Avis Gale Taylor [New Zealand]

[Avis Taylor]

His little whispers. Love me. Love me. That’s all I ask for. Love me. Love me.

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Nation ► New Zealand

Human Name ► Avis Gale Taylor

Age ► Attempts to appear 14, but looks a few years younger, around the age of nine. She never attempted to keep track of her actual age. If she wishes, she can age her human body.

Gender ► Female

Species ► Sânziană: A gentle nature fairy who, on June 24, Sânziene day, will possess maidens. The most beautiful maidens in the village will dress in all white, make floral crowns, and dance around a bonfire, where the Sânziene will possess them. If they are interrupted after possession, the Sânziană in question will become very angry, and the interrupter’s family, as well as the family of the possessed, will not have a fertile year. However, if they remain uninterrupted, the possessed and their family will have a fertile year, and if the maiden sleeps with her floral crown underneath her pillow, will have a dream of the one she is to marry. Strange things happen to those who walk alone on Sânziene day, and especially to those who walk alone at night in a Sânziene’s forest, no matter what day.

Description ►


Avis stands at the small height of 4’8”, weighing only 80 pounds when she is in human form. She often wears male clothes, finding them easier to move around in, and is almost always mistaken as a feminine boy, with a few rare exceptions. When she is a fairy, however, her skin becomes a dark green, matching the leaf-like wings on her back. Her hair also becomes very moss-like, while her green eyes seem brighter. Whatever clothes she was wearing do not change with her, and would fall to the floor, leaving her very androgynous body clad in what appears like leaves. When a fairy, she would greatly shrink, standing at only eight inches, but her powers increase when she is in that form.

^{He battered his tiny fist to feel something. Wondered what it’s like to touch and feel something.}

Likes ►

• Nature: It may seem very obvious, but Avis has a great love of nature. Being inside for too long without even glimpsing it is a great detriment both to her mental and physical health.
  
  
• Animals: She absolutely loves animals, and will give each one she meets a name, and then attempt to see them again. They are her best friends.
  
  
• Fruit: Any form of fruit is her favorite food, and she is tempted easily by these sweet treats. Her favorites are berries, raspberries in particular.
  
  
• Playing: Avis is very much a child, and enjoys playing, especially games such as hide-and-seek and tag.
  
  
• Cloud-Watching: When she is feeling tired, Avis enjoys just laying on a leaf and watching the clouds go by, trying to find shapes in them.

Dislikes ►

• Being inside: Avis hates being inside, especially when she can't see any nature outside. It is awful for her, and will make her sick, eventually.
  
  
• Meat: No, just... no. She will not eat meat, and hates it when people eat meat, unless they are eating people, of course. That she doesn't mind, because they are not the animals she protects.
  
  
• Being interrupted in her dance: On the day that she possesses maidens, if she is interrupted in her dance, she becomes greatly displeased, and the person will suffer for it.
  
  
• Being cast out: Sometimes, priests or weak Magic Users know how to cast out the faeries, and when Avis is possessing someone, whether it be willing, on June 24, or unwillingly, when she is bored on another day, she hates the painful process.

Strengths ►

• Magic: She can use nature and the animals around her, imbibing them with her magic and sending them to attack. Avis's magic can make nature grow faster than it should, controlling both it and the animals.
  
  
• Possession: If the person is not particularly strong-willed, and is not a Magic User, she can possess them, forcing friends to turn against each other by fighting the possessed body.
  
  
• Shape-shifting: Avis can shapeshift from a faerie to a human almost instantaneously, whether that is to avoid a hit, distract her opponent, or cover more ground.
  
  
• Speed: She is very fast, particularly when she is in her faerie form, as she is more used to it, and it is particularly difficult to catch her by chasing her.

Weaknesses ►

• Laziness: Avis is a bit lazy, and won't do anything (when the threat is at her and not her friends or home) until the last moment she has to, often giving the other person much time.
  
  
• Threat Observance: She is a trusting sort, and would probably not realize the other person, no matter how suspicious they were, was a danger until the spell was shot at her or collar snapped around her throat.
  
  
• Age: No matter how old she really is, Avis is a childish faerie, and as such fights like a child. She'll think one hit is enough, or be amused or distracted, and will genuinely not really act as though she has battle experience, though she does.
  
  
• Stamina: Though she can force herself to keep going until she literally drops, it would not take much time for Avis to drop, seeing as she doesn't have much stamina, and is physically weak.

Dreams ►

• She wants to meet every single kind of animal in the world, and name at least one of each species.
  
  
• Avis wants for the humans to either stop messing up nature, or to all die. Either or.
  
  
• She wants to get a best friend that is either human or magical creature, not just an animal.
  
  
• She wants to find true love, like the visions of it that she lets the nice maidens see.

Fears ►

• Magic Users and Priests: They're the ones that always cast her out of people's bodies, a very painful protest, so she'll always flee if she sees them and recognizes them as what they are.
  
  
• Destruction of Nature: Avis has seen how in many different places, humans and occasionally magical creatures have destroyed parts of nature, and she fears that will happen to the land she inhabits.
  
  
• Death: Though she is immortal, most likely, and will live for a long time, she fears the death of those maidens she likes, the pets she enjoys, and of any people in the villages she looks after.
  
  
• Capture: Avis has heard stories from the villagers, usually when she walks among them, in her human guise which they all know belongs to a Sânziană, or when she possesses someone, and they all tell tales of magical creatures being captured by magic users, a fate which she thinks sounds awful.

