Yulia Strickland [FINISHED]

Novice Posts : 2 Age : 33 Join date : 2012-05-16

|BASICS|

Name: Yulia Strickland.
Age: 23.
Birthplace: The Earth Kingdom.
Current Residence: She roams, staying put during the cold seasons and often returning to her birthplace.
Rank: Bender.
Element: Earth.
Pets: Ringo is a long white ermine with streaks of black running through his fur. His eyes are big and blue, his feet webbed, his tail concealing three spines linked by a grey membrane which allows him to move quickly through water.

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Birthday: 11/4
Blood type: O.
Hobbies: Yulia has, in her years of drifting, picked up the habit of gambling. She is quite good at it, however, due to one little fact - she cheats.
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Character Theme: (A theme song you think best matches your character)

|APPEARANCE|

Hair: Yulia's hair is long and curly, the colour of freshly-ploughed dirt. It trails down between her shoulders.
Eyes: Yulia's eyes are fairly large and bright yellow, often scowling.
Height: 5,8.
Clothes: Yulia wears a dark green tunic with an undershirt of boiled leather to protect her chest from punches. She wears sandles that can easily be slipped out of, and bandages around her forearms that she claims to help her realise precisely where her hands are at all times. Her right hand and lower arm are covered by a leather glove, to hide her burned flesh.
Skin: Yulia is mildly dark-skinned, her hands made rough by years of earthbending, the flesh of her lower right arm pink and painfully soft.
Body Type: Yulia is tall with honed, tight muscles. Her figure remains womanly despite this, curves hidden by her tunic.
Image: I have no suitable picture. If I were to reference, Yulia would be similar in appearance to Fang from Final Fantasy 13.

|CHARACTERISTICS|

Personality: Yulia is hotheaded and stubborn, but not foolish; she knows when to be patient, no matter how much she dislikes being so. She has no particular faith, believing that it is better to fight for good and let whichever gods exist judge her upon death - if she took a religion that was false, it might cancel her out of the true gods' judgement entirely.
Although she had no real education, Yulia is sharp and witty, having picked up many terms of expression from the people she met on her travels. She knows how to read and write, though she struggles with large words.
Personal Strengths: 1) Yulia is a steadfast earthbender, relentless in her studies and unwavering in her training routine.
2) She has a way with people who don't mind an insult or two, and prefers allies to enemies.
3) Yulia is excellent at mundane tasks, able to concentrate on a single repetitive thing for hours on end, making it easy for her to make money whilst drifting between towns.
Personal Weaknesses: 1) Yulia's right hand needs to have a special elixer lathered into it every morning, otherwise she experiences unbearable itching as dust particles stick in the crevices made by the burn.
2) As a result of her injury, Yulia is afraid of fire.
Personal Hero: Yulia's only heroes come from the books she read as a child: fictional benders who travelled far and wide, righting wrongs despite the temptation of evil.
Dreams and Ambitions: Yulia wishes to become a war engineer, having an intricate understanding of rams, ballistae and trebuchets.

Likes:
- Books
- Siege weapons
- Tales of old military conflicts
- The feeling of dry earth under her feet
- Warrior monks, or anyone who devotes their life to a set of principles

Dislikes:
- Fire
- People who change allegiances
- The fact that her injury hinders her combat abilities

Brief History: Yulia was born in the Earth Kingdom under two famous stonemasons. However, their devotion to work meant that Yulia was practically raised by babysitters. With her parents' money, she learned to read and write - and though her teachers forbade her reading them, she became fascinated with books about war. By the age of eight she was constructing miniature trebuchets and ballistae, firing pebbles and toothpicks out of them; and by the age of thirteen she could had commanded a ram crew as well as any commander. It was at this age, too, that she happened to be on the wrong street at the wrong time: a local crime lord was demanding payments for a loan given to a butcher, and soon a fight broke out. One of the crime lord's lackeys, a firebender, accidentally sent a fireball in the direction of Yulia's hiding place. Her arm caught on fire, and she didn't extinguish the flames until a minute later, when the skin was beyond repair and the nerves were completely fried.
At the age of 23, Yulia now roams far and wide, often returning to the Earth Kingdom come winter.

Subject: Re: Yulia Strickland [FINISHED] Sun May 20, 2012 11:08 am

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