#yeah Avery's OG story was uhm.... Dark.

[hazel2468]

does Avery have any siblings?

Ah. The best question- the kind that lets me dig into backstory!

They did have a sibling. A little brother. How it happens varies from Avery to Avery (and maybe someday I'll get into how all of the various little Avery AUs ended up becoming canon by accident, whoops... Weird world magic and lore shit!), but their little brother died when he was six years old. Avery was ten at the time in the original story I had.

Gonna actually throw this under a cut cuz it's... Rough. So know that before you keep reading- child death and an abusive parent are part of this story.

It varies from AU to AU, but Avery and their mother, Fauna (sometimes she's a step mother or just father's wife) never got along. In our DnD canon, Fauna is from a nation where Tieflings are seen as curses and evil things, so when her firstborn was a Tiefling, well. That didn't go great. Avery's little brother, Miri, was born when Avery was four, and the two were very VERY close from the start.

Miri actually died at his mother's hands. She was going for Avery- a decade of tolerating a "devil spawn" for a child, and Avery generally being very "fuck you mom" and an outspoken kid, eventually snapped. Miri got in the way, and ended up dying. This is actually the core of Avery's little vengeance quest that they went on (and finished) in our campaign- they tracked their mother down to the nation of Elas and killed her. Kind of dark justice for both Miri and Pavel- Avery's dad- who took his own life when Avery was fifteen.

On a lighter note, I do have a twin AU that started with my playthrough of BG3, but THAT is a story for another time (and maybe not a story for the puritan hellsite).