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Zirin

Zirin was born as the only daughter to low level nobles who lived on the outskirts of Caldera City in the year 82 A.G. and was expected to be the perfect nobleman’s daughter: affable, silent, and always willing to do as her parents, and later husband, would ask of her.

But she was anything other than perfect, for she constantly got into arguments with her parents, tutors, and the kids her parents arranged playdates for.

And it wasn’t like Zirin wanted to be disagreeable, but she couldn’t help herself no matter how hard her parents or tutors reprimanded her.

Her parents thought her behavior would get better as she got older and grew out of her “childish” behavior, but instead it got worse for she got even more standoffish as she got older. And when her parents tried introducing her to boys to marry, she often engaged in spiteful behavior against them, often engaging in cruel pranks.

Zirin didn’t like that she was causing so many problems, but she was so filled with anger, anger that she had to take out on others despite her wishing otherwise. And it wasn’t like her parents didn’t try to correct her behavior. 

No, her parents tried everything from mediation to gardening classes to firebending training, but only firebending training helped at all. 

And this was because firebending training was the only thing that ever helped Zirin with her anger issues. 

In fact, her internal rage combined with her love of the one thing that allowed her release enabled her to become a firebending master by the time she was sixteen years old, though that was also the age when everything went wrong. 

And this was because she had lightly burned a highly sought out suitor for getting under her skin, causing her reputation to sink in the eyes of nobility for she quickly got labeled, “the angry bitch.”

And despite their best efforts to restore her reputation, it was shot, leaving her parents with an unmarriable daughter. 

Thus, Zirin, understanding that her parents were at their wits end with her, offered to join the military to make herself useful. 

But her parents, who were staunch traditionalists, didn’t believe that war was the proper place for a noblewoman. And so they involuntarily sent her to the asylum so she could get past the issues that prevented her from being the perfect daughter they knew she could be, making it clear to the orderlies that took her in a straightjacket that she was not to be a part of the weaponization program and that they paid good money for Zirin to be exempt.

However, as Zirin quickly learned, the only goal of the institution was to weaponize inmates so they could be used as fodder for the war effort, regardless of the wishes of ill-advised, but well meaning, parents.

And while Zirin tried writing to her parents to let them know of her situation, after she had sent the tenth letter with no response, she stopped trying. 

For either the asylum was reading the inmates' letters and intercepting them or her parents got the letters, but never came to visit since the Zirin’s letters where obviously the ramblings of a mad woman upset she was stuck in an asylum, signaling to Zirin that her parents had given up on her or didn’t care since if they hadn’t given up on her or did care about her, they would have visited her already with or without any letters prompting them to do so.

Beam

Beam was born in 84 A.G. and had issues withdrawing into her own fantasy world, especially whenever there were large crowds of people. Thus, she had a habit of wearing masks based on the dark spirits such as the dark water spirit in an effort to repel people from her. 

In fact, Beam’s distinctive hairstyle was also an attempt to push people away.

Beam’s maladaptive behavior had caused her upstart noble parents and brothers much grief, for Beam had inherited her mother’s beauty, and thus they thought they would be able to strategically marry her off in order to increase their standing.

Beam’s family tried everything, including fire bending training, which she had a natural gift in as far as Zirin could tell from the times they had sparred. But, due to her performance issues, whenever her brothers and/or parents came to watch, she always messed up her routines, leading them to cancel Beam’s lessons when she was sixteen in order to focus on making Beam marriable. 

This had caused Beam to despair and suffer from a severe withdrawal period in which she wholeheartedly believed she was the dark water spirit and almost killed her older brother, who was “obviously” the Dragon Emperor. 

Said brother also happened to be the one who suggested her parents cancel the firebending lessons and make Beam a proper woman since he was going to get married soon and didn’t want his fiance’s family to revoke the marriage contract once they better got to know his “weirdo” of a sister.

And it was this above incident that was the last straw for Beam’s parents, who had her involuntarily committed after coming to the “conclusion” that nothing would fix their “mad” daughter, not even caring if she was to become fresh meat for the Fire Nation’s armies.

Aiko

Aiko was born in 87 A.G. and was the the unexpected last daughter of a merchant and a very low level noblewomen. Despite seemingly living a charmed life, Aiko was always sad no matter what her parents, or her beloved older twin brothers tried doing.

Though, it appeared that Aiko’s mother had a hard time even spending any time with Aiko. And this deeply affected Aiko since her mother happily gave her love and time to her oldest two kids, who just happened to be two healthy sized boys who were going to do their family and nation proud by joining the war effort once they were of age. 

