Avesi T'Meris

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### Occupation

Detective First Grade of Illium Police Force (Criminal drug trade and smuggling + Homicide and Murder Investigation division)
CLASSIFIED DATA - Special Agent/Designated Medic of Delta Regiment; NASOU - AID (Nos Astra Special Operations Unit - Anti-terrorist Intelligence Division)

Toxicologist trainee.

### Education

Master of Criminal Justice - University of Thessia.
Ranged & Close combat, Endurance training - Police Academy, Thessia.

CLASSIFIED DATA - Counter-intelligence, Stealth operation and advanced combat training for high-risk areas - NASOU Academy, Nos Astra.

Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Hons) - Academy of Medical Health and Technology, Illium.

Master of Computational Toxicology - Academy of Medical Health and Technology, Illium.

PhD of Biomedical Science, Nosryma Research Center of Health Science, Illium.

## Physical Description

### Identifying Marks

Geometric red stripes, almost turian-like in its design, marked on her upper cheeks

## OOC Info

### Status

Active

Avesi T'Meris is a former Detective and Intelligence Special Agent for the Nos Astra Law Enforcement. She is a member of the Council Recovery Corps as an operative.

## Biography

### Early Life - Age 1 - 37

Much of Avesi’s early childhood is unknown, even to Avesi herself. Due to a traumatic past, she often struggles to remember specific details and can only recall a blurred summary of what her childhood was like. However, officials were able to piece her early years together with past medical and historical records.

Avesi T’Meris was born to a violent turian father, Tiberus Caeplin, and a manipulative asari merchant, Aurelia T’Meris, in Nos Astra, Illium, in the year 1961. Avesi’s parents lead a discrete but influential organised crime group by the name of Ephialtes: Tiberus commanded the troops whilst Aurelia managed their business operations. Law enforcement records confirmed that the only existing evidence of Ephialtes they had at that time was based on frivolous rumors.

For years, they successfully kept their smuggling operation hidden from the eyes of the public - partly due to Aurelia’s connection and bribe money, but mostly because of Tiberus making violent examples of snitches before disposing of the bodies in a remote unknown planet.

Avesi’s earliest memory consisted of Aurelia rigorously instilling the importance of secrecy in her. Once every year, whenever Avesi grew a year older, Aurelia mentioned that Avesi would one day inherit their family business, though she refused to explain the specifics of what she did.

Tiberus, on the other hand, rarely stayed home. When Avesi questioned her father’s absence, Aurelia always answered that he was ‘away on a business trip’. The times he did visit home were when he dropped off smuggled boxes of dark gray powder, or as Tiberus called it ‘Grave Dust’, which will then be taken by Aurelia to be sold off to wealthy merchants, under a fake license.

In the year 1995, one of Ephialtes’s member defected and tipped the local enforcers about Tiberus and Aurelia’s smuggling business. The Illium Federal Police raided his hideout in Nos Astra. Although Tiberus managed to escape amidst the chaos with his daughter, he had to abandon the majority of Ephialtes members and their supplies behind.

Aurelia was next in line to be captured. As socially adept as she was, Aurelia failed to convince her innocence in the face of the investigators and her license was soon discovered to be forged. She was taken in by the police to attend a hearing in the court for numerous counts of murder, fraud and bribery.

Tiberus laid low for weeks after the police took Aurelia away and refused to explain Aurelia’s disappearance to Avesi, despite her insistent questions. He moved houses under a new name almost once per month to avoid the law enforcers who actively sought him. He relieved his stress and paranoia through consumption of Grave Dust, which, if nasally ingested, gives the user a dream-like calmness and elation.

Tiberus eventually became addicted to Grave Dust, which made him more emotionally unstable as the days went by. At first, Avesi faced his verbal abuse. In his confused state, he blamed the arrest of Aurelia on her. Then, the beatings came. It came to the point where physical contact of any kind was enough to make her flinch. Tarana V’Netori, the Asari detective sergeant of the Illium Police Force, managed to track down Avesi’s father after seven months of collecting witness reports and tracking his movements via surveillance cameras.

