Little is known about Ava's childhood before the events of the story. When Wrathia died, her soul attached to Ava due to the cursed wine and they have been together since. However, Ava did not understand Wrathia's initial request to make a "pact" as a young child, so the demon took to tormenting her in an attempt to isolate and depress her. On more than one occasion, Wrathia attempted to make Ava commit suicide. Due to the presence of her demon, Ava often appeared crazy to others and it is likely that Maggie Lacivi was one of her only friends when they were younger. This is in addition to an unnamed girl, seen in a photograph in possession of Maggie.
On 1/3/3031, Ava shouts out in class due to Wrathia's harassment. She is sent to the principal's office, and while she is being reprimanded, Wrathia temporarily takes control of Ava's body and makes her give the principal the middle finger and call him a "paper pushing moron". She is expelled immediately and prepared to be sent to a Galactic Child Containment Planet for special needs children. Before she can be sent away, Maggie and Odin Arrow arrive in the office over a stalking accusation. During the commotion in the office, scavengers break through the wall. Odin picks up and carries away an unconscious Maggie. Ava follows as Wrathia attempts to discourage her. After a close encounter with the scavengers she manages to sneak onto Odin's spaceship - and as the ship takes off, she witnesses the destruction of her planet.
Still undetected by Odin, Wrathia guides Ava to pick up a wrench and attempt to knock him out while he hovers over Maggie. He notices her, however, and ends up tying her up next to Maggie. He tells her that he is going to drop her off at the next planet, to which she protests. Maggie awakens next to her. After quickly surveying her surroundings she gestures for Ava to be silent, and using her vine-like arm extensions, takes Odin by surprise. She ties him up using the vines, demanding that he gives an explanation and turns the ship around. After Odin refuses and insults her, she destroys the controls of the ship in a fit of rage, leaving Ava and Odin to die. She claims that she knows the crash won't kill her. The ship crashes in a forested area, sending the passengers and parts of the ship flying. Ava is impaled through the torso by a statue of TITAN wielding a sword and dies upon impact.
As a ghost, she converses with Wrathia, explaining that she has been waiting to die with dignity instead of by the demon's suicide attempts. This triggers the origin story and intentions of the Wrathia, formerly "one of the most powerful beings in the universe." To save her dying empire from TITAN, she brewed a cursed wine for her and all her best warriors. It would attach their souls to the next newest life form in the hopes of becoming a more powerful being- powerful enough to defeat TITAN. She poisoned her and her husband Pedri Nanegazi's share and drank. She ended up with Ava. Wrathia then explains the meaning of the "pact" she had been trying to tell Ava about for nearly her entire life. The two would both need to have strong desires that they work together to fulfill. Right before she is about to disappear, Ava admits that she wants a new life and a second chance. She agrees to make a pact with Wrathia in order to get her wish.The two shake hands and their souls combine, giving Ava's physical body all of Wrathia's previous powers and abilities.
After awakening, Ava melts the sword that has killed her with her bare hands and falls to the ground, unconscious, where her body is later discovered by Gil Marverde. Wrathia and Ava share a mind, which appears as giant cabinet drawers and children's toys. After meeting with Wrathia, she reveals that Ava's part of the pact is complete, giving her a "new life" and a "second chance" rather than an entirely "different life." The area starts to flood with lava as Ava, enraged, rips off a nearby cabinet handle and points it at Wrathia's neck. She threatens to ruin the pact if Wrathia does not fulfill her true desire. She eventually gives in with a deal - she'd give Ava her different new life after they kill TITAN, and cannot leave until Ava gets her new life. As per Ava's request, she gives a piece of her soul to Ava in the form of a key. Ava wakes up after taking Wrathia's heart key as collateral.
Gil, who was talking to his own demon, notices that Ava is awake and gives her water after apologizing for "talking to himself." He remarks that she had a high fever and touches her forehead, which is burning up. He introduces himself and Ava tells him her name, accidentally vomiting lava in the process. She runs to the bathroom, setting a sleeping Maggie's hair on fire along the way.
In the bathroom, she tells her reflection in the mirror that she hates her. Ava then notices the key sticking out of the wrappings on her chest. Upon removing the bandages, she sees a drawer embedded into her chest with the key in a keyhole. Inside the drawer is a book, Wrathia's Plan, filled with "bad drawings," as Ava describes them. Ava cannot understand the symbols and becomes exasperated. Wrathia then calls her on a small phone that appears in Ava's chest drawer. She explains that the drawings are images of her best warriors and that Ava must use the specs hidden in the book to see spirits and ask them where TITAN lives, so they can kill him. When Ava learns that Wrathia does not even know where TITAN lives, she despairs and her old insecurities return. She believes it is crazy and impossible for her to convince undead warriors to ally with her when she does not even believe in herself.
