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| Something of a local enigma in the circuit of towns she travels between, Saza (as she calls herself) is a street performer known for her displays of acrobatics, gymnastics, juggling, and general physical flexibility and agility to entertain an audience. She is also a local curio for her prowess as a martial artist, and sometimes teaches women and girls personal defense techniques when her instruction is sought out. Rumor has it that she is skilled and precise enough to perform devastating qi-blocking attacks that render opponents paralyzed, although she steadfastly refuses to acknowledge or teach such methods. | == Saza == |
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| == Appearance == Saza has long black hair, blue eyes, a slender but defined build, with a slightly below-average weight and standing slightly taller than average for women in her area. While performing, she usually wears brightly colored outfits over appropriate modesty clothes for a contortionist (short pants and chest-concealing undershirt). In her off time, she dresses in drab conventional clothes and usually doesn't stand out. |
||'''Gender'''||Female|| ||'''Nationality'''||No Association|| ||'''Hair'''||Black|| ||'''Eyes'''||Blue|| ||'''Occupation'''||Contortionist and acrobat, street performer|| |
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| == Possessions == Saza owns a long, straight-bladed sword, although she has never used it in her act and no one has ever seen her draw it. She also owns several wooden staves of various lengths, which she ''does'' frequently use in performances of juggling, twirling, and vaulting. Similarly, she sometimes shows her proficiency with a wide variety of throwing knives and stars, batons, nunchucks, and sundry other performance items. Most of what she owns can be either worn on her person or fit into a large backpack. |
Saza (as she calls herself) is an itinerant street performer who puts on displays of acrobatics, gymnastics, juggling, and general physical flexibility and agility. She's also a martial artist and rumor has it she knows qi-blocking techniques to paralyze opponents and temporarily break bending abilities. |
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| == Professional life == Saza's primary work is as a street performing contortionist and acrobat. She is sometimes hired by businesses to perform for a set rate at events to help attract attention and bring in crowds, or by wealthy locals to liven up private parties, but most days she performs independently in public and relies on the voluntary generosity of her audience of passers-by. The income stream from voluntarily crowdsourcing her pay is inconsistent and often disappointing. Because of this, she often resorts to earning extra money by working with local bookies to take a cut of gambling proceeds in exchange for participating in knife-throwing and other contests of dexterity or aim. These contests may or may not be rigged by those organizing them. |
The Earth Kingdom administrative state, from her perspective as someone labeled an ethnic foreigner, doesn't feel much different to her from the invading Fire Nation in terms of being met with unjust treatment. The proverb of "When elephants fight, it's the ants who get trampled" was recently confirmed in her mind when she was swept up in a broad dragnet and imprisoned by invading Fire Nation military autocrats over nebulous concerns about "spies and saboteurs." Her cellmates turning out to actually be people antagonistic to the Fire Nation, in her view giving officials the incitement that led to her own arbitrary imprisonment, only reinforced her distrust and bitterness for both sides. |
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| Occasionally she also supplements her income by selling an unusual (for the region) alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey, or mixtures of honey and fruit. "Saza's special" as she calls it is uncommonly available, her appearances in any given town being only periodic. It is generally considered a luxury item and has developed a small following among a few upper-class administrators of the towns she circuits between. Especially in demand (when it can be made seasonally) is the variety that uses mulberry juice for the fruit component; mulberries and their association with the expense of silk give a connotation of wealth and high status to the consumption of mulberry products. She isn't able to produce very much of this drink, given her often itinerant professional life - to make it, she has to rent a modest brewing and racking space in the wine cellar of a tavern in one of the towns she spends time in, making her brewing schedule dependent on her traveling performance schedule. Honey is expensive in any case, and sometimes she doesn't have the funds to invest in the ingredients for making a batch. Nonetheless, her willingness to provide the local administrative authorities with this delicacy when she has some to sell them has helped shield her from official interest in prying much into her background or private life. | After breaking out of jail, her goal is to reach the Northern Continent where she thinks she'll be safest from recapture by Fire Nation forces. |
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| She would like to someday stop having to perform on the street and perhaps settle somewhere to brew full-time instead, or even better, somehow become independently wealthy and simply spend her days in leisure, fishing and wandering the forests without having to work at all, but these aspirations feel utterly out of reach to her and she's resigned to likely being an acrobat for life. == Past history == Other than being aware she wasn't born in the area, Saza's past is largely unknown to the people of the towns she travels between. Because actors and performers are not among the more respectable classes of society, most people are satisfied to just assume that she comes from nowhere remarkable and her circumstances are uninteresting. A few speculate that she must have learned her trade by being a circus performer. Her martial arts skills are murkier and there isn't much consensus on where they may come from. Saza herself prefers not to help clarify. == Other interests == On off days, Saza sometimes spends time fishing (both spear and hook-and-line) or hiking and foraging in forests outside of whatever town she's at in her circuit. Saza is literate and likes to read when she can, but her writing is messy because she has no training in how to write correctly. She can imitate what she knows and scratch out characters legibly enough to be understood when she has to, but was never taught the proper stroke orders or techniques of formal scholarly writing. |
Inventory: clothes, juggling balls, sharp throwing knives, her sword - straight blade, made from a corrosion-resistant metal (claimed to be recovered a long time ago from a "star" but she's not sure how true the story is), handed down to her as a gift from her old circus when she departed, a whetstone, a few dried food items, water flask, firestarting box |
Saza
Gender |
Female |
Nationality |
No Association |
Hair |
Black |
Eyes |
Blue |
Occupation |
Contortionist and acrobat, street performer |
Saza (as she calls herself) is an itinerant street performer who puts on displays of acrobatics, gymnastics, juggling, and general physical flexibility and agility. She's also a martial artist and rumor has it she knows qi-blocking techniques to paralyze opponents and temporarily break bending abilities.
The Earth Kingdom administrative state, from her perspective as someone labeled an ethnic foreigner, doesn't feel much different to her from the invading Fire Nation in terms of being met with unjust treatment. The proverb of "When elephants fight, it's the ants who get trampled" was recently confirmed in her mind when she was swept up in a broad dragnet and imprisoned by invading Fire Nation military autocrats over nebulous concerns about "spies and saboteurs." Her cellmates turning out to actually be people antagonistic to the Fire Nation, in her view giving officials the incitement that led to her own arbitrary imprisonment, only reinforced her distrust and bitterness for both sides.
After breaking out of jail, her goal is to reach the Northern Continent where she thinks she'll be safest from recapture by Fire Nation forces.
Inventory: clothes, juggling balls, sharp throwing knives, her sword - straight blade, made from a corrosion-resistant metal (claimed to be recovered a long time ago from a "star" but she's not sure how true the story is), handed down to her as a gift from her old circus when she departed, a whetstone, a few dried food items, water flask, firestarting box