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IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Aang
Character journal:actually112
Series name: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon notes: Aang was taken from right before his fight with Fire Lord Ozai, but he has ~1.3 years of history in The Games since then. This has not changed his physical appearance at all, since the Capitol continually reset his body to his original canon point after every arena death, but he is now chronologically 114. He has learned how to unblock the chakra in his spine and unlock the Avatar state again, and Korra taught him how to heal using waterbending. He also has a chip in his brain and a tracking device injected in his muscle now.
Species: Aang is basically an ancient human/spirit fusion, but for most practical purposes, he’s human with some extraordinary abilities. Plus, he’s like a cross between his world’s Buddha, Jesus, and Dalai Lama.
History: Here is a link to his canon history.
As for his history in The Games…
Immediately before Aang’s arrival at the beginning of the ‘shopping mall arena’, many of the offworlders had been taken by the Capitol as punishment for anti-Capitol activities. The beginning of the arena was the first time many of the offworlders saw their friends alive, so everyone was hugging everyone. This being the very first thing Aang saw of this new world, he assumed he was supposed to hug everyone too. So a lot of people ended up with some random monk boy glomping them and skating away. (And then bombs went off.)
This basically set the tone for his attitude towards his first arena.
Aang did not take the Hunger Games seriously at first, trusting that others would not harm him for the sake of whatever-this-was-supposed-to-be. Zuko and Bucky Barnes quickly took him under their wing, frustrated by his naiveté. Unfortunately, Aang was quickly proven wrong when he was caught by a bomb (which he mistook for a turtleduck egg) set off by a man he had previously had a friendly conversation with. Bucky drained the blood from his chest cavity and saved his life. Aang was deafened by alarms in the arena, and soon afterwards, he and Zuko fought Feferi in a battle in which Zuko was fatally wounded. Aang could only sing an Air Nomad lullaby to him as he died.
Aang attempted to work together with Tony Stark to destroy the arena by getting into the ceiling and wiring a bomb with Tony’s instruction, but they only managed to cave in the ceiling. Soon, Bucky Barnes was stabbed and poisoned with hallucinations, and Aang had a chance to sit with him while he was dying before he was redirected elsewhere and Thor mercy-killed Bucky. Aang was later killed by Black Tom in the final week of the arena.
The resurrection after the arena made Aang sick, but this was Aang’s first introduction to the Capitol, which was a large, decadent place that delighted in fantastical fashion, superficiality, and watching other people commit gruesome violence for their entertainment. Aang deeply disliked the Capitol, and he hated it more the more he found out about it—it was a pseudo-democratic dictatorship that depended on the oppression of the poor districts on the outskirts, and forcing the offworlders to kill each other over and over again was the center of national politics and entertainment.
Aang quickly learned that there was a price to pay for open dissent. Rebellion and discussion of the mysterious District 13 were restricted only to blind spots in surveillance and anonymous encrypted channels that would be set up once every few months or so, and those that drew the Capitol’s attention would usually disappear if they were lucky. If they were unlucky, they would reappear wrong. Thor came back rabidly attempting to kill his friends, and Steve Rogers came back small and terrified of anyone who he used to care about.
Aang was in a total of five arenas—a shopping mall, a space station, an incoming ice age forest, a medieval castle and environs, and a mashup of different canons—plus one mini-arena, the funzone, which was an arcade-themed arena only for children under 18. Each arena was characterized by violence, brutality, and new and creative ways for the Capitol to traumatize tributes. Between this, the Capitol started putting the offworlder children into school to be fed propaganda and to become penpals with children from their district. In the final arena, the district penpals were Reaped and put in the Hunger Games to die with the offworlders, though some of the children were saved by District 13. At one point, the Capitol even did a televised expose on Aang, which not only revealed his entire life to the world of Panem, but also televised in excruciating detail the genocide of his people for public entertainment. This was a highly traumatizing moment for Aang.
