists that she maintains by not going outside without a parasol. Her eyes are gold colored(a sign of nobility) and almond shaped, and are very expressive. She has a circular, symmetrical face with low cheekbones and round cheeks, with a small nose that curves slightly upward at the end and a small mouth with full lips that have a slight pout. She only enhances her features with make up for special occasions, and usually doesn’t pay a lot of attention to her appearance. Mei Mei has small hands, that are deft at swiping sweets when no ones looking. While decently attractive, she is far out shown by her older brother and sister who are regarded as two of the most beautiful people in the city.
Clothing/Armor: On normal days around the house she wears a long sleeved loose fitting burgundy colored shirt over a tighter pale gold short-sleeved undershirt and a floor length burgundy skirt. The skirt is tight at the top, but fans out at mid thigh. The overshirt has a V-shaped neckline, exposing the undershirt. Above the waist there is amber colored belt tied in the back with a bow, and the over shirt and skirt have a six inch trim of the amber color. All of the material is silky, and has a slight sheen to it. She also has plain black sandals that are easy to slip in and out of.
For formal wear she has a royal purple V-neck over shirt with the sleeves falling down to her knees. This shirt has small designs of saffron flame and a wide trim that same gold color. The under shirt is an amber color. The under skirt is royal purple, floor length and has an eight inch amber trim. The over skirt is only knee length and a mauve color with vertical saffron colored lines of flame about three inches apart. She has golden yellow colored shoes with a three-inch heel that makes her appear much taller.
Weapons: She is a trained fire bender, about only a low/intermediate level. Mostly she was trained to use her firebending for household needs, like heating up a bath or heating up tea. Mei Mei also carries a small dagger when traveling, about five inches in length with a silver handle engraved with the image of Shao Lin, a legendary female fire bender.
Personality: Mei Mei usually acts reserved and quiet, like a proper Fire Nation noblewoman, but inside she is extremely passionate and curious. While her mother did her best to repress this natural curiosity, Mei Mei can’t help but ask some inopportune questions from time to time, which usually results in harsh punishments. Only her family and Ta Min know about her true nature. Due to her curiosity she spends most of her time reading ancient poetry and practicing her calligraphy, although her mother used to somewhat discourages this as well saying that she shouldn’t become to smart or else her husband won’t like her. She can sometimes shock people with ancient proverbs and insights. Mei Mei has never been interested in guys, although she didn’t think much of it until she fell in love with Ta Min, her friend from the Royal Fire Nation Academy for Girls.
She has a sweet tooth, and has a habit of focusing more on the desserts at dinner parties than the actual people. Mei Mei is naturally shy, which can put her at odds internally, especially when her curiosity takes over. She is quite willing to let people externally lead her, even though she has very distinct opinions that she usually doesn’t share. Although spoiled all her life, she doesn’t complain even when put in uncomfortable situations. Her biggest pet peeves are her siblings, who have always been favored by her parents. While her mother loved Mei Mei, she never got as much attention as her older brother and sister. While her older sister is the most intelligent of the family, her brother obviously got the inheritance and to take over the family business. Because of her older siblings Mei Mei has a bit of an inferiority complex, which makes her question her self worth quite often.
Mei Mei has a habit of fading into the background, especially around people with large personalities. She holds fierce loyalty to the Fire Nation, and fully supports the war in order to “help the heathens to live better lives”. She tends to believe all of the Fire Nation propaganda that is put out, and doesn’t understand much about other cultures or life styles. Because she's lived such a sheltered life, although she feels sorry for the impoverished, she believes that it is fate that they were born that way and that they should simply accept it. She is extremely racist, but more in a way that she pities those who come from other nations because they don’t live in the most glorious nation ever.
Background: Mei Mei was born to one of the wealthier families in the Fire Nation because her father, Shu Jing Ma, owns a lot of land outside of the capital, and is a financial advisor to the Fire Lord. Until Mei Mei was eight she lived with her father, mother and older brother. Azana Ma, her mother, came from another wealthy family with a genealogy that traces back to the days of Avatar Kyoshi. While Azana has an uptight and demanding personality, she loves all of her children dearly and used to spend the majority of her time preparing her daughters for marriage. Her oldest sibling is Shen, who is tall and considered to be extremely handsome. Even though he is not as smart as his sisters he is still the heir to the Ma name and fortune. He is 32, and married to the beautiful cousin of the Fire Lady’s family, which helped to elevate his family’s status. He spends most of his time with his father, learning how to handle money. Kai Lu, Mei Mei’s older sister, is 27 and has two children. She is extremely vain and cruelly intelligent, and enjoys visiting Mei Mei to brag about her “brilliant” children and husband.
When Mei Mei was a quiet and serious child, who didn’t like talking to strangers and had a hard time making friends. Although her parents could provide her with her every whim, she was never interested in dolls and toys as the other children of her age were. She preferred to spend her time in the garden playing with a toy stuffed turtle duck named Da, setting up private tea parties for it and having lengthy conversations with him. She was discovered as a bender when she sneezed at dinner and the tablecloth lit on fire. Her mother was overjoyed when she found out that Mei Mei was a firebender, because it meant that it would be easier to find a husband for her. Being so quiet, she failed to make friends outside the family until she went to the Academy.
