Shula

Shula once was a proud but good-hearted, compassionate young woman with a spirited and daring nature. But time and circumstances have changed her, and all that she once was is now buried under layers of anger, bitterness, and pain.

She is vengeful and cold, but at times, one can see glimpses of the girl she used to be. She seems to be consumed with hatred and revenge, allowing her anger to corrupt her. But deep down, she is hurt and damaged, and has been twisted by the influences of people who did not really have her best interests at heart.

She is clever, quiet, and extremely angry. She doesn't trust anyone (besides Zulera) and tends to be harsh towards everyone, very abrupt in speech and demanding in her expectations of others. She is an extremely fierce fighter, and engaging into a battle with her means either you win or die. She takes some sort of pleasure in the death of others. She is very protective of her country and will do anything to keep her seat on the throne safe.

She has a problem with touch; this is a result of anger and distrust, and the fact that she wasn't shown much more affection than a half-hearted "Good," from her father. She will often flinch or her expression will go completely blank if you're lucky; more often than not, she'll attack first and ask questions later. While this is an issue with affection, she is completely fine with touch in a battle; she would rather be punched in the face than given a hug it seems.

She speaks with anger and authority most of the time, and is an amazing actress when she has to be. Many find her screaming and yelling at others for no apparent reason--any little thing sends her into a frenzy of angered stress.

Strengths: She is highly intelligent, stubborn, determined, and a strong fighter.

Weaknesses: Shula's greatest weakness is her short-sightedness. She often acts without properly thinking thing through, and even when she does plot things out carefully, she still fails to see the overall effect of her actions. She is easily influenced by the wrong people, and often allows anger to cloud her judgement. Although some people would say she no longer cares about anything but herself, the truth is that she cares too much, and after being let down and betrayed by people she most cared about, she allowed her pain to turn into bitterness.


Bending:
~Firebending: Master: Shula mastered firebending at the age of sixteen thanks to the rigorous training her teacher Gen Zhou put her through. Although she is already a master, Shula still often seeks new forms and techniques of the art of firebending to increase her abilities and power.

~Lightning: Master: She has the ability to bend lightning, a technique that she prefers over regular firebending--she would rather get the battle over with one well-aimed shot than play cat-and-mouse.

~Other Bending Technique: Average: She also developed a technique to bend lava itself (although Avatar Roku did it first, she has a set of techniques for it and occasionally practices at the Sages' temple.) She's extremely bad at it but continues trying. She can also cause flames to dissipate, taking the heat of them and expanding it outwards and away from herself, effectively eliminating them; she once tried reversing a flame in on itself and caused an explosion and is unwilling to do it again, although she has tried it a few times afterwards and could use it in battle if necessary.


Weaponry:
Hand-to-Hand Combat: Master: In her lifetime, Shula has learned twenty-nine forms of martial arts and is in the midst of creating her own defense techniques--this is a combination of the cumulative research she had done in martial arts. She's taking the best of these and using them to create the "ultimate" fighting style, although she does not suspect that many will use it because of its unorthodox ways.

Kyoshi Fan Technique: Master: As a child, Shula had glorified the Kyoshi Warriors in her mind, thinking them to be the greatest fighting group the world had ever seen. While this is not entirely untrue, she spent her adolescent years of eleven until thirteen studying the Kyoshi Fan Technique specifically, enjoying the give and take that the fans seemed to share. She also uses these fans to amplify her firebending.

The Art of the Blade: Master: Shula's most favored method of fighting, after her fans, is using the katana and wakizashi pair. She is known for this, as her elegance and grace while fighting is equal to that of a dancer, but as deadly as a leopard. She also enjoys using hissatsu, small Japanese knives that come in various shapes and sizes that can be hidden easily underneath clothing. She always has at least three hissatsu on her person at all times.

Aerial Weaponry [darts, arrows, etc.]: Expert: During her time in exile, Shula was taught how to use poisoned darts. While this isn't one of her favored methods, as she prefers her opponents up close and personal, she improved greatly. As a child, her father had tried to get her interested in archery; she never took up the art, having no taste for it, but during her exile she studied this method and improved from a beginner to quite an accomplished shot. She was also taught how to use her favored hissatsu as throwing knives; if she must throw a weapon at an enemy, that's what she prefers.

Staffs: Average While in exile, she had also been taught how to use short and long staffs, nunchucks, and sansetsukon as well. While she had learnt this with much progress, her interest declined after her exile and she has maintained average level with that particular fighting style. When training, she still practices with these, to maintain that which she has already learned.


Other Skills:
Disguise: Master: Shula learned how to disguise herself quite well during exile. Using different oils and herbal mixtures, she discovered how to blend with her surroundings and even change her hair color. She discovered that she was quite the actress.

