| Jung |
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| Vital Information |
| Gender |
Female |
| Species |
Human |
| Source |
AtLA-1 |
| Faction |
Confederate |
| Rank |
A-Ally |
| Function |
Spirit-Bender |
| Groups |
None |
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| Other Information |
| Age (Appearance) |
17 |
| Age (Actual) |
17 |
| Still Aging? |
Yes |
| Height |
5'5" tall |
| Weight |
126 lbs |
| Hair Color |
Brown |
| Eye Color |
Yellow-Brown |
|
| Quote |
| "I can't help the Fire Nation! I can't use this power to fight, so just… Stop asking me!" |
Profile
Jung is a native of the Fire Nation. She is a teenager now, and while she was said to have been born with a gift for "Bending", she has thus far been unable to demonstrate any significant proficiency at manipulating the elements. What she CAN do is bend the SPIRITS of the elements as opposed to the elements themselves. She has yet to discover any meaningful use for this ability in the physical world. While her Fire Nation keepers want to weaponize the one thing she is good at to hunt down the Avatar, Jung hates the idea and is terrified of fighting. The best she can do is offer what she learns from searching in the Spirit Realm, and hope that it makes her jailers happy so that she can lose herself in dreams.
Powers
Bending: Bending in all its variations is a form of martial art. Each element has its own movements and stances. Jung lacks the spirit to fight but she has learned the stances and movements for fire, water, and earth during her attempts to discover what element she is able to bend. She can not use the elements corresponding to these movements, however, limiting her combat abilities to the physical realm only.
Fire Nation Soldiers: Jung is not personally in command of any soldiers, but Advisor Kunma may employ such to protect her and to keep her from escaping. These soldiers may fight on their own (at a significant disadvantage against Elites) or as back-up for Jung herself. These troops are either standard foot soldiers equipped with spears, swords, and bows OR Firebenders. Firebenders are able to produce and control flames with their Chi and martial arts skills for a variety of ranged or melee attacks. (Armor Mode: Troops Only - PL 24. Back-Up - PL 30)
Sensing: Jung is usually able to sense the presence of spirits in her vicinity, and can also frequently see and hear them. Individuals with a strong spiritual presence, such as the Avatar, may stand out even more. The sense is vague when she is not Spirit-Walking and can not be used to pinpont someone's location or to identify an individual. The best she can hope for is a general compass direction and something of an indication of the power of the spirit in question at the moment she senses it. If a spirit is stronger or weaker or hiding its power, she would be unaware of this.
Spirit: Spirit is the "fifth element". The "energy within the self". Jung is able to bend the spirits of the elements, which can influence their physical manifestations. However, this is not the same as Firebending, Airbending, Waterbending, or Earthbending, and she can not duplicate the feats associated with such. She can alter the properties of a given element of an amount or intensity appropriate to her skill level, but this is difficult and tiring. Jung can not duplicate the feats associated with "Energybending", either as they pertain to influencing the bending abilities of other people, animals, or plants, or to imparting knowledge she may herself possess. She may disorient or otherwise disable an opponent temporarily by destabilizing the connection between spirit and body, or take away the "life" from fire or earth, but that is about it as far as combat potential. This does mean she is able to put out or reduce the intensity of flames, and she can weaken or crumble stone and earth.
Spirit-Walking: There is a whole other world within which spirits live. It is that ill-understood and potentially madness-inducing realm where Jung's bending is most effective. Further, by entering into a meditative trance Jung is able to travel to the Spirit World to communicate with spirits. There is another usage for this ability, however. She can seperate her spirit from her body temporarily, and travel the physical world in an ethereal form. As a spirit in the physical world, Jung can fly, is intangible to most physical barriers, and is invisible to most means of detection. She can not interact with other people, though she can be noticed, spoken to, attacked, or similar by other spirits or others with the ability to perceive and act on that plane of existence.
Flaws
Fears Fighting: Jung hates and is terrified by physical confrontations or being witness to violence. She is easy to bully, usually gives in to threats, and doesn't give her all when forced to fight. She is also prone to surrendering if given the chance.
Keepers: Jung has Fire Nation guards and overseers assigned to her, both to keep an eye on her and to find ways to use her unique bending abilities to benefit the nation in its war. The man in charge, Advisor Kunma, is not above using Jung's abilities for his personal aspirations as well. This means she may be obligated to do any manner of despicable things to get the information the advisor desires to use against rivals or to find the Avatar.
Limited Bending: Jung can not bend any of the primary four elements despite possessing sufficient knowledge and practical experience that she should be able to use one of the three she has been trained in (Fire, Earth, and Water). She has no training with Airbending and that is unlikely to turn out to be the one element she can bend. Her bending is the spirit, and this makes most of her martial arts moves far less effective without the ability to bend the associated elements.
Background
Jung was born in the Fire Nation 16 years prior to Avatar Aang's reappearance. At a young age, she was determined to have potential to become a very powerful bender — and some even suspected she might be the new Avatar, due to her influencing fire and earth in minor but visible ways. However, she was not the avatar or anything close, and her initial demonstrations of ability went away and did not return as she got older. What was not understood until a decade later was that she was not bending either fire or earth back then. She was bending the SPIRIRT of the fire and the earth, causing the former to flare or die in unusual ways, and the latter to crumble or solidify in complete contradiction of its age or former structural integrity.
