Ash

Originally from Republic City

## Backstory

Ash grew up in republic city in the old world. Her air nomad mother, Tashi, raised her close by the airbending temple her entire life. Her fire bending and military driven father, Ikem, came to visit often but was tied to his job and responsibilities in the fire nation. Ikem and Tashi had one other child before Ash, her older brother Zopa. He was very spiritually in tune, but his bending had been weak since he was a child. Ikem decided to take Zopa with him on his travels to train him and make him stronger, dragging the two siblings apart.

Tashi and Ikem were very set on helping the air nomads rebuild their nation, but took a different approach. Tashi remained unmarried and had many children, to increase the amount of airbenders in the world. Ikem took Zopa around the world and trained him and many airbenders how to defend themselves with more aggressive approaches than the monks. Hoping to make the new airbenders the biggest ally of the fire nation, the two were away from home for weeks and months at a time.

With all her family's priorities elsewhere, Ash was often in the temples hanging out with the other airbending children, and learning the ways of the temple and monks but never truly identifying with them. After trying to sneak out to participate in underground fighting in her teen years, she was forbidden from leaving the temple until she had gained approval from the monks. She worked hard for the next few years, and on the day she got her tattoos and approval... she was swept up into this new reality. Plucked away from her home, mother, and torn further from her father and brother she has an internal war of going on inside of missing the only people she loved and getting the biggest second chance of her life

## Lore

### Week 1:

Ash is living among the other Air Nomads in the spawn temple. She has contributed to the farming, organization, and building of the temple. While tackling these projects, she's grown quite close to her fellow air nomads. She is often accompanied by Nate, Blue, and Quig. Sophie and **Ash** plan to create a flying-bison farm in the future, and she's still getting acquainted with Mods and Sal.
 Early on, she made an alliance with Max of the Water Tribe. She agreed that the Fire Nation could potentially be dangerous, and that the Earth Kingdom's blind trust in the spirits could be a threat as well. If war or conflict ever came, Ash always planned to side with the Water Tribe and be a power dynamic.
 As days and weeks went by, Max vanished. Feeling as though she had lost her greatest ally, she endeavored to make more allies and friends in the Earth Kingdom, such as Green, Lumi, Pink, and Mason. She tried to help them with their spirit ordeals and socializing since they are the closest to the Air Nomads geographically. After she caught wind of a disagreement between Mason and Sal over the killing of a sky bison, she started to become more cautious around Sal. To make amends, the Air Nomads and the Earth Kingdom worked together to make a shrine for the moon spirit! All seems well until a few days later, **Ash** discovered that the shrine had been destroyed and her wariness of the Earth Kingdom is reinstated.

### Week 2:

Ash carries on befriending and socializing with everyone and revealed her true plans: creating Team Avatar. She wanted to find a trustworthy person from each nation to support the avatar, so that whichever nation they belong to cannot take advantage of their power. Ash worried that if the Fire Nation or Water Tribe were to gain the avatar, it would quickly escalate to an all-out war. Her main goal is to protect the Air Nomads, and gain the power to do so. She thinks she's acquired Nate, Pink, Lumi, Quig, and Mew to help her support the Avatar.
 As she brings people in closer, she notices their experiences with the spirits aren't matching up to ones she's had in the past. She devises a theory that maybe the spirits aren't fully who they say they are, and could have possibly stolen away all these humans to start anew in their own power. With suspicions taking over her mindset, she keeps her friends close and stays tight-lipped.
 She starts to open up a bit to Nate, about her family and her past and seems to develop a genuine bond with him. She also grows new friends in Pine, Gizzy, Yellow, and JP. While working hard on projects at the temple, she starts to obsess over becoming the champion behind closed doors. She feels a responsibility to show the other Air Nomads a new way of approaching things, with more power. The only other person who has as much power and connections as her.. is Sal, the airbender she doubts the most.
Once she hears that Gizzy is now missing, she feels as though all her original ties with the Water Tribe are lost and goes back to reestablish them. She approaches Jake, the new water tribe leader, with Nate. He says he's worried about the tribe, and peace, is worried about his members going missing. Ash feels like Jake is feeding her a different story than what she's heard in the past and returns later on her own to "investigate the disappearances".
 In private, Jake and Ash restore her original alliance of loyalty and power with the Water Tribe. They both agree that Sal cannot be trusted as champion and Ash comes up with a small plan to ensure her spot as the champion, with Jake's support. After running into Sal more times than she was happy with, **Ash** returns home and prepares for the day her nation picks their champion.

