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actually112) wrote2014-03-26 08:45 pm
actually112) wrote2014-03-26 08:45 pm
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( PLAYER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Smurf
- ★ AGE: Old enough
- ★ TIMEZONE: EST
- ★ CONTACT: This email and PMing actually112 on DW will both do.
- ★ LATEST AC: N/A
( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Aang
- ★ AGE: 12 biologically, 112 chronologically
- ★ CANON POINT: Almost immediately after the end of season two
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Here’s a wiki link!
I should say that some of the canon information in that link is from comics and extra material. Since some of it can be inconsistent between each other, I have to discard some of the information. For reference: the Last Airbender show and its sequel series have priority when deciding what’s canon. After that, it’s the comics. Usually, I ignore extra material beyond that.
- ★ PERSONALITY: If you ask the general public who Aang is, they’ll say he’s the Avatar, the one meant to end a hundred-year war and bring balance to the world. If you ask his friends, they’ll say he’s a goofball with a gentle heart. If you ask Aang himself, he’d say he’s just some kid (who happens to be destined to bring balance to the world--but no pressure!).
Aang is an Air Nomad, a race of people with a monastic culture based around respect for life and detachment from worldly concerns. This philosophy of spirituality heavily affects how Aang interacts with the world, as while he enjoys regular kid things like using penguins as sleds and pretending to be an octopus, he has a deep respect for life, the past, and spirits. Which is a good thing, since as the Avatar, it’s kind of his job to compromise all of those things.
Which brings us to an important part of Aang: his role as Avatar. The Avatar is like the Dalai Lama in that it is reborn over and over to be a spiritual leader, but unlike the Dalai Lama, he’s expected to master four different kinds of magical martial arts and beat the shit out of anyone who threatens the balance of the world too much.
This would all be stressful enough on its own, but when Aang turned twelve, the Fire Nation was poised to declare war on everything ever. The Air Nomad monks, understandably concerned about this, decided it would be best to tell a twelve-year-old that he was expected to save the world, so he should get to that.
The stress on Aang caused him to run away. He then accidentally got frozen in an iceberg, and he wasn’t there when the Fire Nation staged a full-scale genocide on his people. When he woke up, he was all alone. To this day, he blames himself on some level for the destruction of his entire race, because he is inevitably being shaped by the enormous responsibility on his shoulders. He’s the Avatar, and if he doesn’t single-handedly end a war and save an entire people, he’s a failure.
What makes Aang Aang, though, is that he has the strength to shoulder all that and keep remembering the good things in life.
Aang could easily be embittered and break down with all that he faces. Instead, he occasionally sits down and has a good cry when he’s overwhelmed, but then he comes back swinging and is ready to do his damndest to fulfill these unreasonable expectations on his shoulders, all while keeping time aside to laugh and play and be a kid. He has an incredible well of inner strength to accompany his gentle nature, and it allows him to doggedly do what it takes to fulfill his goals and help those around him.
Yet with all that, he’s still a kid, and he still has a goofy sense of humor, a sense of fun, and a certain amount of youthful naïveté. He likes to believe the best in people, and he is the first to try something new (so long as it’s not meat). He’s the kid who’ll use his god-like power over the elements to make up new silly tricks with marbles and then insist on showing it to everyone. He’s the one who’s first instinct upon seeing massive elephant-sized koi fish is to ride them. He’s the one who catches the first flying lemur he sees and declares it his pet.
He’s silly, he’s energetic, he’s kind, and he’s unbelievably strong. And he’s going to save the world.
Closest relationships and how they affect him in a nutshell:
Monk Gyatso: Gyatso was the closest thing Aang had to a father. Being an incredibly monastic culture, it looks like the airbenders didn’t really have family units as we understand them, and beyond a certain age, boys were raised by monks and girls were raised by nuns. Gyatso, long dead now, fostered Aang’s sense of fun while also imparting wisdom. He is the reason Aang is able to balance being a child with being the Avatar as he grows, because Gyatso himself was able to balance being a mentor and being a caretaker.
