Post by Ty-Lien Chueng on Jun 2, 2012 18:43:33 GMT -5
Ty-Lien Chueng
name: Ty-Lien
gender:Female
age: 18
element: None
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hair color: hair color here
eye color: Dark Brown
skin color: Fair, Porcelain
overall appearance:
Ty-Lien is five foot four late teen with short cropped black hair. Sometimes she amuses herself with trying to pull the top half into a stubby ponytail. She’s known for her soft slim face with her small round chin. With her soft features she has narrow brown eyes with thin brows and small dusky pink lips.
From her exterior she seems small and dainty porcelain figure; she doesn’t have much of a muscular solid build. Instead she’s quite lithe and lanky to some degree unless you add in the subtle feminine curves at her bust and hips.
She wears the humble fashion state of the right side buttoned down oriental top and loose pants the billows at her ankles when wearing flats or puffed up where they’re tucked into her boots. Not being into vibrant colors, she’s most likely spotted in neutral tones. blockquote]
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likes: The Arts, Meditation, Gardens, to be a bender, Pro-bending, the wilderness
dislikes: Injustice, bullying of any sort, hypocrites, being weak and inferior, vulnerable, defenseless,
sexuality: Never cared to figure it out.
overall personality:
Being raised in a humble community, Ty-Lien can hardly find room to be a conceited materialistic individual; if anything she can be just as humble and tend to become more flexible with things. With a headstrong sister, she’s used to being passive to pave over bumpy roads and just avoid too much trouble. Although many may see this as being a push-over, she doesn’t like to be pushed around and will retaliate if the odds are in her favors.
Not admiring being center of attention, she resist from acting brash and impulsive; instead she’s more silent and observant, while being a typical socializing teenager. When push comes to shove she’ll be stubborn to prove herself, especially if it’s about the abuse benders toss around to their fellow man even if they are non-benders. Actually it runs so deep, she hates the terms differentiating between the two; it cause so much more divide than anything. Then again regardless what label she gives, she knows she’d never be a bender or anything like it.
She wished everything could be a simple utopia, but that’s wishful thinking, and sometimes she wished she can live in her own fantasy of being a bender herself. So no she doesn’t hate benders, but admire their gift yet distaste their arrogance and improper-ness. When not plaguing her mind with chi-blocking techniques and how to apply it to her studies of chakras, Ty-Lien loves the art, theater, and pro-bending tournaments. Yes it may be primal and archaic but it’s a part of their culture despite how she can never enter the ring.
When it comes to her own person, Ty-Lien is her worst critic and worst enemy; no one can make her feel lower than herself. Also with her new obsession with learning how to chi-block, she can strip herself of childish liberties and interactions like going to a dance, a party, a pro-bending match, let alone be around anyone long enough to be in a relationship, or ‘find herself’.
::a past to remember[/font]
Ty-Lien was born in Republic City, but her family did originate from the Earth Kingdom, but over time migrated to the ever-growing evolving city, while some places stay close to the old culture and times of the past. With the word changing, some people needed to evolve to make ends meet.
Her household in her opinion is particularly an odd one; yes they were your typical middle-class family living in the suburbia not far from the hustle and bustle of Republic City, who makes typical sacrifices for the best of their family. What Ty-Lien found most peculiar were the people in her family. True it isn’t out of the norm for different types of benders to inter-marry even with non-benders, but it always felt off to be raised by non-bending parents, but have an earth bending sister. Growing up with her did have it rocky grounds, literally, especially when she lacked control over her emotions and earth bending.
Still one can see how her sister Jai Li was the family’s crown jewel who was placed instantly into side classes to become an efficient earth bender. No, Ty-Lien wasn’t forced into the background like any other classical tale; if anything she just slinked back to not cause much mayhem and strife for her parents. With their typical life of working to nine to five, pay the bills,
put food on the table, make sure they pay for Jai Li’s classes each month on time, and still work on being a family and couple, she didn’t want to put more pressure on their life style to exalt and sponsor her own endeavors.
Regardless her parents loved them both equally, so Ty-Lien was placed into defensive arts classes. It gave her a self-confidence boost, even if she does questions why fate decided to drop her in the shallow end of the gene pool and leave her bending-less. Also it gives her a bit of guard when roaming around the neighborhood or Republic City. Every world has their hoodlums and unfortunately in her world they can be both benders and non-benders.
In school, when children resort to childish bullying; her sister was her wall of protection. Despite how much dedication Ty-Lien puts into her martial arts, the playing field was always slanted when benders were involved. Only once in her life as a young teenager did she received to a taste of benders’ brutality.
After participating in a high school affair, Ty-Lien decided to take the bus and walk home rather than waiting an hour for her parents to pick her up.
Everything was fine until she took a shortcut in an ally only to be mugged. What much value can a mere student carry? Not knowing they were benders, she commenced to fend herself off until her foot was embedded in the ground and a force of water punched her in the gut. She had to resign once fire got involved and yielded.
Ever since then her parents wouldn’t allow Ty-Lien to roam about alone with Jai Li nearby. It would’ve been easier to resent her sister for being a bender and her new found babysit to protect her non-bending sister. But genuinely she could only blame and resent herself for her own personal weakness. Why did life have to make her a weakling? Why couldn’t she be something special…like Jia Li? There was nothing special in being inferior.
It wasn’t until one day at school did they momentarily talked about chakras and the spiritual balance of it. This could very well had been a lesson to sleep on, but it marveled Ty-Lien’s curiosity of how each chakra was associated with the flow of a specific bodily region. If one like a monk meditates to focus on his chi through his chakras, then surely that’s the basics of chi-blocking. After her little episode in the ally, Ty-Lien had been obsessively pondering in how to make herself better and become stronger; everything met a dead end since she wasn’t a bender. But what if she was a chi-blocker? That was all of the defense she needs: block their chi, slacken their bending, and then they would be even.
She wouldn’t have to think twice in being smashed, thrown about, or burned. Her new found interest became her dirty little secret. How can you tell your parents who parented your bending sister that you wanted to learn how to become a chi blocker? With such political mutterings of some equalist group, surely they would think she was an angered teenager who suppresses her jealously towards benders, which can escalate into being one of those youths who gets wrapped up in revolutions. Actually she rather not visualizes her sister’s face when making such confession. Nope, her being a chi-blocker in training would be her little secret unless you cross her the wrong way.
