<strong>Name</strong>: Shi Yong<br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 22<br/><br/><strong>Gender</strong>:Female<br/><br/><strong>Ethnicity</strong>: Water Tribe<br/><br/><strong>Occupation</strong>: Bouncer, Part time body guard, Muscle for Hire, aspiring pro bender<br/><br/><strong>Abilities</strong>: Water bending, very minor healing, 'High Pressure Quick Draw' A technique that is accomplished with practice and a specifically made metal water container kept with her at all times. Using the sturdy water holder and pulls at the water with extreme force until is released from the unyielding confines in a short ranged powerful stream of high pressure water. It is a technique she does not use lightly as anyone struck with the water will likely be broke nor pirced by it. It takes a bit of time to build up the pressure and she must be stationary until the very moment of release at which point she is allowed at least one leap or step before having to release the water. All the attacks done by the Quick Draw are close range and can reach no longer than the point of a short sword.<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Water bender she may be she has the perseverance, stubbornness, and determination of any earthbender. Shes spent a great deal of her life relying on her ability to perform violence to stay safe and make a living and she has yet to see much of a reason abandon that path, though she sometimes questions if she made the right choice she rarely takes careful looks back, more interested in carefully looking forward to her next step. She tends to be shockingly gentle and polite with her friends, perhaps because such a large portion of her life and lively hood was devoted to combat for profit she takes comfort in the moments she is not that hardened warrior of fortune. She has also found a unique love for the fashions of the big city, often spending a great deal of money on them. She isn't fond of her water tribe heritage, and doesn't like being refereed to as someone of the water tribe. At the end of the day Shi would be best described as strong willed. She is who she is, and she won't let anyone talk down to her. She is a fighter, she is a friend, she likes to dress up from time to time. She is driven like a powerful river that cuts through the earth and hills rather than curving around them, that will one day form a mighty canyon.<br/><br/><strong>History</strong>: Shi was born from the union of an Earth Kingdom woman in a medium sized coastal village along the Earth Kingdom coast line. Her father was a Water Nation Merchant who's travel route took him by the village rather often where he took to spending his time with her mother, romancing and supporting her. When she sent word to him that she was pregnant with their child he stopped coming around. A bit of digging showed that Not only did he have a girl in almost every village he stopped by for trade, he had a wife back at home in the water tribe. This news crushed her mother and robbed much of the energy from her life. She was never a bad mother to young Shi, but she never did a good job at taking care of herself and it didn't take long for her daughter to see and comprehend what her water tribe father had done to her out of cruel selfishness.  She quickly grew to hate the father that her mother still loved with all her broken heart and this was sort of an issue for her self esteem for a while. Shi took greatly after her father in appearance, looking as water tribe as anyone would expect. She often stuck out like a sore thumb among the deep Earth Kingdom village and it made her an easy target for bullies and the like. That was how she ended up discovering that she was a water bender as well while defending herself from the bullies. She had been perfectly content to never practice it and let the further reminder of her way ward father wither and die away with time but her mother encouraged her to practice it and found teachers when she could. Shi grew mostly self taught, learning water bending from the guards who served on the merchant vessels that came through town.  As she grew older and more talented in the ways of fighting and bending she found it was her most likely way to put money in her pocket and food on the table, taking various jobs that required the firm touch of violence for pay to support herself and her mother. When her mother's health began to fail she took to working with local gangs they payed much more than the up and up work and they tended to have more steady jobs for her. While she was careful enough that the law never got anything to pin on her she made a fair share of enemies in that line of work over the yaers.<br/><br/>Eventually her mother passed away due to complications and her lack of self care.  Shi mourned the loss but could not stay in the village she grew up not with the prejudice from the villagers and the enemies she had made wile working for gangs. She decided to move to republic city, spending a great deal of the money she had saved to make the move over, but she found it ultimately worth it. She couldn't have stayed back in that small, highly traditional Earth Kingdom town as the lone water bender girl. Here she wasn't so out of place, where the members of various nations  mixed rather openly it wasn't so uncommon to find people of multiple ancestor. It was a new place, with very different ideals, and where she didn't have to be the person she once was.<br/><br/>Oh sure, she still makes her living on her fighting skills and bending, but she does everything on the up and up! Honest! Her primary gig at the moment is a bouncer at a local dive. Water benders make for good bouncers given they can more easily subdue people with water and ice rather than burn the place down or smash half the tables with a rock. Plus the honer lets her rent the living space above the bar for dirt cheep. She does occasional side muscle jobs here and there, serving as a body guard and other such jobs. Her favorite side job is subtitle pro bender, she has yet to find a permeate team but she has a couple she subs in on when their water bender is out of commission. She hope to find a team that will take her full time or form one her self.<br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong>: Shi Yong (http://safebooru.org//samples/1304/sample_077ba9cd3b6c5277416527796d8eb0c313f43f84.jpg?1357735) tends to wear clothing of Earth Kingdom colors and design, more proud of her mothers heritage than her fathers, she often has two water skins on her right side and her metal flask for quick draw on her left.<br/>