The Blue Spirit

Since the time of Avatar Aang the Blue Spirit has been a guardian of mankind and a warrior against crime and tyranny. No one knows if he is a man in a mask or actually a spirit that has taken corporal form. Many people throughout the world see him as a protector of the weak and down trodden, others believe him to be a crazed vigilante who uses the guise of the hero as an excuse to beat people up. Some even doubt his existence entirely saying that he is merely a fairy tale told amongst the oppressed people of the Earth Kingdom during Fire Nation occupation. But dozens of eye witness reports suggest other wise.

=Appearance= The Blue Spirit appears as an athletically built male. He is always seen wearing black clothing and his trademark blue oni mask and no one has ever witnessed him take the mask off. His weapon of choice is the dual dao swords that he wears on his back. His age is impossible to discern due to his outfit. But because of his almost superhuman agility and fighting prowess it can be assumed that if he is human he is a man in his prime fighting age. The Blue Spirit rarely talks and is often completely silent though the few witnesses who have claimed to have heard him speak say that he had a deep raspy voice. It is commonly believed that the Blue Spirit is a man but it is entirely possible for a woman to be under the mask. Female assassins in the Sons of Agni often wear special armor suits that conceal their gender and make them look larger and more intimidating.

=Prowess= The Blue Spirit is a master of stealth and acrobatics. He has been known to be able to enter and exit a room completely undetected. He is incredibly proficient with his trademark duel dao swords. He has defeated powerful benders using nothing but his swords an impressive feat considering that he usually leaves them alive. Recently the Blue Spirit has been witnessed using shuriken and other small projectiles to disable foes. The police have noted that occasionally the shuriken are coated with a powerful sleeping solution. In modern Ba Sing Se the Blue Spirit has defeated many criminals with the ancient art of chi blocking a skill that is difficult to learn and hardly taught outside the non benders guild. Smoke bombs and grappling hooks are also in his repertoire. This is a little odd as in the past the Blue Spirit has usually just relayed on his swords, agility and fists but because of his expanding arsenal the Blue Spirit has become deadlier then he ever was. Some have claimed that the Blue Spirit is a bender with different witnesses saying he has bent all four elements at least once. Whether he is a bender or not the Blue Spirit rarely uses any bending art and these claims are unproven.

=History of the Mask= The first recorded act of the Blue Spirt was to rescue Avatar Aang from Fire Nation imprisonment during the hundred year war. After that it is said that he worked as a vigilante in the occupied Earth Kingdom colonies attacking soldiers who oppressed the people and stealing supplies from the wealthy Fire Nation officials and giving them to the poor. Because of this he was on the Fire Nation's most wanted list out ranked only by the Avatar, the exiled Prince Zuko, and his uncle general Iroh. It is rumored that while Avatar Aang was searching for his lost animal companion the Sky Bison Appa it was the Blue Spirit who found him and set him free. After the war the Blue Spirit continued to fight against the abuse of the people in the Fire Nation colonies until Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko turned the colonies into the United Republic and peace returned to the land. However when organized crime reared its ugly head in Republic City the Blue Spirit appeared again to do what the police couldn't. Once Toph the first metal bender took control of the police force and started to actually deal with the Triads the Blue Spirit was once again hunted as a vigilante. The man who single handedly kept the city safe had to not only escape the triads but also the newly established Metal Bending police force. Despite Toph being the greatest earth bender in the world the Blue Spirit slipped through her fingers time and time again. Some say that Toph let him escape each time as she respected him as a fellow defender of the people. It is obvious that Avatar Aang was on the Blue Spirits side as even if he could escape some one as powerful as Toph their would be no way anyone could escape from a fully realized Avatar. It is rumored that Yakone the legendary blood bending crime boss of Republic City killed the Blue Spirit in a dual to the death. The Blue Spirit, fed up that the police weren't able to arrest Yakone due to a lack of evidence. Attacked Yakones base and when the police and Avatar Aang arrived on the scene Yakone was gone and so was the Blue Spirit for over forty years. No one knows exactly what happened that night but that was when it was discovered that Yakone was a blood bender. The Blue Spirits sacrifice leading to the capture of one of the most notorious criminals in the history of the United Republic.

