Keikoku Ummi

Full Name: Keikoku Ummi

Gender: Female

Age: Twenty-One

Element: Water

Birthplace: Northern Water Tribe

Position: Northern Water Tribe Heiress

Personality:
Keikoku is a very sweet girl with her morals implanted in the safety of her village and her people. When around the people of her village, she is very proper and kind, helping out those who need it as she makes her way through her tribe to ensure that all is well. She is always concerned for the safety of her own people, often putting them over her most basic ones and going to any length to help them. Never has she been rude to another person, always welcoming them into her home with open arms and ensuring that they have all they could need.

Since she is the ruler of the Northern Water Tribe, respect has been inplanted into Keikoku since she was a young girl. She respects all of those who speak to her and welcomes them with open arms. Even when people disrespect her she is shown to with hold her grace and elegance, keeping calm and asking people to kindly stop before having them escorted out or simply leaving. The only sign that she is ever irritated with another is when she grows serious, her sweet nature fading away as she becomes the epitome of a strong leader just like her parents were.

Her favorite things to do are to visit her people and sing, both things that have been approved of since she is a ruler. When she visits her people she feels as though she is apart of them and not someone who is of higher class or better than them. She has never liked being treated as better than another person, so she tries to visit them often so she can share the wealth that she has been blessed with and make their lives a little better. As a young child her talents in singing were discovered when she began repeating her mother’s lullabies, the sweet melody filling the walls of the Chief’s icy castle. Both of her parents encouraged her to sing more and share her gift just as she has done thought most of the time she sings for pure enjoyment.

Abilities:
Keikoku is a skilled healer, one of the strongest in her village next to the elders who had been working since they were young. Since she was young she was trained to be a healer, that being the only thing that women of the Northern Water Tribe were allowed to do with their bending due to strict traditions. However, when her mother passed away, her father was forced to allow her to break tradition much like what had been done years before, to keep their family in power. Her father knew that it would be prudent to have his daughter trained in the ways of waterbending since she would be the one to take over the tribe when she got older. Her bending is extremely powerful due to the moon spirit’s touch that was blessed upon her by Tui and Yue when she was a child, the water in her grasp appearing to hold the glow of life within it. She does not enjoy using her water bending for offensive attacks though, only using it for defense and to heal those who need her help.

The only weapons that Keikoku keeps on her are two sebon needles that decorate her hair, holding up a portion of it in a small bun. The sebons are as cold as ice when they pierce the skin, decorated in intricate patterns of blue and white that resembles traditional water tribe marks. As a child she was trained to use them if she had nothing left to keep herself alive, making her deadly accurate and precise in taking out her target or defending herself.

Appearance:
Keikoku has been described as the beautiful with touches of the moon evident throughout her appearance. She has long hair the color of the moon, a pale blonde so light it appears white in any light. Her locks cascade down to her mid back in a straight waterfall, a section of it pulled into a bun at the crown of her hair with two sebons holding it in place. At the front of her face she has two loops of hair on each side of her face, two silver beads decorating the place where her hair is partitioned out on her head. Her eyes are the color of the Spirit Oasis water, a beautiful light blue that sparkles in the light. She has dark lashes that compliment her eyes, making them stand out against her sickly white skin that is so pale, most think that she is a part of the snow. Her lips are as pale as the rest of her skin, a light pink color that does not stand out very much against her milky skin. For a female she is very small, standing only five foot two with a petite figure that makes her look like a child in some people’s eyes.
With her hair tied up in the intricate pattern of a bun and loops, it is often complimented with her pale blue parka, white fur lining the top of the hood to keep her ears warm when she pulls it up. Her parka is very simple, only a few designs decorating it with billowing sleeves. Underneath she wears the traditional water tribe dress, a pale blue and white color with intricate designs decorating it and long white leggings underneath to keep her legs warm. Black shoes decorate her feet, keeping them warm in the icy winter snow of the Northern Water Tribe with a sash tied around her waist that emphasizes her slim figure.

History:
Keikoku Ummi was born to Northern Water Tribe Chief Kato and his wife Ume in the early spring when all things begin to bloom even in the Northern Water Tribe. As chief of the Northern Water Tribe, Kato hoped for a male as his first child to take over as chief one day and a female as his second. The Spirits would chose to bless him with a daughter though as his first and only child, a small female with light brown hair and no voice. Not once did she cry while she was awake, though the time that she was awake was very rare. She slept more than any child that had ever been born in the tribe and none of the healers could determine what was keeping the child so silent and sick. For two weeks her parents struggled to solve what ailed their child, finding nothing by the end of it and eventually giving up. It was the night of the full moon when their answer would arrive, the bright light shining down into the room and illuminating Keikoku’s face as she slept. Suddenly a cry filled the walls of the palace, drawing Kato and Ume from their sleep as they rushed into their child’s room to find a woman with white hair and a misty glow standing over her. They said that the woman resembled Yue, the former princess of the Northern Water Tribe who had given her life to the moon spirit Tui so it could live, her casting a soft kiss on the child’s forehead before vanishing completely. When her mother pulled her from the crib she found that the child no longer had pale brown hair but instead pale blonde hair so light it was white, complimenting her light blue eyes as she giggled up at her parents; she had been blessed by the Spirits just like her ancestor had.

