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"Keep moving. Don't stop. Never stop."
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Name:
Tachi Mi

Nickname:
Lemur - A reference to her restlessness and agility, and also a bit of a jab at how her movements mirror that of a Winged Lemur.

Age:
25

Gender:
Female

Sexuality:
Hetro

Role:
Air

Primary Element:
Air

Secondary Element:
None

Appearance:
Tachi often complains about her short height. It's one of the main characteristics of her - she's short and "twiggy" (as she likes to call it) in build, looking somewhat delicate and fragile. To counteract this innocence, her auburn eyes are usually alight with a spark of confidence and spirit that is usually found in tricksters and practical jokers. Her hair is a muddy ginger hue, often scruffy and badly cut to just above shoulder length.

Style:
To see Tachi in a dress would have the same effect as "seeing a sky bison in a tutu", and she sticks to light, versatile clothing. The red sash isn't only decorative - it has many purposes, made out of a thick and warm cloth to be used as a cloak, shawl, blanket and in some cases towel. As such, it's rather faded from lots of washes. Her clothes are very concealing, and she barely shows any skin.

Distinct Markings:
Rather notably, Tachi seems to hide her Air Nomad tattoos. They differ from the Airbending master tattoos and whilst the stripes run from the base of the spine to the forehead, from the shoulders to each hand, and around the legs and to her feet, they do not end in the arrows that Airbending masters wear. They are described as an "upside down T with a dot underneath it". These are commonplace for the early Air Nomads and run across the chi lines, which means that at times of great power being used they will glow - albeit very faintly.

Likes & Dislikes:
Likes: Movement, dancing, music, food, animals, adventuring, games, flying
Dislikes: Fighting, arguments, boredom, hard work, fear/panic, smoke
Fear: Imprisonment/capture; an inability to move freely. Loss of bending.

Strengths & Weakness:
In combat, Tachi's ultimate strength is her agility and stealth. A hider, jumper, climber and leaper by nature, Tachi plays her constant excitable energy and restless movements to her advantage, making it difficult to actually land a hit on her.

Her ultimate weakness in combat would be her...combat in general. Whilst she can use bending to stave off attackers, if she is attacked and then crippled, and can't use her bending for some reason, then her fate is most certainly at the mercy of her attackers.

Out of combat, Tachi's biggest strength is, surprisingly, her intelligence and cunning. After all, it's only befitting that someone who actively avoids conflict starts to look around in the hopes of finding a second option; furthermore, her mind constantly shifts and tumbles over a myriad of possibilities, as most people with short attention spans usually do. She isn't wise and vastly superior all of the time - in fact, it barely surfaces in her day-to-day activities, but in times of panic and disarray it's more likely she'd be able to find the solution faster than a wizened elder who has to meditate on all of the ideas.

Her biggest weakness is her attitude. She borders on the naive, irresponsible and excitable. It's easy for people to manipulate her to their own gains since she's rather gullible, too.

Personality:
Constantly on the move, Tachi's personality shines through every aspect of her being - her movement, her speech patterns, her attention span - it all centres around the excitable, agile and fidgety attitude she possesses. She suffers from a short attention span and changes subjects in conversations easily, frequently becoming bored and then making it known that she is bored...basically, borderline annoying-little-child syndrome under the body of an adult.

However, there is simply no way that the Order of the White Lotus would let in a fool. Under the layers of irritation stands a woman who not only is quick-footed and restless, but also a quick mind. Her inability to focus on one object improved her observation significantly, as it's second nature for her to gaze around her surroundings for something that intrigues her. She's known to work well under pressure because it is fast-paced, and she can keep up with it easier than others. She isn't the brightest, nor the best, but she is smart and cunning.

Background:
In terms of history, Tachi's had a fairly quiet life. Born and raised in the Eastern temple, Tachi grew up mainly around women since the East and West temples are devoted to teaching female airbenders. Her father, Amrik, resides in the Northern temple and Tachi loved getting letters from him as a child. Despite their separation, Amrik and Norbu (Tachi's mother) kept a fairly strong long distance relationship. In fact, on Amrik's birthday Tachi and Norbu left to visit him, much to his delight.

