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Post by Hinode on Apr 23, 2012 19:53:27 GMT -5
BASICS
name - Azuma no Hinode, Hinode being her given name
age - Seventeen years
gender - Female
BIRTH
Nation - Earth Kingdom, Ba Sing Se to be exact.
element - Earth
APPEARANCE
height - 64", 5.33333', 1.62559m, 162.6cm
weight -106lbs, 48.8kg
build - Thin, lithe, feminine.
hair - Blond, straight, falls down well past her waist, normally never put up unless she is dressed up for formal events.
face - Her face is small, somewhat rounded to show her youth, and has little to no flaws on the skin. Her eyes are large and round, bright ocean blue in color Her skin is quite pale from rarely being allowed outside without a couple of servants following her with a tent-like covering to block the sun.
distinguishing features - She has very faint scars from rope burns on her wrists from a failed kidnapping attempt. She normally keeps them hidden by way-too-long sleeves.
other - Due to her high social class, she normally wears high quality traditional garments made of silk.
HISTORY
Hinode was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her parents were very wealthy due to her father's occupation in trading, so they lived in the more luxurious part of Ba Sing Se. Servants ran among the halls, always doing something for their masters, like cleaning, gardening, or running errands. As for Hinode, she could only sit back and watch them run around. Her parents were very restricting, and they were quick to correct any bad manners.
They also had a thing against benders, but that comes into play later.
As a child, she wasn't able to be a child. She had to take part in her studies with a well-known private tutor. She never liked her studies, even as a child with the attention span of a squirrel. Often times, just to give her tutor trouble, she would skip class or randomly fall asleep during it. Other times she would space out, watching the lower class children play through the large round window of the study room. Her tutor would quickly lose his temper and storm out. When her mother came in with him tailing behind, Hinode would play the innocent act with her textbook open in front of her.
She went through so many tutors it's laughable.
She never got to see her father much, and the image of him in her mind was a big, scary man with a face that looked ready to kill. He normally came home stressed after long weeks away, and all the paintings of him are frowning. She even grew to believe that he didn't love her enough to come home often, but that was just her child foolishness speaking.
You could say her life changed on her tenth birthday. The party was in full swing, the entire crowd entirely made up of her parents' friends, business partners, and their kids. Though, not all the guests were invited. The girl was off minding her own business, trying not to be sucked back into the boring party, when she was shoved roughly back. Before she could scream, a gloved hand slapped over her mouth, and rope tightly bound her wrists. She was lifted up on to someone's shoulder as they high tailed it out through the back door. One of the servants had saw this and reported to the master of the house immediately.
She was shoved into a cage and tossed into some sort of vehicle just before they took off. A swarm of people flooded out of the house, chasing after it, but they were too slow. Her parents' dislike for benders kept all the useful people away... Hinode struggled and struggled, but the ropes just rubbed her wrists raw. When her hope was just about to run out, she spotted some kids from the more rundown neighborhood thrusting their hands out and pebbles lift from the ground. Intrigued and wishing to pass the time, she did the same, though with some limitations from the binding ropes. And then the vehicle lurched to a stop, and her cage was thrown out. It broke open, and she was able to escape. But not before looking to see what happened, of course. A long, thin rod of rock had lifted out of ground and was impaling the vehicle.
Without another second's thought, she ran as fast as her legs could take her. It didn't take long to find the search party looking for her and the kidnappers. She pointed them into the right direction as one of them unbound her wrists and took her home.
She wasn't let out of the house for a few months, and no one, other than their most trusted and loyal servants, were allowed in or out. Her wrists healed, though they left a faint scar that her mother did not like seeing at all. Her clothing was tailored to have the sleeves much longer than normal, running past her fingertips for a few inches or so. Hinode didn't tell her parents about the accidental bending. If she did, then she would have been punished or disowned.
As the years passed, her parents slowly started allowing her to leave more and more. Her studies picked back up, and the days fell back into their normal routine. However, without a teacher, her bending skills stick with thin rods, flying pebbles, and little platforms for too high of steps.
The sad thing is that her mother has been fussing over who she should marry... As an aristocrat, it is only normal for her to wed before or when she is eighteen. Whenever her mother talks about it to her, she always brushes off the topic. Arranged marriages were too much for her. Plus, with the news of a war that might just be around the corner, she didn't want to waste their money on weddings and all that.
PERSONALITY
Born and raised as an aristocrat, most of her personality reflects it. She walks with her head held high, and her pride is nothing to joke about. Well, her bending might be, but she isn't prideful about that. Any jabs or jokes at her family or her father's business will lead to a wooden sandal to the face. She doesn't take too kindly to those who laugh at her family, and she is very quick to anger when it comes to this. As if the sandal to the face wasn't an explanation enough...
She carries herself with grace, dignity, and, of course, pride. Years of hardcore training with books on her head and rules jabbing random points on her body keeps her back straight through almost any occasion. You will only see her slouch or relax in the slightest bit after she is forced to do physical labor (ew) or after a close call. She tries to keep up her high class manners as much as possible, in case her mother or father are watching. Even while she is out in the city with only the servants, she is a bit paranoid of that.
Beneath the mask of an aristocrat, there is a child that was never allowed out. It's her more carefree, rebellious side. Whenever someone can pry open her heavily guarded gate to even sneak a peek at this side of her, true smiles come much more easily. She will laugh, smile, and embrace almost any topic. Her gates will close, however, only shortly after, unless she is absolutely sure no one who knows her family is around.
Hinode is a loyal teenager, and she was taught that you should always keep your friends close and your enemies closes. However, keeping enemies closer sometimes makes her loyalty switch over to them. Her father was talking about business strategies at the time, but he was telling her this when she was seven. The wrong idea would get into her head anyway.
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