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Airen Jiang of the Sei’naka and Flame Clans

An Avatar: The Last Airbender OC

NAME: Airen Jiang

ALIASES: Tunshi | Satyani | Yiwai | Xunsu | Jiuzhi | Wairen

BIRTHDATE: Winter Solstice of 83 AG

AGE: Biologically 16 | Assumed 19

NATION: Fire Nation | Flame Clan

FAMILY: Sei’naka Clan - Jiang family

Governor Katai Jiang - father - deceased

Lady Hana Okuno - mother

Lieutenant Kenta Jiang - half-brother - deceased

Captain Reika Jiang - half-sister

Katsu Yachi Jiang - brother-in-law

Airen Jiang - niece

Flame Clan - Brethren of the Black Flame

Muhai - mentor/father figure

Zhishi - mentor/mother figure

Rui Yan - friend/sister

Hu Zhao - friend/brother

APPEARANCE: 5′6″ | Pale skin | Lean, muscular build | Light gold eyes | Long, curly black hair |  Tattoo of black hand surrounded by flames on right bicep | Three lower lobe piercings in each ear; two upper ear piercings on left ear | Crooked nose and 2nd & 3rd fingers of right hand from poorly healed breaks | Various scars - most notable: deep ropey scar at base of left thumb; notch in left ear; claw marks on right ribs and hip

PERSONALITY: Self-reliant | Impatient| Loyal | Intense | Focused | Competitive | Hard-Working | Impulsive | Ambitious | Charming | Quick-tempered | Clever 

SPECIAL SKILLS: Martial Arts - Xing Yi Quan & Tiger/Dragon-style Silat mix | Weaponry - Straight Sword and Rope Dart | Stealth | Strategy

HOBBIES: Reading | Star-gazing | Paisho | Dancing | Playing Erhu | Swimming

BACKGROUND:

Born into a house of minor Fire Nation nobles known for their illustrious military service and skill with the sword, Airen was the only child of General Katai and his second wife. After a battle in the Earth Kingdom resulted in her older brother’s death and her father’s retirement from the Army, Airen moved to the Earth Kingdom colonies when her father was appointed Governor as a reward for his service. 

Her father was a wise and honest leader of the colony, dealing with both Fire and Earth citizens fairly. This earned him enemies, however, after he exposed corruption within the colony and arrested the guilty parties, turning them over to the Fire Nation for judgement. Hired by these enemies, Muhai, a Flame Clan assassin, attacked the Jiang house while Airen and her mother were supposed to be gone, killing Governor Katai only to find Airen still at home. 

Unable to leave her as a witness to the murder and prohibited from killing her since she was not a target, Muhai instead decided to take the child back to the Flame clan. There, he urged her to lie about her age so that she would be seen as old enough to train with the other children. Otherwise, he believed she would be discarded as a burden to the clan. Airen was accepted into the clan and soon adapted to their harsh way of life, training in martial arts, weaponry, and other skills.

Airen progressed through her various levels of training near the top of her class of recruits, finally being inducted as a full member of the clan’s highly-capable warrior order, the Brethren of the Black Flame, at the age of fifteen. She made quite a name for herself very quickly, and there were some who believed she could even be talented enough to replace the clan’s reigning chief. Naturally, the chief did not enjoy this threat to his position, and so he sent Airen to the Fire Nation on a mission that was doomed to fail.

Sure enough, Airen was unable to complete her mission. In the process, she was arrested by Fire Nation soldiers, where her attempts to escape finally landed her in the Boiling Rock prison months before the Hundred Year War’s end. It is there that she is found by Firelord Zuko after he traces an attempt on his life back to the Flame clan. 

Airen finally gets the opportunity to successfully escape, but her return to her clan isn’t the homecoming she had hoped for when she learns that the Brethren has devolved into trading their skills for money. While the clan leaders lead their people to believe they are agents of balance weeding out corruption, they are instead loaning their members out as assassins and spies, hoarding wealth bought through deception and bloodshed.

Unable to stand idly by as her people are deceived, Airen allies herself with Firelord Zuko and Avatar Aang to expose the truth. In doing so, however, she is branded a traitor, and becomes another target on the clan’s list... 

I have SO MANY notes about Airen, and could scream into the void about her for literal hours. So if anyone wants to enable me know more about Airen, my ask box is open! :)

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