Avani Au'Vest

:"Running is only half of survival. Aet; to survive is to hide and climb and to never be betrayed."
Avani Au'Vest is a catyr warrior captain and the leader of the forest colony Arborasticus-Avani. She led the final evacuation of the Catyrian forest colonies before the planet was overwhelmed by marauding forces.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Avani is a tall catyr female with black fur speckled with grey spots. She has bright white eyes. She often wears dark shorts tied with long grassrope, and has wooden bands on her right wrist and tail.
Rare for catyr, she has curling goatlike horns with notched bases.
===Personality===
Stern, stoic and serious. Loyal and honest. Can be intensely standoffish and aggressive to outsiders. Undyingly loyal to the nearby Moffilam of Sonnocuore. Ride-or-die and very extreme. Has a survivor's guilt complex, a leader's guilt complex, and probably more.
===Skills & Abilities===
Incredibly agile and fast on her hooves. Adept at swinging and leaping through the treetops undetected. Proficient in combat both using a bow and arrow or with handheld daggers or axes. Also skilled at unarmed combat using claws and hooves.
==History==
Avani Au'Vest was made a deputy town captain at a fairly young age due to her responsible nature. When the invasions on Catyria began, Avani held down the fort as her parents and leaders were sent out to fight the incoming forces. Stubborn, Avani refused to abandon the townsfolk, even as refugees from other towns joined them and put a strain on resources.
Finally, when Avani realised that the catyr homeworld was a lost cause, she yielded, becoming the final catyr forest colony to evacuate the planet. Other catyr in the makeshift colony had to physically knock her unconscious to prevent her from making a heroic sacrifice during the evacuation attempt, which wound up being successful but rocky as the shuttle crash-landed in the forests of Moffilaime, just shy of Sonnocuore.
Avani addressed the Sonnocuore authorities personally, begging them to offer her people shelter in the woods, but she was surprised by the Moffilam's innate generosity and compassion. The colony set up their own city in the forest and Avani pledged a life debt to the city of Sonnocuore (they didn't want her to, but she did).
She currently oversees Arborasticus-Avani and the survivors therein.
==Trivia==
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