Gaia name: -Anulus
Name: - Rosh Toku
Bending skills: - Fire (used in conjunction with fighting style and rarely by itself if at all)
Bending Level: 2
Age: 25.
Bio: - The war has done many things to many people. It has split families, destroyed lives, and reshaped the land in many great and terrifying ways. However, it has also given rise to new technology, tactics, and tests. Tests that challenge the fortitude and adaptability of every person and nation it affects and pushes them to their very limits.
None of that really holds any interest in the mind of Rosh. To him the war is just one way of keeping the world on its toes and those who can’t roll with the blows are going to have more problems then the ones who can, and Rosh most definitely can.
He was raised on an island city a little ways away from the capitol by his mother Tsi-lin, and accomplished physician, and father Ramon, a commander in the army. Being the oldest of four children it was Rosh’s job to serve as the watchdog while father was away at war and mother was tending wounded soldiers. He wasn’t even able to attend school, but when his father made his occasional trips home it more than made up for the state education he was missing.
Under his fathers firm guidance Rosh learned the history of all 4 nations, not the one sided drivel that was served in conventional schools. He eventually became an expert in mathematics, a novice at fire bending, and, through old charts provided by his father’s friends in R&D, pretty well versed in fire nation engineering. His father also taught him another useful skill, shōu gē zhě (reaper), the fighting style specific to the family.
For a while this process was great, he would watch his siblings, his father would return to teach him more, he would leave Rosh with a lengthy assignment, and leave for another tour of duty. That was until an anonymous tip off lead his superior to believe that a Northern Water Tribe outpost was temporarily undermanned. The information proved to be a trap and Ramon’s division fell right into it. Ramon died while heading a fighting retreat back to the ships and was later found dead, his body several feet away from where he had been skewered by an ice spike, and judging from the amount of blood it wasn’t a fast death either.
The news reached Rosh in the form of his father’s sickles being delivered along with a blood speckled note, scrawled in the final moments of his life, containing one final assignment, “We travel our own paths in life, I have followed mine to the end and found myself content. Now it is time for you to find yours.”
Now, years after leaving home, Rosh is the assistant to dock master Ten in a free port city of Sen-Ti, a small island off the coast of the main land. In the past four years he has been a deck hand on trading ships, a one time prisoner of war, and an engine mechanic on a fire navy ship for a short time. He has also developed a remarkably laid back life style despite making it a point to keep his fighting skills sharp by challenging traveling fighters and benders that come through the port, much to the displeasure of his boss.
Personality: Despite having his father killed at the hands of a water bender he holds no ill feelings toward the culture as a whole, but if given the opportunity he would probably make it a priority to make the killer’s final days very, very unpleasant. He holds a great deal of respect, if not pity, for the earth nation whom he believes is doomed to loose the war yet continues to put up a respectable fight. And, while he is normally an enjoyable laid back guy, he his not above using his size to intimidate people who really annoy him.
Fighting: Rosh uses the shōu gē zhě style of fighting which is centered around using two modified hand sickles in harmony. The result is an elegant, if a bit frightening, display of skill and concentration that is meant to disorient opponents while using the curved shape of the blades to disarm or trip them. Its a unique art specific to the Toku line, its vicious, its fast, its lethal, and it will send enemies stampeding over each other to get out of the way.
Use of Bending: Admittedly Rosh has become pretty lax in his honing his bending skills. The abilites his father taught him were minimal and at this point there is little incentive. However, when a master, or at least a halfway decent, fire bender makes their way through the port he will ask for a brief lesson. However, there is one odd request he makes to every one he asks to train him. He wants to learn how to maximize the smoke that the fire creates and the science behind how to create different kinds of smoke. To Rosh there is a subtlety behind smoke, an elegant form of art that sneaks up like a wispy assassin on even the greatest warriors and benders to slowly choke the life out of them. It can blur the eyes and burn the lungs in a way so covert and quiet that no one suspects what going on until it is too late. Then there’s the whole smoke screen and cover thing (but I liked typing the last two sentences the most ^_^).
Opinion on war: -Sees it as a means to justify an end. He would fight for his country if there was a dire need for soldiers or if the pay was good enough but since neither is happening Rosh is content to root on the sidelines…for now.
Current Location: - Sen-ti island
Appearence: Rosh, like most of his family, is slightly larger in stature than average but it has never been a problem for him. Because of his station (and his modest paycheck) Rosh dresses professionally in a clean white shirt, open black gold trimmed vest, loose black pants, black boots, and an open black trench coat.
Height: 1.8m or 5’11
Weight: 90.72kg or 215lb
Eye color: His grey eyes hold a wellspring of intelligence and empathy. Because of his station (and his modest paycheck) Rosh dresses in a professionally in a clean white shirt, open black gold trimmed vest, loose black pants, black boots, and an open black trench coat.
Hair: - Hair is black, medium length, and is normally allowed to fall how it grows unless occasion demands other wise. In that case it is tied back, pulled into a topknot.
Build: -Heavy build which is almost all muscle...Rosh is well known for his love affair with the Sen-Ti cuisine.
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