Ayita Ani’-Wa’Ya

Sexuality: Heterosexual

## Appearance

Ayita is a dark-haired, brown-skinned girl. While Ayita greatly favors practicality and mobility over fancy and cumbersome clothes, especially while hunting, Ayita does enjoy wearing clothes as long as they are easy to move with and light. Other than the light clothes she is often seen using, which are decorated in traditional Cherokee style, she often uses her hair tied in a braid and decorated with many different types of feathers.

## Personality

### Likes:

⋆ Nature

⋆ Animals

⋆ Hunting

⋆ New people and new experiences

⋆ Knowledge

⋆ Dancing

⋆ Exercise, training and running freely through the forest

### Dislikes:

⋆ Arrogant and obnoxious people

⋆ Those who disrespect nature

⋆ Unnecessary conflict & violence

⋆ Solitude (animals do count as companions for her)

### Fears:

⋆ Losing her freedom

⋆ Not being able to walk and run freely anymore or losing any part of her body

⋆ Loosing those whom she holds dear.

### Personality Description:

Normally, Ayita is a very cheerful and easy to approach woman, in part thanks to her curiosity. Being a kind woman, she often goes to great lengths to protect and help those who are dear to her. While she is indeed easy to approach, she is still a bit cautious regarding dealing with other people she doesn't completely trust.

Ayita normally does not believe in such thing as holding one's emotions, always trying to stay true to her own desires and feelings instead of hiding them. Thanks to that, while she is able to think fast and rationally under pressure and in combat situations, she won't try to hide her emotions often displaying a surprising ferocity when fighting. Interestingly enough, she is always calm and with a tranquil expression when hunting, due to her beliefs and culture.

Due to being raised hunting and knowing how to fight and defend herself, she won't hesitate in fighting if there's no other option.
Thanks to her curious nature, she is quick to grasp new concepts and learn things if there is someone to teach her (or given enough time for her to explore and watch by herself). That said, she shows surprisingly difficulty understanding and learning things related to technology. Due to her energetic nature, it is rare to see her tired and she often reacts to things in an equally energetic way but at the same time, she will get impatient and anxious if there is no way for her to spend said energy. While Ayita is a cheerful woman, she sometimes takes things too literally... There was more than just one occasion where someone had to explain a joke to her.

## History

Born in the 18th century in the United States, Ayita was raised in a very violent period of the United States history, especially for the Cherokee. With raids, ambushes, skirmishes, and even full-scale battles between the Cherokee and the American settlers on the frontier, it was a period of great fear and uncertainty. Her father, Enoli was a great fighter and an important member of the Cherokee warriors in the Chickamauga Wars. Having experienced the brutality of the American Settlers, Enoli himself was the one who decided to teach Ayita how to hunt and how to fight, both for her to protect herself and her mother.
Still, even in such times, Ayita still found time to grow, learn, and have fun. Notably, her free spirit and energy always helped to keep her and everyone's minds off the violence and war that happened. Fitting to her name, Ayita, she was the one who encouraged people to start dancing as a way to cope with their frustrations, emotions, and fears.

Unfortunately, what she thought to be a war that would soon end, continued. The ambushes, conflicts, and massacres starting getting worse and worse, without respect to the land, nature and even lives, the invaders trampled upon everything they set foot, going as far as killing women and children. There was no more time to dance under the clear sky, no more time to celebrate the gifts nature gave them, there was only time for war. The indiscriminate slaughter of their people made both Ayita and others from her tribe thirsting for revenge. The ones who were invading their lands showed no respect for anything, merely taking whatever they wanted.

It was in the middle of the night when everything changed. Awakening with the sounds of screams and fire, she didn't have much time to think, her greatest fear had become reality, the American settlers had finally found their camp. Immediately getting her hunting knife and the tomahawk, which were always nearby her due to the tension and fear from invasion, she rushed outside her tent with silent but agile steps, the second she got out though, something which she had never seen before suddenly appeared before her. It was truly indescribable, almost as if something had broken, shattered reality itself. Being immediately dragged by that weird phenomenon, Ayita couldn't do anything to avoid it due to the sheer force of said anomaly.

## Combat and Magic

Physical Strengths:

⋆ Hunting

⋆ Agility and Speed

⋆ Close quarter combat

⋆ Guerilla Tactics and Ambushes.

### Physical Weaknesses:

⋆ Small and light body.

⋆ Weaker than male warriors.

⋆ Doesn't wear armor of any kind.

**Ability on Avalia: Aerokinesis**

## Other

* Ayita (written as ᎠᏱᏔ in the Cherokee silabary) means 'First to Dance'.
* Ani’-wa’ya (one of the seven cherokee clans. Only women have clans while men do not.)