Re: Avatar: Charismatic Conspiracy
Finally done!
NAME: Haruko (Hah-rue-ko)
AGE: 17p
GENDER: Male.
ELEMENT: None.
APPEARANCE: Haruko has very short black hair, cut back in a military fashion. He is a bit on the small side for his age, well-built, despite a naturally scrawny body type. His eyes are hazel in colour, and above and around his right eye are some burn marks. These are prevalent all over his body, including his right shoulder, his back, and both legs. His teeth are a little crooked, not too noticeably so, although he is missing quite a few. He wears the traditional fire nation garb, with his bow on his back, his butterfly sword by his belt, and his quiver over his shoulder.
PERSONALITY: Constant pressure to live up to his fire-bending brothers, and his father's expecting him to be able to hold his own against them, have caused Haruko to have a very hard, diligent demeanour. Having been hard-working and raised in an almost militaristic home, Haruko has little interest in art or anything too aesthetic. He has a lot of so-called "bender envy", and is extremely hateful towards Kanzan and his plans. His life-long militaristic lifestyle has left him with a strong sense of moral justice, a rash temper, and, due to his father exerting strict control over the amount of food he was to eat, a total love of piggery.
BIO: Haruko's unfortunately late grandfather raised his Haruko's father, Senzai, to be sharp and militaristic. The man had grown up idolizing the Fire Nation and the military, and wanted to train his six sons to be powerful military men for any Fire Nation rebellions that might take place. A very rigid lifestyle was imposed on his five older sons, and many hours a day was devoted to their training. Although these Fire Nationalist ideals died long before Haruko was born, Senzai felt no need to give up the training, deeming it "character-building" and "healthy".
Haruko lived all his life in a sizeable estate near the outskirts of Republic City. His mother passed away when he was very young, dying from a lifelong disease.
Upon realizing that his sixth and youngest son, Haruko, could not firebend, Senzai was extremely hard on him, expecting him to his own against his firebending brothers in the daily training sessions. Haruko was also given much more training without his brothers, where his father tried to train him with lances, swords, knives and halberds. Haruko never really took to any of these very well, although he had a natural affinity towards archery. His father then focused on that, training him rigidly until Haruko had become quite the young archer indeed. He also trained with an ancient Fire Nation
butterfly sword, becoming reasonably okay with it, although he mainly uses it just as a handy sharp edge to carry around. Needless to say, all the hours given to unarmed sparring with his brothers have left him quite talented at close-quarters unarmed combat as well.
Senzai died of food poisoning when Haruko was fifteen, although at that stage the oldest brother simply took over the household and life continued on as normal, except Haruko was given considerably more freedom. Although the same rate of training continued (no reason to break the habit) Haruko began to socialize a bit more, and enjoyed reading some historical sagas.
OTHER: Just as a clarification, his main weapon in this venture will be the bow and arrow.