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Description

An extroverted young man and walking ray-of-sunshine, A'vett Faaye ventures into the world with a silly grin and genuine heart of gold. Despite the hardships faced amidst his journey, he has maintained hope and optimism for every tribulation that has yet to come his way. While his intentions are nothing but good, his hero complex leaves him a target for many looking to exploit his abundant kindness and sincere naivety.

Despite his relatively difficult upbringing and occasional abuse from other townsfolk his age, A’vett grew up with an outlook many would deem childish and immature—not in that he had become bitter, but that he retained an almost unreasonably positive outlook for life and his fellow man. He’s generally described as jovial, if not a bit ignorant, as his intentions are largely good-hearted. Flirting, insults, and passive aggressiveness typically seem to fly over his head, but whether this is due to true or feigned ignorance isn't always clear. Sometimes he speaks too directly, but this is due to his aforementioned naivety—most of what he blurts out is not typically said with any true malice.

While he is difficult to enrage, A'vett's most notable trigger is any action taken to directly insult or attack his loved ones. Anger and irritation usually leave him at a loss for words, resulting in mild to extreme, violent physical outbursts—this ranges from the slam of a door, to directly confronting lethal danger. While rage isn’t something that typically overtakes him, he is just as unacquainted with sadness and sorrow. If possible, he will lock himself away from others as opposed to seeking help—the mere idea that his emotions may burden others does nothing but perpetuate this behavior.

A’vett has an affectionately kind, but loud demeanor—his enthusiasm and contentment are sometimes regarded as contagious by others. While he’s usually the optimist, he is capable of appraising dire situations with respect and care—though, this does wrack up his nerves quite a bit and tends to leave him at a loss for words in lieu of sounding foolish in contrast to his wiser peers. The possibility of his opinions or thoughts holding weight for his fellow adventurers still appears to befuddle him—he picks his words as carefully as he can, only wishing to do right by those he cares for.

Backstory

Born to a single father in the streets of Aleport, A’vett was brought up humbly as a rambunctious and extroverted child. In his earliest days, he did not fully realize the strife he had been born into, simply happy to have food in his belly, a place to sleep, and his dear father to protect him. Even as his status and struggle became more apparent to him, he didn’t decry his poverty—he simply moved forward, joyfully, with the cards dealt to him.

Wanting little more than to help his struggling father, A’vett made it a habit to find any job in need of dedicated work—and was extremely persistent in these endeavors, regularly receiving firm refusals outright. These endeavors and attempts occasionally resulted in mild bodily harm—however, bodily harm was more often a result of A’vett’s hero complex, as he took to defending other children from bullies. Despite his actions leaving himself a target, he took pride in knowing he could protect others, even at the expense of his own safety.

As a teenager, A’vett worked hard to teach himself to read and write at the request of his father. As a chef, his father guaranteed his son a position in the kitchen he himself was employed at—if A'vett did his due diligence and learned more than what little his father could. His studies did little more than give him a means of reading and writing, though these skills remain quite limited for A'vett. The makeshift education was eventually enough to satisfy A'vett's father, who allowed the young boy to work by his side.

However, after The Calamity, A’vett found his attention from his previously comfortable, mundane, and routine life waning.

The damage to the world, industry, and life itself catalyzed a shift in A’vett’s behavior from simple content with his station in life to an indescribable longing, which appeared to stamp out his previously loud, joyful, and energetic personality. The teenage Miqo'te began to find little satisfaction in the things that once brought him a great sense of accomplishment and joy, often lost in thought and regularly unable to meet his father’s eyes. Noticing this, A’vett’s father contemplated for months before settling on the only thing he believed his previously joyful son would find happiness in—an adventure.

Despite strict restrictions in travel, he had the connections and means to set A’vett off to Ul’dah to begin his life-changing journey—though the means did dig deep into his pockets. Initially declining the proposition at the possibility of burdening his father further, A’vett was eventually swayed by his father's insistence.

Thus, he was sent off with love and well wishes, marking the inception of his pilgrimage towards The Steps of Ul’dah.