Hoping this is decent D:

Character Sheet:
[b]Name:[/b]
Xia Lian
[b]Nicknames:[/b]
Called "The Gentle Explosion" by most of her neighbors.
[b]Gender: [/b]
Female
[b]Age: [/b]
20
[b]Appearance:[/b]
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[b]Bending skills or fighting style:[/b] 
-Untrained Novice (I.E. Doesn't quite have the hang of any style--see History)
[b]Personality:[/b]
A very happy, gentle girl who wishes for nothing but to please others. Her cheerfulness seems to know no boundaries, and neither does her enthusiasm. She tends to be demure most of the time, but ends up trying to warm up to people rather quickly. She often finds herself speaking before thinking, the same with most of her actions, though she does mean well. She has an overabundance of patience, though if the wrong buttons are pushed, her temper seems to simmer for some time before finally exploding. Said buttons are doing things that are obviously wrong and not caring, having apathy towards others, and threatening her loved ones in any way. 
While most would find it difficult, she is able to hold a mask bearing a smile through difficult times. She outright refuses to let anyone see her sad or depressed, outright hiding if she has to cry. She is actually very insecure about her future, as she doesn't really know what to do with her life. She goes along with her mother simply because she doesn't want to disappoint her, She also avoids talking about her bending, somewhat ashamed of her learning disability preventing her from learning proper training, and she gets rather defensive without even realizing it.
[b]History:[/b]
The Lian family is quite well known for running and owning one of the most expensive jewelry shops in Ba Sing Se. The story goes that the heiress of the esteemed Lian family decided that she did not want to continue the family business. As an act of rebellion, the young woman named Li Mei began to travel the world instead. She then met a man with whom she had a fling, but then came to her senses and returned home to act as a dutiful daughter--except that her passionate 'fling' resulted in a child. The family kept the entire thing under wraps, claiming that Li Mei's "husband" passed away while the girl was still pregnant. Still, Li Mei decided that she needed her own place without her parents breathing down her neck every second, and so collected her things (and a fraction of her family's wealth) and moved to a place known as Wu Xing. Here, she set up her own place of jewels and gold, and eventually Xia was born.
As Li Mei was a non-bender and had her fling somewhere around the Southern Water Tribe (or was it the North? She couldn't quite recall) to say she was shocked when she found her daughter firebending was an understatement. She was, at first, at a loss on what to do, though she enlisted some help. Xia found that while her bending was plentiful, her control wasn't so great. Besides somehow managing to burn herself frequently, a fire would often start in the house almost daily. Li Mei urged her daughter to control herself, but young Xia found it much more fun to let the flames dance around freely, rather then being held back.
To say that Xia caused much trouble was an understatement. Burning people's property was just another Tuesday, and while at times she meant well, Xia often found herself causing more trouble rather then helping. One such occasion was when thieves snuck into their store after hours--Xia had just happened to have left a scroll on her desk and had gone to get it when she encountered them. The neighbors described the next moment as "a simmering flame suddenly erupting into a volcano" and mentioned that each thief fled howling, their bums on fire as they ran. 
Luckily for Li Mei, Xia did mature into a fine young woman, so much that when her parents visited, they suggested that Xia return with them to run the business. While she did manage to put a lid on her bending, it still lacks a lot of the finesse most benders have--though she makes up for it with enthusiastic power. Her bending is also a somewhat touchy subject--as many note, it is often wild and unrefined, though this is because she doesn't want to admit that she has a learning disability that renders her unable to learn lessons--even learning to read was a very difficult task and she often forced herself to stay up late to study as she had trouble understanding her books. Still, she wanted to help her mother more then anything, so her bending simply wasn't a priority to her, and she let it stay where it was.