We Built this Town

[Sitka]

Sitka

APP ■ 19 ■ male ■ Straight ■ earthbender

You make me feel invinsible, earthquake powerful

You only live once, but how do you make the most of your life when you can barely live day to day? Sitka is all alone in Republic City, living at an abandoned building he converted and works odd jobs and doubleshifts to make ends meet. Without formal education and with injuries that do not allow him to do too much physical labor, there is only so much he can do. His remaining family is at the North Pole, but he doesn't have the money or enough contact to seek them out.

FRIENDSHIPS

Sitka is an easy person to talk to. The time before his accident and the loss of his family he used to be the life of the party and a person you could easily make friends with. Nowdays he is more of a grump and rarily laughs. Not to mention that his trust in people has been compromised.

However his heart hasn't changed and that means that with a little effort, he can be that mischievous and fun-loving kid he used to be. What is for sure is that his friends can be sure he will have their backs and he will go above and beyond to help them. Afteral, without friends his only family are his sugar glider and pygmy puma cub which is nice, but not quite the same.

He needs to start over in the friends department though as he distanced himself from his friends without an explanation when he began his quest for vengeance. He did it to protect them, but keeping them in the dark about the reasons behind this was not well received and so he lost them. As for the friends he made during his pro-bending career? Those were merely opportunists and stopped caring when it was clear he wouldn't be returning to the sport.

Recently he discovered that the people he wanted revenge on were no longer alive. This had thrown him off balance as he had invested much time, energy and focus on this and now he is at a loss of what he wants to do in life. He definitely needs friends to help him move on.

HATESHIPS

One can say he is not short on this side of the relationship spectrum. He tends to not think when he sees people being bullied even if he knows he might not be able to beat the thugs. It has led to no small amount of beatings, one of which forced him to lay low for quite a long time. While this behavior has earned him a couple of supporters from the people he has helped. It has also made him a pest for the Triads. Full fledged members brush him off as just an idiotic kid that can just take a lot more beating than the rest, but the thugs he has dealt with still remember the boulders he had thrown at them.

LOVESHIPS

Now love is a bit difficult for him. Not because he doesn't know how to act or how to flirt, but because with his current financial state he cannot buy a girl dinner, take her to fancy place to have fun and he wouldn't feel comfortable inviting her to his makeshift home.

So it is not like he doesn't want a relationship, but rather he tries to avoid getting into one before he manages to have some financial stability.

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[Teo]

I know we kind of talked a little about them meeting but given their age difference I can see Teo taking on a bit of a mentor role for him. What do you think?

[Sitka]

I think this is a great idea. Especially since Teo knows metalbending and Sitka only discovered that just before he had his accident, which means he has very little control over it. Just so you know however it might take a while for him to warm up fully to Teo. He has lost his faith in people for a while now and he is at the point where he is trying to figure out how to go about his life again

[Teo]

Thats cool, Teo wouldn't just jump right into things given his position with the Spirits and you know, how the Black Hand wants them all dead lol. But given time I think he would...not take pity on Sitka but feel for him because Teo was that way not too long ago.

[Sitka]

Yup. It would be interesting to see how it would tie with the Black hand and that death bounty on their heads. While Sitka isn't exactly a threat, he has a tendency to not mind his own business when people are abused while he is there. So maybe that's something we could use for thread points with these two.

Also if Sitka thinks he is pitied he will probably lash out, as he doesn't like that feeling at all. What he needs is friends and a stable job that actually allows a man to have a decent life. But that is hard given the fact he has no formal education and his physical abilities are limited.

Teo

[Teo]

If they got to know each other and Teo saw him trying to pick fights he would probably go the 'older brother' route and try to set him straight and then offer to teach him metalbending since Kenji did it to him and it could be his way of 'paying it forward'

[Sitka]

Sitka is not picking fights per se. He is more like stepping in to finish them or take the beating and give some of it back instead of the poor people being picked on by the Black Hand. That makes him a nuisance for the most part and not a real problem, but Black hand rookies don't like Sitka all that much XD

So if Teo tries to 'set him straight' it would be interesting to say the least. Sitka will be like "I can't sit back and do nothing. I won't." SO yeah I really wanna see these two in a thread at some point Teo

[Teo]

for sure!

any ideas on how to start a thread?

[Sitka]

Hmmm, I have an open thread at the Arena and Sitka is talking to Neva currently. You can either throw Teo in there or we could start a new one. Either something with the Black Hand or a thread where Sitka is looking for a job or is work-related. Where is Teo's garage? Maybe that could help. But whatever you feel like doing the most. I'm okay with any idea.
Teo

[Teo]

Teos garage would be somewhere downtown. Not quite as upscale as uptown but better than where the garage he used to work at was. Maybe they can run into each other at the Blue Dragon? If they get to talking and stuff Teo could possibly offer him a job helping to clean up or something like that?

[Sitka]

It's possible they meet at the Blue Dragon. Sitka rarely goes there these days cause his paycheck can't support this type of fun night out often, but he still goes there from time to time in order to get his mind off things. Sitka could help with minor repairs too, cause he used to tinker with his father a lot, but honestly he would take any kind of job that helps him live more decent than he currently does. Teo

[Teo]

Cool. I think thats a good place to start. Do you want to start it or me?

[Sitka]

Sorry for the late reply to this Teo. Would you mind if you started that thread? I've been struggling with starter posts for a while now.