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Benders & Brews - Episode 0 - Characters and Creations · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Jasmine, oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then everything changed when the shop's
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and and staff his
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  shop. A year has passed since the orphans were hired,
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  and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot
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  to learn before they can brew anything. But I
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  believe that they have the potential to make the Blissful Brew
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  the greatest tea shop in the world.
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  Welcome to our Avatar legends real play,
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  podcast Benders and Brews. I want to thank
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  all of you for tuning in. To start out with, we have a
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  sort of mini episode for you, which is our
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  Session Zero, where I will go through each of the players who
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  will introduce themselves, as well as give a brief
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  overview of the characters they'll be playing. We wanted to
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  share this with you to help you get a better understanding
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  of the wonderful characters you'll be following through this homebrew
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  campaign that we've created. As a reminder, and
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  you'll probably hear this a lot, this is a non
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  canonical podcast, meaning that we will
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  often be jumping in and out of the canonical
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  Avatar verse. But be sure that we will do our best to
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  preface any of those jumps. The main thing to keep in
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  mind is that things will be taking place more or less
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  near the beginning of the Hundred Year War as the
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  Fire Nation is starting to make known their intentions to
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  otherwise take over all the other kingdoms. Although not
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  everyone is aware of it yet, avatar Aang is, of
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  course, still trapped within the iceberg and many of the main
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  characters from the original series have yet to even be born. So
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  hopefully that gives you an idea as to where we are starting
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  from now. Without further ado,
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  benders and Brews episode Zero.
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  Uh, so thank you guys for joining us for the first episode. We're super
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  excited. Um, I'm going to have, uh, everybody
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  go through and introduce our characters, starting with, of course,
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  myself. Uh, I am
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  Skyler Gorset. And I am the game
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  master. So I have been creating the story
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  alongside my co writer, Nick, uh,
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  who's been helping me with the story. Um,
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  he will remain a ghost writer. He is
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  a figment of our collective
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  storytelling imaginations. And, uh, so
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  he's been helping me out, come up with some cool story ideas that these guys are going to play
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  through. So tell me a little bit about yourselves. Uh, I
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  don't really care who starts off. We can start with Connor since he's
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  right across from me.
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  Yeah.
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  Uh, you want me to give a brief rundown of my character?
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  Yeah, who you are, and then yeah, your character.
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  All right.
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  Well, my name is Connor in real life, and my
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  character's name is Brock Lee. He is a
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  farmer from
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  uh he grew up as a farmer. His
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  dad this is have, his
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  so his dad is the cabbage
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  guy who encountered Team Avatar on
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  several occasions. Unfortunately for Brock Lee,
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  he lost his younger brother in a Fire Nation
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  attack that burned down his village. He was forced to go
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  to a Fire Nation work camp because of it. And
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  that is why his arch nemesis is
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  Wang Long who was the yes,
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  Wang Long, a very mature m name.
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  Remember that name?
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  Uh, who was the warden at this
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  prison camp and that is who his arch
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  nemesis is. I am an Earthbender by
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  trade and he is
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  currently living in what's the.
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  Name of the Gao uh ling.
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  Gao Ling. He is working
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  at the tea shop as a dishwasher but he is also
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  moonlighting as an Earth rumble fighter.
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  He's not good by any means but he just gets the extra money to
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  support his family who is now out of this working.
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  Yes, and Connor brings up a really good point that uh,
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  I will probably try to incorporate into my uh,
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  intro but I'll make sure to mention it now, which is that everything that we
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  do here is kind of it's set in the Hundred Year
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  War era kind of near
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  where everything starts happening with Aang and Team
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  Avatar and everything like that. Um technically
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  amidst that whole scenario. Um, but
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  this is non canonical. Uh, we wanted to kind of
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  just uh follow in that really familiar world
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  set that everybody knows and loves but not have
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  to worry about stepping on the toes of the
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  creators and the amazing show and series that
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  they created. So everything that we do is non canonical but we're
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  playing off of it. Um, so you might hear reference to some of
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  the things that happen in the show but just know that we're not trying to play it in such
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  a way that um we're using
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  the specific show line.
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  So anyways, going on to uh cameron
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  hello, I'm Cameron. Uh, I am going
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  to be playing Bill Dore, uh, who is
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  the guardian. Uh, Bill Dore is
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  a pretty chill dude I guess is the
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  best way to describe him. He kind of just showed up one day
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  in the town. Doesn't really talk much about himself.
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  He more just helps other people, helps
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  at the shop. Uh,
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  keeps to himself as well. But he's also super
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  friendly. Uh, and he seems to always care
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  about how your day is going versus how his day is
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  going. Um, but other than that, not
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  much really is known about him in terms of his past.
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  Uh, the other players just know that.
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  He kind of just showed up in town one day in the town of
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  Gao Ling.
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  Gao Ling?
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  Yes.
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  And he showed up in this town and he
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  seems to only be close.
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  With the guy who runs the shop.
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  Whose name is Mr. Okuron. For those that are
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  listening.
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  Um, the only big thing that
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  players would know, or rather characters would
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  know from first seeing him is besides for the fact he's very
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  good looking and very tall, is that he has
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  a.
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  Fire, like a scar from
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  a burn on his right hand that takes up, like, his whole right
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  hand.
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  Okay.
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  But other than that, there's not much else about him.
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  Okay.
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  And for the people
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  listening, he's a non bender.
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  Yes. Okay. Sorry.
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  I didn't say that he's a non bender.
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  Uh, he'll be fighting with a bow staff,
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  but as a guardian, he's more.
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  Of a protector than offensive fighter.
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  Yeah, that makes sense. That's why he doesn't use something like bladed.
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  Exactly.
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  Okay, very cool. All right, Dave, tell us a little
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  bit about your character.
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  Dave here I am playing the
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  youngest member of the party at, uh, 14
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  years old. I am
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  playing an earthbender named
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  Guao Han. Guao Han is
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  short, wide, and full of pride.
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  He's got black hair, a two block
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  haircut. He's a little pudgy on the
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  pudgy side. That's okay.
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  He was born in the dirt in the
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  plaintown. His parents,
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  he never knew him. They were
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  poor. Somehow he
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  ended up whether he was sold
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  for ticket admission or just picked up in
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  an alley, we don't know. He ended up joining a
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  traveling carnival. Carnival was kind
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  of one of those sketchy carnivals. Kind of anything
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  goes. There were good people in the mix, but there were also bad
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  people. So Rauhan has
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  some walls he's built up. Um,
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  he might not want to let everyone in, but
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  he kind of does at the same time. He wants
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  connection. He wants a home. So some
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  people leave home. Some kids run away
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  from home to join the circus. Well,
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  Guaohan ran away from the circus
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  to find a home. Oh, wow.
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  That's deep. That's deep. Awesome.
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  All right, GuoHan. GuoHan. All right.
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  Or Guao.
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  Guao.
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  Got it.
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  I'm going to struggle with getting that, maintaining that one.
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  You can just call me Han.
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  Han.
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  It's Han.
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  All right. And Michaela, uh, tell us a little bit about your
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  character.
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  Um, my character's name is Mika. She
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  is the rogue. Um, she's kind of had
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  a little bit of a rough past. She's kind of been on her
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  own. Her and her dad, um,
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  got separated from the Southern Water
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  Tribe, and she found her way to
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  gowling and is working in the tea shop
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  as also a dishwasher.
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  Um, did you say she's a waterbender? Did you say
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  that?
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  Oh, yeah, she's a waterbender.
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  Okay.
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  She's 17.
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  She's 17. She's a waterbender, and she's a dishwasher,
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  which makes a lot of sense.
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