A note in case anything seems off I took him from a previous roleplay set around Korra's period so if anything seems off I apologize. 

[hider=Gao Xiang]
[b]Character Age:[/b] 24
[b]Character Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Character Race:[/b] Earth Kingdom 
[b]Physical Description:[/b] A skinny young man though physically fit Gao has lightly tanned white skin, and dark brown eyes. He has dark brown hair that's been clean cut. He refuses to shave all the way through opting to remove as much hair as possible while keeping enough on his head to appear distinct. He has no facial hair, and no noticeable scars on his body though his calloused hands, and bruises on his arms, and legs tell that he is experienced enough upon close inspection. Gao typically is not considered a handsome man, but he isn't ugly either he is extremely plain and tends to blend in with a crowd of average people. He typically wears a simple loose brown shirt, and sometimes a black jacket. His pants are likewise unremarkable simply being a pair of worn white pants. 
[b]Bending:[/b] Bender/Non-bender: Air Bender - A blunt, and straight forward bender he has more in common with some earth benders than the air nation. However he is still light on his feet, and capable of dodging with ease simply willing to dodge when needed but engages more willingly with direct heavy blasts of wind, and subversive uses of wind to knock people off balance before delivering a brutal gust of wind to send them flying. He is quite adept at redirecting projectiles.
[b]Skills:[/b] basic Medical training, hunting (bow, and knives) experience, and basic non bending martial arts
[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Gao while even a heavy hitter for an air bender is still lacking in actual real lethal shots. Air bending at its core is not meant for hurting people despite how hard Gao has trained. He also lacks proper training that the normal air benders do. He lacks a strong understanding of advanced air bending techniques.
[b]Posessions:[/b] Air Glider

[b]Biography:[/b] Born in the Earth Kingdom in a small village young Gao was nothing worth noting initially his parents were farmers, and his fellow villagers generally unimportant. His life in his young years was rather uneventful as the Earth Kingdoms's issues were rarely brought into the village due to their remote location in the northern earth sphere. He spent most of his life learning farming, and hunting as he viewed cities grow in size from afar and from an outsider's prospective he fought it fascinating. These massive cities were large, and prosperous. So many things he'd never seen before were housed there, and it led his imagination wild. However his grand father warned him that nothing good came from the cities that bad men ruled them, and that they would continue to do so into the near future. His grand father had gone to these cities, and had seen many things in his youth from water bending warriors in the southern earth kingdom training on their boats to, earth benders in cities like Omashu, and even the northern air temple, the patriarch of the Xiang family knew many things.

But after some consideration Gao, and his friend Yu decided to travel to one of the cities in the earth kingdom to understand just what exactly they were. After some time travelling, and experiencing the sights all seemed to go the opposite of what his grand father had warned him about. The cities, and the vast armies in places like Ba Sing Se were all amazing and being very self sufficient the duo managed to live a rather poor but ok life in the city for a few months before a gang attacked, and scarred Yu for life burning his hand. An Earth Bender tried to force money out of Gao by force, whom had none at the time, and he decided to fight back. During the fight he learned that he was an air bender after knocking the earth bender on his rear end through a window, and managing to blow back the fire bender with sheer force. He was a strong bender in terms of power but it tired him greatly to use his power for the first time.

Afterward he tried bringing Yu to a doctor they had met while travelling to the city. He had his friend treated, and then returned home shortly after. His grand father was not surprised to learn of his gift, but his parents were. 

After discussing it with his village elders young Gao left his village with his grand father, though old he was he insisted to come with Gao, and learn more about himself after he refused to join the air nomads because he knew nothing about them just yet. He didn't want to become a part of something he knew so very little about. Living day to day Gao, and his grand father traveled from place to place as he saw more of the world he saw more cruelty, and less kindness. People in remote areas poached, and or fought over resources especially in more remote areas. People who had power refused to act in some cases, or sometimes chose to help those who hurt the innocent for personal profit. That isn't to say that he didn't see plenty acts of kindness but he felt that the darker ones more outweighed the bad. Though there were good people often their acts of kindness left voids where evil simply reappeared once the heroes left, or died. He learned air bending through his grand father's example, though his grand father was not an air bender, or at least that's what he thought, he knew one as a child, and through scrolls purchased from people in the markets. Gao traveled to the air bending nations in search of guidance in full more so than he could from just scrolls that found their way into small town markets. But he found the air nomads more aloof, and self focused on finding inner peace rather than helping others. He hoped that they would be more active in helping others. However it only seemed they act on bigger ocassions or when they went on pilgrimages, or trips individually. Eventually after a few monthes he left them of his own accord. He didn't get a bison while there but he did pick up an old air nomad flier that Yu would later fix up for him.

Gao decided he would do as he wanted to, and live life as he would. Refusing to join the 'kind' secluded air nation he left on his own journey. He would go through the Earth Sphere learning, training, and fighting through the wilderness, and thugs that tried to stop him learning combat techniques as he learned more about what it meant to be an air bender and some of the villains such as he came across allowed him to see flaws in his own techniques as he fought them. As he is now he is a simple traveler, and occasional vigilante. He doesn't want for glory, or to move up the food chain. He simply travels to better himself, and become stronger as an individual. Though the grey world he walks in sometimes disgusts him he chooses not to use his power for his own gain unless it would better him as a whole, and or to force his opinions onto others. A wandering 'nomad' in a sense he has a home though he doesn't return to it. When the world has finally given him a purpose he hopes its for the best.
[b]Supporting Cast:[/b] Yu Sanzang - A rather shrewd young man with a surprising eye for spotting talent, and science. Yu is ahead of his time, and can fairly easily comprehend subjects that are foreign to most people. However he isn't physically intimidating, and his earth bending is rudimentary. The scar on his hand is evident of his early struggles but he has overcome even that with his strong force of will.

Patriarch Xiang - Little is known to Gao about his grand father other than the fact that is an old, and very experienced man. He has many secrets, and has helped Gao quite a lot. It is evident that the man probably knows more about the world than he lets on.


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