Post by Namiko on Aug 4, 2008 1:35:30 GMT -5
Name: Namiko (maybe, I haven't decided quite yet...)
Age: 13
Nation: Water Tribe
Bender?: Waterbending
Weapon(s)?: Daggers, but only used for backup other than bending.
Features: Namiko's eyes are gold, an unusual color for a young girl from the water tribe. Her dark brown, almost black hair hangs down neatly to her lower back. Her long bangs are tied at the top and wrap around her head into the back (hair loopies, for lack of a better name) and end at a simple topknot near the top of her head. Some other hair is also wound into the topknot, but the rest of her hair just flows down her back. She's average height and build, only a miniscule bit thinner than the other girls. Her face is usually relaxed and kind, and she doesn't often show large amounts of emotion on it.
Clothes: Namiko sports a blue kimono, with white fabric trim on the edges. Around her waist is another blue strip of fabric, on which she hangs her skins for carrying bending water. Underneath her kimono she wears a loose fitting, long sleeved light blue shirt and baggy dark blue pants. Arount her wrists and ankles are tighter bands of black fabric, so that her clothing doesn't get in the way of her bending. She wears fur lined boots that go only a part of the way up her calf, and sometimes she wears light gloves. When the climate is too cold to only wear her usual clothing, she has a dark blue parka and mittens lined with fur.
Background: Namiko doesn't remember much from her young childhood, but her mother always told her how mischievious she was back then. She lives in the Northern Water Tribe with her mother and her father. She also has an older brother, but he married and moved out of the house a couple years ago. At her seventh birthday party, she got a baby polar bear for a pet. When she was five, she had started taking classes in the healing huts, and learned like a waterbending prodigy. She was progressing so quickly that soon enough, she had partially taught herself some additional healing moves and didn't seem to have much to learn from her 'school.' She obediantly continued to go, at least for her parent's benefit, although she was getting bored of learning simple lessons. It wasn't much time until that feeling passed when she saw the waterbending school. She was utterly frustrated by the fact that girls were only allowed to heal even more now. She had always been allowed to leave her classes early, so she took advantage of this opportunity to study the moves from the waterbending school and practiced them at night, near the healing huts. So far nobody has discovered her practice sessions, because when she was ever found she would jump into the hut and do some healing excuses. Also, because she lives in a wealthy family, she has become friends with many other water tribe nobles and has a good reputation. Now, since females are allowed to waterbend as a fighting tecnique, she practices freely, and sometimes people would wonder how she learned so quickly, because she never told anyone about her secret practice sessions.
Sample of Roleplaying:
The sounds of sleep echoed all around the ice house- snoring, slow breathing, and the occasional grunt as someone shifted in their slumber. At least, almost all around, except for one corner. In Namiko's room, everything was silent except for the rustling of the curtains on her window. As soon as she was sure everyone was asleep, her golden eyes flicked open and she quietly pushed away her blankets so she could sit on the edge of her bed. She reached towards the wall, where her fur parka hung from yesterday's healing lesson. Namiko slipped into it and pulled on her boots, then stealthily pulled up her hood and tip-toed outside.
Continuing until she reached the healing huts, she breathed a sigh of relief when she reached the room she ventured to on a normal basis. Coming almost every night in the last few weeks probably wasn't a good idea, but Namiko didn't care. Careful not to show any damage, she pulled some water from the surrounding walls and floor to use. First she practiced the basics: moving her arms slowly in a circular motion around her body, bending the water in a wide circle around her, then made it into a elongated circle and moved one hand in a quick, outward movment, performing the water whip.
Concentrated, she kept practicing her form until she was ready to try the ice shard trick she had learned the other day from watching the waterbending school master. Gathering more water from the ice around her, she went through the movements she had seen the boys trying to do earlier that day. With the water in front of her following her arms, she moved her hands up, lifting the liquid into the air, then, her body flowing smoothly, she formed them into ice and jerked her arms down violently. Most of them struck down far in front of her, but some shattered directly where she stood, and she jumped back and almost yelped in suprise when she slammed against the floor.
Quickly she stood and mended the hut, then began her healing basics. Somebody must have heard her, and she was prepared. As soon as the man came to inspect what that noise was, he only saw Namiko kneeling by the healing dummy, with bright blue water easily flowing through it. She pretended to be too focused to notice him, and he soon started walking back to his house.
"Stupid little healing girls, always making a ruckus while the tribe is trying to sleep..." he mumbled, thinking she couldn't hear him.
"That's right, just a stupid little girl," she muttered as she stood and walked back to her house after he had left. She smirked and silently found her way to her fur covered bed. As if I'm dumb enough to believe that only guys can waterbend...