In between being put through the wringer in the arenas, the resistance against the Capitol escalated, as did Aang’s activity within it. Aang engaged in petty ways at first, by exchanging information covertly on the encrypted channel that would occasionally be set up for the rebels, then when the opportunity presented itself, he volunteered for a mission to break into a Capitol warehouse and destroy weaponry intended to destroy District 13. For this mission, he worked to prepare it by gathering materials other people needed and leaving them at dead drops. On the day of the mission, he was disguised as a girl, and he went in with a team to investigate and destroy the weapons. He broke a lot of (other peoples’) bones to get in and out safely, and they lost friends during the mission.
Finally, before the final arena, Aang convinced other children his age to secretly paint the names of past dead Districter tributes on their bodies in glow-in-the-dark paint and display them on stage on national television in an attempt to help incite rebellion in the Districts. Aang claimed this was an attempt to celebrate their Districts and the Capitol’s proud history, hoping to mitigate the Capitol’s retaliation against the other children by leaning on the audience’s perception of him as a young, naïve, oblivious child. The Capitol punished Aang and the Capitolite adults in each participating District by taking the stylists and escorts from the Districts of each participating child and putting the children in their family in the Reaping for the next arena. Aang was wracked by guilt for being responsible for another child being brought into the arena, but at the same time, a part of him felt like such a reaction was a sign that it was worth it, because the Capitol would only risk the ire of its citizens if he really was successful. After this event, however, he was kicked out of his district unofficially by his mentors and stylist, who almost tried to kill him.
Throughout this year and change, Aang made many friends and a wide variety of CR. Among these relationships were his relationships with Bucky Barnes (MCU), Clementine (TWDG), Zuko, and the Avengers cast as a whole.
Zuko, Aang, and Korra were the only ones from their world for a while, and Zuko and Aang were the only ones from their era. Zuko dedicated himself to helping Aang, and they grew to be like brothers in the Capitol. Zuko’s death devastated Aang, and it was an early and complete loss of his connection to his world, as Korra died as well and Aang never saw anyone from his world again after that except for during a fourth wall event in a long collective dream.
Clementine and Aang were the same age, and as they grew closer, Aang began to develop a crush on her. Eventually, they decided that they should get into a ‘fake relationship’ for the cameras, since it would attract more sponsors for them. Soon afterwards, Clementine died as well, another heartbreak for Aang after a long string of them.
Bucky Barnes was far and away Aang’s most intense relationship in the game. Over time, they saw each other as brothers, and even a little bit as father/son. Bucky curbed Aang’s more reckless tendencies and tried to teach him to be more selfish, and Aang in turn helped Bucky adjust to having relationships again and becoming his own person. Aang loves Bucky very much, and when Bucky was taken away to District 13, one of the Avengers’ priorities was to inform Aang that Bucky wasn’t dead before Aang could realize Bucky hadn’t returned from the arena. Bucky also pressed Aang about his role in his original world, asking difficult questions about how an entire world can completely fall in a hundred years and depend on a twelve-year-old to save it afterwards, and this led to Aang critically examining the role of the Avatar and the relative lack of any singular human tentpole in anyone else’s worlds. While Aang hadn’t reached the point where he would be willing to forsake his world or responsibilities as Avatar, Bucky had convinced him to begin questioning why no one else could have handled the war and only a small child could do it.
As an extension of Aang’s relationship with Bucky, he grew close with the Avengers cast to varying degrees. Clint Barton took responsibility for looking out for his wellbeing on Bucky’s behalf after Bucky went to District 13. Sam Wilson and Aang had a good rapport, with them calling each other respectively ‘big bird’ and ‘little bird’. Aang similarly had a good rapport with Thor, Steve Rogers, and Tony Stark (at least until Tony was publicly executed for enabling the resistance, that is).
And, of course, there’s Hariti, Aang’s blood-sucking vampire bat that he got as a gag prize after the medieval arena. Aang nursed her back to health with his own blood, and she became a source of comfort and companionship even as all of Aang’s human friends were subject to death, madness, and the arena.
Personality: “I'd rather get hurt lot because I have a lot of faith in people than wake up one day and realize I don't have any anymore.”