Personality ► Avis is a very cheerful faerie, almost always smiling or with a relaxed look on her face, and she is a very fun creature. She isn't very petty, except when it comes to her traditions and rituals, and can get along with people quite easily.

She is a bit of a laze, not wanting to do work or things she doesn't enjoy unless she has to, and usually speaks as though she were half asleep, or very vaguely and dreamily, which is often what sets people off that she is not all that she appears to be. Avis is also not the most curious of faeries, for if people say never mind, or don't go there, she will listen, thinking they know more than her on the fact.

Avis is a curious mixture of following the rules and not, sometimes listening to people when they tell her what to do, and other times, not, when they conflict with something she already knows, or she doesn't want to do them at all. She can get into trouble for not listening, but it is usually only her getting caught in something she shouldn't have been by, as there is no one who commands authority over her. Her townspeople are protective of their Sânziană, but even they will only go so far, not wanting to risk her anger.

She does not usually get angry, but when she does, it is true that "still waters run deep". An angry Avis is a scary Avis, and she will smite you down if you anger her, invoking all of her power over nature to starve your family, cause you to trip, and generally make your life miserable until you manage to appease her, leave, or die. If you manage to stop her anger, she will apologize in her own way by making your land fertile once more, and the like.

The Sânziană is highly loyal to those she likes, which includes all of her animal friends, of course, and the towns that she watches over. It is easy for them to remain so rural and down to traditional roots because she takes a bit more of an active part than most faeries, and even walks among them at times, something they both look forward to and fear.

While she trusts too easily when people are regarding her, Avis will hold anyone in high suspicion if they show interest in her nature, her animals, or her towns. With them, she will be ready to strike at a moment's notice.

History ► Avis does not remember much of her early life, apart from the fact that a fellow Sânziană taught her all she needed to know, before he left her. He taught her how to fly, how to use her magic, how to turn into a human, and what her duties were, especially on June 24th.

Though he advised her to stay away from the humans of her towns, for the most part, Avis got curious one day, back when she was only around 200, she thought, and donned her human disguise, going into the village. There was a funeral there, with everyone mourning the loss of a little boy to sickness, and as the Sânziană stood there, looking around at her people and seeing their sadness, she decided to take a bit of a different approach.

Her maidens always had the dreams about the ones they loved, versus some of them, occasionally. She made sure that the fields were fertile, making the fields of those who did not raise animals for meat even better, which virtually converted all of her people to vegetarians once they figured out the connection. She grew healing plants when she noticed some were deathly ill, and did her best to grow trees in choice locations so they'd give the town some shelter to stave off the wind. Avis kept the wild animals away from their cows, their chickens, their goats, not letting them be slaughtered, and punished those who broke the laws of the villages by taking away the fertility in their land for a little while. She would stop the invaders, coaxing their animals away from the enemy, and using her power over nature to stop them from coming.

Over time, Avis grew to care greatly about her people, and they their Sânziană, declaring her the protector and guardian of their villages. This, unfortunately, drew Priests and Magic Users, hearing tales of the Sânziană who ruled the villages. Whenever they came about, Avis would hide, not doing any magic and not showing herself, and when her people made the connection, they drove them out angrily, placing a ban on their arrival.

Unfortunately, this could not deter all, and in more recent years, Avis has had to dodge many a spell and hide for far too long, sometimes in her human guise in the village, which the people have kept as one of their secrets, never telling an outsider that the young boy they see going sleepily around was actually their protector Sânziană.

^{Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window…}

Roleplay Sample ►

Another Magic User was in town, and that meant that, once more, Avis was in hiding, using her human guise as she walked around. All of her people knew it was her, of course, and they gave quick, respectful head nods as she walked by, enough to show they acknowledged her, but not enough to give her away. Ah, how she loved them so.

Blinking languidly up at the sky, the Sânziană leaned against a house, a smile curling at her lips as she stared at the white, puffy clouds going by. Oh, there was Ebba. And Alice. And Jasper. Seeing all of her animals in the clouds as they rolled by, she missed the approach of the disguised Magic User in question, but none of the villagers did, stiffening as they watched. "Excuse me, lad, but where are your parents?" the older man asked, a greedy gleam in his eyes as he surveyed Avis.

The girl, completely missing the lad part of his sentence, slowly shifted her eyes to the man, blinking slowly. "...I do not have any..." she told him quietly and slowly, watching as the gleam faded from his eyes. "...the village takes care of me..." And with that, she was done, moving her eyes back up to the clouds and searching once more for shapes.

Her people took over from her, bustling around the man and worriedly asking him if the young lad had insulted him in some way, oh don't mind him, he lost his parents in a tragic accident and hasn't been right since, so please don't be offended. Avis, completely oblivious to the conversation, missed the relieved looks she got from her people. She was too tired to attack him, honestly, besides, she wasn't feeling quite motivated. After all, as soon as he left, she was going back home to play with a chipmunk she had named Peter.

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Alias ► Etta

Time Zone ► GMT-5 Eastern

Contact Method ► PM

Favorite Pairings ► LatviaxNZ is my OTP for NZ, though AustraliaxNZ is also cute. As for everything else... I ship anything but Frxmale, honestly. For him, I like him with Jeanne D'Arc. And my fave ice cream flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip~.

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