| By DragonGirl028 | Part of the The Rise of Avatar Singi continuity. |
| "I teach the young ladies here the gift of healing because, for starters, the tribes here are run as a patriarchy. Second, well... somebody's got to patch up these knuckleheads when they get frostbite, or get mauled by a pack of wolves! You can never trust a man to go out into this vast, frozen landscape without somehow messing himself up!" |
| — Nenana to Singi while healing her and Gekkō. |
Nenana is a female waterbender and the shaman of her tribe located in the North Pole. She specializes in the art of healing, and instructs young women of her tribe on how to use their waterbending abilities for various healing purposes. Upon meeting Avatar Singi and her waterbending master Gekkō after the two were rescued from a powerful blizzard by a hunting party from her tribe, she teaches the special sub-skill to Singi, much to Gekkō's envy.
Personality
Nenana is a very wise and warm, caring person. She can also be rather sassy at times, however, cracking witty jokes about men and how "they would never survive without us [women], and I don't just mean with regard to the healing..." Her admiration for the healing role women play in the tribes, in addition to her wise-cracking jokes about men, signify her as a gynocentrist.
History
Early Life
Nenana spent the first five years of her life growing up in a water lion turtle city, and is one of the few [known] people still alive who has lived during the era of Raava, and been present during the onset of the era of the Avatar.
Book 1: Tension
Introduction to Singi and Gekkō
Nenana meets a weakened Singi and Gekkō at her hut in her tribe's settlement. After being brought to her hut by the tribe's hunting party upon finding them disoriented in the blizzard, Nenana provides them with a warm meal and a much-needed healing session.
Upon noticing Singi's airbender tattoos and robes, she notes that she understands the airbender's shivering and weakness, not being a member of the proto-Water Tribe and thus, not used to the bitter cold temperatures of the polar regions. Glancing over at Gekkō, however, with a smirk, she is "shocked" to find a waterbender, and even more-so, a man, not entirely immune to the effects of the blizzard. At this, Gekkō stutters that he is not from the polar regions, resulting in a [slightly] sarcastic gasp from the elderly woman, who remarks that he "must be more disoriented than he thought", as many members of the proto-Water Tribe have settled in one of the two polar regions upon the onset of the era of the Avatar.
Trivia
- Nenana is also the name of a river and a nearby city in Alaska, the latter of the two best known for being the starting point for the 1925 serum run to Nome to combat an incipient diphtheria epidemic.
- Nenana is one of the only people still alive that Singi has met who grew up in a lion turtle city.
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