Sako Plua-Accepted!

[kooties]

Name: Sako Plua

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Nation: Originally WT (north), but has traveled to Earth Kingdom.

Bender?: Yes but poisons are his weapon of choice.

Appearance: Sako is a short man at 5'3,a little overweight, and has tan skin that instantly recognizes him as from water tribe descent. He also has chinky blue eyes which further shows his watertribe origins. His hair is of a dark shade of brown , and is brushed back. He prefers to wear clothes with Azure tones as he is proud of his water tribe heritage.

Personality: Egotistical, envious, cruel yet very Astute and quite Obsessive-Compulsive. He is also very nationalistic even though he was cast out of his tribe. In public he acts cheery and friendly (his trade is of a doctor), but he can be genuinely caring to those who he feels have earned his trust.

History: He used to live in the NWT with his two parents, Masaki and Hokuto Plua: as well as his younger brother Raku. Sako was a very introverted boy and thus he never had many friends. People always preferred the more cheerful and more handsome Raku. This drove Sako to become better than him in every way possible, which was no easy feat since Raku was quite talented himself. Because of this Sako got the highest marks in waterbending class, he also became the most adept waterbender for their age group. Although because of this drive for perfection he pushed himself from others even further.

He continued his studies and decided to become a healer as he was certain this was to going to net him the attention he craved. During these classes not only has he learned to heal with waterbending, but with the scarce vegetation around him as well. He had become a skilled botanist and learned which plants would help or harm a human.

He then finished his studies and set out to work in one of the healing huts. There were no openings even for someone as talented as him: there were too many healers that had more experience and they couldn't afford to hire any more. Distraught by this he went back home unemployed. Meanwhile his brother, who set off to be in the military was already an officer in a fleet where his father was captain of.

One day, during an assault by the Fire Nation on their tribe Raku got severely injured and Sako was the one charged to take care of him. Sako still resented his brother, but continued to do his job. Then they got terrible news, their dad died during one of the raids. Raku was very saddened by this and suddenly became very abusive to his brother. He often said that Sako was the cause of their Dad's death. Raku said that if he healed him fast enough that he would have prevented the death. Sako's resentment grew to hate and one day slipped poison into his brothers medicine. His mother found out about this, but couldn't bear to see him get arrested, so instead she ordered him to exile himself to the earth kingdom and never returned.

He did as he was asked and ended up in a small village near Omashu. There he practiced his profession as a healer. He finally got his attention, but he didn't want that anymore. He discovered a new pleasure, his lust to kill.

[Horyo]

I'm not sure, in the NWT society, that males would be permitted to learn Healing, as the NWT people viewed it as a more feminine way to use bending.

I'm not sure how you could justify the interest in poison due to the lack of almost any plant-life in the Northern Icy Terrain. Also, where did his shift to murder come from? It couldn't have been just from killing his brother, could it? Regardless of Abuse, I doubt that murder wouldn't somehow unhinge his mental stability, so maybe he should have been driven mad and insane enough to kill after that?

Can you shape up the appearence? Rather than listing, can you describe it a bit more formally?

And last note: If he used poisons, woulnd't he have to get it into someone? I mean, how can he do that in a, say, RP-battle?

Interesting character though.

[kooties]

Well IMO it would be kinda stupid for the males not to learn the healing aspects of waterbending. Take note that most waterbenders would end up on the front lines of wars and wouldn't they be considered more efficient if they learned at least some sort of self-preservation?

Sure there is almost no vegitation in the NWT, but what about the surrounding waters? Avatar is known for it's not-so conventional animals, wouldn't that be true also for plants?
Also remember about Hakoda's Stink and Sink, the odor was caused by seaweed. Smell is one of the senses man uses to discern whether something could be harmful or not. Usually when it is not appealing it's not good for you. So wouldn't it be plausible that that seaweed would have some properties of poison. Or if not wouldn't a close relative of it have that characteristic? And as he is a well trained botanist wouldn't he know how to access these plants?

Also in the case of RP battles, Sako would probably use conventional waterbending. Also I forgot to mention that he isn't confrontational, and would usually try to befriend a target, then slip the poison into drink and stuff.

Although he could always mix the poisons with the water he bends. That would make even small scratches lethal. He could also do other stuff like transforming the toxic water into vapors that could stun/kill.

Also as for his mental instability, it wouldn't exactly be wrong label for him . But his motive for killing was not the abuse he took from his ailing brother. Moreso from the fact that he was always forgotten in favor of that same brother. The abuse was just the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak.

[Horyo]

While I'm tentative to accept the poison/botany part, because I doubt waterbenders, regardless of the type of seaweed alive in ice-cold waters, and that he went crazy due to sibling rivalry/attention and abuse, I'd have to say you've given me pretty good explanations for everything.


So I'll Accept it.