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"How am I supposed to teach you Airbending if I don't know anything about it?"
NAME
AGE
BIRTHPLACE
ELEMENT
APPEARANCE DETAILS
PERSONALITY
BIOGRAPHY
TRIVIA
Yonten
AGE
17
BIRTHPLACE
The Eastern Air Temple
ELEMENT
Air
APPEARANCE DETAILS
If one were to honestly look at him, Yonten's origin as an Air Nomad survivor would be strikingly apparent. Most notably, the cloudy gray color of his eyes practically announce his nature to anyone who has previously met an Airbender. Thankfully this detail is obscured behind the bangs of his full head of brown hair that just reaches the top of his neck.
Physically, Yonten is small for his age. A fact his peers were all too willing to remind him of growing up. In addition, despite his improvised Airbending training, his lithe frame only contains the faintest hint of muscle, though he does possess more dexterity and flexibility than one would expect of a random bumpkin in the Earth Kingdom countryside.
Since running away from home, Yonten has taken to wearing a simple brown traveler's cloak.
Physically, Yonten is small for his age. A fact his peers were all too willing to remind him of growing up. In addition, despite his improvised Airbending training, his lithe frame only contains the faintest hint of muscle, though he does possess more dexterity and flexibility than one would expect of a random bumpkin in the Earth Kingdom countryside.
Since running away from home, Yonten has taken to wearing a simple brown traveler's cloak.
PERSONALITY
Yonten is what one might expect a sheltered teenager just now venturing out into the world to be: naïve. Add more words.
BIOGRAPHY
Yonten had the misfortune to be a newborn when the Fire Nation launched their attack on the Air Nomads under the blaze of Sozin's Comet. During the slaughter of the Eastern Air Temple, one of the Fire Lord's soldiers, Hotaru, came across a wounded mother who begged for him to spare her son. With a change of heart, Hotaru spirited away with the two survivors. However, the woman proved to be too far gone. It was with her final breath that she gave Yonten his name. Knowing the penalty for desertion, the soldier did the only thing he could, escaping into the heart of the Earth Kingdom countryside, eventually settling as a farmer, burying his past life entirely.
To his credit, Hotaru attempted to give Yonten as normal a childhood as he could, despite the onset of the largest conflict in the history of the Four Nations. He played games with village children. He helped Old Lady Wen with chores. He even dreamed of being an Earthbender. It wasn't until Yonten first discovered his ability to Airbend as a child that Hotaru all but confined him to their home, forbidding him from practicing the art in public. Confused, Yonten followed his father's demands, for a time.
As he grew into a teenager, Yonten grew restless and resentful. Eventually, he confronted his father about his desire to become a proper bender. It was the most heated argument he'd ever had with Hotaru. The latter became so enraged, in fact, that the candles inside their home erupted with intensity. It was the first time Yonten had seen him in such a state. After years of keeping his past life a secret, Hotaru finally told Yonten how he had come into his care. Feeling thoroughly betrayed and refusing to believe that the Air Nomads were extinct, Yonten ran away from home, determined to find his 'real' family.
Instead he ran into the Avatar.
To his credit, Hotaru attempted to give Yonten as normal a childhood as he could, despite the onset of the largest conflict in the history of the Four Nations. He played games with village children. He helped Old Lady Wen with chores. He even dreamed of being an Earthbender. It wasn't until Yonten first discovered his ability to Airbend as a child that Hotaru all but confined him to their home, forbidding him from practicing the art in public. Confused, Yonten followed his father's demands, for a time.
As he grew into a teenager, Yonten grew restless and resentful. Eventually, he confronted his father about his desire to become a proper bender. It was the most heated argument he'd ever had with Hotaru. The latter became so enraged, in fact, that the candles inside their home erupted with intensity. It was the first time Yonten had seen him in such a state. After years of keeping his past life a secret, Hotaru finally told Yonten how he had come into his care. Feeling thoroughly betrayed and refusing to believe that the Air Nomads were extinct, Yonten ran away from home, determined to find his 'real' family.
Instead he ran into the Avatar.
TRIVIA
Became a vegetarian after seeing a farmer slaughter a turkey duck as a child