Meanwhile, Aiko was a diminutive girl who had almost killed her own mother during her birth.

That and she was relentlessly bullied in school for her demure size; one day she tried standing up for herself by getting into an impromptu fight with her main bully, but she accidentally badly burned said bully due to being actually quite skilled in firebending. And while Aiko managed to avoid jail or getting into trouble, the guilt of almost killing someone made Aiko withdraw further into herself much to her family’s grief.

In fact, her brothers were the main positive thing in her life, for they were understanding of her and didn’t really push her that hard...except in firebending where they were the only people she felt safe enough to use her true abilities after the incident.

However, things took a turn for the worse when her brothers finally joined the army, the 41st Division in fact, and died in what was ultimately a pointless diversionary maneuver. And in her grief, Aiko tried hanging herself though the noose broke just before it went taunt and she ended up knocking herself out, only to wake up in the asylum.

Chyou

Chyou, who was the same age as Beam, was the adopted child of two low tier Hu Xin Provinces nobles who ran a shop repairing broken war machines and who were unable to have kids of their own. 

Her parents tried their best with Chyou, but she was a very difficult child to raise, for, in their perspective, one moment Chyou was a hyper energetic girl who was all too willing to do anything to achieve her long-term goals and whims. 

Goals that included being the best firebender in her school and whims that included a desire to shave half her head. Though that particular fulfilled whim didn’t really harm Chyou for she liked the hairstyle and kept it much to her parents’ dismay. 

But in other moments, Chyrou was a heavily depressed girl, who couldn’t even be bothered to get out of her bed no matter how hard her parents tried to encourage or threaten her. 

However, as Chyou made sure to explain, her “mood swings” were just subtle enough that with her parents covering for her, Chyou could pass as a normal kid. 

That is until one night, she overheard a conversation between her parents talking about how much Chyou looked like her mother’s sister. 

Confused since she thought she had no blood relations with either of her parents (they told her she was adopted from a young age since Chyou doesn’t share that much in common with either of her parents), she confronted them and they ended up telling Chyou her true origin.

Chyou was in fact the love baby of an Earth Kingdom soldier and a Fire Nation noblewomen who was Chyou’s “mother’s” sister. And while the Fire Nation was progressive in terms of gender roles, it was against the law at the time for Fire Nation noblewomen to copulate with the males of the other nations. 

For, if Chyou remembered her history lessons correctly, Sozin’s reasoning was that the strong men of the Fire Nation could civilize the demure women of the other nations with their seed while the barbarians’ uncivilized blood could easily overwhelm the wombs of Fire Nation women, and thus the women themselves. And Fire Nation Women wombs were needed to make sure their great nation would never lack loyal citizens. 

But in reality, as Gamon and Azula explained to the rest of the group, due to the patriarchal nature of inheritance and property ownership, Sozin feared the uncivilized males of the other nations, before they could be civilized by the Fire Nation, would marry into Fire Nation nobility and overthrow him once their numbers reached critical mass, making the war all for nought and leaving their great nation in control of dirtfoots and snow savages who would surely run their nation to the ground within a few short years, if not months.

But getting back on track, it was discovered that not only was Chyou’s real mother having the baby of an Earth Kingdom soldier, she was also going to elope with him as well. 

So the Fire Nation tried to capture the soldier and kill him, but he ran off. However, after allowing Chyou’s biological mother to give birth, the Fire Nation tried to kill Chyou after hanging Chyou’s biological mother. But, Chyou’s aunt and uncle took pity on Chyou and successfully begged the authorities to let them raise Chyou as their own kid.

Chyou’s aunt and uncle begged for Chyou’s forgiveness and she gave it to them...though she later had an episode of exuberance that caused her to sneak out of her aunt and uncle's house to search for her father, hoping she would get to meet him.

It took several weeks, and all of the tracking and survival skills she learned in school, but she found the last place her father inhabited. But when she knocked on the door, her biological grandmother opened the door and, once Chyou explained who she was, told the “lying ashmaker to get away from me and never come back unless you want to die” in addition to telling Chyou that her father died during General Iroh’s march to Ba Sing Se. 

For, in retrospect, Chyou’s biological grandma probably never knew about her son’s relationship with Chyou’s mother, let alone that he was going to have a child with her, and thus thought Chyou was punking her. 

