Post by Nokoro on Mar 20, 2007 18:17:12 GMT -5
Name: Nokoro Harima
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Nation: Northern Water Tribe
Bender: Waterbending (skilled), fast learner with incredible moves
Appearance: His hair is a light shade of black, short, spiky, and combed back. His eyes are light blue, like the sky, and they always show his ambitious personality and you could tell his emotions by looking at them. His skin has a dark tan from swimming/Waterbending in the water too much in spring and summer. He appears to be skinny and is 5'8''. He is very muscular from exercising a lot. His weight is 100 pounds because he always jogs for about an hour a day and actively swims/Waterbends for most of the rest of the day. His light weight makes it easier for him to run fast and evade attacks, which adds to his defensive Waterbending skills. His lips are pretty small and you could barely see them when his mouth is closed. He has a great, reassuring smile that can make nearly anyone optimistic and happy. He has straight, clean, white teeth that shine like the moon. His legs are pretty long which greatly add to his height. He has a bridge nose that is medium-sized. His eyebrows are skinny and pretty short. He has long, movie star eyelashes, which show his kind personality. When he is Waterbending, his face has a very focused and concentrating appearance. His skin always seems and is moisturized because he is swimming/Waterbending in water most of the time except during winter, so he doesn't get dry skin.
He usually wears a light blue coat, that matches his eyes, to stay warm. It has the Water Tribe emblem on the front and the Waterbending symbol on the back. It has 5 feathers. The 1st and 5th feathers are long, the 2nd and 4th feathers are medium, and the 3rd feather is short. When he isn't cold during summer and sometimes in spring, he wears a warrior suit with no sleeves. It makes it easier for him to move and Waterbend because of the lack of clothing. He wears short, black, tight boots.
Personality/History: Nokoro showed clear signs of Waterbending right when he was born in the beginning of winter! He always loved swimming/Waterbending in the water during warm weather when he was a kid and he still does (maybe because he was born underwater!). His father and mother were both Waterbenders who were very proud of their natural Waterbending son. His father was a wealthy noble. He didn't have any siblings. They showed him most of the beginner moves when he was 10 years old and eventually, he was able to do those and some basic moves easily. He is very confident and enthusiastic and he always tries new things, including different techniques with Waterbending. He is also intelligently creative because he always tries to create his own special moves or ways of Waterbending. He has adapted to the cold, polar weather and it doesn't bother him much anymore, so he could swim and wear sleeveless clothing without freezing, except in winter. He also doesn't freeze when he is swimming/Waterbending in the water because before he enters the water, he uses his Waterbending to heat up the water and make it a more comfortable temperature, so he can swim during most of the year when it's not so cold! The idea and style of Waterbending showed him how winning isn't always about offense and attacking, but it's also about how to control opponents nonviolently in a more calm and defensive way. Nokoro always likes using his Waterbending for good intentions like helping other people or saving people who are in trouble. He always carries a water skin with him so that he can Waterbend when he isn't near water. He isn't a type of person who holds grudges or seeks revenge (mostly because of his Waterbending fighting style). He makes friends easily with his kindness and generosity. But, sometimes he can trust people too easily, which is a flaw in his kindness. For example, when he was 15 years old and trying out his Waterbending moves by bending the water around the fish in the ocean and taking it out of the water, a stranger around his age asked him if he could Waterbend some fish out of the water and give it to him and he said that he will pay him for it later. Nokoro trusted him, Waterbended 10 fish out of the water, and gave them to him, but he never saw the stranger again. He has to learn that not everyone is trustworthy and truthful and that you have to be careful when trusting someone. His two best friends are Mioko and Zotora. Mioko is a 16-year-old male mediocre Earthbender who is very energetic, excited most of the time, and optimistic. He has very dark brown hair, which is long and has a small ponytail, and wears the Earth Kingdom uniform most of the time (he lives in Ba Sing Se, but they still try to see each other about once a month). He always likes to watch Nokoro do skilled Waterbending moves and sometimes they do a bending battle for fun. Zotora is a 19-year-old intermediate Waterbender who is usually serious, and thinks only about goals and destinations and not really about the steps to the goals or the journeys (like Sokka). He has normal brown hair, which is short and straight, and wears pretty much the same thing as Nokoro. Zotora is a little jealous that Nokoro is a little better at