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Name: JeniOctavia
Age: 26
AIM SN: jenioctavia
email: jenioctavia@gmail.com
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zuzukins
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon Format: American Animated Series
Character's Name: Sokka
Character's Age: roughly 16 by the end of the series.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. n/a
What form will your character's NV take? A mobile that looks an awful lot like an iPhone knock off with a blue case. Because failing at technology is fun!
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Sokka is a developing swordsman, adept with the Jian style of Chinese long sword (though in that world it would likely be "Fire Nation Long Sword") and constantly increasing his skill with it. His master, Piandao, insisted that Sokka could some day become a master swordsman, though he is still young and it will take time for him to achieve that level. Since he made his sword himself at Piandao's request it is safe to assume that Sokka has developed some metallurgy skills as well.
He also has skills with a Water Tribe boomerang and mace/machete, though his sword skills have quickly surpassed his previous accuracy and skill with the weapons he started out with. He is, however, innovative enough that he has been shown to take even simple every day things and items on his person and turn them in to weapons or workable items on the battle field (one example being using a magnifying glass on a "detective hat" he was wearing to focus the sun on and light the fuze of explosives on a Rough Rihno's pouch) and is not above even pitching rocks and snowballs at enemies if it helps.
As an inventor, he is on par with the Mechanist, an older gentleman who has been inventing for most of his adult life. Sokka was even creating 'guard towers' out of snow even when he was as young as twelve or thirteen. During his time with Aang he was responsible for figuring out how to make a hot air balloon rise without catching on fire and designing armored tanks and submersible water ships. He absorbs information quickly, and if given the chance could probably come up with a handful of weapons, methods and designs that would make any already well working army wonderfully efficient, not to mention what he could possibly do for any under developed nation or tribe.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Zooanthropy. Specifically, Sokka has the ability to transform in to a wolf, though only of the quadruped variety. In this form he’s unable to speak in human tongue, though he can understand anyone who speaks to him. His coloration is mostly dark brown (like his hair) with some dark gray markings.
Weapons: Jian style “Space” sword made out of black meteorite material and a Water Tribe boomerang.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Ridiculously long history is ridiculously long. Orz.
Point in Canon: Very end.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a
Character Personality:
Sokka went through a lot of changes in his personality and view of the world through out the series. He started out as almost pessimistic (he would of course argue that he was a 'realist' to Katara's optimist), slightly sexist, sarcastic, and somewhat immature. Though he tried to be the 'man' of the water tribe (being the eldest of the boys but too young to be a warrior when his father left) he had a problem with being petulant and whiny when people didn't listen to him or things didn't go his way, and arrogant when proven right. His thoughts on bending are less than impressed and even after maturing over the time he spent with Aang he still takes joking jabs at bending by making up names like "jerkbending" when referring to Fire Bending.
He's retained quite a bit of his sarcasm (really, he wouldn't be Sokka without it), but he's gotten over a lot of his prejudices that he previously held. He sees women, even non-benders, as equals if not better than him, he no longer shows hatred towards the Fire Nation and recognizes that many, if not all people under Fire Lord Ozai were simply being loyal and were not truly evil beings, though he's not quick to forgive crimes against people. He has a strong sense of righteousness, an even stronger sense of pride, especially for his tribe, and does not take well to people doing wrong by others. He wants peace just as much as the rest of his friends, but unlike Aang he is more than willing to take a fighting stance against those who need to be punished, even if he doesn't stand a chance in the battle. This is multiplied ten-fold when it comes to wrongs committed against the Water Tribe. Even away from home, his heart and duty is to his home and their sister tribes and he will fight to the death to defend them.
Sokka is clever, imaginative, creative even in the most unconventional of ways, the team's go-to "Idea Guy" and known for not only helping the Mechanist on his current projects but giving new ideas to start on. He's a strategist, a calculating warrior at heart who is more often than not the one 'in the know' about the ins and outs of whatever battle plan they've got going. What he lacks in physical strength and bending, he makes up for with knowing just how to strike hardest and do the most damage. If he were ever to take over Hakoda's place as chief of the Southern Water Tribe in his older years, it is almost guaranteed his leadership skills would have only improved, his swordsmanship would make him a formidable fighter and his ingenuity would have the warriors running smoothly and efficiently.
