I'm Avery!!

Avery

Please picture me as the depressed canine there, okay? I'm not a furry and I'm obviously not really a sad magical pug dog. Still. The way things have been going, would you really blame me if I was, though? I mean, magic is real, and life is shit, so ending up a sad pug dog would make sense in a way, I guess. If I piss off Smirk, maybe she’ll turn me into a pug. I’m sure I’ll get better, though.

Theme Song!

I consider this basically my theme song right now. I can’t do a real good job of explaining why. It just makes sense to me. I’m not a rockstar missing the little things in life. It’s more like I expected those little things but they never materialized. I feel like I missed out on a lot of good things for many different reasons and look at the weird place I ended up. I’m a line cook who can read minds sometimes. Despite all my rage, I’m still just a millennial mage.

Anyways, you can picture me as the sad pug shown, or any number of other sad pugs I’m going to add later once I find more images which totally fit my vibe all the time. I’m also not a furry, just so everyone is aware, meaning I am not someone who has a sad pug as a fursona or anything like that. I just think my vibe right now fits with being a sad pug so I am posting with avatars and pictures of sad pugs.

Little Details

Born at a really young age back in 1988 in Muskegon, Michigan originally. Yes, I do have a degree - I didn’t rack up all these student loans for nothing. The catch? It’s a degree in classical studies, which nobody seems to care about. I did not plan well. I don’t know. I always deep down thought I’d get into a good grad school and do something really cool like translate ancient texts. After college, I lived (sort of) in Cleveland for a long time. I moved down south after that.

Retail was tolerable. Food service isn’t bad. It still sucks, though. Redoubt found me last summer. I met Smirk on a writing website and she thought I was a perfect fit. I am creative, good with my hands (which matters apparently) and she was very impressed with how fast I passed some of their online (and offline) screenings. Might be because I’m just a desperate person? I hope I don’t come across that way, but people say that I do.

I work with Smirk, or alone. So far, I’m a bit of a contractor. I was paid (and nicely) for sitting through the training seminars (some of them online, some given in person), but I don’t exactly have a lot of work here in the small town where I’m “stationed.” So far, Smirk and I have only had to deal with a couple situations that seemed really small, but I got paid well for it, which keeps me interested. Not to mention, learning magic alone is sooooo worth it.

My day job? I’m a line cook, duh. It keeps things going in between contract jobs for Redoubt. Someday I’ll learn enough magic to move up in the world.

Redoubt basically taught me just a little bit of magic, just enough to be able to do my job. This mostly involves messing with (and listening to) people’s heads. I don’t enjoy that, but it’s how you do it. I try to be as ethical as possible while still getting the job done. I don’t know how it works, either. They didn’t even try to explain it. I don’t really care.

I kinda know more about magic now than I do about Redoubt itself. That’s how they want it. Redoubt wants people like me (and maybe even Smirk) kept as isolated and ignorant as possible. It’s kinda suspicious when I think about why that might be. I also don’t understand Redoubt’s larger goals - sometimes they make sense, but not always.

Hobbies

This is the kind of thing I do for fun.

There are other things I used to enjoy in the past that I have been let's just say oh so graciously forced to divest myself of due to my new job working for Redoubt. You won't, for example, find me involved in the local music fandom anymore.

Contact Info

I used to have social media in college. You won’t find it here. Maybe my IRL name isn’t even Avery. I also won’t post my exact location. If you want to talk, leave a message in the cbox, but remember that everyone will be able to see it. Cope. And before you ask, I haven’t been able to find anything online that looks like it’s got to do with Redoubt in any way, either. They have zero online presence. I will not confirm or deny whether they actually use the name Redoubt, either. Stop asking about that.