You were born to nothing, a poor family who's only means to get by was to steal and con. Their own disreputable nature finding it's way to poison your own clean slate, as unfortunate as it may seem. You don't mind, you never seemed to, you were simply happy to have your family in your life... a fate not everyone had the luxury of embracing.
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Growing up is hard, but you learn quickly. Using your age and endearing demeanor to take what you want without anyone suspecting a thing. Those effervescent eyes of yours hiding that calculated nature, an intellect well beyond your years nurtured by sinners with 'good intention's.
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Things are good for a while, or as good as they'll get, until you get older. Naivety doesn't cloud your judgment anymore and you see your parents for who they really are... their very nature sickening you to the core. You're 13 now and you decide to help out around the city to help raise a little extra money, tired of stealing and lying for a living, but your family won't do the same.
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Too stuck in their own ways.
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Life doesn't seem to have much going for it until you discover one day, in a moment of passionate fury, you have a hidden gift. The years of abuse, suffering, fear, hidden away under a tight lock come rushing out; like a phoenix crying it's brightest war song.
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"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to... It was an accident. I'm so sorry"
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The last words you say to them before you run. You run, and you run and you never look back.
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You find yourself alone, frightened and hungry, wandering the untamed wilds of the land. You learn to hunt, to take out the pain on the poor creatures you must feast on to survive and after several weeks of travel you find a small village to start a new life. You're only 15 but your mature features allow "18" to be a suitable new age when asked.
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Something makes you hide your power, afraid of the possibilities and scarred from the pain you've caused. Yet something pokes at your subconscious, begging to embrace your gifts. It takes weeks before you give in and steal a fire bending scroll of basic techniques to practice... guess you can't shake old habits after all.
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None of that matters now, and so you sneak off to a nearby cave and give into your cravings. You come here every night, summoning conflagrations and slinging flames about, honing these gifts, no longer a victim. With each fist thrown and flying kick you expunge the feelings of being 'cursed', nothing can hold you back now.
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Those youthful features begin to develop as years pass, eventually leaving you at the age of 20 with a normal life. Alone, working to provide for yourself and fund your small home. Of course it's the most you've had in your life but there's always room to grow.
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You've trained yourself rigorously in fire bending and even studied water bending techniques to develop your own unique method of fighting. It also helped in the development of your lightning bending, something you've only recently attained. So you leave your new life to form another, leaving the village you've watched flourish starting a new life in the United Nations.
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More specifically Republic City.
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You hear about the White Lotus upon arrival, originally formed from masters of their skills in hopes of keeping unity. It would be an appropriate change to your life and so you don't hesitate, setting out to join them but only after you've improved your skills. So your first stop? A monastery where an old fire bending master is rumored to live, and you aren't afraid of the journey... you've lived off the land before.
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It takes several weeks before you finally arrive and with each test they present you pass until finally you are face to face with her. The woman who is about to change your life, the woman who can take you to levels unknown. "You are gifted," she tells you "But you have so much room to grow."
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She takes you as her student and helps you to refine your techniques, and tells you your blue flames are something she so rarely sees anymore. It helps with your confidence and pushes your passion for fire bending to new heights, enough so to push you to train for 4 years with her.
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You two grow close, become friends, and she even helps you refine your lightning bending to above a beginner level. Of course you are no where near as proficient as with your fire but you have found newer love for the art. That's when you decide to leave, ready to join the White Lotus. Ready to prove to yourself and to the world that you are more than where you've come from.
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Coming back to Republic City is so different than when you first came. The world is so different but you have to adapt, and you have to do so fast. You use the next two years to catch up to the times, to find the White Lotus and be welcomed with open arms. Though they can be a little pretentious on occasion about the Avatar you don't mind, this is just the way things are, or at least that's what you're told far too often.
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Now you work harder than before, with Avatar under the protection of the White Lotus it is your job to be the best of the best. You cannot allow your journey to be for naught, and you cannot allow yourself to disappoint your master... or yourself...

+Fire Bending - Expert[break]
+Lightning Bending - Apprentice[break]

-A silver chained, jade dragon amulet.[break]
-A white lotus tile.[break]