Ava Anders
Birth Name: Ava Anders
Gender: Female
Race & Clan: Mixed Hyur (Ala Mhigan & Sharlayan)
Age: 27
Height 6'3 fulms
Weight: 160 ponz
Nameday: 17th Sun of the 5th Astral Moon
Guardian deity: Azeyma, the Warden
Birth Place: Ala Mhigo
Citizenship: Ala Mhigo, Ishgard
Free Company: N/A
Residence: The Emporium (Her business.)
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Job: Artisan, Astrologian
Hobbies: Gardening, Playing card games, people watching, cooking/baking, tinkering.
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Ava Anders is, in a lot of ways, a woman of excess. She was born in the outskirts of the Dravanian Sharlayan colony, to a Sharlayan mother and an Ala Mhigan father, the latter of whom had traveled to the city-state to study their goldsmithing. The youngest of five children, Ava grew up in a home equally proud and expressive of both parent's heritage, and when the family ended up fleeing to Ishgard after Ala Mhigo's fall, that culture too, was infused into Ava's life.
It might have been the competitive nature between siblings, or the need to establish herself and her family in Ishgard, but whatever the cause may be, Ava grew into a woman incapable of half-measures. Always moving, always working, always progressing.
She gathers her many interests and holds them close to her heart, finding a way to inject them into her life regardless of their seeming incompatibility. Her home, her businesses, and, ultimately, herself, are a patchwork quilt of styles, cultures, and purposes.
The Ala Mhigan blood lives strong in Ava's veins. Like in all things, she kept collecting ilms until she was towering over her two eldest siblings and her mother by the time she was fifteen. She settled at 6 fulms 3 ilms and filled out accordingly. She's more built than an artisan and diviner normally would be, but given her fondness for diving into ruins, it's a feat that pays off for her. She is also very fond of her arms, which, to her credit, are quite nice.
She's fairly tan, mostly devoid of markings or blemishes, aside from a few key scars. Her honey-colored hair is always trimmed and swept-back, with just enough strands of straight, thick hair to frame her face falling free. Her eyes, despite being covered, are often accented with a deep red shadow and lined with khol. Her lips, which are thick and lack a defined cupid's bow, are also always done with a dark mauve lipstick.
Scars & Markings: Due to her inclination for going sleeveless in battle, she bears a spattering of scars, mostly along her forearms, in the form of bite marks and messy scrapes. The heel of her palms as well are calloused and scarred from scrapes. Either half or entirely hidden by the glasses she wears is her least favorite scar: a long, clean slice that goes through her right eye. The eye itself is devoid of color, washed out and pale, which is a stark contrast to warm brown of her left. It is likely that she doesn't see through it.
Voice: Ava is surprisingly soft-spoken, an amusing juxtaposition to the dry humor she often employs. Her voice is a smooth, rich baritone and tinged with a nearly permanent hint of amusement and warmth, regardless of the situation. It's rare to hear her sound genuinely angry or hostile, and such times are often reserved for the worst of the worst.
Clothing: Her clothing varies wildly depending on where she is, what she's doing, and who she's interacting with. The only constants are that she prefers clothing that's dark blue in color, that she is always wearing jewelry of some kind, and that she's wearing tinted glasses.
In the field, she prefers to wear a sleeveless vest over a tightly woven, zippered undershirt, along with thick woven pants and mail-plated boots. She often also wears a number of accessories, such as a shoulderpad for her casting arm and claw-gauntlents which she uses for fighting, digging, catching herself from falling to her death on ledges… etc.
At home or in the city, she wears a mixture of button-up shirts and suspenders with boots or a more traditional Kugane robe and sandals. When visiting her family in Ishgard, however, she sticks to clothing expected of her, using the visit as an excuse to go all out with elaborately jeweled coats and dresses, inlaid with gems and metals alike.
- Reading
- Generosity
- The smell of recently cut plants
- People watching
- Nearly all baked sweets
- Careful planning
- Greed
- Improvisation
- Being forced to stay still/being unable to travel
- Lack of ambition
- Pacifism
- Failure
- The fear that she'll end up alone
- Flying bugs
- She's an excellent cook
- She is deeply self-concious, hiding the fact behind her laissez-faire demeanor
- Smokes when stressed
Ava's dramatism is belied by the subtle, subdued ways in which she displays it. While she is prone to sweeping gestures and gesticulating during conversations, her actions and decisions are generally mellow. It's when you string together multiples of these 'mellow' actions or lean back to look at the bigger picture that you'll notice the extravagance of her desires and ideas. Patience is one of the few virtues she possesses and it can sometimes take years for her plans to come to their exorbitant conclusion.