Her parents had been killed in front of her years before being taken in for special training by a Fire Nation official, with the intent of instilling strong hate in her, so that she would have the "fuel" to use Firebending. Instead, she simply became terrified of the same fate befalling her someday, and bowed to any and all threats of violence. She did not retaliate when struck, and simply tried to flee. If she could not flee, she would curl up into a ball and simply try to endure until the hurting stopped. Eventually, an advisor to Firelord Ozai — not an important one, but one who WISHED he were important — Advisor Kunma was put in charge of Jung's handling.
Kunma had more familiarity with the history of benders and the Avatar than Jung's prior instructors, and his father even was a priest at the Fire Temple. He thus told Jung about some stories he had heard about the Avatar being the bridge between two worlds — someone who is able to traverse the world of the physical or the world of the spiritual. Jung, only thirteen years old, denied being the Avatar or knowing anything about this matter. She thought for some reason that she was being blamed for something related to spirits, or that if she was this "Avatar", she would be hurt more. Instead, Advisor Kunma assured her she was not at fault for the Avatar's actions. However, he made it clear that he thought she had the potential to find the Avatar for the Fire Nation, and that if she did so she would be free to do as she pleased in life. She could leave the small island she had been living on most of her life, she could sleep forever, or whatever else she choosed.
It was that promise, and not the threat that if Jung didn't find the Avatar she would be the Fire Nation's servant for the rest of her life, that made her start seriously trying. SHe began her training in spiritual matters, and eventually began to show significant progress that violence and threats of violence had not produced. After a few more years, she was able to sense when Aang first reached the Spirit World, and she sensed Aang at the Fire Temple when he learned of Sozin's Comet. However, as her information didn't get Advisor Kunma the results he wanted (he was too late to act upon Jung's info in both cases), he too began to express anger towards the girl and to make threats.
Jung has begun retreating into the realm of dream to escape from reality, but she has also taken up another activity of late — Spirit-Walking. Kunma has had her use her ability to turn into an invisible and intangible spirit to spy on rivals, hoping he gets the information he needs to be the first one to find the Avatar NEXT time Aang shows up. As spy and Avatar-hunter, Jung is simply doing her best to keep her mind intact. Lately she has been finding herself slipping from the physical world more and more. It almost seems like it's not worth trying to be free there when she can just fly like a bird all around the world as a spirit.
Personality
Jung is, at heart, a dreamer. She dreams of places, beings, and situations she would rather be dealing with than what's right in front of her. She has to be badgered to take care of herself, tends to forget to eat if let alone, and takes naps frequently and spontaneously. The less time she has to spend being reminded how awful her life is as the spy and tool of Fire Nation fiends, the happier she is. She has yet to find anyone she can trust or make friends with, but if she could get some positive personal interactions in her life she would be likely to be less miserable all the time. For now, Jung just wants everyone to go away so that she can escape into her dreams.
Jung is angered by her own helplessness and will likely continue to be bothered by feelings of not being in control for the rest of her life. If she ever feels like someone else is in authority over her and she has no choice about what she will or will not do, she will feel frustrated beyond just the level that other people would. However, her fear of fighting back simply makes her that much easier to push around — practically a magnet for bullying. The closest thing she has to a hobby is using her ability to Spirit-Walk to fly through the sky, soaring high like a bird, free of any shackles or disapproving eyes. As a spirit, she can go where she wants, see all the things she'll never be shown as the advisor's "special weapon", and feel like maybe there's hope after all. The extremes of experiencing total freedom only to go right back to a life that is only seperated from enslavement by no one calling her a slave to her face are quite hard on her psychologically. Total freedom contrasted by total slavery. It's gradually pushing her closer to the edge — closer to the point of desperation, where she will either lose her will to live completely or do something drastic to secure her freedom.
Jung is in the Confederacy because her masters in the Fire Nation are affiliated with such. She does not see the Avatar as a potential ally and does not know anything about him beyond that if she finds him maybe she'll finally be left alone. She does not know of all the good he can do, or the good SHE could do helping him. All she knows is the Avatar is some sort of threat and that he may be the key to freedom. She has no positive feelings towards him, his allies, his friends, the people he meets, or even the people on her own side. She will do whatever she can to make her keepers happy. If that includes ending the "hope of the world", so be it.
As bad as Jung has had it, she hasn't been permanently damaged by all of it. Within her own faction, she still has room to grow and may be painted a darker color by her association with other Confederates, or she may find there are people to care about even in the darkness. For the Union, while she may be an enemy, she mostly just wants to be free. If she felt she could safely escape from her captors, and if she could not just meet the Avatar but discover what kind of person he truly is — what AANG remaining free could mean for the entire world, Jung-included — she might gain some measure of respect for what the Airbending boy is trying to do and perhaps even discover hope that he can free her eventually too. On the other hand, she might become more of an enemy to the Union. She might stay in the Confederacy and choose to continue pursuing the capture/destruction of the Avatar. The potential exists for her to go either way or some other way entirely.
She just needs to be given the chance to choose.
Relationships
To be done.
Stuff
Major NPCs
Advisor Kunma: Kunma is an advisor to Firelord Ozai himself. He is not necessarily an IMPORTANT advisor, but he would LIKE to be. Thus, he uses Jung's abilities to spy on rivals, and locate the Avatar by means unavailable to anyone else in the world. He is not nice to Jung. He is mean, but as long as she does what she is told some mild verbal abuse is about all she'll receive. Unlike her past teachers/handlers, he does not hit her. But that's about the only thing he has going for him.
Equipment
Nothing yet.
