Post by jin on Jul 6, 2012 14:57:12 GMT -5
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"the lovers, the dreamers, and me."[/center]
name;; Jin
nicknames;; “That tea lady” is her favorite nickname.
age;; 25
race;; Earth Kingdom
powers;; Jin’s never been much of a fighter in fact it was generally discouraged by her mother. However she’s resourceful and would rather run than fight.
The Avatar must experience sadness... anger... and happiness.
By feeling all these emotions, it helps you understand how precious human life is....
By feeling all these emotions, it helps you understand how precious human life is....
apperance;; Jin isn’t especially remarkable. In fact she’s exceptionally easy to lose in a crowd as she looks a lot like the majority of Earth Kingdom citizens. She’s a slight and wispy young woman reaching only a few inches over being five feet tall. Her skin’s a pallid sort of olive color. She’s not too tan or too dark but she will never be as pale as the girls from the Upper Ring. Her eyes are hazel and they seem to be more on the green side. They tend to be described by her father as “cat like” and “full of mischief” which for the most part is exceptionally accurate. They’re framed by thick eyelashes and beneath a pair of thin eyebrows. She’s fair of face but not what one might consider “beautiful” she’s always been pegged as “pretty” and of course “cute”. Her nose is just right for her face and she has a wide and full smile. That’s something about Jin that a lot of people tend to notice. Her smile. She’s usually smiling because she’s just a cheerful person for the most part and it tends to shine through.
Her hair’s a dark brown color close to bordering on black. It’s fairly easy for her to manage and two locks usually frame her face with her bangs hiding her forehead. Her hair’s long but it’s always been very long. A lot of days she mumbles over it and convinces herself that she’ll cut it later but that never happens. She tends to just braid it in two braids that hang over her shoulders as she has done so since she was a teenager. Occasionally she’ll put it up if she’s doing something formal but for the most part she’s happy with her braids.
Jin tends to wear traditional Earth Kingdom clothes. Green in color and nothing that could ever be described as flashy. She is a woman of simple means and she hardly dresses up unless she has to.
personality;; She's the first person in a room to walk up to someone new and greet them. She always has a smile on her face when she greets the newbie happily, "Hi I'm Jin." She will happily and easily walk up to somebody and start up a conversation since she's a friendly thing. She enjoys having friends and she loves having people that are around her. She thrives on picking up on the tone of a situation and acting accordingly, adding warmth to a cool setting or turning sour into sweet.
She's the kind of girl that needs at least one person with her because she hates being alone. Coming from a large family she is often in a room with at least one other person and doesn't know how to handle being completely alone. Personal space is a bit hard for Jin to grasp because she is often right up in people's faces to talk with them or watch them. When Jin makes a friend, they're her friend for life unless they decide that they don't want to be friends.
She's a genuinely cheerful young woman and believes that other people should be happy too! Life's a gift and people should seize the day or something like that. Unhappy people attract her at first since she wants to see them smile and she won't give up on them until her plan to get them to perform the action goes through. She won't back down from their side and will fight their battles if she sees that it's her place. Jin easily focuses on others and she believes she can sense when they're happy or automatically know when they're troubled and something's wrong. She's everyone's personal cheerleader. Support, gratitude, and encouragement are always in her friend's corner when Jin's around helping out other people.
The do unto other's rule is practically her mantra and she knows that she would like to be treated with respect and kindness in oppose to being picked on and bullied. Though if someone mistreats her friends or her she won't just sit back and take it. While not a very physical girl she doesn't know her limits until she's pushed into them.
She's a trusting girl so if she finds out that someone has lied to her or has been using her she will immediately feel her heart break. She wants to believe that people are good and when her belief is shattered she cannot help but feel completely betrayed when someone does her wrong. It takes her a very long to forgive and forget but when mistreated she will fall into a depressed mood.
Jin will cry, eat, and of course drink tea when she tries to comfort herself and can be all but inconsolable until someone distracts her from her sad mood. Thankfully, those moods don't last very long and she returns to her sunny self fairly quickly. Though that person isn't seen for quite some time as she tends to cry quite a lot.
Jin's a very emotional woman and wears her heart on her sleeve. She's got a strong sense of justice and righteousness. When her beliefs are questioned she will defend them tooth and nail because anything that's worth believing in is worth fighting for.