Gardening: Uh...average? As Shula had been living underneath the Fire Nation Capitol during her exile in a giant metal cocoon, she had taken up gardening; while that sounds a little odd, it really wasn't, because she mainly grew plants that required little to no light. She found that she was quite good at it and that it's a good way to relieve stress, though occasionally she burns everything to the ground and starts again during angry fits.

Music: Beginner Shula's love for music had always existed, even when she was a small child; as she grew older, she grew envious of those who could play music and sing beautifully. When she was exiled, she found music to be a beautiful release of the anger and sorrow, and has begun learning to play the sitar. While she isn't very good now, she hopes to one day master the instrument; music is one of the few things that calms and relaxes her.



To say that Shula is beautiful would be an understatement. She is stunning, with porcelain skin that creates a striking contrast against her long, jet black curls. But her most arresting feature is her pale green eyes, which may seem icy cold when she is angry.

Her hair, when straight, reaches almost to her knees, only three inches above, and the tips are dyed red. When curly, her hair reaches the base of her back and she leaves it down more often than not. She received none of her mother's Earth Kingdom-esque facial features except for the green of her eyes, although her body shape is that of an Earth Kingdom woman with large hips, a round bum, a tiny waist and average sized b'reasts. When needed, she will wear the traditional Royal kimonos and robes, her hair up in an elegant bun with the Fire Lord's crown atop her head. Unless it's necessary, she prefers her hair down and a silk dress embroidered with gold and silver thread.

Due to her recent weight loss, her face is sharp and angled, her cheekbones and jaw jutting out. While most who suffer from what is the early stages of anorexia have sunken eyes, hers seem to pop out more; they seem to grow more and more frenzied as time goes by. Her teeth are white and straight, her top lip thin and the bottom full.

She has a dimple in her pointed chin, and a thin pink scar along her hairline on the left side that she hides with strategically placed curls; there is another large, thick scar from her lower back that races up to the middle of her shoulder blades. She is tall and thin, especially as of late, making her look like an easy adversary; what little weight she does have on her body is mostly muscle, although her skin is soft, silky, and milky colored.





Species: Dragon

Gender: Male

Personality: Kichiro is a curious creature, who enjoys finding new things to examine. He's calm and absolutely adorable; while growing quickly, he maintains his curious and intelligent nature. Those who are able to be around him for longer than a few minutes learn that he's sweet and cute, and instantly fall in love with him.

Apperance: Kichiro is the color of red rust, and his eyes are a brilliant shade of gold. He has various spikes along his spine and tail, and these are a mixture of orange and gold, looking like live flames.




History: (1115/720)

Father: Shinsei Njoo; Deceased Shinsei had been a distant man; his gold eyes had always seemed hard and cold, and his voice was never passionate unless he gave a speech about the glory of the Fire Nation. He was very intellectual and ruled the Fire Nation with his mind; he'd been a good fighter, but could've done better. Shula's only negative feelings towards her father are that he failed to give her actual fatherly love; he'd always treated her like the successor to the throne rather than his flesh and blood. Fire Lord Shinsei had been thirty-four when Shula was born; he was fifty-two years old when he died.

Mother: Kumo Njoo; Deceased Kumo had been a loving and sweet woman; her warm green eyes and tan skin came from her distant Earth Kingdom heritage. She and Shinsei were married when the two fell in love, despite their age differences; she had been twenty when she was married. She gave birth to Shula at twenty-one; she died at twenty-three. Shula does not remember her mother, but feels like she knows her from the stories told and the pictures hanging in various rooms of the Palace and the Fire Lord's mansion on Ember Island.

Brother: Kashikoi Kai; Unknown Kashikoi Kai was Shula's older half-brother, raised in a different household with a different mother than Shula. His last name matches his mother's; he was a nonbender, making a claim to the throne illegitimate. He was the one who gave her the two foot long scar on her back. He disappeared after their battle and Shula has not heard from him since.

Brother: Atarashii Kai; Unknown Atarashii Kai is Shula's other older half-brother, twin to Kashikoi. He was also a nonbender; Shula believes him to be deceased.

Childhood: Shula grew up as the only child to the Fire Lord; her mother died when she was three and she was raised to be the heir to the Fire Nation throne. She was then rigorously watched, having no time to actually be a child, and was trained in fighting styles and in politics. She was taught by a private tutor, and began her lessons at the young age of three and a half.  

Mastery: She was sixteen when she mastered firebending, a feat that was very rare, especially for how quickly she progressed. After her mastery, she went into the world to study other forms of martial arts and to meet with other leaders and have them teach her the politics for ruling a nation.

