[since it will be much easier to jump into the rp with an oc... I shall try to make one. <: ]

Name: Shim Hen

Age: 23

Gender: female

Fighting: hand-to-hand combat, chii-blocking (in training), Equalist Weapons (like kali sticks and the power glove)

Appereance: Shim is a ordinary sized and slim woman. She has green eyes and often wears her neck long black hair tied together in a short ponytail, “because she doesn't want it to get in the way when she's doing her Business”, as she would say. Her often earth colored or dark working clothes contrast her pale skin and are chosen by usefulness and not by their looks. That's why some people would describe her as kind of "sloppy".

Character: Shim is a very sarcastic, sometimes even cynical person. She is tough and somewhat of a tomboy. To other people she can appear detatched but when she is convinced of a thing she'll show that with a never known passion. She is also a very eager and hard-working girl since she has been raised to survive even as a low working-class non-bender citizen. Despite her detatchedness however, she can lose her temper quite a lot, especially when someone is questioning her morals or ideals. She also tends to rant about things that she dislikes or thinks to be wrong.

History: Born in the uprising Republic City, Shim was raised into a poor and low class non-bender family. She was the oldest of four children and frequently had to look after them, since her parents stayed out at work until late most of the time. Once her siblings grew old enough to be left alone, however, she began to help her family earn money. This often was a difficult task. A lot of jobs only could be done by benders and it didn’t help much that they were permanently pressured by their landlord, another bender, who owned the apartment they lived in for a – far too high – rent. After a few unnecessary boosts of their rent, Shim’s father finally decided he had enough. He secretly joined the back then just upcoming movement of anti-bender extremists called the Equalists. At first he thought none of the other family members knew about this, but he was wrong. On the fateful night in which he and the Equalists took down the bender who had tyrannized them for so long, her mother couldn’t be silenced anymore. Despite the bad experiences she had made with some benders in the past, she didn’t hate them like her father did. So it is needless to say that she was shocked about what he had done. She told Shim’s father that she couldn’t witness him becoming a criminal any longer and that she didn’t see the man she once loved in him anymore. They had a terrible argue but in the end her father would just leave, never to be seen again. This hurt Shim a lot. She had always been more drawn to her father than to her mother and they had had a great relationship. The years after that event were something Shim would call her worst years. With one moneymaker less in the family, it was hard for them to survive, eventually forcing her other siblings to look for work as well. During this time however Shim would not forget about her father. She still admired him and didn’t see anything wrong with his beliefs. She had anti-bender sentiment herself, seeing how constricted the abilities of a non-bender were in Republic City. So, once she grew old enough she left her family to become an Equalist herself, and to step in her father’s footsteps, which she actually succeeded in.
She is currently a low-rank Equalist and in chii-blocking training. In public she works as waitress at a bar.