-Basic Info-
Name: Anyu (Inuit origin. “One who hunts for food or knowledge.”)
Nickname(s):
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Nation: Wanderer
Bender and what kind if yes: Yes and a Waterbender.
Orientation: Odd jobs
-Looks-
Hair colour: Light brown
Eye colour: Gold
Skin Tone: Pale
Height: 5'5"
-More Info-
Side: Neutral
Weapon(s): Carries a sword at his waist.
Personality: Typically, Anyu is pretty easy going. It’s hard to get him angry and he is often over apologetic for minor incidents. Perhaps the most noteworthy fact about Anyu’s personality is that he is loyal and trusting to a fault. He would gladly jump into the path of an avalanche to save a stranger, and he expects this type of selflessness from others. This abnormally high moral belief tends to leave Anyu disappointed at those around him, and if someone lets him down repeatedly, he tends to hold a grudge.
As far as war goes, Anyu stands firm in the belief that war is wrong, but tyranny is worse. He longs to see this war ended as soon as possible, but he has no desire to see the Fire Nation emerge victorious. Kuroda is willing to aid resistance movements, but he will also work against them at the sight of underhand tactics.
Biography: Anyu’s father, Kuroda, was a promising water bender who hailed from a long line of benders in the Northern Water Tribe. At a young age, Kuroda left his home to aid in the war efforts in the Earth Kingdom. While occupying a minor Earth Kingdom city that had been retaken from the Fire Nation, his father fell in love with, Corinna, a Fire Nation Soldier whom he was expected to guard. Soon after, Corinna became pregnant, but they tried to pass it off as an event that occurred before her imprisonment. However, when the baby, Anyu, was born, he looked enough like the father that the rumors exploded, and the regiment’s commander dismissed Kuroda and ordered him to take his son with him. The next day, Corinna was moved to another prison.
Kuroda was told to travel to Bah Sing Se to receive a formal discharge as well as his military pay, but after spending a few weeks in Bah Sing Se, Kuroda learned that not only was that war not to be mentioned in the city, but also that his record had him marked dishonorably discharged for conspiring with the enemy. Outraged, Kuroda spent a great deal of time fighting this dishonor to no avail and by the end of the long, tedious legal war, Kuroda lacked the funds to return home.
Kuroda, weary of a high-stress life decided to try to settle down in Bah Sing Se and raise Anyu who, at the time, was 2. Kuroda did well for himself, but the blissfully ignorant utopia life began to wear at the warrior inside Kuroda. When Kuroda finally decided to return to the water tribe, the news of his dishonorable discharge had had plenty of time to sit and fester. Earth kingdom relations were at an all time low, and Kuroda soon conceded that he would find no welcome at his previous home.
Resignedly, Kuroda returned to Omashu, and started a produce business that eventually became a front for smuggling weapons to various resistance groups in Fire Nation Colonies. It was during one of these smuggling runs that Anyu got the scar on his right arm. Anyu was 16 at the time and the mission was like any other, get the goods from A to B. It all went wrong when a small, elite squad of Fire Nation soldiers ambushed Kuroda, Anyu, and Taro, the store’s assistant. After a long, brutal fight, the soldiers were all either dead or running. Unfortunately, Taro received a fatal wound in the battle, and Anyu received his scar while blocking a near-fatal strike.
Anyu was immediately rushed to a healer in a nearby village where he spent the next several months recovering. When he finally recovered enough to get out of his bed, Anyu immediately set to retraining his hand, and after a year and several months of painstaking work, Anyu finally regained full use of his hand.
Once again, weary of dangerous work, Kuroda decided to settle down in the village and start yet another new life, but when Anyu fully recovered, he decided that he wasn’t content to live as a peasant. At first, Kuroda disproved of Anyu’s decision, but after some discussion he agreed that it was time for his son to find his own way. The day after Anyu’s 18th birthday, he began wondering the Earth Kingdom…