With the full authority of her Commissioner, conducted a raid on his apartment room. She found Tiberus, rambling incomprehensibly as his memories slowly faded away and his emotions permanently distorted - a common symptom for long-term addicts of Grave Dust. What she found most horrifying above all was the sight of Avesi, malnourished and wounded from months of sustaining her father’s abuse.

The doctors who treated Avesi and diagnosed Tiberus appeared before the Court ruling over Tiberus’s case. They concluded that the medical tests confirmed Avesi was hit with a blunt object repeatedly over the course of five months and Avesi have confessed that Tiberus abused her. Despite the doctors’ best efforts, Tiberus’s manic condition was irreversible and has caused permanent deformation in the brain. The judge ruled him too mentally unsound to defend himself in his hearing and he was transported to the Asylum for Criminally Insane in Nuxfar, the least inhabited region of Illium.

Avesi made slow but gradual recovery in Athame’s Hospital. Tarana did her best to contact the next of her kin and found dead-ends wherever she turned. Aurelia, herself, had lived under a false identity and had cut off all contact with her family when she arrived in Illium more than five centuries ago. Even as a mother, she was no longer eligible to care for Avesi whilst she was still pending trial for her inevitable imprisonment. Tiberus, on the other hand, grew up in Palaven’s orphanage, with no memories or documents linking him to his birth parents.

When no other person stepped forward and claimed to be Avesi’s relative, Tarana considered taking care of Avesi herself. After arranging legal formalities, Tarana earned the right to adopt Avesi and take her under her wing. Ever since then, Avesi has always aspired to follow in the footsteps of her rescuer and join the peacekeeping force of Illium.

### Tarana’s adoption - Age: 37 - 104

Tarana invested a considerable amount of financial resources in medication, pediatric therapy and medical treatment of Avesi’s recovery. At 37 years of age, Avesi developed haphephobia due to her father’s mistreatment.

She met with her therapist twice per week whilst she recovered in the hospital, practising activities meant to encourage her social skills and recover from her phobia. Tarana visited her almost everyday early in the morning before she went to work. Though Avesi was too frightened to speak with her at the time, she brought her books, toys and, sometimes, recounted childrens’ fairytales to keep her accompanied.

It took Avesi two months to fully recover from her physical wounds. When she left the hospital, faint scarring was still visible on her arms and back, something which she tried to hide with her clothing. The doctors reassured Tarana that her wounds will disappear if regular application of prescribed balm has been applied. Right before they left the hospital, Tarana took off her jacket and draped it over Avesi’s shoulder, covering her scars from the public eye. Avesi seemed to have grown somewhat comfortable in Tarana’s presence ever since and did not mind travelling with her to her new home.

Additional two years of pediatric therapy finally receded Avesi’s haphephobia, although her immense dislike of physical contact and hugging still remained. As Avesi grew older, she became less fearful and more daring. Her fiery temper and daredevil attitude earned her the reputation as a troublemaker. Defiant of her teachers and aggressive to her peers, she became an inevitable social outcast, spending most of her time alone rather than playing with children her age. Tarana did her best to instill compassion in her young, rebellious foster daughter but her teachings always seemed to enter one ear and out the other.

Despite the stark contrast of personalities between Avesi and Tarana - Avesi being the more impulsive and sharp-tongued of the two, while Tarana exercised more patience and serenity - the two considered each other family. Tarana loved Avesi as if she were her own, while Avesi learnt, through Tarana’s examples, that family did not always equate shared blood.

Most of Avesi’s early life was spent in the police station accompanying Tarana. Preferring to keep Avesi within the station instead of hiring a babysitter, Tarana usually entrusted her under the watchful eye of her close colleagues while she was out on missions. Even then, Avesi was known to cause quite the number of mischief within the precinct, such as hiding from the other officers inside the ventilation shafts out of boredom and scaring Tarana when her colleagues could not find her anywhere.

