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Maliq was an architect and engineer from the Northern Water Tribe and the brother of Malina. After the end of the Hundred Year War, he and his sister traveled from the Earth Kingdom, where he had spent most of his life, to the Southern Water Tribe, where the two came into the employ of Hakoda; he and his sister collaborated in the design and construction of newer, modernized structures in the tribe, as part of the Southern Reconstruction Project.[1]
History
Maliq was born in the Northern Water Tribe sometime during the last half of the Hundred Year War. Some time later, he and Malina moved to the Earth Kingdom. By the time they moved to the Southern Water Tribe, they had spent more time in the Earth Kingdom than they had in the North Pole. When they arrived in the South Pole, they became the leaders of the Southern Restoration Project. Under Hakoda's supervision, they began the process of modernizing the tribe by creating newer, larger buildings, intended to show the other nations that the tribe was keeping pace with the post-war being made by the rest of the world.
On the day Katara and Sokka returned to the South Pole for the first time since the end of the war, Maliq happened to be standing in Hakoda's office with Malina. After Hakoda greeted his children with a hug, Maliq excitedly shook Sokka's hand, telling him that he and his sister had been following the news about them for a long time, dating back to the saving of Tui and La during the Siege of the North. At the end of the conversation among Malina and Katara, Sokka, and Hakoda, Maliq offered to take them to dinner, and Sokka enthusiastically accepted.
At dinner, when his sister stated her inability to adjust to Southern food, Maliq countered her assertion, stating that he loved the food; he even cited Ashuna, who manned a food cart on the main boulevard in the city, as a prime example. Moments later, a server boy spilled a large vessel of soup on their table. While Maliq was distracted, another server snatched the briefcase he had brought with him to the restaurant. When he realized what was happening and tried to take it back, the server girl hit him in the face with the briefcase, knocking off his glasses, and made a run for the exit. He retrieved his glasses in time to watch Malina be knocked unconscious by the server boy, who hurled the large, heavy soup vessel at her. As Katara and Sokka gave chase, Maliq stayed behind with his injured sister.
When Katara and Sokka returned to the tribe that evening, Maliq was standing watch outside Kanna's hut, where Malina had been taken to rest. Upon learning they had failed to recover his briefcase from the spies, he kicked the snow at his feet, upset by the Southern Water Tribe's lax security, and claims that the Northern Tribe has better laws and regulations along with police to enforce them. Maliq also expressed uncertainty when assured by Sokka that Hakoda would catch the spies. He was shocked to discover that Sokka believed Malina to be his wife and remained outside while Katara and Sokka entered the hut by themselves.[1]
The next day, Maliq and Malina took Sokka and Katara to a deposit so as to give them a tour, letting them know he was very glad that they had accepted his invitation. He eagerly told them all about why he and his sister had come to the South Pole, albeit being completely ignored by them. When Sokka asked him to repeat what his vision was, Maliq was left dumbfounded, stating that he had just spent ten minutes explaining just that. Malina informed Sokka that sometimes he gets a bit carried away with his explanations and that the reason they were there was because they had found a vast amount of oil and were planning on extracting it. Neither Sokka or Katara knew what they wanted it for, so Maliq told them that it was supposed to be used for engine fuel, among other things.
Maliq described the deposit as the biggest in the entire world and let Sokka and Katara know that that meant it came with a lot of implications. He also informed them that if oil runs machines, then the more oil they have, the number of machines will also grow and as a result, would be part of their everyday lives. Seeing that Katara still wasn't convinced, Maliq mentioned that that was due to the fact that she was a bender and while she had an immense amount of power, he and the non-bender community had fallen very far behind until machines came along, claiming that machines could finally make them equal. Katara mentioned that she had never seen it that way, but Sokka understood what he meant, recalling how at the Earthen Fire Refinery, one of the two production lines used benders while the other used non-benders. Maliq interrupted, mentioning that both were able to complete their tasks with the same efficiency; Sokka finished his sentence stating that the cause of this were the machines. Sokka asked Maliq if he had ever visited the Earthen Fire Refinery to which he responded that he had and adding that they were even partners and were relying on their construction expertise, which meant that the equipment they were using was being loaned from them.[2]
Relatives
- Malina (sister)
Appearances
Graphic novel trilogies
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). North and South Part One (September 27, 2016), Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). North and South Part Two (January 25, 2017), Dark Horse Comics.