He is young, and he's aware of his youth, and with that awareness he's also more than aware of his own failings and weakness, but even with this he does not let failure or disappointment drag him down for long. He learns quickly from mistakes and seeks to right them in whatever method he can, even going so far as risking imprisonment to rescue his father and girlfriend. His loyalties to his friends, new and old, are strong and difficult to break and whatever happens he is always ready to fight along side his friends in battle, even when they are benders and he is not. He's often said that he "manages just fine" without bending and has only a handful of times ever shown any sort of jealousy towards those of the bending arts. Given that he's well on his way to being a master swordsman and may very well be inducted in to The Order of the White Lotus in his later years should he achieve that status, it's unlikely he'll continue to feel inferior to benders.
Sokka struggles a slight problem of self-inflicted misery. It's rarely anything bad, but his sometimes negative outlook and tenancy to be a bit of a trouble magnet does lead to some often hilarious results. A fortune teller did tell him that most of his struggling in life would be self inflicted, but at the time he was more than willing to brush her fortune telling off as nonsense. If anything he tries to make the best of and take humor out of some of the situations he winds up in, like falling in to a Haiku session on accident and learning he had a knack for poetry he wasn't previously aware of.
He can be emotional, as his ties to people are very heart felt and emotionally based, which can lead to easier heart ache than some of his more emotionally detached friends. Losing some one he cares about hurts enough to show, and he has not been above crying when the pain of a situation or the memory of it strikes him. He does, however, know that he needs to keep putting one foot in front of the other, even when it hurts, and has shown great tenacity in being able to move on and keep going with his life.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a
Character Plans: Left to his own devices, Sokka would either give in to laziness (as he did on Ember Island) or find some way to be productive with inventions or sword practice. However once he learns that his sister and Zuko are there he’d be more likely to focus his efforts on them and try to help them with the problems they’ve been having, regardless of the headaches it might give him to do so.
Appearance/PB: I have a weird obsession with him in other nation's clothing...
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[At the moment, the broadcast coming from Sokka’s NV is completely in audio, but there are buttons being pressed at random, making noises.]
I heard voices on this thi-- Hello?! Hello, can anyone hear me?! ... no... that’s... what if I do--
[Audio shuts off, and about thirty seconds later video comes on to a very, VERY close up shot of Sokka’s eye. His voice is a little distorted from the range]
What did that do... that thing is red and... can’t hear anything now...
[he pulls it back, blinking a few times and staring at it in absolute, utter confusion. He also looks rather ill, like he’s holding back the urge to throw up.]
... Hello? Uhm... hey, can... can this thing tell me where my sister is?! Or Suki! Yeah, I can’t find my girlfriend can’t find anyone really... and... uhm...
[Sokka stops, sighing heavily and looking around, dragging a hand through his loose hair.]
I’m talking to some weird looking inanimate object... forget this, maybe if I just start walking...
[after several seconds of fiddling, amazingly Sokka finds the proper ‘off’ button and the feed cuts out.]
Third Person Sample
He should have realized that it was far too quiet. He should have realized that there was an arm missing from around his waist where Suki was usually clinging to him. He should have realized right away that everything was wrong, and nothing felt right.
But the first thing he actually became aware of was the horrible, sickening twisting in his stomach and the clammy stickiness of his skin. There was a sour taste in his mouth, and his gut was threatening to make it worse.
Sokka curled tighter, wrapping his arms around his stomach and groaning.
“Suki...” he groaned, intending to bury his face in his pillow to stop the bile rising in his throat, only to realize, finally, that there was no pillow beneath his head. Just dirt. And a lot of little rocks sticking to his cheek. He sat up with a start, instantly regretting it as the dark unfamiliar world tilted around him.
“Suki... ? Katara... ?” he groaned, pressing the heels of his hands to his temples in hopes of willing away the pounding in his skull. It didn’t fade, and before long he couldn’t hold his stomach in anymore.
Luckily for him there wasn’t much to lose, but it didn’t stop him from wanting to cry at how badly it burned coming up, and how achy the rest of his body felt. A few deep breaths after had him somewhat recomposed and on his feet, though fear was beginning to replace any confusion he’d had upon first waking up.
This wasn’t his room. This wasn’t even his world. All the things that greeted him, from the fence with markings he didn’t recognize or understand to the dark night sky caused his still-churning gut to tighten in trepidation, an ominous, foreboding sense over all of it.
“Suki?! KATARA! Where are you guys?! This... this isn’t funny! This isn’t...” his voice trailed off weakly, not even an echo of his worried cries reaching his ears.
“This isn’t... a joke...”
