Post by kyana on Apr 28, 2009 0:18:31 GMT -5
Name:
Kyana
Age:
15
Gender:
Female
Group:
Water Tribe Citizen
Nation:
Water Tribe, Northern Tribe
Bender?:
Waterbending: Healer
Physical Appearance:
Kyana looks a lot like most of the women of the Northern and Southern Water Tribes and stands fairly average amongst them. Her face is wide along the forehead and cheekbones while narrow at the jaw line, giving her a "heart" shaped head, minus the widow's peak. Soft-to-the-touch round cheeks are usually tugged at by her mother and sister in light-hearted laughter. Her upper lip is fairly thinner than the more plum bottom portion, the color pale pink. A beautiful smile can be seen on the girl's face most times with two dimples appearing beneath her cheeks. Her soft skin is tan in appearance while her long wavy hair is black. She wears some of her hair held up in a bun near the top of her skull, the rest pushed over her thin shoulders ending inches beneath the collar bone.
Her curvy average-heighted figure is toned, arms showing small signs of muscle, while her upper body, fairly average sized, is commented with a thin waist traveling outward toward her larger hips and toned legs. One could say that her shape has a thinner hourglass figure to it.
The one thing that really compliments her presence are her powder blue eyes, marbled with gray and silver, making most enchanted by the soft, hearty feel of the pair. With the usual routine of walking along the city, buying and carrying necessary food supplies from the marketplace to her home with small and fragile hands, she has shaped her body nicely among the other women.
Clothing/Armor:
Mostly worn when in her tribe, her fitted Majorelle blue parka falls a little past her knees, aligned with a pure-white fur covered hood, making her neck almost unseen. On her shoulders lay triangular shaped short cropped fur linings, rectangular shaped fur circling ends of the sleeves, and her white obi along the waist. On the bottoms of the parka lay more fur where in the center splits, giving it a " V" shape. Above the fur about four inches high is a detailed pattern of royal purple triangles traveling in an up then down direction. Plain Sapphire blue bottoms aligned with fur at the ends are accentuated by Sepia colored boots.
Her clothes consist of a sleeveless plain Brandeis blue fold-over tunic ending a few inches above her knees with matching plain dark blue fitted bottoms underneath, sporting Sepia colored moccasins ending an inch above the ankles. The collar of the tunic is white fabric, lining from the collar downward to the right side with a small, two-inch in height, white obi along her waist to complete the look. Also, two black bracelets cling to her left and right shoulders, the left one bearing the Water Tribe's emblem.
Weapons:
None
Personality:
Kyana tends to be a "go-with-the-flow" kinda girl. Usually calm and in control, she dislikes ignorance by those few people who decide to be obnoxious. Especially when shown to her by the males of the North. However, Kyana soon became adaptable and learned to ignore it. One thing to remember is her strength of will and loyalty to those in need. She will do whatever needs to be done to protect those in trouble, anything. She isn't the most popular of people, but also not the loneliest. One of her most important traits is her intelligence. Many times over her friends and family members would constantly tell her how smart she was, and after a while she started to get annoyed by it, so she had to tell them to stop. Yet even she has her flaws. She can be a little hypocritical and she knows it. Thinking the males were ignorant just showed her this even more. She was the ignorant one, they were just living by the customs the tribe though. Sometimes even though she has a a great strength of will, she can be a pushover. When she gets mad she lets it go. When she gets sad she tries not too hard to keep whatever was bothering her in mind. This may be because of her " What happens happens so move on" thinking sometimes.
Though seemingly most of these traits seem to make her strong, they do get her into trouble with the men of the tribe. Regardless of being strong-willed, she is a female. It was not in her position to act against what she thought was wrong. Whenever she did, it resulted in shame to her family for raising an "uncivilized" daughter.
Though only a healer, waterbending has been pretty much her passion. Since very young, she was intrigued by the beauty and gracefulness of the water around her. That said, she takes her training very seriously when the other women are around. When bending, she sometimes closes her eyes to better hear and feel the push and pull of her element, helping to flow the chi in the body.
