My entry for Earth Rumble VII contest.
(will change name if it's too much like RogueRider's Lei Hon Mai, but my name is Leigh XD )

Sorry if this is long winded...I got carried away ><

Name: Lei Shin-Fei
Age: 18
Gender: male
Element: Air
Style: Taekwondo
Residence: Fire Nation
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown and Blonde, past his shoulders.
Skin: Pale and lightly freckled.
Height: 5'1

Description: Lei wears a light blue cloth tied like a bandanna, covering most of his hair so it doens't get whipped about in his training. He wears a light blue and pale green simplified han-bok [link] (traditional Korean clothing) that comes down to his knees but doesn't cover his hands like most do. Underneath he wears a simple pair of trousers in the same style and fasion, they go to his ankles. On his feet he wears a pair of pale blue, traditional slippers, they look like modern day dolly shoes but they're tight, so don't slip of in his training.

Personality: Lei is sometimes childish, which doesn't help him in his bid to out grow the "cute" that surrounds him. His weakness is sugar and tea and it's one of the reasons why he sometimes lazy in his training, more content to read a book than anything. However, when he puts his mind to it, Lei can accomplish even the tediest task, usually by muttering sarcastically while he does it. His grandfather is going deaf, so Lei takes it upon himself to mutter and talk to himself, even when he is with someone who isn't losing their hearing. It gives him the appearance of someone who isn't all there, or someone whose outlook on life had been warped by something deeper. He's nice enough, full of giggles but can be quite stubborn when he hasn't the patience for something. (me to a T XD)

Info/back story: Lei's grandfather and mother where air benders in hiding, but deemed them selves non benders when the war started. Lei's father, Ha-Neul, had been left windowed with three young boys and married Suen to fill the void, as it where. However, due to complications when Lei was born, his mother died shortly after his birth.

Small for his age, with a face you just want to cuddle, Lei was constantly pushed out in his training, so his father could concentrate on his three older brothers and their fire bending training. Ha-Neul couldn't bare to get close to the boy, just in case he lost another member of his family. Considered too delicate, his father refused to teach him to fire bend. His grandfather noticed how depressed his grandson was and so took it upon himself to teach the boy air bending; the technique he had been keeping secret for over twenty years.

Lei's grandfather took the boy from his home without his fathers knowing when questions about his strange technique where raised. ( Young Lei had taken out one of his bullys, but a witness said he never directly touched the boy...as if there was another force at work) After hearing about the contest, Lei thought it would be a brilliant way to prove himself to his father...if he ever caught up with him and his old grandfather.

Special: Lei's attach's are close range because of his Taekwondo technique, so when he delivers a kick/strike the force that hits an opponent is not his foot/fist but the air gathered around him. As instructed by his grandfather, Lei will not strike below the waist as it is deemed un worthy and quite frankly not very nice. Anything else will go, including strikes to the head, but not face on, only to the sides.

Image Reference: [link]
(I'll draw grandfather later too XD)

(I did Taekwondow for a few years when i was twelve, but due to illness i only ever got to green belt. I have three one-to-one winning trophies and one "runner up" trophy. Basically I got the crap kicked out of me in my first fight and left the ring in tears to cuddle my teddy bear. The girl I was against was amazing, and she wouldn't stop apologising XD)

Lei Shin-Fei (c) Me Bluemutantfreak
Avatar: The Legend of Aang/The Last Airbender (c) Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon...and all that jazz....