1] No Mary Sues.

* While I’ll be really light on this rule since all Role Playing characters are self insertion of a type, what I mean here is the Card Carrying Mary Sue. If your character has no flaws, you note in the profile how much everyone loves you and Zuko wants to marry you and he hasn’t even seen you yet, you might be a Mary Sue. Sue’s are too perfect, too nice, too everything. Good characters, characters that we love or remember, have flaws. Would the show be so great if Aang, Katara, Sokka and Zuko weren’t human?

2] Be Creative!

* I don’t want the board to consist entirely of Aang, Sokka, Katara and Zuko clones. You can do a lot with making your own character to make them unique and alive, instead of just a clone.

* This goes from pulling from other fandoms, as well. No Kenshin, Naruto, One Piece, Yuu Gi Oh, Pokemon, FLCL, Fushigi Yugi, Ceres, Witch Hunter Robin, Gundam Wing, Kitty Grade, Utena, Cowboy Bebop, Spirited Away, Princes Mononoke, Teen Titans, Justice League, X-Men, Marvel, DC, Star Wars, or that one fandom I didn’t mention, clones. I am not the only one checking the profiles, even if it’s a fandom I’m unfamiliar with, another mod will be able to catch a clone. Bottom line, don’t do it. Make your character yours and you’ll have a much more fulfilling time playing him or her.

3] Created characters should not (without first discussing it with the moderators before even posting the profile) post an intimate familial or other sort of relationship with any canon character.

* No long lost brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles. However, this rule can be waved if a relationship is unobtrusive. Like King Bumi’s to Aang. A child hood friend, a distant relation, or an old playmate are all okay relationships to have within reason. We will allow distant relatives of The Royal family of the Fire Nation simply because of how large royal family trees normally are and such relationships would be bragged about anyway. But this would only be distant, and I doubt a third cousin of Zuko would brag about it.

4] Characters can not wield any type of power that seems to much like ‘magic.’

* They say it over and over again in the show, but I’ll repeat it here, bending is not magic. Bending is using your chi to manipulate the element you were born into and you were trained to touch. It is a martial art form before it is a form of magic.

* Possible exceptions will be made for psychic characters, as long as they follow the rules of Chinese and Japanese fortune telling and shamanism. Shamans can do thinks like purify spirits, set up barriers and the like, while fortune tellers (depending on their skill and level of training) are able to read omens, portents, bones, tortoise shells and other things to foresee the future.

5] Make your character's flaws and weaknesses REAL flaws and weaknesses. Things like "is too nice", "is really powerful when angry" and so on don't count. A weakness is something the character isn't good at, and a personality flaw is a less appealing part of their personality. Katara's jealousy over Aang's progress with water bending, Sokka's occasional sexism, Aang letting being the avatar get to his head, and so on, count as flaws.