Chin VIII (WIP)

Name: Chin VIII
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Nation: Earth Kingdom 

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History: Chin VIII was born in the village of his ancestor's namesake, Chin Village. He is an heir to a legacy of failure. His ancestor, Chin the Conqueror, had amassed a large army and overtaken much of the Earth Kingdom, before falling by the hands of Avatar Kyoshi. With the loss of Chin the Conqueror, all of their territories were lost and all that remained of what would have been a great dynasty was a small cliff side village. Chin's descendants never forgave, and never forgot the glory that their family had lost at the hands of the Avatar.

Chin VIII was born the son of Chin VII and Lady Baozhai. Chin VII had been a weak and aristocratic man, more concerned about squandering what remained of the family’s wealth and trying to repair the reputation of their people with their surrounding neighbors. His wife, Lady Baozhai, had been a delegate from Ba Sing Se who Chin VII had courted, seemingly attracted to the man's great wealth. The biggest influence on young Chin VI was his grandfather, Chin VI, an elderly man who hated his son's perversions and wanted revenge against the Avatar for his family’s honor.

Chin VIII’s earliest years were spent in the family’s estate, a large building that overlooked the small Chin Village. At one point and time the village had been much larger; but economic sanctions from Ba Sing Se over seven different generations had reduced the village to a shadow of its former glory. As the leader of the village, his father seemed to distance himself from the struggles of the villagers; instead he and his wife spent their days away in the glamorous Ba Sing Se. From boyhood, he was often left to the care of his grandfather, who filled the boys head with visions of grandeur as well as hate. By the time the young Chin was six years old he had known the story of “Chin the Great”, who had led a massive peasant revolution against the 46th Earth King who had taken power away from all of the local rulers in an attempt to create a central governance. Then, when victory was nigh, Avatar Kyoshi and her people sided with the Regime and murdered “Chin the Great’, and he was painted as a monster in the history books as Avatar Kyoshi appeased the people by creating the Dai Li and reducing the Earth Kings powers. The young Chin was also taught about the Avatar, and its ability to reincarnate upon death.

In his early teen years Chin VIII had learned of the Fire Nation colonization to the North. He and his grandfather were in awe over the fact that the Earth Kingdom’s military showed no response to the obvious aggression; even noting that once again the current Avatar, Roku, seemed to have sided with the people of his nation when he did nothing (that the Chin’s knew of) to stop the colonization. Chin VI began using the family’s fortune to bring in some of the finest combat trainers in the land, convincing the glutton Chin VII that the boy could perform these talents to impress the families of the elite in Ba Sing Se. In truth, his grandfather was raising him to become a brutal warrior. Chin was taught the arts swordplay with a katana, an art that was local to the region and had been shared in Chin Village with its former neighbors of Kyoshi island. His grandfather also knew that the boy was growing up in a world where benders where at an advantage, but did not want the boy to focus too hard on mastering a ranged weapon. Instead, his grandfather procured a prickle snake for Chin VIII, a small and nimble creature that could quickly make it across a long range and harass a bender while the swordsman would catch up. Chin VIII spent many years raising prickle snakes, and he had a great respect for the creatures even though he often used them as a tool for dealing with benders.

In early adulthood, Chin’s grandfather passed away from old age. His father was still the lord of Chin Village and he began forcing the young man to come with him to Ba Sing Se in order to show off his “snake charming” skills and his swordplay abilities. Chin VIII hated every moment of his times in Ba Sing Se, and he knew that his father had simply become another fat aristocrat and his mother always had been. Meanwhile, the peasants of Chin village grew tired of living under the heel of the wealthy Chin family while they were forced to pay for the families’ sins with harsh taxes. Upon returning home from Ba Sin Se one day, the Chin’s were met by a horde of peasants who had grown tired of living under terrible economic conditions. His father ordered Chin to dispatch of the peasants, but Chin would not comply. He turned to his father, who had tarnished the name of the family by associating with the enemies living in Ba Sing Se.

“Father, you have forgotten everything that our family has stood for.” Chin muttered as he drew his katana and stepped forward at the frightened peasants. “Your hypocrisy ends today...” Chin said as he spun around and impaled the stomach of his father. Hearing his puppet mother scream as the fat man fell to his knees had been the most satisfying feeling that Chin VIII had ever felt. Remorselessly, he threw his mother to the mob. She was dragged into the woods by several of the peasants and never seen again. Chin then turned back to the mob.

“The Chin family and it's people will no longer be the puppets of Ba Sing Se.” Chin yelled to the crowd, listening to their ecstatic yells of joy.

Chin VIII had become the next leader of Chin Village, and he spent the next twenty years of his life trying to repair his relations with the peasants that his father had forsaken. Although he had maintained much of his wealth, he had the estate of his father turned into a city hall. Later, the upper floors of his former home became the headquarters for Chin’s insurgency activity. Chin had even opened up elections for leadership in the city, but still one the election by a landslide with no serious opponents. Chin was praised for turning the economy of the village around by ignoring the tributes the village was supposed to pay to Ba Sing Se. He was looked up to so much that the peasants did not challenge his system of legal punishment, in which he was the judge, jury, and executioner. He fashioned together a great wheel of different punishments, and the fates would decide how cruel he would be. He also brought back “Avatar Day” that his father had abolished in which effigies of Avatar Kyoshi and Roku were burned out of disrespect for the Avatar.

Now in his forties, Chin VIII has begun to fear that he would soon grow too old to produce an heir or to realize his destiny. Seemingly unable to produce a child after hundreds of attempts with different women, he has grown angry that his legacy might go incomplete. Chin VIII has decided that his wish is that if the Chin family cannot rule the Earth Kingdom, then he will spend the remainder of his life gaining revenge against those that had tarnished his family name. Awaiting for the announcement of the Avatar in the next four years, he would imprison the being that had destroyed his ancestor and kill the Earth King and Dai Li if it was in his power as well.


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