Avery Badgai

Avery Badgai is a prosecutor working 'undercover' in the Los Angeles courts to try and ensure the mafia doesn't dwindle further than it already has. She is part of the Badgai family, an infamous mob family that has mostly lost all of its power in recent years. Due to her lack of criminal record, she has been allowed to prosecute law regardless of her heritage.

## Personality

Avery, while she generally looks very stand-offish, is usually very friendly. However, she tends to isolate herself due to her heritage and cautiousness around other people. She tries to be nice to other people out of common courtesy, and she doesn't believe in cruelty towards ordinary people.

Avery is usually very stern, but she enjoys frequent dry, sarcastic humor at the expense of only those who deserve it. She hesitates to insult anyone who doesn't 'deserve' ire. She is quick to declare someone an ally, but she is also quick to decide she is against someone as well. She can easily pick up or let people go, with little to no connection.

While she seemingly has no genuine want for companionship, once she cements her respect with someone, it usually stays. She knows that all good businesses rely on the cooperation and management of everyone involved, and she also knows the best managers are the ones who respect everyone's opinion... And encourage them to speak.

## History

Avery Badgai grew up as one of the people who had extreme loyalty to the family business. As she was part of a prestigious mafia family, she was held to certain expectations all her life. She and her brother competed against eachother to be allowed the family's now much more limited power.

Ever since her grandfather was arrested and most of the mafia was uprooted in Japanifornia, the family dwindled in its influence, and was desperate to find someone who could claw its way back to the top. Avery decided she would be that person.

Through her hard work and determination to assist the family, she proved herself to be worthy of becoming the next boss. However, her good fortune was undermined by her brother, Newton Badgai, who actively sabotaged family activity after claiming an 'undercover' job as a news director for B.A.D. Instead of ensuring the mafia were left out of the papers, he doubled down on the media focus, and nearly destroyed the Badgai family.

Avery forced herself to become a prosecutor to ensure her friends, family, and important contacts got someone on their side in the courtroom. She is seen as a dispassionate and uncaring prosecutor, and most avoid her. She makes her connections and intentions very obvious, however, because she lacks a criminal record, there's nothing that can legally be done about her.

## Powers

As a reference to her family's only known trait in canon— gambling— Avery has a discerning eye for people's emotions. She is seemingly capable of figuring out how and why someone is feeling a certain way with a glance of her piercing eye.

She is very similar to Athena, though she has a focus on predicting what next moves someone may make because of their emotions, rather than discerning what those emotions mean via therapy. She has a focus on predicting future and logical outcomes through emotions.

## Trivia

* Avery was proposed as a concept to go along with a pre-existing idea of a prosecutor using a gun to shoot at Collin. Originally, this was meant to go to Jessie James, but instead was made into this character, who would fit in well with a pre-existing idea of a noir detective.