Name: Jalika

Age: 26

Bending ability if any: Air

Birthplace: Western Air Temple 

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Personality: Carries a lot of the introspection that is common in Air Nomads, but without their air of lightheartedness and fun.  Her personality is a mish-mash of traits, both earnest and affected.  She appears as a typical drunk, and yet is known to dispense wisdom to anyone who bothers to listen to her.  She acts as if she is still grieving for her loss, but has turned her need to nurture on to others.  With Jalika, nothing is, in its entirety, on the surface, and she is not easy to read.  

Backstory (Optional): 
Though traditionally nomadic, Jalika would have called the Western Air Temple home in her youth.  She was born there, and it was usually where she would return between journeys.  She was poised to complete her training and attain mastery of Air Bending, but was jolted from her normal life when her bison companion was killed for fur by poachers.  In her despair, she ran from the Temple and isolated herself for nearly a year. 
 
When she returned, the elder monks tried to use her friend's death as a teaching tool, warning her against earthly attachments.  Rather than comfort her, Jalika was enraged by how little they regarded her loss.  To her, it wasn't a mere physical loss, it was a spiritual one.  On this note of disagreement, she left the order for good.

In the years to come, Jalika fell into a cycle of despondence and alcoholism.  That is, until she came upon a mothberry grove, so called because the plants feed the infant worms of spider-moths.  When she came upon the grove, she found that it was often beset by silk makers, who would take the cocoons, the metamorphosing worms still inside, and boil them down to take the silk, with little regard for the creature inside.  Jalika chased the cloth makers away, and found new meaning living in the mothberry grove, protecting the moths' young from predators and poachers alike.  Since she's taken up residence, the grove has grown large and wild.  She takes the husks of the cocoons, after the moths have hatched, and spins it into her own wild silk, which she sells to the people of the Fire Nation nearby.  

Items/weapons on person: 
- A plethora of folding paper fans, mostly Fire Nation in origin.  
- Usually just one bottle of wine 
- A small flute

Physical Attributes and Abilities:
- Airbending[IV] Uses a style of her own invention, called the Crooked Breeze, that mimics the unsteady movements of the very intoxicated.
- Animal riding[II]