Wrathia encourages her gently, instead of getting angry. Ava tries on the Limbo Lenses and sees the world between living and dead. Gil then begins knocking at the door and telling Ava that he will knock it down if she doesn't open it. Ava escapes through the window and puts the specs on again, looking for the warriors as depicted in the book. She then trips on Odin, who notices the key and lock on her chest and remarks that it must be painful. He picks her up and she angrily tells her to release her, calling herself a "dangerous alien." Odin then hangs her on a tree branch and tries to take a picture of the drawer, but Ava kicks his camera out of his hands. She then attacks him, angry that he kidnapped and saved only Maggie and that he was planning to desert her on a barren moon to die. Odin defends himself while Ava kicks her legs around, causing the branch to break and fall with her. Odin removes the branch from her dress and gives her his coat to cover the drawer in her chest- Ava sees this as a friendly gesture and stays. She then notices Odin's ring nearby and tries it on. When he asks for it back she returns it sheepishly and apologizes.
His friendly demeanor is gone, and he sarcastically comments that she "had business to take care of," to which Ava retorts that she was "mentally preparing herself." He remarks that she looks twelve instead of fifteen, and she angrily walks away to find a shipyard to leave the planet. Odin tells her that there are miles of dense forest between any possible ports and that even a "dangerous alien" like her would not survive. Ava becomes angry and says that she is more than just a dangerous alien, stating haughtily that she is Ava and then says that she cannot die. He believes her, saying that it is plain on her face, which is glowing red, and her eyes, which have glowing yellow irises like Wrathia. She calms down after this and her eyes return to normal, though her skin remains feverish. He asks her if she knew of Maggie's powers, to which Ava replies she didn't. Gil arrives and invites Ava and Odin to accompany him to TITAN's headquarters. Seeing an opportunity to find out where TITAN resides, Ava quickly agrees. She may or may not have taken a liking to Gil, and accepts his invitation. Gil leaves the two at the ship to retrieve a book from his house. Ava sees Maggie asleep and puts on her Limbo Lenses, discovering that Maggie is actually pacted with a plant-like demon named Tuls Tenebrose, one of the warriors in Wrathia's book. The sign of Maggie and Tuls' pact is a door on her stomach covered in plant themes, the same way Ava's chest drawer is designed with what is presumably Wrathia's smiling face and flames.
Ava says that Tuls seems less frightening than both Wrathia and Maggie, although she is worries of how she's supposed to convince Maggie to join her in trying to kill TITAN when Maggie so obviously dislikes her. Odin suddenly comes in and notices Ava looking up Maggie's shirt. Ava tells him that it's "not what it looks like", but he continues teasing her, asking if the glasses were x-ray glasses for seeing up peoples shirt. This causes Ava to nearly vomit up lava again, but she is able to swallow it back down after Gil comes in and asks if everyone's ready to go. While the ship starts heading for TITAN HQ Ava asks Gil where TITAN exactly lives, in which Gil responds telling her that TITAN lives in Paradise. Ava then questions if anyone comes back from Paradise and Gil says no, and that Ava's question was stupid. Ava then states that no one actually knows if Paradise exists, which offends Gil. Odin backs Ava up by asking him how he could know if it exists if no one has ever come back to provide proof- inciting him more. Ava mentions that he must really like TITAN after Gil angrily proclaims he feels he was being interrogated. She starts to try to suggest that her opinion upon TITAN, but worriedly stops and tells him that she lost her train of thought. She then listens to Odin as he tells Gil that Paradise is probably not even real and that TITAN uses that tale to lure lifeforms into work for him.
Gil tells Ava and Odin that when he reaches Paradise after all his hard work, he will send them lots of "photographic evidence". After glancing at Odin and then to Gil, Ava, possibly feeling rather down, begins to hold Maggie's hand, but then stops, and somberly watches Maggie while she sleeps, knowing that she also has a demon.
