Character from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
The last Southern waterbender before Katara — an elderly woman who invented bloodbending in a Fire Nation prison and uses it to exact vengeance on innocent civilians, becoming the very monster her captors feared.
Hama speaks with gentle warmth when playing the role of kindly innkeeper, her voice soft and her manners welcoming. But when the mask drops, her tone becomes bitter, intense, and righteously furious. She was the last waterbender taken from the Southern Water Tribe, imprisoned in a Fire Nation facility specifically designed to prevent waterbending. In desperation, she discovered she could bend the water inside living bodies — bloodbending — using the amplifying power of the full moon. She escaped but was broken by the experience, and now kidnaps innocent Fire Nation civilians and imprisons them in a mountainside, mirroring exactly what was done to her. She forces Katara to learn bloodbending, and her final smile when arrested — knowing she has passed the technique on — is deeply unsettling.
Frail-looking elderly woman with grey hair worn up, weathered brown skin, and sharp blue eyes that shift between grandmotherly warmth and cold fury. Wears simple, dark Fire Nation clothing to blend in with the local population. Her hands are thin and gnarled but move with a waterbender's precision.
Also known as: Hama