Avery Malandro

**Avery Malandro** (エイプリー・マランドロ *Eiburī Marandoro*) is a second-year high school student, who was recruited to play against the players of Blue Lock. When she arrived at the Blue Lock facility, she was matched against Yoichi Isagi in a practice match. Her main goal is to spite her ex-boyfriend by becoming the best in soccer.

## Appearance

Avery is a tan-skinned girl of average height. She has brown narrow eyes with long, defined eyelashes, with her bangs appearing to be bleached dirty blond. While slender and curvaceous in frame, she also sports a lean, athletic and well-defined build, especially in her thighs and calves. She tends to wear brightly colored shirts that typically have a random four-character idiom printed on either its front or back. In games, she wears a forearm sleeve on her left arm in addition to her uniform, unlike the rest of the team.

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## Personality

Avery has a two-faced personality. Off the court she is quite calm, polite and even charming. But as a player on the field she is cruel, rude and probably the most arrogant on her team. Because she thinks too highly of herself and her team, she didn't back down from her invitation to play a one-time practice match against the boys of Team Z. As one of Team XX's strongest players, Avery is defined first and foremost by a dominant personality and a strong desire to prove herself. She can also be regarded as a 'cheap-shot artist', from slide tackles, to shoulder checking her opponents, to low-blows and headbutts against others, despite being unaware that both are regarded as illegal fouls in the respective sports. She cares about nothing besides soccer and to spite her ex-boyfriend for claiming her as weak, which is her main reason for accepting her invitation to Blue Lock.

Although Avery is a refined and proper girl on the outside when first introduced, she is in truth a calculating, manipulative, psychopathic individual with little regard for anything other than herself. A complete narcissist, she belittles everyone besides herself, believing everyone is to play by her terms alone. Avery appears to have no regard for the feelings of others and simply follows through what interests her. She actually doesn't worry about herself too much either, as she believes as long as the journey is entertaining, the outcome doesn't matter. She doesn't care about winning or losing and simply craves excitement and with this she masks all her other emotions. As the only child of an prominent family, Avery experienced a strict soccer upbringing from the moment she was born and was taught to always stand above the rest. This caused her to adopt the same merciless winning mentality as her father and develop an extremely strong, almost inhumane level of self-discipline that has led Avery to appear calm and unwaveringly confident in nearly every aspect of life.

Avery is described as unsettling, having a very mischievous and boisterous personality, devilishly teasing every person she has interests in with her shenanigans. Because of this, she is described as having a rotten, smug, and condescending attitude. She has few to no qualms about manipulating others, enemies, and even allies, to her own advantage. She has a habit of making fun of other players by giving nicknames. She calls Kunigami "Gorilla" or "Gori" (a nickname that catches on, much to Kunigami's irritation), Bachira "Wild hair", and often refers to Isagi as a "non-playable character", indicating she views him to "such little originality". When she arrives at Blue Lock she casually enters the hostile environment and is unafraid to take down players much larger than her - as her main goal is to spite her ex-boyfriend, Ryusei Shido, and will do everything in her power to do so. Later, she admits to feeling guilty about manipulating Isagi in particular. The gift of the gab or conversation is her specialty.

Avery has a whimsical manner of doing things, choosing to act according to her impish impulses, although sometimes following through with whatever she plans unless it is of interest to her after careful deliberations to change them. In many ways, Avery has shown to be fickle, quickly changing her mind at any given moment in time even in the midst of talking game strategies. She is perceptive and understanding of what others may think of her based on her actions and in many situations, she has pointed out what others wanted to say before they even get a word out and shooting their arguments and excuses straight down making them speechless.

She can come off as quite provocative with her shrewd remarks, making others feel stingy in the way she acts around them without caring of how others may judge her as. She knows how to make others vulnerable and play to her strength of lambasting her opponents to negatively alter their state of mind and forcing them to make detrimental mistakes. On the flip-side, she also knows how to appeal to the strength and weaknesses of others and make them think positively, in turn causing them to trust her and doing what she wants without delay. However, when she gets serious the only word that can describe her would be terrifying as she won’t stop unless she gets her desired outcome and is capable to displaying her malicious aura.

While Avery is mostly known for her smug and jovial behavior to those she plays with, behind her playful attitude hides a raging animosity towards those she really dislikes, such as her ex-boyfriend. As seen in her younger years, Avery seemed to display violent anger problems and would physically injure other children her age, if not much older. Similar to her teammates, she displays some degree of aversion towards men in general, seeing them as filthy and disgusting. According to Shido, her raging tantrums are easily roused and her anger can blind her sight.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Dribbler:** Dribblers are players known for their close ball control ability that is used to go past defenders by sudden change of direction and acceleration sometimes combined with great pace. The skill is used to create opportunities for other attackers or to score themselves having broken through the opposition's defence using what is sometimes referred to as "trickery". One of the great spectator sights in football is a player going on a "mazy run" with the ball, twisting and turning to avoid opposition tackles, beating a number of players.