Her main fear was pretty much the destruction of her home which, ironically, came true. Earlier in her worries, she would tell ask talk to her father about the tribe's place in the war whenever he brought the subject up while talking to Kala. She would get teary-eyed when she thought of the possibility of the Fire Nation attacking their home. Kuren always smiled, reassured her that if it hadn't been attacked by now it wouldn't. Ever. Of course little did they both know, the siege would take place and it make the fear come to life.
A lesser fear of hers would be having to hurt someone. Not meaning giving them a cut or bruise, I mean literally hurting people in their core. She would never say anything cruel or mean just to hurt a person's feelings, but, on very few occasions even she can't control her anger. Luckily, as said earlier she is in control over herself, meaning both physically and mentally. With the good traits known about the girl, she also has some qualities that weaken her spirit. For one, she tends to think a little to much about some things, leading to her constantly never doing some things. She HATES to be the leader in any group, due to her indecisive nature.
Background:
Born the third child to the Northern Tribesmen Kala and Kuren, Kyana was raised as a middle-classed citizen. Before she was born her parents had known she would be a baby girl. Parental instinct they called it, and when she indeed was a born a girl, the family welcomed her with joy. In the earlier years of her life, the girl wasn't much different from any other baby. She laughed, she cried, ate and slept, and played with her toys. Her older brother and sister Suken and Heema would devote their time trying to teach her about her environment. In their attempts, they would take her on adventures through the beautiful city while their mother watched from a safe distance. Holding her atop the many bridges and setting her down to play in the snow were only a few of the many activities the siblings would do together. After they were done on their adventures, the trio would be welcomed home by their father, usually sitting waiting for Kala whom had jumped to her kitchen and start on making the day's meal. This lasted for the first seven years of her life.
Her father, Kuren, at age thirty-seven was a known member of the Northern Tribe's forces. A great warrior, the man was kind and giving to most people of the tribe. Kala , thirty-five, on the other hand was a stay-at-home mother, and one of the best. Raising the three children, Kala had shown them love and compassion. She also emphasized the importance of family, that they had to stay together and value each other above anyone else. Suken and Heema, presently twenty-two and seventeen, had soon followed in their parents' footsteps. For Suken, after turning fifteen the young man joined the tribe's warriors and caught on nicely. He truly was his was his father's son. Heema had been betrothed to a higher-class man around the time of her sixteenth birthday. Kyana though, was the only of the five to be blessed with waterbending.
The family first realized her gift at the young age of seven. While on one of the children's adventures through the city, Suken and Heema decided to set out a small snowball fight with the girl. They were minutes into the game when Heema decided to be Kyana's "distraction". She through a snowball at the girl in order to get her attention away from Suken. It worked, and being merciful, Heema told Kyana to turn around. Suken held up a clamp of ice, instantaneously throwing it at Kyana. She instinctively threw her hands up to protect her face while her eyes closed shut, ready for it to hit except..it didn't. Suken and Heema stood shocked as the snow levitated in the air.
As soon as the discovery, she was hurried to their hut and informed their mother of her ability. Kala was tear-eyed in happiness and decided to hand her to one of the tribe's healing huts. Not only did it teach healing principles but it also gave her an education to learn. Upon entering the hut, the girl was greeted by it's main teacher Yama. She expected to learn more about her element and less about her education and Yama, seeing the girl's arrogance, calmly stated that she must "treat both as 'equals'. With an education and no bending a woman still had something to set herself apart. But," Yama said jokingly," Imagine you had no bending and no education, you'd end up like most of the men of the tribe." And so she decided to study the element along with getting her education among the other women.
Of course, Yama wasn't the teacher of her formal education, she was taught by Shanu, a very polite and very well-mannered teacher. The woman taught her the use of proper grammar, the history of her tribe, and the philosophy of the Water Tribes. Indulging into the philosophy of her tribe had to be her favorite part of her education. It wasn't always the most thrilling part of her day but it showed to be important in her everyday life. She started to act in a more well-mannered way than she had been before in her younger days and her family saw this, all knowing that her days of growing to a woman were not to far from then.
At eight, she was ready to get started learning the healing aspects. She was excited and Yama was glad. Yet it wasn't as easy as she predicted. More than a few times she got frustrated trying to unblock the chi paths inside the dummies she was permitted to use. Constantly her piers would criticize her to "shift your weight to your legs" or " Close your eyes and pretend you're the water" After another year she finally got down using the flow in the technique, with credit to her practice dummies and piers. By this time Yama had become further impressed with the girl's multi-tasking.
