Post by Vera Sa'ari on Oct 4, 2014 11:25:57 GMT -5
[/i] Her style of bending is actually a solid yet light way of bending very similar to the sandbenders of the Si Wong Desert. Vera can bend dust as well as sand. This works extremely well in cloaking her tracks or hiding herself long enough to escape. She also uses this as a means of blinding enemies momentarily, also as a means of escaping. In fact, Vera really only uses her bending as a way to defend herself. She has yet to learn offensive moves. Her mastery of Earthbending is weak and even her Sandbending is weak considering what she uses it for.
Name: Vera Sa'ari
Age: 18 years
Gender: Female
Nation: Earth Kingdom
Physical Appearance: Vera is very slender and has a willowy appearance that mirrors her personality and abilities. She has petite fingers and wrists and ankles, as well as feet. She is not very strong but with what she lacks in strength, she makes up for in flexibility. Her face is soft looking with a slight heart shape. Her facial features also match everything about her perfectly and show outer beauty just as easily as her personality shows her inner beauty. Her eyes are a brown color. Another feature that people notice almost immediately about Vera is her extremely long auburn hair. Vera has to wear hair in a braid because it's long enough to trail the ground. Her hair is also thin which makes her single braid down her back match everything else about her: long, slender, and petite. Her braid can be seen flowing past her kneecap when she's standing still anyways. Vera does usually keep just a little bit outside of her braid though on each side. These couple locks of hair frame her face remarkably which only add to her beauty.
The style of her usual attire allows Vera to move every part of her body with the ease and freedom that comes from being as flexible as she is. Vera Sa'ari is seen with the colors of the Earth Kingdom on most of the time. Her pants are tight against her upper stomach, starting in a blunt point and go down her legs where they start to flow gracefully at the knee before they stop right before the ankle. She wears brown socks all the time, regardless of the weather which she wraps in green cloth so that she can still feel the Earth beneath her feet. Vera also wears a sliming green robe with short flowing sleeves. She wears her tight fitting pants over the robe though she allows the green robe to flow out where it lands midcalf. This robe is edge with bright gold. On her wrists are gold thin bracelets that end halfway up her forearm that are edged in green. Vera completes her outfit with gold loop earrings.
Equipment: Vera barely carries anything with her and always travels light. Her main equipment is also one of her weapons, her bow as well as a quiver of hand-made arrows. She wears a thin belt that holds a small pouch of sand that she uses to escape or bend if she needs to. She also wears another small pouch of money on the other side of her belt. Vera has a black hooded cloak as well to help protect her from bad weather.
Combat Skills:
- Archery:: Vera's archery on the other hand is very strong. She made her own bow to directly reflect her strong yet flexible nature. The bender also makes her own arrows using the feathers of the creatures she naturally seems to have around her. Vera uses this skill mostly to help her survive by hunting as well as a defensive protection if she comes to harm. Vera's accuracy is also very strong beings she can shoot an multiple arrows as almost any object tossed into the air. She's been known to hit a small clump of berries at a distance similar to the range that Yuyan Archers practice with.
- Agility:: Her agility and flexibility is one of the first things you see in Vera Sa'ari. This is in the very way she walks and moves with fluid movements. She can easily have been a circus performer if she had chosen that path though she always uses that as a back-up plan. Vera has achieved this by constantly practicing and stretching her body into as many forms that she can think of. Her sense of balance is equally as incredible.
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Talents:
- Pickpocket:: Believe it or not but Vera used to be a pickpocket. She got really good at it too and beings she is so agile and quick, Vera's never been caught. She was almost caught once or twice but she always escaped.
- Lockpicking:: With learning how to pickpocket people, she also learned how to pick locks. Vera also seems to have learned this very well as she can easily pick locks to gates and other basic locks. Though she never went past that.
- Understanding of animals:: Vera is extremely good with animals. She knows their body language so well that she almost has a sense for what they want or don't want, what they are afraid of, and what they will fight for, as well as their instincts. Vera knows animals so well that once they see her, they seem to want to stay by her side for a while. Eventually they all leave though to go back to life on their own, except Vaskar.[/ul][/font]
Flaws:
- Archery:: Though her archery skills are impressive and she has sought teaching for her archery, Vera is also held back by her refusal to use the skill offensively. She also has amazing accuracy but it's nothing compared to how the Yuyan Archers can take her clump of berries and easily hit a single berry with an arrow and then spit that arrow with another arrow.
- Emotional:: Vera is held back a lot emotionally. Though she has a naturally bubbly and out-going personality, she has fears from her past that hold her back a lot from advancing with her skills.
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History: Though she is one hundred percent Earthbender, her parents are of mixed cultures with very different styles of Earthbending. Her mother is a sandbender who came from one of the Tribes in the Si Wong Desert. She is known as a powerful bender among her Tribe. Her father is also an Earthbender but his skills were weak because he was a scholar who wanted nothing more than to explore more lands and gain more knowledge. Both had slender builds. Vera's father decided that he wanted to gain more knowledge on the sandbenders and their culture, so he left Ba Sing Se and headed out to find one of the sandbending Tribes. The one he found was a brutal one that stole goods in order to trade for much needed money in order to survive. He was captured and kept as a prisoner for many weeks. Making light of the situation, Vera's father did some extra research on the treatment of Tribe prisoners. Her father was rescued by her mother's Tribe. After being freed, her father requested to do research on that particular Tribe and they agreed. After getting over the excitement of being allowed to join the Tribe, her father met Vera's mother a couple days later.
