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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 capturedā¦ 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 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.
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.
She dragged Kurbisās body to a small island.
Tried to deny what had already happened.
Grief turned into obsession
Instead of embracing her freedom, Avakh chose revenge.
She spent years carrying Kurbisās body with her while hunting down the pirates.
Even as the body decomposed.
When only the skeleton remained, she kept carrying only the skull.
But because she refused to "leave him behind" again.
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.
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.
Avakh's hair is so long it almost touches the ground.
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.
Kurbis was already destined to die because he was sick.
