Legend of Korra: The Academy Signups

Co-hosted with Insano.

Time: Parallel with Legend of Korra, with a slight bit of AU

Tech: Everything from Legend of Korra applies here.

Premise: On the outskirts of Republic City, there is an academy for the especially gifted benders. This RP is to portray the lives and trials of the students who attended the Academy.

The Academy: The Academy is the prime school for benders of all kinds. The dormitories contain sections for each form of bending, though the House of Air is almost always empty. Here, gifted benders learn how to apply their new skills and train under a master to learn a specialized version of their elemental bending. Students enter at around the ages of 14-16 and study there for five years.

Student Life: Students spend 8 hours a day training under their specialization master, spending the rest of their time learning trades/skills in the city. Students of all years train at the same time. As this is the equivalent of a bending high school, there are inevitably fights between students. Firebending students often settle this with nonfatal Agni Kais; Earthbending students use one-on-one Rumbles; and Waterbending students have Duels. Once a year, the Academy holds their own amateur Pro-Bending tournament. All students living in the Academy dorm building must report back there for the curfew at midnight. Those not living there can do as they wish.

Houses: Each Bending element has its own House for itself. Water has a natural rivalry with Fire, and Earth is a rather neutral party. Earth and Fire also have divisions within their own houses; Sandbenders and Metalbenders are usually divided against each other, and Blue Firebenders and Lightningbenders don't hold each other in the highest regard either. Air is the empty house of the Academy. The Academy did make this section for Airbenders, but don't expect a high amount of students there for another century or two. Earth is the most populated house, making up half the population of students, with Fire and Water being about equal in numbers. Water is often mocked for supposedly only having one specialization, when in reality Water is just as deadly and potent as Earth and Fire.

Specialization Classes:

• Air: None, no masters to even teach a class and no students to learn. Even if there was an Airbending master, they would teach his/her students Air's applications, rather than any form of specialization (if one even exists).
• Water: Water publicly has two teachers, of which only one teaches a specialization class. In reality, both teach a specialization. Both classes teach healing.
  • Plantbending: The Waterbending master of this class hails from the Swamp, and teaches students to learn how to feel and bend the water in plants. Students of this class usually are or end up becoming very caring for life and compassionate towards others, feeling the water of life flowing all around them.
  • Bloodbending: The Waterbending master of this class hails from the Southern Water Tribe, and is a trusted member of the Order of the White Lotus. Publicly, she simply tutors those who don't plantbend, but in reality she teaches those she finds worthy and moral enough to use bloodbending. This is the secret of the Academy, with only the faculty and staff actually aware of it, and the students of their master are sworn into secrecy to keep the knowledge secret.
• Earth:
  • Sand: The Sandbending master hails from the desert, a former criminal, teaching students to manipulate the Earth into sand to supplement their bending. Students of this class are usually rather shady and mischievous, playing pranks with their bending.
  • Metal: The Metalbending master is a former officer of the Republic City Police, and teaches students he finds worthy of this bending art that is especially valuable in a modernizing world. Students here are often no-nonsense, rigid followers of the law much like their master. Indeed, most graduates of this class become police officers themselves.
• Fire: The firebending specialization classes are held to be the most difficult classes compared to the others, aside from Metalbending. (and Bloodbending)
  • Blue Fire: The master of this art is a boisterous man in his 30s, and very Spartan-like in his teaching methods, gaining a reputation for being one of the more unforgiving and harsh teachers in the Bending Academy. He teaches students to use their passion to fuel their fires to the point where their flames turn blue, as well as an almost extinct technique learned by himself and his students as their solution to lightning: Combustion, where students learn to concentrate as much as they can to fire compressed balls of fire. Students here are usually passionate like their master, the best of which gain reputations for their competitive spirit and knack for getting into fights.
  • Lightning: The master of this class is twice as old as the master of Blue Firebending, and is a member of the

White Lotus as well (what a coincidence!) He teaches his students more than just how to shoot and redirect lightning. He teaches them to make their surges last longer, to quicken the body movements required to fire, and for his greatest students, to create more than one burst at a time. Students of this class are usually very cunning, disciplined and focused like their master, as that is required to make lightning.  

