Xao

## General Info

**Name: Xao**

**Age: 17**

**Gender: Male**

**Nation: Air Nation**

**Location: Northern Air Temple**

**Ability: Airbender**

**Hair Color: Blonde**

**Eye Color: Green**

**Height: 5'8**

**Weight: 210lbs**

## Behavior/Personality

Xao is true to his nature as an Airbender. He's very childlike and spontaneous, rarely thinking about the future of his actions but rather living in the moment. He's childish, immature, with a warped sense of duty and morality, which contradicts his teachings at his home temple. He acts out of rebellion often doing the opposite of what he's told to do, just to prove that he doesn't have to do it at all.

## Physical Appearance

Xao is a slender male, with a fluid aerodynamic frame. He's slim but defined rather nicely with chocolate colored skin, blonde hair, and emerald green eyes. His jaw is finely sharpened, and his shoulders are round and broad, almost like earh benders. His hair is mid-back length, and he's seen with only a brown sack and an air staff strapped to his backside.

## Bending Style

### **Airbending**

Airbending, one of the four elemental bending arts, is the aerokinetic ability to control and manipulate air. The peaceful Air Nomads utilized this type of bending in their everyday lives. Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly problems and concerns; finding peace and freedom was the key to solving their difficulties in life. Airbenders continually sought spiritual enlightenment, and, as a result, all children born into the Air Nomads were benders. The first airbenders learned their art from the flying bison.  The key to airbending is flexibility and finding and following the path of least resistance. Airbending is notable for being almost purely defensive, as well as the most dynamic of the four bending arts. Airbenders can overwhelm many opponents at once with large and powerful attacks that could prove fatal; however, due to the pacifist nature of the Air Nomads, such attacks are rarely used. Due to their aforementioned spirituality, they often adapt to the situation surrounding them and employ negative jing, preferring evasive maneuvers as opposed to direct confrontation.

## Fighting Styles/Techniques

### **Xing Yi**

Xing Yi is characterized by aggressive, seemingly linear movements and explosive power that's most often applied from a short range. A practitioner of Xing Yi uses coordinated movements to generate bursts of power intended to overwhelm the opponent, simultaneously attacking and defending. Methods vary from school to school, but always include bare-handed fighting training (mostly in single movements/combinations and sometimes in forms) and the training of weapons usage with similar or identical body mechanics to that used for bare-handed fighting. The most basic notions of movement and body mechanics in the art were heavily influenced by the practice of staffs and spears.

## Weapons of Choice

Airbender Staff

An airbender staff is a wooden stave used primarily by airbenders to augment their bending. These versatile instruments were a major part of Air Nomad culture and used in the execution of several complex airbending techniques. Staffs were constructed to unfold into fan-like gliders, which enabled airbenders to fly while manipulating the air currents around them.

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