Katara and Sokka: Katara, being the first girl Aang has really gotten close to and being his first love, affects him far more than he’d probably like to admit. She’s the one who’s able to calm him down when he’s in the Avatar state, and to a greater extent, she’s a powerful tether keeping him connected to the material world. In some ways, that’s inconvenient, since it makes it difficult for him to achieve the level of detachment that’s required to be a fully-realized Avatar, but in other ways, it’s fantastic. Katara is a constant reminder of what Aang is fighting for and what the Avatar is meant to protect. She also represents all the female figures he has never had or doesn’t remember having—a sister, a mother, and a lover, though that part is only in his daydreams at this point. I can make a whole essay about Katara and his developing sexuality when it comes to her, but this is meant to be a nutshell.
Sokka, on the other hand, represents a male figure he has never had: a big brother. While they joke together and like to poke gentle fun, Sokka is the one who steps up when Aang was surveying his empty home and offers to play a game he has no hope of winning. Sokka is the one who’s ready to tell Aang the tough truth without Katara’s sugar-coating or Toph’s harshness. Sokka even promised early on that he would never let anything happen to Aang. While he’s not as explicit as Katara, Sokka is support, laughter, and order, and if the team were missing either of these kids long-term, Aang would have no idea what to do with himself.
Toph: Toph has the most visible effect on Aang, because she refuses to do anything less. Where Katara is a sort of motherly sisterly figure that grows into an object of romance, Toph is that tomboy sister who’ll beat you up and call you a wimp if you run to Mom and Dad. Both by nature of her element and her personality, she forces Aang to toughen up, something that has to happen if he’s to defeat the Fire Lord. If left only with Katara and Sokka, Aang would stay soft and evasive, because Katara would want to protect him from changing and Sokka wouldn’t have the heart to go against his sister. Toph is the one to step up and see the reality of Aang—that he’s gentle and doesn’t like confrontation. This is a mentality that doesn’t serve a warrior well, and she’s ready to put unbelievable amounts of pressure on Aang so he’ll at least learn how to be tough when he must be.
This, of course, made their relationship get to a rough start, but Aang considers Toph’s influence on him invaluable.
Zuko: At this canon point, Zuko is a major source of confusion for Aang. He doesn’t have complete idea of what’s up with this guy and why they have to fight, especially since it seemed like Zuko was ready to just leave the conflict altogether before turning around and siding with his crazy sister over his uncle. Zuko is kind of a symbol of the unfairness of the new world Aang woke up in, because when Aang sees him, he also sees his old friend from the Fire Nation, Kuzon. If Aang had his way, he would be friends with everyone and there would be no war. He doesn’t even fully understand why the Fire Nation went to war in the first place, and he’s not one to just chalk it up to ‘these people are born evil.’ Zuko is confusion, but especially with the betrayal at Ba Sing Se, he’s also a symbol of the fact that regardless of how confusing Aang finds it, people are trying to kill him and he has to contend with it. He can’t just try to make friends with them and that will be the end of the problem. He can’t save their lives or rely on their senses of morality or hope that they’ll change on their own.
As the Avatar, he has to fight them, whether he wants to or not.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: The Avatar is literally meant to be the force of balance in his world. Aang has always tried his best to be a good person, even when he does try to avoid his problems at times, so he would be Seelie.
- ★ ABILITIES: Okay, a fully realized Avatar basically has the power of a god. Seriously, we see one split a continent in two and take part of it into the ocean as a brand new island. At the canon point I’ve taken him from, Aang doesn’t have nearly that much power, and is in fact somewhat hampered on the Avatar front.