#### Penguin Race Event

Ash desperately wants to be chosen as the Avatar, so she creates what she perceives as "controlled chaos." She hides away the Air Nomads' bending scrolls and insinuates that Sal could have taken them, bringing up his faults to displace the other Air Nomads confidence in him. She does her best to make herself look like the obvious choice and brings up her concerns with Sal being champion and not fully controlling his powers. Blue says his choice is Sal, but Ash convinces Nate and Sal to choose her. They do, and she goes onto compete in the penguin race. Racing against Jake, Lumi, and Yellow, Ash holds her own and competes well until round 3, when her penguin falls off the race track and she goes from first to dead last. She is able to keep up and regain third place by the end.
After the race, Ash takes the loss fairly well but seems really frustrated by her fall - she really wanted to prove herself and her nation. She feels like she failed. But in her mind, there is no one better to lose to than her ally Jake. After the race, all the nations are gathered in the audience area and Slade says he has something to announce. The ocean spirit Logan, is actually a spirit of chaos who has been playing as the ocean spirit to manipulate the humans! He stole the ocean spirit's form, the voiceless spirit's voice, and the lives of two Water Tribe members to keep his secrets and abilities. All these shrines, offerings and temples the humans had been participating in with the spirits was actually a way for Slade to regain his power to bring the false ocean spirit to justice. He locks him in a cage and exiles him, turning him... human. He is then banished to wonder the realm and figure out his new purpose as a non-bender human. Everyone is shocked and some people don't know who to trust in this situation.
After that, everyone is dismissed back to their respective nations. Instead of running home, people stick around for a bit and talk. Allies and enemies exchange words and information and Jake asks Ash to watch his back in front of everyone. This makes her nation very suspicious, and so she leaves with the Water Tribe to let that simmer and show her loyalty to her allies. They take her in and they all agree to trust her and confide in her. She feels supported by them and heads back home.

### Week 3:

After the penguin race she can tell everyone is just a bit off with her. She assumes they're just on edge from the scrolls going missing. She has lots of bonding time with her nation in this period and works hard on the bison stands. She makes a quick decision to take the scrolls she hid and deliver them to other nations saying they are from Sal to make her ruse believable. After that she decides to lay low and help others get settled. During this time, Misty and Garrett join the nation and Ash greets them and helps them along the beginning of their journeys. Soon she discovers Green declared himself King of the Earth Kingdom, and while she doesn't speak against it has some personal issues with it. She talks him up to get him off her trail, and tries to meet up with her own allies. As the days go on Ash becomes more and more paranoid about someone finding out about the scrolls. Then she gets an idea, someone she can befriend who has no allegiance. She meets up with Mason and establishes she has no personal qualms with him. They have a brief conversation and she continues on. A few days later Ash meets up with Mason again, him approaching her this time. When she goes, she is anxious and awkward. Mason invites her out to his Mooshroom Island and informs her about some things. He and Logan are currently living there and are interested in taking down Green. They exchange information and in a moment of comfort, Ash admits what she did - how she framed Sal for doing it to become the champion. Mason tells her that he's heard rumors she threw the race, and now she realizes she's made herself suspicious for something far worse than a few scrolls. He advises to tell the truth and if things go south, she could find refuge there. She thanks him, promises to keep his location a secret and leaves to meet up with Pink. Pink catches Ash up on all the Earth Kingdom news, and Ash also confesses to Pink. Pink hears her out and they promise even closer allegiance to each other to take out Green and support the Avatar. After going to have a conversation with Green, Lumi and Pink ask to talk to him. Green asks for a moment alone and Ash waits upstairs. As she does, she hears Mason come in when the conversation gets heated and reveals herself to protect Lumi and Pink, since Mason's eyes are red. After a display of anger and untrue statements from both parties, Mason declares he'll be back to get Lumi and promises to not end up like the Air Nomads have. This offends and worries Ash greatly. These intense events brought on an alliance between Ash, Pink and Lumi to support the Avatar to get their aid in taking Green off the throne. Ash heads home to figure out how to make things right with her nation. Ash ends up confessing her crimes to her nation, and discovers they already knew! She is surprised and a bit embarrassed, but glad they're still family and accept her apology. She then does something no one expects...

