"Sounds like an adventure to me! I always wanted to fly my plane!"- Avery Darling, Dawn of the Nameless.
Avery Skye Darling is a Cloud District CRiTORA and one of the main characters in the CRiTORA series.
Bio
The Canary CRiTORA. To Avery, every day is an exciting day! This excitable birdie is an expert when it comes to building gadgets, which always includes her distinct charm. Avery's helmet has in-built robot arms to help her make her gadgets or to fight off threats with laser guns. She is one of OS's last CRiTORA.
Personality
Avery is filled to the brim with energy, always making the best of moments. She always looks forward to meeting new friends, but is shy around tougher CRiTORA. Avery is also a genius who builds gadgets out of ordinary things. Similar to 
Coneboy, however, Avery can be sarcastic, especially towards Coneboy, leading to arguments between the two until 
Spottie stops them. Avery is a fanatic of the steampunk genre and themes her gadgets after such.
Physical Appearance
Avery is an avian CRiTORA with a primarily bright yellow body. She has large, rounded eyes with pink irises and a light pink beak. Her cheeks have pink, heart-shaped markings, and she has a large tuft of hair with a pink tip. Her torso is yellow with a white underbelly, and she has a pink, frilled tail. Her wings are pink, and she has thin, light pink legs and feet. Avery typically wears a dark fuchsia aviator helmet with velvet maroon goggles, a white scarf, and a dark fuchsia cuff around one of her legs.
As V-Avery, her body is now mostly bright pink in color. Her eyes now have dark purple, square-shaped irises, and her beak is now fuchsia and jagged in shape. Her tuft of hair is also more jagged, and the heart markings on her cheeks now resemble broken halves of hearts, both fuchsia in color. Her torso is now pink, and her underbelly has a pink stripe running down the middle. V-Avery's tail is now dark purple and jagged, and her wings are now fuchsia and sharper in shape. Her legs are now white in color, with the cuff being dark purple. Her helmet is now dark purple with fuchsia, rectangular goggles and jagged straps, and her scarf is now more angular, tapering off behind her.
Powers and Abilities
- Darling Dash - Avery puts on a temporary burst of speed, leaving behind a pink trail that lags any entity it touches.
- Pretty Peck - Avery pecks at an enemy with her beak.
- Robo Grabbers - Robot arms come out of the sides of Avery's helmet. They can be used for grabbing things or for battle.
- In battle, the Robo Grabbers can become hammers or laser blasters.
- Technological Expertise - Avery is very skilled with steampunk gadgets, being able to make machines out of ordinary junk, such as airships and hammers.
Relationships
Coneboy Golliday - Coneboy and Avery have bit of a rivalry. When Coneboy says something annoying, Avery may make a sarcastic remark at his expense. Occasionally, Coneboy will snap back at Avery, forcing Spottie to intervene. Despite this, Coneboy and Avery are willing to work together to solve problems, with Avery even making robotic enhancements for Coneboy.- Eggy - Avery is very protective towards Eggy and will use her gadgets to protect Eggy from ViRUSES.
- Spottie Leonard - Avery and Spottie are friends. To be added on.
Trivia
- In her earliest iteration, Avery was originally a seagull named Avey. Avey was slightly redesigned and was brought back as Coral Seavia in 2020.
- According to Daydreaming Birdie, Avery's character is what caused him to develop the CRiTORA series and grow attached to its characters.
- For this reason, Avery is Daydreaming Birdie's favorite CRiTORA character.
- Avery was originally voiced by Tamii in Season 1 and the original version of Dawn of the Nameless, and had a British accent. From Error 404 onwards, however, she has an American accent. This was because Daydreaming Birdie didn't like the idea of Avery, as well as Nuzzie Bitz, having a British accent.
- While Daydreaming Birdie doesn't hate the voice, it wasn't how he envisioned Avery's voice.
- During Error 404's production, Avery was originally intended to retain her original voice, but Daydreaming Birdie soon contacted Tamii and explained he didn't envision Avery as British. Wubcake was casted to voice Avery in her stead.
- She was later redubbed in Dawn of the Nameless with an American accent, but her voice actress was now Elyse Hales due to Wubcake abruptly cutting ties with Daydreaming Birdie. Hales currently voices Avery to this day.
- Wubcake's controversy in 2023 discouraged Daydreaming Birdie from working with her further, making Error 404 the only episode where Wubcake voiced Avery.
- In the 2018-2020 prototype episodes, Avery did have an American accent and was voiced by Evelin Case, but it wasn't quite how Daydreaming Birdie envisioned her sounding like.
- Her infected form was originally going to be dark yellow, but was changed to dark pink to avoid similarities with Galarian Zapdos from Pokémon.
- Until 2023, Daydreaming Birdie felt Avery was the least developed of the main trio, which inspired him to give her character a steampunk aesthetic.
- As revealed in the novel series, Avery's creation number is 655.
Design origins
Avery is based on a canary, but has similarities with cockatiels as well. Her design was inspired by various avian characters, including Birdie the Early Bird from McDonalds, Margalo the Bird from Stuart Little 2, Ming-Ming Duckling from Wonder Pets!, and Biyomon from the Digimon franchise, specifically Digimon Adventure.
In 2023, Avery was further developed to have a steampunk aesthetic in order to make her stand out from the aforementioned characters.
Name origins
Her first name is derived from aviator. Her last name comes from her endearing nature.
Design changes
In the non-canon pilot season, her color palette was more saturated, with her goggles now bearing white glass instead of light blue. She also had a less angular and more rounded body. In the non-canon first season, she was given a more simplified color palette, with her feathers becoming a more muted yellow and shades of pink being introduced into her design. In early 2023, her proportions were changed slightly,
In mid-2023, her design was slightly simplified, with her color scheme becoming more saturated.
Appearances
Main series
- How CRiTORA are Created (first canon appearance)
- Theme Song (2024)
- Airship Joyride
Side episodes
- Meet Avery Darling
Shorts
The User and...
- The User and Avery Darling
Other
- Claw Machine
- Good Morning!
- Orange Juice Break
- Darling Dash
- Darling Dash 2
- 4th of July Fireworks!
- Rainbow Road!
Novels
- CRiTORA - The Novelization
- Book 1 (Chapter 1)
Comics
Comic strips
- Meet Avery!
- Cannon
- Upgrade
- Meet Big G!
- Counting Numbers
- Flyin' in the Sky!
- What To Do Today?
Non-canon
Season 0
- Greetings from CRiTOPiA! (first chronological appearance)
- The Trash Can
- Save! Delete! Copy! (cameo, in-drawing only)
- Theme Song (2020)
- Lag Race
- Beware the ViRUSES!
- Snow Fight
Season 1
- Theme Song (2021)
- Dawn of the Nameless
- Error 404
- Superstore Sweep
- Theme Song (2023)
- Meetup Mayhem
