Name: Akihiro Hayashi
Nicknames: The Great Pyro
Gender: Male
Age: 16
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Bending skills or fighting style: Mid Intermediate Fire Bending
Weapons/Instruments/Armor: He has a katana blade

Personality: Akihiro is very serious. Most of his time he likes to spend alone as he doesn't care much for other people since earlier in his life he lost his family. Though he hates everyone who chooses to abuse their power to hurt or take from other people. He is also not one to joke around or be around people who enjoy not taking things seriously. This led him to separate himself from society and live alone. Since he was raised in a relatively poor home, he prefers to help others as he has known the feeling of having nothing and no one and he thinks nobody else should have to feel that way.

History: Akihiro was born and raised in a small town by a low-class family. His mom was a non-bender and his dad was a fire bender so they lost most of their money from various benders abusing their power and taking their money as his dad wasn't a good enough fire bender to fight back. One day, at the age of 10, he was at school and he was being bullied by various kids. In a fit of rage, he, attempting to hit one of them, burnt them all. Since then, he knew he was a fire bender. When news of his new found powers reached his parents, they began looking for a fire bending teacher. When they finally found one, they spent what little money they had on Akihiro's fire bending lessons. Three years later, some benders showed up to collect money from them. When they saw that they had no money to give because of the fire bending lessons, they killed Akihiro's parents. Thanks to this, Akihiro went to live on the streets, doing small jobs to be able to eat something and keep alive. 

Months after Akihiro's parents were killed, he encountered some people who told him that they had work for him, work that offered lots of money. Having nowhere else to go, Akihiro accepted their offer. When they arrived where Akihiro's work was, he saw that his work wasn't work, he was to become a mercenary and do jobs at people's requests, as a mercenary, he was trained by their beginner trainers, moving up to intermediate trainers who made him what he was today so he would be able to carry out the jobs. He worked for them for 3 years until his last job, he was to kill the people who murdered his parents. He eagerly went to exact his revenge, but once he did, he didn't feel good, he felt empty. After that, he didn't feel like this life was for him so he returned to the mercenary's headquarters and took just enough money to hold a decent life for a couple of months while he found an honest job that payed decently. So he took off to Wu Xing to start fresh and forget all about his past.