[Zo-zey]
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Element: Fire Bending
Nationality: Former Republic City, Current Residing near Ba Sing Se
Height: 5’8”,172.5 cm
Weight: 122 lbs, 55kg
Role: Keeping the Group Grounded
“Just a bunch of strangers outside of my door asking me questions I don’t have answers to. Don’t they have someone else reclusive they could bother that isn’t me?”
This is the Firebender of the deserts you so heard of. You expected someone older, maybe a bit more sagely. Instead he was a young man standing before you with an annoyed expression. It was clear to you he didn’t have very many visitors in his day, so your arrival was both a surprise to him and also a slight delay in his daily schedule.
Actually at this point it was uncertain if he was actually a firebender. Considering the choice of colors he chose to wear. Though the golden irises told you a very different story than his white overcoat, blue tunic in a pair of black breeches with sandles. Black cloth bracers around his wrist and hands.
The most colorful thing in his muted wardrobe was the checkered, blue, purple, and dark blue scarf he wore around his neck. That he seemed to safeguard it with care that his other worn clothes told him he didn’t care if they had wear and tear.
His long black hair was roughly maintained by trimming it with a small knife, that he used to cut ropes and other things he needed to cut, still he left himself with blunt bangs that he only trimmed if he felt it was getting too long. He tied most of his hair up with a leather wrap and a string.
His voice even in tone, all though maybe a bit flat, it was husky, maybe a bit smoky which was rather pleasant despite how plainly he put things.
Personality Strengths:
Past the cold exterior he often presents, he is actually very compassionate and gentle person. While he genuinely is better at offering tough love, it’s never from a place of maliciousness. People believe his flat delivery is because he doesn’t care, but his actions prove otherwise.
He’s always been the type of person who says less and proves to do more through his actions, which he hopes proves more to others than anything he has to say. Except that isn’t always the case when it comes to his personal skills. While he is not genuinely comic relief, he has a dark, dry sense of humor that often either makes people laugh or makes them uneasy.
He’s also very loyal despite how others might perceive his actions, like leaving in the middle of a tough fight because he’s actually planning a cunning ploy that gets others out of trouble. A quick learner and someone who uses means of sabotage and trickery to save others comes off to those who do not know him well as a coward who flees from fights which isn’t true for those who do know him.
A very honest individual who doesn’t lie, it is his greatest strength, but his greatest weakness as well there is a such thing as being too honest and saying what is on your mind. Which he can be. Years alone and spending time little with interacting people besides interactions with trading such as the selling and buying of goods.
Which he is good at negotiating prices. Mainly due to that astoot blunt honesty. He may not be the type of person to give you encouraging words or may not be the type of person to give you praise, but his actions are kind while his words are cutting like a blade.
Personality Flaws:
Zoze is the type of individual who speaks his mind with little forethought about how it will sound to others or how they will feel about it. It’s his blunt honesty that often gets him in trouble, while also his greatest strength it is also his greatest weakness.
He speaks sharply, says what comes to mind, and says it with such straight forwardness that it is often taken at face value. It comes off malicious or cruel, when the reality is that spending time alone and being as reclusive as he is that it’s meant as honest critique.
He also reclusive and sticks to himself. Says little to others about himself, which comes off like he’s not willing to be their friends. Which isn’t the case, he’s just use to making baskets or beaded necklaces by himself in the quiet of his little shack that overlooks a farm.
Some who know Zoze would joke he comes off like an eighty-year old man stuck in a young teenagers body. He comes off very much like a old man, grouchy, impatient with actions of immature children, and likes to spend a lot of time to himself.
He doesn’t take insults well and while he doesn’t insult others his quick retorts come off like insults or cruel jokes. He has no time for games and doesn’t sit without doing something. Always busying himself with a task of some sort.
Special Interest: Zoze likes to collect different stones from the places he travels. Each stone he melts down, to a smaller piece and he makes beaded necklaces which he sells and that’s how he often makes his money and supports the rather shabby rundown farm he does have. He also cooks well enough and sells little fire flake pastries his home recipe. Which includes fire flakes, a sweetener, filled inside a sweet bun like a pancake.
Hobbies: His hobbies include small task, like making his necklaces that he sells, or making his pastries which he sells. Or tending his farm, which he store the excess and sells what he won’t use. He also been known to use his shack to house other orphans who have all, but left him alone when they couldn’t deal with his busywork or his personality.
Likes: Hot foods [spicier the better], farming [quiet and peaceful, it’s almost meditative], cooking [it’s relaxing], alone time [gives you time to reset and energize yourself], little busy work [whether that be making a necklace, a grass basket, hand washing clothing the little things really change your view about the world]
Dislike: Slimy foods [need I say more], people [they are loud, disruptive, they pull the plants wrong, they don’t follow instructions, they want to play, act with tomfoolery instead of responsibly], crowded places [they are loud, don’t let you have a moment to yourself, and you always are somewhere you didn’t want to be for longer because crowds are in your way as an obstacle], crying children
Skills:
Trading Skills -
Zoze has learned to live off the land and to use the skills he has to barter with others. For the most part Zoze is an eclectic merchant who goes into Ba Sing Se every now and then to sell cute little grass baskets, little necklaces, and sometimes when he has the ingredients he needs his delicious sweet fire flake buns. He knows how to negotiate the right prices, he’ll point out if someone else’s merchandise has a dent or is flawed in some way just to get them to drop down the price.
Personal Bending Style -
You could argue that Zoze is a firebending prodigy, probably the reason people would assume he would be the one to teach someone firebending. But truth be told Zoze is no prodigy, he took what his mother taught him before her passing and mixed it into his own style that he uses today. Most firebenders fuel their element through an unflinching desire to complete task and desires.
Though it would be clear to anyone who has ever watched Zoze, that he utilizes his firebending like that of a waterbender or an earthbender. Tough and stubborn, fluid, defensive, that unleashes an overwhelming amount of power when an enemy shows a sign of weaknesses.
Crafts -
As said several times Zoze is rather good with his hands. He excels in craft work, weaving baskets, making necklaces, even pottery with clay.
Tactician -
Zoze doesn’t just go into a fight without a plan. And he’s quick enough to come up with one if say the current strategy is not working. He’s not the type of person who plans everything, but he’ll devise tactics when they are needed to be implemented.
Family:
Niph - Mother - Republic City - Water Bender - Deceased
Roh - Father - Republic City - Fire Bender - Deceased
Mao - Sister Older [21] - Republic City - Water Bender - Alive
Mao was taken in by the orphanage even after the disappearance of her younger brother Zoze. She was adopted at he age of 13 and given the name Miseki. She continued her studies, but always felt the disappearance of her brother and her father were connected somehow. Unbeknown to her there was no connection between their disappearance she still joined Republic City Police to follow her father's footsteps and find her brother and her father.
Team Avatar: TBA