She gives champion to Sal. Mason could come and kill them at anytime and they need a strong bender to protect the nation.

Ash feels good about her decision and moves on. She helps welcome in Misty and Garrett into the nation, and befriends them quite quickly. One day when she was running around to attend to her duties, everyone seems to be gathered up! When she goes to see what's going on, it seems everyone followed Mason there. Mason is speaking with Nate for advice and Ash is panicked. Soon, Mason starts acting weird and chaos takes over. Before anyone can stop him, Mason traps Nate in his place and kills him swiftly. He then vanishes. Ash tells Rex to set the whole field on fire if he has to, she wants Mason found. After Nate's death, Ash wastes no time getting to work. She tells Green in private she wants Mason dead, and even comes to a compromise where he can be justly killed before the Avatar games in front of everyone. In private, Ash shares Mason's location with Sal and asks him to not kill Mason without her.

Ash works hard on the air temples and bridges, and has a chat with Sal near the end of the week. Chipcy and Slade take them to a secret and private location to talk. Ash asks Sal how he feels about killing Mason now. Sal reveals he wants to become the avatar, take Mason's bending and protect the air nation. Ash agrees to support him in that, as long as he swears to protect their people. He does, and they seem to be on the same page. Ash reveals how she no longer wants to kill Mason but instead make a safe haven and protect the people who have been hurt by chaos. As soon as she finds a way to get Nate back, that will be her focus. After some fun banter and being brought back home Ash finishes her work and goes to come up with a plan to get Nate back.

Ash waits for Garrett and Misty to enter the spirit realm; her goal is to bring back Nate at any cost, even her own bending. Chipcy meets her at the Air Temples, where she works on the pathways between the temples as Chip shows off his new form, then his angry one, which he discovered by stubbing his toe, and his new-found shapeshifting abilities, which he uses to change into Slade and back. Misty and Garrett arrive, and after some technical difficulties and Sal singing with his voice-changer, Chipcy teleports them to the Gate to the Spirit Realm. They see the ultimate gapple - the combination of all the golden apples they have given the spirits thus far, and Chipcy instructs them to place their items in chests and adjust their character settings. They teleport to the Spirit Realm, where an enderman almost kills Misty, prompting Chipcy to give the three of them Jack-O-Lanterns to wear. Then, the angry dragon spirit flies straight into them and flings the trio (not Chipcy, as he's immune) into the void, where they die (non-canonically).

Chipcy brings them back and they make it past the dragon, finding Ghost-Nate in the Spirit Realm. Ash tells Chipcy that she didn't only want to come and explore, she wants to bring Nate back with them, and she will give up her bending to bring him back. Chipcy is upset that Ash lied, but he understands why and they try to come up with a test in exchange for bringing him back. The spirit gives them a time limit: he will bind Nate to the mortal realm for one week, but if they cannot restore the balance (aka: defeat Chaos) by the end of the week, Nate's spirit will return to the Spirit Realm and be trapped there forever. In addition, for each day things remain unbalanced, they need to leave a golden apple, a clownfish (a Nemo) and a book for the spirits in the temples for each spirit.

They return to the Human Realm, and Ash summons Tai (JustTai), Krista (Yahsass), Doug (RiddleRoo), Lumi (Lumiinara), Green (GreenVacktor), and Zaduhhh in order to reveal Nate's presence and explain what happened in the Spirit Realm. After the gathering breaks up, Chipcy breaks Minecraft physics and makes a \*Secret Tunnel\* in the Meditation Shrine Statue and Lumi, Ash, Misty, and Chipcy overhear a cryptic discussion between Green and Nate, in which Nate tells Green something about recovering or finding Green's "other half."

[Fully Updated as of 03/31/2021. Approved <3]