<div align="center"><strong>Player || BennyQ</strong></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/eb/13/a0/eb13a094331c93cd0434d0a85506cefe.jpg)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Name ||</strong> Rikkar.<br/><strong>Age ||</strong> 26.<br/><strong>Sexuality ||</strong> Heterosexual.<br/><strong>Gender ||</strong> Male.<br/><br/><strong>Bender? ||</strong>  Yes.<br/><strong>Power ||</strong>  Water Bending.<br/><br/><strong>Occupation ||</strong> Teacher, volunteer healer at the hospital.<br/><strong>Connections ||</strong> Older brother to Kati.<br/><strong>Skills ||</strong> Employing sweat/sucking vegetation of water for bending, long-distance surfing via bending, ice-bending, mud-bending &amp; factory tradesman. <br/><br/><strong>Personality ||</strong> Rikkar is ambitious and proud, desiring to attain a level of mastery over water-bending on par with the Avatar as his goal in life. He maintains a detached and serious persona, choosing to display a stoic resolve to assist in his sole pursuit of knowledge and the mastery of his bending. This does not mean he is without emotion, which he carefully guards and does possess a desire to help others, which led to him becoming a water-bender teacher. He is quick to anger and slow to laugh, though he is capable of forgiveness after a time. The hurt and harm of innocent beings can move him to sadness (though he'd never admit it).<br/><br/><strong>Background ||</strong> Rikkar was born and raised entirely in Republic City within a middle-class family, to a water-bending father and a fire-bending mother. His parents enjoyed a storybook romance, being from two opposing spectrums that eventually overcame the barriers and obstacles inherent to their cultures. Growing up, his parents never ceased to display their tenderness with each other despite the stigma attached to their union, which resulted in Rikkar adhering away from such displays of affection as he wished to avoid the criticism of others. Because of this, he remained a solitary and quiet child growing up, attending a decent schooling within the city.<br/><br/>Taking after his father, a Water-Bender from the Northern Tribe who arrived in the City for work in the factories, Rikkar developed a skill for water-bending at an early age. He often employed this as a child, honing his skills not by his father or a teacher, but through various fights and bouts with fellow students in school. This led to an early suspension due to his various transgressions and repeated offenses. As a response, from the age of fourteen to twenty, his father sent Rikkar to live with his relatives at the North Pole, where he was instructed quite firmly and harshly by the Water Bender masters there. Their disciplinary approach was severe and challenging, which created an environment Rikkar could thrive in despite his loss of social interactions and interpersonal skills. He excelled at his training, earning the respect of the Northern Water Tribe masters despite his less conservative demeanor towards water-bending, choosing to use it as both a weapon and a tool for healing. <br/><br/>With the acknowledgements of the Masters of the Northern Water Tribe under his belt, Rikkar returned to Republic City after nearly a decade away, now influenced by traditional values of his father's people while trying to maintain a steady balance with the more modernized lifestyle in the city. With his father's growing afflictions and weakness with age, Rikkar took it upon himself to abandon his martial pursuits in an attempt to maintain the family wealth. He did not desire to work in a factory such as his parents did, disdaining the cramp worked spaces and conditions. Instead, he choose to apply at the local Bending School, where he might share his vast knowledge with others, propagating his repute, while at the same time hoping to find an upcoming and worthy student that might one day rival his own skills, to which he can test his full powers and capabilities against. Rikkar now teaches Advanced Water-Bending at the school, being employed there for two years.<br/><br/>Dragged to Pro-Bending matches by his fangirl of a sister, Rikkar has come to admire the prowess of some of the competitors, though he refuses to participate in any way himself as he see's himself above it as a teacher. He has however developed a habit of wandering into the Underworld side of Republic City, where he bets on illegal fighting between benders and is even reputed to have participated himself...<br/><br/><strong>Appearance ||</strong> See picture. Rikkar has his mother’s long hazel hair and piercing blue eyes, with caramel hued skin. After the manner of his father’s people, Rikkar has taken to wear the Water Tribe attire, with a blue tunic lined with fur atop blue breeches tucked into fur-lined boots. He wears a belt around his waist, which carries a quick bundle of water in case it’s needed for a fight. He is quite tall, with hair reaching down to his knees. <br/><br/><strong>Pet ||</strong>  Zamah. Turtle-duck (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Turtle_duck) (bottom left of image). Shared.<br/><strong>Hobbies ||</strong> Watching Pro-Bending, duelling, &amp; swimming (in icy water).<br/><br/><strong>O/O ||</strong>  Vanilla sex, rough-housing, oral (giving and receiving)<br/><strong>Theme Song ||</strong> N/A (yet).</div>