Avery

Biography

Avery is twenty-three years old — the youngest person aboard Home, and the last birth the community experienced before Lucy Reeves's arrival. In a community defined by caution, patience, and the weight of generational failure, Avery is an anomaly: genuinely, irrepressibly excited by almost everything.

His zero-gravity physiology is the most pronounced of anyone aboard — spindly limbs, a narrow frame, a slightly too-large head with puffy features, and a voice that emerges as an enthusiastic squeak. He moves through Home's corridors with the effortless grace of someone for whom weightlessness is not an adaptation but a birthright, making constant micro-adjustments that are invisible to gravity-adapted observers.

Avery's role aboard Home defies easy categorisation. He is not a leader, not an engineer, not a coordinator — yet he is indispensable. He greets visitors, guides exhausted arrivals to their quarters, tailors uniforms from spare clothing, prepares meals for a growing population, and appears at doorways precisely when someone needs him. His skills are practical and self-taught — sewing, cooking, organising — acquired through necessity on a ship where everything is old and everyone must be resourceful.

When Aggie revealed her nature as an AGI, Avery's response was the purest in the room: an involuntary somersault followed by a whispered recognition that the founders had been right all along. For someone born into a cause he never chose, that moment was vindication distilled to its essence.

Personality Traits

Appearances

• The Proliferation (Book 5) — Home's youngest resident who serves as the community's unofficial caretaker, greeter, and emotional barometer, providing warmth and humanity throughout the story.

Key Relationships