sesi was born into a small village in the northern water tribe. her father didn't have much money but nitika got chosen to marry the chief's son at the age of seventeen because of her beauty. she was basically known as royalty in her village but behind closed doors marriage life wasn't so great. one night they had a bad argument and the next day her husband suddenly passed away with no explaination. nitika was blamed for his death even though she had no memory of what happened that night. when the avatar arrives and hears about the case something doesn't seem right. instead of taking the side of the chief she helps nitika escape and when the tribe chases after them they find out that nitika is capable of so much more than she seems.      

BACKGROUND

 

Nitika was born in a small northern water tribe village to a nonbender mother and a bender father. Her father is a gym coach for the one boys school that her town has. Sadly her mother died in a snow leopard caribou accident when she was four. She doesn’t have much memory of her mother and her dad never got remarried so since she was young her father was the one who cooked and cleaned which was seen as odd in their town. The others reprimanded her father for not making Nitika do any chores, to them it was never too early to start but he thought the whole system was ridiculous. Even when his wife was around, he still helped with the chores because it seemed unfair to sit around while she did all the work. Nitika took healing classes from the age of six which she didn’t find very fulfilling, she preferred to learn bending from her father. Ahanu was a gym teacher but the games he played with the kids built agility and coordination getting them ready for military training when they got older, and when Ahanu got back from work he did taught the same to Nitika. He wasn’t an official bending teacher but he did teach them how to control their bending and dodge attacks. When Ahanu picked up Nitika from healing lessons, training was what she looked forward to the most.

It was clear that Nitika didn’t fit in with the other kids, the girls judged her for wanting to waterbend and the boys didn’t want to play with her because she was a girl. Her only friend was basically her father who adored her more than anyone else in the world. By the age of ten other girls started helping their families with chores but it just wasn't Nitika's cup of tea. She tried to help her father in the kitchen but made more of a mess than helped him so instead he let her be. While her father cooked and cleaned, she was out playing with the otter penguins and practicing her waterbending. He wanted her to enjoy her childhood anyways so he never pressured her into learning how to cook or any of those things. She was never a mean person, all she really wanted was a simple life to have fun and fit in. But instead she was an outcast, even when she tried to dress like them and fit in they still didn't accept her. They went as far as bringing her mom into it saying thats why she's such a weirdo. 

As she got older she started gaining attention for her beauty and boys paid more attention to her but she was never the kind of girl to care for her looks or care about boys. The other girls in her village didn’t like how she got more attention than them and did petty things like talk behind her back and embarrassed her in public. Her father always told her not to worry about what other people think or stoop to their level so Nitika was always a polite girl but it still hurt nonetheless. No matter how much effort she put she just couldn't be like the traditional northern watertribe girl. It made her sad and lonely, her only friends were the animals around her village but being with her dad and waterbending always made her happy.

When she turned seventeen she caught the attention of Nanuk, the chief’s son, while taking a cooking class. Her fathers birthday was coming up and she wanted to surprise him by making him something delicious but she was in the back of the room somehow burning her stew. Even the instructor didn't know how it was possible. He stopped by just to say hi to the locals since it was apart of his duty and Nitika's beauty caught his attention. He went back there and helped her fix her burnt stew to many of the other girls dismay and the next day the chief showed up to her house with his son and a few other officials declaring their engagement. Nitika was shocked to say the least and her dad wasn’t happy but he was the chief’s son, he was the most sought after man in their village. It was every girls dream to marry him and considered a huge honor if you got chosen. After being forced to accept his proposal, the wedding was held soon after. Everyone in the village attended and Nitika was met with one too many side eyes from the girls her age as well as a few tears from her father who she would no longer live with from that moment on. Nitika was basically considered royalty, a life that she didn’t want nor was she ready for and it proved to be harder than she ever imagined.

Being a wife to the chief’s son was no easy task. She had to wake up early to serve him breakfast in bed, clean up after him, and adhere to his every command like a puppet. The other workers had to actually teach her how to cook since she had no idea what she was doing. It was really exhausting and she had a longing to go home after only the first few days.

Nanuk was apart of their village’s army and the expectations on him were high. Other than the group training he had with the rest of the troops, his parents got him a private waterbending master on the side to build his skills. Out of all the sparring practices Nanuk had, he never won a single one and when he got home he took all his frustrations out on Nitika. It wasn’t bad at first, it started with him just screaming more often, getting mad at the little things she did. But screaming turned into physical violence. At first it was throwing his plate against the wall when he wasn’t satisfied with a meal then it became actually waterbending at her when she didn’t clean enough. Women couldn't waterbend other than healing so she could never defend herself. Even the workers saw that their relationship was bad but didn’t say anything.

But Nitika was still poltie to everyone, even if she was in pain or unhappy she never let it show. Despite her terrible cooking skills the chief and his wife loved Nitika, she helped the citizens all the time and didn't let the whole royalty thing get to her head. But there's only so much one person can take, and on the day of the full moon she decided she’s had enough.

Nanuk came home angry as usual that day, he had a bad practice and was frustrated with his lack of abilities. Nitika did her usual housework, cleaned the house until it was spotless and made dinner. There was nothing for him to complain about because everything was in order, she even made his favorite food exactly the same way his mother taught her too. But Nanuk always found something, and this time it was hair. A long strand of Nitika’s light brown hair was found on the dinner table next to Nanuk’s meal. She usually had her hair down at home and a few strings leaving her head was out of her control, Nanuk never said anything about it before but today it ticked him off.

