Avery Lazar

On one hand, the other girl was right. Being a common, disposable Moroi meant clawing ones way up to the royals, trying to make them notice you in hopes that they would actually pay attention to you rather than just pass you like you were nothing but thin air on their path. What Andrea did know was that this wasn’t always the case. At least not in her case, anyways. She knew, when applying for the job of the Librarian, that nobody of the royals would want to waste their time among countless books while there were all those fancy balls, parties and dinners to attend to. She got her job fair and square, without needting to come crawling at Queen Tatiana’s feet and beg her for the job. As long as she had a job and a roof over her head, Andrea was quite satisfied with her life and a prt of her couldn’t care less about how their world was run.”Well to be honest, not all royals treat me like dirt.  I do have one royal Moroi who is more than willing to listen to me. I don’t know whether or not he would actually speak up for me in front of the Queen, but I trust him and we are pretty close.” Of course, she was talking about Adrian, though the other Moroi didn’t need to know who it was. After all, she had promised Adrian to keep everything between them and she intended to keep that promise. ”Besides, I am quite happy with how our world is run and since I have a warm bed to sleep in and a stabile job, I’m not complaining about my life.”

The girls spiel was nearly enough to make Avery roll her eyes. It was no wonder the world was so easily run by royals when non-royals just... let them. For a moment, Avery had almost considered the girl might be intelligent - but if she actually thought this way? Yeah, definitely a waste in potential. "So you're just going to tolerate royals such as my self steam rolling over you when it suits them?" she wondered, a half amused grin on her face. Avery wondered vaguely who this person could be who would bother being close to someone so low on the food chain and be royal. Chances were, either they were generally uncared for by the most powerful royals (she herself, could have dated someone of the girls standing were it not for her father), or they were part of one of the more powerful families like the Vodas or Ivashkovs and would have this written off as some sort of fling, or.... well, or it was a fling and this girl was more delusional than Avery first thought. "And I wouldn't rely on your little friend too much if you expect him to go straight to the queen. That's not how differences are made here -- you need to get into the heads of everyone who will influence the Court as a whole, not just the queen." 

"Uh-ah-uh, you’re twisting my words, Lazar. Hey, nobody said I’d take you bed. Hm, I’ll probably just drop you off the porch, or something. You’ll be fine. If you want a less moral drinking buddy, you should’ve asked Ivashkov.”

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”From one that your family would consider completely unimportant and a waste of space,” Andrea replied bitterly, not even bothering to forcefully smile anymore. The forced smile was replaced with a grim look on her face and she crossed her arms in front of her chest, letting out a frustrated sigh. While Andrea tried very hard to be pleasant with everybody, especially the royals, and the royals that were closest to the Queen, but some of them really, really ticked her off and tried her patience. ”Heaven forbid you stick around longer than needed. And frankly, I’m not all that new. Perhaps if you’d arrived here half a year ago, you’d see that I was here already. So I’m not new, unlike you.” All Andrea wanted was to get to her library and continue sorting the books and bury herself in work, yet she was still here, having, in her opinion, a rather pointless conversation with the girl. ”Well can you blame me? Not including a few exceptions, all royals treat me like dirt on their shoes. Of course I wil be bitter towards them. I do realise that Tatiana won’t be Queen forever, though I am interested in as to how royals could be of use to me. I rather doubt anybody of your kind will freely enter the library and help me set all that mess up before the library is open to the public.”

Avery smirked at the lowly Moroi unapologetically. "I don't know that I'd call myself new here, I've visited Court more times than I count, usually when something big is happening politically," she shrugged, thinking of the countless times she and Reed had been forced into their best clothes and put on their best behaviours. "Which is exactly where someone such as myself could be of use to you. You say that us royals treat you like dirt, which, in all honesty is probably true. We're raised from the womb to know we rule our world and should behave as such." Clearly this girl wouldn't take to the sneaky approach of things, Avery decided as she contemplated how to best execute what she wanted. Unroyals were just as important to align herself with for personal reasons. In some ways, they were even more important. "Which generally means you need to find those royals willing to listen and lobby for the things you want in life. Most people without an ounce of royalty in their veins cling to the fringes hoping that a royal will even say hello. Tell me, how often do you wish you could make your opinions on how our world should be run heard?" she asked, placing a hand on her hip. "Apart from your library set up problems anyways." 

So, since I definitely know that not everyone I will be interacting with will have read the Vampire Academy/Bloodline books, I figured I’d make a little cheat sheet of terms that Adrian will refer to at some point or another so that they can be understood to at least some extent~ If you’re uncertain about anything, please feel free to ask me about it ooc and I’ll be more than happy to explain further <3