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Name: Felix Fendom
Age: 17
Gender: M
Karmic Alignment: +1
Rank: [SB]-3 (Nov.23.06)
Tribe/Nation: Fire Nation
General Description:
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Skin Color: Light-medium tan
Clothing: Red No-Sleeve T-shirt, Black Cargo Pants, Medium cut combat boots, and Battle Gauntlets

History:Felic Fendom was born in an upper class family in the fire nation. His Father was an officer in war politics while his mother was a teacher in the all girl fire nation academy. Both his parents raised him to treat others with respect and gentlemen like, while being fierce against his enemies and break those who dare to hurt the family pride.

Felix discovered he was a firebender at an elementary age when he blowed a puff of smoke. His parents rejoiced but decided not to teach him fire bending, instead teach him more academical things. But one person disagreed with that, His big brother Frederic who vowed to teach him, at least the basics. But he never got the chance to.

One day when Fred was about to start teaching Felix fire bending on his 13th birthday, he was shot in the heart by an arrow. Felix stopped dead as his brother slipped from his hands and fell to the ground. Tears bursted as the authorities and family members rushed to the scene. They caught the murder and immediately executed him.

During the funeral of Fred, Felix decided he would become stronger if not for him then for his family because he was no longer the youngest nor the oldest, he was alone and the only one left amongst the siblings. Strength, Power, and Knowledge is what he now seeks.

Name: Xhen Moonkin
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Karmic Alignment: -3
Rank: [Civ]-4
Tribe/Nation: Fire Nation
General Description: A rather shady character with an attitude that changes to suit the situation.
Eye Colour~ Bright Yellow
Hair Colour~ black
Skin Colour~ light tan.
Clothing~ Most of the time, he's dressed in his street clothes, which are a yellow long-sleeved shirt, and black long pants, with doeskin boots. When he's on a contract, or just skulking around, he's in a black Kimono, and black kimono pants to match, with the face mask to cover from his nose to his chin.
History/Bio: He was born in a small fire nation villlage and practiced with using staff. He heard fantifal stories about people who sneak around, unheard and unseen to carry out missions, and Xhen grew to envy them. He decided to set out, and learn how to hunt on his own. On the first month of travel, he was attacked by a saber-toothed moose-lion, and narrowly escaped death. After a year in the wilds, he came to understand the way of life there, and started to forget his old way of life, letting a more savage inner-self to take over and guide his actions. In his travels, he came upon another small fire nation village, but still being the hunter he was, instead of talking to the inhabitants, he hid around. Dodging from shadow to shadow. He stole food from storehouses, took clothes from tailors, and after just a week of hearing human speech, his human side gained a little bit of footing in his struggle for humanity. He started to become aware of his stalking, and sneaking, and found a great fondness for it. He had started to evedrop as well as steal, and over heard some villagers talking about some theives from some gang had been stealing things in the village. Of course he knew these accusations to be incorrect, but the thought of such a thing excited him. He had wild ideas about a guild of assassins in some big city of water, or earth benders. He craved it; Human contact, to talk about things such as "That guy never saw it coming", or "You show of seen his face when the poison kicked in! It was so great!". The ideas bubbled inside him so furiously that it drove him out of the village, seeking for a great city to see if such a group were to already exist.

Name: Nuiko
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Karmic Alignment: -1
Rank: [LB]-4
Tribe/Nation: Fire
General Description: Nuiko is average height for a female, slim, though with few muscles. Her face is angular, but not unpleasantly so. Her hair, which she typically wears hanging loose to her waist, tends to lighten in the summer, sometimes as much as a dark mousy brown, though it generally remains black. She is generally polite, shy, and kind, though, like most firebenders, has a quick temper and seldom names anyone as a friend.
Eye colour~ Gold
Hair colour~ Black
Skin: Pale
Clothing~. Nuiko wears a black, turtlenecked undershirt that reaches down to her fingers, in which she had cut holes for her thumbs (often not worn in the summer). Over it, she wears a long, crimson red dress in a kimono design, trimmed with gold and tied off with a gold sash. In the summer, she often wears only this, though in the winter, she will don a black skirt underneath. Her hair usually hangs loose, though if she must, it is often tied back with a red ribbon. On her wrists, she wears two old gold bracelets from her mother.