Waterbending than he is and he is younger, but he doesn't discourage him from Waterbending. Zotora and Nokoro also have bending battles; Nokoro thinks it's just for fun, but Zotora always sees it as a competition. Mioko and Zotora also encouraged Nokoro's special Waterbending skills in the ways that Mioko used his optimism and Zotora used his competitiveness. Even though he is very skilled and excellent in Waterbending, he isn't arrogant and doesn't boast to try to make other people, like his friends, seem inferior to him. Nokoro has a girlfriend who is very dear to him and her name is Jing. He met her when he was 16 years old. She is 17 years old and has beautiful brown hair that glows in the moonlight, ice blue eyes that match the city's walls, and she usually wears a very dark blue parka with 3 feathers (the 1st and 3rd ones are short and the 2nd one is long). She is a Waterbender who has healing capabilities, but since females aren't allowed to Waterbend in the Northern Water Tribe, she does it secretly behind Nokoro's back. Nokoro watches her carefully so that she doesn't Waterbend, but Jing always seems to slip away from his attempts to catch her Waterbending. Even though he doesn't let her Waterbend, Nokoro always tries his best to protect her with his Waterbending because since women can't Waterbend in the Northern Water Tribe, even for protection, they can't really protect themselves. But, she returns the favor by healing any wounds that Nokoro gets from protecting her (or from anything else). They have a pretty good, trustworthy relationship (except the fact that Jing Waterbends behind Nokoro's back) and even though most Water Tribe men look down upon women, Nokoro wasn't raised that way, but sometimes he has to pretend to do so if he was in front of important people. He always tries to balance his Waterbending evenly between offense and defense, even though Waterbending is usually used for defense most of the time. Like most Waterbenders, he uses his Waterbending to use his enemies' attacks against themselves. He is very peaceful because he never tries to get into fights with other people, but if he is forced to fight someone, he tries his best not to hurt them, but to evade them and make them use their strength against themselves instead, unless he is fighting a real enemy, in which case he would not only avoid his/her attacks, but attack him/her at the same time. But, his trust weakness causes him to also trust his enemies when they say that they surrender or that they just want to be his friends, which puts him at a big disadvantage. He is also very skilled in Waterbending because besides his parents, Master Pasoko, who is Pakku's great-great-grandfather, has been teaching him everything he knows because ever since he heard about the newborn, early Waterbender, he knew that he could be a special, powerful Waterbender later on and that he will be able to make a difference in the world. But, just because Pasoko thought he was special, it didn't mean that he was going to treat him kindly. Just like his future descendant would, he treated him as harshly and sarcastically as all of his other students. So, with his skilled Waterbending parents and one of the best Waterbending teachers teaching him Waterbending, he became a prodigy Waterbender for his age.
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Nation: Northern Water Tribe
Bender: Waterbending (skilled), fast learner with incredible moves
Appearance: His hair is a light shade of black, short, spiky, and combed back. His eyes are light blue, like the sky, and they always show his ambitious personality and you could tell his emotions by looking at them. His skin has a dark tan from swimming/Waterbending in the water too much in spring and summer. He appears to be skinny and is 5'8''. He is very muscular from exercising a lot. His weight is 100 pounds because he always jogs for about an hour a day and actively swims/Waterbends for most of the rest of the day. His light weight makes it easier for him to run fast and evade attacks, which adds to his defensive Waterbending skills. His lips are pretty small and you could barely see them when his mouth is closed. He has a great, reassuring smile that can make nearly anyone optimistic and happy. He has straight, clean, white teeth that shine like the moon. His legs are pretty long which greatly add to his height. He has a bridge nose that is medium-sized. His eyebrows are skinny and pretty short. He has long, movie star eyelashes, which show his kind personality. When he is Waterbending, his face has a very focused and concentrating appearance. His skin always seems and is moisturized because he is swimming/Waterbending in water most of the time except during winter, so he doesn't get dry skin.
He usually wears a light blue coat, that matches his eyes, to stay warm. It has the Water Tribe emblem on the front and the Waterbending symbol on the back. It has 5 feathers. The 1st and 5th feathers are long, the 2nd and 4th feathers are medium, and the 3rd feather is short. When he isn't cold during summer and sometimes in spring, he wears a warrior suit with no sleeves. It makes it easier for him to move and Waterbend because of the lack of clothing. He wears short, black, tight boots.
