Avatar Hoshiko (Hoshi)
If theres one thing you should know about the spirit world and its inhabitants, its that its old. Like, beginning of time old. So, it was acualy a while for the spirits to decide that they needed an Avatar, someone who will close the slowly but shurly growing gap between the two worlds. The four nations were just beginning to grow, the first laws being passed, the first sense of order slowly spreading. It was when the four elements became truly there own kingdoms that the spirits decided to take action.
They searched all over the world for a younge woman old enough to give birth, and strong enough to bare a child that was half spirit. Finaly they found one, a nonbending woman named Hana who was born in the earth kingdom but traveled all around the world. She was kind but strong willed and determined. Some of the most powerful spirits shifted together into the form of one mortal man, and they went down to the mortal world. They imapragnated the Hana, and took her to the spirit world were she gave birth to a healthy girl, and she named her Hoshiko. Even as a new born, the spirits knew that she was different, all her half-spirit aside. She had clear, sky blue eyes, and a head of golden hair.
Unfortunatly, Hana was strong, but not that strong. She died three hours after child birth. The child was rased in the spirit world, having no other mortal family to go to. As an infant, she was under the care of Ami, the spirit of life itself. Despite her kind looks and gentle hands, she has a bit of a rebellios streak, and she created the human race agaist orders from the Spirit Council. Hoshiko was supposed to be her punishment, but it was like punishing a mother to her baby. You just cant really. Ami was the closests Hoshiko ever got to a real mother. When she was six years old, she was presented to the Spirit Council and from there, she began her training.
She grew up to be a lot like her real mother thoguh. She was strong willed and stubborn, not afraid to get dirty and bloody and, living in the spirit world, grew to have little fear of mortal monsters. The original beders, the moon, the badgermole, the dragon, and the sky bison, taught her the ways of bending all four elements and then some. Since they were the original benders, they knew all about any and all advancments that there element would make, and they taught them to Hoshiko. Along with water, earth, fire, and air, she learned bloodbending, metalbending, energybending, and shapebending. Shapebending was a extremely rare quality, most who have the trait live there entire life not knowing about it. It can only be activated with adrenaline and a direct hit with a blunt object to the persons bending point, wich is a small spot anyware on that persons body. Once activated, the person can turn into any animal they can think off, even mythical ones. Shapebending, like other elements, is passed down from parent to child, but the trait isnt maybe, or either or. If even one of the parents have the Shapebending trait, all there children will, even if the child is a bender of any other element, they will still be a shapebender. Hoshiko began her Shapebending training at age twelve, after she had mastered all four basic elements, blood bending and energy bending. Unfortunatly, the training began with a test to find her bending point. Since your blood needs a mixture of adrenaline in it, she was placed in a dark maze with only enough light to see, told that under no circumstances was she alawed to use her bending and that a horrible monster was placed some distance behind her. She was told that once her bending point was found, she would be removed from the maze. Blunt objects would fly out from the walls of the maze and hit her at random points on her body untill her trait was activated. Ten minutes and three bruises later, her bending point was found. It was on the nape of her neck, inbetween her hair line and her back. Almost the perfect spot, the spirits concluded, as it wasnt somewere that could be bumbed on a daily basis, like her toe or her arms.
But all that aside, sometimes Hoshiko was lonly. Sure there were cool spirits, some were really funny and nice and could talk with her about nothing for hours, but sometimes she felt like she needed a friend like her. A normal girl who she could hang out with, without that ever looming pressence of spirits (even if she didnt notice it till her first trip to the mortal world) and someone who would think and act like her. She wanted someone who she could tease and who would tease right back, who she could jokenly insult and would be jokenly insulted right back instead of bowing to in respect and addressing as 'Master' something-or-other, even if she could loose the pretentius, stuck-up respectful act after. A couple times, the spirits tried to tame her so she would be a calm, polite, first fully realised Avatar they wanted her to be. But they had taught her to well. Her inner flame, the thing that keeps every thiving thing living, was exactly what an Avatars inner flame should be. It was bright and warm, like the fire nations, it was strong and unmoving like the earth kingdom, it was graceful and fluid, like the water tribes, and it was free and fun-loving like the air nomads. The spirits sometimes thought she was perhaps the oddest Avatar ever, but when they voice that thought, she would counter with that she was the only Avatar yet.
By the time Hoshiko was 3/4 way into her fifteenth year, she had mastered all elements given to her. Despite what she looked and acted like, she was now a fully realised Avatar. On her sixteenth birthday, there was a large gala everyone atended, exept for Koh the face stealer, because Hoshiko had only met him once and she imedeatly decided if she couldnt show emotion while talking to him, she didnt like him.
The gala was big and extravagent, and there was laughter all around. Hoshiko made her rounds before she was forced to stop when dinner was , the spirits presented there gift to her. During the last three months, she had become incresingly impatiet and restless. She felt that she had nothing to do anymore that she had mastered all four elements, and she was right. The Avatar was created so they could bring the mortal and spirit world closer, and she could only do that if she had experience with the mortal world. So, the spirits decided that Hoshiko would be sent to the mortal world in her true pysical form, not just an spiritual image as she had before.
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