Smellerbee

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- As long as I'm confident with who I am, it doesn't matter what other people think.

Smellerbee was a member in a band of rebels known as the Freedom Fighters. Despite her tomboyish appearance, she took offense when someone mistook her gender. She appeared to understand both Jet and Longshot more than any of the other Freedom Fighters did. She dressed in light armor and was seen to be proficient with bladed weapons such as the sword and knife.

History
Nothing much is known about her prior to her appearance along with the Freedom Fighters, except that she ran away from home when the Fire Nation seized her parents' land. She had found a new family in Jet's rebels, and had taken up the responsibility of looking after The Duke.

Smellerbee was first seen with Jet and the Freedom Fighters battling a group of Fire Nation soldiers at a camp. She was very loyal and obediently in following Jet's orders. The female warrior was also present when Jet harassed the Old Fire Nation civilian who was strolling through the woods. It was Smellerbee who robbed the man of his stuff while Pipsqueak pinned him to the ground. The girl followed Jet when he took the captured blasting jelly toward the dam and was quick to put a knife to Sokka’s throat when he overheard their plan to flood Gaipan. Jet ordered her and Pipsqueak to take Sokka for a long walk to prevent him from warning Aang and Katara about his true intentions with the water in the reservoir. During their walk, Sokka noticed some traps hidden under some leaves and leechi nuts and made a break for it, nimbly avoiding the metal cages that caught his two guards following him. While Smellerbee and Pipsqueak were suspended high up in the trees, Sokka mocked their knot tying skills. Squeezed inside the small cage, the female Freedom Fighter was annoyed by her big friend when he casually asked her if she was going to eat her leechi nuts and replied by throwing them at him.

Months after her encounter with the Avatar and his friends, the Freedom Fighters were disbanded and she left the forest with Jet and Longshot, traveling to Ba Sing Se in the hope to start over there. While on the ferry ride, they ran into Zuko and his uncle, disguised as Earth Kingdom refugees. Jet invited Zuko to take part in their plan to "liberate" some good food out from underneath the Captain's nose. Smellerbee was on sentry duty during this mission and alerted Zuko and Jet, who were raiding the kitchen, of an approaching guard. The threesome quickly ran toward the railing where Longshot provided a makeshift escape route. Later, while enjoying their quality meal, Iroh commented that Smellerbee was an unusual name for a young man. This angered her, and she ruefully replied that the reason for that was because she was a girl. Upset with Iroh's mistake, Smellerbee stalked off, but was soon halted by her silent friend, Longshot. He calmed her down and comforted her with one meaningful nod, making her remember that "as long as she is comfortable with who she is, it didn't matter what other people thought."



After the ferry ride and before boarding the monorail, Jet tried to persuade Zuko, at the time going by Lee, to join to Freedom Fighters. In doing so, he ignored Smellerbee's statements that Jet "hardly knew the guy" and the Freedom Fighters were "going straight now." His attempts to get Zuko to join failed, but Jet noticed how Iroh now had a warm cup of tea, from which he derived that Iroh used Firebending to heat up his formerly cold tea. Smellerbee avidly protested Jet's choice to pursue Iroh and Zuko to out them as Firebenders. Jet got obsessed, however, with his quest to unmask them as enemies, much to the dismay of Smellerbee and Longshot who had enough of fighting and wanted to make a fresh start. Despite her pleas to let this go, Jet's perseverance let to his ensuing arrest by the Dai Li while she and her ever silent friend were spectators in the crowd.

A couple of weeks later the two later found Jet again while he was helping Aang and his friends track down Appa. Smellerbee was surprised but happy to see him out on the streets again after his capture by the Dai Li as she rushed in to give him a hug. When she inquired how he escaped his kidnappers, Jet couldn't remember a thing, leading to the understanding that he had been brainwashed. Smellerbee suggested that Jet focus on remembering how the Fire Nation had affected his life, allowing him to break free from the hypnosis. She then fought alongside Jet, Longshot, and Team Avatar during the infiltration of Lake Laogai. Smellerbee was last seen crying in the Dai Li's underground base submerged beneath Lake Laogai alongside Longshot and a fatally wounded Jet, telling Team Avatar that they should go and leave Jet in their care.

Her ultimate fate after the War is unknown.

Trivia

 * Smellerbee's gender was never truly stated until "The Serpent's Pass" when Iroh commented on Smellerbee being an "unusual name for a young man," only for Smellerbee to bluntly correct him, saying she's a girl. However, in the Avatar Extras (Book 1: Water)#Jet|"Avatar Extras" for "Jet"]] it was confirmed that she was, in fact, female.
 * "The Serpent's Pass" with "Avatar Extras" commentary said there was a rumor Smellerbee and Longshot are involved romantically.