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Name: Shei Shinoda
Sexuality/gender: Female; Straight
Age(Teens): 18
Bender type: Fire
Appearance: Lean, built like a dancer; 5'10. Dark brown hair, chin-length and wavy. Grey-blue eyes with low-set brows that give her a thoughtful, scrutinizing look. A thin white scar trailing across her nose.
Personality: Dutiful and focused, Shei carries herself as maturely as she can especially in the presence of younger people. She has serious oldest-sibling vibes and is constantly torn between being the levelheaded one and kidding around with the others the way she wants. Easily overwhelmed but great at shoving those feelings down to let out in private.
Backstory: The eldest daughter of an average middle-class Fire Nation family. As the oldest in a lineup of girls, she was the closest thing her father, a blacksmith, protege, and so he taught her the finer points of using her bending to forge iron. She would have grown up to take over the family business, but she fell in love with a boy named Duma. Duma, who dreamed of becoming a master firebender taught by the greatest, set off on a journey of his own to find the Avatar, or someone just as good, and Shei waited for months for his return. But it soon became clear that he had disappeared on his trip, and was likely dead. It was out of denial and determination to carry his dream of becoming an expert firebender that Shei, to the disapproval of her parents, packed a bag and set out on a trip to master her element.
Likes: Play-wrestling with her friends, heights, listening to others talk, reading, machines, blacksmithing.
Dislikes: Recklessness, people who refuse to be team players, failure, not knowing what to do.
Open to shipping (idk if I wanna do this, but hey): Sure, if there's chemistry. She's still not entirely over Duma, but only time will tell.
Other: She's really envious of metalbenders, but at the same time she thinks she's just as good as one.