Name: Zia Kennithson

Age: 26

Origin: A small village in the fire nation.

Element: Air

Appearance: See above, Zia stands at ~ 5'11.

Equipment: A bo staff without a gliding mechanism, as well as a bag for carrying supplies in.

Personality: Zia is excitable, almost painfully so. Even the smallest of good news sends her mind into an almost childish stare of giddiness, this is probably the catalyst to her otherwise incredibly positive attitude towards life.

Bio: Zia, like most air-benders in the world was not born with the ability to bend an element. That, of course was due to air-bending being almost all but wiped out until Avatar Korra opened the third spirit portal during Harmonic Convergence, after that air-benders just kept popping up every so often, all of course until the avatar passed away. Zia first got her air-bending around two years ago, while still working farms out in the fire nation, so suffice to say she isn't the most experienced in her abilities and of course, she is partly to blame for that. Most air-benders went to the air temples to learn, Zia never did. She instead took this new found gift of bending, to move away from her simple farm life. Surprisingly, her parents agreed to it.

So, two years ago, she set off with nothing but an old staff she found, her satchel and trusty pet turtleduck Derek. Making her way through the smaller villages of the Fire Nation, until she found it. Republic City, It was a new start and boy was she excited. She spent the next two years working for a bakery to make ends meet, and playing around with her airbending. Becoming what she would consider to be fairly proficient - although she had nothing to base that off of.

Other: Derek the turtleduck, a trusted companion from Zia's days in the fire nation:

Name:
Jusuko

Age:
20

Origin:
An unknown location somewhere on the outskirts of the earth nation.

Element:
Earth

Appearance:


Equipment:
His fists. Two of them.

Personality:
Jusuko is a tightly wound hot head with an attitude that could rend the very earth, literally. His outbursts are known to incite unnecessary chaos, and land him in jail more often than he'd like to admit. According to him, it's his way, or you'll end up buried up to your neck in dirt.

Bio:
Jusuko grew up with an adopted family, given away by his parent before he was old enough to walk. Unfortunately for him, his adoptive parents weren't to his liking as he grew older and became less attuned with the natural order of their house hold. That's just a fancy way of saying that he didn't like being told what to do. Rules didn't befit a 'free spirit' like Jusuko, so he ran away from home at the age of 15.

Life wasn't easy for an ignorant teenager on the cusp of manhood, especially not when they were prone to violence. But a rowdy attitude attracts some pretty powerful attention. Rightfully so, Jusuko was scouted by a local gang of earth-bending teens that lived off thievery and general horrible behavior in Republic city, their form of 'scouting' being along the lines of hey that kid looks tough, we could use him. Before long, he became good friends with the local gangsters, and made a name for himself in the crime-world with his quick-tongue, and befitting affinity for bending.

By the age of 19, Jusuko was heading the gang of misfits, which had progressed from stealing bread and meat for survival, to conducting serious crimes within the city, collaborating with other syndicates on occasion, but mostly retaining their independence as the infamous 'pebble' gang. Despite their non-threatening name, and horrid origins, the pebbles remain a threatening force to this day.