Route 29 App
Player
Name: Tira
Livejournal Username: tirajm
E-mail: murphy16@purdue.edu
AIM/MSN: none
Timezone: US Eastern
Current Characters in Route: None, currently. I did have the Tenth Doctor a while back, but some pretty serious personal issues came up IRL.
Character
Name: Aang
Series: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Timeline: Between “The City of Walls and Secrets” and “Tales of Ba Sing Se”
Canon Resource Links:
Avatar Wiki
Aang’s Wikipedia page
Personality: Despite being the most powerful bender in the world and having had several previous incarnations, Aang is a completely normal twelve-year-old. He’s a cheerful, generally upbeat person with a decent sense of humor. He’s an enthusiastic animal lover, and is just as close to his flying lemur and sky bison as he is to his less furry friends. Although he’s been through a lot, he still has an innocent outlook on life; he’s fairly trusting, sometimes too much so, and would rather make friends than enemies. He can be pretty impatient at times, and while he’s fairly dedicated to his duty of learning all the different bending styles, he can also be distracted by neat-seeming things. Although he can be a bit of a prankster, he’s also fairly polite, especially to adults. He was raised as a monk, which shows through a bit, as he still keeps those aspects, such as shaving his head and being a vegetarian. He’s also surprisingly spiritual for a kid.
Although being Avatar confers a lot of responsibility on him, it’s not really something he knows how to handle. In fact, his initial situation came about because of an attempt to avoid it. He was hurt by the fact that it made his friends became more distant, and when they planned to move him away from his favorite teacher, he ran away to the South Pole and ended up sleeping in an iceberg for a hundred years. Since he awoke and realized how bad things had gotten without the Avatar, he’s become more responsible and focused on his duties, especially after the battle at the North Pole. Before, he’s more interested in using waterbending to make snowmen than fighting with it, but afterwards, he’s far more focused on finding an appropriate earthbending teacher. Loosing Appa also makes him take a harder attitude towards others to some extent, though he does manage to calm down by the point I’m taking him from.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Aang is good with, and very fond of, animals. He seems to be fairly knowledgeable about them, and usually gets along well with non-vicious ones.
+ Aang is very loyal to his friends, and is willing to go a long ways to help them.
+ While Aang can’t use his bending any more, he is a fairly well-trained martial artist. He also seems to pick things up pretty quickly, though that may be just an Avatar thing.
+ Aang’s a pretty likeable kid; he makes friends pretty easily and gets along well with others.
- Aang tends to take responsibility for everything himself, whether or not it’s warranted. Part of it’s because of his duties as Avatar; part of it is guilt for his 100-year sleep in an iceberg.
- Aang doesn’t always handle bad situations well, especially losing a friend. It tends to make him bitter and belligerent for a while, which tends to hurt things more than it helps.
- Aang has the priorities of your average 12-year-old - he’ll put something fun and interesting before something boring but important.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Charmander
Password: Grape Jelly
Samples
First Person Sample: [The screen is nothing but static, and only faint sounds can be heard through the microphone. Whoever’s using this obviously doesn’t know how it works. Finally, it clicks into life, with a boy’s face staring down at it.] Is this what it’s supposed to do? The manual says you talk to it, and then you can talk to other people or something…
[He clears his throat] Um, hi, everybody? My name’s Aang, and I really don’t know what’s going on. I was in Ba Sing Se, but then I just woke up here, and I can’t bend any more. Does anybody know where this is? Or what happened? Because I really need to get back to Ba Sing Se, my friends are all there, and we’ve got to tell them about the eclipse! And find Appa!
[There’s a “Char!” coming from somewhere close offscreen. Suddenly, a large orange face invades the screen, and a paw nudges something that makes everything go black and fuzzy. The audio is still on, but rather crackily.] Char! [Things stay black for a moment, and the video comes back to Aang holding a small, wriggly Charmander.]
Sorry, Char keeps on wanting to play with my stuff. Isn’t he neat? He looks kind of like a Gilacorn, only bigger and orange. And his tail’s on fire, but I think it’s supposed to be that way. I found him trapped in this little ball, poor guy. I wonder what he is…
Third Person Sample: Aang woke up slowly at first, feeling rather groggy, but he was jerked into full functionality by the completely strange place he found himself in. Where was he? Certainly not in Ba Sing Se, the place he’d dozed off in. He cautiously slipped out of the bed, noticing that all of his belongings were gone. Had he been kidnapped? It seemed like the most likely scenario, though whoever had done it hadn’t bothered to confine him very well. He began to tiptoe down the stairs, hoping that he could get away before they came back.
His attempt at sneaking was well and truly blown when he almost ran into a woman. She looked startled, almost oddly so, giving Aang time to slip into a stance and… nothing. Not even the barest tremor of a breeze responded to him. What had happened to him? Had they hit some sort of pressure point, like that one girl with Azula could do? But there was an odd stillness to the air - it seemed somehow emptier than it did back home.
The woman seemed to have regained her calm manner, however. “Hello, dear!” she said brightly. “I’ve got your bags all packed up and ready to go.”
Aang blinked dumbly. That didn’t make any sense, contextually. “Thanks, but I think you might have me confused with someone else. Um, hey, you haven’t seen a Water Tribe boy and girl or an Earth Kingdom girl with bare feet anywhere, have you? Or maybe a flying lemur? Or a sky bison?” Asking about Appa was an off chance, he knew, but he did stick out…
She just laughed, her expression never changing. “You have such an imagination, dear. Now come on, you don’t want to be late heading out on your Pokémon journey.”
“But I need to find my friends!” he insisted.
That constant smile wavered for a second, as he veered off script, but she recovered quickly. Aang was reminded strongly of Joo Dee. “I’m sure most of your friends are out on Route 29 already. You should head out and catch up to them.”
Aang sighed - it was obvious he wouldn’t be able to get anything out of her, and frankly, she was creepy. “Fine, all right. Where am I going again?”
“Route 29. It’s straight west, you can’t miss it. Here, don’t forget your bag!”
Aang took the bag, and started heading down the road she’d indicated. Maybe somebody else could offer him an actual explanation. He hadn’t walked very far when his stomach gurgled, and he decided to see if there was something edible in his bag. Most of the contents were rather strange, and got put to the side as non-edible, although the book caught his attention, mostly because of how strange it was. The writing was completely foreign to him, all simple rounded shapes, but at the same time he could read it perfectly - Trainer’s Handbook. It seemed to be mostly about something called “Pokémon.”
He fished around inside the bag some more, wondering what a Pokémon was exactly. That strange lady back in the house had mentioned it, too, hadn’t she? As he was thinking, his hand closed around a small round object. He pulled it out and frowned at it, studying it closer. A thumb slipped onto the button in the middle, and there was a sudden burst of light that formed into the shape of a rather large lizard, about two feet high. “Char!” the lizard exclaimed.
“Char?” Aang repeated, dropping the ball as he was distracted by the strange animal. “What are you?” His eyes widened as he caught sight of the small flame burning brightly on its tail. “Some kind of firebending animal?”
“Charmander,” it said in reply, and climbed into his lap, poking at his chest with a paw.
Despite his situation, Aang couldn’t help grinning at the little creature. “Aw, you’re friendly, huh? How come you got locked up in that ball? It seems pretty hard on you.” It made no audible reply, instead deciding it was more interested in playing with its dropped pokeball. “You need a name, little guy,” Aang pronounced. “Let’s see, what should I call you?”
“Char!”
“Okay, then! Nice to meet you, Char.” He began to flip through the handbook. “Maybe this can tell us where we are?