Mishka

Name: Mishka
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Element: Air
Birthplace: Eastern Air Temple
Position: Nomad



Airbending: Master (not officially)
Sky Surfing: Expert
Air Pressure (Kūkiatsu): Creator
Hand-to-Hand: Expert


He’s impudent and a bit abrasive. He can be dense, impatient, and inconsiderate, and isn’t very good at reading people’s emotions or boundaries. He can be disrespectful, especially to authority figures. It's because of his narcississm and self-centered nature that Mishka does get along with most people. Not that he really cares, he isn't very concerned with others' opinions of him.

He’s incredibly vain, and often worries about his appearance. Naturally because of his narcissistic tendencies, he's a flirt. There's nothing he enjoys more than a good time with the someone he finds attractive. Although he normally pursues women, he has more than once been involved with men as well.

His years of travel have led him to be a bit emotionally underdeveloped, not good at sharing his feelings or opening up. Life as a nomad has led to Mishka being more self-sufficient than most. He doesn’t want to admit to himself or anyone else that he relies on other people. When he’s unhappy, he gets very quiet. He can be unintentionally cruel, because he hates feeling vulnerable and sees the expression of negative emotions as a sign of weakness.

If one were to categorize Mishka into one of the four standard moral groups (Good, Evil, Anti-Hero, Neutral), he would best fit into the latter. He simply doesn't care about most moral and ethical disputes, and chooses not to get involved with them. His nomadic nature and disdain for highly structured environments ensures that he doesn't get involved with the affairs of different nations.


Through years of rigorous training and intense study, Mishka has managed to master 35 out of the 36 tiers of airbending. This alone would have him classified as a master by most, but since he departed his home before the final tier was completed, he never earned the iconic tattoos of the air nation. Notwithstanding, his skill is on par with many 'official' masters of the airbending community.

Mishka has an innate understanding of air itself and the many phenomena created as a product of the atmosphere and because of this, he has created a myriad of unconventional techniques that take advantage of this knowledge. Perhaps his most notable invention is a technique he calls Kūkiatsu. Air pressure is the weight exerted on a person by air molecules. Although air molecules are invisible, they still have weight and take up space. Because there's a lot of "empty" space between air molecules, air can be compressed to fit in a smaller volume. Understanding this, Mishka has developed a unique style of airbending that allows him to produce a variety of effects simply by manipulating the atmospheric pressure around him on various scales.

He fancies a hybrid style of various striking and grappling martial arts that uses his Kūkiatsu as a trump card. He uses attacks that incorporates his nine striking limbs (fists, feet, elbows, knees, and head). Mishka often increases the pressure exerted by his limbs to drastically increase the strength of his attacks, achieving a sort of 'super-strength'. In addition to this, he has shown the ability to crush objects by increasing the barometric pressure acting upon them. He can decrease air pressure in a given area to say, make it more difficult for his opponents to breathe. This however, allows his opponents to move faster since their is less resistance from air molecules in the atmosphere. He often uses this himself to increase his speed when flying on his airboard. Mishka can create regions of high pressure to form walls or even barriers around himself to repel physical attacks. The full extent of these abilities have yet to be seen.




With a chiseled face, a perfect tan, and a body seemingly sculpted from the highest caliber of marble, Mishka is what you could call a hunk. He has excessive pride in his physical appearance, and works constantly to maintain the level of beauty he deems necessary. He subjects his body to a grueling exercise regimen that keeps him in optimum physical condition. Working out isn't the only way he maintains his chiseled physique, however. Mishka has created a diet for himself that gives him the greatest amount of energy to function throughout the day.

He sports seas of blue for eyes, and has a neatly tapered goatee and long, flowing bleach blond hair. He dawns the traditional colors of the air kingdom, the lovely orange and yellow. He's added his own flare to it, however; changing his attire to be more comfortable and show off his muscular upper body. He also wears various charms and other pieces of jewelry that he's picked up during his travels. He wears a large beaded necklace and carries a bag full of his belongings during his travels. One thing carried in his bag is a medium-sized book which he uses to do sketches and draw during his spare time. His drawings include monuments, men and women that he's met over the years, or simple scenes of nature that he felt compelled to draw.

Height: 6'0
Weight: 168 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Bleach blond
Skin: Fair



Airboard
Materials: Wood and Ivory
Description: A large ivory-colored surfboard with an array of black designs etched into its underside.



Mishka was born and raised in the Eastern Air Temple. Like all young nomads, she was born into airbending, instructed in the ways of the thirty-six techniques at a young age. However, Mishka found she better related and understood the actual mechanics of airbending, and thus was often seen amongst his peers as more of professor than anything. His innate understanding of airbending allowed him advance far faster than his fellow air nomads. His prowess in airbending and tendency to be rather rude to his peers made him fairly unpopular with most kids. Except for the girls of course, he never had problems dealing with them.

Although he enjoyed the lifestyle afforded to him by the Eastern Air Temple, Mishka found his desire to travel growing inside him the more the days went by. He needed to see the world, meet new people, try new foods. He knew how limited his perspective would be if he lived here his entire life. He made up his mind. Not even a week later, Mishka had packed his bags and set out to travel the world.

He made voyages to each of the major bending nations, indulging in the magnificent cultures that comprised them. He would stay in one town for a time, but never longer than a few months. He took particular interest in a Fire Nation city located somewhere north of Shu Jing. It was most known for its bending arena, which attracted some of the most renowned benders from around the globe. This was around the time that Mishka had created his new bending style, and he felt that it would be a good opportunity to put it to the test.

His first match was against a prominent earthbender who referred to himself in third person. The battle went well at first, and the two benders seemed evenly matched, but Mishka quickly gained the upper hand once he unveiled his newer form of bending. Every boulder thrown at him, every wall of rock erected in his opponent's defense crumbled in the wake of his Kūkiatsu reinforced blows. After his first victory, Mishka was given a fair amount of Yuan for his performance. The adulation he'd received from the crowds of eager fans did nothing but boost his ego. This, and the cash he was likely to bring in if he got better at this gig were enough incentive for Mishka to stay in town for a while.

With his bending prowess and competitive nature, Mishka eventually rose to the top level of the arena. He'd become cocky however, complacent. He was spending more time with his possees and groupees than doing actual training to face his opponents. This showed when it was time to face his first opponent in this new level of competition. She was a tiny girl, standing no more five-foot-two. Mishka knew that he was going to wipe the floor with her, and spent more time pleasing the crowd than actually working on winning the battle. The girl took advantage of this, and wiped the floor with him in under a minute. It was the most embarrassing moment of his entire life. He couldn't believe that he'd lost to a girl! The loss took a heavy toll on his ego, and was enough to convince him that he actually needed to train if he wanted to keep up his lifestyle.

Needless to say, Mishka went back to training. It was during this time that he reached a new level of proficiency in his hand-to-hand combat and the use of Kūkiatsu. With his increase in skill, Mishka found himself once again on the top. He bought himself a permanent settlement in the city for the times when he'd return during his travels. With a good sum of money accumulated after dozens of fights, Mishka hit the road again.

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haha, nice references to Earth Rumble, Toph, and The Boulder.
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