Who are you?

PERSONALITY TRAITS:
INFP-T 🔥 Hufflepuff 🔥 Enneagram 2w1

(+) Passionate, Empathetic, Curious
(/) Trusting, Stubborn, Envious
(-) Tempermental, Conflict-Adverse, Idealistic

PERSONALITY:

Yyn is not the sort of person who warrants a second glance on the street. She's generally softer-spoken, more of an observer who's generally content to stay to the side and be the support for other people. At least, that's how she tries to present herself, because that's what she is as far as she can tell - a side character. She makes the clothes for the main players, she doesn't take the stage herself. But oh how Yyn wants to take the stage. She looks at the people around her who are prettier, smarter, more skilled, and oh does she envy them. She watches them from her self-assigned corner, and resentment for how much happier, how much more successful and impressive they are builds up inside until it explodes out. However, Yyn knows these explosions would be no good for what little reputation she has, so she keeps them quiet if she's in public - passive aggressive muttering, phrasing things just so to make people feel like absolute . But if she's alone, Yyn gets physical in her rage, punching walls, throwing things, and usually giving herself pretty ugly bruises in the process. But this release isn't cathartic - it just makes her feel worse. Her private tantrums and internal resentments prove to her that at her core? She's not a good person.

Despite Yyn's less than stellar personal assesment, however, the people who know her would argue just the opposite. Where Yyn mostly sees her envy, rage, and passivity, others notice her kindness, her curiosity, and her deep-seated love of humanity, all things Yyn herself write off as incidental (after all, doesn't everyone love their friends and family? And it's not like she's selfless - she feels good helping people out, so she's absolutely getting something out of it). Yyn at the heart of things is a deeply empathetic person, and it's not uncommon to hear her passing out compliments around the village and sharing her lunch with the less fortunate children without a second thought. She's also very suceptible to being manipulated, since she always believes the best in people and tends to trust first, ask questions later. Her mother always comments that her daughter is someone who feels things very intensely, and it's true - Yyn is a passionate person who just wants everyone to be happy. Unfortunately, she has a bit of an idealistic outlook at the moment, so her idea of what 'happy' should look like is extremely black-and-white, which has likely contributed to her total acceptance of the Fire Nation propaganda she's grown up with. Since she's (arguably) happy, clearly their way of life must be the best one - right?

This mentality is only aggravated by the fact that Yyn is extremely stubborn and unwilling to admit when she's wrong. Add to this that she can't stand confrontation, and it's not hard to see that she's spent most of her life closing her eyes and ears to anything that contradicts her already-held beliefs. She ignores red flags, and when things inevitably go wrong she just blames herself for not being good enough, or deserving it since she's a bad person. She doesn't want to have to look at herself objectively, both because it's hard and because she might have to face some truths that she doesn't like. Interestingly, this utter failure at introspection isn't at all mirrored in her external life - in fact, Yyn is extremely curious and always interested in learning about other people and their inner workings (sometimes hypocritically calling others out on their flaws while still shying away from her own actual problems, not the ones she's inflated in her head). She loves learning new things - not quite as much as she loves making people feel good, but it's a close second.

BACKGROUND: 

Yyn was raised in a typical middle-middle class Fire Nation family, complete with a relative who was discharged from the army and now relies on support from the non-military members of the family. Arguments between her mother and uncle over the latter's failure to "get a dang job, it's not like you can't do anything anymore!" were a common occurence in Yyn's household, but that's about as bad as things got. Her parents have a stable marriage and run a successful-enough-to-pay-the-bills clothing shop that's been in their family for more generations than anyone can remember, and Yyn has been working there since she was old enough to know how to count money accurately. She's currently in her second-to-last year of schooling and isn't planning on doing any higher education, instead contenting herself with inheriting the family business and eventually taking care of her parents when they become too old to take care of themselves. And Yyn is perfectly happy with her situation - she's never known anything else, after all.

