Avery Kelly
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Avery is one of the protagonists of Pale.
Personality
Rarely agressive.
Gay; tends to be attracted to women who are "a healthy size".<ref name=":0">“Why do you always have a tone in your voice like you can’t believe it whenever I say I like someone? I’ve mentioned Pamela before.”
Lucy answered, “I didn’t think she was your first choice. There’s way cuter girls in class.”
“Pamela’s cute!”
“Pamela’s-” Lucy started, finished.
“You can say it. If you want to be judgey, own it,” Avery said, with as much aggression and indignation as she ever mustered.
“A healthy size. Kind of like Ms. Hardy.”
“You have a type,” Verona commented. Her hand and shoulder were hurting from carrying the bags. She was glad at least that Avery was distracted from her nervousness.
“I like that about her. Like she’d give great hugs. And she’s legit the nicest person in class.” - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1 </ref>
Relationships
Verona
Recent friends.
Lucy
Recent friends.
Ms Hardy
She's described Ms Hardy as her "role model" and "favourite person".<ref>“Ms. Hardy wanted to talk to me. [...] She wanted to have a serious conversation. How am I doing, how stuff is with family, how’s sports. [...] Listen, I owe her so much. She practically saved my life. She was being nice and supportive, I can’t be all hurr durr, role model,
favorite person, I gotta go.” - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref> Avery has a crush on her teacher, having an idle fancy of dating her when she get older.
Pamela
She is made fun of for liking Pamela O'Neil by Lucy and Verona.<ref name=":0" />
Appearance/Description
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. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref>
As a practitioner, Avery wears a deer mask that was created for her by Verona, as well as a witches hat and cloak.
To the Awakened, 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.
“How many of those do you have?”
“This is the second last of two,” Avery said. Her eyes were misty green behind her mask. She looked out toward the light. - excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.6 </ref>
Abilities and Art
In addition to the shared abilities and gear of the Kennet Trio, Avery has several magics unique to her:
With her own distinctive Second Sight she can see white ribbons or photographic film representing (some) Connections, and has discovered that she can physically interact with them to jerk targets around. She also sees handprints and footprints, which seem to represent the degree to which places and things are maintained by contact or connections; areas without handprints or footprints have fallen into neglect.<ref name="sight-prints">Where there weren’t handprints and footprints, things were damaged. Bark was peeled and broken, grass black to the point it looked like there was nothing there, and sections of wall around the camp buildings were splintered and shedding paint. - excerpt fron Lost for Words 1.3</ref>
She's also been taught a glamour by Guilherme as his gift to her, where she can use small amounts of glamour to "reinforce" victories and move her closer to her ideal self. She doesn't seem to have shared this technique with the other two.
She's performed a couple of basic Finder rituals, and apparently has been marked out to the universe as a Finder, making her interactions with that Practice more effective. One Path also won her supernatural skill at driving, running, riding etc. at the cost of annoyance when she can't drive (which is pretty much always, being underage.) Her Finder explorations have also won her the eternal friendship of Snowdrop.
Tools
She has taken to using the trio's training in Runes to create some basic magic items, shoes which let her jump further and hockey sticks which hit extremely hard (although they tend to shatter after a few uses.)<ref name=":1" /><ref>1.8 Bonus Material: Inventories.</ref>
She has taken to using the trio's training in glamour to shrink down her magical gear into charms which can be carried around on her charm bracelet (a gift from a friend who moved).<ref>Avery reached to her wrist, where she had a few charms hanging from a simple rope bracelet.
A bracelet Olivia had bought her. The pledge on Olivia’s part had been that she’d buy a new charm for the bracelet every birthday and Christmas, in addition to other presents. Olivia had given it with one charm, a skate, then forgot the following Christmas, then bought a rabbit, and then the friendship had ended. Olivia had gone to play for Swanson and had ghosted Avery, ignoring and then blocking the messages Avery had sent. It wasn’t even like she’d sent many, or been demanding, or even been accusatory. She’d sent two the first week, then one a week for the next two weeks. Then after another month, she’d sent Olivia a happy birthday message. She hadn’t even cared about the hockey team or Olivia leaving, only that she’d lost a friend.
Avery had dug up the bracelet because it was convenient. It was a strong bracelet, and with other charms removed, she could add her own.
Mask- she tore it off, shook it violently, and shucked off the glamour she’d used. She donned the mask. - excerpt from Stolen Away 2.9</ref><ref name=":1" />
She has a Finder item given to her by Miss; a rope which lets her teleport short distances when unobserved. She can also tell from the roughness of the rope when she's being watched (and thus it's usable), although this is a little unrelable.
History
Arc 1 - Lost for Words
Avery and her friends were brought into the world of the practice in order to investigate the mysterious death of the Carmine Beast. Her Personal Item was an unfinished doll she had knitted for her younger brother.
After participating in the awakening ritual with Verona and Lucy, she went on a road trip with them, as well as Matthew Moss, Edith James, and Charles in order to visit the home of the Carmine Beast.
After the trip, Avery returned home, and had to deal with her extremely crowded and uncomfortable family situation. She pulls on a connection between herself and her mask after her brother takes it in order to retrieve it, then draws a symbol on her table to make herself unnoticed by her family. She leaves the house to meet with Lucy and Verona. The trio are approached by Sir Toadswallow and Cherrypop, who offer to teach them how to make curses count.
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