Character Name: The Great Lion Trutle
Age: Ancient/ Unknown
Gender: Male
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Picture:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Description: A very large turtle with the head of a lion and lion-like, clawed feet. Because the Lion Turtle is so old, an overgrown forest has sprouted on his back. He prefers to stay hidden from the world because, when submerged, he appears like an ordinary island.
Clothes: None
Personality:: He is very calm and thinks everything through and keeps to himself in the matters of the world unless he sees that he must interven. He tends to speak slowly and in riddles and is sometimes hard to understand.
Nation: none
Character Type: A HUGE island sized turtle
Character Rank: Superhuman (I can't knwo what else to put)
Character Side: Toph
Element: Energybending
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History: The Lion Turtle was first seen in "Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King" as a small, dome-shaped island that appeared just off the coast of Ember Island at night. Aang, feeling conflicted over the seemingly impossible realization he must kill Ozai, sleepwalks there with Momo. By the following morning, the island is gone, and with it, Aang and Momo.
While the others are searching for him, Aang wakes up the next day to see that the island is now adrift in the middle of the sea. In the episode, "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters", after exploring a little, he finds himself at the centre of the island, where he finds a hexagonal piece of a unknown material (part of the Lion Turtle's shell). He then decides to meditate there, and calls on his previous incarnations for guidance; starting with Roku, then Kyoshi, Kuruk and finally Yangchen. After listening to their advice, he realizes he has no choice but to kill Ozai.
Eventually, the island starts moving, and Aang jumps off it and dives below, where he discovers it is in fact a creature. After approaching the head, he realizes it is a Lion Turtle.
Aang then asks the turtle for guidance, and the Lion Turtle says: "The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light." He also teaches Aang Energybending after he imparts Aang with his wisdom. He then leaves Aang and Momo on the Earth Kingdom shore to wait for the Fire Nation Airship fleet and Phoenix King Ozai saying "Wait for him, he will come."
The Lion Turtle is seen again whilst Aang is Energybending against Ozai. He is seen in a flashback and speaks the words: "In the era before the Avatar, we bended not the elements, but the energy within ourselves..." Aang then realizes what this means, and begins to bend Ozai's energy. The final time the Lion Turtle is heard he speaks the words: "To bend another's energy, your own spirit must be unbendable... or you will be corrupted... and destroyed...". During this time, Aang manages to take away Ozai's ability to bend. The Lion Turtle is never heard from again.
