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[b]Name:[/b]
Kuo.

[b]Age:[/b]
Twenty-six.

[b]Sex:[/b]
Male.

[b]Element:[/b]
Water.

[b]Home:[/b]
The Lower Ring of The Republic/Ba Sing Se.

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Just above average height and lean, with respectable muscle mass, Kuo cuts a reasonably imposing figure. He has medium-length jet black hair and a lazy stubble smattered across his cheeks - a side-effect of a sheer distaste for grooming.

[b]Profession:[/b]
Former Triple Threat hitman.

[b]Personality:[/b]
Kuo is by turns pensive, often guilty of internalizing his emotions - but pleasantly passionate about his own goals and dreams, unwilling to accept [i]no[/i] for an answer and ready to tackle any obstacles in his path. The fire of youth leads to occasional bouts of recklessness, but a lifetime of struggle and subsistence has endowed Kuo with a commendable talent at extricating himself from sour situations.

[b]Stance on Benders:[/b]
Kuo hails from a long line of benders - waterbenders maternally and firebenders paternally - and spent the majority of his childhood learning the stories of his ancestors orally. Despite his parents' lack of bending talent, and his own assumed inability to bend the elements.

[b]History:[/b]
Kuo was born and raised in the Lower Ring. When he was a boy, his father - a laborer at the synergy plant - perished in an industrial accident; shortly thereafter, during an outbreak of mysterious sicknesses in the Lower Ring, his mother took ill and never recovered.

Not yet a teen, Kuo was taken in by his only remaining family: an older cousin working for the Triple Threat Triad, from whom he would learn how to steal, fight, and handle a gun. Possessing a natural talent for marksmanship, Kuo was taken on by a local lieutenant as a contract hitman, eliminating various Triple Threat enemies for respectable sums of money.

In his early twenties, disillusioned with the direction his life had taken, Kuo separated from the Triple Threats - no mean feat, requiring his own relocation and a healthy amount of subterfuge - and vanished entirely from the public eye.