Rafa and Misu

"water"

- Growing up, my brother and I were complete opposites. I was quiet and studious, he was loud and brash. I followed the rules, he lived to break them.

Rafa and Misu were two siblings, originally from the Northern Water Tribe, who journeyed to the Forgetful Valley located in the Fire Nation, in search of the Mother of Faces. The two hoped that the spirit would be able to restore Rafa's face, which had been horribly disfigured following one of his antics in the Northern Water Tribe.

History


While the two were growing up, Misu was usually quiet and studious, while Rafa was bold and brash. Rafa enjoyed stealing items from the tribe's most powerful people, not because he needed the items, but to prove that he could. However, he was ordered by his sister to return his plunder each time, something he always complied to. The people he stole from were usually so embarrassed that he never got into any real trouble. However, one day this backfired on him, and his face was left horribly disfigured leaving him in a state between life and death. In order to try and help him, Misu began researching ways to help her brother. While reading an ancient scroll, she discovered that a powerful spirit with the ability to heal Rafa, the Mother of Faces, visited the Fire Nation from time to time. She learned waterbending in secret, and took her brother and herself to the Forgetful Valley in hopes of meeting the face-giving spirit.

In 102 ASC, Team Avatar entered the Forgetful Valley in search of Ursa. It was there that they met the siblings, who originally attacked them using plantbending. The team later befriended the brother and sister, and Aang entered the Spirit World in hopes of locating the Mother of Faces for them. However, Azula, under the paranoid impression that the elderly Water Tribe siblings were sent by her mother to impede her progress, aimed a bolt of lightning at them, which Zuko attempted to stop.

Misu
Misu never received formal training in waterbending apart from healing lessons, due to the Northern Water Tribe's staunch gender-related customs. As such, she taught herself combative waterbending, eventually becoming skilled enough to manipulate the plant life in Forgetful Valley. Misu preferred to use sharp frozen flowers as projectiles.

Trivia

 * Rafa's mask is similar to the one that Huu donned as the swamp monster.
 * Misu is similar to mizu, which means "water" in Japanese.
 * Rafa and Misu are the third known brother-sister pairing hailing from the Water Tribes, the others being Sokka and Katara, and Desna and Eska.