Later, Ava eventually falls asleep and once again meets Wrathia in her mind for the second time. Ava tells Wrathia about finding Tuls, but Wrathia is dissatisfied, telling Ava that Tuls is only powerful when he is in a good mood, and that rarely happens. She suggests Ava find a better warrior, such as Nevy Nervine or Pedri Nanezgani. When Ava notices a yellow flower growing behind one of the drawers she comments bitterly of Wrathia has taken up gardening, to which Wrathia says that gardening is for servants. She then goes over to study the flower and finds herself in a hallway like area leading down to a green clearing filled with trees and flowers. She comments that the place is far to pretty to be her mind. As she looks around she finds Maggie, who angrily asks what she was doing there and if she was another of Tuls' twisted creations, and proceeds to hit her and tell her to get out. When Ava questions Maggie about getting out of her 'own mind', Maggie chokes her, talking about Tuls wasting his magic on illusions. Underneath them a large crack opens up into a gorge filled with lava. The two of them take on the appearances of their childhood selves. Ava Ire tries to convince Maggie that she's real and that she also has a demon with a pact that needs completing and that they could help each other complete them. Maggie spitefully asks what Ava knew about helping her and drops her into the gorge. Ava wakes up on the floor of the ship, the landing abruptly waking her.
Gil tells her and Odin to wait by the guards. The guards at TITAN HQ take note of her, Maggie's and Odin's faces. Odin tells Ava that they should escape on Gil's ship but she runs after Gil instead, who follows as well. Gil leads them to a refugee center before leaving with Maggie. Ava resigns herself to her fate, but Odin pries open the doors and runs away, dragging her along with him until they come to a stop behind the refugee center. Ava calls him crazy and argues with him loudly, mostly insulting him. Once they stop, he tells her that she would have been cycled back into the system and asks that she come with him to his home planet. Ava refuses at first and he walks away, but changes her mind when she sees bottles of injections and syringes on the crate she is sitting on. She runs after Odin. She tells Odin that she will come with him, on the condition that he helps her persuade Maggie to come along as well. Odin is skeptical, saying that Maggie deserves whatever she has coming to her, but Ava defends her friend and starts glowing orange, ultimately convincing Odin to agree. However, if Maggie attracts too much attention, Odin says that they leave without her. He additionally warns her to stop glowing or the guards might get suspicious. He then nervously asks if he really does smell bad, to which Ava replies that he smells like smoke and pine trees and actually smells good, which leaves them both flustered and embarrassed, so Odin suggests that they leave immediately. Ava, who slipped on her Limbo Lenses to cover her embarrassment, notices glowing red runes leading to and imprinted on Odin, who remains oblivious to what Ava is looking at and keeps explaining his plan to run. Eventually he notices that Ava isn't listening to him and calls her a pervert.
Pedri, Odin's demon, appears behind Ava and catches a lock of her hair as she stalks forward angrily, saying that she is not a pervert and placing her Lenses back in her chest drawer. Odin says that she reminds him of his sisters after she sticks her tongue out at him. When Ava asks Odin about his sisters he starts to change the subject. When the two enter into the building where Maggie is, Ava is revealed to dislike crowds and starts to panic. Odin tries to calm her down. He explains that the building just has one door, which would be their only entrance or exit. He gives his hand to Ava, saying that with it she won't be lost in the crowd, Ava initially refuses, so Odin takes her hand without caring about what she says. A spiritual form of Ava starts to form at her back; a representative of her social anxiety disorder. Ava sees Gil and Maggie, and asks Odin to stop. When they try to go after the two children, Ava stumbles into a guard, who asks what they are trying to do. Odin tries to justify them, saying that they are trying to leave the building. The guard says them that the two can't leave because Strategos Six is about to speak. Ava starts to cry. The two head back to the crowd and Odin says to Ava that they maybe will find Maggie close to the stage. Unfortunately Raven and Crow "steal" Odin from Ava. When she draws close to the stage, she notices that Odin is missing,. Strategos Six is announced, as Ava tries to ask if there's a way to get out. A follower orders her to stay silent, and Six comes to the stage. As Ava watches Six talk, she becomes nervous when The Gate to Paradise is shown.
