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IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Katara
Character journal: watermarks
Series name: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon notes: Taken from just after The Puppet Master in canon + 4 years of Luceti history
Species: Human
History: Canon: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Katara
Previous Game History:
Katara has been in luceti for about four years. During this time, she’s naturally gone through some significant changes, but I’ll try to stick to the main points. Please let me know if more detail is needed because I know this is… a lot >>;
Physically:
Four years of a steady diet involving a ton of non-meat products have helped up Katara’s height to a solid 5’5 (probably about an inch above canon regular). Due to Luceti’s power cap and the fact that her bending could be taken away at any moment, Katara started training with a bo from practically her fourth month there. This has resulted in increased upper arm strength and calloused hands. In the past four months, Toph was returned from the Malnosso scientists with her bending taken away but with the uncanny ability to sense metal. Since the Gaang was drafted soon after that and Toph’s ability to see depended on how much metal a person was wearing, Katara went to one of her best friends in Luceti and asked for – and received – pierced ears. She now has two tiny silver birds in her ears, a gift and memento of this time. Other significant pieces that she always carries with her remain, of course, her mother’s necklace, but now also include a knife that Sokka made for her with the Water Tribe insignia on it and a glass armband which contains a small amount of water. She also received some Spirit Water as a “Christmas present” from the Malnosso three years ago and always makes sure to carry that inside her tunic, just in case. (I get that she won’t be able to bring the knife or probably the spirit water with her.)
…also notably, her balance has now adjusted to the small wings on the back that are the characteristics of the inhabitants of Luceti. Their removal upon entrance to the Fleet will cause her some initial difficulty with her normal balance and poise. A further mark of her interrupted stay there would be the barcode tattoo on the back of her neck – this tattoo is implemented by the scientists controlling Luceti and not the planet itself, like the wings. If she had been returned home, it would have simply disappeared along with her two years of growth as she reappeared exactly when she was taken from; taken to a new place as she is, the shift would not have removed it and so it remains unsightly evidence of her experiences.
Mentally:
In the traditional sense, the most significant factor in Katara’s mental progress has been that for the past two and a half years or so she’s been going to an actual school. She’s had math and art and science and writing lessons, and is an eager participant in “world sharing” – their version of a history class. She began to cut down those lessons about two years ago, though, attending only what she thought was most relevant, so that she could attend medicine lessons with Trafalgar Law of the One Piece canon. He’s been satisfied enough with her progress to give her her own set of apprentice surgical tools and allow her to assist in surgeries.
In ways that relate to her personality… Katara has had a culmination of moral crises which has set her on the track to a more mature mindset. The first crisis was when a friend of hers offered to teach Azula how to cook and was firm in his resolve to do so even after Katara explained that Azula was her enemy. This very nearly ended their friendship, and it is only through the intervention of a mutual friend explaining Sanji’s strange chivalrous nature that Katara agreed to talk with him again and see if this was something which could be overcome. In the course of that conversation, Sanji revealed the fact that he had nearly starved to death as a child and the sacrifices someone had made so that he wouldn’t, and thus his resolve to make sure that anyone around him was fed, always. Katara could respect that, and their friendship was mended. The second significant crisis was when a friend of hers revealed that he was a king who had abandoned his country and countenanced the ‘throwing away’ of the son who now lived with and adored him. This destroyed their friendship, but the fact that the son had so obviously forgiven his father left Katara with a cognitive dissonance. The third significant crisis occurred when Katara was forced to confront the nature of the ninja village where her good friends Shikamaru and Chouji came from after she was told why exactly Itachi had slaughtered his clan. She already had some issues with the powers that the ninja of Konoha have – Shikamaru’s ability to take over someone else’s body, Ino’s ability to invade someone’s mind – but learning that the village actually ordered something like this to be done nearly destroyed her understanding of what needed to be done. Additionally learning that Shikamaru knew this and was keeping it from all of his friends… Katara’s conscience cried out that she shout out the truth and then cut off her friendship with Shikamaru and Chouji. But at the same time Katara considered them good people and among her best friends… she was even sort of ‘dating’ Chouji… and then when Chouji returned home the only one among the Naruto ninja who she felt she owed this truth to more than anything else was gone. So she agreed to keep Konoha’s secret for Shikamaru and they remain friends despite the actions of his village.
