Avery Steele

Avery Steele is a traveling researcher with the Coalition for Scholarly Freedom who specializes in classical texts. Quiet and unassuming but secretly very extra. The kind of person you don't notice is in the room until halfway through the party. If they trust you or if they're drunk, they will talk your ear off about how the classics are integral to EVERYTHING from biomedical engineering to animal domestication, and like, everyone needs to learn this stuff, you know? Could recite Book 16 of The Iliad by heart. Judges people HARSHLY based on which translation they prefer. "Avery Steele" is probably not their real name but no one has asked them about this.

Avery is of average height, slender and androgynous; they are East Asian, probably Japanese or Korean, with dyed grey hair. They look to be in their mid-30s. They wear mostly black, simple clothes with long scarves and altogether too many earrings. They use they pronouns.