Magical Capabilities:
- He can control the element of air with master-level skill. This means flying, gusts of wind, hurricanes, making winds so strong that they literally eat through rock completely in a few seconds… Of course, Aang isn’t inclined to use it destructively.
o His airbending gives him incredible physical capabilities. He can jump incredible heights and distances without hurting himself upon landing, and he can ‘run as fast as the wind’, which means he can run down one mountain, across a valley, and up another mountain, and back again within a night.
o It has been said by Sifu Kisu (the fighting instructor and consultant for the Avatar franchise) that a specialized subset of airbending will be shown in the next season of Legend of Korra. Whatever it is, Aang is probably capable (although if he knows how to do it is another story), and I’ll update this app on my journal once it’s seen.
- He can control the element of water with about as much finesse as his instructor, Katara, meaning he’s well on his way to mastery. This includes the ability to use water to cut through metal, to freeze things, to make steam, so on and so forth.
o Theoretically, this means that he is also capable of a subset of waterbending called ‘bloodbending’, where a waterbender uses the fluid in a person’s body to bend them to their will. Given this is a specialized skill that requires not only a full moon, but also an awareness of the possibility and desire to take away another person’s will, it’s unlikely Aang will ever even consider trying to teach himself this skill. Still, the capability is worth mentioning.
o Waterbending allows the bender to also draw water from air, from plants, and to bend the moisture in plants. Waterbenders have been shown turning flowers into effective throwing stars, manipulating vines so that they practically turned themselves into swamp monsters, and drawing enough water from the air to put knife-like extensions to their fingers. Powerful waterbenders are also able to heal, meaning Aang likely is too if given enough instruction.
- He can control the element of earth to a certain extent, but due to his not having the attitude of an earthbender (which involves facing problems head-on, the opposite of the Air Nomad’s philosophy of evasion), he has trouble with it. This means he can only do comparatively simple earthbending for now, which still involves kicking rocks everywhere and punching through walls and stuff like that.
o Once again, this theoretically means he is capable of metalbending, an extremely difficult subset of earthbending which was considered impossible before Aang’s teacher invented it. However, while Aang probably has the raw power to do it, the fact that he has to try so hard to deal with even regular earthbending means that it’d probably take him years to develop the attitude required for metalbending, years that it doesn’t seem he was ever inclined to dedicate.
- He can technically control the element of fire. He’s used it before, but due to his impatience, he ended up burning his friend and the incident traumatized him enough that he hasn’t used the element since. Thus, if he ever tried without proper instruction, his firebending would be extremely sloppy and restrained.
o Again, he can theoretically bend lightning, firebending’s specialized subset. Lightningbending requires peace of mind and a meditative emptiness of emotion, and would probably be the easiest for Aang to learn since both of those things are required for meditation, which he is a master at. This, however, would require that he actually get comfortable with firebending, which won’t happen for a while.
- He can astral project and go to the spirit world. Since I’m assuming the Drabwurld won’t allow his spirit to wiggle out, this translates to him having the ability to step out of his body with meditation and have his spirit wander around. Depending on the spirituality and/or humanity of the people around him, someone might be able to see his spirit, but only a small handful of people are shown being able to see spirits in the series.
o When he does this, his body is extremely vulnerable. He’s unlikely to risk it without putting up some defenses or having someone around to look after him.
- He can become an instant master of all the previous skills listed by entering what’s called the Avatar State. It’s a state in which the Avatar and all of its past lives come together to deal with whatever is in front of them at the time, and in that state, regardless of skill level, the Avatar is able to do things like compress water, fly, rip apart the landscape, create mountain ranges, and other things that should really be left to deities. Aang, however, has recently been struck by lightning generated by an enemy, and it locked one of his chakras, which is a kind of pool of energy that runs up his body. This means that he can’t enter the Avatar State, although unknown to him, it can be unlocked by a good whack.
o If and when he understands how to unlock his chakra, it will be possible that he still won’t be able to control the Avatar State, which usually comes upon him when he feels incredible rage or grief. His control is based on his ability to keep his chakras from getting gunked up, and considering they’re very easy to clog when he doesn’t have anyone around to keep him from getting too wrapped up in his fear and shame, it’s possible he’ll have to try to clear them up again before gaining real control over himself.