So Katara slowly but surely learned to distinguish the color “gray,” which came in very handy when, about a year ago, her two granddaughters showed up in Luceti. Considering the fact that Katara was from a time period where she and Aang were not together, and the fact that he had only recently arrived in Luceti, and she was now much older very different than he remembered led to them being close friends, but not together either. Hearing her entire future set out before her made her feel trapped and depressed, and though she took on the care of her granddaughters, she had to think of them like ‘two little kids from my world’, and not as the product of a relationship that she hadn’t even decided if she wanted yet. But she loved them - of course she loved them, they were eminently lovable, and they were family, and they were terrified of Amon, terrified of losing their bending. When Katara had a conversation with Tarlock and learned the truth, that Amon was taking away bending with a precise application of bloodbending, she felt she had no other option but to try to learn how to bloodbend as well. She hates bloodbending, everything inside her recoils against it, but she used it in the past to save her life and Aang’s life, and in canon later uses it as an instrument of revenge against the man she initially believed to have murdered her mother, and once in Luceti used it on a draft in order to save her life as well. She’s been surrounded by ninjas who have far more disturbing, or equally disturbing abilities, and she knows they remain good people. She still hates bloodbending, but after three years of being helpless while Luceti has eaten away at the people she loved, if there was something she could do to prepare, something she could do to promise her grandchildren that they will be safe from a single fear, something that she could do to help... even though she hated it, Katara believed she had no choice. So she has been practicing with Shikamaru, only using it on him, essentially, to try to sense where he is in daylight. With the power cap, and about a year of inconsistent practice, she hasn’t managed it yet, though she felt she was growing closer before she was taken to the fleet. This is something she would have to continue to work on doing here, and without a willing volunteer, I doubt she’d continue to do so, but it’s really significant in terms of her mental state. Luceti broke her down in a number of ways, and each time she built back up, she changed a little.
Emotionally:
Luceti is not so much a horror game is it is filled with relationship oriented drama and Katara has been through the wringer. The appearance and disappearance of two Aangs, three Tophs, and then three Zukos along with losing – and never seeing again, or at least with their memories – people who she had come to truly love has left her knowing her share of grief. Luceti has made her fall in love with enemies and near-strangers, exposed her to drafts where she has had to kill, kidnapped her and experimented on her, forced her into certain knowledge of a future she had not decided upon, and had her watch, powerlessly, again and again, as those she loved were either hurt or taken from her completely.
Katara has also been surrounded by shounen heroes and heroines… and they have all still been unable to get out of the enforced enclosure which is Luceti. Being around all these incredibly superpowered and incredibly beautiful people – some of the boys look more girly than she does – has had a detrimental effect to her self-esteem. She’s struggled for some time now to find out what her worth is if she can’t make a difference by the standard of things that matter in her world – Luceti even has foods that you can instantly make! All new clothes for you to walk in and just pick up! -- or the standard of other people’s worlds: she isn’t incredibly beautiful, she can’t just wave her hands and make a forcefield, she’s had to work hard for all of her skill and there are still people in Luceti who can make her power seem paltry. She doesn’t talk about this, but the various love experiments and the fact that anyone who has seemed interested in her has ‘gone home’ or only been the result of Malnosso meddling has been a hit. Worse, after this low self-esteem, someone who she thought was a friend revealed that he loved her at the same time Aang told her that they were dating back home. Torn between two people she loved, but not in the way they wanted her to love them, on top of everything else, not being able to rely on her own heart drove Katara into a pretty deep depression. In fact, it was her decision to be able to do something about her granddaughter’s fear and do what she could to pursue her own happiness that started to shake her out of it. Living, day by day, with what she has and who she cares about, watching and waiting and maintaining hope, that was her choice. It wasn’t easy, but it was starting to get better.