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Bio Format

• Name:
• Age: 14-16
• Gender: Male or Female (duh)
• Element: Water, Earth, or Fire only.
• Family: Any relatives living or dead.
• Occupation: What your character does for a living, if they do anything.
• Specialization: What specialization class you intend for your character to take. Bloodbenders don't have this entry. Omit this and we'll understand.

• Appearance: What your character looks like (height, weight, eye color, hair color, etc.)
• Skills: What your character can do.
• Personality: Who your character is (likes, dislikes, beliefs, etc.)
• History: What's happened to your character so far.
• Other: Anything else you don't think fits anywhere else.

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Accepted Bios:

Masters:

• Plantbending: whizzerd as Lun
• Bloodbending:
• Sandbending:
• Metalbending:
• Blue Firebending: Hyena Cros as Master Ozin Shu
• Lightningbending:

Students:

Water

• Stratofarious as Kaizer
• Abicith as Maro Seth

Earth

• Hyena Cros as Kieru Shu
• whizzerd as Tai Lerong

Fire

• Insano as Kuya Shen
• Nick the Swing as Lio Kannazawa

edited 22nd Jun '12 2:56:54 PM by HyenaCros

hi sounds like fun! Can i join?

edited 8th May '12 3:26:56 PM by lawaroze24

I am THE spaz :P

Feel free. Just create a bio using the format.

I'll just leave this here and finish it later: 

• Name: Kuya Shen
• Age: 15
• Gender: Male 
• Element: Fire
• Family: Firebending father, Waterbending mother, waterbending 12-year-old sister
• Occupation: None yet, apprenticed as a blacksmith before sent to the Academy
• Specialization: Lightning
• Appearance: Kuya may have the Firebending of his father, but his appearance comes from his mother: brown skin and black hair. His father's DNA seems to have affected the appearance of his eyes, which although blue, are blue in the same way lightning is. Kuya stands at 5' 10", weighing 170 lbs. His body is in good shape, on par with most athletes. He wears a red waistcoat over a long-sleeved black shirt and gray pants with regular shoes.
• Skills: Kuya is skilled enough in Firebending to qualify to go to the Bending Academy. He has practiced creating lightning with his father, but hasn't shot lightning so he can save it for when he actually starts learning in the Academy. Kuya is able to cook adequate meals, play instruments, and throw knives with deadly precision. Kuya is also an accomplished non-bending martial artist.
• Personality: Kuya is an intelligent young man whose outlook on life would be brighter if his childhood was better. He feels very protective of his family and what little friends he has, especially his sister (she looks like a firebender but is a waterbender). He had harbored a justified hatred of bullies, but he hates the ignorance that made them his bullies even more so (This is what drives him to be an educated man). He holds fear that his father may believe the same things his bullies spoke of him, driving Kuya to become a Master Firebender to prove himself to his father. He is also scared his mother believes that his Firebending is a stain on her bloodlines, and seeks her approval as much he seeks his father's helping her whenever she asks him to, and whenever she doesn't as well. He has very little grasp on the fact that his parents are proud of what he is and that they believe he is a wonderful young man and a powerful bender who will do much for the world. Because of his psyche, Kuya is the kind of loner who wants friends but acts like he doesn't need them. He is also hesitant to look for love, as he is afraid he will be rejected due to his nature.
• History: Kuya was born to a firebender and a waterbender who lived together in the Fire Nation. When he was born, his parents and their families believes that he would possess his mother's Waterbending. Imagine their surprise a few years later when Kuya nearly burned down the house with his firebending! From then on, Kuya was seen as some anomaly in his world, being mistreated by other children for not possessing the same skin as most Firebenders. When it appeared that his father didn't approve of him (when he most certainly did), and other children declared he would never be a good firebender because of his skin, Kuya made it his mission to become a great Firebender, to prove that he could be a great Firebender despite his appearance. As he grew, he defeated many of his bullies in Agni Kais before leaving for the Academy to continue his mission.
• Other: 

edited 8th May '12 4:55:14 PM by Insano

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Hiii. Interested. Will think of someone.