Not that it would have made a difference, for after she couldn’t even bury her son due to him being completely burned to ashes, she developed an intractable hatred towards the Fire Nation, and especially firebenders, as she told Chyou in between her sobs. And that hatred wouldn’t dissipate even if her own granddaughter was one of those “ashmakers.”

Heartbroken at the rejection, Chyou then fell into a serious depressive state and was going to kill herself until she was apprehended by a dark haired bounty hunter and her shirshu and returned to her family, who she know knew was June the Bounty Hunter thanks to Azula’s lessons.

And it turned out that the hunter had been paid by Chyou’s parents to find her before the colonial authorities did. For if the “mixed breed” had been found “going back” to her Earth Kingdom family, Chyou would have been killed for her “genetic disloyalty” caused by her parentage.

And when Chyou kept uncontrollably talking about her failed trip, Chyrou’s parents made a hard decision and had her temporarily involuntarily committed since they would rather have her suffer at the asylum (as well as get help for her myriad of issues) than have her ramblings expose her “genetic disloyalty” and have her brutally executed, making all their efforts to protect her pointless. And they paid good money to make sure that Chyou would never be placed in the weaponization program.

However, as Chyou found out from the pieces of information the bastards who visited her in her iso cell to have their way with her gave her, bigoted political hardliner healers in the asylum saw her history and decided unilaterally that she was a threat to society would could only have a positive impact on society after she had been weaponized. 

And so they manipulated her record to make it seem like she had died due to her illness, leaving Chyou’s aunt and uncle, who were pretty old, heartbroken to the point they died within a couple of months of each other and turning Chyou’s temporary stay into a permanent one.

Ting

Ting was oldest of the people freed by Azula, born in 82 A.G. in Yu Dao as the daughter of a minor colonial Fire Nation noble and a very attractive Earth Kingdom commoner that Ting’s father took a liking to and married against the advice of his main islander family and friends, who became estranged from him for his “transgression.” 

On the surface, Ting supposedly lived a charmed life. But her life was anything but charmed, for she didn’t not inherit her mother’s slim face and body, but had the stout body and face of a typical Earth Kingdomer, meaning that it would be next to impossible to marry her off to another noble family since even in the colonies, there was a preference for Fire Nation traits among the nobility.

And not helping was the fact that just after Ting turned six, she would suffer periodically from hallucinations whenever she messed up in school or in court, often having her speech deteriorate into “incoherent” babbling and often fighting back against a “him” who wasn’t there.

And who was this “him”?

Well, Ting’s “him” was in fact her father, for he was upset that he had basically cast aside his friends and family for a “defective half-breed and a dirtfoot woman who couldn’t provide him a healthy heir". Thus his grief and self-loathing caused Ting’s father to often beat up his wife and daughter. And since Ting’s father was a nobleman, there was no one who they could turn to, not even the authorities. 

But Ting did have one saving grace that also doubled as the reason why she was “tolerated”: Ting was an elite firebender who was nigh unmatched in her age group due to the rage and self-loathing caused by her “madness” and “inherent worthlessness” allowing her to constantly generate large flames.

In fact, Ting was one of the few people in the asylum who kept Zirin on her toes and caused Azula to at least exert herself. 

Therefore, even if Ting was unmarriable, she was likely going to have a good career in the Fire Nation Army.

That is until one night when Ting was sixteen and she witnessed a really bad argument between her drunk parents that ended up with her father breaking her mother’s arm.

Enraged and at her wits end, she fought her father and ended up badly burning him in public as he tried to escape her. The authorities, after a difficult chase and struggle that ended with several of them suffering burns, managed to detain her and then tried to put her on trial. 

Horrified at what she had done, Ting had a prolonged hallucination where her father was berating her for acting like the dirtfoot animal he always knew she was and that after he was done beating her to death, he would do the same to her mother for birthing such a monster. 

And as Ting cowered in her cell, begging “him” to spare him and her mother, the authorities told Ting’s parents that she was likely insane, and therefore was not likely to be found culpable for the actions that seemed to be driven by her madness.

For Ting’s father had a relatively good public image, notwithstanding his family planning choices, and therefore it never crossed the authorities’ minds that Ting was crying out for help instead of raving.

So sensing an opportunity to save face and not have his dirty laundry aired, Ting’s father authorized the colonial authorities to ship Ting to a homeland mental asylum for “treatment” damn well knowing Ting would most likely be sent off to the war and likely die. And he had authorized Ting’s involuntary committal at the dead of night so Ting’s mother could not disapprove, as Ting painfully related in between her sobs.

