Kouta

Avatar Kouta is an Earth Kingdom boy who was born Omashu but raised in Ba Sing Se. After his real parents died, he was adopted into a high class noble's domain. Having a spoiled and pampered life, Kouta grew up to be a fragile and stubborn lad. Along with his sister, Keiko, they share the title of Avatar since the Avatar Spirit splitted in two.

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Personality
Contrasting his sister, Kouta's stubborn and reckless. He always acts first before thinking and tends to do whatever he wants without realizing the consequences. He can be selfish at some times but selfless towards loved ones. Girls also turns him on and can get perverted sometimes (however it started going down ever since ... left) Deep down, he really think he's a coward and often thinks the option "Run" is better than "Fight".

History
Kouta was born as Quan Sei,along with his twin sister Quian Sei, by his mother Umeko Sei and father Keizen Sei. At the age of one, his father died in battle leaving Kua alone with two babies. Eventually at the age of two, Quian and Quan were seperated into two different orphanages due to their mother's death from an illness. Quan was left in a Ba Sing Se orphanage without any prossessions but his name.

In the Orphanage
As a child in the orphanage, he was quite a crybaby. He often was bullied, due to his meek personality and a weak target, by the other orphans. At the age of 7, he was finally adopted into a noble politican's home. His new foster father is Vy Ling and Mei Ling, along with '''Grandpa Shu Ling. He was later renamed Kouta Q. Ling.'''

Growing up
As the only other employee of Shu's Cabbages (the other one is Shu if u didn't know aha) Kouta would spend his days using a cabbage cart through the streets of the Upper and Lower Rings. One day he met up with the orphans that bullied him before. He learns that they were adopted into poor to middle class families and envies Kouta. The bullies would throw rocks at Kouta and Earthbends towards him causing Kouta to run away each time he sees them. Finally one day, the local zoo owner's son, Yuu, decided to help Kouta out by scaring the bullies. Yuu earthbends at the bullies and offers Kouta to have a good knock out of them as well. Kouta eventually drove the bullies away with Yuu's help.

Yuu also became Kouta's first Earthbending teacher and best friend. Each day they would hang out with each other and become great buds. Few weeks later, Kouta meets another friend of Yuu, Maira, who at first irritated Kouta. Eventually the trios become close to each other always having each other's backs. They each have a pendant with their initial carved onto it as a symbol of their everlasting friendship.

Tragedy
The age of 10 was Kouta's changing point. It was late at night, Kouta and Mei were finished from grocery shopping. They were walking from the Lower Ring towards the Upper Ring until Mei started noticing that someone is following them. Eventually a group of men grabbed Mei and Kouta into a nearby alleyway. Then, Kouta notices that the orphan bullies were there too. The men revealed themselves as the orphans' parents who were middle class people falling poor or is very poor now. They threatened to steal their possesions and burn down their house after killing them. Mei tells Kouta to run away now but Kouta didn't feel like running and decides to fight the men. He fails to Earthbend well enough to inflict damage however.

One of the men charged towards Kouta with a sword, ready to kill the young boy. However, Mei jumps in front of Kouta and saves his life. Mei fell into Kouta's arms and died with the final words, "I will always love you, my dear son...Kout..." Angered by her death, Kouta entered Avatar State and injured the men very badly but did not killed them. The next day, Kouta was found, fainted along with the men, and Mei dead. Kouta did not remembering being in Avatar State, but remembers Mei's death.

From that point on, he starts thinking that perhaps "Run" is a good option. He believes that if he ran away, he would feel less pain about hearing Mei's death rather than seeing her death itself.

Love Life
Maira - In the beginning Kouta and Maira irritated each other since they met. Eventually through the years they grew up "together" they've learned how to get along. Their days are usually the same together when Yuu is busy with work: Maira lecturing Kouta as Kouta tries to escape. However their relationship starts to turn when Kouta was revealed as an Avatar. Maira started acting indifferent towards him which causes Kouta to worry about her a lot. Slowly Kouta develops affection towards Maira and that love reached its end when he learns that Maira would soon disappear. In the end, he confesses Maira his love and promises her that they will meet again and he will love no one else. Sometimes when Maira is mentioned he would always feel uneasy and regretful.

Friendships
Yuu - Yuu is Kouta's best friend and Earthbending teacher. Yuu and Kouta are practically like very close secret lovers brothers. They've been together through a lot and always have each other's backs. They have such a big bromance, bro. Like seriously man no one can seperate these lovers bros like man.