Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160113034906/@comment-5217560-20160114164023

VedranTheII wrote: WarrenWitch wrote: There's nowhere to suggest that she wasn't attacked by Grimm when she lived alone. I just didn't include that bit. I could, if the lack of information is bothersome. It's like if someone were to seclude themselves in a jungle, surrounded by wild life. Encounterng dangerous creatures goes without saying.

She and her sister were 10 when the fire nation attacked. I’ll just get this out of the way before it gets buried further.

So someone that didn’t go to any junior academy and had close to no combat training (since she didn’t want the job), somehow had her aura AND semblance unlocked before age 10, managed to live isolated from a village, with no weapon to speak of, for the years necessary for a kid to drop the adoption bomb on her…in a universe infested by man eating creatures… You’re story fundamentally doesn’t work for me because your character has both better feats and more plot armor than over half the canon cast combined...and that also applies to the Sirius oc now that I think about it.

I see your point, but it isn't  totally unbelievable. Blake did the same thing. She was born and raised outside of the kingdoms. Without attending a school she learned how to fight and unlocked her Aura and Semblance. Same with Ren and Nora. Both are orphans. How did they survive for as long as they did? Because they fought survive, not to climb up the ranks.

My character learned from her father and mother how to unlock her semblance and aura. She and Grizelda both did. Grizelda just took the time to learn how to fight. Mary Jane just watched. Better feats? All the girl did was hide, use her semblance when she could, and took shelter when necessary. She was near a village as well, so it wasn't as if she was completely isolated.

But I digress. You've shown me flaws, and inadvertantly given me better ideas that I could incorporate witin her story. Thank you for the very helpful critiques. I'll edit her background now.