Isikiro Sherazi Anazalrok

Isikiro is a fierce and passionate young woman who is viciously protective of her mother and siblings. She holds a certain disdain for the Fire Nation because of their lack of safety concerns in the mines she worked in, because it was that exact thing that cost her father her life, and confined her mother to crutches. Nonetheless, her family is more or less her world, and she is willing to do anything for them.
She is also fairly aggressive, and will lash out vehemently against anyone who she feels is threatening her, or worse, her loved ones. Because of her often hair-trigger temper, she gets into a lot of fights, many of which she loses, but most of them, she wins. She has no real concern for the value of life, and is well-versed in the art of killing and gutting animals, some of which she trades in the local black market, and others that she brings home for her own family. While her difficult life has rendered her a fairly hardened individual, there are a few things that will make her smile. These include the sound of flowing water, the silence of an evening under the moonlight, and the laughs and smiles of little children, to name a few. Truth of the matter is that Isi is a girl of simple pleasures.

As mentioned above, Isi enjoys nature, in particular water, as well as the evening sky and the moonlight. She is also fond of little children, especially her younger siblings. She cares deeply for and sympathizes with her disabled mother, who was put out of commission with a terribly deep regret that the woman laments to this day. Isi also enjoys killing things, revelling in the glory of a well-aimed shot, or, ironically, a well-aimed strike at a vein of coal. In fine, she appreciated success and skill, as well as hard work.

Other than children and relatives, however, Isi  generally hates people, and despises authority and the elite. She hates arrogance and bravado, and is more than willing to pick fights with these kinds of people for the sole purpose of attempting to knock them down a peg. Unsurprisingly, she also hates getting flogged, and by extension, hates the few enforcers that actually enforce the laws, but that is a punishment she brings on herself, and so she more hates herself for being stupid enough to get caught.

However, as of recently, as Isikiro's life continues to improve, she has displayed a much gentler and more affectionate side, and while she is still resoundingly and impossibly stubborn, she is much more amiable and kind-hearted now that she's not worrying about where her next meal will come from or being under the oppressive whips of her former masters. Not that she was ever really ashamed of it before, but thanks to the comforting words of a close friend, and the silent actions of a man she is currently in love with, Isi also really likes her thick, country accent more than ever, and wouldn't lose it for the world.

Isi also has a very feminine side that revealed itself once she had the time to... well, think about it. Coupled with her hot passion for everything she did, Isi was quite the fiery little romantic. She enjoys the sweet and simple things in life, and even if sometimes they're a bit cheesy, they can usually still make the little coal miner smile.

Despite having never eaten a "full" meal in her life, Isikiro has a surprising amount of meat on her bones. In short, one could say that she has the build of a brawler and that it has served her well. With a somewhat muscular frame, sturdy build, and her large hands and feet, she was practically built to brawl.
She is also competent at swinging large and heavy objects, considering how many hours a day she spends with a pickaxe or other heavy equipment deep inside the mountains. She is fairly ambidextrous, and so both her left arm and her right are wicked swinging arms, which in turn also means she can swing one hell of a punch. This also amounts into some very forceful earthbending and metalbending abilities that have also served her well.

Because of the time spent in the wilderness hunting for game, she is fairly skilled with the bow as well, being able to snipe targets from considerable range, and stealthily sneak up on them as well. Her stealth is obviously not perfect considering that she has been caught before, but when one is carrying several dead animals, it is a difficult task.

On the other hand, perhaps unsurprisingly, Isi is about as charismatic as a fish flopping around on the ground. Her thick accent sometimes makes her hard to decipher, and so speaking is clearly not her forte. Her hair-trigger temper can also work against her, for she is not exactly known for thinking things through when she's blasted into a fit of rage and attacking whatever's nearest to her. While she has very swift reflexes, these can also work against her, for while she sleeps heavily, she will jump at anything that goes bump in the night if she's awake, making her sometimes appear paranoid.

After being forced into a do-or-die situation by an enemy wreaking havoc on the Fire Nation Capitol, Isikiro learned to bend and control lava. It fits in well with her raw, primal-style power and ferocity, although since she is (mostly) swearing off her destructive ways, she is unlikely to need to use these abilities very often. on the other hand, she does hone them when she can, figuring that if there is ever another renegade bender that needs his or her abilities checked, Isi could come to the defense of the would-be victims. Now that she understands the importance of open chakras, Isi adds that sort of practice to her training regimen, wishing to keep her skills fresh. As a master over earth and metal, Isikiro is very in tune with her native elements, being able to sense impurities in metal, or disruptions in the ground in the form of seismic senses. She attributes this to Tarek's lessons as well.
Despite all this, she is still one of the best streetfighters and fist-fighters the world has to offer.

