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backbends ([personal profile] backbends) wrote2014-09-27 09:35 pm
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OOC Information

Player: Amanda
Age: 28
Characters: n/a
Contact: [plurk.com profile] battlepanties

IC Information

Name: Ty Lee
Age: 14
Canon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon Point: The Beach (Book 3, Episode 5)
Physical Description:1 2 3

Ty Lee’s general appearance is that of a young woman with long brown hair and big, round brown eyes, usually accompanied with a grin. As a girl constantly on the move, Ty Lee chooses to keep her long hair in a high braid at the top of her head rather than wearing it down and in the way. It is very rare to see Ty Lee in colors that do not the deep reds and pinks of the Fire Nation. Even rarer is to see her in an outfit that covers her midriff. As an acrobat, all her outfits are fairly easy to move in yet still show that she is stylish and actually cares for things like fashion.

Possessions: Ty Lee will be pulled from the spirit world with nothing but the very clothes on her back.

Personality:

Generally, Ty Lee is incredibly perky and optimistic, always looking on the brighter side of things. She’s the kind of girl that can go on and on about dinosaur kittens, rainbows and the color pink until you want to gag yourself with a rusty spoon. To make matters worse, she's pretty much a "hippie" of her time, though somehow without being too airheaded or mellow (most of the time). She’s the kind that would tell you to take deep breaths at the worst of times and point out that your aura is of a terrible color when you’re already quite aware you’re in a bad mood.

Born to a high status family of the Fire Nation, Ty Lee lived a rather sheltered life. While this had a lot of perks, there was one massive downside to her family life. That is to say she was born the youngest of seven, all daughters that look exactly like her. For Ty Lee, it was incredibly tough being a part of a matched set rather than an individual. Because of this, at a young age she picked up acrobatics, causing her to stand out rather than blend in with the rest of her sisters. If you stood on your hands and did backbends, people would notice you and that’s exactly what the perky teenager wants. In fact, she loved it so much that she up and joined the circus, something she claimed had never made her happier; her “calling”, even.

Thanks to the status of her family, Ty Lee was privileged enough to become childhood friends with their nation’s princess as well as another girl of wealthy status of about the same age. Even at a young age the princess was a bully, yet even when she pushed Ty Lee down because she was better than her, the young girl took it with a shrug. To Ty Lee, the mean tendencies of her friend weren’t that big of a deal, not to mention it was better to keep one’s mouth closed around the princess than make her cross. However, Ty Lee’s relationship with Azula could be seen as both a blessing and a curse. When Azula decided that she would hunt down The Avatar in spite of her brother, Ty Lee was the first person she sought out to join her.

When asked, Ty Lee politely declined the princess’s request to join her. How could she possibly leave something she loved so much? She later claims that while the circus was her calling, “Azula called a little louder” That is, Azula needed her more and in order to get her to join her, the princess resorted to scare tactics. And it worked. After Ty Lee’s decline, Azula requested a private performance of the circus, demanding one thing after another to frighten Ty Lee in to joining her side. After a performance in which Ty Lee’s net had been caught on fire and all the circus’s rare, dangerous beasts had been released below her, it came as a little hard to say no to the princess’s demands. After the show in Ty Lee’s dressing room the acrobat calmly told the princess that it was time for her to leave the circus and join her, never once letting on to the fact that she had actually been frightened.

In general when it comes to Azula, Ty Lee does what she requests without second thought. Often times it seems as if the princess can do no wrong. To Ty Lee, Azula is pretty and perfect and clearly flattery gets her everywhere. It’s often because of this that to her “foes”, Ty Lee comes off as the brainless minion. While in some ways that’s true, there’s really much more to her than that. In battle she is incredibly fierce, using her knowledge of pressure points as well as acrobatic techniques to her full advantage. However, while not someone to take lightly, when fighting it’s almost as if Ty Lee often appears as if it’s fun to her. While her companions take on a more serious side of a battle, Ty Lee makes it look easy. It’s also necessary to point out that the bubbly girl doesn’t hate even those considered her foes, as if the word “hate” isn’t even in her dictionary. Despite being on the “enemy” side, she still manages to gain a small crush on Sokka and even later in the series she becomes friends with the Kiyoshi Warriors, a group of female fighters the dream trio fought and afterwards stole their clothing in order to successfully sneak in to the Earth Nation’s main city.

Ty Lee is very much your average teenage girl, worrying about things like the perfect complexion and boys to the point where at times she comes off a bit shallow. Where she loves attention on the stage, she loves it from boys even more. In the episode “The Beach” Ty Lee along with Azula, May and Zuko go on a vacation. While at the beach Ty Lee gains immediate attention from several boys, leading them all on without the realization of what she’s doing, all while basking in the attention. It’s later at a party the girl has to use her skills to get rid of them. Yet it’s that same night Ty Lee shows she’s not all happy fluffy bunnies. When Azula calls her a tease she bursts out crying and later on the beach with the others she retorts and gets serious when Zuko calls her a “circus freak”. Speaking from the heart, she reveals for the first time in front of the others that she likes being a “circus freak” because of her family life and the attention it gets her.

History: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Ty_Lee

Sample: 1 2 3

Nationality: Fire Nation
Bending: does backbending count? :D
Subset: none