Avery Darling

> *"Sounds like an adventure to me! I always wanted to fly my plane!"*- Avery Darling, *Dawn of the Nameless*.
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## Avery Darling

* Normal
* Infected

## Series Information

### First appearance

"Greetings from CRiTOPiA!" (S0)
"Dawn of the Nameless" (S1)

### Voice actor(s)

* Wubcake ("Error 404")
* Elyse Hales (S1, "Dawn of the Nameless" (Updated))
* KawaiiSakura/Tamii (S0, "Dawn of the Nameless" (Original))
* Evelyn Case (2018)

## Physical overview

### Fur/Hair

* Marigold Yellow (head, torso)
* Persian Pink (feather arm/tail, tip of hair, cheeks, tounge)
* Magnolia (chest)

### Eyes

* Crater Brown (pupils)
* Pastel Magenta (iris)
* Lavender Blush (highlight)
* Alabaster (sclera)

### Attire

* Magnolia (scarf)
* Rouge (cap, leg band)
* Persian Pink (bill, ear flaps, lens)
* Velvet Maroon (goggles)

## Alignment and character traits

### Residence

Cloud District, CRiTOPiA

* Flying
* Steampunk asthetic
* Lag storms

## Skills and abilities

### Abilites

* Darling Dash
* Petty Peck

**Avery Skye Darling** is a Cloud District CRiTORA and one of the main characters in the *CRiTORA* series.

## Bio

**The Canary CRiTORA.** Every day is an exciting day for cheerful Avery Darling! This little birdie is an expert with steampunk gadgets and aircraft, using these gadgets to help her friends or to kick ViRUSES out of CRiTOPiA! Her favorite gadgets include her trusty plane and her super sledgehammer!

## Physical Appearance

Avery's feathers are colored bright yellow. Her wings, eyes, tail feathers and hair tip are colored pink along with her heart-shaped cheeks. Her beak and legs are colored light pink, and has a white underbelly. The legs have three toes on each foot.

Avery wears a dark pink aviator helmet with darker pink goggles featuring pink glass, a white scarf, and a dark pink cuff around one of her legs.

### V-Avery

When infected by a ViRUS, the color of Avery's feathers are now pink, along with the tail feathers being jagged and having black and yellow stripes. Her hair tip now appears to be jagged, along with her beak which is now colored light pink. Her eyes are now colored yellow and have light pink rectangular, mismatched pupils like Spottie Leonard's infected form. Her helmet is colored magenta and it's accents are now colored black with one of them being rectangular. Her goggles are colored black, have yellow glasses and one of them is rectangular in shape. Her heart-shaped cheeks are now replaced by dark pink "X" shapes.

Her scarf is now colored black and appears to be jagged. Her white underbelly is now replaced by black and yellow binary codes and extends to the bottom of her beak. Her wings are now dark pink with yellow tips and her legs are now colored light pink, with one of them being black. Also, her body is now blocky.

### Abilities

* **Darling Dash** - Avery can create pink trails to slow down any ViRUSES, making them lag.
* **Pretty Peck** - Avery pecks the ViRUS with her beak, sometimes deleting the ViRUS.

## Trivia

* She was originally a seagull named **Avey**. Avey was slightly redesigned and was brought back as **Coral Seavia** in 2020.
* According to Daydreaming Birdie, the character of Avery is what got him into developing the *CRiTORA* series and grow attached to the characters.
* Avery originally had a British accent in Season 1 and the original version of Dawn of the Nameless, but starting in Error 404, she has an American accent. This was because Daydreaming Birdie didn't like the idea of Avery, as well as Nuzzie Bitz, having a British accent.
	+ While Daydreaming Birdie doesn't hate the voice, it wasn't how he envisioned Avery sounding like.
	+ However, when Error 404 was in production, Avery was going to retain her British accent, but Daydreaming Birdie soon contacted Tamii and explained he didn't envision Avery as British.
	+ She was later redubbed in Dawn of the Nameless with an American accent, but her voice actor changed to Elyse Hales due to Wubcake, the voice actress of Avery at the time, abruptly cutting ties with Daydreaming Birdie. Elyse Hales currently voices Avery to this day.
		- Wubcake's controversy in 2023 made Daydreaming Birdie not want to work with her anymore, making Error 404 the only episode where Wubcake voiced Avery.
	+ In the 2018-2020 prototype episodes, Avery *did* have an American accent and was voiced by Evelin Case, but it wasn't quite how Daydreaming Birdie envisioned her sounding like.
* Her infected form was originally going to be dark yellow before being changed to dark pink to avoid similarities with Galarian Zapdos from *Pokémon*.

### Design origins

Avery is based on a canary, but has similaries with cockatiels as well. Her design was inspired by various bird characters, including Birdie the Early Bird from *McDonalds*, Margalo the Bird from *Stuart Little 2*, Ming-Ming Duckling from *Wonder Pets!*, and Biyomon from the *Digimon* franchise (particularly the Biyomon from *Digimon Adventure*).

In 2023, Avery was further developed to have a steampunk-like aesthetic in order to make her stand out from the aforementioned characters.

### Name origins

Her first name is derived from *aviator*. Her last name comes from her endearing nature.

### Design changes

In Season 1, her yellow feathers, brown aviator helment, and orange beak and legs had become more saturated (except on the torso), her pilot googles now bearing white glass instead of light blue, has a less angular and more rounded body, and her bottom shaved off.

In Season 2, she was given a more simplified color palette, with her yellow feathers being subdued. Her brown aviator helmet and grey cuff now being dark pink, her grey pilot googles had become a darker shade of pink, her eye pupils became more detailed, now supporting a pink iris and a dark pink pupil as opposed to pure black, and her orange beak and feet is now colored light pink. It can also be seen that her wings and tail feathers were made curvier, her circular shoulders and thighs had been stripped off, her eyelashes had become thinner, its beak became smaller with a darker mouth, her legs had been straighten and thicken, her aviator helmet has longer and rounded-off ear tips, and the pilot goggles not only became bigger, but it now has pink transparent glass as opposed to solid white.

## Appearances

### Pilot Season

* Greetings from CRiTOPiA!
* The Trash Can
* Save! Delete! Copy! (cameo, in-drawing only)
* Lag Race
* Beware the ViRUSES!
* Snow Fight

### Season 1

* Dawn of the Nameless
* Error 404
* Superstore Sweep
* Meetup Mayhem (Part 1)

### Shorts

* Claw Machine
* The User and Avery Darling
* Good Morning!