Chen Tai-ning

|BASICS|
Name: Chen Tai-ning
Age: 17
Birthplace: Jang Hui
Current Residence: Jang Hui
Rank: Bender
Occupation: Assistant Chef
Element: Fire
Pets:
Weapons: Kitchen utensils

|OPTIONAL|
Birthday: (What day was your character born?)
Blood type: (Your character blood type)
Hobbies: Fishing, blowing out candles and relighting them, sunbathing, checking out babes
Quirks: He likes to pretend to be the best at, well everything.
Family: (Your characters family members)
Character Theme: Shining on by Big D and the Kids Table

|APPEARANCE|
Hair: He has black hair that is spiked a bit up in the front and only falls to the base of his neck at the back. He has stubble constantly, despite attempts to shave with a dull razor.
Eyes: Normal sized, a little sharp at the edges and a dark crimson color.
Height: 5’10
Clothes: When not working, a red almost skin tight short sleeved shirt covered by a black vest with a pair of baggy black pants and red shoes that end in dull point. While working, he keeps the shirt and pants on, but loses the vest for a white apron and puts on a hat to match the apron.
Skin: Human skin, very few scars other than his hands and arms from working in a kitchen for four years. It’s almost an olive color and smooth.
Body Type: He is skinny but toned. Not so skinny that his ribs are visible, but not so built that he has to buy shirts that are too big for his height. He simply has a skinny body that fills out some tight clothes better than most skinny people.
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|CHARACTERISTICS|
Personality: Chen is a jovial young one, overusing his powers and showing off perfectly mundane skills but presenting them as extraordinary. He is easy to remember, and near impossible to forget, as he is constantly louder than needed and says everything that shouldn’t be said, but at the same time he manages to say what needs to. His favorite thing to do is the little things, like trying to make fireworks with his bending but just making fire bolts that don’t ever explode, but he thinks it’s the best thing ever.
Personal Strengths: A severe case of optimism, abstract thinking, child like views, Cooking ability and patience brought from fishing
Personal Weaknesses: Severe optimism, lack of patience after a while(it builds up) and arrogance
Hamartia: arrogance
Personal Hero: His great great grandfather, who was a master of not paying taxes
Dreams and Ambitions: Chen just wants to see the world honestly, and cook for the Fire Nation Emperor

Likes: Fish, Fishing, Bending directly into water to make it boil, Making balloons, Shadow puppetry

Dislikes: Actual honest work, Cold food, Snow, When animals steal his food, Training, Different opinions than his own

Brief History: Growing up in a fishing town isn’t exactly an exciting childhood. Unless of course you’re Chen Tai-ning, that is. They say that as a baby he would always be smiling and that he had cured an old woman’s sickness by making her laugh. This old woman later died to health complications, and Chen’s healing abilities were discredited on the spot. But Chen stayed happy growing up with a non bending father, and a bending mother. He learned practical fishing town skills from his father for most of the week like fishing and how to swim, while his mother taught him how to bend. He stopped bending practice at an early age, however and didn’t learn anything useful til he was 12, and his grandfather visited from his home in the mainland and forced Chen to learn bending “the right way”. He was basically tortured and burnt until he learned to control his bending abilities. Chen hates his grandfather for this and refuses to admit that if not for him he wouldn’t be able to bend at half the power he’s at now.
When Chen Tai-ning turned 14 and a half he joined work at a kitchen, as an assistant chef. He basically just kept fires going for a while but eventually got to make side dishes. It was this job that showed him the tourists of the world he never saw before. He would talk to them and hear of these wonderful places around the world. He’d forget to serve patrons and just talk to them, which after 3 years got him fired, literally. His boss forced him out of the restaurant with a wave of flames. Now almost a man and with high expectations, Chen needs only one thing to start his journey around the world to see all the wonderful things he’s heard about. A boat.