Name: JeniOctavia
Age: 26
AIM SN: jenioctavia
email: jenioctavia@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes, several.
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull?
zuzukins Character Information
General
Canon Source: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon Format: American Animated Series
Character's Name: Sokka
Character's Age: roughly 16 by the end of the series.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. n/a
What form will your character's NV take? A mobile that looks an awful lot like an iPhone knock off with a blue case. Because failing at technology is fun!
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Sokka is a developing swordsman, adept with the Jian style of Chinese long sword (though in that world it would likely be "Fire Nation Long Sword") and constantly increasing his skill with it. His master, Piandao, insisted that Sokka could some day become a master swordsman, though he is still young and it will take time for him to achieve that level. Since he made his sword himself at Piandao's request it is safe to assume that Sokka has developed some metallurgy skills as well.
He also has skills with a Water Tribe boomerang and mace/machete, though his sword skills have quickly surpassed his previous accuracy and skill with the weapons he started out with. He is, however, innovative enough that he has been shown to take even simple every day things and items on his person and turn them in to weapons or workable items on the battle field (one example being using a magnifying glass on a "detective hat" he was wearing to focus the sun on and light the fuze of explosives on a Rough Rihno's pouch) and is not above even pitching rocks and snowballs at enemies if it helps.
As an inventor, he is on par with the Mechanist, an older gentleman who has been inventing for most of his adult life. Sokka was even creating 'guard towers' out of snow even when he was as young as twelve or thirteen. During his time with Aang he was responsible for figuring out how to make a hot air balloon rise without catching on fire and designing armored tanks and submersible water ships. He absorbs information quickly, and if given the chance could probably come up with a handful of weapons, methods and designs that would make any already well working army wonderfully efficient, not to mention what he could possibly do for any under developed nation or tribe.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Zooanthropy. Specifically, Sokka has the ability to transform in to a wolf, though only of the quadruped variety. In this form he’s unable to speak in human tongue, though he can understand anyone who speaks to him. His coloration is mostly dark brown (like his hair) with some dark gray markings.
Weapons: Jian style “Space” sword made out of black meteorite material and a Water Tribe boomerang.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Ridiculously long history is ridiculously long. Orz.
Point in Canon: Very end.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a
Character Personality:
Sokka went through a lot of changes in his personality and view of the world through out the series. He started out as almost pessimistic (he would of course argue that he was a 'realist' to Katara's optimist), slightly sexist, sarcastic, and somewhat immature. Though he tried to be the 'man' of the water tribe (being the eldest of the boys but too young to be a warrior when his father left) he had a problem with being petulant and whiny when people didn't listen to him or things didn't go his way, and arrogant when proven right. His thoughts on bending are less than impressed and even after maturing over the time he spent with Aang he still takes joking jabs at bending by making up names like "jerkbending" when referring to Fire Bending.
He's retained quite a bit of his sarcasm (really, he wouldn't be Sokka without it), but he's gotten over a lot of his prejudices that he previously held. He sees women, even non-benders, as equals if not better than him, he no longer shows hatred towards the Fire Nation and recognizes that many, if not all people under Fire Lord Ozai were simply being loyal and were not truly evil beings, though he's not quick to forgive crimes against people. He has a strong sense of righteousness, an even stronger sense of pride, especially for his tribe, and does not take well to people doing wrong by others. He wants peace just as much as the rest of his friends, but unlike Aang he is more than willing to take a fighting stance against those who need to be punished, even if he doesn't stand a chance in the battle. This is multiplied ten-fold when it comes to wrongs committed against the Water Tribe. Even away from home, his heart and duty is to his home and their sister tribes and he will fight to the death to defend them.
Sokka is clever, imaginative, creative even in the most unconventional of ways, the team's go-to "Idea Guy" and known for not only helping the Mechanist on his current projects but giving new ideas to start on. He's a strategist, a calculating warrior at heart who is more often than not the one 'in the know' about the ins and outs of whatever battle plan they've got going. What he lacks in physical strength and bending, he makes up for with knowing just how to strike hardest and do the most damage. If he were ever to take over Hakoda's place as chief of the Southern Water Tribe in his older years, it is almost guaranteed his leadership skills would have only improved, his swordsmanship would make him a formidable fighter and his ingenuity would have the warriors running smoothly and efficiently.