History/Bio: Nuiko was raised an only child in a middle class fire nation family. At a young age, she showed prowess in firebending, and was sent to a good school, where she excelled in the art. Around the age of nine, however, fire caught to her house, which had cheaply been made of wood. Arrogant of her ability, Nuiko attempted to save her parents with her bending skills. The result was only terrible burning along the back of her left leg, her right arm, and her back.

Nuiko was forced to drop out of her fine firebending school and accept mediocre education in the orphanage, which she did not refuse. As she grew older, she sought became a seamstress, always maintaining close ties to her home. Despite her skill, most have forgotten that she ever had been a firebender, and though she has not abandoned it completely, she has given up any ambition in it, fearing that it would be a useless trade if she could not save anyone.

Name: Gao Rong
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Karmic Alignment: -1
Rank:[LB]-5
Tribe/Nation: Fire Nation
General Description:
Hair - Gao has nondescript brown hair, the same shade as Azula, Zuko, and almost every other Fire Nation member.
Eyes – Gao has piercing gold eyes, with flecks of green that only stand out if one takes a close look.
Skin Color – Unlike most members of the Fire Nation, Gao has a half-decent tan, similar to that of many of the Earth Kingdom
Clothing – Gao wears ash-gray poofy slacks, with black boots, trimmed in red, with pointed toes. He wears a black chest plate that is cut off a few inches from the arms, to maximize mobility. Under that, he wears a long-sleeved dark red shirt with a red collar with a gold trim, as well as sporting black arm braces. On his right hip he wears a sword, and on his right hand, he wears a ring made of silver and black onyx.

History/Bio:
Gao was the child prodigy of a small noble family in the Fire Nation. Prestigious Fire Navy generals who were recruiting quickly noticed his skills. He was inducted into a private school for the fire bending arts, called Ozai’s pride.

Within the school, he was taught an ancient, and slightly rare form of fire bending in which one bends the fire through the sword. He was a quick learner, and rapidly mastered the art, much to his teachers’ surprise.

As soon as he was deigned combat ready, he was whisked away into the Fire Navy. There, the young prodigy killed many soldiers of the earth kingdom in border disputes. He earned the fearful name of the ‘Butcher of Ba Sing Se’ from when his commanding officer went rogue and attempted to re-do what Azula had done over a century and a half ago.

The rogue commander was quickly executed under an Earth Kingdom court. Wanting revenge against the young soldier, they decided to torture the young Gao to death. However, Fire Nation diplomats, who wanted to keep him as a military asset, finally made a breakthrough and had him released.

However, the damage was permanent. Gao Rong's chi was damaged badly, and he was in a fragile state of mind. The powers he once commanded were gone, and it was doubtful that he would ever be nearly as strong as he was. He was admitted to a special hospital which dealt in difficult cases like his.

After a few years of effort, at the age of fifteen, he was released from the hospital.
He now has taken service under the Fire Navy once more, ready to fight for his land’s cause, and unlock the powers he once had, back in the dark days of his youth. He is almost constantly worried about his past; fearful of the bloody conflicts he was often put into, as well as the hate that the Earth Kingdom has for him.

Name: Cho* Zhen Hua (Pronouciation: Each word is one syllable--it's not "Hoo-ah," for example, but "Hwah". The zh in "Zhen" is said with a soft z, as in the word azure)

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Karmic Alignment: +2

Rank: [LB]-6

Tribe/Nation: Fire Nation

General Description:

Eye Colour~ A strange and beautiful shade that seems to straddle the color boundry between yellow and green, leaning a tad more toward yellow. The exact hue is reminescent of tea.

Hair Colour~ Dark brown, pulled back with a hairband and then held up with a clip.

Skin Colour~ She is relatively pale, and has a slightly sickly complexion; this comes from remaining indoors for most of her young life, particularly from age 12 on (see history).

Clothing~ Zhen Hua wears a stiff, pale red bodice with long sleeves that each have a slit up to the elbow. Over top of it she has a wine red collar that both protects her shoulders and happens to be the height of Fire Nation fashion. In addition, she wears a similarly colored overskirt with a split down the front (for maneuverability) decorated with the Fire nation insignia. (She has shorts on under it.) When she travels or engages in extensive physical activity, she also wears pairs of wrist guards and boots to keep her joints stable.

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History/Bio:In order to fully understand Zhen Hua's past, you must first understand some things about her father, Haneul. And in order to understand him, you must know a thing or two about his late son, Zhen Hua's brother. (So, basically, this is a family history.)

