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character name: Aang, just Aang.
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Timeline: Post-series, so... yeah just post-series.
character's age: ...well he's 113, but he's physically, mentally and emotionally 13.
canon powers, skills, pets and equipment:
As the Avatar, Aang is able to bend/manipulate all four elements (earth, air, fire, water). This can get pretty extreme at their highest skill level (some of the previous avatars have been shown to create islands by cutting off pieces of continent for example). However, Aang is still young and still learning and so isn't really up to that level of ability just yet.
At the moment, his highest level of proficiency is in air bending, which is pretty much... air manipulation, which he uses to do things like ride balls of air around and control the flight of his glider, carry his jumps great distances or generally ... resemble peter pan sans the outright flying. While many benders require arm movements to use their powers, he does have a number of tricks he can pull without them - think Superman's superbreath. Silly but effective! After that, he's probably the most comfortable with water bending, since it was the first of the non-air types that he took on. He has a harder time with earth bending than any other type, due to earth's status as the opposite of his native element, air. Even so, he has managed to achieve a fairly strong level of skill in that area as well. He also has the rare ability to redirect lightning, a part of firebending invented by Iroh and taught to him by Zuko. As some firebenders can also create lightning, that may or may not be in the future for him. At the moment, notsomuch.
Just before the end of the series, he also learned to energy bend. In canon, this ability allows him to permanently disable people's bending. Obviously this is pretty gross/godmoddy, so I'm going to just. Take it out, haha. Well, the energy in Anatole wouldn't be the same as the energy in his canon anyway.
When he or those he cares for are in mortal danger, or when he is extremely angry, Aang can take on the Avatar State, in which he has access to all the skill and power of all the avatars before him. It is in this state that Aang is the most powerful, but also the most vulnerable - if he is killed in this state, the avatar itself ceases to exist. Furthermore, while the avatar has full control of Aang's potential power, Aang himself does not have full control over it.
Aang can also separate his spirit from his body through use of meditation. This doesn't mean he goes floating around the normal world, however - he enters the spirit world, where he sees... spirits and can communicate with the previous avatars. This leaves his body vulnerable, and if it's moved he may become lost and be unable to return to it.
(Note: As far as the spirit world thing goes in Scorched, I figure it would take a few weeks or months of trying to access anything like a spirit world here, and that when he did it wouldn't behave as he expects it to - instead of a vibrant world of vegetation and animal spirits, it would be grey and horrific, possibly filled with hostile things or ghosts. Definitely something I'd talk to the mods about.)
Finally, Aang is a fairly formidable hand to hand combatant, skilled in Ba Gua, a martial art relying on speed and dynamic motion.
Aang would arrive with four notable things:
His staff. He uses this to fight. It also expands into a glider, which he uses to travel by air.
His bison whistle. Calls Appa.
Momo. A flying lemur.
Appa. A ten ton flying bison that he'll spend a lot of time hiding in various places. /)_(\
non-canon powers:
I really don't think he needs any, LOL.
canon history:
The world of Avatar is very similar to the Asian/Eastern world of Earth, with a few fantastical twists: humans live side by side with nature spirits and strange animals... and there are four lands, and each is associated with a different kind of elemental bending. Not everyone is capable of bending: only a small percentage of people are born with the gift. And each person only has control over one element.
There is, however, one exception: the avatar. The avatar brings together all four elements, and both worlds - human and spirit, serving as the bridge between worlds and the union of all elements. It is the avatar's role in life to maintain balance, and to this purpose he or she is capable of attaining vast power, and charged with using it only in the maintenance of the good. When an avatar dies, they are then reincarnated, their knowledge and spirit residing inside the new Avatar, adding to his or her proverbial toolbox. These reincarnations follow a pattern as well, cycling through each nation in turn.
In that sense, Aang's story is infinitely old. But the most relevant bits of it begin a little more than 100 years ago. Then, Roku of the Fire Nation served as the world's Avatar. A longtime friend of Sozin, the leader of the Fire Nation, Roku allowed his fondness for his old friend to blind him to the Fire Lord's growing ambition - and influence him to tolerate it for too long once he did become aware of it. In the end, it led to his grave, as Sozin chose not to save Roku from death at the metaphorical hands of poisonous gases released during a massive volcanic eruption on the island Roku called home.
At the moment of Roku's death, Aang was born to the tribe called the Air Nomads.
As a child, Aang was talented, excitable, and generally both adorable and bald. Pretty much like all the other kids. He picked a flying bison with the rest of his "class," a creature meant to stay with him for his entire lifetime. He named his Appa. Quickly, Aang established himself as a prodigy of airbending - inventing new uses for his power and rivaling his teachers when he was only child. He had no idea at the time why that was, as the Avatar is normally kept ignorant of their station until an age where they can properly process and handle the responsibility. However, Aang's childhood was cut sadly short when the Fire Nation's ambition, now unchecked by Roku's watchful eye, began to grow and war began to brew in the world.
Aang didn't really want to be the Avatar. It was too much to think about and anyway, once his identity became known, he was shunned by the other children who no longer thought it was fair for him to compete with them. His mentor, Gyatsu, attempted to shield him from the changes in his life, but soon it was decided that Gyatsu too should be taken away. Aang, 12 years old and frustrated, decided to run away from home. He took Appa and left the Air Nomads behind, fleeing his responsibilities entirely.
As it turns out, this temper tantrum saved his life. Shortly after his departure, Fire Lord Sozin came to the Air Nomads. Knowing the avatar would be born into their tribe, he brought down the wrath of his nation on them and slaughtered the entire tribe. Thus leaving Aang as the titular Last Airbender.
