Name: Hotaru 
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Appearance:
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Place of Birth: Ba Sing Se
Gang: Forsaken Marytr 
Element: Earth
Powers: 
Among having mastered all of the four elements as expected by the Avatar, Hotaru is a master of the earth bending style as he was born as such. His powers extend from normal earth bending to metal bending and one of the most exciting abilities is the use of Seismic sense. Beyond the four elements he is able to spirit bend and use all four elements at the same time in the Avatar state. 
Strengths: Being the Avatar
Weaknesses: Speed, Open feet
Weapons/Items: None
History: 
Hotaru history is easily explained through the annals of history; each bender is set on a path of peace and prosperity and can be reunited with their past lives once they have mastered their spiritual side. After the death of Avatar Ryuk the avatar was reborn in the season of spring as all Earth Avatar’s do. At a young age he was born into a healthy rich family without the slightest hint that he was the avatar to be. Unlike most rich earth benders that lived in Ba Sing se Hotaru was never a child who wanted everyone to do his bidding, Hotaru was an adventuress boy who always wanted to pry himself from his parent’s grasp and run around the city. However his parents had a firm belief in keeping Hotaru locked in the mansion to learn proper etiquette and take over their business, for bending was too barbaric for their liking. Men and women would kill to be raised in Hotaru’s family being fed with a silver spoon, but Hotaru wasn’t a fan of any of it, he never liked anyone doing anything for him for free or under command. 

He never got along with any of the other rich boys for they were all snobby and so vain that it disgusted to be associated with them. They would constantly squander Hotaru for not being as proper as them and always calling him a savage that had a useless family that was a bitch to the royal families. Hotaru couldn’t take this anymore so Hotaru finally snapped and lashed out in anger, but not with his fists, large earth rifts jetted out of the ground and toppled the boys leaving them bruised and crying. Afraid of Hotaru they all ran while branding him a monster or a freak. But that’s when Hotaru became the happiest. While this had happened one of the Professors at the school had been watching for he too was an earth bender but in disguise as to not bury his name just as Hotaru had done. For now he would simply keep an eye on Hotaru and make sure he was safe for he wanted to study him more. The news was kept under wraps from the help of the professor and the boys would no longer mess with Hotaru while in his presence, not that they could anyways. 

Completely oblivious to the actions by others that kept him safe Hotaru lived his happy life outside his golden family halls. Rebelling against his parents Hotaru would always sneak out of his mansion and go to the lower markets of Ba Sing Se where he was tantalized more by the way poverty had no effect on the people than the history of the wallpaper in his room. The markets became his sanctuary, his home away from home, why? Because the markets were what he truly wanted. It was freedom, freedom to do as you wish, and the freedom to be happy. Even if happiness costed them to be poor and have less commodities than the rich; being generally known by the city as royalty Hotaru would hide his identity by one of his favorite activities, getting dirty. His scruffy black hair covered his face and he ditched his fine silk clothing for ragged torn hand me downs from around the market. Here hotaru was free to practice his bending for it was famous down in the markets; no it was a way of life and economy. And that is when Hotaru first met his first friend, Kato. 

Kato was a wild boy just as Hotaru was, but he was less privileged. Kato was the most gullible child Hotaru ever met and he was unable to read or write or do anything Hotaru could besides earth bend and cook. And when he earth bended he put Hotaru to shame. The two quickly became inseparable friends who constantly caused trouble in the markets and played for what seemed like ages. They quickly became best friends and it seemed like Kato was like a dog, he would fight and protect Hotaru no matter what for he trusted him and in his eyes Hotaru really could do no wrong. And so quickly enough their relationship grew and Hotaru began to learn earhtbending from his friend, but quickly excelled because unannounced to him he was the avatar. When his family finally caught wind that he had been hanging down by the markets and constantly came home late and dirty they punished Hotaru by banning him to only his room and school. Angry and conflicted that he couldn’t see Kato, hotaru blamed himself and grew paranoid of what Kato would think of him if he didn’t show for more than a week.