While her educational life flourished, socially she wasn't very active. She had a few good friends. None were good enough to be qualified as "best friends", they didn't get nearly close enough. She didn't understand why this was so she took it as it was. Luckily, her relationship with her family was wonderful. Over the years she's bonded closely with her mother and sister, the two helped her to act as her social and gender class expected. Spending less time with her father and brother was a burden as well. Yet she got her ways to spend time with her father and brother and they wanted to teach her to be willful and strong by constantly lecturing her on about how she was who she was, or never do anything that goes against what you believe and always do what you believe the right thing to do is. Thanks to her families teachings she'd soon turned into a well-mannered, strong-willed, middle-class woman to date.
After four years she had advanced her training to become a greater healer and one of Yama's finest pupils. After mastering the basics to her healing lessons, she took to advanced lessons for a few months before declining a request from Yama to teach a class. Since then, she had been going to the healing huts to further her experience. Around this time, she had started to undergo some "changes" of many types. First, Suken was twenty-two and finally found himself a wife by the name of Suyin. The two had moved out soon afterward. Second, Heema who had moved out long before, was expecting a baby everyone hoped would be a boy. Kyana had still been living with her parents and was sad by the time her siblings had moved out. Yet after a few short days of lonely days she was ready to move on. It was then that the Avatar arrived at the Northern Fortress.
She, along with many of the other female waterbenders, cheered Katara on as the Southern girl fought Master Pakku, possibly the greatest waterbender living. Katara was good, but Pakku was better, and the girl was beaten. However, Kyana was shocked to see the old master actually accept Katara as his students. It changed little as far as northern tradition, but Kyana, curious about the situation, was not permitted to watch waterbending lessons from observing Katara and the others of Master Pakku's students; the girl from the Southern Water Tribe was Kyana's new inspiration.
When the Fire Nation arrived to begin the siege of the North, Kyana could not do much but run. Then she discovered then the effect the moon had on her waterbending, and witnessed the death and rebirth of the great moon spirit. She did what she could to help to save her home. Being a master healer she knew she could do something. She dared to be brave and stay on the scene of the battle, running hastily to any fallen warriors and tending to their wounds. After a few victories of healing the men she'd almost gotten herself killed. Running around looking for injured men brought attention to her and she was soon followed by a firebender. To her luck, a fellow waterbender had interrupted the soldier's assault toward the girl. Fortunately, she had escaped the battle unscathed and thanks to the Avatar, the Fire Nation was driven from her home.
Since that day, she has stayed to the North, going about her daily routines, watching the males rebuild the city. Yet ever since the day of the siege, feeling a sense of victory on her part, she's longed to learn more about her element to better help her tribes. Now she has chance. Monthly, the tribe's ships head to the Southern Tribe loaded with supplies and passengers, sadly the last ships head off a few days before she had made her decision. Waiting another month couldn't do to much harm though could it? What's worse, she is now of marrying age and may be subject to betrothal, luckily no suitors as of now, which could intrude on her decisions. If destiny is kind to her maybe one day she'll journey to the South to reach her new goal.
Sample RP:
The day was young and the weather was cold. Kyana, barely escaping her violent shivers, decided it would have been a good idea to "head outside" regardless that she was sick. Today was a special day, or at least in her opinion that is. Her brother, Suken, and father, Kuren, were coming home from helping rebuild their sister tribe. She didn't want them to see her sick, it was their day and she didn't want the spotlight. Eagerly getting out of bed, she didn't seem the least bit sick. And that was a good thing. Looking around at her surroundings made no affect on her whatsoever but it did help to get her eyes focused from her sleep. Around her lay the warm, animal skins hanging along the edges of the ice-built hut. She rubbed her eyes, trying to better see her surroundings.
All there really was to do now was to wait for the two to come. Pouring herself a fresh jug of hot tea helped to make her feel a little better. After "tea time" she had an idea involving her healing abilities. She sat on her fur covered bed, taking out her waterskin and summoning out the water. With a long breath she drank the water, while controlling it's movements, and tried to locate what exactly was wrong with her. No success.
Two hours of unsuccessful tries later, the girl started to get frustrated. She then heard a noise from the entrance outside calling for her. " Who is it?"
