Chen
Chen avait la moitié de l'esprit de jeter un couteau entre les omoplates de la femme alors qu'elle quittait la pièce, mais a rapidement rejeté l'idée. Cela prouverait seulement son point de vue. Chen se leva rapidement, ajoutant quelques notes à son cahier avant de le ranger. L'égaliste avait un point, c'est-à-dire, si détruire un écran de théâtre avec un boulon géant de foudre ne comptait pas comme attaquant. Pourtant, c'était un plan plutôt rusé que la femme avait assemblé. Elle avait poussé les coureurs à l'attaquer, à faire le premier pas de la violence. Elle n'avait même pas donné son nom avant le début des combats. Il maudit la hâte des courbeurs, mais il ne pouvait s'empêcher de comprendre pourquoi ils faisaient ce qu'ils faisaient.
En parlant de ça, il pouvait comprendre pourquoi ils ont fait ce qu'ils ont fait! Le seul problème auquel il était confronté aujourd'hui était de déterminer s'il devait parler à la terre et à l'eau qui s'était tenue et s'était battue ou à l'Avatar. Ce n'était pas un cerveau. L'attaque (ou protestation) a été dirigée contre l'Avatar. Pourquoi ne pas lui parler?
Chen a marché sur l'Avatar, essayant de paraître décontracté. Il préférerait ne pas que l'Avatar se rende compte qu'il n'était rien de plus qu'un journaliste scrutant autour pour des détails. Au lieu de cela, il a décidé de jouer d'abord l'approche citoyenne légèrement concernée. Il donna un léger sourire à Kazuki alors qu'il marchait vers lui.
"Pas exactement comment tu t'attendais à ce que ta journée parte, n'est-ce pas?" Chen a dit à l'occasion: "Qui était cette femme de toute façon? Plus important encore, que vas-tu faire à ce sujet? On dirait qu'elle veut dire affaires, et je doute que ce soit la dernière qu'on verra d'elle."
Name: Chen
Age:20
Gender: Male

Additional Appearance:
Height: 5'7"
Weight:153
Element: N/A
Additional Weapons:
Shock Stick, Two daggers, Crossbow, Throwing knives
Flash bombs, smoke bombs
Vial of poison (for coating his blades)
Personality:
Chen is rather pessimistic and cynical. He never accepts that things 'just happen' or that others are driven by 'the right thing.' He himself states that he is driven by his desire to uncover the truth, regardless of the outcome. Because of this, whenever he talks to others, he is constantly mentally noting things and trying to uncover the truth of their actions. As the only non-bender in his family, Chen is rather sore towards benders and holds a certain disdain towards powerful benders like the Avatar, though he hides it well and is able to act quite nonchalant about his inabilities. As a reporter, Chen's mindset is that of what was known in the progressive era of the US as a muckraker, seeking to uncover the dirt or 'muck' of large corporations and governments.
Skills/Hobbies:
Investigating
Martial Arts (Hung Gar/mixed)
Sneaking/stealth/dishonesty
Throwing
Running
Sculpting
Coin Collecting
Background:
Chen was born to a family of Earthbenders. He was the youngest of four, making him the runt of the group, and to make matters worse, he was the only child to be born without bending powers. His siblings often teased him for this, which caused him to grow a thick shell to defend himself early on in his life. As life went on, his siblings went on to train to become Earthbenders and he grew envious of them, though he hid it well.
He began to look up to the eldest of his brothers, Bao, who treated him more kindly than the others. Bao even took pity on Chen and began to teach him the fighting style of Earth and Metal benders, helping him to utilize the form without any bending capabilities. Despite his skills, Chen still couldn't properly equal that of a bender. Because of this, he began to focus on utilizing weapons and tools into his fighting style. Chen created smoke and flash grenades to blind his opponents and was able to get a hold of an old equalist stun glove, developing it into something that suited his fighting style a little more. It was a slightly more powerful electrified baton he called a shock stick. His brother was a great mentor, and an even better friend. However, all of this soon changed when Bao was arrested for violent crimes against a group of Arties. Later in prison, he was brutally mauled, almost dying. Chen's view of the world was forever altered, and he became more pessimistic towards everything. To put it simply, he was crushed. He began to invest in more lethal weapons, such as throwing knives and a small crossbow. Chen even went as far as to obtain deadly poisons to coat his daggers in.
His cynical attitude led him to become a journalist in Republic City, seeking to unmask the dark dealings of the world. While reporting the violence caused by the newly formed equalists, he decided to devote a portion of his time to investigate the company that came out with the drug that started it all, that led his brother to jail, to becoming a cripple. He wanted to see how they benefited from the rioting and protests, from these Neo-Equalists as well as find a way to shut the production of the drug down, or at least limit its sale. He knew it might lead him to nothing more than a dead end, but he had nothing better to do with his free time and in order to appease the guilt he felt towards the harming of his brother, he had to look into it.