Finished my bio. Read and review.

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Awesome Insano. Can't wait until we get more people.

• Name: Kirei Higeki
• Age: 15
• Gender: Female
• Element: Fire
• Family: Firebending father, nonbending mother
• Occupation: Former maid
• Specialization: Blue fire
• Appearance: Kirei Higeki has long black wavy hair. She has a heart shaped face and dazzling green eyes. She has a small body frame and is very quick and light on her feet. She has a permanent scar on her arm that she likes to cover up.
• Personality: She has a very kind heart and a good mind. She learns things quickly. She is very shy and timid.
• History: Kuya was born to a firebender and a nonbender who lived together in the Fire Nation. When she was born her father did not want her and tried to burn her. Her mother, trying to protect Kirei, was burned alive instead. Her father was in guilt for so many years it made him go insane. He replaced his wife with his daughter. After all the years of abuse and agony she ran away to find a better place. She found a nice quiet family in the water region that consisted of a middle aged mother, with her middle aged husband and there two little boys. There she worked as a maid in exchange for house rent. The water bending family ended up adopted her and enrolled her into the academy so she could get the proper life she deserved.
• Other: The water bending children do not like her because she is a fire bender.

edited 8th May '12 5:39:13 PM by lawaroze24

I am THE spaz :P

• Name: Lio Kannazawa
• Age: 15
• Gender: Male
• Element: Fire
• Family:
  • Shidou Kannazawa (father)
  • Kurobi Kannazawa (mother)
  • Officer Shou Kannazawa (older brother and Metal Bending Police Officer.)
• Occupation: Apparently, on his days off, he minds a local cafe.
• Specialization: Lightning
• Appearance: Lio could be said to have a rather unassuming appearance, as most people who have met him say he is disarmingly polite and usually has a relaxed, unthreatening stance. He has somewhat short dirty blond hair, and a long ahoge extending down from the front, much to his consternation. He is only just growing from Cute Shotaro Boy into Bishonen, and has a tall, lanky frame to him, though one built for whip-like movements and quick, sudden moves. He usually wears a black hoodie with a lion's head motif on the chest, and a sleeveless black shirt underneath that, dark green pants and what can only be called electric blue boots.
• Skills: He is not as harmless as he looks. He has a lot of experience in close range fighting, using a long knife that seems like it might be made of similar stuff to Sokka's space sword, carried in a holster hidden under his hoodie at the waist. He is also quite good at shaping and making different forms of his Bending for a huge variety of different attacks.
• Personality: Lio acts like the odd one out of the group he somehow ended up with, called the Bully Five, a group of jerkass students who are trying to ensure their development by challenging other members of the academy as routinely as possible through bullying (though most of them do have a hidden heart of gold). Lio barely participates, but often watches in a certain childish manner. He is preoccupied with trying to find something "awesome" to do today. He is most often seen with his eyes only half open and usually reclines. But when he finds someone who actually is quite interesting, he behaves like a very verbal Blood Knight. He is a thorough combat pragmatist, and very cunning. His thought process can be described as very strange, mainly in the realm of a Cloud Cuckoolander.
• History: Lio had a difficult time growing up. His father was a very infamous person in his youth, due to the family's place in the Yu Dao Social Order before the formation of Republic City. While there was some Earth Kingdom genetics in the family, they were mainly Firebenders, with an Earthbender being rather rare. There was a pact in the early days between the Kannazawa and a certain spirit named Zu Kang, who granted the family "power", in exchange for them behaving in a certain way the spirit liked. Zu Kang is the Incarnation of Predation. Though the Avatar defeated the Family and forced Zu Kang to stop his behavior, there is a prevailing sentiment to be very, very, very, very cautious around the Kannazawas. Lio as a result grew up very lonely, and just wanted a few friends. He managed to get friends by joining a group that appreciated the image he provided, namely, the Bully Five. In a big Pet the Dog moment, they included Lio in all of their social activities, even going out to see Pro-Bending Games, which gave the young Lio the idea to become a Pro-Bender and gain victory to wash his family's bad name away.
• Other:——-

edited 8th May '12 11:17:22 PM by NickTheSwing

Sign on for this After The End Fantasy RP.

