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Description Name: An Quan Li 安全 李 I really hope I wrote that right, I can barely speak English much less write in Chinese ahaha;;;

Age: Twenty Two

Nationality: Fire Nation

Affinity: Fire

Skills:

Ambidextrous: when she was about eight years old she received a burn on her right hand resulting in it being incapacitated for a short time. During that time her dad, being a leftie, taught her simple ways to go about her life using her left hand instead of right, and since then she has kept up the skill.

Herding: shortly before moving to republic city An Quan spent nearly two years working as a farm hand herding koala sheep as a way to earn boat fair for her big move. To this day she still remembers a thing or two on how to manipulate animals to go where you want them to.

Perception: perhaps because she grew up in such a tactical environment or maybe she swallowed a rule as a kid she has the uncanny ability for measuring things out to be “just right” even without tools. Although it’s not 100% accurate all the time, it’s especially handy when it comes to figuring out the cost of building materials, or how far something will fly without the use of a ruler.

Personality:

An Quan is a very curious girl. She grew up in a small village of the fire nation with limited resources, so whenever she encounters something new she becomes very eager to give it a try to boarder line obsessive as she tries to figure out just exactly how everything works. Because she grew up in a small village, she’s very unaware as to how the world works, and although she tries to be as open minded as possible, there are times where her close minded past haunts her and she just flat out refuses to believe or support whatever issue or topic has come up. This is especially true when it comes to socials issues dealing with benders and nonbenders.


Likes and Dislikes:

+SCIENCE!!!! Very obsessive with how the world works
+MYTHOLOGY!!!! Loves folklore dealing with people’s perception of how the world was created and how things worked before science came about.
+Homemade bread: the smell reminds her of home and her mothers cooking, whenever she’s homesick she always gets a few loafs of it and just walks around the city smelling the food as a makeshift cure.

-Censorship: she wants to know it ALLLL! And she hates restrictions on anything her philosophy is that no one has the power to judge what another should or shouldn’t know
-History: “a person cant progress with all this past stuff in the way!”
-Heights. Common phobia, nuff said.

History:

As stated before An Quan grew up in a small village in the fire nation. By some odd twist of fate she was born a nonbender while her twin brother An Jing was a firebender. The oddity remained a mystery among her fire and metalbending family, fuelling her thirst for knowledge even as a young age. When she was eight years old she managed to convince her brother to try an “experiment” to see if bending could be translated from one person to the next, which resulting her An Quan severely burning her right hand.
From then on, her parents became extremely protective of the twins and made sure to always filter what they took in from foods, to books, to music and more. Growing dissatisfied of this bubble life, 17 year old An Quan devised a plan on her escape by slowly saving up money for a boat fair to republic city under the guise of assisting one of her grandfather’s old art buddies.
From there, she slowly established a new life as she assimilated into Republic City’s culture. Although it has been years since she first moved to the city there’s still a lot left to explore and learn, which she is both excited and anxious to do.


RP sample:

An Quan inhaled the crisp aroma of the freshly baked pastry roll before splitting it apart and taking a large bite of the roll. Home. She sighed deeply with the word on the tip of her tongue; it tasted of roasted leechi nuts mixed with the scent of smoldering fires from the family’s forge. As much as she loved Republic City’s fast paced lifestyle and seemingly endless technology revolutions, there were times when nostalgia got the best of her and all she wanted to was call for home.
She softly shook her head a quiet smile upon her lips and turned towards the teashop’s window where bustlingly passerbys made their way doing whatever errands they needed to be done. As she tried to keep her mind off home a thought occurred to her. for every person that passed by the window shop they too must have a family of some sort, and those families have a friends with too. So many people, so many stories, so many curiosities and mysteries to discover.
An Quan’s smile grew as she toyed with that idea in her head like a cat with twine. Perhaps one day she’ll discover or even solve some of those mysteries!

Additional Info:
-Thanks to her mother’s own addiction to radio dramas, she is a big fan as well Originally it started out as an escapism, but has now become a necessity. If she ever missed a weekly broadcast she becomes slightly neurotic.

-It’s rare to see her without gloves. She always feels slightly embarrassed whenever she has to explain how she got the scar on her hand and so prefers to just avoid the issue completely by covering it up as often as possible.
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Comments: 47

Thoralmir [2013-05-31 00:22:07 +0000 UTC]

Join the Republic Rose Theater Company! A roleplay group on Facebook for Legend of Korra OCs! Rules are simple: just make a profile for your OC and have them apply here:

[link]

Action! Drama! Comedy! Dramady! Cosmic Horror! Mecha! Theater! Did we mention Action! already?