- He can meditate and speak to his past lives. Since most of his past lives are well over a hundred years old and all carried the responsibility of being the Avatar, they have a lot of wisdom to impart. And a lot of cool stories to tell, but it never occurs to him to ask them about those.
- He’s spiritually sensitive, meaning he can sense if spirits or magical beings are around, how the land is doing, if he’s being called somewhere, that sort of thing.
Physical Capabilities:
- Bending is, discounting the actual element manipulation part, a martial art. This means that Aang has mastered one kind of martial art, almost mastered a second, has begun learning a third, and is predisposed to learn a fourth. Even if he one day lost his bending, this gives him the capability to best most people in a fight.
- He’s also practically an acrobat. Airbending has a lot of emphasis on evasion, so agility, flexibility, and speed are all very important to mastery of it. He has no trouble turning tree branches into trapezes and a fight into a gymnast routine.
- ★ INVENTORY: He has his clothes, a razor to shave with, a bison whistle, and his glider, which he can use to fly for long distances.
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
Hey! Hey, hi, sylphs! I’m Aang!
[Aang swoops his glider, uncaring that he’s flying through the clouds and would be a fine paste on the ground if he falls. Pale creatures that seem almost like they’re made of the clouds themselves fly with him, staring at him with somewhat detached curiosity.]
I’m an airbender! We’re really connected with the air too!
[The sylphs just keep staring at him.]
I came all the way up here because I’d really like to meet you! You see, I haven’t met anyone else who can fly since I left the Southern Air Temple! I was wondering if you have gliding competitions—us airbenders had at least one every week and—
[The sylphs abruptly fly upwards and disappear into the clouds. He looks up and shouts,] Hey! Wait! Where are you going? I just wanted to—
[And then he crashes face-first into a mountain.
He grunts, then slides to a little ledge, glider on his stomach and limbs twitching.]
Okay… I’ll talk to you later, then…
[Excuse him while he twitches.]
- ★ LOG SAMPLE: Test drive thread.
- ★ NAME: Smurf
- ★ AGE: Old enough
- ★ TIMEZONE: EST
- ★ CONTACT: This email and PMing actually112 on DW will both do.
- ★ LATEST AC: N/A
( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Aang
- ★ AGE: 12 biologically, 112 chronologically
- ★ CANON POINT: Almost immediately after the end of season two
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Here’s a wiki link!
I should say that some of the canon information in that link is from comics and extra material. Since some of it can be inconsistent between each other, I have to discard some of the information. For reference: the Last Airbender show and its sequel series have priority when deciding what’s canon. After that, it’s the comics. Usually, I ignore extra material beyond that.
- ★ PERSONALITY: If you ask the general public who Aang is, they’ll say he’s the Avatar, the one meant to end a hundred-year war and bring balance to the world. If you ask his friends, they’ll say he’s a goofball with a gentle heart. If you ask Aang himself, he’d say he’s just some kid (who happens to be destined to bring balance to the world--but no pressure!).
Aang is an Air Nomad, a race of people with a monastic culture based around respect for life and detachment from worldly concerns. This philosophy of spirituality heavily affects how Aang interacts with the world, as while he enjoys regular kid things like using penguins as sleds and pretending to be an octopus, he has a deep respect for life, the past, and spirits. Which is a good thing, since as the Avatar, it’s kind of his job to compromise all of those things.
Which brings us to an important part of Aang: his role as Avatar. The Avatar is like the Dalai Lama in that it is reborn over and over to be a spiritual leader, but unlike the Dalai Lama, he’s expected to master four different kinds of magical martial arts and beat the shit out of anyone who threatens the balance of the world too much.
This would all be stressful enough on its own, but when Aang turned twelve, the Fire Nation was poised to declare war on everything ever. The Air Nomad monks, understandably concerned about this, decided it would be best to tell a twelve-year-old that he was expected to save the world, so he should get to that.