Gamon

Gamon was born in 83 A.G. to two former soldiers living in a rural village. That is until her parents disappeared during a full moon and never came back, causing Gamon to be given to her next of kin, her aunt and uncle, who were mid-tier nobles. 

For, as Gamon learned during her last conversation with her aunt and uncle, it turned out that Gamon’s mother was once a noble, but renounced her birthright so she could join the Fire Nation Army due to having a fixation on the military alongside firebending. 

This had caused Gamon’s maternal grandparents and Gamon’s uncle great shame and had also caused them to disown Gamon’s mother. 

And the sad thing was that despite Gamon’s mother wanting to reconcile, her parents died just after she got pregnant. So when Gamon’s uncle and aunt got a hold of her, they promised that they would raise her into the proper noblewomen Gamon’s mother should have been.

And they were very harsh in doing so, making sure Gamon took to heart what her tutors told her what was necessary to do to be the perfect noblewomen. However, lightning struck twice, and Gamon developed a fixation in both firebending and military history, which she hid from her uncle and aunt by practicing firebending in the morning before either of them woke up and reading military history at night after they had gone to bed.

And while it was hard and tiring to do so, Gamon managed to hide her interests until she was fifteen years old, where, after being suspicious of Gamon knowing an obscure military battle that took place during the start of Azulon’s reign while also giving firebending pointers to a boy she was courting, her aunt and uncle had one of their servants spy on her and report to them.

This, combined with Gamon’s odd behavior, like rubbing her knuckles whenever she felt stressed because she liked how they feel, plus her social awkwardness (no matter how hard her aunt and uncle drilled her, Gamon always floundered in noble get togethers), made her guardians give up on her as far as Gamon could tell.

Beam (DID Plus Avoidant Personality Disorder)

Born in 84 A.G. as the second child of three, and the only daughter of an upstart noble and a stay at home mother, Beam was expected to marry into nobility considering how well her father had done selling steel to the Fire Nation Navy and the fact that she had inherited her mothers’ good looks.

But Beam, for a lack of better words, was often detached from reality and quickly became a source of shame for her family. For Beam would often drift out of reality into her own little world whenever confronted with large amounts of stress. 

And what causes stress in Beam? Being around strangers, especially large numbers of them like parents’ hosted one of their frequent parties in an attempt to move up in Fire Nation High Society.

In fact, Beam started wearing her distinctive hairstyle plus dye in an attempt to avoid having people come to her much to her brothers and parents displeasure. And when that didn’t work, she started to wear masks such as those based on the dark water spirit or the dragon emperor.

On a side note, the only thing that really helped Beam was firebending, where she had a natural gift. However, due to her performance issues, whenever her brothers and/or parents came to watch, she always messed up her routines, leading them to cancel Beam’s lessons when she was 16 in order to focus on making Beam marriageable. 

This caused Beam to despair and undergo a nasty episode in which she wholeheartedly believed she was the dark water spirit and almost killed her older brother, who was “obviously” the Dragon Emperor. Said brother also happened to be the one who suggested her parents cancel the firebending lessons and make Beam a proper woman since he was going to get married soon and didn’t want his fiancee’s family to revoke the marriage contract once they better got to know his “weirdo” of a sister.

The above incident was the last straw for her parents, who had her involuntarily committed after coming to the “conclusion” that nothing would fix their “madwomen” of a daughter.

Aiko (Clinical Depression)

Born in 87 A.G. as the unexpected last daughter of a merchant and a very low level noblewomen, life has always been a struggle for Aiko. Her mother had her in her early 40s after unexpectedly getting pregnant and giving birth to Aiko prematurely. Aiko and her mother barely survived but her mother ended up suffering from postpartum depression, hurting their mother-daughter bond.

Aiko grew up seemingly loved, but in reality she was always sad. And no amount of gifts, such as some of the best firebending tutors in the land, could ever make Aiko happy for it appeared from Aiko’s POV that her mother never wanted to do anything with her while she happily gave her love and time to her oldest two kids, who were both boys and going to join the war effort. 

That and she was relentlessly bullied in school for her demure size; one day she tried standing up for herself by getting into an impromptu fight with her main bully, but she accidentally badly burned her due to being actually quite skilled in firebending. While Aiko managed to avoid jail or getting into trouble, the trauma of almost killing some made Aiko withdraw further into herself much to her parent’s grief.

Her brothers were the main positive thing in her life, for they were understanding of her and didn’t really push her that hard...except in firebending where they were the only people she felt safe enough after her incident.

