Hiroshi (Pao) Tanno

''"I'm sorry, But I can't let you live." - ''Hiroshi Tanno

Early life
Hiroshi was born in Ba Sing Se to a wealthy family who had good standing in the Qian Conglomerate. His life was pretty much set except for one thing. He was a bender. He was born to a family of non-benders who hated and feared any benders. When it was found out that he was a bender(at a young age when he was get angry or upset metal objects would bend and break around him) his existence was immediately covered up and he was put up for adoption. Hiroshi, even at a young age, could feel his families hate and disgust at him. He grew up as an orphan while secretly training his metalbending abilities to show how useful he could be.

When he heard of the Mechanist combine, who trained benders to use their arts for the betterment of the world and society, he tried to join them when he was old enough. The Guild Champion Testuo had almost declined his application to join(or join as a low laborer), as he wasn’t that good of a metalbender and didn’t know very much about engineering, right before Oji Jiang came it to the room. He could sense the potential and the hardship in Hiroshi, much like he did with Testuo, and allowed me to join at a higher level and made Testuo his teacher. He owes the Mechanist combine pretty much everything. They gave him a home and a Job and a way to better himself.

Abilities
Hiroshi, being trained by someone as great as Testuo, is an accomplished Metalbender and Engineer. He know how to use his Metalbending to craft and create intricate things. Sometime later he was also trained in METALBENDING(Combat Metalbending) by the GIRDER. During that time he learned many new techniques, trained his Earthbending and Metalbending, and also worked out his body as well.

After this, and his Metalbending Police training, he is in almost peak physical condition. He’s also learned Psychic Bending, Sandbending, and Glassbending from the power of Wan Shi Tong’s library. Most recently, he has gained the power of the spirit of the desert itself(Also know as the Dust Devil) gaining the ability to create sand from his body fairly easily,turn into sand,and many of the abilities detailed in the “Named Techniques” section.

Named Techniques

 * Desert Sword:Hirsohi forms his a loose blade of fast-moving sand around his hand and th210px-Desertspada.png stabs it into the ground, extending it along the ground like a torpedo, splitting anything in its path, including the very ground itself, through extreme and focused erosion, created by the sand blade, which is strong enough to slice a man in half.


 * Dehydration:Hiroshi can suck the moisture out of things using the power of the spirit, including living people, if he is in direct contact with it.


 * Sand Armor: More useful than it may sound, Hiroshi covers his body in rapidly swirling sand armor that can deflect and absorb attacks.


 * Quicksand: Hiroshi creates another loose sand blade from his right hand with Desert Sword. Like Desert Sword, he stabs it into the ground causing the area in front of him to collapse. However, a giant pit of quicksand will be formed instead. Anything caught in the pit will be sucked in and buried alive.


 * Sand Explosion: Hiroshi violently and suddenly expels as much sand as he can from his body as he can, sandblasting and blinding anyone unlucky enough to be caught in it. He can then bend that sand for other attacks.




 * Sandstorm: Hiroshi summons a massive tornado of sand and sends it on a rampage. Once this sandstorm grows large enough, not even he can stop it. He can also use controlled sandstorms for travel or other less destructive purposes


 * Wasteland: Hiroshi places his hands on the ground and uses his dehydration ability to dry out a huge area around him, turning it into a desert wasteland. When he does this, it also can cause the area around him to crumble and cave in, causing unfortunate foes to fall to their death.


 * Shockwave: Hiroshi gathers a swirling mass of extremely dense sand in his hand, then hurls it at his opponent, causing a massive shock wave upon impact.