However, there is one part of Yyn's life that hasn't been smooth-sailing blandness: her dreams. Every night for as long as she can remember, Yyn has vivid dream in which she is different people. The dreams sometimes have clear goals, or 'plotlines' as Yyn always calls them, but sometimes it's just her living someone else's life. She's always written it off as a quirk of a big imagination, but recently her dreams have turned into nightmares, and she's losing a lot of sleep just as the start of the school year is approaching. She's starting to get a bit suspicious, but it isn't until she dreams of being an Earthbender fending off Fire Nation forces and wakes up in the Avatar state that Yyn finally realizes her dreams aren't so much dreams as they are memories - and they've been trying to tell her who she really is for a long, long time. Now she can only hope she didn't learn the truth too late to actually help.

TRIVIA:

☯ On the rare occasion she does get into arguments (always over things that don't really matter) she'll often end her points by saying "Fight Me." People usually laugh, but she's a little bit serious.
☯ Yyn has definitely thought about a future family and getting married one day, but she's actually never been attracted to anyone physically before - she's found both boys and girls cute and interesting in the past (though she generally prefers girls), but the idea of holding hands or kissing honestly makes her uncomfortable. She's worried about what this means for her ideas of a future family, so she hasn't shared her feelings with anyone.
☯ Yyn is very prone to getting hangry.
☯ If and when Yyn discovers dancing she's going to absolutely fall in love with it - she already hums distractedly when she's working in the shop and there aren't any customers, so music is something she really enjoys.
☯ Yyn is a hugger. Most other signs of physical affection make her uncomfortable, but Yyn loves hugs, and is actively sad about the fact she's past the age where hugging people she isn't dating or related to is still socially acceptable.

RELATIONSHIPS: 

☯ Mother - Uyumo (49) / Co-Owner of Yang's Family Clothes / Precise, Controlling, Determined / 8/10
Yyn and her mother love each other, they do, but Uyumo has very clear ideas of what she wants for Yyn, and Yyn is honestly scared that she won't be able to measure up. Her mother wants a grandchild, wants Yyn to take over the family business and care for her and Zakin in their old age and Yyn... well, Yyn thinks she wants that too. Heck, some of it she does want - kids and a partner and her parents always nearby - but other parts she's less sure about, and she's reaching an age where she's intentionally distancing herself from Uyumo for fear of dissapointing the older woman.

☯ Father - Zakin (52) / Co-Owner of Yang's Family Clothes / Easy-Going, Driven, Presumptuous / 8/10
Yyn and Zakin's relationship is a little more stable than her and Uyumo's, though perhaps it's because Zakin doesn't really expect anything from his daughter. But he loves her all the same, and Yyn loves him in return, and prefers when her shifts at the store overlap with his, as he's more relaxed about her chatting with friends and occasionally, consequently falling behind on her mending duties. He'll even do her work for her if she gets too caught up with other activities.

☯ Uncle - Lauzin (50) / Retired Army Captain / Animated, Bitter, Humorous / 7/10
Zakin's younger brother moved in with the family when Yyn was only five years old after losing his leg in  battle and being honorably discharged, so she doesn't really remember a time when he wasn't around. Lauzin is always sharing stories of the glory of war and the heroics of his team with his neice and her friends, and Yyn thinks he's absolutely amazing. However, Lauzin is actually rather bitter about his discharge and the general handling of his injury by his Army superiors, and despite being able to maneuveur just fine now even without his right leg he still has no job, not even helping in the clothing story, and Uyumo is getting rather sick of it, causing tension in the house.

☯ Unofficial Pet - Yuru / Being a Pest / Conniving, Stubborn, Picky, Loyal / 10/10
Yuru has lived in the dumpster behind Yang Family Clothes for about as long as Yyn can remember, and she's been feeding him for that long as well. He's incredibly clever for an Elephant Rat, at least according to Yyn, and she insists that she can tell him apart from other Elephant Rats despite them all looking the same. Yuru is, of course, Yyn's animal guide and is indeed quite smart, though he uses this intellect in questionable ways sometimes. Then again, he is an Elephant Rat - why should he care about the legality of breaking and entering or theft?

☯ TBD?

RETURN TO the STORY

unqua911 ✩ Dani

LAST COMMENT: I just want to emphasize here that while Yyn is the Avatar, she's not going to be the central character of the story! In the same way that AtLA focused on the entire cast, so too will this story - Yyn is just one of many focus characters~

SCENE SUGGESTION: 

☯ You'll see!

PASSWORD: I tried to find a theme song but I am so bad at that xD