When Avatar Korra came to Republic City so to did the Blue Spirit, at first his actions were subtle and unnoticed as he secretly attacked both the triads and the Equalists. During the final showdown with Amon it was said that the Blue Spirit dismantled the Equalists southern runway which allowed Admiral Bumi to deploy troops into the city. It is said that he and Avatar Korra worked together often to clean up the streets in Republic City and that whenever she would leave the city she left it under the Blue Spirit's watch. During the War of Secession also known as Rei's Rebellion, Avatar Korra and the forces of the United Republic went to the Fire Nation to save it from the rouge warlord Rei. The Blue Spirit went with her and they fought on the front lines together. During that terrible battle the Blue Spirit fought alongside General Mako and Captain Bo Lin of the United forces against Enoh, Rei's oldest son and the man who would one day rule the wold. Despite the three of them being powerful fighters who had all survived countless battles and duals to the death they were unable to defeat the eighteen year old Enoh. Though witnesses say that it was difficult fight for both sides and that all four combatants received terrible injuries. Bo Lin was the first to fall his wall of metal melted right through and his flesh with it by a powerful close range fire blast that cut through the barrier like an welding torch. The Blue Spirit tried to intervene but Enoh predicted his actions and incinerated him with a fire bolt so large and fast he was unable to dodge. General Mako was able to match the young Enoh and even might have defeated him but he was distracted for the briefest of moments by the light of Avatar Korra entering the Avatar State. It was all the opportunity Enoh needed to deal him a death blow.

After the United Republic's defeat the Blue spirit did not resurface for a long time. The people had lost their Avatar, their masked protector and all hope. The leaders of the four remaining nations fled to Ba Sing Sa the one place believed to be untouchable by even Enoh's might.The city was in chaos and strife for many years the new migration of people had increased the cities already dense population and though the people of Ba Sing Sa had gotten used to people from the other nations in their city the ten major guilds had begun taking over to the point where even the government became just another guild. The various police would only keep order in their guild's district so the lawless zones and the areas between guild districts were ripe with crime and the triads formed a "guild" of their own to take advantage of the chaos. With the Defeat of Avatar Soken at the hands of Enoh and Ba Sing Se being truly sealed off from the outside world. Hope was truly lost as the Traders Union, Qian Conglomerate, and the triads begun expanding their territory and terrorizing the people. The other guilds would do nothing to help those outside their districts. All seemed lost until one night when a gang of triad hoodlums were busting up a small shop belonging to a family of non benders. Their leader not having been paid protection money for the month by the poor family and was taking the eldest daughter as collateral. The families neighbors looked on in horror, too afraid to do anything to stop the atrocity happening right before their eyes when a lone voice called out from the darkness "No"! All five of the men were quickly dispatched by a vigilante wearing all black except for the blue oni mask on his face. The Blue Spirit had finally returned to once again strike fear into those who would dare harm the innocent. Working with police commissioner Geiden and the monk Chengti the Blue Spirit was able to weaken the triads hold over the city. Even the Qian Conglomerate and the Traders Union were attacked by the Blue Spirit and have sworn revenge. Ten years ago he returned to save this city from itself and the scum who would destroy it but Ba Sing Sa is a city the size of a country and the criminals continue to use bending for their nefarious purposes. No one can protect this city alone but Avatar Aang proved it only takes a few to take down an empire.

=Who is the Blue Spirit?=

The most common debate about the Blue Spirit among historians and law enforcement officials is whether the Blue Spirit is a man in a mask or actually a spirit as his namesake would suggest. Multiple sightings have given prof to both sides of the argument, such as how the Blue Spirit never demonstrates any metaphysical qualities as most spirits do or how he often does things that are largely considered impossible like being knocked through a concrete wall by an Earth Bender or by being thrown into lake Laiogi with metal braces attached to his legs. If he is human then it is very likely that every time he "dies" such as in the battler with Enoh someone else always takes up the mask and the mantle and continues the fight anew. If he is truly a spirit it is possible that the time spent between his "deaths" may be spent in the spirit world regathering enough physical energy to make a new corporal body. Most people especially those who want want to capture or kill the Blue Spirit believe him to just be some nut job in a mask.

The modern Blue Spirit is believed to be a member of the Elementless League the guild for non benders as it the only place in the city to learn chi blocking.