There are some things about Aang that will never change. He is a young monk who believes fervently in doing the right thing. He loves people, and he believes in humanity’s inherent goodness. The Capitol has informed him of the depths of depravity humans can sink to, and this has made him warier of strangers and more aware of the darker ways some people may think, but this has only strengthened his belief in the goodness of people. He has seen how easy it is for people to be bad, so the prevalence of goodness is significant to him.
This isn’t to say that his exposure to violence and the Capitol’s dehumanizing culture has only affected him superficially. All this time in a dictatorship characterized by constant surveillance has made Aang paranoid, especially in regards to what he says and who he says it to. The constant stream of death and resurrection has also jaded Aang to killing and violence; while he himself still will refuse to kill others, he does not condemn others as readily as he once did if they kill in the defense of themselves or others, and he’s more willing to do permanent damage to his opponents if he has to. It has gotten to the point where he no longer flinches when he watches a man getting shot in the head in front of him.
Multiple instances of people he was friendly with turning on him have shown him that he can’t trust people implicitly, so while he insists on continuing to have faith in people, he has learned to be more conservative about who he decides to let his guard completely down with. He recognizes that not everyone actually sees all people as people, as otherwise, the Hunger Games would not be so entertaining and the genocide of his people wouldn't be so fun for people to watch. He doesn't think that this is a product of malice, but of ignorance and brainwashing, and thus is something that can be fixed--though in the meantime, it is dangerous and something that should cause him to be careful of who he really trusts even if he's friendly with everyone.
He has also honed his pre-existing cunning and ability to perform for others. In the Capitol, he was treated as a celebrity by the public at large, an object to admire rather than a victimized child. He learned to play to this image and take advantage of it, using his age and natural charisma to gain sponsors and deflect suspicion after he realized that the Capitol public would never really see him as a person as long as the current administration held power. He knows how to project a charming and non-threatening persona, and that is a defense mechanism he will fall back on if his usual mechanism of hiding and attempting to stay out of reach is unavailable.
Another way Aang has simultaneously stayed true to himself and tried to cope with the horrors of what he’s seen is through his own goofiness. Consistently, Aang would do something silly between arenas. He would learn about the existence of stickers and make a game of putting them on all the other tributes. He would fill up entire rooms with origami and try to do it in the moments that no one else was in them. He would try to test and see if Bucky’s arm was magnetic, or hang in the ceiling of the archery range and try to catch the arrows archers loosed.
The purpose of this was threefold: one, it was fun; two, it cheered up Aang when he was unhappy; and three, it gave the super serious adults a chance to be goofy and weird too. Aang, while suffering himself, did not forget that his fellow tributes were suffering as well, and he did go out of his way to make their lives easier in and out of the arena. Early on, he promised himself that he would never get to the point where survival would trump his concern for other people, and he’s kept that promise.
Aang has become jumpier, more cautious, and more cunning, but at heart, he’s the same kind, goofy, altruistic boy he’s always been, and that will never change.
Abilities:
Aang is the Avatar, meaning he can bend all four elements. This means he can control fire, water, earth, and air, and these abilities are mainly only limited by one’s imagination and temperament. He is theoretically also capable of bending lightning, lava, metal, and healing and flying, but these are all very specialized forms of bending. Aang learned basic healing from Korra, and of the other forms of bending, his temperament is most suited for bending lightning and least suited for flying.
Aang also has a bunch of cool spiritual abilities, like connecting with past lives, spiritual projection, connecting with the Avatar state, and so on.
Physically, Aang is a master of four different styles of martial arts, making him a force to be reckoned with even without his bending, and Bucky taught him how to fight with knives and more modern Russian/Western techniques. Aang generally stays true to his martial roots, but he can whip out a good knife attack if he feels it’s necessary.
The chip in his brain comes loaded with lots of Capitol technology designed to control his powers, and it’s designed to release tracker jacker venom in his brain if someone tries to remove it. This is a specially designed venom that causes vivid hallucinations, panic, and violent behavior. He also has a tracker.
Augment Skillset: Medical Officer
Sample: Aang puts stickers on EVERYONE.