She also loves tea. Do not get her started about tea.
family;;
Father: Jun
Mother: Lin
Brother: Jung
Brother: Jing
Brother: Ling
history;;
Jin was the fourth child born to her parents.
They knew how it happened but they couldn’t believe that it did all of their children were at least one year apart and just when they thought they were done with children another one popped up. It had been probably five years since their last child when Jin was born. Jung had been the first child, then Jing, Ling, and finally Jin who was the first daughter. Lin was ecstatic that they finally had a little girl and she wanted nothing more than to spoil her daughter and dress her up. The family couldn’t afford such luxuries though they were just poor farmers in the Earth Kingdom raising ducks, chickens, and pig hybrids for the Earth Kingdom armies. The army did have to eat after all.
Jin was a little girl when a gang of Fire Benders destroyed the farm. They took all the animals and beat her father but all she could remember was her mother holding her up against her chest and crying. Her brothers were angry and upset all of them over the age of eight and willing to join the army. Jin didn’t understand how someone could be so mean to her family. She was only five years old and to her to world was still beautiful and good.
After the attack she remembered seeing her father’s swollen face but he was smiling and said they’d be taking a vacation to Ba Sing Se. Jung wanted to rebuild ever the hardheaded Earth citizen he didn’t want to move and neither did her brothers but Jin wanted to go. She loved the open road. Her mother was unhappy with their nomadic lifestyle and she remembered her complaining about how her feet hurt and she was tired. Her father always seemed to keep a smile on his face and the family going when Jung wanted to press forward but Jing was upset because his feet hurt and Ling wanted nothing more than to fall asleep. Jin liked to travel and she loved to move out in the open on the roads and see all the different animals. Because she was so young her father often carried her on his shoulders and sing to her about how all the women in Ba Sing Se were beautiful. At night they’d set up camp and he’d make them tea.
She supposed that was where she found her love for tea. During the day her mother would complain about moving with Ling close to her skirts whining too. Jing would go anywhere Jung did and the two would hunt for food for most of the day. Jin on the other hand tended to say close to her father and they’d walk ahead everyone else and secretly look for leaves to make tea with. They went in and out of towns collecting supplies. Her father and brothers would take on odd jobs and her mother would see if anyone needed to have their clothes mended as she was a skilled seamstress. Being so little there was not a lot for Jin to do besides be cute so she used that to her advantage. Sometimes Jin would sing for food despite her mother’s protests and she’d get a few coins that she put towards the family. She would always wonder why they would stop but knew that they were going to Ba Sing Se.
Jin wasn’t too sure how long her family had been traveling but it had been a long time by the time they reached the Full Moon Bay but was her mother happy when they finally did! Getting onto the ferry was another matter entirely but she was happy when they were finally allowed to because it meant that they’d be going to Ba Sing Se. Her father would be getting a job in the agrarian zone but had secured a home for them in the Lower Ring. Everything was starting to look up!
Ba Sing Se wasn’t the city that her family had imagined.
There was a certain smell to poverty. She couldn’t quite explain what the smell was just that it smelled terrible. Like a mixture of desperation, sadness, and filth. When people didn’t wash and a certain smell clung onto their beings. She knew that wasn’t the worst of it though. In the lower ring of Ba Sing Se were the people the middle and upper rings wished to forget about or write off. Which was understandable it was hard to believe that both areas were in such a close vicinity let alone in the same city, as beautiful as the upper ring was the lower ring was equally as ugly. Her mother cried for a week and wondered why they had traveled for so long and so far. Ling kept to his mother's side and tried to console her. Jung was angry as usual and said they should have just stayed at home. Jing said nothing. She saw her father try to smile but it was hard for him to smile sometimes.
Jin had done her best to see the beautiful things in her home. The smile of a child, an exchange between two old friends, or a cup of well brewed cheap tea were all things that she enjoyed. She was certain that the royals had no such thing like the Firelight Fountain either. There was beauty to the shops and homes around her apartment building.
She grew up in the slums and it was dangerous. With such a large influx of people it was hard to keep track of who was a criminal and who wasn’t. Then there was the Dai Li. Jin didn’t like to think about that though. Her father tended to the crops outside the lower ring, her mother continued her work at a local tailor’s, and her brothers took on odd jobs. Jin spent most of her days out and about with other children and making friends.
