I will be shamelessly modeling the main character after myself, including her circumstances. If you don't like this, no worries! You have the power to close this tab right now. If you're curious otherwise, I only did this to make things simpler on myself. Creating entirely new personalities is a difficult thing and I had an idea for a plot rather than a character. Modeling characters based on real people I know gives me more time to think about other things, rather than "would this character really act in this manner?" Please enjoy if I haven't completely turned you off by now, I do not own anything pertaining to Avatar and its' franchise.
Water.
Earth.
Fire.
Air.
Since long ago, the four nations have lived together in harmony. Only the Avatar, continuously reborn into the cycle of reincarnation, can master all four elements, and maintain peace and balance in the world. Whenever conflict arose in the past, the Avatar was called to action to bring the world back to order and to ensure tranquility among all people. Avatar Kyoshi defeated Chin, the tyrannical conqueror of the Earth Kingdom, allowing the world to enter an era of peace after a long civil war. Avatar Roku confronted his long time friend Fire Lord Sozin, suspending his plan to establish Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom and postponing the Hundred Year War. Avatar Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai and ended the Hundred Year War, bringing the world together to live in harmony by establishing the United Republic of Nations. Avatar Korra defeated the corrupt leader of Equalist movement and liberated Republic City, bringing another era of peace by creating true equality between benders and non-benders.
Everything changed with the next Avatar in the cycle. After Avatar Korra's death in 246 ASC, the Order of the White Lotus looked desperately across the Earth Kingdom for the next Avatar. Only after 29 years of widespread panic did the Avatar accidentally reveal himself to be Dindou Sifei, the leader of a notorious gang turned criminal empire known as the Lizardcrows. No records exist of this mysterious man's background but under his influence, the Lizardcrows had terrorized the city of Omashu and ruled the city through acts of cruelty. Upon discovering his own identity, Dindou is speculated to have gone insane as he proceeded to use his power to devastate the world. Seemingly unable to go into the Avatar State, an ability which grants the user all knowledge and experience from all the previous Avatar incarnations, he relied on salvaged weapons originally created by Hiroshi Sato for the Equalist Revolution. These weapons allowed Dindou and the Lizardcrows to wreak havoc across the world, using explosives, bending, and brutality to spread chaos and destruction. He ordered his followers to attack everything standing in his way, including mountains, forests, towns, and rivers. Calling this movement the Spirit Separation War, he attracted many followers through charismatic speeches glorifying the human race and it's supremacy to nature. It is now known that Avatar Dindou had a great fear and revulsion for the Spirit Realm for some unknown reason, and his identity as the bridge between our world and theirs was too great a burden. His unjustifiable war called forth an enormous tree Spirit, reported to have called itself Bodhi, which killed Dindou and finally ended his wave of chaos in 283 ASC.
The next Avatar, a young descendant of Fire Nation colonials, was discovered early and the decision was made to keep this boy constantly monitored. Avatar Chun was announced to the world on his fourteenth birthday, relieving the world with his gentle personality. After mastering the final element Earth at the age of 22, Chun traveled the world seeking to heal the scars inflicted by his previous incarnation. Many people had high hopes for this Avatar, affectionately calling him 'Aang the second' for his nonviolent disposition. However, remnants of Dindou's forces had been waiting patiently for years until Chun set out alone and unaccompanied by his usual guards. Ambushed and unwilling to use lethal force, Chun was murdered at the young age of 25 and the world mourned his death.
After the elimination of all airbenders other than Avatar Aang, the Registry of Citizens department of Republic City had kept records on all airbenders born throughout the world. Every year, a census was taken of every family containing a descendent of Avatar Aang and his son Tenzin to ensure the world would not lose one of its' four cornerstone elements and its' heritage. Year 307 ASC, the year before the untimely death of Avatar Chun, the census reported 216 airbenders. At the end of 308 ASC, the census revealed the number 216 again. Due to the scarcity of airbenders, no family descended from Avatar Aang had given birth the entire year. Once again, the world was sent into a panic. If there was no airbenders born to continue the cycle, had the Avatar cycle finally come to an end?
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