However, things took a turn for the worse when her brothers finally joined the army and died in the very same maneuver that Zuko talked out against as a 13 year old. And in her grief, Aiko tried hanging herself though the noose broke just before it went taunt and she ended up knocking herself out.

And when she woke up, she found herself in the asylum….

Chyou (Bipolar Disorder)

Born in 84 A.G. as the adopted child of two low tier Hu Xin Provinces (colonial) nobles who were unable to have kids of their own. Her parents tried their best with Chyou, but she was a very difficult child to raise, for, in their perspective, one moment Chyou was a hyper energetic girl who was all too willing to do anything to achieve her long-term goals and whims. Goals that included being the best firebender in her school and being a proper noblewoman. And whims including a desire to shave half her head though that particular fulfilled whim didn’t really harm Chyou for she liked the hairstyle and kept it much to her parent’s dismay. 

But in other moments, Chyrou was a heavily depressed girl, who couldn’t even be bothered to get out of her bed no matter how hard her parents tried to encourage/bribe/threaten her. 

However, these “cycles” were just subtle enough that with her parents covering for her, Chyou could pass as a normal kid...that is until one night, she overheard a conversation between her parents talking about how much Chyou looked like her mother’s sister. Confused since she thought she had no blood relations with either of her parents (they told her she was adopted from a young age since Chyou doesn’t share that much in common with either with her parents), she confronted them and the told Chyou her true origin.

Chyou was in fact the love baby of an Earth Kingdom soldier and a Fire Nation noblewomen who was Chyou’s “mother’s” sister. And while the Fire Nation is progressive in terms of gender roles, it was against the law for Fire Nation noblewomen to copulate with the males of the other nations. 

For Sozin’s reasoning was that the strong men of the Fire Nation could civilize the demure women of the other nations while the barbarians’ uncivilized blood could easily overwhelm the wombs of their women, which were needed to make sure their great nation would never lack loyal citizens. In reality, due to the patriarchal nature of inheritance and property ownership, Sozin feared the colonized enemy would marry into Fire Nation nobility and basically overthrow him once their numbers reached critical mass.

But getting back on track, it wasn’t discovered that Chyou’s real mother was having the baby of an Earth Kingdom soldier, let alone she was going to elope with him. So the Fire Nation tried to capture the soldier and kill him, but he ran off. However, after allowing Chyou’s true mother to give birth, the Fire Nation had her killed off. But, Chyou’s Aunt and Uncle took pity on Chyou and successfully begged the authorities to let them raise Chyou as their own kid.

Chyou’s Aunt and Uncle begged for Chyou’s forgiveness and she gave it to them...though she later had a manic episode that caused her to sneak out of her Aunt’s and Uncle’s house to search for her father, hoping she would get to meet him.

It took several weeks and all of the tracking and survival skills she learned in school, but she found the last place her father inhabited. But when she knocked on the door, her bio grandma opened the door and, once Chyou explained who she was, told the “lying ash maker to get away from me and never come back unless you want to die” in addition to telling Chyou that her father died during General Iroh’s march to Ba Sing Se. 

For Chyou’s bio grandma never knew about her son’s relationship with Chyou’s mother, let alone that he was going to have a child with her and thus thought the young firebender was punking her...not that it would have made a difference for after she couldn’t even bury her son due to him being completely burned to ashes, she developed an intractable hatred towards the Fire Nation and especially firebenders. And that hatred wouldn’t dissipate even if her own granddaughter was one of those “ash makers.”

Heartbroken at the rejection, Chyou then fell into a serious depressive state and was going to kill herself until she was apprehended by June and returned to her family, who had been paid by Chyou’s parents to find her before the colonial authorities did. For if the “mixed breed” had been found going “back” to her Earth Kingdom family, Chyou would have been killed for her “genetic disloyalty” caused by her parentage.

And when Chyou kept uncontrollably talking about her failed trip, Chyrou’s parents made a hard decision and had her temporarily involuntarily committed since they would rather have her suffer at the asylum (as well as get help for her myriad of issues) than have her rambling expose her “genetic disloyalty” and have her brutally executed, making all their pleadings to allow them to raise her pointless.

However, bigoted political hardliner healers in the asylum saw her history and decided unilaterally that she was a threat to society and so manipulated her record to make so she had died, leaving Chyou’s Aunt and Uncle (who were pretty old) heartbroken to the point they died within a couple of months of each other and turning Chyou’s temporary stay into a permanent stay.

