Full Name: Umbra
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Element: Earth
Birthplace: Ember Island
Position: Dungeoneer
Training: Expert Earthbender/Metalbender, Expert Swordsman
Personality:
Umbra’s entire personality is based around her confidence. She has very few fears, and her ability to run recklessly into battle is unmatched. The root of many of her problems comes from this incredible confidence, but it’s also the cause for many of her better qualities. There’s a sort of passion that you can see afire on Umbra’s face at all times.
Determination is another aspect of Umbra’s personality that is very strong, almost to a point where it often does more harm than good. Umbra can know that she is outmatched, or that she has no chance of surviving a fight, and she’ll still keep going until she is unconscious or dead. Luckily it hasn’t come to the latter yet, and her twin sister Espa is to thank for that. While Umbra could be described as a sort of mental protector of Espa, Umbra’s sister is just as often getting Umbra out of tough situations which Umbra would have trouble getting out of on her own. While Espa has never been a fighter, she’s always had a knack for reading a situation and determining a route of escape, which are both qualities that Umbra severely lacks.
Umbra is also often chatty and amiable. Her confidence also makes her fearless in the realm of conversation. She loves telling stories, and could be seen as a bit of an exaggerator, but it’s always fun and interesting to hear what she has to say. Often, she’ll accidentally interrupt or override people, and her sister is no exception. Espa often has vital advice that Umbra will talk, command, or laugh over.
Unfortunately, all of this confidence eliminates some of the things that Umbra desperately wished she had a knack for. She’s terrible at romance and doesn’t particularly understand the need for love. Umbra also has the capacity for jealousy and anger. She’s often seething, and sometimes verbally exploding over little things that do not matter much. On the flip side, it’s very rare for Umbra to be sad about something. Anger always takes precedence.
Abilities:
Umbra’s confidence is bolstered by her fighting style. Pure strength is Umbra’s focus in battle. She’s able to hurl rocks that are much larger than her, and particularly enjoys trying to slam enemies between huge pillars or boulders. This crashing style creates a lot of sound, often damages structures, often misses, and is often fatal. While Umbra has never killed anyone, she doesn’t have many qualms about killing in self-defense. For injury based combat, Umbra will use smaller boulders, and will go for capturing rather than crushing slams. Umbra also has a handle on all earthbending basics.
For weapon combat, Umbra lugs a large metal blade around. Its length goes from about her hip to the top of her head, and the width is about the same as both of her forearms put together. Her ability to carry its enormous weight is due to her metalbending, which lets her take the brunt of the weight off her muscles. This allows her to wield her deadly weapon with far greater speed than she should be able to, which often surprises and overpowers foes.
Her metalbending doesn’t just apply to her sword, however. Umbra can also use the metal around her for even more crush based combat. She loves gathering the metal around her and swarming her enemies with it, trying to overpower them by closing them in. Her strength in metalbending also gives her the ability to ruin another person’s weapon unless it has protections against her. (Of course, this kind of character control won’t be used on other members…probably.
) This often gives her a huge advantage against non-benders, and can easily cripple weak benders.
As a side note, Umbra has a deep knowledge of rocks. Because of this, she understands that certain rocks will create sparks when they are hit together. When these rocks are available, Umbra will use them in her crashing combat style to create tons of bright flares that both disorient and have the possibility of catching clothes and other things on fire.
Umbra’s reckless style does tend to cause structural issues when fighting inside or underground. She’s very used to having to rely on Espa to escape cave-ins that Umbra has caused in hasty moments. Most of Umbra’s bending flaws are rooted in her hasty personality though. She rarely thinks things through.
Appearance:
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Height: 5’7”
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Brown, but they look red in light.
Hair: Black
Skin: Pale
Umbra’s black hair is usually laid out rather messy, and a few bits often stick up in spots along the top of her head. She isn’t bothered by it, and only decorates it with gold barrette to keep the brunt of it out of her face. Her eyes are usually challenging, as if they are both daring and hoping for a battle. Their color is actually brown but in light they appear red with a tint of orange. Her nose is small and spritely, and it easily matches the half-grin that she usually sports.
Umbra’s body type is athletic and lightly muscled. Her slender form is revealed by a tight, translucent fabric that covers her entire body up to her neck. In order to remain modest, Umbra wears a sort of half-tank top with a stylish black and yellow tie. A fancy collar covers the back of the tie, and displays a yellow circle in front. Umbra has two billowing sleeves that are tied off above the elbow by golden ribbons. They drape down her back and touch around the calf of her legs when Umbra is at rest. Tied around her waist by a scarf is a skirt which is held together on the front and back by two gold bangles. Finally, Umbra’s look is complete by two gold anklets and simple black shoes.
Weaponry & Other Gear:
Item Name Cool Sword
Materials: Steel
Description:
During one of Umbra and Espa’s many adventure’s in a certain cave, Umbra came across a hulking corpse that was still holding this giant sword. She immediately took the large weapon as a trophy, and quickly grew in love with it, because her ability turned the sword into a fast, yet colossal death stick.
History:
Umbra was born after a long and troubling night. Under a full moon she was brought into the world, hours before the sun would come out. It was not known that Umbra’s mother, Eva, was pregnant with twins until complications continued after Umbra had been born. Once dawn could be seen on the horizon, Espa, Umbra’s twin, was born.
She grew up as a rather headstrong, rough and tumble kind of child. She led Espa on her many adventures, who followed along without complaint. Umbra was very independent and had all the qualities of a daring leader. She just wasn’t very thoughtful. She often got herself and Espa into a lot trouble by not thinking about the consequences of her actions. She never really grew out of this.
Umbra’s earthbending became known around the same time as Espa’s airbending. They were both rambunctious toddlers (or at least Umbra was) and many adventures led to the discovery of each other’s bending. This was rather surprising, as both of Umbra and Espa’s parents were non-benders. Rare cases of non-benders giving birth to benders were known, but the parents hadn’t known that some ancestors down their bloodlines had been benders. They were both genetic anomalies, starting with their twinship and continuing with their powerful bending abilities.
Their parents were both excited to having children with such strong chi, and sought out a teacher for both Umbra and Espa. Under different teachers, they trained separately. Umbra quickly took up the hard and powerful style of earthbending, and her teacher was also knowledgeable in the ways of metalbending. At around 13, Umbra started to learn the strength and skill required to manipulate metal, and eventually became good at it a few years later.
Umbra and Espa don’t exactly have a tragic past. They grew up together in a rather quaint apartment above their parent’s inn. Umbra loved meeting the various tourists who stayed in the inn, which was located on beautiful Ember Island. She was never afraid to ask people’s stories, and make fleeting friends with other kids who she knew would be gone within a few days or so. It was fun to rotate through all the personalities of life. This is where her confidence in conversation arose, as she learned about all sorts of people, and understood what was fun and easy to talk about.
After Umbra and her sister became experts in their crafts, Umbra decided it was time to explore the world for what it was worth. Espa appeared happy to tag along, and they left with their parent’s blessing. They now tromp around the world, with Umbra leading Espa to ruined sites searching for ancient art, history, and treasure!
After leaving at about the age of twenty, Umbra and Espa have had quite a few adventures. Umbra found her signature sword after trouncing around at the Cave of Two Lovers. A rotting corpse still clung to the master work, and Umbra was happy to take it off the body. Using her earthbending, they made their escape, and after two years of daily training, Umbra has made the weapon an extension of herself.
**OPTIONAL**Sample RP: It’s Loki.
Character Box:
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