Mei Mei lived with her family until she was eight, when she was sent off to the Royal Fire Nation Academy for Girls. There she was trained in all the arts a girl of her class should know, along with some firebending, if only enough to control it and for uses around the house. She was also exposed to ancient history, and a bit of ancient poetry. She was fascinated by the poetry, and her interest was cultivated by one of her teachers who had several compilations of it. She also loved calligraphy, and spent most of her time practicing it until she became excellent at it. When she was thirteen her mother got word of a Captain in the Fire Nation Army looking for a bride. The marriage of the two families would be mutually beneficial, so Azana met with the Captain’s mother and a date was set for marriage. Mei Mei accepted this without complaint, although she didn’t quite understand the significance of the fancy party at the time. All she remembers of it now is changing several times and that the food was quite tasty. Her life went back to normal afterwards, as her husband went back to continue fighting in the war.
Shortly after the Captain left his mother died, so Mei Mei continued to live with her family. When Mei Mei was fifteen she met Ta Min, another girl who was from a noble family with a slightly lower social status. They became fast friends and began to spend all their time together. Mei Mei eventually fell in love with Ta Min, and was overjoyed when she reciprocated the feeling. They spent four years having a secret love affair, which were the happiest years in Mei Mei’s life. They managed to keep their love a secret partly by how careful they were and partly because it was so unthinkable for them to have that kind of relationship. The only person who ever suspected was Mei Mei’s sister, who now regularly uses this information to blackmail Mei Mei into submitting to her bidding. Unfortunately when Mei Mei was nineteen Ta Min was married to a wealthy landowner living near Yin Rei, causing her to move there. Mei Mei was heartbroken and cried for days until her mother forced her to go outside and get a hold of herself. Soon after her husband, Jian Hao, returned from the war. He was now a Major, but had been coerced to retire after loosing his right arm in battle. Gruff and impersonal, he is 47 years old and isn’t quite sure how to treat Mei Mei. He moved into his family home, and Mei Mei moved in with him shortly after. Although sad to leave, her mother is only a carriage ride away, and promised to visit as often as she could.
After moving in, Mei Mei soon found out that the only reason that Jian had married her was to fulfill his dieing mothers last wish, to see him married. Instead of being insulted, Mei Mei was glad to hear this because it spared her having to feign love for him. Life with Jian was a new experience for Mei Mei. Jian hadn’t been around girls her age is a long time, so he treats her a lot like he would a new recruit. He mostly leaves her alone and spends his time being part of the War Council at the palace. His one requirement for her is that she raises at sunrise with him every morning and practices firebending with him. While vaguely interested, she isn’t very talented at it, which is a constant source of irritation for the both of them. Jian has ordered her to do this ever since he heard a rumor that he may be sent back to the Earth Kingdom to manage a small town that has recently been captured. If this occurs he will take Mei Mei with him, and he says that she has to know proper self-defense against the ‘heathens’. The couple have a relationship not unlike that of distant cousins who have a slight distain for each other. While Mei Mei has never truely hated anyone, she still mildly dislikes him but feels almost indebted to him for saving her from a marriage to someone sexually interested in her. Jian was rendered impotent from a disease that he caught during the war.
Meanwhile Mei Mei got news that Ta Min was pregnant, and very happy to be so. Reading the code that they had once used to send secret love letters, Ta Min said that although she will always love Mei Mei, she has to move with this new life in order to be happy. Heartbroken, but resolute, Mei Mei decided to make the most out of life in Lun Yang with Jian. Because of her social status she is able to access the royal library, where she borrows and copies old poetry and manuscripts. Mei Mei considers the old librarian to be one of her closest friends, and he helps her interpret some of the older poetry and looks the other way when she borrows books. She hopes one day to bind it into a book so that she can give it as a present to Ta Min, although if any officials find out that she is spending most of her time transcribing they might be rater upset.
Sample RP: Mei Mei sat uncomfortably on the floor, so she began shifting her weight from side to side. She moved only slightly so that Xiexue, the hostess of this dinner, wouldn't notice. Mei Mei glanced to her right and saw Jian staring at his food with a pained expression. She allowed herself an inward smile, imagining how much he must hate this. While she had never liked these dinners either, Jian absolutely hated them and had spent the majority of the carriage ride complaining about them. Oblivious, Xiexue continued to ramble on about the new fabrics that has just arrived and how she was going to have her tailor make her a new outfit. Out of all of the dinners Mei Mei dutifully attended with Jian, she disliked Xiexue’s the least if only because the large woman never seemed to notice that no one was really paying attention to her.
Suddenly Mei Mei noticed a servant adding a tray of lemonberry tarts to the spinning tray in front of her. Immediately all of her attention was focused on those tarts. As the tarts had finally been spun to her end of the table she coyly took only one and added it to her plate. Pretending to be reaching for her water, she skillfully took three more and hid them in her long sleeves before the tray was turned to the next person. Her inward smile broadened as she daintily took a bite from the tart.