Her Father's Death: When she returned home at 18, it was to find her father lying in his death bed. The same strange illness that struck her mother had been born in her father, and he was slowly dying. She spent her days and nights by his bedside, inviting healers and scholars to come and take a look at him. Many remedies were tried; all failed. Eventually, he had to die, and the eighteen year old was looked upon to rule.

Coronation: After her father's death, the kingdom held a solemn funeral and her coronation in one. She entered a stage of depression for a week, as she had no family left and many believed that she was unfit to rule as a female. Eventually, she realized that it did not do her father's memory justice to waste away in her bedroom while her country needed someone they could rely on. She went forth and proved that she was a worthy Fire Lord, and was loved by most of her people.

The Thief: Four years after Shula's coronation, she was forced to leave her home. An adviser of hers, Novai, was stepping in and taking her place. Rather than plunge her country into civil war, she fled to wait it out and devise a plan to get her throne back. She began an organisation, The Underground, and her followers joined her in a plot to bring Novai down.

Exile: Shula learned quite a bit in her exile from the throne and evidently the Fire Nation. Not only was she taught in new ways of weaponry and disguise, but she had learned to appreciate the simpler things in life for what they are. The posh, prim, and proper girl was replaced by a wiser woman--for twenty-six years old, she can seem quite wise as she's experienced more in her short lifespan than most in an entire lifetime.

Victory: Two years later, and all of her planning was complete. She used her small but powerful group to bring Fire Lord Novai down, and Shula regained her throne and her country. And now....no one would stop her from keeping it.  

An Unknown Relative: Months after she returned to the throne, she discovered that one of her traitorous admirals was actually her brother. Kashikoi Kai, her half-brother, was not allowed the throne because of his inability to bend. They fought, Shula for her country, and he for unknown reasons; the battle left her with the two foot long scar along her spine. Shula learned that Kashikoi had been the one responsible for both of her parents' deaths.

A Gift: Another few months after her battle with her half-brother, Shula was paid a visit by a Fire Nation traveler, Mako Irion. He had brought her a baby dragon, bright red in color with large gold eyes and an intelligent curiosity for things. Things heated rather quickly between the two, and much to Shula's chagrin very....intimate things happened between the two.

Betrayed: Shula, being as naive and innocent as she is, hadn't realized that many males weren't all that interested in staying committed to one girl. Mako up and left one day, not to be seen nor heard from by her until later, when she found out about he and Renayu. Her heart break was pivotal, and almost destructive to the whole of the Fire Nation. In a fury, she ended up burning about fourteen different rooms in the Palace, two of which were highly ceremonial and contained priceless heirlooms. (He.ll hath no fury like a woman scorned.) The rooms and treasures were restored with much work, and Shula became quite dead inside after everything.

A Helping Hand: After Mako's betrayal, Avatar Zulera and Shula became very close; to this day, Zulera remains Shula's only friend. While on a continuous downward spiral, her love and trust for Zulera remains, and (hopefully) always shall.

Bitter: For quite a while, Shula was simply numb, not really feeling much. Eventually the gift of the numbness began to fade and the pain became too much to deal with; here was when her very subconscious began to twist and writhe into the bitter, angry woman she is today. But underneath it all, she's very scared and alone; she doesn't even trust herself, and she just wants to go back to the way she was before Mako ever came along.



Character Box:

Shula Njoo

Shula was upset; this much was obvious as she stood in front of her throne, a resplendent gown of emerald silk and silver thread embroidery cloaking her ever-thinning body. Her face was lit by the flames around her, the crown of the Fire Lord atop her head, glowing in the light. The curls tumbling down to the bottom of her spine shone more with excellent care than with health. "Let's go over this again. Slowly. You come into my Palace, attempt to steal one of the most cherished heirlooms of my family, and your response is that you're hungry? You have the audacity to beg me for food as I stand here, deciding your fate?!" Shula's pale green eyes flashed angrily as flames suddenly sprouted from her fingertips, and the guards within the room stood back. The dirty, bony man on his knees before her whimpered, covered his head in his hands as she neared, her footsteps ringing through the throne room. "Please, My Lady, I only wished to feed my family... the child, he starves, he starves..." the peasant sobbed, trembling upon the cold marble floors. A bag of coins hit him in the side of the head, and he looked up at Shula. She was already walking back to her throne, sitting calmly and gave him a look to get the he.ll out before she changed her mind. He scrambled, taking the bag of coins and running. As soon as he reached the doors, the flames around her came alive like monsters, surging forward and consuming him. She watched with a perverse sense of delight. His screams lasted but a moment, and soon the only sound in the room was the echo of the coins dancing across the floor.

Mood: Sour Condition: Weak

Shula Kumo Njoo

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