#equalistraisha

Chiyo is the daughter of a certain equalist lieutenant andhis deceased wife.

When she was little over a year old, her mother, grandmotherand sister were all killed when the Agni Kai criminal gang set fire to theirhouse due to an altercation with her father who was severely injured butsurvived. Unfortunately her father believed the whole family was dead and wasn’taware that she had lived and, as such, she was picked up by the very peoplethat destroyed her family and adopted into the Agni Kai gang out of a whim fromone of the higher-ups.

Her sister’s body had shielded her and her hiding spot savedher from smoke inhalation but Chiyo was very heavily burned, her survivalimpressed one of the bosses of the gang who took a shine to her and kept her inthe brothel/club/training house where she was raised and trained in a varietyof martial arts. Due to the disfiguring burns she was unfit for the work mostgirls in the club where groomed for but, and despite being a nonbender, shebecame a prodigious warrior and absolutely lethal and rapidly climbed throughgang ranks as a teen until she became her ‘adoptive mother’s’ bodyguard.

Chiyo is unusually tall for a woman, which coupled with herscars makes her stand out even more but she’s generally quiet and unassuming, herindependence has long since been beaten out of her and most of her emotions arelukewarm (well, except when it comes to certain female equalist) and she’s notparticularly stubborn or outspoken.

She happens to be a lesbian and skilled lover regardless ofher scarred appearance and has a very low opinion on monogamy due to place whereshe grew up in; she also developed nasty habits like alcoholism and drug dependencyto cope with her lifetime of physical pain but she tries not to let them hamperher judgement.

The police have a very thick criminal file with her name onit but despite the many suspicions and rumors of her work, Chiyo has only been inprison once in her life. She’s very practical, cool and thorough towards herwork and never really leaves enough evidence or witnesses behind to give heraway but, on the down side, she is very recognizable and disdained, therefore shehas an extremely poor social life made worse by her inability to trust anyone.

Although Chiyo is very good at all her work and very loyalto her gang, she’s not particularly fond of it or the people around her so whenshe finally finds something she truly is attached to (the aforementionedequalist), she’s willing to ditch to gang to try her hand at new life as anomadic bounty-hunter but never fully cuts ties with the Agni Kai and isvaguely aware that one day she’ll end up living in Republic City full timeagain.