Characters / Avio Nubiva

"Come on, a little adventure never hurts!"

Gender:

Male (he/him)

Species:

Crevolan

Age:

Young Adult

Origin:

Mesaigne

Abilities:

Lightweight, wide range of vision, sees uv light

Status:

Alive

Affiliation:

Team Scavenge

Avio is a salvager hired by Madouk to go on dangerous treks across the galaxy, gathering various materials in exchange for room, board, and a negligible paycheck. He works and lives with Madouk, Hiro, and the Insectroids, in Noceur Bunker.

As the last living Crevolan, he’s surely an interesting one - a member of a species once known for culture built almost entirely around flight itself... So it’s rather ironic that Avio’s wings are deformed, leaving him unable to fly like the rest of his kind.

Due to this, he struggles with dysmorphia and self-worth, and often feels like dead weight for not having any super special abilities like his teammates. He's desperate to prove he can contribute well, so he compensates with persistence, recklessness, and a “fake it till you make it” attitude that often gets him - and his crew - into trouble.

Personality

Avio is the type that struggles to even sit still! He's very impulsive, always looking for an opportunity to do something. If you stuck him in a blank room and forced him to sit still and be quiet, I think he'd actually go ballistic within, like, 30 minutes max.

He’s brave to a fault, often leaping into danger before anyone can stop him. He does have a certain cleverness that can be useful, particularly with being sneaky, but that's only if you can get through his thick skull and stop his spontaneous nature from getting in the way of that.

Plus, mischief is something that is just too hard for him to say no to. He loves testing boundaries, and the more he gets away with, the more he wants to press on. He may poke at things even when it’s obviously a bad idea, yet somehow he’s still here today, alive and well… though, the consequences of his prodding are definitely visible, considering the amount of visible scars on him. Still, the universe favors the idiots, I guess.

Also, his stupid ways are not done out of bad faith! He has good morals at best, and a little cheekiness at worst - the only time he'll do things to harm anyone purposefully is if they harm someone he loves first. He’s very protective, caring, and loyal toward those he loves, and if you get on his good side, you'll likely have a friend for life!

Appearance

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Avio is a fairly fit Crevolan, leaner and more muscular than most, especially on his legs.

His body is covered in feathers of varying lengths, with the most notable being the bright orange accent feathers on his head and legs. The rest of his plumage comes in varying shades of brown, plus a dimporhic white patch going from his neck to his abdomen.

He's got all kinds of scars that expose his bare skin, as his feather follicles have been damaged.

As mentioned before, Avio’s wings are deformed, due to a birth defect that messed up their growth and bent his wing-wrists straight upward.

He covers his wings with a cloth band, keeping them out of the way... and out of sight.

As his mission outfit, he sports a beige and white jacket, along with some off-white pants to match. He seems like he has a fashion sense going... though he actually only got the matching clothing in a bargain deal. He's also always seen wearing his lucky scarf, as it's a cherished item of his, seeing as it's something his mother gave to him.

Backstory

From the first moment he could remember, Avio roamed the galaxy with his mother, Kalon. He was her only cub, and a treasured one, at that.

Before settling down, Kalon and her partner, Corusca, had been adventurers, carving their names into all sorts of dangerous places, with a pile of highly-sought-after artifacts to show for it - but when they finally tried to start a family, years passed without success. No fertile egg clutches… Sometimes not even an egg clutch to begin with… until one fateful night.

The two were candling a recently-laid clutch of eggs, finding all of them to be empty and losing hope yet again - Then, they checked the last egg, and to their shock, they saw the shadow of a developing cub inside. They were ecstatic! ...but sadly, their joy didn't get to last long.

A couple months pass, and a mysterious force launches an attack on Mesaigne, with hopes for takeover. The Crevolans fought with everything they had, but they were quickly being overwhelmed by a seemingly endless army. Amid the chaos, Kalon lost her partner, and was running out of time to hide - So she plucked the only fertile egg from her clutch, grabbed whatever sentimental items she could, and fled into space - hoping to wait out the storm.

When she returned, the Mesaigne she once knew was gone - every city, including her own, completely destroyed - and millions of Crevolans dead on the streets.

With an eerie silence, she called out for someone, anyone to answer her... to no reply.

Kalon concluded that she and her unborn child might be the last Crevolans left alive. From that moment on, she decided nothing would ever come between her and her family again. She would raise Avio as an adventurer, just like her - someone who could survive if something so horrid were to happen again.

With a forced wetting of his egg, Avio hatched healthy, but with noticeably deformed wings.. though, Kalon didn’t care. She loved him nonetheless, and did her best to accommodate for him. They wandered the stars together, and she taught him nearly every trick of the trade - how to read danger before it came, and how to always be sure that he made it out alive. What his wings lacked, her guidance made up for - and despite being just a kid, Avio kept up surprisingly well - this was his whole life, after all.

But the Galactic Dying was always looming, and with time, it crept uncomfortably close.

Kalon, aging and afraid, made a desperate move. She began to wear the Collar of Aegis - one of the few artifacts she managed to save from her home so many years ago. It had the power to grant its wearer immense strength, but would twist their mind, turning them slowly more feral-minded. She hoped she could resist its effects long enough to stay alive for her son, the soon-to-be last living legacy of their kind.

As Avio entered his teenage years, Kalon began to change. It started with confusion, paranoia, and strange sentences that didn’t make sense, and were never explained.. These episodes grew worse - more frequent, more strangely hostile beneath the surface… until the mother he knew seemed to slip away entirely.

Then, one night, she was gone. No note. No trail.. Just… gone.

He searched for her for hours, in alien woods, on a planet he was unfamiliar with - and so eventually, he concluded that she must've gone missing. With no one left to guide him, Avio did the only thing he knew how to do - he kept moving. He picked up where she left off - chasing adventure, hunting relics, surviving with the skills she gave him.

If there was any way to honor her, it was to carry on her legacy.. and maybe, somehow, he could find her again, somewhere out there…

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