CHARACTER INFORMATION
face claim: Ryan destiny
full name: Avery Marie Reeves
nickname(s): just Avery
pronouns & gender: she/her, cis woman
sexuality: pansexual
birth date: June 30, 1994
birth place: Spokane, Washington
time in town: two months
housing: Historical Downtown
occupation: owner of online Crystal Shop, Moonlight and Quartz
family: none living
personality: like a warm cup of coffee in the early morning quiet. sweet yet her history has made her more reserved over the years. she’s very weary of people, but can be friendly. just not as trusting as she used to be. she’s always been the type to wear her heart of her sleeve, but is still torn with how much her heart has been hurt holding it there. once she does trust you though her heart is open and welcoming. her love language is gifting and acts of service. so baking cookies or dinner as a thank you. baking holds the specialist of places in her heart and it means a lot to her to share that.
BACKGROUND / BIO
Trigger warnings: abusive/toxic relationship, death.
Brought into the world a dark night with a storm raging outside the hospital, a small girl emerged into the world named avery after her late Great Grandfather. Her dark eyes bright and as time passed she became more curious getting into whatever she could, mud, paint, makeup. Always into something, always curious and that light within her eyes as remained for through her child and teen years though it didn’t seem to remain.
Our story brings us to the tale of quiet girl and her infectious smile that drew in the popular boy in high school. The love flourished quickly and soon they had graduated school and were planning life together. Both had agreed to remain as close to home as possible. Deciding instead of living on campus to live together. avery was thrilled by all of this and while so many told her that maybe they were moving too fast, the couple had two years under their belt and she was sure this was the right decision.
If you tried to ask avery where things began to go wrong. She probably wouldn’t be able to tell you honestly. Its like that saying if cooking a frog and gradually increasing the heat so they aren’t alarmed and don’t jump out. It wasn’t until Parker was deciding her hair length and color at the salon one day despite her desires that she began to wonder if it wasn’t normal that he picked everything for her. She just thought she was being a good wife, listening to her husband. She didn’t have her parents by the time they got married. Which didn’t help anything. He proposed a year after their death and she was still lost in grief. Part of her thinks he took advantage of that time. That weakness that left a gaping hole in her life. She tried so hard to fill that time with her own happy memories. Ignoring the red flags that emerged when they tried to get pregnant. It wasn’t until the third failed test that Parker’s anger truly began to unravel…
While he never laid a hand on her. He spent the better of part of their relationship dictating all the things that made avery, avery. He even made her dye her hair to a dark brown so she wouldn’t be the center of attention with her red hair. He ate away at her self esteem, the spark that made her who she was. The candle almost went out. Almost. It took losing all her friends, her inner voice, her self to finally realize that he was not the Parker she fell inlove with any longer. He was toxic and cruel. Constantly trying to make her jealous despite how beautiful she has always been, he made her feel like she wasn’t. The subject of leaving and divorcing Parker is a hard one for avery, but she tries to hide with jokes and dark humor but that is about it. It takes a level of trust avery hasn’t found in anyone in long time. While the divorce has been finalized, avery is still looking over her shoulder to make sure he doesn’t return to her life..
Currently: A few months divorced from her toxic husband who spent the better part of her twenties controlling her and everything she did from the length of her hair to the color of her socks and how she spoke to people.
It has been a slow process of her being able to think and act for herself that she’s still adjusting to. Starting with moving to a new town and new apartment away from all the memories of her ex-husband and their sham of a life together.
Since leaving him she started her own business after a few failed attempts at other jobs and companies. Nothing seemed to make her happy. She couldn’t handle taking orders from anyone else any longer and just wanted to be able to do what she wanted. So she quit. She struggled and finally moved on and started her own business. While she still working out of her second bedroom and she’s her only employee she’s truly happy.
Her business hours aren’t the most typical, so avery may or may not be spending her time living out what she missed in her twenties or that’s what she’s telling herself. It’s kind of hard when she moved to a new city and doesn’t have any friends after what happened with her ex-husband. So she’s been trying to get out more, remind herself that she doesn’t need to be focused on work all the time. Turning 30 made her realize how much time she had wasted and while she had finished college and had a few decent references it still felt like it wasn’t enough. She hadn’t travelled or seen the world hell this was her first time out of her hometown.
Her parents passed in her early twenties and she has no siblings. She still doesn’t really like talking about it and has sore memories from their accident and the fact that she wasn’t there even if it wasn’t her fault.
