Full Name: Avatar Zayon
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Element: Spirit
Birthplace:
Position: Avatar Spirit
Personality:
Even in life, Zayon was definitely not considered anything close to a model Avatar. In fact, most considered him nearly the contrary, having the odd morals he did. Most saw him as never really able to take a situation seriously, as if even war was a joke.
Such said, he takes nearly everything as humor, and sees most lessons as ones optional to learn. It is a redeeming factor, however, that despite such views, later in his life he found that there is always an underlying lesson. At that, one to head most seriously.
So now, in death, while still seeming to take any and all things as a joke, Zayon still knows what to take seriously or not. And while it may never seem so, he is quite wise and well-adjusted to the role he is often given as the guide to the less... Traditional Avatars.
Abilities:
Zayon was quite the powerful Avatar, having fully mastered each element. He even had spent a great portion of his long life studying energy bending, and became a master of it with much training and meditation within the spirit world.
At least... He was so in life. Now, as a spirit, his abilities are quite limited. He is, of course, able to make himself visible before nearly anyone, an ability not often available to the spirits.
As well, given his energybending expertise in life, he is able to appear as nearly any form he wishes, not limited to a blue, luminescent version of himself. His ability to interact with the physical world, however, is limited to times of spiritual or bending strength, and only interact in the according respect.(I.E. during the full moon or winter solstice, he can waterbend, or the summer solstice he can firebend, etc.)
Appearance:
While Zayon is able to take on most any form, he finds he often has a few preferences.
Above all other forms, Zayon prefers to take on the appearance of an older male clothed in a white cloak. Normally this form seems only as a shadow beneath the cloak, but once the hood has been lowered, an aged face appears beneath.
Zayon's features as an older man were darkened silver hair with light remenants of his younger, darker hair at the roots. His face was lightly wrinkled from age, but had rather broad features that were quite obviously very masculine in nature. Whether from sentiment or merely due to laziness preventing him from taking on too many other forms, he has selected these features as his own while appearing in spiritual form.
On certain occasions, he's been known to take a younger form of himself.
History:
Zayon lived quite the long life as an Avatar, but in no real way was he quite the epitome of one. Some would argue nearly the opposite.
Being born into the Air, or Autumn cycle of the Avatar, Zayon was born an Air Nomad. At the time, his people were still quite nomadic, being vagrants of the wind rather than strict temple-monks as they are today. This being said, Zayon was born into an environment that allowed him to be quite free with who he chose to be. And, as it so happens, he chose not to fit the idealisms of the Avatar that were forced upon him by others. Instead, he chose to assume a lifestyle that let him travel the world and learn bending at his own pace.
The latter, unfortunately, lead him to use odd techniques of bending such as mixing the styles in odd forms. His earth flowed like fluid, his water lacked defense, but wore down the opponent, his air was focused on solid, harmful strikes, and even his fire was used as an intimidation factor and a way to misinform, or tactically throw off opposition.
These strange, self-guided teachings brought him to be know as the Lost Avatar. Some called him the Lost-and-Last Avatar, in both humor and fear. It wasn't until war struck his people that he started to straighten his act, per se.
It was only then he started to realize the purpose of an Avatar, and what it meant to the people, not to himself. So he vowed to take his purpose into perspective, and devoted his actions to helping the people a bit more than himself. 'Till his death, however, he would never seem to take any situation seriously on the outside, even if it meant life or death.
However, he keened his bending and aided the Air Nomads to a victory against their earth bretheren. This marked his true crowning achievement as The Avatar: bringing the two people together in a treaty. The Earth Kingdom (At the time the Earth Empire) relieved land to the namadic people to recompense for the war they brought down, solving both issues of the war, given the Nomad's tendencies to settle close to peaceful villages and bringing unhealthy bartering into a land trying to form common currencies. The land they were given was utilized to build the temples the Air nomads now know as their home.
Once the war had finished, there was an Era of peace, and Zayon's duties as an Avatar had ended. He devoted the rest of his life to mastering Energy Bending to promote the growth of the Avatar that would follow. This continued until he was killed by a vengeful spirit he'd once defeated at a younger age, ending his life and begining the Avatar Cycle anew.
Zayon made a strangely effective Guiding Spirit, though earned a reputation for never taking his Avatar seriously, and choosing to often chastize them instead of aid. This doomed him to forever be the teacher of the less... Preferable Avatars, given the fact the preceding legends had little to no luck guiding them.
And that brings Zayon to the present Avatar. A fitting challenge, he decided. He would not give up so easily on Zulera, as Aang had, and hoped to both have a good laugh and perhaps slowly guide Zulera on her destiny. But she was far less ruly than the dissident Avatars before her. Zayon's work was cut out for him.
**OPTIONAL**Sample RP: Really don't feel like it. >< Normally I would, but not tonight.
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Note: I -did- approve being an Avatar Spirit with Liao, but the character himself is still open to review. Look forward to an approval, or reasonable rejection.