Would they cease to be friends? Would he put the whole blame on Hotaru? Would he even remember him? The thoughts raced through his brain and he couldn’t control them anymore, but they just kept building up inside him. One day at school without the presence of the Professor, Hotaru had been alone after studies when a group of kids had surrounded him with their leader. A boy by the name of Rohan decided it was time Hotaru paid up for his ‘strangeness’ and so they bullied him day after day and Hotaru took it because he thought it was what he deserved for leaving Kato behind, even if his parents were the one to lock him away. And then finally Hotaru blew up like a nuclear bomb, Hotaru’s eye’s flared white and the earth around him flew up in blocks like it was nothing. The Professor was in the process of stopping Hotaru until he saw him in the avatar state, dumbfounded and in shock his body wouldn’t move only his eyes followed Hotaru.

The blocks smashed each of the kids into the walls behind them, and finally Rohan was the only boy who stood in his way. Scared, crying, and frozen in fear Rohan begged for forgiveness, but Hotaru wasn’t so forgiving. And so Hotaru raised his hand ready to impale Rohan with an earth spear, but was quickly brought back to his normal state when Professor Otaku commanded him to stop. Looking at his surroundings Hotaru began to cry from the mix of Kato and what he had done to the other boys, it wasn’t his fault or was it? [i]”What am I?”[/i] and Otaku simply stuck out his hand and in a delicate voice whispered [i]”You’re the Avatar.”[/i] and all at once the sobbing stopped. And from then on Otaku had trained him in earth bending. Otaku before he was a professor was the head of the Dai Li during the Flame War and still technically was, but used his job as the Professor as a cover for his actions to protect the heritage and culture of Ba Sing Se. So naturally Otaku became his first master and taught him everything he could, and by the time Hotaru was 10 he was able to perform the early methods of Metal bending and seismic sensing. 

While he was under Otaku’s instruction he was able to go freely to visit Kato and restart their friendship. And that they did, but Kato never resented Hotaru for leaving him because he knew the first time he met Hotaru that he was part of the royal families. Shocked and confused Hotaru was speechless, but after their therapy session everything else was history. While he trained with Otaku, Otaku taught Hotaru of the past avatar and his role in history and the war, Hotaru was stupefied by how naïve the avatar could be, but also grew a nasty hatred towards the fire nation for using their bending in such a way. Little did he know while he was playing with Kato the other boys and Rohan had been watching him secretly and decided to cast their revenge on Hotaru by paying bender mercenaries to ambush and attack Kato. And so they did, and one practice Kato had entered the training grounds, wounded and lacking breathe he rolled into Hotaru’s arms. Fresh streams poured down Hotaru’s face as he asked who had done this crime against him, but only one sentence left his weak voice before a smile cascaded his face. [i]Benders, but thank you for all you’ve done for me Hotaru.[/i]

Hotaru became depressed and decided after Kato’s death that he would become the Avatar everyone wanted, but not the one everyone needed. Hotaru didn’t want to become the avatar for the simple fact he’d have to use the curse that got the previous Avatar killed and his best friend killed. However he did make a promise to Kato that he would create a world that he and Kato were equal so he couldn’t deny his duties as the avatar. So after training with master Otaku he left and went to seek a firebender master and that he did, it was easy to find Fire benders in the Fire nation, but this fire bender wasn’t a war hero from the time of Ryuk he was a simple man who had worked in the technology industry trying to create new ways to incorporate machinery with bending. Master Ryoshi was a very skilled and powerful fire bender who even started to incorporate early designs of lightning bending into his work. Lightning was destructive yet beautiful to Hotaru it was the art of destruction and life along with fire. So months passed and Hotaru’s training in the use of fire had quickly grown rapidly to the point he was ready to learn lightning bending, but he did not want to use the lethal bending he wanted to learn how to redirect it if the situation ever called for it. 

But during one of his session’s Ryoshi wasn’t there and nowhere to be found, so Hotaru decided to go to his assembly line and open to find him in his office. And so subtly enough Hotaru snuck in to surprise his master only to find him in a dark room lit by candles with other benders. However these weren’t normal benders these were mercenaries surrounded by Ryoshi with a map and a slip of money designating where there next attack would be. On the walls around them were pictures of targets they once and currently had, either with a red x through them to signify the deed was done or a blank slate which was their latest projects. And that’s when Hotaru saw Kato’s picture with a bright red X through his grinning face.  In a blinding rage the one he had felt those years ago when he was being bullied in the court yard had suddenly emerged. Fire lit the room a blaze with a mixture of fire and earth until he systematically took out each of the mercenaries. Now Hotaru and Ryoshi stood there circling around the room adjusting themselves for an attack. And then they spoke, Hotaru simply asking why, and Ryoshi simply telling him money was money. 