Cho Haneul was in his early twenties when he joined the army. Though he did not perform well under intense physical pressure, his good head for terrain and his clever strategems soon gained him a job as tactician to one of the Fire Nation Generals--an honorable position for one so young. It was because of this situation that he met Yuudai Aimi, the daughter of a lesser noble who was serving in the court at the time. After a year or so of courting one another, the two lovers became formally engaged, and they married in Midsummer later that year. They eventually made their home on a small land-holding that Aimi had inherited from the Yuudais as her dowry.

Haneul and Aimi lived there very happily for many years and they had two children. The eldest, Cho Xiang, was a fine healthy boy who had already proved adept at firebending before his formal lessons started at age 6. Their daughter, whom they named Zhen Hua, also proved to have the skill, and progressed in the art along with her other studies of sewing and manners.

Xiang's mercurial temperment and hunger for greater knowledge made his progress in firebending grow at a steady but rapid pace. He was sure that he was ready for anything. But there came a day when Haneul would not teach him the next tier of techniques. Haneul claimed that he wanted Xiang to be a master of all the lesser techniques and routines before moving on. Furious and resentful, Xiang formed a plan to learn the tier on his own. The next time his father left home to go to Court, he stole the scroll, and snuck out to a storage shed to practice the moves. In the arrogance of his youth, he rashly assumed that his father had been either been unable to teach him the techniques or jealous of his rapid prgress. The boy, of course, was dead wrong. Haneul had forbidden the tier out of caution.

And his father's caution had not been without reason. As soon as Xiang released the first technique, he lost control and the shed caught on fire. And even as he tried to contain what he had created, Zhen Hua stumbled in to tell him dinner was ready. When the blaze gained new life and engulfed the shed completely, both Xiang and Zhen Hua were trapped inside and badly injured by the flame.

Zhen Hua survived the ordeal, but her health was broken when her lungs were seared by the fire. She would never be the same. Xiang, who had been closer to the flames, had suffered multiple third degree burns and some bruising when the roof collasped. He died in agony shortly after his father returned from court from infection. He was eighteen at the time.

Haneul was crushed by his son's untimely demise. Morevoer, he fretted about his daughter's condition. The doctors determined that, although Zhen Hua would not die from her injuries, it was likely that breathing problems would afflict her for the rest of her life. Her father's hopes for her future were dashed. As the now eldest child in the Cho family, Zhen Hua would either have someday taken her mother's place in court or followed her father into the army. But with her newly developed asthma, she would never master her bending, nor would she ever become proficient with weapons. The army was right out.

Aimi and Haneul considered the issue for a long time and took careful care of their only remaining child. Eventually, once she was well enough, they decided that she could once more continue her lessons, but she would move more slowly than others her age and focus each day on breathing exercises.

Over the past four years, Zhen Hua herself has been weak and sickly, and she knew that if it were not for the insistance of her mother, any firebending lessons would have long ago stopped. Haneul, feeling guilty in part for his son's death and in part for her predicament, was wholely against the idea, fearing she would follow Xiang to the grave. Yet her lessons continue, and Zhen Hua finds that, out of all her studies, firebending is the one she is most keen to master, regardless of her disability.

*Cho is her surname. Zhen Hua is her full first name.

Name: Li Xhang
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Karmic Alignment: +2
Rank: [LB]-4
Tribe/Nation: Fire Nation
General Description:

Eye colour~ reddish brown
Hair colour~ black, short, messy and unkempt
Skin colour~ lightley tanned
Clothing~ Red sleevless martial arts top with black trim, black martial arts style pants. He stands about 5ft 8, he has a wirey body frame and has a feirce look in his eyes, but yet there is a kindness in them too. Hes a attractive young man.

History/Bio: Li was born to a well off family in the Fire Nation capital. When he was 8 he witnessed the murder of his parents by a man who broke into his house. The rage in him was so strong that it awakend his fire bending abilities at this early age and killed the murderer and burned there home completely to the ground. He was brought to Agni's Home for Lost Children shortly after, in the hopes that the kind people there would help him to calm his rage, and his tendancy to burn everything when he lost his temper.
Li now lives in the orphanage, but goes into the higher district of The Capitol to the firebending schools to train with the upranking firebenders. Though his power is great, he still has alot to learn before he can call himself a real firebender. Every now and again hell loose his temper, but he has managed to learn some sort of restraint...sortof. Though he puts on a tough exterior, he his a good person and a loyal friend if he lets anyone close enough.