#avakh

Hello…

*her voice is low.*

I know you and Kurbis made up.

*She pauses for a moment, carefully choosing her words.*

I just came to understand what happened.

*Her green eye fixes on him, direct, without aggression.*

He was inconsolable… and ran away from the Carriage.

*Her fingers tighten slightly, as if she’s reliving the scene for a second.*

I couldn’t calm him down.

*She exhales more heavily than before.*

And I need to understand why.

*Avakh looks away for a moment, as if admitting it makes her uncomfortable.*

I’m not angry…

*A short pause.*

Okay… I won’t lie. I am a little.

But I’m not going to hold onto that now that everything is fine.

*She looks back at Pom Pom.*

I just want to know what happened… so that if it happens again, I know what to do.

Pom Pom keeps his head lowered, ears slightly pinned back as he speaks—voice quiet, careful, like he’s already bracing for impact.

“…Miss Ava.”

A small pause.

“I knew you were gonna be mad about what happened between me and Kurbis.”

His paws shift uneasily at his sides.

“So it’s okay to be upset at me.”

He doesn’t look up yet, like he’s accepting whatever reaction might come.

“…for what happened… Kurbis came to me acting strange.”

His tone tightens slightly, but he stays controlled.

“Like someone was pretending to be him.”

A beat.

“He was smiling all funny… and kept trying to act happy for me.”

His tail flicks once, then stills.

“I knew I was going a bit far when I yelled…” he admits, quieter now. “But I needed to protect Mother. In case it was something bad.”

Finally, his voice softens just a fraction—confused more than defensive.

“Even if it upset me… and confused me.”

Day 3

🐟For the last time🎃

Lore

(Year 1700)

Avakh was captured by pirates when she was still a child, at 10 years old.

On the same ship was Kurbis, an 8 year old human boy

He may have been captured… or he may have sneaked aboard while trying to run away from his own life, a choice that led him to the worst possible fate.

The two grew close during their captivity.

Children trapped in a cruel place quickly learn to rely on each other.

Kurbis on the ship

Kurbis was treated as disposable labor.

Weak, sick, and constantly punished, he was already seen by the pirates as someone "not worth the effort of keeping alive."

When he tried to escape with Avakh in a small boat during the night, that became the final reason for his sentence.

Kurbis’s death:

The pirates decided he would die by drowning.

They tied a rope around his neck, with the other end attached to something heavy to make sure he would sink.

Avakh was kept restrained, forced to watch as Kurbis was thrown into the sea.

After countless desperate attempts, she managed to free herself and jumped into the water to save him.

But it was too late.

The island

She dragged Kurbis’s body to a small island.

She tried to revive him.

Tried to wake him.

Tried to deny what had already happened.

Kurbis had drowned.

Grief turned into obsession

Instead of embracing her freedom, Avakh chose revenge.

She spent years carrying Kurbis’s body with her while hunting down the pirates.

Even as the body decomposed.

When only the skeleton remained, she kept carrying only the skull.

Not out of madness.

But because she refused to "leave him behind" again.

The revenge (adulthood)

As an adult, Avakh finally found the pirates.

During the confrontation, she lost her eye and her arm.

But she succeeded in taking her revenge.

ability

Unlike other mermaids, Avakh does not use a singing voice.

She uses her antenna to hypnotize people.

This was an ability she did not know how to use as a child

She learned and perfected it during the years she spent hunting the pirates.

Avakh's psychological state:

She is indifferent and distrustful of everyone, not only because of the pirates but because over the years she tried to trust other people and the results were not positive.

She is extremely protective of Kurbis; she doesn't want to lose him again, she doesn't want to fail him again.

If you win her trust, she will still have an indifferent expression on her face, but you will notice more affection and protectiveness in her actions.

She is always tired from being constantly on alert and always playing with Kurbis, making sure he is always happy.

Interesting facts:

Avakh's hair is so long it almost touches the ground.

In my story:

a ghost takes the form that makes sense based on how they died.

Kurbis, who drowned, is now a small ghost mermaid.

The name "Kurbis" means "Pumpkin".

Kurbis was a friend's OC, and before that he was a monster child with a pumpkin head (I gave him the name Kurbis. And my friend gave me his OC.)

The first time I created Avakh, she was a imaginary friend; she had two antennae, and tail with three spikes (I lost the drawing... and it's Amino's fault)

Avakh sings like a true mermaid, but her song doesn't hypnotize.

Sometimes she describes the taste of certain foods to Kurbis when he asks.

Kurbis doesn't remember much from his lifetime and doesn't have many memories of the day he died; he has fragmented memories of his last days, remembering laughter and the cold.

Kurbis is a playful ghost, always wanting to play and extremely curious.

Avakh can take on human form.

The pirates were going to sell to Avakh.