Name: Katsu
Age: 17
Nationality: Northern Water Tribe
Affinity: Waterbending
Occupation: Hunter, traveller
Skills:
--- Water bending - He uses his bending as his primary weapon. He manipulates the water with great skill and is able to easily give it shape in its liquid form. While he can't create detailed objects with ice, he's more than capable of creating ice weapons or spikes from the water.
--- Healing - He had to learn how to heal himself at a very young age after he started going hunting. He would return home with more than a couple of bruises.
--- Physical prowess - He's quite tough and quick, able to move around rapidly and still move his muscles well enough to shoot a running boar right between its eyes.
--- Great reflexes - Katsu trained in martial arts quite a lot with his father who was a chi-blocker. While he didn't learn many techniques, his reflexes were strengthened immensely.
--- Balance - Growing up with a bow, Katsu had to develop greater balance in order to be able to use it properly.
Personality: Despite what most people think the moment they see him, Katsu has a soft heart. He's quite intelligent and can be very manipulative when he wants to have his way. He's rather outgoing and kind but he can get easily aggravated if someone's not purposefully trying to annoy him.
History: Katsu grew up in the Northern Water Tribe until he was 14, born into a family of warriors. During these years, his father would train him each day after he reached the age of 8. During the first months, all that happened was the boy getting himself beaten up. His father decided that the boy was too young to train in combat without any endurance. His mother, who was a water bender, taught him how to use his gifts during the time period that his father let him rest. He was quite talented at it, far more so than his mother or his sister who had already left their home. Some time passed and he continued his water bending lessons, until his father recommenced the boy's training. After three years, the boy had reached a level at which he could more or less defend himself using water bending.
His father took him out to the wilderness. He had a quiver with a single arrow in it and a bow with him. When they reached a snowy forest, one of the few in the north. When they arrived, the man dropped the bow and quiver.
[hider=Katsu's First Hunt]The boy looked around, confused. They had gone quite far from the tribe; farther than ever before. "Father, what are we doing here?" the boy asked, his voice filled with curiosity. The man kept walking, ignoring the child’s question.
"Don’t stop moving, Katsu," the father warned him. "It’s dangerous."
Katsu nodded and ran up to the man once more, walking beside him. He kept looking around frantically, hearing growls from behind the trees and bushes. They kept walking and surprisingly, nothing attacked them. After they were far into the forest, the father threw the quiver and bow at the ground in front of the boy. "Pick it up."
Katsu hesitantly did what he was told, keeping his eyes on the man.
"You know how to use that," the man said. "You have one arrow." He turned around and started walking.
"F-Father?" The boy stuttered, shocked and confused. "Father! Where are you going!?"
"Three months," the man said as he kept walking. "I’m going to pick you up from this exact spot in three months. If you try to leave alone, you’ll get lost and freeze to death. Your task is to survive." The man disappeared in a flurry of snow.
"Father!" The snow divided before it reached the boy. Tears filled his eyes and froze. The growls started to get louder and louder…