When she was eleven she got her first tea set. Her family scrimped and saved for it and she was so excited to have it. She made tea for them the first day and they said it was delicious. Years passed. Jung was old enough to work out in the fields and he moved out—found a wife and settled into his life. Jing had become a butcher he moved out as well. It was just Jing and Jin. Jing was busy most of the time he wanted to be an acupuncturist and help people. Jin just liked tea.
She supposed that was why she had gone to Pao’s when people started to talk about it. She had been before and the tea was nothing special nothing like her own brew so she tried it out. An angry young man with a scar on his face slammed her cup down and walked away and she drank it. It was delicious. Probably one of the best teas she had ever had her entire life! Originally, she had gone for the tea but what kept her coming back was the angry young man. He was really quite handsome. Jin was usually such a social butterfly she had never found herself at a loss for words before but she went back every single day trying to figure out what to say to him.
She noticed his eyes first. Golden like a bearded cat’s. he really was cute. Finally, one day she walked up to the counter, paid for the tea and introduced herself. He said his name was Lee. Lee. It didn’t suit him at all she had expected something different. Jin smiled and coyly she asked him out. Lee didn’t answer his Uncle Mushi did. But she had asked him out on a date later in the evening so she calmly walked out of the shop with a wave before barreling down the streets like a mad woman and slamming open the shop where her mother worked, “Mom! I have a date!”
Lin was excited. She helped her with her hair and made sure she looked presentable. She was walking on air by the time she rounded the corner and saw Lee. He looked well not like himself so she tussled his hair and took him by the arm. She loved noodles almost as much as she loved tea so she thought a dinner date would be nice. She talked to Lee and asked him about himself but he seemed shy and evasive. That was all right with Jin she liked quiet guys. Jin smiled and tried to keep things from being too awkward. He said he traveled with the circus and she was impressed and asked him to juggle. That didn’t turn out well but the fact he had tried was what impressed her. Jin wanted to show him the Firelight Fountain it was her favorite place but when they got there it was dark and she was sad.
Lee noticed and instructed her to close her eyes and not peak. So she did just that and kept her hands over her eyes. Lee lit all the lanterns in a matter of seconds it was amazing! Jin finally understood Lee wasn’t a juggler he was a magician. She wanted to kiss him and she was about to when he held up a coupon and called her a valued customer. She wanted to be values. Jin placed her soft lips on his and kissed him. He kissed her back but drew away from her. He ran away and Jin was left alone.
The walk back to her apartment was a long one. Her father had waited for her and asked how her date was. Jin ran up to him and cried. She stayed in her room for a few days and ate dumplings and drank jasmine tea before she finally ventured out of her room and back to Pao’s. By the time she got there she learned that Mushi and Lee were gone. They were in the Upper Ring. Jin became an employee and for a while everything was okay.
But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. She heard Princess Azula had taken over. Everything was terrible. Ba Sing Se was supposed to be safe. But the Fire Nation kept everyone down and Jin was about to give up hope until the White Lotus recaptured it. She could have sworn she saw Mushi among them but she merely watched in awe as they fought the Fire Benders back.
On the day of the comet the White Lotus drove everyone out. Everyone was instructed to stay inside and keep each other safe. Her family was reunited and her brothers huddled close together. That was when she found out the Fire Lord had been defeated. The War was over.
Jin could hardly believe it. Ba Sing Se started to rebuild and Jin decided to leave it. She heard of "Mushi" opening up a tea shop in the Upper Ring and while she was sure she could have gotten a job there she needed to find her own path. When she heard about Republic City she knew that was where she needed to go. She saved up as much money as she possibly could and after five years she had enough to travel, open a shop, and buy a mode of transportation. Her mother cried. Her father made sure she had taken her tea set. Her brothers said she should have been the one to stay as she was the daughter. Jin smiled and did her best to look brave before she left the city on Ostrich Horse and didn't look back.
Traveling to the West was fun. She remembered how much she loved the open road and stopping into towns. When she made it to the city she found her location and opened up a very small tea shop with an apartment over it. Jin welcomes anyone into her shop with a smile and a hot cup of tea.
Aang, our actions always have an effect,
sometimes positive, sometimes negative... and sometimes not for many lifetimes.
sometimes positive, sometimes negative... and sometimes not for many lifetimes.
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