Post by Xiong Fang on Jun 15, 2012 17:31:48 GMT -5
Xiong Fang
Name: Xiong Fang
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Element: Fire, Lightning
::looking pretty good
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Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Tanned
Overall Appearance: Rather tall, calm, serene, and approachable, long white unadorned robes. His hair is shaved save for the rear which tapers into a long braid. Muscular build developed over a life of combat and disipline. Several scars across chest received during training bouts with his father. Xiong's stature reflects his strife as a warrior and now as he shifts to a more monastic life of learning.
::what I'm thinking
Likes: Honor, knowledge, and skill.
Dislikes: Industry, modernization, lack of disipline in bending.
Sexuality: Straight
Personality: Xiong holds himself to a strict warrior ethos, which dictates his being completely. His code of honor, skill, spirituality, and control is what drives him to constantly improve himself. Xiong is slow to anger or to many emotions, he finds than when not in strict moderation they will quickly bring about your own destruction, whether internal or external. Xiong has extreme pride, refusing to ever retreat from an adversary. He has very few friendships but holds those he has to be extremely important. Prefers to live his life in the old ways, believing the modernization is bringing a strong negative shift in the spiritual balance. Xiong's main goal in his existance is to achieve spiritual enlightenment like the warriors of old and to pass down this knowledge to others. Only through true enlightenment, he believes can one gain true mastery of their element and themselves.
::a past to remember
Xiong was born in the luscious mountain village of Shu Jing, his father, Li Tao, was a military man of some renown if not but to their small village. He was even awarded service to the Fire Lord, himself, among his elite Royal Procession. Li was know less for his skill as a firebender though as he was for his mastery of the blade. This appointment would lead Li Tao into a chance meeting with Xiong's mother, Mei Ling, at a gala being held in the Royal Palace.
Mei was 19 at the time, a skilled firebender, and to Li, who hailed from such a small hamlet, was shear beauty defined. Adorned with such soft porcelain features and quick wit, she found herself often being the object of a noble quest for matrimony. Mei wouldn't be impeded, she fancied herself like the skylark soaring without shackle, her melody filling the firmament. Her untamable nature only supplemented Li's yearning. He knew that she was beyond simple conquering so he goaded her into a testing bout, her fierce unrelenting blows, magnificent jets of azure and scarlet raged against his unfettering dexterity of the sword. Blade, blow, and flame echoed throughout the night, only with dawn's light came the end of this test. The two warriors, exhausted, bruised, slashed, and burned found in battle the revelation of their mutual love and adoration.
From these loins sprouted Xiong. His early life was well balanced in both training from his parents and childhood revelry. He was even then remarkably serene his parents would often joke that he had to have been an Air Nomad in a past life. This demeanor would lead him to at the age of 14, against his parents' protests, to forgo social and recreational activities and dedicate himself completely to instruction. This led to upon the age of 20 with Xiong mastering firebending, although he believes an elements true mastery takes a lifetime if even then, as well gaining masterful handling of the blade.
Xiong then left the beautiful mountains of his youth to travel the four nations seeking knowledge of the other elements believing deeply in the intertwining of each element. He first traveled through the Earth Kingdom learning the way of the tiger and the crane. Xiong was instructed by several earthbending masters, 2 of which he had to best in personal combat for there impartment of knowledge. But over the next 5 years he would drink in all he could. Learning the need of constant persistence, to be supple and to endure the storm. Xiong set his sights south, spending the next 6 years of his life among the southern water tribe. In study of the element of change Xiong found the strength in its grace applying it to his own firebending style greater than what he learned of earthbending. Although both elements imparted him with greater knowledge of defense allowing him to augment his own element which is primarily offensive in itself. Xiong came to deeply esteem the watertribe and their dedication to balance.
Xiong, now 30, seeks what he believes to be the key to all elemental bending, peace. He's just recently arrived in Republic City to obtain direction from the last remaining airbending master and his acolytes. To meditate with those who seek peace and freedom in all things, and to find an apprentice to impart this instruction.