### Reminders of her past - Age 105 - 110

In the year 2,066, right before Avesi moved to the University of Thessia to pursue her degree of Criminal Justice, Tarana gave her a going-away present: a holographic locket depicting a picture of them together; one of the few items Avesi has which she treasures more than life itself.

Though Thessia, the homeland of her species, was even more grand than all the cities in Illium put together, it still seemed like a planet full of unnecessary regulations to Avesi, especially when she had grown accustomed to the more laissez-faire culture of Nos Astra. In her words, she found the other asari on Thessia ‘insufferably pleased with themselves for no apparent reason.’

The natives of Thessia, in contrast to their Illium cousins, exuded an air of self supposed superiority over the other races, something which Avesi disliked. She rented a small apartment right in the heart of Thessia and worked as a part-time courier whilst she studied. As the days passed by, Avesi grew homesick and she often found herself taking solace in the holographic locket Tarana gave her. Once, or twice, every two weeks, she and Tarana contacted each other through vidchat - most of their conversation consisting of Tarana giving advice and warning Avesi to stay out of trouble.

Halfway through her first year in Masters of Criminal Justice, her homesickness eventually became too much to bear. She spent more of her time in the local bar, gambling and drinking away her worries, and arriving to the following morning classes with a hangover. Almost twice per week, she started up bar fights and received multiple warnings from local law enforcers.

Tarana had invested half of her monthly income in Avesi’s first semester. When she heard of her nightly habit, she withdrew all financial support and expressed her disappointment in her foster daughter. Tarana decided that the only way Avesi would take her studies seriously would be to have her support herself. Though Avesi still drank considerably, she stopped her nightly visits to the bars and miraculously acquired part-time jobs as a courier and as a nightclub bouncer. She delivered packages at the crack of dawn, dozed off in classes in the afternoon and attended her evening shift as a bouncer.

Near the end of her semester, Avesi was about to deliver a discrete package to a wealthy merchant during her shift as a courier. When she arrived on his doorstep, she detected familiar symptoms within the Turian merchant: suspicious questions directed at her due to memory loss, erratic behavior and slightly slurred speech - common symptoms of long-term addicts of Grave Dust. She realised that the package in her hands was Grave Dust disguised as ‘scientific components’ and refused to hand it over to the merchant. He channelled aggressive behavior and Avesi, left with no choice, had to knock him out with her biotics. Just as she was about to leave, she noticed a small Turian child within the merchant’s home, presumably the son of the merchant she scuffled with. It was a rare sight to see Avesi reassure someone else, much less a child. She notified the law enforcers of what transpired and, whilst she waited for their arrival, stayed with the child for the rest of the morning.

Avesi stayed for another two years to complete what she had originally set out to do: to finish the pre-requirements to join the Illium Police Force. She attended the Police Academy of Thessia to train her endurance, biotics and ranged combat. During mock fights, she was brash and unconcerned of her opponents’ advantages. It made her an aggressive fighter but one who had a tendency to leave a blind spot vulnerable to counter-attacks.

Even after her graduation from the Police Academy, her incident with the merchant still resided within her mind and she slowly came to understand that Grave Dust was no longer a mere blemish in her past. News reports and online articles have confirmed the gradual rise of Grave Dust smuggling within Illium and some parts of the Council space.

But what caught her attention the most were rumours of Ephialtes’s rebirth under a new leader. Though Tiberus have long since deceased from old age and Aurelia was still imprisoned in Nos Astra, the mercenary group have yet to simply cease as a forgotten memory. Though Avesi tried not to pay heed to the reports, she found that she could not play ignorant any longer. The memories of Tiberus’s aggression and his rapidly disintegrating memory still pained her. The only way she could finally put her mind to rest and find peace in her memories was to find a cure to Grave Dust or to eradicate it at all cost.