Whilst they weren't writing to Tachi's father, Norbu tried her damnedest to get Tachi to sit down and listen to her teachings in the hopes she will become a quiet, refined airbender one day. What she presumed to be a childish impatience when Tachi was young actually started to persevere through her early teenage years and Norbu was worried that perhaps Tachi had something wrong with her head. Eventually, with great exasperation, she gave up on teaching her daughter.

At first, Tachi celebrated not having to sit in meditation classes or read from scrolls. But after a few weeks, the severity of the situation hit her with full force and it didn't matter how many pleads she sent her mother's way, her opinion was quite firm. She watched on in jealousy as her friends started doing complex bending and Tachi was left struggling to be self-taught, and it affected her bending skills; she was slowly left behind.

Eventually, after a year of poor training, one of the Airbending masters opened up their teachings to the younger air nomads. The Airbending master in question preferred to be known as Bison, a broad-chested woman with a strict, arrogant demeanour about her. Tachi wasted no time in joining up with her friends but regretted the decision almost instantaneously, after having to preform gruelling exercises and drills in order to 'prepare the body for the power of the wind'.

Norbu grew worried for her child and retracted her earlier statement, insisting that Tachi drop the teachings and be taught from her. But Tachi felt an immense guilt for having disappointed her mother before and she persevered, her small and fragile build becoming the punchline to many jokes thrown her way by Bison, and her 'insufficient' knowledge of bending merely aggravated the large woman.

at the age of 16, four years into her training under Bison's teachings (The Air nomads are known to have started training around the ages of 4, in which their children are persuaded to begin meditation and vague understanding of the wind) Tachi suddenly and unexpectedly flourished. Apparently it was a quiet autumn night and she was re-reading through her father's most recent letter of encouragement when a breeze picked up in the air and Tachi refers to the moment afterwards as "The part where it all made sense".

Tachi put her impatience into her fighting, into her studying, and into her thoughts. Instead of trying to restrain her curious impatience and restlessness, she released it into every aspect of her life - Bison was most pleased with her progress but still made the odd jab about how short she was. Her friends were excited to see Tachi working so well under the pressure and she soon caught up with her friends in terms of skill and, in some ways, surpassed them. As a celebration (and a mockery of their strict teacher, though Bison found it amusing too and occasionally referred to Tachi as such) her friends titled her "Lemur".

The next 5 years were a difficult period. Just as Tachi blossomed in her studies, one of her friends - Mai - weakened; both emotionally and physically. She was very ill and despite all of the medical attention she received, she wasn't getting any better. After three years of encouragement, Tachi took the reins - and vanished for a good month or so. Norbu and Amrik were outraged and those who knew her searched frantically to find her.

It was Amrik who visited her in a small hovel in the Northern Water Tribe's bay. The two of them sat down and had a long chat about what Amrik presumed was Tachi running away from the responsibilities, but turned out to be Tachi was merely trying to find the Water Tribe for assistance in healing Mai. It was also Amrik who gave Tachi his air glider and taught her how to use it, and finally it was Amrik who told the Eastern Air Nomads where Tachi was, and ordered a sky bison to bring a Water Tribe healer to Mai.

Mai soon made a recovery after that and was jealous of Tachi's new glider, as were much of her friends. It is an object which she holds in high regard - and holds all of the time, it seems. Her training was performed using the Glider as a quarterstaff, but she wasn't very good at it and never got time to improve. Instead, she preferred flying around using the Glider.

The most recent continuation of Tachi's life was a somewhat ominous letter that Norbu received from Amrik about the disturbances in the other benders, how the firebenders were frequently attacking the others, how the waterbenders are hiding, the Earth 'kingdom's tyranny...Amrik sent her wife a white lotus chip, and Tachi received a set of air nomad rosaries with the white lotus engraved onto the bag of the pendulum. At the foot of the letter, it said:

"My dearest little sprite; I know, for a fact, that you will take matters into your own hands again. We are ageing, and aren't as flighty as you are. This time I will not stop you, but I will give you these simply instructions;

~Write to us. Every night, no exceptions.
~Keep your eyes and ears open.
~Keep moving. Don't stop. Never stop."

Other:
~Tachi could have Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but it's not as severe as to hamper her intelligence. Of course, in such a setting it'd be impossible to medically confirm this fact, and it's mere speculation.
~ Tachi's main equipment is her red sash/cloak, her prayer beads (With the White Lotus engraved onto the underside of her national emblem), and her air glider.
~Stitches will only ever have one good moment in the Avatar series. It's this one here.

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