Kaze

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Kaze was a female Airbender born in the year 1200 BG, where at the age of sixteen she would answer a spiritual calling to train the Fire Avatar, Zeran. Kaze is also the inventor of Soundbending, something she would create to compensate for her deafness.

Kaze is a main character in the stories *A Nation Of Fire, The Adventure's Of A Disgruntled Waterbender,* and *A Very Annoyed Fire Avatar,* and she stars in *A Story On The Wind,* and plays a supporting role in *You're Still Seventeen.*

## History.

Kaze was born in the Eastern Air Temple where she would learn the ways of Airbending, and eventually gain her Skybison, which she would name Juniper after it's eye color. A fellow nun mentions that Kaze spent a lot more time on her bison and traveling the world rather than staying home much, favoring wildlife instead of interacting with her peers.

At the age of ten Kaze invented Soundbending to work around her deafness after watching a fellow monk explain how beautiful music is. She didn't tell anyone about this because she had to focus to use it at first, but by the time she was thirteen she subconsciously able to use it. At this point she revealed it to the Council of Nuns in the Eastern Temple, who thus granted her tattoos for creating a new sub-skill.

At sixteen while on a rare trip home, the Air Temples received a request from Fire Lord Zol, asking for a Master Airbender around the age of sixteen for help in training the newly revealed Fire Avatar, Zeran. Kaze was given the job solely out of the fact that she begged as hard as possible, because she felt a calling from the Spirits to go.

## Legacy.

During the final few years of her life, Kaze would be the one to identify the Avatar after Zeran, simply stating that she knew by feeling the boy speak, citing that he spoke like a man who had parted waves and created earthquakes, and yet couldn't save everyone.

While Kaze and Zeran never officially married under any law, and therefore wouldn't largely be remembered for being together, historian's during Korra's era would later correctly theorize the two were together.

Like many of the Avatar's companions, Kaze would be remembered throughout various historical texts and her Avatar's memories. Most prominently she is known for her writing of the book series *A Guide To Speaking Without Words,* which had seven issues. Her book series would later influence the entire Earth Kingdom's standard of sign language, from Bin-er to Ba Sing Se.

Most traditionally though, Kaze is remembered in the poem *Kings, Queens, Gods, Heroes And Monks,* which is a brief retelling of Zeran's and her friend's adventures over a seventy year period.

## Personality.

Overall, Kaze is a calm and compassionate person who displays kindness too almost everyone she meets. She follows many Air Nomad practices, such as having a fun sense of humor and enjoys pulling pranks on those around her.

Similarly she shows a lot of love towards her Skybison, who she on numerous occasions calls her best friend and most loyal companion. If her Skybison doesn't approve of someone, it causes her to become fishy of the person until Juniper likes them.

Among her group of friends Kaze is the calmest member of the group, often remaining relaxed in dangerous or tense situations. She's shown to be afraid of very little, as she knows when her time will come then it is her time. Despite this though she is shown to be deeply afraid when any of her friends lives are in danger, and this can often cause her calmness to fade away into anger.

During moments of the groups grief, Kaze is often the guiding hand and the fastest to accept what has happened. This is a facade though as during moments alone she is shown to cry out her pain and anger when under enough stress. Off of this she is known to turn off her Soundbending when crying, as in her own words she hates listening to herself cry.

Kaze is a largely peaceful and forgiving person. She dislikes violence and is always the last to jump into action, often playing the mediator between her friends during arguments. She is the one to encourage Zeran to forgive her enemies, despite all they may have done, as everyone deserves to atone and bask in what they've done.

Kaze holds a strong belief that no one is born inherently good or bad. She believes everyone deserve's to pay for what the did during their life, because she embraces the idea that paying in death isn't good enough for most people, but accept's that some people are beyond saving and will only find freedom in death.

During her childhood Kaze mentions she didn't talk to a lot of people because most didn't know sign language, and never bothered to learn any, which left her without any friends and few mentors. This lead her to be extremely touched when her fellow members of Team Avatar learned some Air Nomad sign language so they could tell her happy birthday, and she shed a tear upon learning that they wanted to keep learning solely for her.

Even before this though, while Kaze would often talk when around others, she was fully comfortable using sign language when alone with her friends. She mentions this is because she finds talking to be highly overrated when she doesn't actually have too.

## Trivia.

* Kaze had a bad habit of cursing out her friends with sign language before they knew any, but this got a lot harder when they started too learn it.
* The idea of Kaze was that she would be a mix of Aang, Rangi and Toph.
* She could have gotten her tattoo's around ten, but didn't feel like doing so because she knew that would cause attention she didn't want.
* Kaze is the most commonly mentioned character in the author's works, with Asami, Opal, Iroh, Aang and Tenzin all at some point mentioning her book series. She is also mentioned by Jinora, who appears to be the only person to have ever actually read any of her other books.