Skills:
With all of your basic needs provided for you and a collection of eccentric and skilled individuals, Luceti is a great place for those who care to learn about things to learn about things. And Katara has!
- She’s had more than ample opportunity to practice her own unique brand of healing, unfortunately, and has gotten quite good at using it along with Nala, Luceti’s healing spirit. (Her skills with Nala will obviously not translate anywhere else)
- She’s learned how to play a musical instrument! The koto to be precise.
- She’s learned basic elements of combat with a knife
- She’s become a skilled combatant with the bo.
- She's learned basic botany (what is good and what it is good for and what is not good) from Ginko.
- And she’s had training in medicine from One Piece doctors: about eight months from Chopper and two years from Trafalgar Law, respectively. She’s about at the place where she knows how to make basic medicines, is familiar with a bunch of maladies, and has completed the educational phase of her surgical training. She has yet to actually ever operate on anybody independently and doesn’t really like to talk about it. The fact that she couldn’t stop someone from getting hurt and instead has to concentrate on patching them up afterwards is a constant grain in her soul.
Personality:
As so often happens, the two most formative events of Katara’s life were completely beyond her control: She was born a waterbender, the last of her tribe, and her mother was murdered by the Fire Nation. This had the effect of making her both independent and vulnerable, her identity is intimately joined with her skills as a waterbender and the responsibility and love she feels towards her family – and the sadness she feels about her mother’s death. This sense of responsibility is something that affects everything about her.
Katara doesn’t always like being the responsible, mature one. She wants to be thought of as fun, she wants to be able to kick back and be irresponsible… but someone needs to mend those socks. And if it’s a choice between being thought of as fun or making sure that the ones she cares about are happy and safe and doing what’s right – well, then she’d rather be the one that everyone comes to instead.
There are some ways in which she is very grown up – she’s cared for her brother (a full time job, let me tell you), traveled the world, fought against soldiers and princes… and there are some ways that she is still very much a young girl. She’ll go penguin sledding, she’ll blush when a cute guy gets too close… and most importantly, she’ll dream, and she’ll hope.
It’s her capacity for hope that is one of her most defining characteristics. It is her hope in the Avatar that prompts her and Sokka to go with Aang on his journey, even though for all intents and purposes, Aang looked just like a 12 year old boy. And it’s that same ability to hope that makes her want to consistently reach out and encourage everyone around her towards doing what she thinks is the right thing.
In most cases, Katara is polite to strangers, almost to a fault. She’s very concerned with the proper rules for behavior and wants to do the right thing. She can be naïve when it comes to trusting people that she has just met. On the other hand, she also has a temper, has inherited the family trait for sarcasm – at least to family – and has tendency to believe that her way is the right way.
Once she gets going, Katara has no off switch. When she has decided on a cause, absolutely nothing will hold her back from pursuing it, even if it’s dangerous or impossible or risks something else she finds important. This is demonstrated time and time again, but a particularly stunning example is when she risks the Avatar’s training because she will not apologize to the waterbending master who refuses to teach her merely because she is a girl. Instead, she challenges him to a duel, fighting for her right to be treated equally, even at the risk of her ultimate goal.
Abilities: Katara is a master waterbender, with the ability to manipulate water by making it move and changing it from water, to ice, to mist. She is also a bloodbender, a waterbender who is strong enough to control the blood inside of someone, but Katara is currently only able to do this during certain cycles of the moon. Katara is also a member of a people group that had to survive off the land, so she knows the basics in dressing and cooking game, leatherwork, sewing, and has some skill in tracking/hunting, but a lot, honestly.
Augment Skillset: ...cook, initially, I believe. Yes. Cook.