Chyou, depending on whether she is having a manic episode or depressive episode, oscillates between believing her Aunt and Uncle haven’t given up on her and believing that they have finally given up on account of being a disgrace due to her mental issues and bloodline.

Zirin (Oppositional Defiant Disorder With Mild Conduct Disorder)

Born in 85 A.G. as the only daughter of some minor nobles who live in Caldera City. She has ODD, which manifests in her explosive temper, which her parents tried solving by doing everything, including getting her training in firebending, which Zirin has a natural aptitude in considering she became a master by 16.

But despite her parent’s best efforts, her anger still didn’t really subside, leading up to an incident where she burned a highly sought out suitor for rubbing her the wrong way, leading her reputation to sink and make her unmarriable, making Zirin worthless in her traditionalist parents’ eyes.

Zirin offered to join the Fire Nation military so she could be useful, but her traditionalist parents said no since the military is not the proper place for a young noblewoman. So they had her involuntarily admitted to the asylum…

Ting (Schizophrenia)

Born in 82 A.G. as the daughter of a minor Fire Nation noble and an Earth Kingdom commoner (that her father took a liking to) who lived in Yu Dao, Ting on the surface supposedly lived a charmed life. But her life was anything but charmed, for she didn’t not inherit her mother’s slim face and body, but had the stout body and face of a typical Earth Kingdomer. Meaning that it would be next to impossible to marry her off to another noble family for even in the colonies, there was a preference for Fire Nation traits among the nobility.

Not helping was just after Ting was 6, she would suffer periodically from hallucinations of her father whenever she messed up in school or in court, often having her speech deteriorate into “incoherent” babbling (ex. Ting asking “him” to stop hitting her) and often fighting back against a person who wasn’t there.

Obviously, this was just another thing that made Ting a massive disappointment in her father’s eyes.

So upset as his “mistake” Ting’s father often beat up his wife and daughter and seeing how Avatar takes place in fantasy land 19th century Asia, there was no one who they could turn to. In fact the only reason why Ting was “tolerated” was because she was an elite firebender, who naturally excelled at Sozin Style firebending due to her rage and self-loathing caused by her “madness.”

Thus, even if Ting was unmarriable, she was likely going to have a good career in the Fire Nation Army. That is until one night when Ting was 16 witnessed a really bad argument between her drunk parents that ended up with her father breaking her mother’s arm.

Enraged and having enough, she fought her father and ended up badly burning him in public as he tried to escape her. 

The authorities then restrained her and tried to put her on trial, but horrified at what she had done, she had a severe episode that made the authorities doubt her sanity.

So sensing an opportunity to save face and not have his dirty laundry aired, Ting’s father authorized the colonial authorities to ship Ting to a homeland mental asylum for “treatment” damn well knowing they would most likely never let Ting out. And he had authorized Ting’s involuntary committal at the dead of night so Ting’s mother could not disapprove.

Gamon (Higher Functioning Autism)

Born in 83 A.G. to two high functioning autistic former soldiers living in Hama’s village, Gamon would have been raised in a loving family. That is until her parents one night disappeared during a full moon and never came back (they were captured by Hama and tortured to death but the little shred of humanity left in Hama caused Hama to leave the baby alone despite wanting to spite Gamon’s pleading parents). So Gamon was given to her next of kin, who were mid tier nobles.   It turned out that Gamon’s mother was once a noble, but renounced it so she could join the Fire Nation Army due to her special interest being the military alongside firebending. This had caused Gamon’s maternal grandparents and Gamon’s Uncle great shame and had also caused them to disown Gamon’s mother. And the sad thing was that despite Gamon’s mother wanting to reconcile, her parents died just after she got pregnant.

So when Gamon’s Uncle and Aunt got a hold of her, they promised that they would raise her into the proper noblewomen Gamon’s mother should have been.

And they were very harsh in doing so, making sure Gamon took to heart what her tutors told her what was necessary to do to be the perfect noblewomen. However, lightning struck twice, and Gamon developed a special interest in both firebending and military history, which she hid from her Uncle and Aunt by practicing firebending in the morning before either of them woke up and reading military history at night after they had gone to bed.

Gamon managed to hide it until she was 15 years old, where, after being suspicious of Gamon knowing an obscure military battle that took place during the start of Azulon’s reign while also giving pointers to a boy she was courting, they had one of the maids spy on her and report to them.

This, combined with Gamon’s symptoms such as her stimming (she likes to rub her knuckles because she likes how they feel) plus her social awkwardness (no matter how hard they drilled her, Gamon always floundered in noble get togethers), made her guardians give up her.