The potential of an unsupervised ember, the arsonist desperate to utilize it.  Restriction and persistent futility, a caged animal.

Modest clothing, smoke, dead eyes.

Appearance-wise, the key differences between her and other Mavs are a greyer complexion(obligatory angstromi trait), and that she is 0% physical corruption(most other mavs at least have their hands going wonky).

• One of few Mavericks that actively has a pronoun preference. Still nb but is much more comfortable being perceived as femme.

• Smokes cigarettes, not an uncommon vice at all in Angstrom

• eventually changes her name to 'Avery', mainly because she knows too many alternate versions of herself and doesnt like the nickname they gave her to start with (Darkest).  Is still fine with being called Maverick/doesnt consider it to be a deadname

• Why can she walk around balls-cold angstrom in a thin dress & no shoes?  After being locked out in the cold by Raeford one-too-many-times,  Mav finagles a heating array that can tap into the charging port on her collar.  It's braided into her hair & keeps her nice & toasty (It's not SUPER stable, since she is limited to graphite shavings & scraps of cloth for materials, which do not stand up well to heat spells) (so she has to remake them fairly frequently).

• [self harm] Dysphoria was so bad she emasculated herself, which made her hate her body less but also makes anybody seeing her nude into An Ordeal

Q: Prior to meeting Kenny (and getting caught for using magic), how often did she actually use magic throughout her life? Did she sometimes use it, subtly, or refrain from using it whatsoever? How hard is it to hide being a witch in Angstrom?

A: (ooc) The thing about people with inborn magic, is that they NEED to use it.  Not only is it bad for their mental health(it is a compulsive thing, if avoided long enough it'll just become all you can think about), it can be potentially very dangerous when your magic starts leaking out & making weird shit start happening around you(which is essentially what was going on with Kenny, she was holding it in but it kept bubbling up and setting shit on fire & blowing chunks out of brick walls).

Over the years Mav figures out a good balance to keep her from being found while not stifling it.  Her specialty is necromancy, but she leans more into the movement element of it.  So most of her magic use goes into stuff like moving furniture around, & other mundane tasks where the ability to move things without physical exertion is handy & very hideable(she lives alone).

The level of difficulty hiding varies?  But it's hard to notice magic happening unless you witness it happening.  The magical fields in Angstrom are incredibly stagnant, and remnant energy from casting dissipates very quickly, so even people with the ability to sense magical fluctuations can't really pick someone out unless they're actively casting(or if their aura is just crazy unstable).  Also like 99% of witches get found as children, so once you hit a certain age nobody thinks to suspect you.  They don't even bother testing for it since magic awakening tends to be very obvious, and even if you manage not to out yourself publicly while you're still trying to get a handle on it the public generally only knows enough about magic to be afraid of it so most people figure it's better to just send your child off to the government for everyone's safety.  

Maverick had an advantage growing up in that, her mother was prepared for the possibility that magic might happen!  Her dad was a witch so the chances were decent.  I mean her mom didn't know MUCH about magic, but she knew enough to not panic about it.