Kibu-Shi(Earth Bending)
Profile
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Name- Kibu-Shi, shortened as Kibu
Age- 33
Height- 5'11"
Weight- 165
Weapon/Bending- He is a competent earthbender and carries a kali stick that doubles as a cane. Kali Stick-It's basically like this. It's made out of Kamagong, a type of ebony wood that is comparable to iron and is capped with silver on both ends, one of which is a ball to use as a grip when walking. His earthbending styIe could be described as minimalistic, because he prefers to trip, confuse, and disarm with earthbending, instead of crushing or knocking people out. He's more apt to run than fight a group of people. His real forte is the kali stick, if he gets close enough to strike with it, he usually wins. Even if he's been disarmed, he is still formidable, and uses earthbending in clever ways to turn the tide of a fight.
Occupation- Thief
^Is almost perfect, but he has no poofy things on his gi top, and the pants should be a little looser. He leaves his gi untied and doesn't wear anything under it. He has a shoulder bag containing tools, food, and other various items that also has loops on the back strap to hold his cane when its not being used. The rest should explain itself.
Personality- He is carefree and loose, but he can change in an instant if confronted. He can be very smooth and often uses this to have sex with random women he finds in bars or brothels or street corners or anywhere they are. (he'll die young of syphilis...) Besides these shortcomings, he is a unshakable friend and would go far to make sure that his friends are taken care of. He is always likable, even by the women he stands up, he always lets them down gently and often keeps contact with them afterward.
History- He was born in the Southern Earth Kingdom to a local politician and his wife. He grew up like any other earthbender child, going to bending schools and using it for pranks. Life was good and happy for much of his life. Then, when he was 11, his mother died and his father sent him away to live with an old friend of the family that same day. He waited for weeks with the old man, sure that his father would come get him again, but he never saw him again, and he later learned that foul play was suspected in his mother's death. The man he had been sent to live with was in fact a great Kali master whose skill was famous in the province. With nothing else left for Kibu, and because he felt sorry for him, the man, Tatsu-Shi, took Kibu as an apprentice to keep his mind off it. Seven years later, Tatsu declared that Kibu was a full master, and that only time could make him better. Tatsu presented Kibu with an ancestral Kali Stick and sent him on his way.
Kibu set out looking for fame and fortune and eventually found it in Omashu, when he tried out for an Earthball team (Iroh's Tale, ToBSS). Earthball was played with 5 people on each team and he was immediately recognized as a star because of his training as a fast and light earthbender by Tatsu. He played Earthball for two years, accruing a small measure of fame. Then, in a match against Ba Sing Se's team a jealous opponent deliberately struck him in the right knee with a boulder. It was a legal hit, if just a little harder than is allowed, and Kibu was pulled from the game. His pride wouldn't let that stand however, and, ignoring the team physician, he got back into the game with the intent to do the same to the other man. This proved to be his greatest fault, because as soon as he tried to kick a boulder at the man, his fractured kneecap shattered and broke away from the rest of the bones and he was crippled.
Now, thirteen years later and long since getting an experimental stone knee replacement from a close friend of Tatsu, Kibu lives as a thief, walks with a cane, and drinks heavily most of the time. When asked, he claims the alcohol is just a little vice, but he's really trying to temper the pain in his knee. he even keeps a flask with him in his bag for when he's not close to a tavern. He hides his knee as best he can, walking without the cane most of the time and passing it off as merely a weapon when asked about it. His master's old kali stick is what now serves part time as a cane. He has risen to fame as a thief also, drowning his past career in a wave of heists that were deemed impossible. His natural speed serves him differently now and he'll walk down one side of a street and up another, coming out with his bag full. For fun. He likes challenges and takes contracts from various crime lords in Ba Sing Se for "unattainable" items so he can stay interested. His personal projects are usually easier and for more direct profits. He has a home outside the city underground in the ruins of old Ba Sing Se and uses tunnels dug from the sewers to get past the wall if needed. Currently, he is planning a job on a government official's home in the upper ring.
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End profile. More tomorrow. Comment if you want.
P.S. This storyline has a lot, a LOT, of sex. And drugs and alcohol and such. Be glad that I can't write erotica, because you'd all have to read "stuff". A lot of "stuff".