AVATAR: THE FORBIDDEN JOURNEY (OPEN/ACCEPTING)

What is your favorite bending style?

Fire	22.2%	[ 4 ]
Earth	22.2%	[ 4 ]
Water	38.9%	[ 7 ]
Air	16.7%	[ 3 ]
Total Votes:			[ 18 ]

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Made By: Zayzon, Alex Trevell, Fallen BOV, TemporaryParadox
Inspired by: Avatar The Last Airbender, Legend Of Korra

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Note: This roleplay does not require full knowledge on the world of Avatar as some info is given below or may be asked to the other roleplayers, however it may spoil moments from both ATLA and LOK. This roleplay will contain mostly original characters due to it being many years after both shows.

Due to the RP taking place 110 years after Avatar Aang died, technology has progressed a lot since then and has entered the modern age. The year is 263 AG which translates to roughly 2016 in our time.

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BOOK 1: ACCEPTANCE

With the death of Avatar Korra around the age of 80 (233 AG), a new Avatar, an Earthbender named Yanshi was born. He was a smart boy, nearly mastering Earthbending and already skilfully learning firebending, however his life was soon cut short at the age of 12 from some mysterious reason after going missing one day. This caused a new Avatar to be born, Kaen, a princess to the firelord. (245 AG)

Kaen grew up in a very protected household, so protected that she wasnt even told she was the Avatar by her own father and she was forbidden from going outside or seeing other people. The world went on for 18 years (263 AG) without an Avatar and the world grew restless, crime, war and other dangers arose. Undenounced to her father Kaen had been sneaking out of the palace for years now, wearing a disguise and donning a false name, "Bell". She was daddy's perfect princess while at home but a degenerate on the streets, causing all kinds of trouble with her friends.

Due to the lack of an Avatar, one group labeled the 'Mind's Eye' has been kidnapping various people around the age of 18 in order to find the new Avatar and kill them in the attempt to make their own Avatar by some strange means. Eventually Kaen and her friends get kidnapped as well and discover the secret behind this group of radicals, as well as a new form of bending... Mind bending.

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3. No cybering. I shouldn't even have to say this. If your characters feel the need to do this please post a timeskip in the Roleplay.
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5. For us to know you read the rules, please name your profile PM as, "Lets go Fire Ferrets!" to myself.
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10. No troll characters. I will not accept them, and I will know if you submit one.
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16. Lastly, obey the rules, and HAVE FUN!

In Universe Rules

1.Bloodbending is banned in all kingdoms, learning it or using it is punishable by lifetime in jail.

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Here are a list of locations in the RP, if you would like to request a location, please let me know and I will add it.

Capital City
The capital of the Firenation and home of the Firelord, one of the largest cities on Earth.

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Team Avatar(4/8 slots)
Kaen/ Bell
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Faction: Team Avatar
Profession: The Avatar
Bender:Firebender
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Sozin Jang
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Faction: Team Avatar
Profession: Inventor/Mechanic
Bender:Fire/Static
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Alex Trevell

Shen Qiang
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Faction: Team Avatar
Profession: Bodyguard, former pro-bender
Bender:Earthbender
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Joel Wesker

Ginseng Naotu
Gender: Maler
Age: 20
Faction: Team Avatar
Profession: Traveling Medic
Bender:Waterbender/Healing
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Kemistery

Firelord and soldiers

Mind's Eye Radical group

Meriwa; Mother of Mindbending
Gender: Female
Age: 42
Faction: Mind's Eye
Profession: Mind's Eye leader
Bender:Water/Blood/Mind
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Other

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Yanshi
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Faction: None
Profession: Previous Avatar, Deceased
Bender:Earth, Fire
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Mel the Firebreathing Salamander, Avatar Kaen's pet.

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World Info

The roleplay is set in the modern world, except with an Avatar flair. Technology has advanced quite a bit, people have smartphones, personal cars and even guns among other technologies.

Forms of Bending Arts

WATERBENDING

Waterbending is practiced by some people of the Water Tribe. A versatile element, it is unique in the sense that the original bender of the element was not an animal, but rather the Moon. Similar to their element, waterbenders are extremely adaptable and versatile. Waterbending concentrates on the flow of energy, focusing less on strength and more on turning the opponent's own energy against them. While a bender's victory in battle depends on their skill or ingenuity, waterbenders gain a serious advantage or disadvantage depending on the amount of water around them, although highly skilled waterbenders can draw water from anywhere, such as draw humidity from the air and bend the water in living things, especially plants.As the element of change, waterbenders can fluidly and quickly alternate from defense to offense, from a wall of ice to a jet of water, turning their opponent's strength against them. Due to its lunar sympathy, waterbending is stronger at night and ineffective during a lunar eclipse or when the Moon Spirit dies. However, to counter waterbending's ineffectiveness during a lunar eclipse, waterbenders gain immense power during the peak of the full moon. The opposite of waterbending is firebending, with its relatively stagnant, direct philosophy. The sub-skills for waterbending are healing and bloodbending and newly mindbending. Waterbending is the element of change, and its season is winter.