The stress on Aang caused him to run away. He then accidentally got frozen in an iceberg, and he wasn’t there when the Fire Nation staged a full-scale genocide on his people. When he woke up, he was all alone. To this day, he blames himself on some level for the destruction of his entire race, because he is inevitably being shaped by the enormous responsibility on his shoulders. He’s the Avatar, and if he doesn’t single-handedly end a war and save an entire people, he’s a failure.
What makes Aang Aang, though, is that he has the strength to shoulder all that and keep remembering the good things in life.
Aang could easily be embittered and break down with all that he faces. Instead, he occasionally sits down and has a good cry when he’s overwhelmed, but then he comes back swinging and is ready to do his damndest to fulfill these unreasonable expectations on his shoulders, all while keeping time aside to laugh and play and be a kid. He has an incredible well of inner strength to accompany his gentle nature, and it allows him to doggedly do what it takes to fulfill his goals and help those around him.
Yet with all that, he’s still a kid, and he still has a goofy sense of humor, a sense of fun, and a certain amount of youthful naïveté. He likes to believe the best in people, and he is the first to try something new (so long as it’s not meat). He’s the kid who’ll use his god-like power over the elements to make up new silly tricks with marbles and then insist on showing it to everyone. He’s the one who’s first instinct upon seeing massive elephant-sized koi fish is to ride them. He’s the one who catches the first flying lemur he sees and declares it his pet.
He’s silly, he’s energetic, he’s kind, and he’s unbelievably strong. And he’s going to save the world.
Closest relationships and how they affect him in a nutshell:
Monk Gyatso: Gyatso was the closest thing Aang had to a father. Being an incredibly monastic culture, it looks like the airbenders didn’t really have family units as we understand them, and beyond a certain age, boys were raised by monks and girls were raised by nuns. Gyatso, long dead now, fostered Aang’s sense of fun while also imparting wisdom. He is the reason Aang is able to balance being a child with being the Avatar as he grows, because Gyatso himself was able to balance being a mentor and being a caretaker.
Katara and Sokka: Katara, being the first girl Aang has really gotten close to and being his first love, affects him far more than he’d probably like to admit. She’s the one who’s able to calm him down when he’s in the Avatar state, and to a greater extent, she’s a powerful tether keeping him connected to the material world. In some ways, that’s inconvenient, since it makes it difficult for him to achieve the level of detachment that’s required to be a fully-realized Avatar, but in other ways, it’s fantastic. Katara is a constant reminder of what Aang is fighting for and what the Avatar is meant to protect. She also represents all the female figures he has never had or doesn’t remember having—a sister, a mother, and a lover, though that part is only in his daydreams at this point. I can make a whole essay about Katara and his developing sexuality when it comes to her, but this is meant to be a nutshell.
Sokka, on the other hand, represents a male figure he has never had: a big brother. While they joke together and like to poke gentle fun, Sokka is the one who steps up when Aang was surveying his empty home and offers to play a game he has no hope of winning. Sokka is the one who’s ready to tell Aang the tough truth without Katara’s sugar-coating or Toph’s harshness. Sokka even promised early on that he would never let anything happen to Aang. While he’s not as explicit as Katara, Sokka is support, laughter, and order, and if the team were missing either of these kids long-term, Aang would have no idea what to do with himself.
Toph: Toph has the most visible effect on Aang, because she refuses to do anything less. Where Katara is a sort of motherly sisterly figure that grows into an object of romance, Toph is that tomboy sister who’ll beat you up and call you a wimp if you run to Mom and Dad. Both by nature of her element and her personality, she forces Aang to toughen up, something that has to happen if he’s to defeat the Fire Lord. If left only with Katara and Sokka, Aang would stay soft and evasive, because Katara would want to protect him from changing and Sokka wouldn’t have the heart to go against his sister. Toph is the one to step up and see the reality of Aang—that he’s gentle and doesn’t like confrontation. This is a mentality that doesn’t serve a warrior well, and she’s ready to put unbelievable amounts of pressure on Aang so he’ll at least learn how to be tough when he must be.