As a result of this, she often doesn't explain the full picture, preferring to withhold the result of her ideas and keep them to herself. Instead, she focuses on the here and now. This extends to talking about herself, unfortunately, resulting in her coming across as secretive and far more mysterious than she actually is, occasionally making it hard for her to make close friends.
This isn't helped by the fact that she is rarely, if ever, seen without wearing tinted glasses of some sort. She goes between two pairs, mostly: a red and gold set that's Sharlayan in nature and assists her in seeing aether, and a plain pair of black sunglasses. If asked she'll usually say she wears them because she has a mean resting bitch face and doesn't want to give people the wrong idea, which is, at least, partly true.
She's an odd mix of shrewd and a bleeding heart- eager to make a profit (if only because she doesn't do half-measures) but incapable of taking advantage of others. She'll often find a way to justify a discount to herself if someone genuinely needs it. She can throw out scathing sarcasm with the best of them, and play along with the false niceties of nobility and the wealthy, but often seems tired afterwards.
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Ultimately, Ava is an artisan and a researcher. While she has some combat capabilities and can wield her magic in offensive and defensive maneuvers, her passions revolve around creating and understanding the theoretical aspects of her chosen field.
Professionally, Ava is a jewelcrafter and astrologist.
As an astrologist, she studies astral patterns and attempts to find the way to divine information from her deck of sixty. She can, and often does, use a star globe and magic wielded by astrologians, though she is hesitant to use the title for herself due to her relative inexperience beyond fortune-telling. She may have the family soul crystal- gifted to her by her mother, who had been given it by her mother and so forth. But she struggles to use it as she as little to no real guidance otherwise.
As a jewelcrafter, Ava makes everything from frivolous jewelry to protective metal armor accents to enchanted tools to collectible art. Her favorite thing to do is to scour abandoned ruins and sites of magical import, scavenging for magically powerful materials to convert into custom designs.
She is also adept at gardening and the making and maintaining of inks and dyes, specifically those used in rituals.
Monlanyn Anders (♥ ☠ ) - Mother
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Monlanyn Anders was an ambitious, driven woman who's work was only second to her family. She was a skilled Sharlayan researcher, though knew little of the practical applications of the work she researched. She had inhereted her mother's star globe, deck of sixty, and soul crystal, but never used the former or the latter. The deck was used sparingly as well, and was eventually broken as she gave each of her children one of the Major Arcana when they came of age as a blessing.
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Vanir is middle-aged, but that doesn't stop him from getting onto the field with Ava, either. The grey streaks in his hair might earn teasing from his sister, but his arrows still find their marks in the creatures, and occasionally people, that oppose her. Most recently, they fought together in the liberation of Ala Mhigo, which was a source of signifcant bonding and closure for them both. |
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The remainder of the Anders family either prefers to stay out of most interactions, keeping to Ishgard and their business or is deceased. Ava does not keep in contact with them, given their strained relationships, though she does love them and they her. Still alive are her middle siblings, the twins Roche and Romund, who run the family business in Ishgard. Her father, Eddval, passed shortly after Monlanyn. Her eldest brother, Alred, died during the Calamity.
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Childhood Friend
Margaux is the youngest daughter of the Fabre family, a wealthy merchant family in Ishgard. She joined the Order of the Knights Dragoon and did quite well for herself. Growing up, Margaux and Ava caught on like a fire on dry tinder, spending nearly every waking moment together. They never grew apart, simply outgrew their need to be in each other's presence 24/7, partially due to necessity as they took to different professions. Now that the Dragonsong War is officially over, Margaux has taken to Ava's example and begun to travel and explore- using her friend's experience as a guiding point.
Business Associate
Llas and Arda met recently after Ava first opened the Emporium. Not an adventurer or artisan herself, Llas wasn't interested in selling her wares at the Emporium or in the work Ava aggregated but managed to work out a deal with Ava, renting one of the smaller rooms in the Emporium as a training dojo and gym.
- ■"Trust me, bring her something like a cake or- or a cookie, even, and she'll give you a discount." Customer
- ■"It was a little scary how accurate she was. But that means I got my money's worth, right?" Customer
- ■"She gets all manner of clients, sure. But her office always smells so nice, like a holiday dinner, you know? With all those plants she grows. Plus, she's very sweet." Neighbor
- ■"I think there's something wrong with her. The eye. Why else would she be wearing those glasses all the time? What's she hiding?" Tavern patron
- ■Example example person
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