Sample:
Character name: Katara
Character journal: watermarks
Series name: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon notes: Taken from just after The Puppet Master in canon + 4 years of Luceti history
Species: Human
History: Canon: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Katara
Previous Game History:
Katara has been in luceti for about four years. During this time, she’s naturally gone through some significant changes, but I’ll try to stick to the main points. Please let me know if more detail is needed because I know this is… a lot >>;
Physically:
Four years of a steady diet involving a ton of non-meat products have helped up Katara’s height to a solid 5’5 (probably about an inch above canon regular). Due to Luceti’s power cap and the fact that her bending could be taken away at any moment, Katara started training with a bo from practically her fourth month there. This has resulted in increased upper arm strength and calloused hands. In the past four months, Toph was returned from the Malnosso scientists with her bending taken away but with the uncanny ability to sense metal. Since the Gaang was drafted soon after that and Toph’s ability to see depended on how much metal a person was wearing, Katara went to one of her best friends in Luceti and asked for – and received – pierced ears. She now has two tiny silver birds in her ears, a gift and memento of this time. Other significant pieces that she always carries with her remain, of course, her mother’s necklace, but now also include a knife that Sokka made for her with the Water Tribe insignia on it and a glass armband which contains a small amount of water. She also received some Spirit Water as a “Christmas present” from the Malnosso three years ago and always makes sure to carry that inside her tunic, just in case. (I get that she won’t be able to bring the knife or probably the spirit water with her.)
…also notably, her balance has now adjusted to the small wings on the back that are the characteristics of the inhabitants of Luceti. Their removal upon entrance to the Fleet will cause her some initial difficulty with her normal balance and poise. A further mark of her interrupted stay there would be the barcode tattoo on the back of her neck – this tattoo is implemented by the scientists controlling Luceti and not the planet itself, like the wings. If she had been returned home, it would have simply disappeared along with her two years of growth as she reappeared exactly when she was taken from; taken to a new place as she is, the shift would not have removed it and so it remains unsightly evidence of her experiences.
Mentally:
In the traditional sense, the most significant factor in Katara’s mental progress has been that for the past two and a half years or so she’s been going to an actual school. She’s had math and art and science and writing lessons, and is an eager participant in “world sharing” – their version of a history class. She began to cut down those lessons about two years ago, though, attending only what she thought was most relevant, so that she could attend medicine lessons with Trafalgar Law of the One Piece canon. He’s been satisfied enough with her progress to give her her own set of apprentice surgical tools and allow her to assist in surgeries.
In ways that relate to her personality… Katara has had a culmination of moral crises which has set her on the track to a more mature mindset. The first crisis was when a friend of hers offered to teach Azula how to cook and was firm in his resolve to do so even after Katara explained that Azula was her enemy. This very nearly ended their friendship, and it is only through the intervention of a mutual friend explaining Sanji’s strange chivalrous nature that Katara agreed to talk with him again and see if this was something which could be overcome. In the course of that conversation, Sanji revealed the fact that he had nearly starved to death as a child and the sacrifices someone had made so that he wouldn’t, and thus his resolve to make sure that anyone around him was fed, always. Katara could respect that, and their friendship was mended. The second significant crisis was when a friend of hers revealed that he was a king who had abandoned his country and countenanced the ‘throwing away’ of the son who now lived with and adored him. This destroyed their friendship, but the fact that the son had so obviously forgiven his father left Katara with a cognitive dissonance. The third significant crisis occurred when Katara was forced to confront the nature of the ninja village where her good friends Shikamaru and Chouji came from after she was told why exactly Itachi had slaughtered his clan. She already had some issues with the powers that the ninja of Konoha have – Shikamaru’s ability to take over someone else’s body, Ino’s ability to invade someone’s mind – but learning that the village actually ordered something like this to be done nearly destroyed her understanding of what needed to be done. Additionally learning that Shikamaru knew this and was keeping it from all of his friends… Katara’s conscience cried out that she shout out the truth and then cut off her friendship with Shikamaru and Chouji. But at the same time Katara considered them good people and among her best friends… she was even sort of ‘dating’ Chouji… and then when Chouji returned home the only one among the Naruto ninja who she felt she owed this truth to more than anything else was gone. So she agreed to keep Konoha’s secret for Shikamaru and they remain friends despite the actions of his village.