Name/Handle: Smurf
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Other characters: Justice
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Aang
Character journal:
actually112Series name: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon notes: Aang was taken from right before his fight with Fire Lord Ozai, but he has ~1.3 years of history in The Games since then. This has not changed his physical appearance at all, since the Capitol continually reset his body to his original canon point after every arena death, but he is now chronologically 114. He has learned how to unblock the chakra in his spine and unlock the Avatar state again, and Korra taught him how to heal using waterbending. He also has a chip in his brain and a tracking device injected in his muscle now.
Species: Aang is basically an ancient human/spirit fusion, but for most practical purposes, he’s human with some extraordinary abilities. Plus, he’s like a cross between his world’s Buddha, Jesus, and Dalai Lama.
History: Here is a link to his canon history.
As for his history in The Games…
Immediately before Aang’s arrival at the beginning of the ‘shopping mall arena’, many of the offworlders had been taken by the Capitol as punishment for anti-Capitol activities. The beginning of the arena was the first time many of the offworlders saw their friends alive, so everyone was hugging everyone. This being the very first thing Aang saw of this new world, he assumed he was supposed to hug everyone too. So a lot of people ended up with some random monk boy glomping them and skating away. (And then bombs went off.)
This basically set the tone for his attitude towards his first arena.
Aang did not take the Hunger Games seriously at first, trusting that others would not harm him for the sake of whatever-this-was-supposed-to-be. Zuko and Bucky Barnes quickly took him under their wing, frustrated by his naiveté. Unfortunately, Aang was quickly proven wrong when he was caught by a bomb (which he mistook for a turtleduck egg) set off by a man he had previously had a friendly conversation with. Bucky drained the blood from his chest cavity and saved his life. Aang was deafened by alarms in the arena, and soon afterwards, he and Zuko fought Feferi in a battle in which Zuko was fatally wounded. Aang could only sing an Air Nomad lullaby to him as he died.
Aang attempted to work together with Tony Stark to destroy the arena by getting into the ceiling and wiring a bomb with Tony’s instruction, but they only managed to cave in the ceiling. Soon, Bucky Barnes was stabbed and poisoned with hallucinations, and Aang had a chance to sit with him while he was dying before he was redirected elsewhere and Thor mercy-killed Bucky. Aang was later killed by Black Tom in the final week of the arena.
The resurrection after the arena made Aang sick, but this was Aang’s first introduction to the Capitol, which was a large, decadent place that delighted in fantastical fashion, superficiality, and watching other people commit gruesome violence for their entertainment. Aang deeply disliked the Capitol, and he hated it more the more he found out about it—it was a pseudo-democratic dictatorship that depended on the oppression of the poor districts on the outskirts, and forcing the offworlders to kill each other over and over again was the center of national politics and entertainment.
Aang quickly learned that there was a price to pay for open dissent. Rebellion and discussion of the mysterious District 13 were restricted only to blind spots in surveillance and anonymous encrypted channels that would be set up once every few months or so, and those that drew the Capitol’s attention would usually disappear if they were lucky. If they were unlucky, they would reappear wrong. Thor came back rabidly attempting to kill his friends, and Steve Rogers came back small and terrified of anyone who he used to care about.
Aang was in a total of five arenas—a shopping mall, a space station, an incoming ice age forest, a medieval castle and environs, and a mashup of different canons—plus one mini-arena, the funzone, which was an arcade-themed arena only for children under 18. Each arena was characterized by violence, brutality, and new and creative ways for the Capitol to traumatize tributes. Between this, the Capitol started putting the offworlder children into school to be fed propaganda and to become penpals with children from their district. In the final arena, the district penpals were Reaped and put in the Hunger Games to die with the offworlders, though some of the children were saved by District 13. At one point, the Capitol even did a televised expose on Aang, which not only revealed his entire life to the world of Panem, but also televised in excruciating detail the genocide of his people for public entertainment. This was a highly traumatizing moment for Aang.
