Suki

## Background

### History

Kyoshi Island, which was originally a peninsula named Yokoya, is located off the southern coast of the Bhutran & dotted with many small villages. The island maintained isolationism, mostly cutting itself off from the rest of Bhutran. However, one small island operated as a fishing port, making it a popular destination among traders & travelers. Its most important export good is the elephant koi, whose meat is procured by restaurants all over the country.

A few centuries before Suki was born, a warlord by the name of Chin the Great attempted to conquer the Earth Kingdom with his armies. Yokoya & Ba Sing Se were the exceptions to his power. When Chin marched his armies down to Yokoya, he was met with a resistance led by a woman named Kyoshi. Instead of battling him, she managed to keep her people safe from invasion by using a combination of different techniques to separate their peninsula from the mainland. In their gratitude, the people renamed Yokoya to Kyoshi Island. As time went on, many communities on the island became extremely isolationistic, believing that Kyoshi had cut them off from the mainland to shield them from all outside influences.

### 2002 - 2011: Suki

Suki was born in a village on Kyoshi Island, one which maintained strict isolationism. Like the other children of the island, she was born into the practive of communal child-rearing. Among the other kids, Suki grew up especially close with Mingxia, another girl who was about her age. The two of them idolized the Kyoshi Warriors, an order of female warriors that protected the island. The girls were usually tasked with bringing food to the village communal kitchen but the two frequently stopped to watch the warriors, marveling at their techniques as they focused during meditation. Everyday since, Suki professed how she wanted to be just like the warriors when she was grown up.

### 2011 - 2016: Suki

When Suki was nine, Bhutran broke out into a war between the Fire Nation & the Air Nomads. As Kyoshi Island held no significant military advantage & was home to only a geokinetics, the region was not attacked by the Fire Nation at all throughout the Great War. In turn, the island's inhabitants opted to stay neutral as the rest of the country was devastated. However, the isolationist tendencies of some locals only grew due to the war.

The next year, Suki & Mingxia began training to become Kyoshi Warriors & became masters in tessenjutsu, the art of fan combat. The two continued their training throughout the war, using their abilities to stop any small crimes on the island but never to interfere with the war, something that Suki resented. Towards the end of the war, agricultural crop failures resulted in a threat of famine for many villages, including Suki's. Her village had begun to believe so strongly in isolationism & self-sufficiency that its leaders refused to consider outside aid even in this situation. Thanks to the Kyoshi Warrior band of Suki having gathered wild plants as extra food, a famine was avoided.

### 2016 - 2019: Suki

Although Suki & the other warriors gathered enough to sustain their village, Mingxia was sure that they had to end their isolationism. Though she tried to stop her, Mingxia decided to leave the island for the mainland after coming to the realization that their leaders would never change their politics. As the eldest Kyoshi Warrior left, Suki was put in charge of training the newer members before eventually rising to the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors.

## Personality

Befitting her position as leader of the Kyoshi Warriors, Suki was tough, assertive & not afraid to speak her mind. A woman of action, she is always first to spring into battle, earning her the approval of other warriors. She possesses a dry sense of humor, as evidenced when she sarcastically mocked Sokka when he boasted of his at the time subpar fighting prowess.

At the same time, Suki has a compassionate & loyal spirit. Although she once believed that her island should remain separate from Bhutran, she was inspired to help the rest of the country after Aang's visit to the island as she grew aware of suffering elsewhere in the world. She believed in the importance of community over any advantages for the individual, as she believed that a community had a greater chance of overcoming hardship & saving everyone. She is adaptive & willing to admit her own mistakes.

Suki has a strong sense of duty & is fully committed to the tasks she is entrusted with. She is also fiercely protective of those she cared about, taking great pains to ensure the safety of her friends. She is extremely resilient & loyal, remaining calm & collected in the threat of danger no matter how high the stakes were. As a brave warrior, quick thinker & an empathetic friend, she was always the first to look out for threats, to interpose herself between danger & the vulnerable, and to reach out to someone who was hurting.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics:** She once jumping across the tops of the people's heads & scaled the vertical face of a building, demonstrating an impressive acrobatic skill.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Despite not being a bender, Suki was more than capable of handling herself in a fight. She is an impressive hand-to-hand combatant, holding her own against other skilled fighters such as Ty Lee & readily avoiding her disabling pressure point strikes.
	+ ***Tessenjutsu*:** Tessenjutsu is the martial art style of the war fan. As a Kyoshi Warrior, she uses two metal fans in imitation of their founder Kyoshi. She wields these fans in conjunction with a specialized fighting style that is based on the concept of turning her opponent's energy against them & exploiting openings. These implements are used for defense but they could also be thrown elliptically as boomerangs or propelled as projectiles. Suki said that the fans were like an extension of arm.
* **Leadership:** Suki is a born leader & is very effective as the head of her team of Kyoshi Warriors. As a leader & teacher within the group, she helped to train her team & ensure their cohesion. However, she was also comfortable supporting others instead of taking the limelight & could work in a team to help those around her to reach their potential.
* **Pedagogy:** Suki is also an effective teache & adapted her teaching style to match the needs of her students. She passed some of her fighting methods on to Sokka in just a short period of time.
* **Physicality:** Suki possessed considerable physical strength, able to swim easily in full armor & toss aside a full grown man with ease.
* **Weaponry:** Suki is adept at fighting with the traditional Kyoshi Warrior war fans & was also skilled with the katana.
* **Katana:** Each of the Kyoshi Warriors carry a katana, which is moderately curved & single edged. They are rarely used in combat as the fans are their primary weapons.
* **Shield:** The Kyoshi Warriors also carry around retractable shield that could be combined to protect the entire unit. The combined shields were capable of withstanding a fire blast & bear a likeness to the Earth Kingdom's emblem.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Suki is the leader of a band of female warriors known as the Kyoshi Warriors. Hailing from Kyoshi's Island, she never before has been to mainland of Bhutran until recently due to her island's isolationism. She became aquainted with the Gaang after they arrived on Kyoshi Island & Suki originally arrested them. After clearing up the mistake, they became allies that have continued to help one another. She is also the on & off girlfriend of Sokka, one of the founding member of the Gaang.

## Notes

* Suki is an original character of the *Avatar: The Last Airbender* franchise.
* Her birthday is the same as Jennie Kwan, the actor that voiced her in the television show.