Editing Avery Kelly (section)

==Appearance==
Avery is pale, with freckles along her face and arms and strawberry blonde hair.<ref>Avery stepped outside.  She was pale, her bare arms and face covered in freckles, and her strawberry blonde hair was tied back into a short ponytail.  She was wearing a jersey over a t-shirt and track pants, and 
had a towel around her neck. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref> Her eyes are blue-green and she has a slightly upturned nose.<ref name="WB description"/> 

She tends to wear sporty, brightly-colored clothing. She often wears her hair in a ponytail, especially early in Pale.<ref name="WB description">'''Avery'''<br>
Avery is thirteen, with blue-green eyes, some freckles on her face and arms, a slightly upturned nose and red-blonde hair that she keeps pulled back into a short sporty ponytail early in the story and wears it down and a bit longer toward arc 4.  She's athletic but this doesn't impact build much at her age.  She's considered fairly pretty by classmates.<br>
Her clothing style tends toward sporty clothes (raglan, jersey, shorts), brighter colors, a little busier (maybe a pattern on a shirt or jacket).  There is an Extra Materials that suggests her clothing style.<br>
She’s most likely of the group to be smiling/happy.  At a resting default, she'd be smiling while the other two wouldn't.  In terms of art direction for pose, she'd be moving, she's moving more/at a higher difficulty, or she's already moved.  Examples include V&L walking while Avery is ahead of them, walking backwards so she can face them while moving, V&L standing while Avery sits on a wall or branch just above, or V&L standing while Avery stands on one foot, the other off the ground, like she's ready to get moving.<br>
Her Sight turns her eyes cloudy, like fogged up green marbles (think of planet earth seen from space, with clouds moving over it, but entirely green), but the blacks of her irises and pupils stand out more in the fog, vs. being covered up.  Her mask is a deer mask with short antlers and the antlers can be slid into slots/holes in her hat, which has a slightly more triangular or leaf-shaped brim.  Her cape rests atop her shoulders as a loose wreath, then falls over one arm like a musketeer's cape.  She wears a charm bracelet and has her dog tags at her cape as a decoration, instead of around her neck.  Cape and hat are navy blue. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/izdkpo/_/g6ire33 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> She's between Lucy and Verona in height.<ref>Lucy is [...] a bit taller than Avery (only a bit)<br>
[...]<br>Verona is [...] petite, a bit shorter than Avery. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/izdkpo/_/g6ire33 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

As a practitioner, Avery wears a [[deer mask]] that was created for her by [[Verona]], as well as a witch's hat made by [[Lucy]] and cloak she made herself. The mask is well-made, carved from wood, with tan paint on the nose and eye-holes and darker brown specked paint at the edges and ears.<ref>Verona had put her bag down, and now she unzipped it.  She pulled out the mask.  A deer mask, carved out of wood and painted with tan at the nose and around the eyes, a speckled darker brown at the edges and ears.  She handed it to Avery.<br><br>Avery handed Lucy a fox mask, painted orange.<br><br>“Damn,” Lucy muttered.  “You’re ''way'' better at carving than I am, Ronnie.  That deer mask is great.  Sorry yours is…”<br><br>Verona shook her head.  A black cat mask.  It was simple, but she liked it.  She hugged it to her chest with one hand while offering Lucy the hat she’d made herself.  Each of them had a gift for the other two.  And for themselves, short cloaks. -  [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref> It has short antlers. The hat and cloak are navy blue; the hat has a pointed brin with holes for the short antlers of her mask, and the cloak resembles a cape covering one arm with a wreath around her neck.<ref name="1.ze1"/><ref name="WB description"/><ref>They’d shared online videos about the mask carving and a website with tailoring templates for the making of the hats.  The differences in mask were intentional, any differences in the hats accidental.  Verona’s hat was just a bit floppier at the brim.<br><br>When they’d done the search for the capes, they’d agreed to use the first blueprint on the list.  They’d been halfway when they had discovered the cape designs were all different.  Not that it mattered.  Verona’s was closer to a cloak, and Lucy’s closer to a shawl, it was so short.  Avery’s looked like more of a cape, with a wreath around the neck and shoulders.  She wore it ajar, so it covered most of one arm. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12 excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]</ref> Once acquired, she wears a magical charm bracelet around her wrist and magical dog tags as "decoration" attached to her cloak.<ref name="WB description"/>

