[ZUKO PROFILE] (To be updated thru play)

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:16:02 GMT

.player info.

.name. The Kels
.age. 22
.prior experience. Roughly 10 years. You want specifics I can list 'em, but basically I've done every type of role playing except the kind that breaks out the maid costumes and the full body PVC.
.contact information. E-mail is exitmouse@gmail.com. AIM is RiceballTohru.

.character info.

.name. Zuko [lastnameforthcoming]
.age/year. 17, Senior
.appearance. He could have been handsome. Zuko's got sharp aristocratic features that speak of a lot of east Asian blood in his veins. His hair is technically brown, but it looks black in most lighting, ranging from short and cropped in an almost military-esque style to somewhere around chin-length and shaggy depending on how apathetic he is about getting it cut at the time being. He's got light hazel eyes that have a golden yellow look to them, and his figure is lean but muscled showing none of the awkwardness of puberty, only hard work and fitness. The most noticeable thing, however, is the large disfiguring facial scar across the left side of his face, extending from his hairline, over his eye, touching on the bridge of his nose and sweeping back from his cheekbones to his left ear (he can hear perfectly well out of it, but it looks like a mangled mess). His left eye does have slightly poorer vision than his right, but Zuko has lived with this for several years now and learned how to account for it.
His typical attire is black or dark colors in general, long jeans (just normal jeans, not designer brand) and hoodies or t-shirts. He avoids obvious brand names in general. In fact, he tends to avoid 'witty slogans' too. About the only advertisements he feels the need to grace his clothes with are the occasional band logo. He's more or less nondescript when he's at school or staying with his Uncle. When he absolutely must stay with his father or attend some formal occasion he looks the part, dressed to the nines in casual but designer-brand clothing, usually with custom fit. He still sticks to dark colors, though.

.personality. Mama always said if you keep scowling like that your face is gonna freeze that way. Zuko's got a perpetual bad temper and it shows. Pair that with a hair trigger and you've got explosions waiting to happen. As easy as he is to anger, he's slow to forgive. Zuko holds grudges. He holds them for a long time. (Ask him what he thinks of his sister or his father if you don't believe this). He's got the deep cynicism that can only result from a former optimist that got burned (bad pun) too badly. He simply doesn't trust anymore, no one save for his uncle. He's got more family issues than your average evening sitcom, and for the curious yes he does take them out on others quite frequently. At the same time, he desperately wants a 'real' family, sometimes to the point of convincing himself that he used to have one and that if he's just good enough, he can have it back.

.history. "Father always said that Azula was born lucky - I was lucky to be born." that phrase sums up Zuko's family life fairly aptly. The firstborn son of a wealthy and successful politician, Zuko's one of the closest things to royalty that the modern democratic country has. His mother doted on him, and he spent much time with his cousin Lu Ten. With his father's constant absence for his job, his uncle was more like a surrogate father to him. He went to all the best schools, and worked his ass off to achieve the best grades, no matter how much of a toll it took on him. He just wanted to make his father proud.

This wasn't easy, as Zuko had a little sister, Azula. Two years younger than him and gifted at apparently everything. It didn't bother him all that much until Lu Ten's death, afterwards he sought solace almost exclusively with his mother while his uncle was away mourning the death of his only son. His father's favoritism was never clearer than when Zuko begged him to let him sit in on one of his meetings when Zuko was 13. Laws needing to be discussed, building propositions. One of his father's assistants suggested a plan to clear out the low-income housing and an empty lot used for a tent city to build some new high-rise condos that weren't needed. Zuko spoke out then, angry that someone would be able to so carelessly put so many people out of their homes like that. Though his father might have agreed, it wasn't Zuko's place to speak and he was excused from the meeting, told to wait in his father's study and that they would talk later about this.

According to the police report, they had gotten into a heated argument. When Zuko turned to go he tripped on the rug in his father's study and fell towards the fire place, which left him in the hospital for almost a month and a horrible scar that wasn't fixable. As fishy as the story sounded, Zuko never said otherwise, and the case was filed under 'accident' and closed.

Shortly after that his mother vanished as well. Her car was found abandoned on the side of a riverside road with signs of a struggle. A year after her disappearance with no sign, they had her funeral. Zuko's father, who was campaigning on the idea of stricter crime laws, got elected with a landslide.

This was also around the time Zuko just started to fall apart. Accusing his father of being responsible for his mother's disappearance, that his sister was in on it. He spent two years on and off anti-psychotics and a few other meds at his father's insistence. This breakdown was of course public. His own future was ruined while his sister 'bravely' went off to 'finish what he had started', going to all the best schools and doing well without trying.

Zuko's remained at home, bouncing back and forth between his father's (when he's required to) and his Uncle's downtown apartment. It's a little near the low income side of town, but Zuko's much happier there.

I Want My Destiny

[ZUKO PROFILE] (To be updated thru play)