In between being put through the wringer in the arenas, the resistance against the Capitol escalated, as did Aang’s activity within it. Aang engaged in petty ways at first, by exchanging information covertly on the encrypted channel that would occasionally be set up for the rebels, then when the opportunity presented itself, he volunteered for a mission to break into a Capitol warehouse and destroy weaponry intended to destroy District 13. For this mission, he worked to prepare it by gathering materials other people needed and leaving them at dead drops. On the day of the mission, he was disguised as a girl, and he went in with a team to investigate and destroy the weapons. He broke a lot of (other peoples’) bones to get in and out safely, and they lost friends during the mission.
Finally, before the final arena, Aang convinced other children his age to secretly paint the names of past dead Districter tributes on their bodies in glow-in-the-dark paint and display them on stage on national television in an attempt to help incite rebellion in the Districts. Aang claimed this was an attempt to celebrate their Districts and the Capitol’s proud history, hoping to mitigate the Capitol’s retaliation against the other children by leaning on the audience’s perception of him as a young, naïve, oblivious child. The Capitol punished Aang and the Capitolite adults in each participating District by taking the stylists and escorts from the Districts of each participating child and putting the children in their family in the Reaping for the next arena. Aang was wracked by guilt for being responsible for another child being brought into the arena, but at the same time, a part of him felt like such a reaction was a sign that it was worth it, because the Capitol would only risk the ire of its citizens if he really was successful. After this event, however, he was kicked out of his district unofficially by his mentors and stylist, who almost tried to kill him.
Throughout this year and change, Aang made many friends and a wide variety of CR. Among these relationships were his relationships with Bucky Barnes (MCU), Clementine (TWDG), Zuko, and the Avengers cast as a whole.
Zuko, Aang, and Korra were the only ones from their world for a while, and Zuko and Aang were the only ones from their era. Zuko dedicated himself to helping Aang, and they grew to be like brothers in the Capitol. Zuko’s death devastated Aang, and it was an early and complete loss of his connection to his world, as Korra died as well and Aang never saw anyone from his world again after that except for during a fourth wall event in a long collective dream.
Clementine and Aang were the same age, and as they grew closer, Aang began to develop a crush on her. Eventually, they decided that they should get into a ‘fake relationship’ for the cameras, since it would attract more sponsors for them. Soon afterwards, Clementine died as well, another heartbreak for Aang after a long string of them.
Bucky Barnes was far and away Aang’s most intense relationship in the game. Over time, they saw each other as brothers, and even a little bit as father/son. Bucky curbed Aang’s more reckless tendencies and tried to teach him to be more selfish, and Aang in turn helped Bucky adjust to having relationships again and becoming his own person. Aang loves Bucky very much, and when Bucky was taken away to District 13, one of the Avengers’ priorities was to inform Aang that Bucky wasn’t dead before Aang could realize Bucky hadn’t returned from the arena. Bucky also pressed Aang about his role in his original world, asking difficult questions about how an entire world can completely fall in a hundred years and depend on a twelve-year-old to save it afterwards, and this led to Aang critically examining the role of the Avatar and the relative lack of any singular human tentpole in anyone else’s worlds. While Aang hadn’t reached the point where he would be willing to forsake his world or responsibilities as Avatar, Bucky had convinced him to begin questioning why no one else could have handled the war and only a small child could do it.
As an extension of Aang’s relationship with Bucky, he grew close with the Avengers cast to varying degrees. Clint Barton took responsibility for looking out for his wellbeing on Bucky’s behalf after Bucky went to District 13. Sam Wilson and Aang had a good rapport, with them calling each other respectively ‘big bird’ and ‘little bird’. Aang similarly had a good rapport with Thor, Steve Rogers, and Tony Stark (at least until Tony was publicly executed for enabling the resistance, that is).
And, of course, there’s Hariti, Aang’s blood-sucking vampire bat that he got as a gag prize after the medieval arena. Aang nursed her back to health with his own blood, and she became a source of comfort and companionship even as all of Aang’s human friends were subject to death, madness, and the arena.
Personality: “I'd rather get hurt lot because I have a lot of faith in people than wake up one day and realize I don't have any anymore.”