This, of course, made their relationship get to a rough start, but Aang considers Toph’s influence on him invaluable.
Zuko: At this canon point, Zuko is a major source of confusion for Aang. He doesn’t have complete idea of what’s up with this guy and why they have to fight, especially since it seemed like Zuko was ready to just leave the conflict altogether before turning around and siding with his crazy sister over his uncle. Zuko is kind of a symbol of the unfairness of the new world Aang woke up in, because when Aang sees him, he also sees his old friend from the Fire Nation, Kuzon. If Aang had his way, he would be friends with everyone and there would be no war. He doesn’t even fully understand why the Fire Nation went to war in the first place, and he’s not one to just chalk it up to ‘these people are born evil.’ Zuko is confusion, but especially with the betrayal at Ba Sing Se, he’s also a symbol of the fact that regardless of how confusing Aang finds it, people are trying to kill him and he has to contend with it. He can’t just try to make friends with them and that will be the end of the problem. He can’t save their lives or rely on their senses of morality or hope that they’ll change on their own.
As the Avatar, he has to fight them, whether he wants to or not.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: The Avatar is literally meant to be the force of balance in his world. Aang has always tried his best to be a good person, even when he does try to avoid his problems at times, so he would be Seelie.
- ★ ABILITIES: Okay, a fully realized Avatar basically has the power of a god. Seriously, we see one split a continent in two and take part of it into the ocean as a brand new island. At the canon point I’ve taken him from, Aang doesn’t have nearly that much power, and is in fact somewhat hampered on the Avatar front.
Magical Capabilities:
- He can control the element of air with master-level skill. This means flying, gusts of wind, hurricanes, making winds so strong that they literally eat through rock completely in a few seconds… Of course, Aang isn’t inclined to use it destructively.
o His airbending gives him incredible physical capabilities. He can jump incredible heights and distances without hurting himself upon landing, and he can ‘run as fast as the wind’, which means he can run down one mountain, across a valley, and up another mountain, and back again within a night.
o It has been said by Sifu Kisu (the fighting instructor and consultant for the Avatar franchise) that a specialized subset of airbending will be shown in the next season of Legend of Korra. Whatever it is, Aang is probably capable (although if he knows how to do it is another story), and I’ll update this app on my journal once it’s seen.
- He can control the element of water with about as much finesse as his instructor, Katara, meaning he’s well on his way to mastery. This includes the ability to use water to cut through metal, to freeze things, to make steam, so on and so forth.
o Theoretically, this means that he is also capable of a subset of waterbending called ‘bloodbending’, where a waterbender uses the fluid in a person’s body to bend them to their will. Given this is a specialized skill that requires not only a full moon, but also an awareness of the possibility and desire to take away another person’s will, it’s unlikely Aang will ever even consider trying to teach himself this skill. Still, the capability is worth mentioning.
o Waterbending allows the bender to also draw water from air, from plants, and to bend the moisture in plants. Waterbenders have been shown turning flowers into effective throwing stars, manipulating vines so that they practically turned themselves into swamp monsters, and drawing enough water from the air to put knife-like extensions to their fingers. Powerful waterbenders are also able to heal, meaning Aang likely is too if given enough instruction.
- He can control the element of earth to a certain extent, but due to his not having the attitude of an earthbender (which involves facing problems head-on, the opposite of the Air Nomad’s philosophy of evasion), he has trouble with it. This means he can only do comparatively simple earthbending for now, which still involves kicking rocks everywhere and punching through walls and stuff like that.
o Once again, this theoretically means he is capable of metalbending, an extremely difficult subset of earthbending which was considered impossible before Aang’s teacher invented it. However, while Aang probably has the raw power to do it, the fact that he has to try so hard to deal with even regular earthbending means that it’d probably take him years to develop the attitude required for metalbending, years that it doesn’t seem he was ever inclined to dedicate.