Avesi contacted Tarana, explained her decisions and asked her for financial support to pursue a degree in Biomedical Science in Illium. Tarana, proud that Avesi was willing to make changes to help others, agreed to lend her aid once more.

### In pursuit of knowledge - Age 110 - 121

Illium invested heavy financial support in the research of toxicology and biomedical science, due to Nos Astra being the main tradeport of various drugs and chemicals, which gives Illium the best educational and research centers for medical and health oriented science. Avesi felt she had finally returned home when she set foot on Illium and was reunited with Tarana. She applied for a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) in Nos Astra’s Academy of Medical Health and Technology.

As part of her course, she took up an internship within the local medical centre and studied her course both behind the books and under the mentorship of a doctor. She instigated a personal research on Grave Dust itself, incurring knowledge from both her course and the extranet.

In total, only 256 official studies have been conducted on the matter of Grave Dust, alternatively known as Chloromatoxine. While they listed the medical advantages and dangers of ingested Grave Dust, none of the studies ever conducted an in-depth research on a cure for its symptoms.

Avesi rigorously dedicated her attention and time in learning her degree. To Tarana’s surprise, Avesi spent the majority of her waking moment buried in books and lecture notes. She barely visited bars like she used to and preferred to isolate herself in her room - where she can focus best when she is undisturbed. Every now and then, she compiled case studies and medical journals that broached the topic of Grave Dust in her personal datapad.

Her commitment to her Biomedical Science studies paid off. When Avesi applied for Masters of Computational Toxicology, she was offered the scholarship program for her hard work. She left her internship and applied for a position as a toxicologist trainee in Athame’s Hospital.

On a daily basis, she studied the absence or presence of chemicals in tissue samples within the autopsy ward, evaluated determinants or contributory factors in the cause and manner of death, and corroborated with medical examiners in provision of death certificates. Due to Illium’s loose regulation of drug trades in comparison to other tradeports, Nos Astra had higher casualty rates caused by overdose or misuse of drugs.

About 15% of the autopsies performed in Athame’s Hospital were declared death by overdose of Grave Dust, with evidence of dark grey powder within the nasal tissue and blood samples. Avesi took advantage of her position within Athame’s Hospital to discreetly record and make notes of patients who showed traces of Chloromatoxine, despite the hospital’s regulations regarding patient confidentiality.

When she compared the statistics of deaths from excessive ingestion of Grave Dust for each year, she saw a rising trend of Grave Dust presence within Illium - about an increase of 10% for the past three decades. The symptoms seemed to have evolved slightly according to official records - reports of possible hallucinations and involuntary muscle spasms have been detected among long-term drug addicts. Avesi suspected that whoever manufactured Grave Dust had either strengthened its chemical severity or sold them in its impure form.

At the age of 116, Avesi began her PhD program of Biomedical science in Nosryma Research Center. Three years later, near the end of her PhD program, Nos Astra’s Department of Health grew more concerned in the increasing rates of Grave Dust casualties. They commissioned universities and research institutes to dedicate their resources and time in: understanding Grave Dust and its effects, developing a counter-serum to its effects and its withdrawal symptoms, and administrating the counter-serum to the public. Avesi was one of the top students in Nosryma Research Center who were picked to lead the project in developing a counter-serum. Much to her dismay, she was obligated to work with a research partner of her professor’s choosing. It was there she met Valaria M’Tanis.

Valaria exuded laidback friendliness and seemed keen on invading people’s personal space. When Avesi first met her, Valaria gave her a friendly slap on the shoulder - the kind of physical contact which Avesi did not appreciate. Half an hour later, Valaria was wheeled off to the nursing facility. Witnesses testified that the short-tempered Asari biotically threw Valaria against a wall which instantly knocked her out cold. Avesi earned a week of suspension from her university and an earful of Tarana’s scolding after her stunt.