Do we have to have a specialization?

Trump delenda est

Yes, you need a specialization. We also need at least one of each specialization. We also need bios for masters.

On another note, welcome to the RP Nick.

edited 9th May '12 6:54:09 AM by HyenaCros

• Name: Tai Lerong
• Age: 16
• Gender: Male
• Element: Earth
• Family: Earthbending parents, mother is disabled. Older non-bending sister, also an amateur chi-blocker.
• Occupation: Does odd jobs around town, mainly delivering newspapers.
• Specialization: Sandbending.
• Appearance: Short, unkempt brown hair and green eyes. He's short and surprisingly quick on his feet. Wears a plain beige top with green trousers, and goes barefoot when he can. He also has a pair of sandals, a dark green jacket and brown gloves for colder days.
• Skills: Has a lot of domestic skills such as cooking, sewing and general craftwork. He's a talented traditional Earthbender, but also has some skill in the pro-bending form since he's a big fan of it. Can also use a bo staff but isn't confident yet with using blades.
• Personality: He often acts childish, playing pranks and generally goofing around as is expected from a sandbender. He is however very serious when he needs to be and more responsible than he lets on. He hates people being picked on and will stand up for them, regardless of whether he even likes them or not. He also can be very stubborn in his beliefs, and often acts first and thinks later (though he's by no means unintelligent).
• History: His maternal grandparents were a rich family who lived in Ba Sing Se, but moved away after the war reached it. His parents lived many years in a quiet village until Republic City was built, and his mother's city roots called to her to move again, leaving his father in the village. When he was a child his family were threatened by the Agni Kai's, who permanently disabled his mother. He didn't want to go to the academy but was persuaded to by her, as she didn't want her son to have to waste his childhood looking after her. He still does odd jobs when he can and sends the money to his family. He isn't aware yet that his sister has joined the Equalist movement.

they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob

Oooh Avatar-verse RP? Give me some time and I will make Plantbender application.

Has a compulsive editing and re-editing disorder.

Here is my bio:

• Name: Kieru Shu
• Age: 15
• Gender: Male
• Element: Earth
• Family: Father (Blue Firebending Master) Mother (deceased Earthbender)
• Occupation: Part-time police apprentice.
• Specialization: Metal
• Appearance: 5"8, appearance of firebender. Black hair, golden yellow eyes, white skin
• Skills: expert chi- blocker and fighter in general. Uses his Metalbending as part of his fighting style, using it as more of a distraction.
• Personality: Kieru is unnaturally kind due to repressed emotions. Loves to spar but tries to avoid a real fight.
• History:  Kieru's mother abandoned his father before he was born. Kieru and his mother grew up in the middle of no where because she was too ashamed. When she died,  Kieru tried to find his father by wandering through the world to find him at the age of 6. Along his way, he encountered many problems and learned metal bending to survive. Eventually he ran into the Kyoshi warriors, who felt sorry for the boy and raised him for 2 years. They taught him all he knows about fighting. He learned information about his father and used it to track him. He has lived with him now for 7 years.

Looking forward for the first waterbender Drakovicz.

• Name: Master Ozin Shu
• Age: 35
• Gender: Male
• Element: Blue Fire
• Family: Son (Kieru) Wife (deceased earth bender)
• Occupation: Master at Academy. Teaches blue firebending.
• Appearance: 6”3, pitch black hair, rich golden eyes. Well built, has tattoos on forehead and hands.
• Skills: Said to have unimaginable firebending skills, powerful enough to defeat the previous master in an Agni Kai that lasted for 15 seconds.
• Personality: Stern around his students, but is soft around his son. He feels responsible for what happened to him.
• History: His wife left him after she got pregnant. He blamed himself for what happened and was overjoyed when his son appeared at his front door. Although they disagree from time to time, with him being an earthbender, but they love each other.

Will the RP begin after that Waterbender profile is submitted?

Sign on for this After The End Fantasy RP.

