The Basics!
Name: Seiko “Ace” Tanaka
Birthday: April 14
Age: 16
Gender: female
Element: earth
Appearance!
Height: 4’ 9”
Weight: 110lbs
Hair Color: dark brown
Hair Length: medium, usually pulled back into a loose braid or two pigtails
Eye Color: emerald green
Skin Color: Caucasion
Body Type: athletic, lithe, small
About You!
Personality: It’s rather ironic that this Earth Kingdom citizen would love to be off the ground. Ace has a passion for flying, and can be found in her autoshop where she builds and fixes up aircraft and other mechanics. Naturally, dirt and grime doesn’t bother her, and she’s usually covered by it by the end of the day. She loves adventure and is a huge adrenaline junkie. People describe her as a maniac behind the wheel, as she has a tendancy to pull the shit into tight corkscrews and dives for fun. Ace is very straightforward and to the point. She’s the kind of person who would teach someone how to swim by pushing them in the water. Thank goodness she’s not teaching people how to fly. She is energetic, carefree, optimistic, and enthusiastic about even the most lackluster events. Her wit and sarcasm match her love for telling jokes and puns, and her dry sense of humour. She is very protective of the people closest to her and will always give people the benefit of the doubt. This makes her a little too trusting of strangers and vulnerable to manipulation and deceit. Despite all her positive traits, she still has many flaws. She doesn’t always think things through, letting her heart guide her instead of her head when it comes to her loved ones. Also, saying she has a small anger problem is an understatement. She is prone to letting her anger cloud her judgement and effect her actions, and when she’s mad, watch out; there will most likely be a boulder or a barrage of rocks flying your way.
Ace can be considered confident to a flaw. Whether it’s in her bending, her inventing, her flying, or herself entirely, she will not accept defeat easily, and won’t take no for an answer. She may be a little too overconfident in her bending, and very overconfident in her nasty habit of subtly bending without being caught. Her main goal in life is to learn how to metalbend to become closer to the machines she creates. Until then, she secretly installs small chunks of earth into her machines for even tighter control at the wheel. She believes without a doubt that no one will discover her secret. No one knows her planes better than her, so there’s no reason they should discover the earth.
Likes: There’s nothing more that Ace loves than getting her adrenaline pumping. She loves inventing the building machinery, mainly to help her in her daredevil actions. She loves having fun, talking to people, making friends, and cracking puns, not caring if she gets groans of disapproval from her peers. She is, or course, secretly entusiastic about bending from the ‘good old days’ before the non-benders rose to power. She has a secret collection of old bending scrolls from all four nations and spends hours studying them weekly. She believes that she can unlock metalbending by imitating the effective styles and motions of the other bending types. This means she focuses on the powerful kicks of the firebenders, the fluid evasive actions from the airbenders, and the adaptability of the waterbenders, as well as her own earthbending techniques. Now if only she wouldn’t get sent to jail for it.
Dislikes: To this thrill seeker, there is nothing worse than boredom. She often expresses that she will literally die from it, which is of course not true. While she loves throwing puns around, she has little respect for other people’s puns. She claims they are just bad, or told at the wrong time, even though she can whip those around even in the heat of a sticky situation or a fight. Also, this big heart of hers can only be so big. She has absolutely no respect or tolerance towards people who take their negative actions too far; those who are willing to hurt or use others for their own personal gain. If she were to ever find someone fitting the above description, I’d recommend evacuating the area immediately. She will unleash her rage and, although she can’t be seen bending, she won’t hesitate to tackle the person to the ground and pound their face in. She is greately saddened by the anti-bending world and the hatred towards her fellow benders; as it shows the non-benders’ fear of the unknown and the powerful. She has a great disdain towards authority figures because of the rules they create and enforce.
History: Ace grew up next to the airship docks and cehanic shops in Pukkuksong Guk-ga, inheriting her father’s love for inventing and machinery. Her father Sheil is a skilled mechaning and has been teaching her everything he knows since she was young. Sheil is also a skilled earthbender and he would take her into the asement of their home to train every weekend. It was her dad who learned the basic motions of benders from the other nations when he visited Kaiki no Sato, which is where he met her mom, a non-bender. They were married for five years when they gave birth to Ace. When she was two, the family fell into hard times, so they had to move back to Sheil’s hometown of Pukkuksong Guk-ga to reestablish his position as a mechanic there. The family first discovered Ace’s bending abilities when she was 5 years old. It was the middle of the night when the parents were woken by violent tremors and the sound of Ace’s terrified screams. Fearing an earthquake had struck and the worse had happened to their only child, they raced to their daughter’s room. There, they found her thrashing back and forth in bed, suffering from a night terror. The floor was broken, lifting up in some places in thick spikes, and small boulders floated above the child’s bed. Her parents quickly woke her up, her mother calming her while her father repaired the room. Since then, her parents were terrified of what her night terrors brought, and her father trained her almost tirelessly so she would gain control of her powers. Her mother has been constantly fussing over Ace. First, over her learning control, now her confidence in her abilities. It is her, as well as every mother of a benders’ fear, that her confidence will bring the anti-bending enforcement unit knocking.
Faceclaim: Female Hiccup HH III from How to Train Your Dragon