And it wasn't love at first sight. Vera's father wanted to study Vera's mother's bending techniques. Her mother declined, rather harshly at that. Though her father wouldn't give up. A couple weeks later, her mother finally gave in and for the next few weeks, they spent a lot of time together. Her father was the first to fall for the other. For the first time in his life, Vera's father had found a woman he loved more than his studies and learning. Vera's mother took a few months before she fell for her father. After a couple years, the two had Vera even though they never wed. Vera was given her mother's last name and her father actually stayed around for the next few years. But when Vera was around three, her father moved on, deciding that it was time to explore new areas and discover new places. But he left Vera a note for her mother to give to her when she turned old enough to read that said if she ever wanted to leave the Desert, she should go to his best friend's house in Ba Sing Se to stay until she got on her own.
When she was ten, Vera was traveling with her Tribe when they ran into the Tribe that had captured her father, the other Tribe had stolen a handful of animals to sell. Vera begged her mother to save the animals and her mother declined, not even bringing the issue up to the Tribal leader. That night though, Vera snuck away from their camp and went in to try and save the animals. She'd always had a strong connection with animals and it served her well. She had freed three animals when the other Tribe caught her. They threw her in with a baby tiger-wolf, saying that she'd make a good slave worth even more than the tiger-wolf pup.
Wasting no time, the Tribe that had captured Vera sped away as fast as possible. Vera stayed captured with the tiger-wolf pup for three days before her mother and their Tribe came to rescue her. The battle that ensued was deadly and though Vera and the tiger-wolf pup had been freed, her mother lost her life. In fright and panic, Vera ran away from the battle after her mother died, the tiger-wolf pup followed. Unknowingly, Vera headed towards Ba Sing Se. She's been haunted by nightmares of her mother's death ever since. She also made a small promise to herself to never use her bending offensively.
A few weeks later, Vera and the newly named Vaskar, finally made it to Ba Sing Se. Not knowing what else to do, she searched for her father's best friend's house even though she only grew up on stories of her father. She shed her Desert clothes after seeing the attire of the residents at Ba Sing Se and donned on a Earth Kingdom dress. It didn't fit and didn't allow her to move much. It took her two days to find the place and when she did, she was sorely disappointed. Her father's best friend no longer lived there but rather on the outside of the city.
Following the new directions, she finally knocked on the door and Flight answered. At first, Flight didn't believe that Vera was her father's daughter but when she showed him her sandbending, he believed. Flight immediately said that he wouldn't care for her but that she had to do it on her own. That he would only offer her a bed to sleep on at night and if she caused trouble, she'd be out on the streets. From then on, Vera did what she could to survive. Flight taught her how to shoot a bow as well as how to make one, then he left the rest to Vera.
For the next few years, Vera struggled to survive. Vascar helped immensely to both of their survival as he brought freshly killed prey to her when she wasn't able to find anything herself. But then something changed, Vera became determined and her instincts grew. Her skills with animals grew as well as her accuracy with a bow. She also practiced dancing because it was one of her stress relievers. She would dance for the animals that were attracted to her. Life progressed until Vera turned fourteen.
Flight grew deathly ill and though Vera tried her best to save him, Flight died. Even though Flight had been harsh on her Vera realized how much she had relied on at least seeing him every night. It was during this period of a few weeks, that Vera went almost insane from loneliness. Vascar tried his best to help Vera but to no anvil. Vascar was the only reason why Vera didn't go completely insane. Then one day, a group of travelers came across Flight's house. Vera went right up to them, ignoring Vascar's growl of warning. Once again, Vera was captured, even through she tried to defend herself. Vascar followed the travelers until Vera escaped, lockpicking for the first time.
Together, the two went back for her bow and quiver. Vera finally braved going back to Ba Sing Se. She started her life as a thief, simply trying to survive. Though her natural personality hated stealing from other people. It took a year for her to get up enough happiness to dance again. But when she did, a few people threw a couple coins her way and Vera began a new way of living on the streets. She eventually saved up enough to get her current outfit and has since gained many friends within the city. Though she has both of her parent's hearts of traveling. Now at the age of eighteen, she feels like it is time to move on, to new adventures.
Personality: Vera is very friendly and out-going, almost to a fault. She makes friends with almost everyone she meets as long as they are willing to make new friends. Her actions are friendly as well as her words though she keeps a lot of things about herself under wraps that she only shows through her dancing. She's sweet and kindhearted, mostly using this to help animals that find their way over to her as well as little kids and women.
Though Vera does have a darker side to her. She goes into deep depression when she's alone and quickly spirals out of control of her emotions if left alone for too long. She rarely gets angry at anything, in fact one of the only things that'll cause her anger to spike is if she sees a mistreatment of animals. She's also a survivalist who will do just about anything to survive. She never gives up and is actually a quite serious person despite her outgoing nature.
Pet:
Name: Vaskar
Gender: Male
Appearance: Vascar is a tiger-wolf with an equal mixture of both. His pelt is all black with dark brown stripes. He has the body of a tiger with a tiger's paws but has a wolf tail. He also has wolf ears and a wolf muzzle. His growl is deep throated just like a tiger's but he howls like a wolf.
Talents: The tiger-wolf loves to watch Vera dancing but he doesn't join in usually. Instead he provides a constant presence of protection. Sometimes Vascar will start a few of Vera's dances with a dangerous prowl and growl's to set the feel of a particular dance that Vera wants to do. He is also a skillful hunter, which has helped to provide for both of them in the past.
Flaws: Though Vascar is patient, he doesn't like being in the air or heights. Jumping is one thing but he was captured because he fell from a tree. He also is not too much of a fan or enclosed spaces but he tolerates them if Vera is with him.
Personality: Vascar loves Vera and the two have a close bond. He tolerates the presence of the other animals around Vera because he knows that at the end of day, he will always be Vera's favorite. He loves water as well as when Vera uses him as a pillow. Vascar always stays by Vera's side, a constant companion ready to give his life for the woman who saved his.
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