Avery's ultimate dribbling technique allows her to break through most defenses with only the highest level players being able to stop her. Her dribbling is described as gracefully elegant, with frightening speed. This leads her to become a scoring machine, know as offensive devil and once she heats up, it is very hard to stop her. She always surprises her opponents and never fails to answer back when faced with a strong rival. However, her playing style is criticized as being selfish.

* Blue Lock
* Currently

## **Skills**

    **Superior Football Technique:** Avery has been seen to react to her opponents' preparatory movement and has developed her fundamentals to a very high level. She is able to conceal her own preparatory movements, making her impossible to predict. Doing this while passing almost always leads to a goal. For those on the sidelines, making out the no motion pass was near impossible, to the point where they believed the ball teleported. To Kunigami and the others, the no motion pass was also virtually invisible. This means there is a late reaction from the defense to stop the offense every time. Because of this unique technique she is nearly impossible to defend against. The only ones who could see through Avery's concealed movements are players like Isagi when he uses his Spatial Awareness to predict her movements.

**Explosive Speed:** One of Tatsuki's defining weapons is his explosive speed and acceleration, being able to take off from a neutral position and reach his top speed rapidly. This speed is so devastating that his opponents had no chance to react, despite Tatsuki being directly in front of them. In addition to this acceleration, he has the endurance to maintain this speed for an extended duration. Tatsuki combines his immense speed with his supreme dribbling to create a devastating weapon on the field.

**Reflex:** Tatsuki is a cold player, with a very quick decision making. His style of play involves not giving his opponents time to react, including moments of passing, finishing, dribbling or whatever he tries to do. That possibility of playing by instinct from a very young age was his main weapon throughout his development as a professional player.

**Belial Dribbling:** Tatsuki has his style of play oriented towards dribbling. Using his speed and reflexes, he determines the best route to take the ball, using all his creativity to perform changes of direction, spins and tricks that drive the crowd crazy. He has a vast repertoire of dribbles that range from the most orthodox to street style, making juggling with his head, shoulders, without fear of going on top of any opponent.

* **La Croqueta:** A feint that knocks the ball one way with one foot, then the other way with the other. This can be used to feint going outside before cutting, or vice versa. Tatsuki can use this technique multiple times in succession, whilst at full speed.
* **Marseille Turn:** After manipulating his opponent into thinking he will perform a regular feint, Tatsuki transitions into a roulette, to get around their defence.
* **Elastico Nutmeg:** Tatsuki knocks the ball sideways with the outside of his foot, in order to force a challenge from his opponent, before using the inside of his foot to push the ball between their legs and get past them.
* **Juggling Master:** Whenever he has room to do so, Tatsuki tries to show off his Juggling technique. He does it with his knees, shoulders, head, to make passes or even after a rabona control.
* **Rabona Control:** To show off his skill, Tatsuki elegantly makes the first touch of the ball when he receives high passes, crossing one of his legs to do that.

**Trivela Crossing:** Tatsuki is a player of many final passes made after his drags down the wings. He is known for his excellent outside passing, curling the ball as it crosses the penalty area past defenders.

**Off the Ball Movements:** Hirawa has great movement off the ball, to break free and receive passes. While his movement is concentrated on the wings, he often drops back into midfield to receive a pass in a position where he can further exploit his speed.

* **Super-Speed Interlock:** By using the movements of another player as a precursor, Hirawa moves into a position where he can meet a quick cross in an open space.

**Meta Vision:** Through his Metavision, Hirawa seeks to better understand the movement and positioning of opposing defenders and players on his team who reach the last third of the field to ensure that he improves his decision-making on executing another dribble or finding a pass for a goal. better positioned player.

**Flow State:** Flow, as described by Ego, is the state of "total immersion" or "being in the zone". It is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energised focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

When in Flow State, Hirawa becomes an even more confident player, risking more inconsequential dribbles, fforcing opponents to foul him, so that he does not advance with the ball into the goal.

## Etymology

* Her given name, **Avery** (エイプリ) means "abundant profit".
* Avery's surname **Malandro** (平和) holds the origin meaning of "a young criminal, delinquent, punk, thug."

## Trivia

* Majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
	+ Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
	+ Her blood type is O.
	+ Her dominant leg is her left side.
	+ Her favorite football player is Kylian Mbappé .
	+ Her ideal type is a man with an 'unwavering spirit'.
	+ Her mbti is: ENTJ
	+ She gets 9 hours of sleep each night
	+ Avery hates her muscular figure as it appears in a swimsuit.
	+ Favorite color is yellow.
	+ Backs are her fetish.