- He can technically control the element of fire. He’s used it before, but due to his impatience, he ended up burning his friend and the incident traumatized him enough that he hasn’t used the element since. Thus, if he ever tried without proper instruction, his firebending would be extremely sloppy and restrained.
o Again, he can theoretically bend lightning, firebending’s specialized subset. Lightningbending requires peace of mind and a meditative emptiness of emotion, and would probably be the easiest for Aang to learn since both of those things are required for meditation, which he is a master at. This, however, would require that he actually get comfortable with firebending, which won’t happen for a while.
- He can astral project and go to the spirit world. Since I’m assuming the Drabwurld won’t allow his spirit to wiggle out, this translates to him having the ability to step out of his body with meditation and have his spirit wander around. Depending on the spirituality and/or humanity of the people around him, someone might be able to see his spirit, but only a small handful of people are shown being able to see spirits in the series.
o When he does this, his body is extremely vulnerable. He’s unlikely to risk it without putting up some defenses or having someone around to look after him.
- He can become an instant master of all the previous skills listed by entering what’s called the Avatar State. It’s a state in which the Avatar and all of its past lives come together to deal with whatever is in front of them at the time, and in that state, regardless of skill level, the Avatar is able to do things like compress water, fly, rip apart the landscape, create mountain ranges, and other things that should really be left to deities. Aang, however, has recently been struck by lightning generated by an enemy, and it locked one of his chakras, which is a kind of pool of energy that runs up his body. This means that he can’t enter the Avatar State, although unknown to him, it can be unlocked by a good whack.
o If and when he understands how to unlock his chakra, it will be possible that he still won’t be able to control the Avatar State, which usually comes upon him when he feels incredible rage or grief. His control is based on his ability to keep his chakras from getting gunked up, and considering they’re very easy to clog when he doesn’t have anyone around to keep him from getting too wrapped up in his fear and shame, it’s possible he’ll have to try to clear them up again before gaining real control over himself.
- He can meditate and speak to his past lives. Since most of his past lives are well over a hundred years old and all carried the responsibility of being the Avatar, they have a lot of wisdom to impart. And a lot of cool stories to tell, but it never occurs to him to ask them about those.
- He’s spiritually sensitive, meaning he can sense if spirits or magical beings are around, how the land is doing, if he’s being called somewhere, that sort of thing.
Physical Capabilities:
- Bending is, discounting the actual element manipulation part, a martial art. This means that Aang has mastered one kind of martial art, almost mastered a second, has begun learning a third, and is predisposed to learn a fourth. Even if he one day lost his bending, this gives him the capability to best most people in a fight.
- He’s also practically an acrobat. Airbending has a lot of emphasis on evasion, so agility, flexibility, and speed are all very important to mastery of it. He has no trouble turning tree branches into trapezes and a fight into a gymnast routine.
- ★ INVENTORY: He has his clothes, a razor to shave with, a bison whistle, and his glider, which he can use to fly for long distances.
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
Hey! Hey, hi, sylphs! I’m Aang!
[Aang swoops his glider, uncaring that he’s flying through the clouds and would be a fine paste on the ground if he falls. Pale creatures that seem almost like they’re made of the clouds themselves fly with him, staring at him with somewhat detached curiosity.]
I’m an airbender! We’re really connected with the air too!
[The sylphs just keep staring at him.]
I came all the way up here because I’d really like to meet you! You see, I haven’t met anyone else who can fly since I left the Southern Air Temple! I was wondering if you have gliding competitions—us airbenders had at least one every week and—
[The sylphs abruptly fly upwards and disappear into the clouds. He looks up and shouts,] Hey! Wait! Where are you going? I just wanted to—
[And then he crashes face-first into a mountain.
He grunts, then slides to a little ledge, glider on his stomach and limbs twitching.]
Okay… I’ll talk to you later, then…
[Excuse him while he twitches.]
- ★ LOG SAMPLE: Test drive thread.