She begs a guard to let her go, but Six takes notice and calls her up to use the machine. While she tries to escape, a guard forces Ava to the stage. After mentioning that she is new there, Six replies that The Gate will be able to fix her, and that she will be a follower in no time. Ava refuses once again, claiming she likes how she looks, and arguing that everybody has sad thoughts. Six harshly begins an attempt to convince Ava that she needs to change, but Ava refuses to yield. Six gets tired of it and orders Prudith Loone to "prep" Ava, and so the follower grabs Ava's arm, orders her to look at a monitor, and puts her hand on a screen. Prudith then orders Ava to enter The Gate to Paradise. However, Ava continues to resist. Prudith calls her ungrateful, and Ava tries to convince her to pick someone else. Prudith says that the procedure isn't optional and pushes Ava into the machine, but in the process, ends up inside with her. Prudith orders Ava to stay inside the gate and calls Ava a "Stupid brat"; she then tries to escape the machine. However, the door is closed and Prudith is trapped. She tries shouting at the door, but Six cannot hear her and begins designing Ava's new appearance. After realizing that nobody can hear her, Prudith becomes angry and turns back to Ava, saying that she must be very proud of herself for ruining the presentation. Ava becomes even more frightened as Prudith continues her tirade, complaining that she is sick of stupid followers like Ava; she talks about how she worked hard for TITAN, attempting to get into the Paradise. She states that when they get out of there, Ava will continue living her mediocre life, which will end in "hell" or "heaven". Prudith then asks Ava if she knows where Prudith will be; Ava gingerly replies that Prudith will be in Paradise, and the follower mockingly congratulates Ava for giving the right answer, saying that she will be looking at all failures (like Ava) from Paradise.However, the machine proves to have terrifying affects for Prudith. Her body is rapidly cracked into pieces, and the machine only keeps her brain, eyes, and nervous system. Ava watches in horror at how Prudith's body is discarded in the process.
The machine then creates a new body around what remains of Prudith, complete with bones, muscle tissue, and skin. Ava begins to panic at Prudith's new body, which looks like another Ava, and calls to Wrathia for help. Ava receives a call from Wrathia asking where "he" is. Ava says that she doesn't know what Wrathia is talking about and asks for help, as she explains that she is at TITAN HQ, trapped in the machine. Wrathia is pleased, and completely unworried that Ava is in danger. After Ava begs for help, Wrathia says that she already has the help she needs, and sends Ava one of her bottles from the book. Upon drinking the red bottle, Ava starts to cough lava from her mouth, growing fangs and horns, assuming an appearance similar to Wrathia. Otherworldly clothing begins to mold unto her body. She starts to speak maniacally, and objects around her are set alight. Before long, Ava destroys the door of The Gate to Paradise and throws Prudith Loone's burning body out of it. She proceeds to decapitate all the guards in the room with some sort of energy stream, and gleefully assaults Strategos Six as they try to call for backup. Six is incapacitated as she slams them to the ground, having cut their communications. She demands that Six be silent, stating that she has the stage now.
After incapacitating Strategos Six, Ava says that she will show her appreciation of TITAN through a theatrical production of her own design; Ava then throws Six off the stage and pulls a battle-axe resembling her key out of her drawer. Ava starts to move on to the next 'scene'; while lifting her axe, Ava tells the audience members that are still alive to do her a favor and scream. Ava swings her axe and causes an explosion, killing everyone in the main stage area and damaging the surrounding rooms.
She then talks, dramatically, about a "spectacular performance" and the "star of today's grand finale"- noticing Gil and Maggie yelling at her and recognizing her as Ava, replying with an upbeat "Bingo!". Six is still alive, hiding behind a piece of nearby rubble. After pulling a long, white sword out of the orb on their chest, they reveal themselves, aggressively charging at Ava with their weapon. "You're just in time to see the sun shine," she remarks as she readies her own axe and jumps towards Six. She and Six then engage in battle, though it soon become obvious that Six is no match for Ava's newfound power. She easily overpowers Six, performing intricate incantations and summoning bodies of fire to drag Six into the lava, presumably killing them. After her triumph, Titan HQ cools to ashes and Ava climbs the Titan statue to rest.
She notices Odin walking in her direction, and immediately berates Odin passive aggressively for leaving her behind. She ignores Odin's confusion and continues toying with him, noting that she still feels something fierce left in her. With the last bit of her power, Ava sets the Titan statue ablaze and promptly passes out, leaving Odin to take care of her. After finding one of Maggie's leaves, Odin picks up Ava and decides to find Maggie, hoping there will be a way to escape from Titan HQ.When Maggie and Gil get inside a cargo vessel, Odin is shown running to the cargo vessel while holding an unconscious Ava in his arms. Maggie attempts to keep them out, but Odin leaps (with Ava still in his arms) in front of the door. Ava lays unconscious throughout Odin, Maggie, and Gil's argument, only being mentioned once or twice through it.
She dreams of Wrathia, gushing about the power she felt under the vial to her, and says that she didn't blame her for giving her such as small dose, in wariness that she may have done more reckless things. When it is revealed to her that the vial wasn't a potion, but a curse that would last a thousand lifetimes, her mouth fills with poppies and Wrathia appears as a snake (in dream). She wakes up, screaming "YOU! LYING! SNAKE!", hands filled with fire. She relaxes quickly and her eyes return to what they looked like pre-vial, saying that it was only a dream with a nervous laugh.