For unknown reasons, or perhaps due to the faculty’s laziness, Avesi’s professors did not bother changing her research partner. When she returned the following week, she was once again face to face with Valaria, who seemed relatively unharmed and oddly happy to see her. Avesi’s personal research in the subject of Grave Dust boosted the progress of their project quite significantly, but they were nowhere close to finding a counter-serum. Hypothetically speaking, Grave Dust symptoms were within the realm of possibility to produce a cure. In practice, there was no medicine or serum that restored the Amygdala’s neuro-chemicals in its original form, retaining its well-balanced emotions and, if possible, long-term memories as well.

Avesi spent the last two years of her doctorate program testing and creating hypotheses, almost to the point where she functioned on minimum sleep and two quick meals a day. Valaria’s expertise with cellular neuroscience has enabled them to impress their professors with their theories and experiments. During the years they worked together, Valaria quickly learnt to take Avesi’s temper in a stride and Avesi gradually came to like her as a friend.

By the time their doctorate program neared its end, they often found themselves studying and laughing together. Nobody succeeded in finding a cure for Grave Dust by the project deadline. Though Avesi earned her doctorate degree, she left the university deeply unsatisfied and full of self-doubt. Despite her effort and her achievements, there was still a realm of science that even she could not quite reach. Frustrated, she threw in the towel and looked for other means to tackle the rising death rates of Chloromatoxine. Though they were no longer research partners, Avesi and Valaria remained close friends and eventually became lovers.

### The rise and fall - Age: 121 - 227

Instead of trying to figure out a cure that might never come to fruition, stopping the smuggling of Gray Dust itself seemed like the next best option for Avesi. She joined the Illium Police Force in Nos Astra two months after her doctorate graduation whilst Valaria applied to become a general practitioner.

Avesi’s superiors in the Police Force gradually came to despise her for her disobedience and brashness, whilst her co-workers hated her for her explosive temper. There was not a day that went by without Tarana having to lecture Avesi the importance of professionalism and patience - a lecture which Avesi did anything but listen to.

But the results of Avesi’s deductive ability was undeniable - her ability to notice the smallest details of a crime scene, with the addition of her biomedical science background, have enabled her to make accurate guess works on how the victim was murdered via mere observation, whether it was by poison, blunt impact, or even an unfortunate accident. When her superiors noticed her potential, she was authorised to assist the senior detectives with criminal cases, despite her recent employment. Her stubborn discipline in leaving no case unfinished was one of the few traits which her colleagues appreciated and have helped her identify the killers throughout her career.

But there remained one case which neither she nor the Illium peacekeepers could solve: who was responsible behind the smuggling of Grave Dust in Nos Astra. So far, the Illium Police Force have gathered clues that linked a relationship between the Ephialtes mercenaries and the smugglers of Grave Dust. This resulted in an official order given out by the Commissioner to operate based on the assumption that Ephialtes was behind the smuggling. Though they captured several Ephialtes mercenaries for questioning, nobody confessed so much as a name of the smugglers, out of loyalty or perhaps fear.

Fifty years of dedication to Illium Police Force have finally earned Avesi promotions all the way to Detective First Grade. Though she displayed no promising leadership qualities, her subordinates eventually came to respect her not for her rank but for her intelligence.

In the year 2118, when Avesi reached the age of 157, the Illium Police Force was given an anonymous tip that the Salarian lieutenant of Ephialtes, by the name of Olaf, who was in charge of smuggling Grave Dust within Nos Astra, was last sighted in Kansas Warehouse. Tarana, recently promoted to Deputy Commissioner, led the unit that captured Olaf and brought him in for interrogation.

The Ephialtes mercenaries assaulted the precinct several weeks after his capture. Their numbers overwhelmed the Illium officers who were unprepared and caught off-guard by their attacks. To Avesi’s shock, the commander who led the Ephialtes was none other than Valaria. When faced with Avesi, Valaria admitted that she was the new leader of the Ephialtes and that the smuggling of Grave Dust was indeed carried out on her order. She gave Avesi an offer: Join the Ephialtes as her new second-in-command, to which Avesi refused and received a concussive shot that tore through her protective helmet and knocked her out.