He is young, and he's aware of his youth, and with that awareness he's also more than aware of his own failings and weakness, but even with this he does not let failure or disappointment drag him down for long. He learns quickly from mistakes and seeks to right them in whatever method he can, even going so far as risking imprisonment to rescue his father and girlfriend. His loyalties to his friends, new and old, are strong and difficult to break and whatever happens he is always ready to fight along side his friends in battle, even when they are benders and he is not. He's often said that he "manages just fine" without bending and has only a handful of times ever shown any sort of jealousy towards those of the bending arts. Given that he's well on his way to being a master swordsman and may very well be inducted in to The Order of the White Lotus in his later years should he achieve that status, it's unlikely he'll continue to feel inferior to benders.
Sokka struggles a slight problem of self-inflicted misery. It's rarely anything bad, but his sometimes negative outlook and tenancy to be a bit of a trouble magnet does lead to some often hilarious results. A fortune teller did tell him that most of his struggling in life would be self inflicted, but at the time he was more than willing to brush her fortune telling off as nonsense. If anything he tries to make the best of and take humor out of some of the situations he winds up in, like falling in to a Haiku session on accident and learning he had a knack for poetry he wasn't previously aware of.
He can be emotional, as his ties to people are very heart felt and emotionally based, which can lead to easier heart ache than some of his more emotionally detached friends. Losing some one he cares about hurts enough to show, and he has not been above crying when the pain of a situation or the memory of it strikes him. He does, however, know that he needs to keep putting one foot in front of the other, even when it hurts, and has shown great tenacity in being able to move on and keep going with his life.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a
Character Plans: Left to his own devices, Sokka would either give in to laziness (as he did on Ember Island) or find some way to be productive with inventions or sword practice. However once he learns that his sister and Zuko are there he’d be more likely to focus his efforts on them and try to help them with the problems they’ve been having, regardless of the headaches it might give him to do so.
Appearance/PB: I have a weird obsession with him in other nation's clothing...
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[At the moment, the broadcast coming from Sokka’s NV is completely in audio, but there are buttons being pressed at random, making noises.]
I heard voices on this thi-- Hello?! Hello, can anyone hear me?! ... no... that’s... what if I do--
[Audio shuts off, and about thirty seconds later video comes on to a very, VERY close up shot of Sokka’s eye. His voice is a little distorted from the range]
What did that do... that thing is red and... can’t hear anything now...
[he pulls it back, blinking a few times and staring at it in absolute, utter confusion. He also looks rather ill, like he’s holding back the urge to throw up.]
... Hello? Uhm... hey, can... can this thing tell me where my sister is?! Or Suki! Yeah, I can’t find my girlfriend can’t find anyone really... and... uhm...
[Sokka stops, sighing heavily and looking around, dragging a hand through his loose hair.]
I’m talking to some weird looking inanimate object... forget this, maybe if I just start walking...
[after several seconds of fiddling, amazingly Sokka finds the proper ‘off’ button and the feed cuts out.]
Third Person Sample
He should have realized that it was far too quiet. He should have realized that there was an arm missing from around his waist where Suki was usually clinging to him. He should have realized right away that everything was wrong, and nothing felt right.
But the first thing he actually became aware of was the horrible, sickening twisting in his stomach and the clammy stickiness of his skin. There was a sour taste in his mouth, and his gut was threatening to make it worse.
Sokka curled tighter, wrapping his arms around his stomach and groaning.
“Suki...” he groaned, intending to bury his face in his pillow to stop the bile rising in his throat, only to realize, finally, that there was no pillow beneath his head. Just dirt. And a lot of little rocks sticking to his cheek. He sat up with a start, instantly regretting it as the dark unfamiliar world tilted around him.
“Suki... ? Katara... ?” he groaned, pressing the heels of his hands to his temples in hopes of willing away the pounding in his skull. It didn’t fade, and before long he couldn’t hold his stomach in anymore.
Luckily for him there wasn’t much to lose, but it didn’t stop him from wanting to cry at how badly it burned coming up, and how achy the rest of his body felt. A few deep breaths after had him somewhat recomposed and on his feet, though fear was beginning to replace any confusion he’d had upon first waking up.
This wasn’t his room. This wasn’t even his world. All the things that greeted him, from the fence with markings he didn’t recognize or understand to the dark night sky caused his still-churning gut to tighten in trepidation, an ominous, foreboding sense over all of it.
“Suki?! KATARA! Where are you guys?! This... this isn’t funny! This isn’t...” his voice trailed off weakly, not even an echo of his worried cries reaching his ears.
“This isn’t... a joke...”