She asked if they had arrived at HQ yet, thinking that all of what happened from arrival to the HQ planet onwards was a dream. Maggie yells that HQ was just annihilated, and Gil's sleeve catches on fire. Ava puts it out and apologizes, realizing not all of it was a dream. Maggie blows up at her for decimating HQ and her life, and tells her that it was Odin that brought her here. Ava responds by telling her that a lot has changed since they got to HQ, and she wanted Odin to take her to Maggie, because she didn't want to lose her. Maggie recognizes this as "still not being over her", and calls Ava pathetic. Ava is surprised by this and tries to explain that she knows Maggie is also haunted, and also knows her demons name. She then tries to explain herself to Gil, saying that what she did at the HQ wasn't the best course of action. Ava tries to explain that she was forced on stage at gunpoint, and was shoved into the paradise machine. Ava states that the Strategos had it out for her, believing that they wanted to humiliate her. Gil then fearfully asks Ava if she had murdered them, while Ava states after a moment that she did what it took to escape. Gil turns away from Ava as she yells to wait and that she'll show him, and she rips of the front of her dress. She then pulls out her drawer and Wrathia's plan, explaining Wrathia's past and what she hast to do complete her pact. She states that Maggie knows what a "pact" means. Maggie denies this and says its just an excuse Ava made for herself, and that she does it all the time. Ava denies this, Gil interrupts and claims she is distracting them with "conspiratorial ramblings".
Ava then calls Gil stupid for not listening, and he yells at Ava that he is not scared of her. Ava angrily yells that she is not trying to scare him, that she is trying to be honest. She claims that by Gil's standards, TITAN's entire empire was most likely built on hurting others. Gil begins to panic, as his eyes resembling Ava's when Wrathia would possess her. He claims that Ava "must have it all figured out", and that she can spare him her honesty. He then claims he is going to turn her in as soon as they leave, and a pair of disembodied hands appear to rest on his left shoulder. Ava puts her limbo lenses on seeing Nevy. Shocked, she begins to talk to Nevy, asking her about herself. Ava remembers that Nevy cannot hear her, as the glasses don't transmit audio. After realizing this, she goes to the pages in Wrathia's book that have the pictures of Nevy, and shows her. Nevy looks at the page with a hopeful gaze, surprised that Ava can see her and that the book has her image in it. As Nevy moves to touch the page, Ava remarks that the book did her little justice, and questions whether her and Wrathia were good friends. once Nevy touched the page her appearance changed to the way she did when she was still alive. Nevy then sees Ava as Wrathia, similar to how Ava sees pacted hosts and says her name. Once Nevy regains her memories she throws her head back and screams as Ava looks on with a shocked and worried expression. Once Nevy transforms into a single form she addresses Ava as Wrathia Bellarmina and peers into her mind as Ava yells at her to stop.
After Nevy finishes berating Ava she reverts to her original ghost appearance and falls, she then begins foaming at the mouth. Gil becomes worried and says her name repeatedly and asks her to say something. Once Nevy melts into sea foam Ava states that shes still a little dizzy and asks if Nevy is OK or if she usually melts into sea water. Gil angered at Ava, tells her "no...she usually doesn't melt! But I know exactly why she did," and proceeds to tear pages out of Wrathia's Plan and throws it onto a shelf. Ava becomes incredibly enraged by this, telling Gil that he and the other followers are "brain-dead". Spurred by her rage, Ava yells at Gil that all the followers deserved to die, and that if she could go back, she would kill Gil the same way she did Strategos: Six feet into a brimstone grave. Gil then proceeds to slap her. At this point, Ava's anger is replaced with regret, saying that "I deserved that." She leaves the room sobbing to go hide in a corner, in which she has a panic attack.
During her panic attack, Odin comes in to check on her, bringing her snacks and returning the book that Gil threw. Ava calms down a bit more, and Odin comforts her before offering snacks. The two eat together, and Ava proceeds to question him, curious about where he came from and why he was on her schooling planet. Odin then tells her about his planet, the destruction of his sun, the starvation and tragedy that befell his people, his missing sister, Magpie, and his mission to find a host or someone powerful to bring back to Olai in exchange for information about what happened to Magpie. He also informs Ava of a shocking truth: the Scavengers are also TITAN's technology, and he purposefully destroys people's lives so he can pretend to save them, all from the made-up threat. He also notices her horns, and she proceeds to freak out about how "ugly" she's become, now that she looks like Wrathia.
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