Tarana managed to drag Avesi to safety and, in the process, was severely wounded by Valaria. As she called for reinforcement through her radio, she eventually succumbed to her wounds, her vital signs long gone by the time the Illium peacekeepers have driven the mercenaries away. Olaf escaped with the help of his mercenaries and Valaria was nowhere to be found in Nos Astra. Avesi was sent to the ER in Nos Astra Hospital, where she was examined by the medical professionals and was declared that she had only suffered a minor head injury that can be healed in a month.

When Avesi regained her consciousness, the Commissioner of the Police Force personally visited her and delivered the news of her mother’s death, even going as far as giving her Tarana’s coat to express her condolences. Avesi was given temporary leave to recover from her wounds and prepare funeral rites for Tarana, during which she was given the time to grieve.

CLASSIFIED DATA: Her grief festered deep inside her, even to this day, and she eventually turned to seek vengeance for her loss, namely by finding Valaria and imprisoning her for her crimes. However, her current work was basic policing that covered limited parameters of Illium’s security and had neither the authority or the equipment to conduct advanced investigation in all of Illium for Valaria and her mercenaries.

Knowing this, she left the IPF and applied to become a Field Agent of NASOU. Initially, her application was rejected due to her history of disobedience but the Commissioner of the IPF, recently renamed to Nos Astra Police Department, personally vouched for her, emphasising that Avesi’s numerous successes as their detective indicated that whilst her attitude was a minor cause for concern, her dedicated work ethic and sharp intellect played a pivotal role in resolving multiple major homicide and drug-trade cases. With the support of a well respected Commissioner, the rejection was withdrawn and she was accepted into their pre-training screening program.

Avesi was submitted to three weeks of mandatory physical, mental and background assessments before she was transferred to undergo an additional two years of physically demanding and arduous training course. As a field agent trainee, she was expected to compete with her peers and achieve the base minimum of NASOU’s extreme standards in order to be considered for the selection into NASOU’s admittance.

Determined to join the special law enforcement, she endured the training without her usual snide remark and, at the age of 159, became one of the few graduates to be selected as Field operatives for anti-terrorism division of NASOU. For fifty years, Avesi participated in several non-disclosed operations in service of Nos Astra. Her sharp deduction and medicinal skills became a great asset to her squadron during deployment and she received a promotion as a Special Agent for her dedicated work ethic.

During her off-duty hours, she assisted her department’s intelligence and recon team in investigating Ephialtes smuggling activities. It took them years of meticulous research and cross-surveillance referrals, but thanks to the hot-tempered detective’s efforts, NASOU gradually made good progress in dismantling their operations in Nos Astra with well-planned ambushes and arrests of their key members. Avesi’s work eventually allowed her to track down Valaria’s main hideout, located in a false business front in the more remote parts of Illium. Within two weeks, the NASOU formed small strike teams to corner and raid the crime organisation’s hideout. Avesi and her crew were assigned to flank the back exits to intercept escapees.

As predicted, Valaria attempted to escape through the back door and ran right into the flanking troop. Alone and severely outnumbered, Valaria surrendered immediately upon sighting NASOU agents. Avesi, however, ignored her commanding officer’s orders and physically confronted her former lover.

Valaria earned a broken nose and several shallow cuts whilst Avesi had to be restrained by her coworkers. In 2185, the former leader of Ephialtes was arrested for multiple charges of smuggling and first degree murders, while Avesi was placed under investigation for unauthorised assault on Valaria. While Avesi claimed that breaking her nose was a lenient payback for the loss of her only family member, she was still given two weeks of unpaid suspension whilst she was investigated for the attack.