Personality/History: Nokoro showed clear signs of Waterbending right when he was born in the beginning of winter! He always loved swimming/Waterbending in the water during warm weather when he was a kid and he still does (maybe because he was born underwater!). His father and mother were both Waterbenders who were very proud of their natural Waterbending son. His father was a wealthy noble. He didn't have any siblings. They showed him most of the beginner moves when he was 10 years old and eventually, he was able to do those and some basic moves easily. He is very confident and enthusiastic and he always tries new things, including different techniques with Waterbending. He is also intelligently creative because he always tries to create his own special moves or ways of Waterbending. He has adapted to the cold, polar weather and it doesn't bother him much anymore, so he could swim and wear sleeveless clothing without freezing, except in winter. He also doesn't freeze when he is swimming/Waterbending in the water because before he enters the water, he uses his Waterbending to heat up the water and make it a more comfortable temperature, so he can swim during most of the year when it's not so cold! The idea and style of Waterbending showed him how winning isn't always about offense and attacking, but it's also about how to control opponents nonviolently in a more calm and defensive way. Nokoro always likes using his Waterbending for good intentions like helping other people or saving people who are in trouble. He always carries a water skin with him so that he can Waterbend when he isn't near water. He isn't a type of person who holds grudges or seeks revenge (mostly because of his Waterbending fighting style). He makes friends easily with his kindness and generosity. But, sometimes he can trust people too easily, which is a flaw in his kindness. For example, when he was 15 years old and trying out his Waterbending moves by bending the water around the fish in the ocean and taking it out of the water, a stranger around his age asked him if he could Waterbend some fish out of the water and give it to him and he said that he will pay him for it later. Nokoro trusted him, Waterbended 10 fish out of the water, and gave them to him, but he never saw the stranger again. He has to learn that not everyone is trustworthy and truthful and that you have to be careful when trusting someone. His two best friends are Mioko and Zotora. Mioko is a 16-year-old male mediocre Earthbender who is very energetic, excited most of the time, and optimistic. He has very dark brown hair, which is long and has a small ponytail, and wears the Earth Kingdom uniform most of the time (he lives in Ba Sing Se, but they still try to see each other about once a month). He always likes to watch Nokoro do skilled Waterbending moves and sometimes they do a bending battle for fun. Zotora is a 19-year-old intermediate Waterbender who is usually serious, and thinks only about goals and destinations and not really about the steps to the goals or the journeys (like Sokka). He has normal brown hair, which is short and straight, and wears pretty much the same thing as Nokoro. Zotora is a little jealous that Nokoro is a little better at Waterbending than he is and he is younger, but he doesn't discourage him from Waterbending. Zotora and Nokoro also have bending battles; Nokoro thinks it's just for fun, but Zotora always sees it as a competition. Mioko and Zotora also encouraged Nokoro's special Waterbending skills in the ways that Mioko used his optimism and Zotora used his competitiveness. Even though he is very skilled and excellent in Waterbending, he isn't arrogant and doesn't boast to try to make other people, like his friends, seem inferior to him. Nokoro has a girlfriend who is very dear to him and her name is Jing. He met her when he was 16 years old. She is 17 years old and has beautiful brown hair that glows in the moonlight, ice blue eyes that match the city's walls, and she usually wears a very dark blue parka with 3 feathers (the 1st and 3rd ones are short and the 2nd one is long). She is a Waterbender who has healing capabilities, but since females aren't allowed to Waterbend in the Northern Water Tribe, she does it secretly behind Nokoro's back. Nokoro watches her carefully so that she doesn't Waterbend, but Jing always seems to slip away from his attempts to catch her Waterbending. Even though he doesn't let her Waterbend, Nokoro always tries his best to protect her with his Waterbending because since women can't Waterbend in the Northern Water Tribe, even for protection, they can't really protect themselves. But, she returns the favor by healing any wounds that Nokoro gets from protecting her (or from anything else). They have a pretty good, trustworthy relationship (except the fact that Jing Waterbends behind Nokoro's back) and even though most Water Tribe men look down upon women, Nokoro wasn't raised that way, but sometimes he has to pretend to do so if he was in front of important people. He always tries to balance his Waterbending evenly between offense and defense, even though Waterbending is usually used for defense most of the time. Like most Waterbenders, he uses his Waterbending to use his enemies' attacks against themselves. He is very peaceful because he never tries to get into fights with other people, but if he is forced to fight someone, he tries his best not to hurt them, but to evade them and make them use their strength against themselves instead, unless he is fighting a real enemy, in which case he would not only avoid his/her attacks, but attack him/her at the same time. But, his trust weakness causes him to also trust his enemies when they say that they surrender or that they just want to be his friends, which puts him at a big disadvantage. He is also very skilled in Waterbending because besides his parents, Master Pasoko, who is Pakku's great-great-grandfather, has been teaching him everything he knows because ever since he heard about the newborn, early Waterbender, he knew that he could be a special, powerful Waterbender later on and that he will be able to make a difference in the world. But, just because Pasoko thought he was special, it didn't mean that he was going to treat him kindly. Just like his future descendant would, he treated him as harshly and sarcastically as all of his other students. So, with his skilled Waterbending parents and one of the best Waterbending teachers teaching him Waterbending, he became a prodigy Waterbender for his age.