And in a split second a crackle of Lightning left the fingertips of Ryoshi, and entered the body of Hotaru, but only to be redirected out of him into Ryoshi’s body. And in the final seconds of Ryoshi’s life he looked up to Hotaru and thanked him for being his disciple and how proud he was to teach the Avatar. Why was the world so cruel? Hotaru had been placed in the same position he had been two years ago. After the burial Hotaru continued his path to become the avatar and left for the Air Temples to learn his hardest feat, Air bending. The Air Nomads were the most peaceful people he had encountered maybe it’s because they were so cut off from the world and didn’t dabble in global affairs. It was the first time Hotaru wanted to live freely again, the people were humorous and treated him like family; even if he wasn’t the Avatar they would have welcomed him into their family. Hotaru became deeply enriched with peace and his spiritual side. During his time with the Nomads he was able to communicate with his past lives and learn the art of Chi bending. However Hotaru became obsessed with talking to Ryuk and talking of the War that wiped him out years ago. And as his air bending training came to an end Ryuk began to fill Hotaru’s mind with pounding thoughts of revenge sending him nightmares every night of Ryuk death in repeat. 

Hotaru sought out the water tribe for he heard the waterbenders had special healing powers that could cure any ailment. And he needed dot get Ryuk’s voice and his nightmares out of his head before he would turn insane. So when he got to the Water Tribes the women took care of him and the water actually worked getting rid of his nightmares and helping him seek out a water bending master. Hotaru had grown into a large 18 year old man by the time he sought out his Master Ermac who had been one of the most powerful Benders in the water tribe. He had heard that he taught another prodigy from the Water tribe named Kadak how to water and Ice bend. Excited to learn ice bending Hotaru quickly involved himself with Master Ermac and began to learn waterbending, but he was however unable to learn how to correctly form ice or even use it. Saddened that he couldn’t use ice or healing water Ermac decided to take Hotaru to his own home and teach him the dangerous art of Blood bending from a scroll he had been passed down from his father and his father before him. Hotaru thought that such bending didn’t exist that it should be illegal to control someone else’s body. 

But unfortunately for him Ryuk’s voice came back to him even greater now and pressured him into learning blood bending. And with each passing moon Hotaru’s blood bending grew stronger and stronger until he was adept as Ermac was. And regretfully one day the nightmares had become so intense that Hotaru couldn’t bear to move without crippling agony and bursting out in a hyperventilating sweat. And so in the middle of the night on a full moon he went to the healing benders an asked desperately for help, and tried as they might they couldn’t seem to penetrate his mind.  The pain got so intense Hotaru lost his mind and unwillingly blood bended the water tribe members around him until they all bent to his will and suffered a painful agonizing death. Eventually Hotaru collapsed from the pain and awoke the next day to see ermac grabbing Hotaru by the shoulder and throwing him into the frozen ocean below him.  While he fell Hotaru awoke into his Avatar state and attacked Ermac placing his thumb on his head taking away his blood bending forever. 

When he left the village he attempted to severe the binds he had to his spiritual side, but the spiritual force was too much for him and Avatar Ryuk invaded Hotaru’s being taking over his body and partially his mind trapping the real Hotaru inside a cage in a corner of his mind. Ryuk finally free from his prison felt alive once more in the perfect host known as Hotaru. From that day forward Ryuk used the identity of Hotaru to enact his revenge from his former life and sink the bending world into a world of chaos and genocide starting with the fire nation. And so the Eradication Period started first with the destruction of the Fire nation until one by one each nation was destroyed under Ryuk/Hotaru’s rule. After his reign of tyranny each of the nations settled near omashu when Ryuk/Hotaru set up the slum known as the Five Points where the first ever organized crime syndicates would be created. Prostitution, Dirty Cops, and Murder rose in an uproar and swept the bending world slowly killing itself in the process.