To the magically perceptive, her eyes glow a misty green when she uses her [[Second Sight]]<ref name=":1">Avery pulled a hockey stick charm from her bracelet, and shook it out to full length.  Diagrams were already drawn on it.<br><br>“How many of those do you have?”<br><br>“This is the second last of two,” Avery said.  Her eyes were misty green behind her mask.  She looked out toward the light. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/01 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.6]]</ref> and the black of her pupils is exaggerated.<ref>The gold leaf letters glimmered all over Avery’s skin and around her eyes, accenting the misty look with the stark black pupils and the irises that had everything that wasn’t that steely blue now a deep black that branched out a bit past the usual bounds. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/20 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.5]]</ref><ref>
“Let’s just handle this,” Lucy said.  “Eyes open.”<br><br>Avery’s eyes flashed, the mist sweeping over them, in a way that made the outline and darkness of the irises stand out in even dimly lit gloom.  Verona’s eyes turned purple. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/25 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.3]]</ref><ref>Behind her deer mask, Avery’s eyes went wider, mist rolling over the surface, the edges of the irises and the black of the pupils clear in that foggy green soup. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/01 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.6]]</ref><ref name="WB description"/> In certain magical contexts, her mask appears real, as if she has the head of a deer.<ref name="1.ze1">Three figures were approaching.  They could almost be mistaken for the children that were scattered everywhere, but they were too animated, and too curious about their surroundings, looking around and looking up at the moon, where the children of this place were focused wholly on the ritual’s participants.  They couldn’t be Witnesses, because they had faces…<br><br>Animal faces, two of them wearing wide-brimmed hats, the other with a cord tying her hat to her neck.<br><br>The third girl was quicker, moving from a point behind the other two, catching up, and skipping easily over the four-foot high fence of thick plastic netting, finer nets, and the barbed wire that Tattoos was stringing up.  A long cape fluttered behind her before she landed in a crouch, a hockey stick resting against her shoulder.  She hurried forward to the woman who was sobbing.  Her face was a deer’s, with antlers.<br>[...]<br> There was only the Deer girl, her dark blue cape fluttering behind her. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/06 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.z]]</ref><ref>She lifted up the dense, metal dollhouse, setting it in a metal box with about 20 segments.  There were a horrendous number of figures, pieces of furniture, accessories, animals, and little colored blocks inside, sliding around, rolling down stairs, and falling out.  The box itself had zipper-like creases at the edges of each segment, knitting them together.  She centered the dollhouse and then collected the fallen bits, pushing them in through windows.<br>[...]<br>She whispered, “Show me the three girls with animal faces,” and opened it up.<br><br>Three simple figurines with rectangular blocks for bodies were topped with the heads of a fox, cat, and deer.  They were within a cabin with an open top.  Ribbons filled the space, tying to a center mass.  A circular bit of wood, shallow, sat in the center.<br><br>There was no sign of the other figurines that had been within, or the diner, or the old house.<br><br>“Why animal faces?” she asked.<br><br>“If it’s this omnipresent, it may be the Sight equivalent of labeling something at the root level.  I could see changing or obfuscating your name, taking on a title as part of the implement or demesnes rituals, but faces… I don’t know.  If it was one individual, I could say it’s a Host with an exceptionally strong rider, or a practitioner with a familiar strong enough it was leaking through, but I’d expect to see that leak somewhere else.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref><ref>The room’s appearance shifted, to become something very much like the spirit world Lucy had visited together with Verona and Avery.  The floor was covered in an inch of water, littered with flower petals.  She could see the nose of the ‘mask’ she wore in spirit, and her hair was far longer, pale pink tendrils blowing across her shoulder.<br><br>Other students changed as well.  Avery had the deer mask.  Jessica had two silver lines running down from her eyes, her skin and hair beaded with moisture.  Dom, Talia, and Jorja weren’t as affected as some, but Lucy could see how Dom’s hands were paler.  Talia resembled her doll and her doll resembled her.  Jorja had little pastel pellets littering her hair and shoulders, in stark contrast to how dark her clothes and hair were, and how grim her expression was.<br><br>“Spirit is one source of power.  Basic, simple, easy, but it can be hard to negotiate for the particulars, or to control the fine results.”<br>[...]<br>The lighting changed.  Everything became a slow-motion flow of smoke, but where transparent wisps overlapped, they painted silhouettes and details.<br><br>She wore the fox mask here.  More smoke traced the outline of her cape.<br><br>“This is what one might see with a particular variety of the Sight, ignoring connections.  Lucy here-” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref> One antler of the mask was broken and that has carried over into her appearance with Sight. Interestingly it can be placed where it once was and hover there. 

Following the [[Station Promenade]] she gained a strange heat shimmer when suppressing the boon.<ref>Avery was pacing a bit at the edges of the room.  She’d pulled off her coat and glamoured it away, and she wore a whole lot of bracelets and ribbons at the one arm.  To Kira-Lynn’s sight, it was bright and intense, and she was too far away to tell one bright bit of light or sparkle from the rest.  Avery was wearing clothes that looked like they were more early fall than dead of winter, but her breath didn’t fog in the cold gym, and there was occasionally a heat shimmer around her when she changed direction too fast in her pacing.<br>[...]<br>Avery had restless energy - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/25 Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.f]]</ref>