So Katara slowly but surely learned to distinguish the color “gray,” which came in very handy when, about a year ago, her two granddaughters showed up in Luceti. Considering the fact that Katara was from a time period where she and Aang were not together, and the fact that he had only recently arrived in Luceti, and she was now much older very different than he remembered led to them being close friends, but not together either. Hearing her entire future set out before her made her feel trapped and depressed, and though she took on the care of her granddaughters, she had to think of them like ‘two little kids from my world’, and not as the product of a relationship that she hadn’t even decided if she wanted yet. But she loved them - of course she loved them, they were eminently lovable, and they were family, and they were terrified of Amon, terrified of losing their bending. When Katara had a conversation with Tarlock and learned the truth, that Amon was taking away bending with a precise application of bloodbending, she felt she had no other option but to try to learn how to bloodbend as well. She hates bloodbending, everything inside her recoils against it, but she used it in the past to save her life and Aang’s life, and in canon later uses it as an instrument of revenge against the man she initially believed to have murdered her mother, and once in Luceti used it on a draft in order to save her life as well. She’s been surrounded by ninjas who have far more disturbing, or equally disturbing abilities, and she knows they remain good people. She still hates bloodbending, but after three years of being helpless while Luceti has eaten away at the people she loved, if there was something she could do to prepare, something she could do to promise her grandchildren that they will be safe from a single fear, something that she could do to help... even though she hated it, Katara believed she had no choice. So she has been practicing with Shikamaru, only using it on him, essentially, to try to sense where he is in daylight. With the power cap, and about a year of inconsistent practice, she hasn’t managed it yet, though she felt she was growing closer before she was taken to the fleet. This is something she would have to continue to work on doing here, and without a willing volunteer, I doubt she’d continue to do so, but it’s really significant in terms of her mental state. Luceti broke her down in a number of ways, and each time she built back up, she changed a little.
Emotionally:
Luceti is not so much a horror game is it is filled with relationship oriented drama and Katara has been through the wringer. The appearance and disappearance of two Aangs, three Tophs, and then three Zukos along with losing – and never seeing again, or at least with their memories – people who she had come to truly love has left her knowing her share of grief. Luceti has made her fall in love with enemies and near-strangers, exposed her to drafts where she has had to kill, kidnapped her and experimented on her, forced her into certain knowledge of a future she had not decided upon, and had her watch, powerlessly, again and again, as those she loved were either hurt or taken from her completely.
Katara has also been surrounded by shounen heroes and heroines… and they have all still been unable to get out of the enforced enclosure which is Luceti. Being around all these incredibly superpowered and incredibly beautiful people – some of the boys look more girly than she does – has had a detrimental effect to her self-esteem. She’s struggled for some time now to find out what her worth is if she can’t make a difference by the standard of things that matter in her world – Luceti even has foods that you can instantly make! All new clothes for you to walk in and just pick up! -- or the standard of other people’s worlds: she isn’t incredibly beautiful, she can’t just wave her hands and make a forcefield, she’s had to work hard for all of her skill and there are still people in Luceti who can make her power seem paltry. She doesn’t talk about this, but the various love experiments and the fact that anyone who has seemed interested in her has ‘gone home’ or only been the result of Malnosso meddling has been a hit. Worse, after this low self-esteem, someone who she thought was a friend revealed that he loved her at the same time Aang told her that they were dating back home. Torn between two people she loved, but not in the way they wanted her to love them, on top of everything else, not being able to rely on her own heart drove Katara into a pretty deep depression. In fact, it was her decision to be able to do something about her granddaughter’s fear and do what she could to pursue her own happiness that started to shake her out of it. Living, day by day, with what she has and who she cares about, watching and waiting and maintaining hope, that was her choice. It wasn’t easy, but it was starting to get better.