The Deputy Supervisor of NASOU personally involved herself in the investigation and decided that while Avesi’s dishonorable conduct went against their strict regulations and would normally be considered a minor offense, Avesi’s role in the arrest and dismantlement of Ephialtes key members was inarguably instrumental in keeping Nos Astra safe. Due to this reason, Avesi was officially charged with first count of disobedience in her records rather than dishonorable engagement, and the resulting disciplinary action that came with the statement was to work under strict supervision of her commanding officers with deducted pay grade. This, however, only fueled Avesi’s anger. In her view, she had been disciplined with lower wages and unnecessary overwatch of her superiors due to what should have been a just response, considering Valaria was the reason why she lost her mother. She turned in her resignation letter and instructed the Deputy Supervisor where she could stick her ‘lower-pay grade’ in with select colorful words.

After her resignation at the age of 225, she set up a small office in Nos Astra and worked as a private investigator for the next few years. Avesi’s sharp deductive skills and her years of experience resolving complex crimes impressed her more influential clients. She devoted her time and resources to maintaining a confidentiality trust with her existing client base, which grew over time, until she created a reputation as one of Nos Astra’s best private investigators. Whatever the case, if one had the money and the desire for utmost discretion, they would always find themselves reaching out to call Avesi T’Meris.

### Reaper War - Age: 227 - 230

In the year 2187, the Reaper invasion met unexpectedly strong resistance in Illium borders. The white-collars and large corporations that ran the show on Illium had amassed a sizable fleet and armies to defend their wealth. Most of the fleet's existing mercenary and private militia groups were reassigned from defending merchant vessels to defending the planet itself.

To help bolster their forces with additional numbers, they recruited former law enforcers and ex-militaries into their fleet. Avesi valued Illium as her home and signed up to join the defense forces as soon as she was able. She was stationed with a large mercenary unit in front of the communication tower. Her squad was assigned a crucial mission: to prevent any enemy forces from reaching the comms tower in order to preserve the communication pathways between the Illium fleets and their commanding officers.

The overwhelming number of Reaper forces forced a split between Avesi’s unit, separating her from the rest of the group. Avesi knew that although she and her squad were highly experienced fighters, the unending number of Reaper forces would eventually lead to their defeat. She could either destroy the Reaper forces by sending the comms tower upon them and save her unit or keep up the fight at the cost of both her life and her squad mates as well. She chose to live. She picked up the RPG from one of her fallen comrades and fired, sending the comms tower hurtling down on her enemies. The plan worked; the tower fell on top of her advancing enemies. Avesi took the opportunity to fall back and regroup with her unit that had been reassigned to protect Nos Astra, though it earned her quite the resentment from her commanding superiors.

A month after the Reapers were defeated, Illium was in a state of disrepair and Avesi’s home and office were destroyed during the war. The Nos Astra mega-corporations refurbished one of the few intact buildings that they owned into a community service centre for the refugees. Homeless and out of her job, Avesi volunteered to provide free medical aid and was given a temporary living quarter in the centre whilst she worked. She spent the next three years treating physical ailments of her patients and taught basic first aid to volunteers who wanted to contribute to the recovery of Nos Astra.

Trade networks slowly rebuilt itself between Nos Astra and other capital planets of Council Space. During an exchange between a medical supplier and her colleague, she heard rumors that an organisation called the ‘Council Recovery Corps’ was looking for fresh recruits. Perhaps it was a desperate grab for a job, or perhaps beneath her tough exterior and unhappy past, she had inherited her foster mother’s drive to protect civilians from major threats. Even Avesi, to this day, was not exactly sure why she spent every scrap of her earnings to book a flight to Citadel, but she did not regret the moment when she signed her name on the dotted line of CRC employment form, willing to give her experience as a former detective and Intelligence Field Agent on behalf of the Galaxy.

## Personality

Avesi is the very embodiment of the word ‘brooding’. Her superiors in the Illium Police Force despised her, often making comments that she was ‘born without a zip on her mouth’ - something which even Avesi could not deny nor did she care enough to argue.