Kyana
Age:
15
Gender:
Female
Group:
Water Tribe Citizen
Nation:
Water Tribe, Northern Tribe
Bender?:
Waterbending: Healer
Physical Appearance:
Kyana looks a lot like most of the women of the Northern and Southern Water Tribes and stands fairly average amongst them. Her face is wide along the forehead and cheekbones while narrow at the jaw line, giving her a "heart" shaped head, minus the widow's peak. Soft-to-the-touch round cheeks are usually tugged at by her mother and sister in light-hearted laughter. Her upper lip is fairly thinner than the more plum bottom portion, the color pale pink. A beautiful smile can be seen on the girl's face most times with two dimples appearing beneath her cheeks. Her soft skin is tan in appearance while her long wavy hair is black. She wears some of her hair held up in a bun near the top of her skull, the rest pushed over her thin shoulders ending inches beneath the collar bone.
Her curvy average-heighted figure is toned, arms showing small signs of muscle, while her upper body, fairly average sized, is commented with a thin waist traveling outward toward her larger hips and toned legs. One could say that her shape has a thinner hourglass figure to it.
The one thing that really compliments her presence are her powder blue eyes, marbled with gray and silver, making most enchanted by the soft, hearty feel of the pair. With the usual routine of walking along the city, buying and carrying necessary food supplies from the marketplace to her home with small and fragile hands, she has shaped her body nicely among the other women.
Clothing/Armor:
Mostly worn when in her tribe, her fitted Majorelle blue parka falls a little past her knees, aligned with a pure-white fur covered hood, making her neck almost unseen. On her shoulders lay triangular shaped short cropped fur linings, rectangular shaped fur circling ends of the sleeves, and her white obi along the waist. On the bottoms of the parka lay more fur where in the center splits, giving it a " V" shape. Above the fur about four inches high is a detailed pattern of royal purple triangles traveling in an up then down direction. Plain Sapphire blue bottoms aligned with fur at the ends are accentuated by Sepia colored boots.
Her clothes consist of a sleeveless plain Brandeis blue fold-over tunic ending a few inches above her knees with matching plain dark blue fitted bottoms underneath, sporting Sepia colored moccasins ending an inch above the ankles. The collar of the tunic is white fabric, lining from the collar downward to the right side with a small, two-inch in height, white obi along her waist to complete the look. Also, two black bracelets cling to her left and right shoulders, the left one bearing the Water Tribe's emblem.
Weapons:
None
Personality:
Kyana tends to be a "go-with-the-flow" kinda girl. Usually calm and in control, she dislikes ignorance by those few people who decide to be obnoxious. Especially when shown to her by the males of the North. However, Kyana soon became adaptable and learned to ignore it. One thing to remember is her strength of will and loyalty to those in need. She will do whatever needs to be done to protect those in trouble, anything. She isn't the most popular of people, but also not the loneliest. One of her most important traits is her intelligence. Many times over her friends and family members would constantly tell her how smart she was, and after a while she started to get annoyed by it, so she had to tell them to stop. Yet even she has her flaws. She can be a little hypocritical and she knows it. Thinking the males were ignorant just showed her this even more. She was the ignorant one, they were just living by the customs the tribe though. Sometimes even though she has a a great strength of will, she can be a pushover. When she gets mad she lets it go. When she gets sad she tries not too hard to keep whatever was bothering her in mind. This may be because of her " What happens happens so move on" thinking sometimes.
Though seemingly most of these traits seem to make her strong, they do get her into trouble with the men of the tribe. Regardless of being strong-willed, she is a female. It was not in her position to act against what she thought was wrong. Whenever she did, it resulted in shame to her family for raising an "uncivilized" daughter.
Though only a healer, waterbending has been pretty much her passion. Since very young, she was intrigued by the beauty and gracefulness of the water around her. That said, she takes her training very seriously when the other women are around. When bending, she sometimes closes her eyes to better hear and feel the push and pull of her element, helping to flow the chi in the body.
Her main fear was pretty much the destruction of her home which, ironically, came true. Earlier in her worries, she would tell ask talk to her father about the tribe's place in the war whenever he brought the subject up while talking to Kala. She would get teary-eyed when she thought of the possibility of the Fire Nation attacking their home. Kuren always smiled, reassured her that if it hadn't been attacked by now it wouldn't. Ever. Of course little did they both know, the siege would take place and it make the fear come to life.
