Name: Sasaki
Title: Fire Lord
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 116 lbs
Age: 18 years
Hair: Raven
Eyes: Golden
Birthplace: Fire Nation Capital
Background
Blazing Sun of the Fire NationThe younger child of Fire Lord Yin—and the favored child—preparations began early, grooming Sasaki for a life someday as the Fire Lord. For she was not only sharp—a prodigious bending talent with a cold, exacting mind—but she also represented perhaps the greatest victory of her mother, the Fire Lord before her.
Not long after she started in the bending arts, Sasaki displayed extreme potential in firebending. But setting herself even further apart from others who came before through a budding proficiency in what is known as lavabending. Yin, a learned woman and shrewd observer, immediately recognised this as a talent in close relation to earthbending. It wasn't long before she discerned the truth—that a piece of the Avatar spirit lived within Sasaki.
It was then that her training began in earnest. Yin was firm, but fair and loving toward her daughter, ensuring by any means that she'd be prepared to lead the Fire Nation. However her preparation ended much sooner than expected, as Yin fell ill and succumbed to a premature death three years ago. It was then, at 15 years of age, that Sasaki became the youngest Fire Lord ever recorded. Out of love for her mother, Sasaki continues her war, hoping that by conquering the other nations she may bring honor to her memory.
Abilities
Firebending prodigyAs a member of the royal family, Sasaki is most known for a proficiency in firebending—the Fire Nation's specialised art of projecting and manipulating fire. Unique in that it is the only bending art wherein the user does not need an external source, by using their own qi. Learned and practised for as long as she could remember, as well as housing a portion of the Avatar spirit, Sasaki is considered abnormally proficient even by the standards of the royal family. Her combat style focuses primarily on offense, an aggressive style blending constant attacks, acrobatics to strike from odd angles, the added pressure and creative use of flames to overwhelm enemies. The flames may be used defensively as well. Or, more accurately in her case, attacking through her opponents' attacks.
This is made possible against other opponents because, aside from prodigious skill with bending, Sasaki is further set apart by the raw power she possesses. The flames she creates (and further, often those she controls, even drawn from external sources, once intensified and imbued with her own qi) burn a vibrant blue and are much hotter than typical firebender flames. Growing increasingly dangerous with heightened emotions such as anger and hatred, she also projects them with even more force than is typical, additional heat and force allowing her to compensate for her small size. This blue flame has become a signature of sorts, and for the fear it inspires along with concerted propaganda, has also been used as a form of mental warfare in the instances where Sasaki herself enters battle.
Earlier in life Sasaki was shown to have advanced to a degree sufficient to create lightning. However, mastery of "the cold-blooded fire" involves a complete absence of emotion and peace of mind; a separation of the energies of yin and yang. Following her mother Yin's death Sasaki became distraught, manifesting a chronic instability. Her internal turmoil persists and, since that day, she has been unable to achieve the state necessary to bend lightning. Shamefully, she hides this inability behind a veneer of indifference, claiming she simply doesn't care to use lightning.
Normally, a bender is limited to a single element; but a fragment of the Avatar spirit lives within Sasaki—a cruel irony, as her mother twice killed the previous Avatar, severing most of the spirit's connection with the earth and leading the world to believe it gone completely. The portion that remains within Sasaki imbues her with a talent for earthbending that only she and Yin were aware of (now only Sasaki herself, as Yin succumbed to illness). However, while encouraged to learn from and practise other bending arts in secret, Sasaki did not take nearly as strongly to the earthbenders' principles and style. Her skill in this art, thus, is woefully underdeveloped compared to her firebending.
Lavabending assaultIts most common application (and that under which her earthbending talent was first discovered) is in the use of lavabending, which, through propaganda started by Fire Lord Yin after the discovery, many are led to believe is a sub-skill of firebending. Although she practises this with greater fervor than traditional earthbending, lavabending movements require more fluid grace akin to a waterbender. This doesn't come naturally to the young Fire Lord and she struggles with all but the most basic of uses. However, she may still use it to stir the earth, cause eruptions, trap enemies, disrupt offense and force defense to ensure battles are fought on her own terms.
Equipment
Sasaki does not carry much additional equipment. But her hair is regularly styled with any of a number of decorative hair sticks which actually double as sharp piercing weapons for uncomfortably close encounters (most likely making use of duplicity for assassination).
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