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purpleEar In reply to Thoralmir [2013-05-31 00:35:55 +0000 UTC]

ohhh! this sounds interesting! But the link you gave me doesn't work :s

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Thoralmir In reply to purpleEar [2013-06-01 00:13:52 +0000 UTC]

www.facebook.com/groups/425388767515161/

Try typing that in, see if it works.

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Projekt-Z [2013-05-09 20:09:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Good job.

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purpleEar In reply to Projekt-Z [2013-05-09 20:59:58 +0000 UTC]

thank you :>

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Projekt-Z In reply to purpleEar [2013-05-09 21:03:39 +0000 UTC]

no problem!

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Kay-de-ultimate [2013-03-12 01:16:51 +0000 UTC]

Aw she is beautiful~

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purpleEar In reply to Kay-de-ultimate [2013-03-12 03:04:57 +0000 UTC]

thank you! 8D

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Kay-de-ultimate In reply to purpleEar [2013-03-12 03:06:50 +0000 UTC]

no prob~

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KanevaPark [2013-03-11 02:41:41 +0000 UTC]

Heeheeehee radio dramas x>

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purpleEar In reply to KanevaPark [2013-03-11 02:51:32 +0000 UTC]

i imagine they're as addicting as television dramas 8D

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KanevaPark In reply to purpleEar [2013-03-11 03:02:38 +0000 UTC]

Yessssss! Homygod that is such an interesting thought.

Heeheehee the more I look at your character, the more I like her! <3 She's so cute.

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purpleEar In reply to KanevaPark [2013-03-11 17:08:17 +0000 UTC]

ahh thank you :'D

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KateriTekakwitha [2013-03-10 20:59:00 +0000 UTC]

adorable

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purpleEar In reply to KateriTekakwitha [2013-03-10 21:29:18 +0000 UTC]

thanks 8D

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KateriTekakwitha In reply to purpleEar [2013-03-10 21:52:24 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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CatAnnabelle [2013-03-10 20:56:11 +0000 UTC]

She's so cool!
I really hope that Lynn can bump into her sometime :3

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purpleEar In reply to CatAnnabelle [2013-03-10 21:29:11 +0000 UTC]

ooo that would be fun! 8D

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Lunabei [2013-03-08 01:50:28 +0000 UTC]

I'm ashamed to admit that I spent far too long staring at this, trying to remember where I'd seen the pose before. But anyway, she seems like such an amazing character! Seriously love her personality

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purpleEar In reply to Lunabei [2013-03-08 20:33:17 +0000 UTC]

ahhh i guess my reference was a bit too subtle..
thank you though! i had a bit of trouble working out her personality, its great to hear you like it!

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Lunabei In reply to purpleEar [2013-03-09 16:24:35 +0000 UTC]

Not really XD I'm just kind of slow!

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EmeraldYoshi [2013-03-02 02:49:01 +0000 UTC]

AAAAH she's so great! DAT BIO MMMMMMMMHMM
ROSIE THE RIVETER POSE HA because she's a strong independent nonbender who don't need no man THAT IS SO GREAT
WITH THE SCIENCE AND THEN THE EXPERIMENT except the burning isn't great but like she loves science and tried to experiment and GREAT
GREAT
she looks her age, too, I can't draw anybody who looks over 16 years old =u=;; I EXPECTED THAT FROM YOU THOUGH

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EmeraldYoshi In reply to EmeraldYoshi [2013-03-02 02:49:20 +0000 UTC]

I MEAN
I EXPECTED YOU TO DRAW A CHARACTER THAT LOOKS THEIR AGE

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purpleEar In reply to EmeraldYoshi [2013-03-02 07:04:31 +0000 UTC]

AW YEAH YOU KNOW HOW I AM WITH HISTORICAL POSTERS AND HISTORY IN GENERAL AND YEAAAAAH SCIENCE! i figured science would be a good interest to have with the whole industrial boom going on AND WHATS A BETTER WAY TO SHOW YOUR LOVE OF SOMETHING THAN TO DO STUPID STUFF IN THE NAME OF IT? 8D besides its not like the saying "curiosity killed the owl-cat" has any truth to it right? i mean cats have nine lives anyways
ehehe but yeah thanks! 8D the reason An Quan looks her age is because i MIGHT HAVE decided her age after i designed her looks ehehe

