Aoma

Aoma was an earthbender, farmer and the daughter of the village captain of Yokoya. In her youth, she was among those who regularly harrassed a local servant girl, Kyoshi, due to the latter's closeness to the suspected Avatar, Yun, despite her status as outsider and orphan.

History
Aoma was born to the village captain of Yokoya and her husband around 312 BG. As result, she was among the children of the Earth Kingdom who were in the ideal age to be the possible successor of Avatar Kuruk. When masters Jianzhu and Kelsang visited Yokoya in 305 BG, Aoma was thus tested with the Avatar relics, but failed. Her mother did not take this well, and subsequently demanded to see some higher-ranking master.

Aoma consequently grew up, and learnt some basic earthbending techniques to help her parents with the farm work. Over time, she came to bully Kyoshi, an orphan who had become a servant at the Avatar mansion which had been built in Yokoya to house Yun, an earthbender identified as Kuruk's successor. Aoma was jealous of Kyoshi because the latter had become friends with Yun, and enjoyed a comparatively good life at the mansion, while she had to toil on her parents' fields.

In 296 BG, Aoma and her friends Suzu and Jae held up Kyoshi outside the mansion as she was delivering a jar of pickled spicy kelp. Using her earthbending, Aoma took the jar from Kyoshi and floated it in the air while taunting the servant. Realizing that this was a chance to get into contact with Yun, Aoma then declared that she would "help" Kyoshi by transporting the jar to the Avatar mansion. This plan fell through, however, when the group was stopped by Rangi, Yun's bodyguard and a friend of Kyoshi. Aoma first attempted to make excuses and use her charm in order to convince the firebender to let her through, but Rangi remained defiant and ordered her and her friends to leave the grounds of the mansion. Angered, Aoma then launched the jar far into their air in defiance of Kyoshi and Rangi before fleeing back to the village.

Novels

 * The Rise of Kyoshi