Isi is a slightly thinner girl with dark skin, wavy dark hair, and brown eyes who almost always has a surly expression on her face, and is almost always covered in soot. However, by contrast, in the rare instance that she smiles, she has one of the loveliest little grins and cheerful expressions a kid can have, despite her yellowish teeth. Hygiene isn't exactly a top priority in the mines. Her clothes are a few sizes too big on her, for many of them were her father's, and while he was not a very large man himself, he was significantly broader than Isi. She does possess fairly large hands and feet for her size, however, and years of hard work have kept her in rather decent shape, scanty meals notwithstanding. It could theoretically be said that she cleans up nicely, not only because she, like most of her fellow citizens, does not clean herself much (the coal dust always comes back), but because the Fire Nation nobility seem to have the capability to make anything look good. On that note, her back, thighs, and arms are riddled with lacerations and scars from where the whips have cracked against her body. There is a reason she wears long pants and long sleeves, after all (and often in shades of red or black, no less).

After her life got put back in order though, she got cleaned up, and even dare say, a bit dolled up, which also included the removal of most of her unsightly scars through long, advanced healing sessions, as well as most of her body hair simply because Isi was exposed to the finer side of life by a friend. She still dresses the asme as she usually used to, except now her clothes are fairly clean (and still as sturdy as ever), and now and again, Isi will don a pretty dress and heels or something. Despite this, she still prefers long sleeves and long pants (or long skirts). Isi doesn't show herself to just anyone...

Weaponry & Other Gear:
Dual Hammers
Materials: Metal; Wood
Description: A couple of simply but sturdily made hammers that Isi uses as weapons or tools. They are quite practical.

Isikiro’s life was trying from the day she was born, because like many others in her area, her family had trouble making ends meet. For 14 years of Isi’s childhood, she lived about as happily as any other kid could in such difficult circumstances, and while she theoretically could qualify to work in the mines and thus help support the family alongside her father and mother, her father forbade it, wanting his children to at least have some life in their childhood.

However, that all changed dramatically one fateful day after Isi’s father was killed and her mother was crippled, effectively putting her out of commission, much to the older woman's own dismay. To this day she still feels horribly guilty about it, because the result was that it shifted the entire workload onto Isi’s shoulders, since at the time, her younger siblings were not old enough to go.

Struggling as the only breadwinner of the family (other than the occasional odd job her mother would do for a bit of extra coin), Isi’s life quickly became almost all work and no play, and so she hardly saw her siblings. She grew bitter at the horrible quality of life that the miners faced, as well as the risks and dangers, but she worked hard and paid her dues, bringing home food and money for her family as often as she could. Often after a shift, she would sneak out and break into the storehouses of the overseers to snag a few things to trade or eat. She did this with varying success, and when she got caught by the wrong officials, it was no mystery. Male or female, they more lawful ones didn't care who the miscreant was. Each time, Isi was stripped from the waist up, and lashed and flogged. A few less accurate shots would hit her arms or thighs, and so she bears scars there as well.

Nonetheless, Isi was so undeterred that she continues this practice to this very day, knowing that the well-being of her family was more important than not getting flogged. After the 5th or 6th time anyways, she sort of became desensitized to it, and thus it bothered her much less.

Her lack of charisma and her heavy accent have earned her getting teased by many individuals, although her belligerent behavior usually causes her to pick fights with anyone she sees as a worthy opponent or someone in need of a massive beatdown. She wins some fights, and loses others, but it’s clear that her win record is much higher than her loss record.

Grief was not finished with Isi’s poor little family though, and after weeks of struggling, Isikiro  nearly lost her remaining family, but managed to hold them together, after a great and successful thievery that managed to get them the money they needed to get out of there. However, she did not follow them, because she did not want to be the link that tied them to the money and goods. She vows that she’ll one day return to them, but for the time being she’s on her own. She is able to sleep well at night knowing that her little family will be able to subsist though—at least for a little while.

In a fit of rage, Isikiro raided the Fire Nation Capitol, smashing her way through the city until she reached the palace, where she continued her destructive rampage all the way until she encountered the Fire Lord himself. It was he who then proceeded to, rather than send her to prison or execute her on the spot, took her in and instead tried to help her heal, both physically and emotionally. He proceeded to help her unblock her chakras, which helped elevate her bending skills to unprecedentedly powerful levels, but at the same time, he also helped get her and her family on their feet, at least for a little bit. Isi didn't want life handed to her on a silver platter. She wanted to work for it.

