Full Name: Avery Michael Lin
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Birthday: January 7
Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey. Used to live in New York City
Species: Currently human, with pyrokinetic abilities
Family: Deceased parents and younger brother before Blood Moon.
One older sister, Mira, aged 25, whereabouts unknown.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Very dark brown, nearly black.
Physique: Avery is quite short for his age, barely measuring in at 5'6.
He has a small build as well, but years of parkour, climbing,
running away from bullies and the police have given him tight muscles
and a lithe, springy gait. He's very flexible and fast, and what he lacks
in brute strength he more than makes up for in agility. He has pale
skin, his face slightly freckled, but his back is slashed with burn marks
and scars. The back of his neck is also covered with a large burn. On
his left fore arm there is a tattoo of three small planets in a row, but
they cover three scars from cigarette burns.
and has learned to control his urges to smartmouth and insult others. He has also made an effort to
be happier in life, which fluctuates in difficulty. Sometimes the smile comes easily. Other times he
has to force it. He still has a bad habit of sulking, as well as acting without thought. He's gone to
many anger management classes and sessions, so he has a better grasp on his temper, but should
he continue to be pushed, he will flare out in blind rage. He is very attached to his older sister, Mira,
not only because she is his only surviving family member, but also because she has taken care of
him and given up much of her own happiness for him. In hindsight, he feels a lot of guilt towards the
way he acted when he was younger, and for the past two years has been doing as much as he can to
make it up to her. While he still doesn't have many close friends, he does have a few people he hangs
out with, usually watching movies or playing video games. He has been doing better with sleeping,
but on occasion he will find it downright impossible and will stay up all night watching TV until he
falls asleep unconsciously. Even before the Blood Moon, Avery would often play with matches or
lighters. When he was younger, in his spare time, or whenever there wasn't anything good on TV,
he'd spray paint grafitti on abandoned walls. Recently he has been changing his canvas to actual
canvas, and was hoping to get into art school.
Likes: his sister, spray painting, superhero movies, comic books, card tricks, building
card houses, gymnastics, parkour, biking, kites (even though they make him sad)
Dislikes: fire, swimming, cigarettes, alcohol, his many foster parents, writing, school,
his sister's boyfriend, his birthday, undressing in front of others.
Strengths: As mentioned before, Avery is very flexible and fast. He has good balance,
climbs well, and is light on his feet. He is also skilled at painting. While he prefers spray paint,
he has tried brush painting and has been good at that as well. He also has a penchant for card
tricks, and knows a lot of random TV trivia.
Weakness: Avery doesn't know how to swim, and is also afraid of large fires. Even though
he played matches and lighters, he always snuffed them out, feeling in control of the flame.
Bonfires and the such scare him. While less so than before, he is still self-conscious about his
burns and scars, and typically wears long clothing to cover it.
History: Avery was the second child born to his parents, Michael and Audrey Lin. When he was 4, his parents gave birth to their third and last child, another boy by the name of Benjamin. Avery got along well with both of his siblings, and his family life was perfect...until his 7th birthday. It was unknown what caused the fire, but it roared to life late that night. Mira managed to get both boys out of the house, where they hid in the well in their backyard. However, they were not without injury. While Mira miraculously only suffered from a small burn on her ankle, a beam had fallen on Avery and Benjamin while they were trying to escape. Avery survived with the scars on his neck and back, but even though they had constantly poured water on Benjamin, the burns he sustained were too much, and he died in the ambulance.
Orphans, the two siblings hopped from foster home to foster home. Mira was considerable more social, and many wanted only her in comparison to her sulky brother, but she was adamant that he come with her as well, and the two were fortunate to never be separated. Many of the foster homes eventually rejected them because of Avery's issues, bad behavior at school, and inability to cope. When he was 10 they were taken in by a single father. He clearly favored Mira more, and detested Avery. While he didn't mistreat him in front of Mira, whenever she was out he would beat Avery, burn him with cigarettes, or otherwise punish him unfairly for miniscule things. The man was a drinker, and it soon became evident to Avery that there was more to his gaze towards Mira than just parental affection. Avery kept quiet, though, as the man never touched her (that he knew of) and he wanted his sister to finish school so that she could go to college (even though he dreaded her leaving, as it would mean he'd be alone with this man forever).
On the day of Mira's graduation, however, the man drank a considerable amount and made an advance on Mira. Avery charged the man, but because of size difference was quickly knocked aside. The man didn't stop there, though, and subsequently seized a chair and began to beat Avery with it. Mira managed to knock the man out with a bottle and fled to their neighbors with the unconscious Avery, where emergency services were promptly called. At this time, Mira was 18, so after Avery was released from the hospital she underwent the paperwork to become his new legal guardian. They moved to New York City, where she attended NYU part-time and worked the rest of the time, and Avery went to school and worked as well. He still ended up in fights, but after his sister discovered his graffiti, she encouraged him to use that as his outlet, getting him painting classes. In addition she paid for his therapy, and while he was stubborn about it, after a few years he finally made some breakthroughs. For the past two years he has been doing significantly better than before, and with only one year left of schooling, and his sister recently graduated as well, he had thought he could finally repay her and that life was finally turning around.
Then, of course, the Blood Moon happened.
