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{:Name:}
Haruka Daichi - '' Sousha: Meaning ''Runner ''

{:Age:}
16

{:Gender:}
Female

- Physical Notes -
She is surprisingly short for her own age, Averaging in about 5''2 or less. She is also extremely slim, however almost all of her body weight is actually muscle, and barely fat. Her eyes have been two toned due to criminal abuse, as her right eye has become an extremely light gray in coloration while the other is an emerald green.Her hair is of a jet black, and she bears no mention able marks or tattoos excluding a few scars out and along her body [mainly her back and arms] from, again, criminal abuse.

{:Bends:}
Earth, can also Metalbend to a small degree.
Note: she does not earth bend as most do, as she sacrifices power for mobility. The way this is done, is by removing the still stances most earth benders use, and she focuses on mobility oriented techniques that allow her to bend while on the move. This makes her surprisingly evasive, and due to her Activities as a runner, gives her a tremendous amount of leg strength. She uses a combination of self taught Tae-Kwon-Do, Muay Thai, and Tricking techniques to improve her defensive capabilities, and bending. Do not be fooled however, as earthbending is still a highly offensive styled bending, hers is just not as offensive.

{ razz ersonality:}
Although generally a nice girl, her past has definitely caused her to have a swing of emotions. Her intents are usually good, However she has developed a rather twisted personality and will oftentimes jump from a casual, to overly enthusiastic mood at random.She is naturally playful, and extremely curious in matters that are not her own, which has gotten her into trouble on multiple occasions.Her mood swings can however, go to a point of near insanity in which case she becomes extremely unpredictable. This usually happens only when she is either provoked, or forced to remember her childhood.

{:Job:}
She works as both a legal, and illegal courier of various goods. Her express services are known around the city with both respect, and suspicion. On the side, she works as a self proclaimed weapon smith, working as an intern at Daichi Armaments, her adopted families store / blacksmith.

{:Hobbies:}
She spends her time running about the city aimlessly; usually trying to find various shortcuts, accessible rooftops, underground or sewer passage ways, and even ways into some popular areas of the city. Otherwise, she is also known to have a hobby of making exotic weapons much similar to a gauntlet that she wears along her right arm,which also leads some to believe that she has some small tastes in mechanics.

{:Weapon:}
She can oftentimes be seen running around with a variety of weapons, changing everyday. two weapons that she never parts with, are a pair of over sized gauntlets she wears on her arms. There are two holes found along the bottom of the palm, and tip of the elbow where a set of pile drivers are activated through a combination of metalbending, and earthbending. The gauntlets themselves do not fit to the hand, as her actual hand is really in the midsection of the forearm, the fingers themselves are again controlled through earthbending and metal bending.
Note: the Gauntlets do have a modification in order to re-track to to fit her real arms length,at a very minute mobility cost.

{:Lives:}
In a small condo connected through back yards to the blacksmithing shop her family owns.

{:Bio:}
Haruka was not always the sporadic, fun loving runner that most of republic city has come to know as Sousha. On the contrary, she used to live a normal life in the city of Ba Sing Se with her family whom at the time were blacksmiths. However the ,ironically named, Sousha family often times sold weapons to underground militias and crime syndicates. Although they only sold these to groups that had planned on overtaking the caste system of Ba Sing Se, and the apparent oppression that the city had on many of its lower ranked citizens. However one group that the family usually sold too had decided to go down a darker path, and used the family as an example to whomever would cross them. Brutally killing and exemplifying the entire family, except for her. Luckily enough, she had been with a neighboring family whom also worked in the same business, and were good friends with the family.

The Daichi family decided to adopt the now parent-less girl, and in order to escape the reach of the criminal group moved to republic city. However since the event, Haruka has had slight emotional troubles and is now going through a turbulent time. For the most part, she still retains her Kind attitude, and had even taken up blacksmithing and Free-running as hobbies, both of which her newfound family are proud of. It was in their traveling, that they also found her powers in both Earthbending, and her strange affinity for metal bending.

However now that they have been in the city for a few years she has gotten herself mixed in with some questionable company in her secondary job as an express courier, and is now often times called by both small and large crime groups to do certain ''special deliveries''. Despite this, the family has somehow lived a peacefull life, and are even treated like family by some of the nicer crime groups that haruka and her family help. The term help however, is used loosely.