Skills:
With all of your basic needs provided for you and a collection of eccentric and skilled individuals, Luceti is a great place for those who care to learn about things to learn about things. And Katara has!
- She’s had more than ample opportunity to practice her own unique brand of healing, unfortunately, and has gotten quite good at using it along with Nala, Luceti’s healing spirit. (Her skills with Nala will obviously not translate anywhere else)
- She’s learned how to play a musical instrument! The koto to be precise.
- She’s learned basic elements of combat with a knife
- She’s become a skilled combatant with the bo.
- She's learned basic botany (what is good and what it is good for and what is not good) from Ginko.
- And she’s had training in medicine from One Piece doctors: about eight months from Chopper and two years from Trafalgar Law, respectively. She’s about at the place where she knows how to make basic medicines, is familiar with a bunch of maladies, and has completed the educational phase of her surgical training. She has yet to actually ever operate on anybody independently and doesn’t really like to talk about it. The fact that she couldn’t stop someone from getting hurt and instead has to concentrate on patching them up afterwards is a constant grain in her soul.
Personality:
As so often happens, the two most formative events of Katara’s life were completely beyond her control: She was born a waterbender, the last of her tribe, and her mother was murdered by the Fire Nation. This had the effect of making her both independent and vulnerable, her identity is intimately joined with her skills as a waterbender and the responsibility and love she feels towards her family – and the sadness she feels about her mother’s death. This sense of responsibility is something that affects everything about her.
Katara doesn’t always like being the responsible, mature one. She wants to be thought of as fun, she wants to be able to kick back and be irresponsible… but someone needs to mend those socks. And if it’s a choice between being thought of as fun or making sure that the ones she cares about are happy and safe and doing what’s right – well, then she’d rather be the one that everyone comes to instead.
There are some ways in which she is very grown up – she’s cared for her brother (a full time job, let me tell you), traveled the world, fought against soldiers and princes… and there are some ways that she is still very much a young girl. She’ll go penguin sledding, she’ll blush when a cute guy gets too close… and most importantly, she’ll dream, and she’ll hope.
It’s her capacity for hope that is one of her most defining characteristics. It is her hope in the Avatar that prompts her and Sokka to go with Aang on his journey, even though for all intents and purposes, Aang looked just like a 12 year old boy. And it’s that same ability to hope that makes her want to consistently reach out and encourage everyone around her towards doing what she thinks is the right thing.
In most cases, Katara is polite to strangers, almost to a fault. She’s very concerned with the proper rules for behavior and wants to do the right thing. She can be naïve when it comes to trusting people that she has just met. On the other hand, she also has a temper, has inherited the family trait for sarcasm – at least to family – and has tendency to believe that her way is the right way.
Once she gets going, Katara has no off switch. When she has decided on a cause, absolutely nothing will hold her back from pursuing it, even if it’s dangerous or impossible or risks something else she finds important. This is demonstrated time and time again, but a particularly stunning example is when she risks the Avatar’s training because she will not apologize to the waterbending master who refuses to teach her merely because she is a girl. Instead, she challenges him to a duel, fighting for her right to be treated equally, even at the risk of her ultimate goal.
Abilities: Katara is a master waterbender, with the ability to manipulate water by making it move and changing it from water, to ice, to mist. She is also a bloodbender, a waterbender who is strong enough to control the blood inside of someone, but Katara is currently only able to do this during certain cycles of the moon. Katara is also a member of a people group that had to survive off the land, so she knows the basics in dressing and cooking game, leatherwork, sewing, and has some skill in tracking/hunting, but a lot, honestly.
Augment Skillset: ...cook, initially, I believe. Yes. Cook.
Sample: