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[nick / name]: Veda
[personal LJ/DW name]:not_as_it_is
[other characters currently played]:
Justin Pendleton :: Murder by Numbers ::othersdie
Pavel Chekov :: Star Trek XI/Reboot ::candothat
Penny :: "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" ::anunluckypenny
[e-mail]: pariah@cox.net
[AIM / messenger]: cheatreality on plurk
[series]: “The Legend of Korra”
[character]: Jinora
[character history / background]: To the Wiki!
[character abilities]:
In spite of her tender age, Jinora is a fairly formidable Airbender. She proved herself capable of defeating Equalist chi blockers when they attacked her home; she has mastered the glider and air scooter, can create gusts of air strong enough to propel the spinning gates (a training tool), and is capable of jumping unnaturally far and slowing her falls by manipulating air. These are the only skills demonstrated on screen, but it's fair to assume that Jinora possesses other characteristic Airbender abilities.
Jinora's fighting abilities are like those of other Airbenders. Pacifists by nature, Airbenders tend to rely on flexibility, circular movements, and defensive moves. Jinora fights by following the path of least resistance, using agility and intuition to evade attacks. Actual airbending involves a purposeful and potentially powerful direction of chi. Weapons like the staff that Jinora's glider folds into can be used to channel and direct chi more accurately.
Airbenders are highly spiritual, without exception. Their close connection to the universe enables them to tap into the ever-flowing and ever-present chi--the life force and energy that exists within everything, living and nonliving--to locate living things. Jinora's connection to the spirit world is unusually strong. She has the ability to see hidden spirits in the material world and is capable of entering the spirit world and guiding others into it. These are rare and powerful abilities, even among Airbenders.
When Jinora’s father, an Airbending Master who has spent his life training, is unable to aid Korra by accompanying her to the spirit world, Jinora takes his place as Korra’s spiritual guide. She successfully guides the Avatar into the spirit world with little trouble. Her natural connection to the spirits and spiritual energy gives her the ability to sense disturbances in both the spirit and material worlds. She ultimately helps Korra save the world from ten thousand years of darkness by entering the material world as a spirit and bringing light to a hopelessly dark situation.
(The specifics and extent of Jinora’s abilities are debatable and not readily explained in-universe. I suspect that the unique circumstances caused by Harmonic Convergence allowed the girl to bend in-universe rules and that she doesn’t possess any super-special deus ex machina powers. I could be wrong.)
In addition to being an able fighter and a spiritual prodigy, Jinora is a highly intelligent eleven year-old with wisdom and insight far beyond her years. She’s an avid reader with encyclopedic knowledge of everything from fire ferrets to the inner workings of radios, and clever enough to convince a human-weary Wan Shi Tong to peruse his spirit library.
[character personality]:
Jinora is a quiet, clever girl who enjoys reading and bothering Korra about her love life. She can usually be found with a book in hand when she's not training or corralling her energetic younger siblings, Meelo and Ikki. In spite of her reserved nature, Jinora is an empathetic and affectionate individual. She tries to comfort her siblings when they're upset and doles out enthusiastic hugs to loved ones. She is usually of a cheerful disposition, but does occasionally get tired of her energetic and noisy family. Jinora is mature for her age and speaks with great precision and deliberateness.
The reserved eleven year-old truly acts her age when the topic of romance comes around. Jinora is at a point in her life where she's just starting to notice boys and she takes far more interest in Korra's love life than the Avatar would like. She's full of advice about attracting boys thanks to her books, but her reading materials have made her definition of romantic unusual (burning up your beloved's country and then throwing yourself into a volcano isn't nearly as romantic as Jinora seems to think it is). The girl is at her giggliest and giddiest when talking to Korra about her tall and handsome firebending (boy) friend.
Jinora is studious and takes her father's airbending lessons seriously. The same can't be said of her siblings. She appears to have a solid understanding of the philosophy behind airbending and lives largely in accordance with it. Like her predecessors, the Air Nomads, Jinora respects all forms of life and avoids conflict of all kinds when possible. Should someone important to her need help, however, she is willing to go on the offensive. When the Equalists overcome Lin, she leads her siblings into battle.
Jinora is usually patient, but does get irritated when her talkative siblings interrupt her conversations with adults. Her tolerance for their noise is fairly low, too; her response to Ikki's shrieking is to plug her ears. On occasion, she can be bossy. She displays a distinctly preteen embarrassment when her family members act in an undignified manner in public and she likes to tune her family out by reading at the dinner table.
New canon has revealed that Jinora is exceptionally brave. She faces the imposing and powerful spirit Wan Shi Tong without fear. When Unalaq threatens to destroy Jinora’s soul if Korra doesn’t open the Northern spirit portal, the girl urges Korra to leave the portal unopened. Her spirit spends a considerable amount of time in the Fog of Lost Souls where she is forced to face her worst fear but, upon being rescued by her father, Jinora senses that Korra needs her and vanishes to help without hesitation. She is resilient, selfless, and unafraid of putting herself in danger for the greater good.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Post season two.
[journal post]:
[Action // Audio]
[Jinora knows this place. The eleven year-old stands in the snow near a familiar fountain, gathering scattered memories of the City and reconciling them with the last six months spent at home. A lot has happened at home, but how much has happened here? She simultaneously feels that she’s been here very recently and a long time ago. But no, time must have passed here. It was spring or summer when she was here last, and now it’s snowing.
The eleven year-old is grateful for the warm clothes that she’s wearing. If she had been taken from the temperate Air Temple Island instead of the chilly South Pole, finding herself in a cold, half-remembered world would be far more unpleasant. She’s also grateful for the boxy device that she finds in the folds of her heavy robes. It’s still way more sophisticated than the radios at home, but her fingers remember which buttons to touch to send out an audio message.]
This is Jinora. I don’t know if anyone remembers me, but if you know anyone from Republic City or Air Temple Island or if Korra’s still here, could you tell them I’m here, please? I don’t know how good they are at working these things.
Thank you.
[She returns the device to her robe and waits patiently and calmly for any kind of response. Jinora isn’t afraid of being away from home this time. After getting lost in the spirit world and almost seeing the world end, this is easy.]
[third person / log sample]:
She usually tolerates Meelo's total lack of housetraining, Ikki's constant chatter, and her beloved father's penchant for embarrassing himself in politely unimpressed silence. She forgives her parents for being oblivious to reality; neither has any idea how desperately uncool they are and they never acknowledge how much Jinora puts up with. It's like they expect her to quietly do as she's told for the rest of her life and deal with Ikki's and Meelo's loud craziness.
She's stuck with them. Her dad's never going to let her leave their island home to hang out with people her age and meet boys. It doesn’t matter to him that she’s been to the spirit world and back or that she helped save the entire world from ten-thousand years of darkness, which is completely unfair. Saving the world is worth a little extra freedom, isn’t it?
Jinora loves her family, but they don't understand anything.
Since they live on an island and Tenzin has yet to give her a flying bison of her own, Jinora can't run very far when she wants to. Instead, when her parents are killing her chances of ever having a social life and Meelo and Ikki keep her from concentrating on her books, she goes outside to train.
She doesn't train because she aspires to become the most amazing Airbender of all time. True, the spiritual side of the practice comes easily to her, but prestige is not her goal. She meditates and practices with the spinning gates alone to relax: to escape the island and simply exist in calm and quiet. Jinora can slip into a peaceful world where worries, embarrassment, and frustrations are carried away on the wind and chi flows freely from the universe into her.
Jinora is at her most relaxed when she breezes through the spinning gates. She navigates through the ever-changing maze with agility and grace, never stumbling or faltering. It's not a thinking exercise. The eleven year-old is detached, letting the spiraling currents guide her light steps along the rapidly shifting path. Her father always says that air is the element of freedom, mutable and never still.
When she lets go and allows the movement of the air to direct her, she feels free.
[personal LJ/DW name]:
not_as_it_is [other characters currently played]:
Justin Pendleton :: Murder by Numbers ::
othersdie Pavel Chekov :: Star Trek XI/Reboot ::
candothat Penny :: "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" ::
anunluckypenny [e-mail]: pariah@cox.net
[AIM / messenger]: cheatreality on plurk
[series]: “The Legend of Korra”
[character]: Jinora
[character history / background]: To the Wiki!
[character abilities]:
In spite of her tender age, Jinora is a fairly formidable Airbender. She proved herself capable of defeating Equalist chi blockers when they attacked her home; she has mastered the glider and air scooter, can create gusts of air strong enough to propel the spinning gates (a training tool), and is capable of jumping unnaturally far and slowing her falls by manipulating air. These are the only skills demonstrated on screen, but it's fair to assume that Jinora possesses other characteristic Airbender abilities.
Jinora's fighting abilities are like those of other Airbenders. Pacifists by nature, Airbenders tend to rely on flexibility, circular movements, and defensive moves. Jinora fights by following the path of least resistance, using agility and intuition to evade attacks. Actual airbending involves a purposeful and potentially powerful direction of chi. Weapons like the staff that Jinora's glider folds into can be used to channel and direct chi more accurately.
Airbenders are highly spiritual, without exception. Their close connection to the universe enables them to tap into the ever-flowing and ever-present chi--the life force and energy that exists within everything, living and nonliving--to locate living things. Jinora's connection to the spirit world is unusually strong. She has the ability to see hidden spirits in the material world and is capable of entering the spirit world and guiding others into it. These are rare and powerful abilities, even among Airbenders.
When Jinora’s father, an Airbending Master who has spent his life training, is unable to aid Korra by accompanying her to the spirit world, Jinora takes his place as Korra’s spiritual guide. She successfully guides the Avatar into the spirit world with little trouble. Her natural connection to the spirits and spiritual energy gives her the ability to sense disturbances in both the spirit and material worlds. She ultimately helps Korra save the world from ten thousand years of darkness by entering the material world as a spirit and bringing light to a hopelessly dark situation.
(The specifics and extent of Jinora’s abilities are debatable and not readily explained in-universe. I suspect that the unique circumstances caused by Harmonic Convergence allowed the girl to bend in-universe rules and that she doesn’t possess any super-special deus ex machina powers. I could be wrong.)
In addition to being an able fighter and a spiritual prodigy, Jinora is a highly intelligent eleven year-old with wisdom and insight far beyond her years. She’s an avid reader with encyclopedic knowledge of everything from fire ferrets to the inner workings of radios, and clever enough to convince a human-weary Wan Shi Tong to peruse his spirit library.
[character personality]:
Jinora is a quiet, clever girl who enjoys reading and bothering Korra about her love life. She can usually be found with a book in hand when she's not training or corralling her energetic younger siblings, Meelo and Ikki. In spite of her reserved nature, Jinora is an empathetic and affectionate individual. She tries to comfort her siblings when they're upset and doles out enthusiastic hugs to loved ones. She is usually of a cheerful disposition, but does occasionally get tired of her energetic and noisy family. Jinora is mature for her age and speaks with great precision and deliberateness.
The reserved eleven year-old truly acts her age when the topic of romance comes around. Jinora is at a point in her life where she's just starting to notice boys and she takes far more interest in Korra's love life than the Avatar would like. She's full of advice about attracting boys thanks to her books, but her reading materials have made her definition of romantic unusual (burning up your beloved's country and then throwing yourself into a volcano isn't nearly as romantic as Jinora seems to think it is). The girl is at her giggliest and giddiest when talking to Korra about her tall and handsome firebending (boy) friend.
Jinora is studious and takes her father's airbending lessons seriously. The same can't be said of her siblings. She appears to have a solid understanding of the philosophy behind airbending and lives largely in accordance with it. Like her predecessors, the Air Nomads, Jinora respects all forms of life and avoids conflict of all kinds when possible. Should someone important to her need help, however, she is willing to go on the offensive. When the Equalists overcome Lin, she leads her siblings into battle.
Jinora is usually patient, but does get irritated when her talkative siblings interrupt her conversations with adults. Her tolerance for their noise is fairly low, too; her response to Ikki's shrieking is to plug her ears. On occasion, she can be bossy. She displays a distinctly preteen embarrassment when her family members act in an undignified manner in public and she likes to tune her family out by reading at the dinner table.
New canon has revealed that Jinora is exceptionally brave. She faces the imposing and powerful spirit Wan Shi Tong without fear. When Unalaq threatens to destroy Jinora’s soul if Korra doesn’t open the Northern spirit portal, the girl urges Korra to leave the portal unopened. Her spirit spends a considerable amount of time in the Fog of Lost Souls where she is forced to face her worst fear but, upon being rescued by her father, Jinora senses that Korra needs her and vanishes to help without hesitation. She is resilient, selfless, and unafraid of putting herself in danger for the greater good.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Post season two.
[journal post]:
[Action // Audio]
[Jinora knows this place. The eleven year-old stands in the snow near a familiar fountain, gathering scattered memories of the City and reconciling them with the last six months spent at home. A lot has happened at home, but how much has happened here? She simultaneously feels that she’s been here very recently and a long time ago. But no, time must have passed here. It was spring or summer when she was here last, and now it’s snowing.
The eleven year-old is grateful for the warm clothes that she’s wearing. If she had been taken from the temperate Air Temple Island instead of the chilly South Pole, finding herself in a cold, half-remembered world would be far more unpleasant. She’s also grateful for the boxy device that she finds in the folds of her heavy robes. It’s still way more sophisticated than the radios at home, but her fingers remember which buttons to touch to send out an audio message.]
This is Jinora. I don’t know if anyone remembers me, but if you know anyone from Republic City or Air Temple Island or if Korra’s still here, could you tell them I’m here, please? I don’t know how good they are at working these things.
Thank you.
[She returns the device to her robe and waits patiently and calmly for any kind of response. Jinora isn’t afraid of being away from home this time. After getting lost in the spirit world and almost seeing the world end, this is easy.]
[third person / log sample]:
She usually tolerates Meelo's total lack of housetraining, Ikki's constant chatter, and her beloved father's penchant for embarrassing himself in politely unimpressed silence. She forgives her parents for being oblivious to reality; neither has any idea how desperately uncool they are and they never acknowledge how much Jinora puts up with. It's like they expect her to quietly do as she's told for the rest of her life and deal with Ikki's and Meelo's loud craziness.
She's stuck with them. Her dad's never going to let her leave their island home to hang out with people her age and meet boys. It doesn’t matter to him that she’s been to the spirit world and back or that she helped save the entire world from ten-thousand years of darkness, which is completely unfair. Saving the world is worth a little extra freedom, isn’t it?
Jinora loves her family, but they don't understand anything.
Since they live on an island and Tenzin has yet to give her a flying bison of her own, Jinora can't run very far when she wants to. Instead, when her parents are killing her chances of ever having a social life and Meelo and Ikki keep her from concentrating on her books, she goes outside to train.
She doesn't train because she aspires to become the most amazing Airbender of all time. True, the spiritual side of the practice comes easily to her, but prestige is not her goal. She meditates and practices with the spinning gates alone to relax: to escape the island and simply exist in calm and quiet. Jinora can slip into a peaceful world where worries, embarrassment, and frustrations are carried away on the wind and chi flows freely from the universe into her.
Jinora is at her most relaxed when she breezes through the spinning gates. She navigates through the ever-changing maze with agility and grace, never stumbling or faltering. It's not a thinking exercise. The eleven year-old is detached, letting the spiraling currents guide her light steps along the rapidly shifting path. Her father always says that air is the element of freedom, mutable and never still.
When she lets go and allows the movement of the air to direct her, she feels free.