A lesser fear of hers would be having to hurt someone. Not meaning giving them a cut or bruise, I mean literally hurting people in their core. She would never say anything cruel or mean just to hurt a person's feelings, but, on very few occasions even she can't control her anger. Luckily, as said earlier she is in control over herself, meaning both physically and mentally. With the good traits known about the girl, she also has some qualities that weaken her spirit. For one, she tends to think a little to much about some things, leading to her constantly never doing some things. She HATES to be the leader in any group, due to her indecisive nature.
Background:
Born the third child to the Northern Tribesmen Kala and Kuren, Kyana was raised as a middle-classed citizen. Before she was born her parents had known she would be a baby girl. Parental instinct they called it, and when she indeed was a born a girl, the family welcomed her with joy. In the earlier years of her life, the girl wasn't much different from any other baby. She laughed, she cried, ate and slept, and played with her toys. Her older brother and sister Suken and Heema would devote their time trying to teach her about her environment. In their attempts, they would take her on adventures through the beautiful city while their mother watched from a safe distance. Holding her atop the many bridges and setting her down to play in the snow were only a few of the many activities the siblings would do together. After they were done on their adventures, the trio would be welcomed home by their father, usually sitting waiting for Kala whom had jumped to her kitchen and start on making the day's meal. This lasted for the first seven years of her life.
Her father, Kuren, at age thirty-seven was a known member of the Northern Tribe's forces. A great warrior, the man was kind and giving to most people of the tribe. Kala , thirty-five, on the other hand was a stay-at-home mother, and one of the best. Raising the three children, Kala had shown them love and compassion. She also emphasized the importance of family, that they had to stay together and value each other above anyone else. Suken and Heema, presently twenty-two and seventeen, had soon followed in their parents' footsteps. For Suken, after turning fifteen the young man joined the tribe's warriors and caught on nicely. He truly was his was his father's son. Heema had been betrothed to a higher-class man around the time of her sixteenth birthday. Kyana though, was the only of the five to be blessed with waterbending.
The family first realized her gift at the young age of seven. While on one of the children's adventures through the city, Suken and Heema decided to set out a small snowball fight with the girl. They were minutes into the game when Heema decided to be Kyana's "distraction". She through a snowball at the girl in order to get her attention away from Suken. It worked, and being merciful, Heema told Kyana to turn around. Suken held up a clamp of ice, instantaneously throwing it at Kyana. She instinctively threw her hands up to protect her face while her eyes closed shut, ready for it to hit except..it didn't. Suken and Heema stood shocked as the snow levitated in the air.
As soon as the discovery, she was hurried to their hut and informed their mother of her ability. Kala was tear-eyed in happiness and decided to hand her to one of the tribe's healing huts. Not only did it teach healing principles but it also gave her an education to learn. Upon entering the hut, the girl was greeted by it's main teacher Yama. She expected to learn more about her element and less about her education and Yama, seeing the girl's arrogance, calmly stated that she must "treat both as 'equals'. With an education and no bending a woman still had something to set herself apart. But," Yama said jokingly," Imagine you had no bending and no education, you'd end up like most of the men of the tribe." And so she decided to study the element along with getting her education among the other women.
Of course, Yama wasn't the teacher of her formal education, she was taught by Shanu, a very polite and very well-mannered teacher. The woman taught her the use of proper grammar, the history of her tribe, and the philosophy of the Water Tribes. Indulging into the philosophy of her tribe had to be her favorite part of her education. It wasn't always the most thrilling part of her day but it showed to be important in her everyday life. She started to act in a more well-mannered way than she had been before in her younger days and her family saw this, all knowing that her days of growing to a woman were not to far from then.
At eight, she was ready to get started learning the healing aspects. She was excited and Yama was glad. Yet it wasn't as easy as she predicted. More than a few times she got frustrated trying to unblock the chi paths inside the dummies she was permitted to use. Constantly her piers would criticize her to "shift your weight to your legs" or " Close your eyes and pretend you're the water" After another year she finally got down using the flow in the technique, with credit to her practice dummies and piers. By this time Yama had become further impressed with the girl's multi-tasking.