However, as her sojourn with the Fire Family was nearing an end, Isi was caught up in a massive attack from a renegade group of benders wishing to destroy the place. She found herself locked in combat with a lavabender who was threatening to collapse important buildings. She was fairly certain that they would reach the palace soon enough if she and her group were not stopped. She 'learned' lavabending during a do-or-die moment that had nearly killed her. She attributed it to her recent unblocking of her chakras, and while she wouldn't ever know for sure, this was actually the reason for it.

Shortly after her release however, she met up with a noblewoman named Shi-Hao at a conference with a man wishing to build a city. The idea appealed to Isi, even if it never took off, but that was irrelevant for the friendship that was being forged here. Sure Isi's chakras might have been opened and sure she might not have been struggling to put food on the table on a daily basis, but she was still pretty crushingly poor. Shi-Hao, in her benevolence, took Isi and her family under her wing, and the two became very good friends as the latter started working for the former, receiving much better pay. In the meantime, she also learned of her feminine side, enjoying things like dressing up, cleaning up, and looking pretty. This did seem to pay off, for it was not long afterwards that she ran into a man named Drey, who, while mute, managed to say more to Isi than anyone else ever could. It was an almost storybook relationship, and the budding romance is blossoming quickly. However, even with that relationship and with all the free time she has, Isikiro still works as hard as ever, believing that hard work and determination and get a person just about anything they want.
While satisfied with her life currently, Isi does still have big dreams. Her current project in life is trying to restore her broken mother to her former glory, and helping her overcome her mental block. Her long-term ambitions include owning a business. Time will determine her failure or success...

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Sample RP: you know me folks. :B

Character Box:

Isikiro Sherazi Anazalrok

So blinded by her rage was Isikiro that she did not even realize the magnitude of damage and destruction that she had been wreaking all around her. Her mind was so bent on this single-minded fury that she didn't even know what she was trying to accomplish here, although that realization had not come to her either. Let it not be said that Isikiro was an idiotic woman; anger literally brought out the worst of people. This was not a plan she had thought through very well--this was just a huge release of pent-up anger. had she stopped to think of what the results might have been, she might have planned things a bit differently. A booming shout was something that instantly snapped her back to reality, the haze of her eyes quickly fading as she snapped back into the horrifying reality of what she was doing. She froze, panick showing in her eyes. She was frozen with a mixture of fear and various other feelings, and so instead of trying to run or fight, she became as rigid as a board, still in her attacking position from a split-second ago. Here was the man she was looking for--here was the Firelord. A moment later, she cowered, bracing herself for the divine retribution of what was surely an angry man, crouching down and putting her hands over her head as if to brace herself for what was surely to come. And yet, a few seconds passed, and then a few more, and then she looked up nervously to see why she had not been struck down where she stood. She might have been able to hold herself in a fistfight, but that was irrelevant. The speech though... those words struck her harder than the lashes on her back. Slowly, she got up, looking around her as she realized, horrified, what she had just done. Wasn't that why she was here? Wasn't she just another one who was doing what she could to help support her family? She had not even noticed that she had been so violent that she had just taken many lives. The look of horror; of shock... it annihilated her anger on the spot, and it was replaced with guilt; with sorrow. Isikiro fell to her knees, her eyes watering almost instantly. She had every demeanor of 'what have I done' written all over her face. "Anger..." she stuttered, "blahnd... anger... Ah... Ah wuz angry... 'n Ah didn' think... didn' realahze what Ah wuz doin... what Ah... what Ah had done..." her voice was trembling, and she began babbling almost incomprehensibly. In it was something about harsh conditions, coal mines, a struggling family, and general mistreatment. she repeated herself a few times, still babbling both nervously and shamefully, and something about lashings also made its appearance. Someone would need to snap her out of this.

Mood: Horrified; Shamed Condition: Dirty, Grimy, Injured; the usual

Link: Isi

Approved Zul

Nice character, sad story with that family though. Them feels...

Shamelessly adding my own seal of approval to my character.
The newly added stuff is in a slightly darker shade of grey (without being too distracting). All of the abilities and changes to appearance and history have all happened in-character, and I have the threads to prove it.

But yeah--TL;DR: Isikiro is a Master-Tier character now.

APPROVED again Zul, Lovely additions