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[color=FF4500]Name:[/color] Jie Xiao

[color=FF4500]Age:[/color] Twenty-Two

[color=FF4500]Sex:[/color] Female

[color=FF4500]Element:[/color]Non-bender

[color=FF4500]Home:[/color] Middle Ring

[color=FF4500]Appearance:[/color] Jie stands at around 5'4" with a slimmer build. With extremely light brown hair and green eyes, she tends to attract a certain amount of attention. The girl is pale with high cheekbones, although constantly sports a look of exhaustion. To repair this, she'll predominantly wear makeup to cover the effects of certain lifestyle choices, which will eat up most of her funds. In terms of fashion-sense, Jie is quite trendy due to the requirement of her profession. She possesses a distinct burn mark that traces along her left forearm, to which she will keep hidden with various long-sleeved outfits. 

[color=FF4500]Profession:[/color] Though not vastly wealthy, Jie spends her time as a singer to mostly the Upper Ring. Whether she be the background noise of a noble's party to the main performer in a gambling house, the girl has made her way into being a moderate success. 

[color=FF4500]Personality:[/color] Jie is a selfish person. Extremely determined, she is the sole reason for her own rise to the Middle Ring. In some twisted way, the girl will often confuse selflessness or kindness for being weak. To most, however, she will attempt to keep a friendly demeanor as she is supposed to. Though she loves making friends and being around anyone who can keep up with her, she finds dealing with most to be a cumbersome task. Thus, Jie is quite open in terms of moral values, and willing to accept almost anyone so long as they're interesting enough.

Vainly aware of her own good looks, the girl will use her attributes to gain favor whenever necessary. This, of course, is her weapon of choice. Having had the goal of becoming a good socializer, Jie is a capable speaker and liar.   

[color=FF4500]Stance on Benders?:[/color] She mostly dislikes the idea of benders. Like the majority, she sees them as too much of a hazard to keep unsupervised. Considering benders to be the reason for the world's present state, she supports a certain amount of regulation against such dangerous people.

[color=FF4500]History:[/color] Before, Jie once lived in the Lower Ring with her elder sister, Han. Her parents having been convicted as benders early in her life, she is unable to remember them, and therefore does not consider them as family. Though their age gap is severely large by fifteen years, the two girls were extremely close due to their circumstances. They'd survived in comfort for a time due to her sister's sacrifices, which allowed Jie to live out her childhood. Unable to support themselves without education or wealth, Han had earned her means as a smugler to members of varying rings. Due to this, Jie had been raised by listening to the experiences of others, following around the various characters that had flowed in and out of the Lower Ring. 

A late bloomer, Han discovered her ability to firebend by burning her sister in the process. Though Jie allowed her to escape into the Wilds before being condemned, she still bears an anger towards the woman for leaving so quickly. Without a proper family along her adolescent years, she turned to Zen, adding on to the large population that depended on it as a favorite pastime. She would do whatever it took to provide enough for herself, and became a courtesan in the process of her descent. It was an unsurprisingly quick downward spiral, and the most desperate time of her life.

Unable to attract a large enough following to support her habits, Jie looked to other avenues as well. Though capable of charisma, she wished to garner more coin by the way of singing. After gaining the right sort of clientele, the girl moved to the Middle Ring as just that. Although Zen's use has slowly begun to wane, Jie is still a regular customer of one of the many drug smuglers in The Republic. 


[color=FF4500]Likes;[/color]
►Sarcasm or Dark Humor
►Fashion
►Skill/Intelligence
►Sweets
►Flirting

[color=FF4500]Dislikes;[/color]
►Optimism
►Vulgarity
►Hot-Heads


[color=FF4500]Habits;[/color]
►Zen


[color=FF4500]Fears;[/color]
►Benders
►Fire
►A Mundane Future