Kumo Ianus

Kumo is a loving, sweet, kind woman. She seems to have an infinite amount of patience, which is necessary as she works with children on a daily basis. None remember her ever speaking an unkind word, and she always gives people the benefit of the doubt even when they have wronged her before.

Equality is very important to her, and she maintains it both in the classroom and in her personal life--not that she really has one. She's soft-spoken and doesn't really appear to have a temper, though she can be firm with those that need a more forceful form of discipline.

She's also very sorrowful underneath the calm caring that is always displayed to those she does not know very well. Her past remains hidden to her and therefore causes a lot of doubt and pain in her heart as to who she is. What she fears most of all is finding out that before her memory loss, she was someone who hurt others.

She also assumes that she might have a family out somewhere, but gave up trying to figure it out long ago. Small stretch marks upon her lower abdomen indicate that she was pregnant at some point, but she has no idea whatever became of a family and often ponders on who she was and how different she is as a person now.


Kumo is a wonderful hand-to-hand combatant, though aside from this, she doesn't have very many skills. She's extremely agile and flexible for her age, which is strange enough. One would assume that at her age, she received more training at one point, but she has forgotten most of it and what she knows now was re-learned over the course of many years.

Along with this, she's smart and cunning, and has a talent with kids that isn't often seen; she somehow connects with the children and her teaching methods are so diverse and new that parents either love her or hate her.

She has not found a student that she could not teach, and to this day makes it her mission to ignite the love for knowledge in each child that passes through her doors.

She is intellectual and analytical, excelling in literature and arithmetic, but not having a knack for music whatsoever. Most of the children she teaches are from the ages of 7 to 11, but she's had a rare case or two in which she was privately hired to teach younger or older.


Kumo's warm green eyes and voluptuous body shape come from her distant Earth Kingdom heritage. In fact, those are the only things that indicate her mixed blood. She's extremely fit and trim for the ripe age of 48, not looking her age much at all, though her hair is slowly graying. Her face is youthful and her skin glows with passion.

She assumes that she is Fire Nation based off of her bone structure and facial features; in fact, she would be very regal looking if she ever tied her impossibly long mane up and used a bit of makeup. Her height is also another factor in her belief that she is both Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom--one a bit more than the other.

Kumo prefers loose garments, keeping her hair down and her face free of makeup. She's very modest and does not show much skin at all. Her eyes are large, her nose a little pointed, and her mouth is fairly small and thin as expected with age. She has a few crinkly lines around her eyes and two around the corners of her mouth, but other than this, she does not look aged.



Kumo knows little of her history, such as where she was born or where her family comes from. What little she does remember is difficult to attain, and she is often forgetful of her own past. Surprisingly though, her vast amounts of knowledge never left her, and inspired her to become a teacher in Ba Sing Se.

The events of her finding that she had lost most of her memories go a bit like this:


Kumo groaned, sitting up and raising a hand to block the sun from her eyes. She could smell salt, and looked around herself. She was by the ocean. Her head pounded and the heat was fierce; her body was refusing to sweat and her mouth was dry, so she assumed that she was suffering from dehydration. She stood slowly, swaying on her feet dizzily as her vision and hearing left her for a moment and she felt as though she would faint.

Within a moment, her vision returned and faint ringing was left in her ears. Her stomach ached and growled with intense hunger and she moved her feet painstakingly slow, moving towards the line of trees above the beach.

She reached it slowly, her clothes stiff from the salt of the water. Her hair was in disarray but the clothes appeared to be expensive. They were red and embroidered gold, looking very much like silk; she was obviously someone of the Fire Nation, and was very important.  Eventually a carriage came by and she asked for a ride. The family within took her to the nearest village, which just so happened to be pretty far. Eventually they reached Gaoling.

Here she was treated for dehydration and given new clothes as her own were falling apart at the seems from the storm. And here she began a new life.


Kumo, unbeknownst to her, had fallen ill to a poison while alone in the Fire Nation Royal Palace; the poison was intended to kill her but her body resisted, though on a trip to Fire Fountain City, she was abducted and taken. Saving her child, Shula, she was punished severely and beaten.

She eventually escaped, running to the ocean. She was pushed in and the current swept her far, far away from her home. Grabbing onto debris from old ships, she stayed afloat.

She ended up heading all the way to the Earth Kingdom, and hadn't eaten or drank anything in a matter of a week and a half. The severe dehydration and lack of nutrients set about her amnesia and she recalls none of this.

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Some of your sections do not fulfill the minimum word requirement for an expert-tier character.  Please revise and then bump.  (Sorry that this didn't get looked at for some reason.)

EDIt: Just realized this was Noko's. I'm guessing this is a WIP then. Please put stuff like that in your title silly.

It's been well over a month.
Nothing personal or anything, but I've got to move this to the REJECTED forum in accordance with the 1-month rule (I think it was/is technically a week but pfft, a month is more reasonable)

Of course, since you're an admin you can pull it right back out when you're ready to work on it again. Just that I can't be calling some people out for inactivity and then be all "but how come that topic isn't moved?"

[you know me, love. just following the rules. <3]

Bump bump.

I'm generally against the amnesia concept... unless of course the character in question doesn't remember. I think you said that that was going to be the case? :3
either way, nothing here tha breaks the rules, and it seems to fit an intermediate character sheet's criteria. soo... APPROVED!