He suddenly grabbed Nitika by the throat and tosses her across the room into the kitchen supplies. How am I supposed to eat with a piece of hair next to my food? Did you forget where you are? This isn’t your poor one room igloo anymore this is the palace. He waterbended her off the floor and against the wall trapping her in ice. I wouldn’t have married you if I knew you were so disgusting. I should’ve known you were no good from the moment I met you. Now look at you, nothing but a useless woman. All Nitika’s life she was different, she tried so hard to fit in but they never accepted her. She tried everyday to please Nanuk to make him happy even if she wasn't yet he had the audacity to call her useless. Nitika knew she had potential to be the best female bender in her village and she didn't want to use it as a weapon, only for fun, but she was tired of it all and being called a useless woman especially pissed her off. 

She freed herself from the ice and started waterbending back at him. He was taken aback but fought back, his skills were no match for hers, despite all his training she was still faster than him. She hadn’t waterbended in years and the fact that she was so powerful only highlighted her potential, especially with the full moon on her side but the one thing she wasn’t trained in was hand to hand combat. Nanuk pulled out his knife and slashed her slightly on the arm making all the water fall to the ground as she winced in pain. He tackled her to the floor and started choking her. You dare attack me?? I can have you expelled- worse, I can have you killed! I wonder how your father would feel seeing your headless body at his doorstep. Nanuk lifting his arm to attack her was the last thing she saw before she passed out.  

Nitika woke up on the floor the next morning with no memory of what happened and a pounding headache. She looked around to see kitchen supplies all over the place and saw her husband laying next to her in a pool of blood with a knife in his chest. She panicked and tried to use her healing powers to fix him but it was too late. Nitika had no idea what happened the night before, she was convinced that a thief came in and robbed them but nothing was missing. Maybe he tried and Nanuk tried to fight him off but ended up getting hurt, it was the only plausible explanation she could come up with. The funeral was held and the search for the thief was on. For some reason Nitika couldn't cry at the funeral, she blamed it on shock but part of her was relieved that he was gone. The whole village attended to pay their respect to him and Nitika moved in with her father again soon after. Two weeks into the search they had a few suspects, there wasn’t any concrete evidence but the chief was just looking for someone to blame for his only childs murder.

One of the workers spoke out and privately told the chief that she heard commotion coming from her Nitika and Nanuk’s room the night before his death, saying maybe it was self defense. But the chief quickly shut down the possibility of his son being in the wrong. The chief found it suspicious that Nitika didn’t cry during the funeral. The palace nurse reported that she had a cut on her arm raising even more suspicion. The chief and the officials showed up to her home and arrested her on the spot for the murder of Nanuk. Currently she's in the small village prison where she still has no idea what happened or why she's there but her village is planning on sentencing her to death. 

Likes. winter. snowball fights. waterbending. sea prunes. honey tea. fish. adventure. dancing. singing, her singing voice is actually really pretty. small animals. sports. 

Dislikes. people that underestimate her because she's a girl. mean people. being bored. cooking. chores. 

Habits. when she's bored she'll play with her hair. when she wakes up the first thing she does is crack her joints. burping outloud and asking if anyone could top that. she laughs at everything. loses things easily.       

Humor. she finds really lame jokes funny because her dad had typical dad joke humor. she enjoys making a pun or two herself at times.  

Sleeping habits. she's a hard sleeper and a snorer. like a really loud snorer. she often wakes up late and moves quite a bit in her sleep, definitely a cover hog too. she might accidentally smack you when she's sleeping :( oops?

Hobbies. fishing. waterbending. penguin sledding. ice marbles. gambling.  

Fears. she has a big fear of big animals because of how her mother passed away. maybe they come across a huge animal along the way that she's terrified of but it ends up being really nice and they become best friends.

Cooking. she finds it really stressful since she's a bad cook but maybe someday she'll learn to enjoy it. she only knows how to make the dishes she learned while being married to nanuk. she can try to cook her dads sea prune stew from memory but it definitely won't come out the same.

Chores. she's naturally an unorganized person because her dad always cleans for her. she's not crazy messy though, she'll clean if she has to but she won't enjoy it and will probably be pouting about it.

Gambling. her dad had a gambling habit that wasn't too bad but she grew up to love it too. she only plays ice marbles for gambling but she'll probably fall in love with the other games of other nations. she's really competitive and gets super into it even if its not that serious.

Cuisine. her favorite food is sea prune stew. nothing compares to her fathers recipe. she doesn't often eat spicy food so her tolerance will most likely be really low. she also enjoys drinking honey tea but will be excited to taste other kinds that they don't have in her village. she eats a lot even though she doesn't look like it. 

Weather. nitika only knows cold weather for now but if she has the chance to travel to a different nation she'll fall in love with summer as well as all the pretty flowers that grows during that season.

Name. her name means angel of precious stone or morals.

Love. nanuk was her first and only relationship. she never had a crush on anyone though because she didn't find any of them interesting or fun, not even him.   

Firenation. nitika doesn't hate the fire nation, she doesn't really have an opinion of them. she's heard about them but other than that she doesn't have any relation to them so they don't bother her. she would definitely be confused with why they want so much power though.

Southern Water Tribe. she's never been to the southern water tribe but its always been her dream to go because thats where her father is from. she heard stories about how open they are and wants to see if its true. 

Friendship. she's a very loyal friend, the kind that would pick your nose for you if you have a booger. friendship goals right there. some people may think she's annoying because she can be extra in terms of her affection and what she does for others. she likes to friends playfully at times too. she got along with the dudes easier than the girls in her village so she'll probably be more comfortable to get close to boys at first. 

Emotions. its rare to see her get upset. she tries to see everything from an optimistic view point. when she's upset she'll try to do something to distract herself like waterbending. she's the kind of person to let her emotions build up until they explode.