LoK OC
Okay jeez I’m starting this and will probably never finish/do anything with this character but here goes nothing!
She was born not knowing much about her birth parents, but she grew up in the Southern water tribe, with short brown curly hair with one blue eye and one green eye. What she was always told when she was growing up was that her mother wasn’t a bender and that she was supposed to be one of a set of twins, but she was born only by herself. Naturally, growing up in a water tribe, she thought she was going to turn out to either be a non-bender or a water bender, but when she was old enough, she discovered that she could earth bend. It turned out that her father was a water bender, but her mother either slept with an earth bender, resulting in a double pregnancy/twins; one a water bender and one an earth bender. During the pregnancy, the earth bender baby “ate” her twin, resulting in two skin tones and two eye colors. When Katara tried to save the water bender twin with her healing water bending abilities during the full moon, some of the moon’s power passed through her healing to the water bending baby, but it was still absorbed into the (stubborn) earth bending baby, resulting in the baby having the two different eye colors. She will also discover that she can’t bend water, only earth, but she can feel water inside trees, blood/people, snow, etc and can bend mud, clay, frozen dirt with more ease than dry dirt. When she was born, her father couldn’t stand to be around her because he was always reminded of his wife’s infidelity. Her mother tried to raise her, but as her daughter grew, so did her guilt and she ran away, both of her parents never to be seen again. Everyone in the tribe assumed that they moved to the Northern water tribe.
She grows up not knowing how to fit in with the water benders, feeling alone without any other earth benders around. She feels lonely all the time, and spends most of her time away from the rest of the tribe, most of her peers tease her for being different of course, bending caves for herself to hide in, hunting for her food and surviving on her own until she needs to return to the civilization of the water tribe, until she finds out that Korra is leaving to Republic City and goes with her and stays with her during her adventures as the avatar as a friend, one of the few she had from the water tribe.
The first earth bender like her that she officially meets is Bolin, so she instantly likes him and never likes to leave his side. He’s also her first friend in the city, and being away from people most of the time she is super nervous about how many people are always around, so she clings to him and he slowly teaches her to see the good in people, instead of the bad. He also draws her out of her shell slowly. When she’s not around him, she’s sullen and with a resting grumpy face, but around him she laughs at jokes and smiles and even attempts her own jokes. Also, she gets overwhelmed about being around so many other people and runs off to bend herself a cave to hide in, and finds a wolfbat pup that was also abandoned by its parents, so she takes care of it and keeps it as a pet.
When she is on the island, she gets along with Tenzin’s children better then she does the adults, because they haven’t learned to judge her or hide their scrutiny of her. The children are more open about it, and she’s more comfortable answering their questions rather than living with the sideways looks adults always give her, whether out of judgement or pity, or both. She doesn’t mean to be rude to the adults, but she’s never in a good mood around them.
Her name is Belankah, she is 17 when she goes with Korra to republic city, and is about 5′0″, wears earth kingdom attire (black tabard over dark purple baggy pants and tunic underneath with bright green accents) but with brown water nation skins (mostly belts/straps/waist wrap/wrist wrappings/boots) with it, thinking it balances her two home nations. Her wolfbat’s name is Amaris and is very cuddly with Belankah and not many other people. Amaris picks up on Belankah’s nervousness around people and it makes her very protective, but she gets along well with Naga and Pabu. Amaris also eats mostly fruit and insects.
