chiblocker: (kyo: + your biggest fan.)
ty lee ([personal profile] chiblocker) wrote in [personal profile] havenmods 2014-03-20 08:58 am (UTC)

Ty Lee | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Reserved 3/3

Abilities/Powers:
Her acrobatic skills are fairly off the charts. She tends to utilize these combatively throughout her seies (though she does get pulled out of a very promising circus career upon her introduction in order to chase the Avatar, to her initial dismay), but Ty Lee's acrobatic feats also just tend to be something she does naturally and without thinking it over too much. Ty Lee is basically crazy skilled in parkour and free running because of her mad acrobatic skills, and basically she can be relied upon to be dodgy and limber as all get-out. This makes her a pain in the ass to fight against, and she's seen to be capable of outmaneuvering huge groups of soldiers and some pretty powerful benders throughout the series, although admittedly familiarity with her fighting style can be used against her. See the following.

She's also an adept chiblocker; in ATLA, she was the only chiblocker ever shown, although it became a Thing in Korra. She was admitted into the Kyoshi warriors (so she does have their fighting styles in addition to her ATLA styles, nowadays) after trading the girls some chiblocker lessons. It basically disrupts the hell out of bending, but also just renders muscles and the like useless, so fighting against her can be annoying as hell. You can read all you could ever want about chiblocking here. Suffice it to say this style of fighting meshes really well with her acrobatic shenanigans. As I said above, familiarity can work against her; once people know she can do this they tend to do the intelligent thing and take measures against it. SADLY. Still, it is a thing that is a thing, and can probably at least disrupt any magical fighting style that utilizes a flow of energy in the body, although it is unlikely to disrupt any other type. ...Though you'll still get limp noodle limbs if she lands her hits, but the paralyzation effects are not by any means permanent.

Further, Ty Lee has since been trained in the Kyoshi fighting style, which you can read about further here! The main thing they do is use people's energy and movements against them (little wonder Ty Lee caught on pretty fast, there) often with the help of their dual fans, which can be used defensively, to direct movements, as projectiles, or even as boomerangs! Aside from the fans they are trained in the use of their shields and also thin katanas, although the katanas are not their main weaponry as they prefer to utilize their fans, apparently. They have a lot of coordinated team movements that obviously will do jack all for Ty Lee without her squadron, but yeah.

Ty Lee also claims to be able to see auras, occasionally complaining about people having "dingy" auras or complimenting them for having happy or pink ones. It's never actually stated if she's full of it on this count or not, but Ty Lee herself certainly believes she can see auras.
Items/Weapons: For reference, Ty Lee is arriving in her full Kyoshi Warrior get-up. The only thing of note about this uniform is that it is basically fancy pants armor that she wears all the time these days and that is has a built in retractable shield thing that can withstand firebending (...not that this helped the Kyoshi Warriors when they took on Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee herself back in the day um). The three items that arrive with her otherwise are:
• Her twin metal fans, the trademark weapon of a Kyoshi Warrior.
• Her original outfit.
• Her Kyoshi Warrior katana.
Sample Entry: Here you go!
Sample Entry Two:
Haven was sort of a silly name for a place that was anything but. It wasn't a joke, really, and Ty Le hadn't made the observation aloud to anyone because, well - come on, who wouldn't have noticed it? But it was something that flickered through her thoughts whenever she looked at the billboard, the creepy one with the message that made her think of the Dai Li. Made her think of Ba Sing Se, really. Where everyone had seemed to think if they just pretended hard enough there wouldn't be a war outside their walls.

And then she'd waltzed in with Mai behind Azula, and how had that gone for them after?

That was in the past, though. In the present Ty Lee was...well, exploring. So far her explorations had turned up more questions than answers, but you got that, sometimes. She felt weirdly naked, even though she had her full kit on her. It'd been ages since she'd really been alone for any amount of time, especially for something like this. Sure, scouting ahead was a thing, and she went off on her own now and then, but...a dangerous situation, with none of the other girls in sight? It was just...weird. Wrong. Even before she'd joined up she'd had people around all the time. Mai and Azula, back when Mai wasn't off doing whatever she's doing now, and Azula wasn't...well, Azula, although she'd still been Azula back then. The circus people.

Her sisters, although it'd been longer still since Ty Lee had had them nearby.

At that thought, Ty Lee smacked her own cheeks. Not hard, just...for warmth, and to sort of wake herself up. "Nope! Come on, we can do this...even if it's just "me", not "we". First things first...more information, and look for the girls. Right?" And if they weren't there, well...she'd look for other people, maybe circle back around to the room she'd woken up in. She'd find someone she knew, surely (if she just believed she would hard enough) and then...

Then she'd make a plan for after that. Yeah. That'd do it. Normally Suki was the brains of things, or before that Azula, but she was okay. Ty Lee could handle this, surely. And if she let herself think otherwise, she'd get worry lines or her aura would go dark and manky and who wanted that to deal with, right? So...onwards. That was the only option.

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