SUB FORM:

ICE BENDING

HEALING
Healing is a sub-skill of waterbending that allows the bender to heal wounds; by using water as a catalyst, they can redirect energy paths around the body, concentrating more energy into a wounded area and allowing that area to heal at an accelerated rate. While this technique is effective on external, physical wounds, its ability to repair internal injuries and cure illnesses is more limited. The skill level of the healer, as well as the quality of the water used, also plays a role in its effectiveness. On rare occasions, waterbenders may instinctively be able to use this technique without any formal training.
BLOOD BENDING
Bloodbending is a specialized sub-skill and a rare variant of waterbending that allows an extremely advanced waterbender to take hold of and manipulate fluids within an organism's body, allowing the bender to move the person's muscles.This technique is referred to as the highest level of waterbending, as well as the darkest, most powerful, and most feared of all bending techniques, and it is the only art known to endanger the user's mental state.
MIND BENDING
Mind bending is a new form of waterbending which only the most skilled are able to use nor do many know that it exists at all and it is closely related to bloodbending. Mindbending allows the user to control the minds of others through bending the fluids in one's brain, however this takes great concertation as well as connection to the victim's head with one's hand. Those still in the learning process will only be able to control one person for a matter of seconds while those whove mastered it can control multiple people for hours, though this puts much strain on the user as well as the victims. Like bloodbending, mindbending is very dangerous and can cause lasting effects if not death on either participant if done incorrectly or for too long.

EARTH

Earthbending originates in the Earth Kingdom and the first earthbenders were badgermoles. It demands a special connection with the earth that is achievable with neutral jing, listening, though seemingly doing nothing and waiting for the right moment to strike. Like waterbenders, earthbenders gain an advantage or disadvantage in battle based on the amount of earth around them, though the conditions are not as extreme. Because of their element's stability and its stress on neutral jing, earthbenders stand their ground, absorbing or intercepting attacks until they completely overwhelm their opponents. Unlike the other bending arts, earthbending's strength equally lies in both offense and defense. Earthbending is in stark contrast to airbending as airbending's emphasis is on evasion and mobility while earthbending's emphasis is on fortitude and strength. The sub-skills for earthbending are seismic sense, metalbending, and lavabending. Earthbending is the element of substance, and its season is spring.

SUB FORMS:

SAND BENDING
SEISMIC SENSE
Seismic sense is a sub-skill of earthbending that constitutes for physical sense. This skill enables earthbenders to detect vibrations in the ground to perceive objects, people, and other aspects of their environment, essentially acting as sonar, but through earth and metal.
METAL BENDING
Metalbending is a specialized sub-skill of earthbending that allows an earthbender to ferrokinetically bend processed metal in a similar fashion to bending regular earth. Metalbenders can also bend liquid metals, such as mercury, though utilize more fluid movements to do so, akin to waterbending. It is also possible to bend liquid metal inside someone's body.
LAVABENDING
Lavabending is a specialized sub-skill of earthbending that allows the user to manipulate molten earth. This rare ability allows the bender to phase-change earth into lava, lava into earth, and otherwise manipulate existing lava with great dexterity.

FIRE

Firebending is used by the people of the Fire Nation and is the most aggressive bending art. Dragons were the first firebenders; they subsequently taught the Sun Warriors. For a long time, disciplines of firebending were taught to be fueled by hatred, as opposed to the original source. As the element of power, firebenders have to be able to maintain a constant source of energy and balance in battle, unleashing a volley of direct, successive attacks. Unlike other benders who depend on external sources of their elements to bend, firebenders can create fire using their internal heat source in addition to controlling already existent flames. Skilled firebenders are able to fly using powerful jets of flames. Due to its solar affinity, firebending is stronger during the day and at its full power at noon,but completely ineffective during a solar eclipse. When a comet passes close to the planet, the power of a firebender is greatly increased. Firebending's relatively simple and direct style contrasts with the changing style of waterbending. A notable feature of special firebenders is the ability to create a hotter, blue fire. The sub-skills for firebending are combustionbending, generating and redirecting lightning. Firebending is the element of power, and its season is summer.