While her educational life flourished, socially she wasn't very active. She had a few good friends. None were good enough to be qualified as "best friends", they didn't get nearly close enough. She didn't understand why this was so she took it as it was. Luckily, her relationship with her family was wonderful. Over the years she's bonded closely with her mother and sister, the two helped her to act as her social and gender class expected. Spending less time with her father and brother was a burden as well. Yet she got her ways to spend time with her father and brother and they wanted to teach her to be willful and strong by constantly lecturing her on about how she was who she was, or never do anything that goes against what you believe and always do what you believe the right thing to do is. Thanks to her families teachings she'd soon turned into a well-mannered, strong-willed, middle-class woman to date.
After four years she had advanced her training to become a greater healer and one of Yama's finest pupils. After mastering the basics to her healing lessons, she took to advanced lessons for a few months before declining a request from Yama to teach a class. Since then, she had been going to the healing huts to further her experience. Around this time, she had started to undergo some "changes" of many types. First, Suken was twenty-two and finally found himself a wife by the name of Suyin. The two had moved out soon afterward. Second, Heema who had moved out long before, was expecting a baby everyone hoped would be a boy. Kyana had still been living with her parents and was sad by the time her siblings had moved out. Yet after a few short days of lonely days she was ready to move on. It was then that the Avatar arrived at the Northern Fortress.
She, along with many of the other female waterbenders, cheered Katara on as the Southern girl fought Master Pakku, possibly the greatest waterbender living. Katara was good, but Pakku was better, and the girl was beaten. However, Kyana was shocked to see the old master actually accept Katara as his students. It changed little as far as northern tradition, but Kyana, curious about the situation, was not permitted to watch waterbending lessons from observing Katara and the others of Master Pakku's students; the girl from the Southern Water Tribe was Kyana's new inspiration.
When the Fire Nation arrived to begin the siege of the North, Kyana could not do much but run. Then she discovered then the effect the moon had on her waterbending, and witnessed the death and rebirth of the great moon spirit. She did what she could to help to save her home. Being a master healer she knew she could do something. She dared to be brave and stay on the scene of the battle, running hastily to any fallen warriors and tending to their wounds. After a few victories of healing the men she'd almost gotten herself killed. Running around looking for injured men brought attention to her and she was soon followed by a firebender. To her luck, a fellow waterbender had interrupted the soldier's assault toward the girl. Fortunately, she had escaped the battle unscathed and thanks to the Avatar, the Fire Nation was driven from her home.
Since that day, she has stayed to the North, going about her daily routines, watching the males rebuild the city. Yet ever since the day of the siege, feeling a sense of victory on her part, she's longed to learn more about her element to better help her tribes. Now she has chance. Monthly, the tribe's ships head to the Southern Tribe loaded with supplies and passengers, sadly the last ships head off a few days before she had made her decision. Waiting another month couldn't do to much harm though could it? What's worse, she is now of marrying age and may be subject to betrothal, luckily no suitors as of now, which could intrude on her decisions. If destiny is kind to her maybe one day she'll journey to the South to reach her new goal.
Sample RP:
The day was young and the weather was cold. Kyana, barely escaping her violent shivers, decided it would have been a good idea to "head outside" regardless that she was sick. Today was a special day, or at least in her opinion that is. Her brother, Suken, and father, Kuren, were coming home from helping rebuild their sister tribe. She didn't want them to see her sick, it was their day and she didn't want the spotlight. Eagerly getting out of bed, she didn't seem the least bit sick. And that was a good thing. Looking around at her surroundings made no affect on her whatsoever but it did help to get her eyes focused from her sleep. Around her lay the warm, animal skins hanging along the edges of the ice-built hut. She rubbed her eyes, trying to better see her surroundings.
All there really was to do now was to wait for the two to come. Pouring herself a fresh jug of hot tea helped to make her feel a little better. After "tea time" she had an idea involving her healing abilities. She sat on her fur covered bed, taking out her waterskin and summoning out the water. With a long breath she drank the water, while controlling it's movements, and tried to locate what exactly was wrong with her. No success.
Two hours of unsuccessful tries later, the girl started to get frustrated. She then heard a noise from the entrance outside calling for her. " Who is it?"