While this change did little to calm the angry bird-man (reminding him too much of his origins) a subtle rapport grew between Truttle and Duchane. Her journal entries became more flowery, she began sleeping at the lab, and eventually entering the containment to make 'contact' with this fascinating man/bird. Untimely, Duchane broke all rules about contact with the prisoner, then allowed him to escape. The Authorities were furious, but rather than reveal their own culpability in this unorthodox experiment, they glossed over the details of the escape in their report and 'requested' that Duchane never return to the US or face criminal prosecution. She quickly complied, so that the authorities would not notice her condition.

Returning to her native Africa, Duchane continued her work in seclusion, never revealing the father of her child to her now distanced friends and co-workers. Whoever the man was, they surmised he must have been pretty special for her to pine over him like that. For fourteen years the pair lived alone in the wilds of Africa, with Duchane submitting the occasional paper and getting the occasional grant. All the time she stared at the horizon, waiting for the Vulture to return to her. The cancer claimed her first.

Agatha Duchane Truttle is a mutant, her powers originating in the DNA grafting that had transformed her father. After her mother's death, she came to the USA under a false name to find her father and introduce herself. Unfortunately, Vulture is presumed dead at this time, and Agatha has no means of support other than her strange powers. Hungry, alone, and without many social skills, it took her very little time to made her decision to follow her father's footsteps. And why shouldn't she turn to crime? After the world made her father into a superhuman, declared him a monster and hounded him to his (apparent) death? He deserves his vengeance on the world, and she'll be his instrument! That's what Agatha thinks in her more florid moments. So far she's content to use her vision and control of birds for petty theft.

In combat Aviary will usually spend one action per turn evading, one giving specific instructions to her followers and one for a possible attack, or to summon more birds. Her birds will be commanded to intercept incoming ranged attacks with their bodies, steal opponent devices and items, fly directly into faces or under feet to blind or trip, perhaps peck at the targets exposed flesh, and so on. Right now Aviary isn't comfortable with using them to blind people, but as time goes on she'll get used to it. The players might find it harder than they think to take down a teenage girl who's protected by an ever-regenerating wall of pigeons and crows--ranged attacks might prove useless (despite killing many a poor feathered rat), and getting close would be difficult and dangerous. The GM is encouraged to be creative with the power, perhaps with her eventually training to increase the birds combat effectiveness in coordinated attacks, or using their senses to spy on targets from very far away.

Aviary wears as little clothing as possible, to keep the advantage of her hair's strange 'air sense'. Given that, her costume is a string bikini top and cutoff shorts, both dark blue (which plays well against her café-au-lait skin). She has a vulture image/patch on both her right breast and the back pocket of her shorts. She wears light sandals, but prefers going barefoot. She likes pina-coladas and getting caught in the…nevermind.