Team Avatar

> "We got a knuckle-headed Avatar, two dorky Airbenders, everyone's favourite unccoperative Earthbender... and, of course, the badass and awesome Firebender. Probably the best Team Avatar to date!" - Eri Tomao
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> Core four members of Team Avatar.
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> ### Leader(s)
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> Genji Yamada
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> ### Notable Members
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> * Genji Yamada
> * Nico Tshomo
> * Kue
> * Eri Tomao
> * Hano
> * Katajina Long
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> ### Founder(s)
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> * Genji Yamada
> * Nico Tshomo
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> ### Affiliation
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> Five Nations
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> ### Purpose
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> * Protect the people of the world
> * Help and protect Avatar Genji
> * Defeat Xi Shun(ongoing)
> * Resolve the Water Tribe civil war (completed)
> * Neutralize the Red Lotus (ongoing)
> * Retake the Fire Nation from Sozin's Elite(ongoing)
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> ### Status
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> * Active
> * Wanted in the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation
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**Team Avatar** is the name used to refer to Avatar Genji and his companions during his journey to master the four elements. It was originally composed of Genji Yamada, Nico Tshomo, Taka and Mushroom. The current team has the addition of Eri Tomao, Kue, Hano, Katajina Long, Szeto, and Alfalfa. Other members part of Team Avatar have included Yang and Noah.

As of the end of the Hundred Year War, the group was notable for having at least one member from every nation (with exception from the Water Tribes, of which their Waterbender instead hails from the Kamehi Islands), and at least one bending master of each of the bending arts.

The team have an intense amount of achievements and notoriety around them, with many events being misjudged by the world and its political leaders due to their actions. They are notable worldwide for taking part in the end of the war between the Southern and Northern Water Tribes, and for the attempted siege to bring down Fire Lord Azaera. Notable amongst the Air Nation is the rediscovery of Caeli Temple and true Air Nomads who ancestry date back before the Hundred Year War.

## Formation

Team Avatar first formed out of only two people (not counting the animals). Nico and Genji encountered each other in Mao Zheng, and swiftly got caught in their first fight against invading Earth Kingdom troops - which ended up revealing Genji's identity as the Avatar. The pair ended up leaving the town together, making them the founding members of Team Avatar.

They were later joined by Yang, who became a very short-lived member of Team Avatar who briefly taught Genji some Earthbending, but soon departed to serve as a distraction for the other two to escape an ambush.

The pair picked up several more members in Republic City, especially as they were hunting for teachers for Genji. Hano was the first, who met Nico in a park in the city upon arrival and quickly tagged along. Eri was second, who joined the team as thanks for Genji getting her out of trouble with the law and agreed to teach him Firebending. The third was Noah, who Team Avatar tracked down in the city and agreed to teach him Earthbending.

Fourth to join the team was Kue, who was attending the Earthbending Championship in Gaoling, and ended up being swept up into the events. She fully agreed to join Team Avatar in the Southern Water Tribe.

The last and latest member of Team Avatar was Katajina, who joined shortly before leaving the Southern Water Tribe.

## Members

### Original Members

* Genji Yamada
* Nico Tshomo

### Later Members

* Hano (joined after Nico met him at a Republic City park)
* Eri Tomao (joined after being released from Republic City jail)
* Kue (allied in the fight at the Earthbending Championship, joined after in the Southern Water Tribe)
* Katajina Long (allied in the battle in the Southern Water Tribe, joined after the battle)

### Temporary Members

* Yang Guoliang (joined at Fort Bosco; left to distract an ambush intended for Genji)
* Chief Tadok (joined during the Water Tribe civil war)
* Narraa Yi (joined during the Water Tribe civil war)
* Kaizen (joined multiple occassions)
* Lira Beifong (joined at the siege in the Fire Nation)
* Takai Yama (joined at the siege of the Fire Nation)

### Former Members

* Noah Black (joined in Republic City; left in the Fire Nation to travel alone)

## Trivia

* The name of the team is the same as the original Team Avatar, which Sokka named. The name was automatically assumed as Team Avatar.
	+ Eri was the first to name it Team Avatar, both in thoughts and in dialogue.
* Notably, many members of Team Avatar have their own unique bending abilities:
	+ Nico managed to learn the Empath ability, exceptionally rare in Airbenders. He is also capable of cloud-surfing.
	+ Kue created a sub-type of Bloodbending known as Bloodreading. She can also use Healing.
	+ Hano is able to Soundbend, a very rare ability.
* Kue is the only person to create a sub-bending ability: Bloodreading.
* Hano is the first known Team Avatar member to be directly descended to a previous Avatar.
* Genji is the oldest member of Team Avatar, being 21. Eri is second-oldest (also 21, born after Genji), followed by Nico (20), Kue (19), and Katajina and Hano (both 17).
* Almost all members of Team Avatar have been arrested at some point: Genji and Eri for public fighting in Republic City; Nico and Katajina were arrested for treason by Azaera's Fire Nation; Kue was arrested for public protesting. The only member who has not been arrested is Hano.
* Genji's Team Avatar bears similarities to both Aang's and Korra's Team Avatar:
	+ All three teams contain at least one nonbender (Katajina, Sokka/Suki and Asami).
	+ All three have one waterbender, earthbender and firebender (Kue/Genji/Eri, Katara/Toph/Zuko and Korra/Bolin/Mako).
	+ All three have one healer (Kue, Katara and Korra).
	+ All three have one metalbender (Genji, Toph and Korra).
	+ All three have at least one member who comes from a wealthy family (Genji/Eri, Toph/Zuko and Asami).
	+ All three have a member defying their parent(s) (Nico/Kue, Zuko/Toph and Asami).
	+ All three have a large animal that can be ridden and a small animal for comic relief (Mushroom/Taka, Appa/Momo and Naga/Pabu).
	+ All three have member(s) who is the love interest of the Avatar (Nico, Katara, and Mako/Asami).
* Unlike Aang's Team Avatar, Genji's team includes a confirmed kill whilst being an active part of the team: Eri Tomao, who shot lightning at a Sozin's Elite guard during the siege and killed him.
	+ Eri has been noted to regret this kill, having done the kill due out of rage and instinct.