There are some things about Aang that will never change. He is a young monk who believes fervently in doing the right thing. He loves people, and he believes in humanity’s inherent goodness. The Capitol has informed him of the depths of depravity humans can sink to, and this has made him warier of strangers and more aware of the darker ways some people may think, but this has only strengthened his belief in the goodness of people. He has seen how easy it is for people to be bad, so the prevalence of goodness is significant to him.
This isn’t to say that his exposure to violence and the Capitol’s dehumanizing culture has only affected him superficially. All this time in a dictatorship characterized by constant surveillance has made Aang paranoid, especially in regards to what he says and who he says it to. The constant stream of death and resurrection has also jaded Aang to killing and violence; while he himself still will refuse to kill others, he does not condemn others as readily as he once did if they kill in the defense of themselves or others, and he’s more willing to do permanent damage to his opponents if he has to. It has gotten to the point where he no longer flinches when he watches a man getting shot in the head in front of him.
Multiple instances of people he was friendly with turning on him have shown him that he can’t trust people implicitly, so while he insists on continuing to have faith in people, he has learned to be more conservative about who he decides to let his guard completely down with. He recognizes that not everyone actually sees all people as people, as otherwise, the Hunger Games would not be so entertaining and the genocide of his people wouldn't be so fun for people to watch. He doesn't think that this is a product of malice, but of ignorance and brainwashing, and thus is something that can be fixed--though in the meantime, it is dangerous and something that should cause him to be careful of who he really trusts even if he's friendly with everyone.
He has also honed his pre-existing cunning and ability to perform for others. In the Capitol, he was treated as a celebrity by the public at large, an object to admire rather than a victimized child. He learned to play to this image and take advantage of it, using his age and natural charisma to gain sponsors and deflect suspicion after he realized that the Capitol public would never really see him as a person as long as the current administration held power. He knows how to project a charming and non-threatening persona, and that is a defense mechanism he will fall back on if his usual mechanism of hiding and attempting to stay out of reach is unavailable.
Another way Aang has simultaneously stayed true to himself and tried to cope with the horrors of what he’s seen is through his own goofiness. Consistently, Aang would do something silly between arenas. He would learn about the existence of stickers and make a game of putting them on all the other tributes. He would fill up entire rooms with origami and try to do it in the moments that no one else was in them. He would try to test and see if Bucky’s arm was magnetic, or hang in the ceiling of the archery range and try to catch the arrows archers loosed.
The purpose of this was threefold: one, it was fun; two, it cheered up Aang when he was unhappy; and three, it gave the super serious adults a chance to be goofy and weird too. Aang, while suffering himself, did not forget that his fellow tributes were suffering as well, and he did go out of his way to make their lives easier in and out of the arena. Early on, he promised himself that he would never get to the point where survival would trump his concern for other people, and he’s kept that promise.
Aang has become jumpier, more cautious, and more cunning, but at heart, he’s the same kind, goofy, altruistic boy he’s always been, and that will never change.
Abilities:
Aang is the Avatar, meaning he can bend all four elements. This means he can control fire, water, earth, and air, and these abilities are mainly only limited by one’s imagination and temperament. He is theoretically also capable of bending lightning, lava, metal, and healing and flying, but these are all very specialized forms of bending. Aang learned basic healing from Korra, and of the other forms of bending, his temperament is most suited for bending lightning and least suited for flying.
Aang also has a bunch of cool spiritual abilities, like connecting with past lives, spiritual projection, connecting with the Avatar state, and so on.
Physically, Aang is a master of four different styles of martial arts, making him a force to be reckoned with even without his bending, and Bucky taught him how to fight with knives and more modern Russian/Western techniques. Aang generally stays true to his martial roots, but he can whip out a good knife attack if he feels it’s necessary.
The chip in his brain comes loaded with lots of Capitol technology designed to control his powers, and it’s designed to release tracker jacker venom in his brain if someone tries to remove it. This is a specially designed venom that causes vivid hallucinations, panic, and violent behavior. He also has a tracker.
Augment Skillset: Medical Officer
Sample: Aang puts stickers on EVERYONE.