• Name: Kaizer
• Age: 15
• Gender: Male
• Element: Water.
• Family: Mother (waterbender), Father (waterbender) and Aunt (waterbender).
• Occupation: Works as a paperboy, delivering newspapers.
• Appearance: 5'6, messy brown hair and blue eyes. Always wears a sleeveless blue shirt, a black belt, blue pants, boots, and fingerless gloves.
• Skills:
  • Excellent at various skills- mainly fighting, hunting, fishing, cooking, survival- thanks to his training back at the Northern Water Tribe.
  • However, he also knows quite a lot about acting and has a great charisma.
  • He is a talented waterbender, always finding new styles and ways to use with his bending, and joined the Academy in order to perfect it.
• Personality:
  • Kaizer desires to impact the world. He's ambitious, and likes when things follow a certain plan, being a very focused person. However, when he's not on a mission on training, he loves going on little side-adventures. He believes that friends are important, and he always tries to leave a good impact on people. Unfurtonately, he has a split personality, one that he keeps buried and hidden. If someone managed to unlock said personality, they would find a totally different boy- greedy, heartless, ready to do anything to get what he wants, and easy to be controlled.
• History:
  • Ever since the beginning, Kaizer's fathers have wanted to him to be not only the greatest waterbender in the Northern Water Tribe, but also the greatest waterbender in the world, making him spend most of his childhood training on both the arts of bending and survival. But the boy always wanted to do something different, believing that it was his mission to change the world, and being just another waterbender wouldn't change anything- so he began to create a deephatred for his parents for never letting him do what he wanted, a hatred he always kept buried- Kaizer began to have acting and charisma lessons from some of his friends when his parents weren't home.
  • One day, after disrespecting his waterbending teacher, he suffered an accident trying to prove to her that he could do so much more ambitious things with his bending, and ended up hitting himself in the head, creating some sort of split personality- one that based itself off the hatred for his parents, one that was a representation of Kaizer's uncontrolled ambition. The accident also made his original personality much more focused on training too.
  • His parents, believing that staying in the Northern Water Tribe would be a bad idea for him, sent Kaizer to Republic City, to train in the Academy to perfect his bending, and to train with his Aunt on how to control said side. At 15 years old, Kaizer managed to keep his split personality hidden and buried away with no problems, but some people in the City might be interested in using this dark side of the waterbending student.

edited 9th May '12 7:04:26 PM by Stratofarius

No, Nick it will not. We still need 5 masters

So, can anyone with a student also be one of the masters? And can they be any master or do they need to be the same bending element as the player's student?

they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob

To answer your questions, as my duty as co-host:

• 1:Yes
• 2: They can be any master. In fact, I'd recommend not being both student and teacher of the same class.

edited 11th May '12 7:37:01 AM by Insano

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I'll make a master character too, although I do wanna know if Kaizer was accepted.

Ah, cool, okay then. Here's my master if she's okay:

• Name: Lun
• Age: 42
• Gender: Female
• Element: Water/Plantbending
• Family: Husband, fellow plantbender. One waterbending son.
• Occupation: Master at Academy. Teaches plantbending to students.
• Appearance: Long, greying black hair and dark green eyes. Wears a long green dress with a chest plate made of wood, a leaf hat and wrappings around her forearms and ankles.
• Skills: Despite her personality she's a very strong plantbender, enough to rival or even best Huu, and she also serves as the academy's best gardener. She often visits the ocean so she can easily control seaweed as well.
• Personality: Very compassionate, often going on spiels about how all life should be loved and treated equally. She's also a bit of an oddball, but can be quite insightful nevertheless.
• History: She and her family had an idyllic life in the swamp until their son left due to seeing his family as an embarrassment. She chased after him but ended up in Republic City, promptly forgot about her search and gladly took up a position as one of the academy's masters.

they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob

An Avatar RP? Sounds interesting, I'll probably submit a character in a little while.

Quick question, how would bloodbending work in the RP compared to the show? Can it be used any time at night, not just during a full moon?

edited 11th May '12 2:36:13 PM by doineedaname

No. It still can only be used during the full moon.

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