Name
Avyiia Yatiaan (Ah-vee-yuh Yah-tee-yahn)
Gender
Female
Age
23
Race/Species
Avyiia is a member of an unusual race of people often considered “demonic” and heavily distrusted by the vast majority of humans. They are characterized by unnatural skin, hair, and eye colors, two or more horns sprouting from their heads, slitted pupils like those of a cat, incredibly sharp teeth and claws, batlike wings and long tails. Their existence is made all the more unsettling by the unpredictability of their birth. It is unknown how or why exactly they are created, but they are the children of seemingly normal human couples, being entirely incapable of reproducing themselves.
Appearance
Avyiia is a very beautiful woman, around five feet, three inches tall, though she carries herself with an air of self-assuredness which makes her appear to be significantly taller. Confidence, grace, and sass exude from her every movement, and she holds herself as such, nearly always having a hand on one hip, a slight smile, and an open posture.
Avyiia has lovely features, with a heart face shape and smooth skin. Her skin is soft and nearly free of blemishes, save for the occasional freckle and a variety of small scars from various misadventures. She has full, soft, downturned lips, straight white, razor sharp teeth, and a smile that always seems to suggest she knows more than she’ll ever let on. She has a delicate jawline and high cheekbones, which only adds to her stunning appearance.
Framing Avyiia’s face is long, white hair that reaches about halfway down her back. It is quite curly, with long, loose ringlet curls, and tends to be somewhat unruly, which, depending on her luck that particular day, can either look beautiful and stylishly messy, or chaotic, tangled, and generally a disaster. Her hair is very thick and soft, with some natural highlights in silver and shades of grey.
Her eyes are an especially captivating aspect to her appearance. They are large and almond-shaped, upturned and hold a certain cunning and dreaminess, both a look of one who is strikingly intelligent, and of one who is eternally lost in thought. Their color is even more stunning, however; a bright, intense gold that appears reflective and nearly glowing in low light like a cat’s.
Avyiia’s figure is that of a curvaceous hourglass, with a slightly larger than average bust, more generous hips, and a smaller waist. As she is a bit on the shorter and heavier side, she has fairly thick thighs and calves, and arms that match the rest of her figure as well. She does, however, have quite graceful hands, with long, elegant fingers and well-shaped and tended to nails, although they are almost always covered in either charcoal or paint, and are, like her teeth, incredibly sharp.
Avyiia’s skin is a deep midnight blue color, flecked occasionally with small white freckles that vaguely resemble stars in the night sky. Two pairs of long, elegant horns protrude from her head, curling delicately and pointed behind her. They can be most similarly compared to a gazelle’s horns with how they are shaped. Like others of her kind, she has large, black wings and a long, prehensile tail.
Personality
Avyiia can be…a lot for people around her. She is fierce, outgoing, and adventurous, and finds herself getting into more than a little trouble on a fairly regular basis. If kept in one place too long, she grows incredibly restless and causes problems for those around her. It is difficult to discern whether she is intentionally being a nuisance, or simply has weak impulse control, but it is most likely some mix of the two.
In spite of her adventurousness and recklessness, Avyiia is highly intelligent, something which often shocks those around her, as she only seems to show it when it benefits her or causes problems for someone else. She learns incredibly quickly, and studies just about anything she can, with a particular preference for reading any books she can get her hands on about magic. She also enjoys creating and solving problems, usually ones that involve her doing stupid things. She is at her best when her mind and body are constantly occupied.
Aiding her in her escapades and troublesomeness is her intense creativity. Her ingenuity is frankly impressive, and only adds to the striking and surprising nature of her intellect. When she isn’t causing problems for the people around her, she does have some creative hobbies, such as painting and drawing, hence why she always has paint and charcoal on her hands and fingers most of the time. She also enjoys creating and enchanting little magical artifacts, although they are often either useless or ridiculous, only meant to entertain herself.
Contrasting starkly with her adventurous and curious personality, Avyiia does have a surprisingly quick temper and a sharp wit. While she tries to keep it light and only use sass and sarcasm when someone irritates her, her patience will wear thin quite quickly, and she has been known to occasionally chew out and shout at the source of her anger.
Despite her willingness to socialize with those around her, she does have a surprisingly introverted personality. She enjoys spending time in her own head, and is quite the daydreamer. Due to her easily distracted personality, it is a challenge to keep her focused on one task. This has caused her to be called things like ‘absentminded scholar’, ‘dreamer’, and, by those who don’t find this trait particularly charming, ‘airhead’.
Confidence, more often crossing the line into arrogance, is a key trait of Avyiia’s. No matter the task she is doing, the topic she is speaking about, or the situation she is in, she always acts as though she is the expert, in control, and knows exactly what she’s doing. Most often, she does not. She does, however, tend to disobey orders from her superiors quite a bit due to this confidence, unless she is given a proper reason to do as she is told, or wants to do so anyways.
Though she is a deeply flawed individual, Avyiia does have, to her credit, an incredibly loving personality. Those who earn her admiration and trust are usually treated to the best of her ability, and it is not uncommon for her to draw her friends and loved ones, drawings of whom are found somewhat commonly in her journal.
Background
Avyiia has spent much of her life running. Her mother and father were, like all parents of her kind, human, and when she was born, it became very clear very quickly that her existence put them and herself in danger. Because of this, her parents spent her childhood moving around constantly and rarely stayed in one place longer than a few weeks. Not everyone saw her as a threat of course, but there were few places she could be entirely safe under the king’s rule, and leaving the kingdom was no safer, especially not as her gifts in using magic developed as a preteen.
As she grew up and realized more and more the lengths her parents had to go to in order to keep her safe, Avyiia developed a strong disdain for the king and royalty in general. When she was sixteen, she left home in order to allow her aging and stressed parents a reprieve from the constant travel, and soon enough, she found herself working with a few different rebel groups in various capacities. She is not yet considered an official member of any of these groups, but she has provided some aid to them with her magical talents. Since leaving home, she has continued her pattern of moving around frequently, and has been known to occasionally travel with small groups of merchants, troupes of performers, and the rare band of mercenaries if they happen to be on a path she is content with.
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