(Remainder of history omitted :P)
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Timeline: Post-series, so... yeah just post-series.
character's age: ...well he's 113, but he's physically, mentally and emotionally 13.
canon powers, skills, pets and equipment:
As the Avatar, Aang is able to bend/manipulate all four elements (earth, air, fire, water). This can get pretty extreme at their highest skill level (some of the previous avatars have been shown to create islands by cutting off pieces of continent for example). However, Aang is still young and still learning and so isn't really up to that level of ability just yet.
At the moment, his highest level of proficiency is in air bending, which is pretty much... air manipulation, which he uses to do things like ride balls of air around and control the flight of his glider, carry his jumps great distances or generally ... resemble peter pan sans the outright flying. While many benders require arm movements to use their powers, he does have a number of tricks he can pull without them - think Superman's superbreath. Silly but effective! After that, he's probably the most comfortable with water bending, since it was the first of the non-air types that he took on. He has a harder time with earth bending than any other type, due to earth's status as the opposite of his native element, air. Even so, he has managed to achieve a fairly strong level of skill in that area as well. He also has the rare ability to redirect lightning, a part of firebending invented by Iroh and taught to him by Zuko. As some firebenders can also create lightning, that may or may not be in the future for him. At the moment, notsomuch.
Just before the end of the series, he also learned to energy bend. In canon, this ability allows him to permanently disable people's bending. Obviously this is pretty gross/godmoddy, so I'm going to just. Take it out, haha. Well, the energy in Anatole wouldn't be the same as the energy in his canon anyway.
When he or those he cares for are in mortal danger, or when he is extremely angry, Aang can take on the Avatar State, in which he has access to all the skill and power of all the avatars before him. It is in this state that Aang is the most powerful, but also the most vulnerable - if he is killed in this state, the avatar itself ceases to exist. Furthermore, while the avatar has full control of Aang's potential power, Aang himself does not have full control over it.
Aang can also separate his spirit from his body through use of meditation. This doesn't mean he goes floating around the normal world, however - he enters the spirit world, where he sees... spirits and can communicate with the previous avatars. This leaves his body vulnerable, and if it's moved he may become lost and be unable to return to it.
(Note: As far as the spirit world thing goes in Scorched, I figure it would take a few weeks or months of trying to access anything like a spirit world here, and that when he did it wouldn't behave as he expects it to - instead of a vibrant world of vegetation and animal spirits, it would be grey and horrific, possibly filled with hostile things or ghosts. Definitely something I'd talk to the mods about.)
Finally, Aang is a fairly formidable hand to hand combatant, skilled in Ba Gua, a martial art relying on speed and dynamic motion.
Aang would arrive with four notable things:
His staff. He uses this to fight. It also expands into a glider, which he uses to travel by air.
His bison whistle. Calls Appa.
Momo. A flying lemur.
Appa. A ten ton flying bison that he'll spend a lot of time hiding in various places. /)_(\
non-canon powers:
I really don't think he needs any, LOL.
canon history:
The world of Avatar is very similar to the Asian/Eastern world of Earth, with a few fantastical twists: humans live side by side with nature spirits and strange animals... and there are four lands, and each is associated with a different kind of elemental bending. Not everyone is capable of bending: only a small percentage of people are born with the gift. And each person only has control over one element.
There is, however, one exception: the avatar. The avatar brings together all four elements, and both worlds - human and spirit, serving as the bridge between worlds and the union of all elements. It is the avatar's role in life to maintain balance, and to this purpose he or she is capable of attaining vast power, and charged with using it only in the maintenance of the good. When an avatar dies, they are then reincarnated, their knowledge and spirit residing inside the new Avatar, adding to his or her proverbial toolbox. These reincarnations follow a pattern as well, cycling through each nation in turn.
In that sense, Aang's story is infinitely old. But the most relevant bits of it begin a little more than 100 years ago. Then, Roku of the Fire Nation served as the world's Avatar. A longtime friend of Sozin, the leader of the Fire Nation, Roku allowed his fondness for his old friend to blind him to the Fire Lord's growing ambition - and influence him to tolerate it for too long once he did become aware of it. In the end, it led to his grave, as Sozin chose not to save Roku from death at the metaphorical hands of poisonous gases released during a massive volcanic eruption on the island Roku called home.
At the moment of Roku's death, Aang was born to the tribe called the Air Nomads.
As a child, Aang was talented, excitable, and generally both adorable and bald. Pretty much like all the other kids. He picked a flying bison with the rest of his "class," a creature meant to stay with him for his entire lifetime. He named his Appa. Quickly, Aang established himself as a prodigy of airbending - inventing new uses for his power and rivaling his teachers when he was only child. He had no idea at the time why that was, as the Avatar is normally kept ignorant of their station until an age where they can properly process and handle the responsibility. However, Aang's childhood was cut sadly short when the Fire Nation's ambition, now unchecked by Roku's watchful eye, began to grow and war began to brew in the world.
Aang didn't really want to be the Avatar. It was too much to think about and anyway, once his identity became known, he was shunned by the other children who no longer thought it was fair for him to compete with them. His mentor, Gyatsu, attempted to shield him from the changes in his life, but soon it was decided that Gyatsu too should be taken away. Aang, 12 years old and frustrated, decided to run away from home. He took Appa and left the Air Nomads behind, fleeing his responsibilities entirely.
As it turns out, this temper tantrum saved his life. Shortly after his departure, Fire Lord Sozin came to the Air Nomads. Knowing the avatar would be born into their tribe, he brought down the wrath of his nation on them and slaughtered the entire tribe. Thus leaving Aang as the titular Last Airbender.
(Remainder of history omitted :P)