She stubbornly clung on to the belief that the world needed to hear the harsh truth, even if it meant that she had to snap at her higher-ups with her abrasive language and barb-wired tongue, which often got her into numerous trouble. If it were not for her exceptional ability to solve various complex cases, Avesi would undoubtedly have been kicked out of the force for her unprofessionalism and her inability to keep a cool head. As a natural pessimist, Avesi always assumes the worst in everyone she meets - a byproduct of being abused as a child and losing her foster mother, Tarana, due to a betrayal.

The years of distancing herself from others eventually developed her personal philosophy that ‘nobody does the things they do without wanting something in return.’ Her suspicions and distrust of others have chased away more people than she befriended, which she did not mind. She would rather be a loner than invest her time and trust in someone who could shoot her in the back. Due to this reason, she is always taken aback when she is shown genuine kindness by strangers and often finds it difficult to express her gratitude in return.

With a temper that could rival an unstable volcano, Avesi rarely reins in her impulsive reactions and sarcastic comments, which makes her quite predictable. She responds to problems with sardonic responses and relentless aggression rather than consideration of the long-term consequences, much like a proverbial hammer that sees every issue as a nail. As a result, she often reaped more than she sowed - always neck-deep in trouble with one authority figure or law enforcer whenever her temper overrides sound reasoning.

Despite her short-fused drawbacks, her loyalty and dedication to her work ethic in leaving no case unsolved was quite phenomenal for someone who was ready to brawl a Thresher Maw. She doesn't mind going through each painstaking detail of every corner to achieve the best deduction possible, which earned her multiple successes in identifying even the most discrete criminals.

Though she might not admit it out loud, Avesi cares for the public safety of her homeland and its civilians. Her mixed feelings of hate and admiration of its extravagant culture, and the fact that she was born and raised in Nos Astra almost her entire life, has developed a complex but strong attachment to her home planet. People who are able to get past her aggressive and sarcastic personality often find that she is surprisingly loyal and protective of the people she is close to, even if she is unable to vocally express that she cared for them in clear terms.

Her biggest pet peeve is hugging and physical contact of any form. She finds it extremely unnecessary and uncomfortable to hug others or be at the receiving end of a hug. When someone approaches her with open arms, she is the first one to either leave the room or lean as far away from the person as her body could physically allow her to.

### Exceptional Skills

* **Eye do mind:** Avesi’s analytical mind and eye for detail remains unrivaled even to this day. Her precise deduction paired with her sharp observational skills allows her to pick up the slightest details that may be overlooked by the majority, details such as body language and facial expressions. Meticulous and stubborn, she will comb through every crumb of evidence until the case is resolved.
* **The Doctor is in**: Avesi has learnt to keep herself and others alive through her quick thinking, by preventing blood loss with a makeshift bandage and creating splints out of planks - a trait she learnt in Biomedical Science and perfected in the fields as a law enforcer. She can treat most physical wounds on the battlefield with limited resources and her background in toxicology enables her to detect poison, create antidotes and administer the cure.

## Physical Description

Avesi inherited her Turian father’s height, with an athletic build that peaked up to 177 cm and a weight of 70 kg to boot. Her dark wine red markings framing her face and light blue skin makes her a spitting image of her birth mother, Aurelia.

To a normal passerby, she physically appears as an intimidating thug, with her usual scow and broad shoulders, rather than an ex-cop who used to fight on behalf of civilians. She wears her signature slightly ragged, black coat with Illium police insignia sewn on the arms; it was formerly her foster mother, Tarana’s outfit before her passing.

She always keeps her M-11 Suppressor hidden in her coat’s inner pocket, an emergency firearm in case she ever finds herself in need of immediate firepower. She wears black long pants, paired with combat boots and dark fingerless gloves - a color theme with varying shades of dark grey to black. Her choice of attire matched her impulsive and incendiary personality, often raising suspicious brows amongst security and law enforcement.

Underneath her shirt, she wears a locket with a clasp; when opened, it activates a hologram depicting a photo of her younger self with Tarana.

### Armament

* M-11 Suppressor
* M-55 Argus
* Omniblade

### Abilities

* Warp
* Barrier
* Throw
* Stasis