Avery Avis Ayers

"*The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.*"

## First Appearance

### Manga Debut

Blue Ghost Tales

**Avery Avis Ayers** is a young detective who, despite her age, is one of the top detectives in the whole world.

## Appearance

Avery has a slim athletic build with short grey hair (implied to be dyed), sprouting a braid on her right side that is tied in the back with a black ribbon, to hide her bangs. She has blue eyes and sometimes wears glasses as part of her cover.

As a civilian, Avery wears a white shirt with a black ribbon, and a grey corset with dark grey strings. She also wears a white frilly skirt along with grey leggings and black boots.

When on a detective mission, she dons a short combat skirt with ruffles covered by a black cape with magenta lining, as well as matching black and magenta top hat and boots.

Though having a modest bust size, Avery is stated to have a very good rear end to her.

## Personality

Despite her tough exterior, Avery is a very kind-hearted girl. However, because of the nature of her work and her goals, she has become quite adept at lying, although she seems to enjoy teasing her partners by mixing truths with outrageous lies in their interactions. However, this is but a facade. She portrays herself to everyone that she is a pathological liar, someone who can't simply help themselves lying. However, when questioned about her past by others, she actually reveals quite a bit of truth. Seeing lies as a manner of coping rather than a manner of working.

Despite always seeming to be perfect at anything, she is hardworking in order to maintain her image of a perfect detective.

But she also acts as a normal girl. She has a weak spot for children, shown when a little girl got hurt she helped her. She writes home to her family and gets irritated when she is left out of the critical parts of missions.

## Abilities

**Auto-Reflexes**: Avery possesses extraordinary reflexes that are entirely involuntary. Due to this, they can be used to attack and counter instead of just for defensive purposes. She can flawlessly coordinate her movements, automatically achieving maximum efficiency in any action. Because Avery's body moves without the use of her brain, she is free to strategize and can dodge a wider variety of attacks, even in a weakened condition. The reflexes can enhance Avery's physical speed to react faster than the eye can see. Since her body moves on reflex and not reaction, feints and illusionary techniques are useless against her. This is often played for comedic effect, as she's shown to block attacks incoming from behind her with her arm, all while talking to someone else.

**Apprehension Immunity**: Avery is completely free from and immune to anxiety, concern, trouble or worries of any kind.

**Master Intimidater**: Avery possesses an incredible and innate understanding/knowledge of intimidation and can use it to instill fear in her opponents and command respect from others. Avery has an intuitive mastery of the associated body language and choice of words subtly sending all the signals to others, causing them to yield to her.

**Truth Inducement**: Due to being a master intimidater, Avery can force others to tell the truth, guaranteeing that the person is telling the truth to the best of their ability.

**Master Interrogator**: As a result of her extraordinary ability to instill fear in others, Avery possesses incredible skills in interrogation and information "extraction".

**Riddle Intuition**: As shown during a comedic scene, Avery has an innate ability to create extremely complex riddles in a matter of seconds.

**Master Situational Awareness**: Avery can pick out, process and understand all the details of any situation no matter how small they are, allowing her instant knowledge of how to deal with anything.

## Trivia

* Due to her being originally from London, Avery has a faint British accent when speaking.
* She is seen multiple times with a revolver, which is, in fact, a British made Webley Fosbery.

## Quotes

* *"You must see it for yourself before anyone can see it with you."*
* *"It is not for me to suspect but to detect."*
* *"Believe no-one, doubt everything and remember, everyone lies."*
* *"I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter."*
* *"The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple."*
* *"Everything can be summed up into an equation."*
* *"Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally."*
* *"I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case."*
* *"Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician."*
* *"I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning."*
* *"Alright, let's see. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were there going to St. Ives?"*
* *"Well, huh... I cannot be bought, but I can be stolen with one glance. I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two. What am I?"*

### About Avery

* *"So, you know those stupid love letters we used to write in Junior high? The secret love letters that we put into a box and then read out loud for a laugh? I remember cause I wrote one and I threw it away just after I did. It started off as a joke, but... after spending half an hour writing the thing... I realized it was much more than that. It was something I was too embarrassed to share with anyone else... and... it was about you."* -Love Interest, to Avery

* *"I've always found you... really funny, smart, talented... when I'd look at you, my face would turn red, and my heart would pound in my chest so hard I'd have to hold on to it. And... that feeling... never left me. I've grown to be more confident when talking to you, but... whenever I see your beautiful eyes, or hear that wonderful laugh of yours, my heart just melts and I never know how to respond. You're such a wonderful person, and such a great friend, I just-"* -Love interest, about Avery, stopped when Avery kisses them.
* *"She had an ass that could make any man sin."*
* *"Have you checked your ass out lately? It’s pretty dang distracting, darling."* -Love interest