SUB FORMS:

LIGHTNING
Lightning redirection is a sub-skill of firebending that allows a firebender to absorb lightning into their body as energy and release it in a more desirable direction. Lightning redirection works well for both natural and bender-generated lightning, and for electricity conducted through metal.
STATIC
Static bending is similar to lightningbending only less dangerous and easier to learn.
COMBUSTION
Combustionbending is a very rare ability which allows the bender to ignite objects with their mind instead of traditional firebending methods. Combustionbenders concentrate the energy through a tattooed third eye to project a ray of heat which detonates with great force, producing situated explosions with a great deal of precision. This technique is extremely effective and very destructive, capable of use at close and long-range; it can completely disintegrate hill-sized boulders and instantaneously evaporate large bodies of water with ease. It can also be employed to burn things without setting an explosion, similar to a lens focusing sunlight. The beam can also be curved, as demonstrated by P'Li. However, the technique has the potential to be just as hazardous to the user as it can be to their surroundings, as Combustion Man blew off his own right arm and leg due to his initial lack of control over the newly discovered ability in his youth. The sole known weakness of the combustion ray is that it is heavily reliant on an uninterrupted flow of chi, as blocking the chi paths in the forehead from where the combustion beam issues forth causes potentially fatal backfires.

AIR

Airbending is the bending art used by the Air Nomads; the flying bison were the original airbenders. It concentrates on speed and evasion, forgoing a strong offense for a greater defense. Though apparently lacking fatal finishing moves, it is the most dynamic of all the bending arts. As the element of freedom, airbenders use their capability to bend unencumbered by the ground or any other environmental factors and use their own momentum as a weapon, evading attacks with astounding agility to tire their opponents out or building up massive inertia for explosive gusts of wind to make their counterattacks finishing moves. When resorting to physical confrontation, airbenders are able to harness the immense, intangible power of wind. Airbenders can use a flight technique by operating a glider and using the air to provide thrust and lift. Airbending's opposite is earthbending and the confrontational style that serves as its foundation. The sub-skills of airbending are flight and spiritual projection. Airbending is the element of freedom, and its season is fall.

SUB FORMS:

FLIGHT
Being able to fly without an aid, such as a glider, grants the practitioner more stability and freedom in the sky, while also permitting easier use of bending mid-flight. It is also an energy-efficient technique, as it allowed Laghima to live the last forty years of his life without ever touching the ground. Although a powerful technique, the ability is hindered by additional weight and the currents of the wind.
SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
Spiritual projection is a specialized airbending technique that consists of projecting one's spirit out of the body to travel to another location. Through projection, an airbender is able to explore places that would otherwise be physically inaccessible, such as moving around freely underwater or to sealed locations by passing through solid matter, while also being capable to normally talk with other people. Furthermore, airbenders can use this technique to find individuals with whom they have a strong bond by focusing on their spiritual energy. It is a very advanced technique that requires a strong spiritual connection.

SPECIAL BENDING FORMS

ENERGY BENDING
Energybending is the art of bending the energy within one's body. It existed in the era of Raava though was considered a lost art over time. Few Avatars have learned this bending art, and even fewer have used it. It is a highly dangerous technique; if one's own energy is impure and therefore bendable, the practitioner will be consequently destroyed. Energybending allows the user to remove other people's bending abilities; restore them after a bender had their abilities blocked by bloodbending and used the art to create a spiritual projection. This is a rare ability even among Avatars.

AVATAR STATE
The strongest and most powerful ability that the Avatar can invoke is the Avatar State. It allows the Avatar to channel vast cosmic energies and the knowledge of previous Avatars, granting them increased strength and the ability to perform especially powerful and extraordinary feats of bending. The Avatar may unconsciously enter the State in response to the perception of mortal danger or high emotional stress, utilizing the State as a defense mechanism.

Note: Definitions have been taken from Wikipedia.

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Chapter 1: Acceptance

With the death of Avatar Korra around the age of 80, a new Avatar, an Earthbender named Yanshi was born. He was a smart boy, nearly mastering Earthbending and already skilfully learning firebending, however his life was soon cut short at the age of 12 from some mysterious reason after going missing one day. This caused a new Avatar to be born, Kaen, a princess to the firelord.

Kaen grew up in a very protected household, so protected that she wasnt even told she was the Avatar by her own father and she was forbidden from going outside or seeing other people. The world went on for 18 years without an Avatar and the world grew restless, crime, war and other dangers arose. Undenounced to her father Kaen had been sneaking out of the palace for years now, wearing a disguise and donning a false name, "Bell". She was daddy's perfect princess while at home but a degenerate on the streets, causing all kinds of trouble with her friends.

Due to the lack of an Avatar, one group labeled the 'Mind's Eye' has been kidnapping various people around the age of 18 in order to find the new Avatar and kill them in the attempt to make their own Avatar by some strange means. Eventually Kaen and her friends get kidnapped as well and discover the secret behind this group of radicals, as well as a new form of bending... Mind bending.

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