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EmeraldYoshi In reply to purpleEar [2013-03-04 01:21:20 +0000 UTC]

YEAH YEP THAT'S INNOVATIVE THE INDUSTRIAL BOOM AND WHATNOT
yes EXACTLY STUPID ON IT PROVES YOUR LOVE xD
no prob =w=
WELL. The point is you drew a character that looks older than 16, which is more than I can say xD

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Bunny-Parade [2013-02-27 23:29:28 +0000 UTC]

ohhh i like her uvu
jesus though your character bios are so good quq<3 like, ssfdasgjhkdlk look at all that depth c':

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purpleEar In reply to Bunny-Parade [2013-02-28 09:42:08 +0000 UTC]

akdlshfdklfhds thank you! the sad part is this is like my 5th draft of her bio, why is it so hard to explain a character without creating a giant wall of text?! ahhhh!

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Bunny-Parade In reply to purpleEar [2013-02-28 19:52:30 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome ;u;

pffft ikr eAe and then you always want to add more...and then the character ends up changing completely eme but thats not always a bad thing uvu

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purpleEar In reply to Bunny-Parade [2013-02-28 19:55:34 +0000 UTC]

yes exactly! @.@ ORRR their bio is just so waterlogged with stuff they aren't fun to role play with anymore or they just never seem able to grow... and there's the whole "less is more logic" too @.@ oii...

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Bunny-Parade In reply to purpleEar [2013-02-28 20:45:54 +0000 UTC]

qmq rp sounds difficult LOL
lol less is more
make people more mysteriush

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purpleEar In reply to Bunny-Parade [2013-02-28 20:54:11 +0000 UTC]

idk it's a lot easier for me to roleplay than it is to write stories, but i guess it varies from person to person 8D;

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Bunny-Parade In reply to purpleEar [2013-02-28 21:16:21 +0000 UTC]

ah yeah 8'D writing is hard eme

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Tsukiyoumi [2013-02-27 23:09:33 +0000 UTC]

WOw looks like an interesting character!
Hope to see you in the group <3

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purpleEar In reply to Tsukiyoumi [2013-02-28 09:40:51 +0000 UTC]

ahh thank you! ;7;/ i hope so as well!

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emmcoolio [2013-02-27 23:02:29 +0000 UTC]

Ahhh you worked so hard and it looks really awesome! I love it man. She looks great and seems like a super cool chick.

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purpleEar In reply to emmcoolio [2013-02-28 09:42:31 +0000 UTC]

thanks! and we'll have to see how well she lives up to her original bio! ehhehe

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emmcoolio In reply to purpleEar [2013-02-28 21:35:31 +0000 UTC]

She will be the best that ever was.

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purpleEar In reply to emmcoolio [2013-02-28 21:38:37 +0000 UTC]

i dunno about that!

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firstfarewell [2013-02-27 22:30:24 +0000 UTC]

.....aww that's somewhat adorable trying to transfer bending Q-Q

(I love how she's totally into science/ into always looking forward! >v
Anyways, good luck purple! Hope to see An Quan in RC <3

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purpleEar In reply to firstfarewell [2013-02-28 09:38:36 +0000 UTC]

ahh thanks! ;7;/ I really hope I can join you guys too! The group looks like so much fun!

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firstfarewell In reply to purpleEar [2013-03-02 08:17:59 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome purple~ <3!!! >V👍: 0 ⏩: 0

swooniemoonie [2013-02-27 19:02:19 +0000 UTC]

Oooh, you did really well on this, Cake! Good luck with getting in! She seems like a really interesting character.

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purpleEar In reply to swooniemoonie [2013-02-28 09:40:25 +0000 UTC]

thanks tori! i really hope i get in as well! hnn this group man it looks like magic

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Pheoniic [2013-02-27 18:44:43 +0000 UTC]

Aw what an adorable design!
Her backstory about trying to transfer bending is sad in a sort of cute way... ;A;

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purpleEar In reply to Pheoniic [2013-02-28 09:39:57 +0000 UTC]

thank you! ;w; it took me a while to come up with her backstory, I never realized coming up with nontragic explanations on scars could be so hard! @.@

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Tellytubbie [2013-02-27 18:19:14 +0000 UTC]

AWW YEAHHHHHHH You got them chinese-y stuff right hun

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purpleEar In reply to Tellytubbie [2013-02-28 00:43:33 +0000 UTC]

aw yeah! /o7o/ sobs great

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