As the first heir to the Northern Water Tribe, Keikoku grew up a very sheltered child inside the palace walls, often playing with the guards when her mother had to attend to important matters, though they were not much of play mates. Still she kept her spirits up, giggling and running about the palace until about the age of four when her mother grew ill. Many of the village healers came to the palace, attempting to heal their ailing queen but nothing helping. It was a short month after her fifth birthday, Keikoku lying by her mother’s side while their father was off at a tribal meeting when Ume said her final goodbyes to her only daughter, telling her that everything would be alright and that she had to be strong. When the Water Tribe’s Chief took her final breathe, Keikoku still did not understand since she was so young, but when her mother stopped responding to her panic flooded her little body and she tried to awake her mother. The child’s cries echoed through the halls of the palace, though nobody came. Late on that moonless night Kato returned to his room, finding his wife and tear stained child. A funeral was held in her honor, one that the people would remember for years to come as they lay her to rest. It was then that Kato knew his daughter would have to succeed the throne, so he began to prepare the grief stricken and motherless child.

Her father had known that Keikoku had inherited the ability to bend water, so he moved her minimal healing lessons to much stronger fighting lessons, ensuring that she would be able to defend herself and her people if the time came. Her water bending master found that the child was a great bender, stronger than any he had ever encountered before and a fast learner; her father knew it must had been a gift from the Spirits themselves, but he never uttered a word to anyone about it, simply letting his daughter train and grow while priming her into the perfect woman and leader. Unlike most children, Keikoku never hit her rebellious streak, only wanting to please her father and help her people whom she was able to now visit. When she was not learning she was out, wandering the streets of the Northern Water Tribe and assisting them, a trait that many came to admire in a short amount of time.

At the age of sixteen, the traditional age where young women of the water tribe begin to marry, Keikoku’s father began to look at various suitors for her. However, he would not only have to chose a suitor for his child, but a man that could help her run the Northern Water Tribe with strength and wisdom. Many of the noble warriors of the water tribe desired her hand in marriage, both entranced by her beauty and interested in her power, but none of them were to her father’s desires. With no choice but to do as her father said, Keikoku kept silent about what men she was interested in, knowing that her choice did not matter since he would ultimately pick her an arranged husband.

Keikoku was always a well behaved child, working her hardest to please her father and advise him as he kept the tribe strong while conflict began to stir about in the other nations. However, he soon grew ill like her mother had and none of the healers were able to do anything for him. It was a mixture of their family genetics and old age that brought about the death of Tribal Chief Kato, him dying on the night of the full moon, the light blessing his passage into the Spirit World where his wife Ume awaited him. With no current ruler left standing, Keikoku was appointed Tribal Queen of the village, taking over her father’s place and pushing all thoughts of marriage and love aside at the young age. Many suitors still attempted to gain her favor, turning their method from her father to her, but she never paid mind to any of them. Instead, she turned her vision to the people of her village, doing everything she could to help them. She brought the image of the Tribal Chief down to a level that even the lowliest of peasant in the Northern Water Tribe could understand, a person who only wanted to help them prosper.

Even locked away in the icy tundra of the North Pole, she knew that there was trouble stirring in the other nations. Soon enough she was alerted that the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom were having issues, Earth King Lei passing and another taking his palace which upset the balance between the two nations. A few years later The Southern Water Tribe Chief also passed, being replaced with a commoner that stepped into power for the poor nation. Now, at the age of twenty-one, the moon blessed female has come to rule her tribe with a kind hand, ensuring their safety as war begins to stir all around them. She has yet to contact the Southern Water Tribe Chief, but she plans to do so soon enough to gain a new ally in the war to come, hopefully strengthening the bond that the two sister tribes once held for each other years before.

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I would love to approve this, but I don't exactly know how to.

We could move the topic, but we can't the change her name color. Plus Liao might not be happy about the slight use of canon...

I don't think it matters since we need a Northern Water Tribe Chiefest anyways.

UPDATE - Nevermind, I got it done, this is Approved.