Okay, I admit it was kind of long, but I haven't had much to do recently and this occupied my time very purposefully. ;D
Age: 13
Nation: Water Tribe
Bender?: Waterbending
Weapon(s)?: Daggers, but only used for backup other than bending.
Features: Namiko's eyes are gold, an unusual color for a young girl from the water tribe. Her dark brown, almost black hair hangs down neatly to her lower back. Her long bangs are tied at the top and wrap around her head into the back (hair loopies, for lack of a better name) and end at a simple topknot near the top of her head. Some other hair is also wound into the topknot, but the rest of her hair just flows down her back. She's average height and build, only a miniscule bit thinner than the other girls. Her face is usually relaxed and kind, and she doesn't often show large amounts of emotion on it.
Clothes: Namiko sports a blue kimono, with white fabric trim on the edges. Around her waist is another blue strip of fabric, on which she hangs her skins for carrying bending water. Underneath her kimono she wears a loose fitting, long sleeved light blue shirt and baggy dark blue pants. Arount her wrists and ankles are tighter bands of black fabric, so that her clothing doesn't get in the way of her bending. She wears fur lined boots that go only a part of the way up her calf, and sometimes she wears light gloves. When the climate is too cold to only wear her usual clothing, she has a dark blue parka and mittens lined with fur.
Background: Namiko doesn't remember much from her young childhood, but her mother always told her how mischievious she was back then. She lives in the Northern Water Tribe with her mother and her father. She also has an older brother, but he married and moved out of the house a couple years ago. At her seventh birthday party, she got a baby polar bear for a pet. When she was five, she had started taking classes in the healing huts, and learned like a waterbending prodigy. She was progressing so quickly that soon enough, she had partially taught herself some additional healing moves and didn't seem to have much to learn from her 'school.' She obediantly continued to go, at least for her parent's benefit, although she was getting bored of learning simple lessons. It wasn't much time until that feeling passed when she saw the waterbending school. She was utterly frustrated by the fact that girls were only allowed to heal even more now. She had always been allowed to leave her classes early, so she took advantage of this opportunity to study the moves from the waterbending school and practiced them at night, near the healing huts. So far nobody has discovered her practice sessions, because when she was ever found she would jump into the hut and do some healing excuses. Also, because she lives in a wealthy family, she has become friends with many other water tribe nobles and has a good reputation. Now, since females are allowed to waterbend as a fighting tecnique, she practices freely, and sometimes people would wonder how she learned so quickly, because she never told anyone about her secret practice sessions.
Sample of Roleplaying:
The sounds of sleep echoed all around the ice house- snoring, slow breathing, and the occasional grunt as someone shifted in their slumber. At least, almost all around, except for one corner. In Namiko's room, everything was silent except for the rustling of the curtains on her window. As soon as she was sure everyone was asleep, her golden eyes flicked open and she quietly pushed away her blankets so she could sit on the edge of her bed. She reached towards the wall, where her fur parka hung from yesterday's healing lesson. Namiko slipped into it and pulled on her boots, then stealthily pulled up her hood and tip-toed outside.
Continuing until she reached the healing huts, she breathed a sigh of relief when she reached the room she ventured to on a normal basis. Coming almost every night in the last few weeks probably wasn't a good idea, but Namiko didn't care. Careful not to show any damage, she pulled some water from the surrounding walls and floor to use. First she practiced the basics: moving her arms slowly in a circular motion around her body, bending the water in a wide circle around her, then made it into a elongated circle and moved one hand in a quick, outward movment, performing the water whip.
Concentrated, she kept practicing her form until she was ready to try the ice shard trick she had learned the other day from watching the waterbending school master. Gathering more water from the ice around her, she went through the movements she had seen the boys trying to do earlier that day. With the water in front of her following her arms, she moved her hands up, lifting the liquid into the air, then, her body flowing smoothly, she formed them into ice and jerked her arms down violently. Most of them struck down far in front of her, but some shattered directly where she stood, and she jumped back and almost yelped in suprise when she slammed against the floor.
Quickly she stood and mended the hut, then began her healing basics. Somebody must have heard her, and she was prepared. As soon as the man came to inspect what that noise was, he only saw Namiko kneeling by the healing dummy, with bright blue water easily flowing through it. She pretended to be too focused to notice him, and he soon started walking back to his house.
"Stupid little healing girls, always making a ruckus while the tribe is trying to sleep..." he mumbled, thinking she couldn't hear him.
"That's right, just a stupid little girl," she muttered as she stood and walked back to her house after he had left. She smirked and silently found her way to her fur covered bed. As if I'm dumb enough to believe that only guys can waterbend...
Okay, I admit it was kind of long, but I haven't had much to do recently and this occupied my time very purposefully. ;D