Avery Wilshere, a character in the Platinum book, is a professional pop singer and one of your love interests. (S)he is first seen in Chapter 1.
Appearance
The player can choose the gender as well as the look of Avery. Male Avery has blue eyes, short dirty blond hair, and white skin tone. His stage outfit consists of a button up shirt with the buttons undone, a necklace under a blue blazer, and black pants. His casual outfit consists of a pinkish red collared shirt under a grey jacket with a pocket on his left chest area while wearing blue pants. Female Avery has blue eyes, long blonde hair, white skin tone, and also has light red lipstick on. Her stage outfit consists of a golden dress with an arrow pattern on the front and sides along with transluscent black leggings worn under a black leather jacket. Her casual outfit consists of a knee length white dress with a floral pattern, a silver ring on her left ring finger, and a silver necklace.
Personality
Avery is warm, personable, and encouraging. Fiona says Avery’s narrative is close to the truth although it is still crafted by publicists like herself. In Chapter 6, during Avery's fitting, Fiona tells you Avery knows "how to play the game" by being a "chameleon" concerning stage outfits.
Background
During a conversation in Chapter 7, Avery tells you that Ellis Knight discovered his/her talent show video on PlayMe and signed him/her to the record company immediately. Due to said video going viral, Avery went from performing in school gymnasiums to playing stadiums overnight which he/she found overwhelming at first until he/she found out ways that helped him/her stay grounded. Avery's debut album became the best-selling pop-album of the last fifty years. During the main story, Avery is working on his/her sophomore album and has considered writing his/her own songs instead of relying in the ghostwriters brought in by the record company, but always got shut down by his/her team.
Chapters
Platinum
Platinum
- Chapter 1: Stars In Your Eyes
- Chapter 2: Headlines
- Chapter 3: Lift Me Up
- Chapter 4: On Fire
- Chapter 5: Pack Your Bags
- Chapter 6: Knockout
- Chapter 7: Can't Stop
- Chapter 8: Down To The Wire
- Chapter 9: Famous
- Chapter 10: Hurricane
- Chapter 11: Why Do I
- Chapter 12: Crossfire
- Chapter 13: How To Start Again
- Chapter 14: On The Horizon
- Chapter 15: Fly Higher
- Chapter 16: Who I'll Be
Big Sky Country
Book 2
- Chapter 11: Meet Me At The Festival (Mentioned; Determinant)
The Senior
The Senior
- Chapter 11: Go Your Own Way (Mentioned; Determinant)
Save the Date
Save the Date
- Chapter 14: We Gather Here Today (Mentioned)
Hot Couture
Hot Couture
- Chapter 15: City of Lights (Mentioned)
Murder at Homecoming
Murder at Homecoming
- Chapter 7: Party Crasher (Mentioned; Determinant)
Getaway Girls
Getaway Girls
- Chapter 14: Where Your Loyalties Lie (Mentioned; Determinant)
Roommates with Benefits
Roommates with Benefits
- Chapter 14: Movie Magic (Mentioned)
Along Came Treble
Along Came Treble
- Chapter 10: Sweet Home Chicago (Mentioned; Determinant)
Relationships
Your Character
Your Character meets Avery for the first time when he/she stops by your smoothie shop and interrupts you while you are singing along to the music playing in your earbuds. Avery compliments your singing, and you overhear that Avery is performing that night at a small venue. You can choose to leave your job and go to the concert (premium scene) or continue working and hope you make it on time. If you choose not to go, you miss the concert but run into Avery outside of the venue. Avery offers to drop you home and you accept; he/she also asks if you would like to show him/her around the area (premium scene). If you choose not to, he/she drops you off at your home and invites you to audition for the show "One in a Million". You decide to go and after competing against other hopefuls, Avery picks you as his/her choice to mentor for the week.
In Chapter 3, your rehearsal is rough and Avery worries about you. He/she hopes you would talk to him/her about what is troubling you. Avery says he/she sees a lot of him/herself in you, all the fear, excitement, and hope. In Chapter 6, you have the option of kissing Avery in your music video. If you choose to, your fan count will increase but you are unsure if the kiss meant anything to Avery. In Chapter 7, Avery talks to you about his/her sophomore album and that the record label will not let him/her write any songs. This makes Avery a little insecure and you have the premium option to help him/her with songwriting. After the charity fundraiser, Fiona tells you that Avery asked you to be his/her opening act at Madison Square Garden.
Fiona Syed
Fiona is Avery's publicity manager. If you achieve enough fame, Avery reveals in the end s/he quit Overknight Records and decided to open his/her own record company, asking Fiona to become the CEO.
Hank Hatora
Hank is Avery's new driver.
Character Customization
Other Looks
Miscellaneous
Trivia
- Your Character mentions that Avery lives in London, England.
- In Chapter 12, Avery says that he/she is from Blackawton.
- The name Avery is of English origin and means: Rules with elf-wisdom, ruler of the elves, counselor, sage, wise, descendant of Eber. The name Eber is of Hebrew origin and means "one that passes" or "anger". It's a most common variant of the Ancient German name Alberich, equivalent of Old French name Auberon (Oberon in English). In German Mythology, Alberich is the King of the elves; this state made Oberon the king of the fairies in medieval mythology, being considered his counterpart.
- She/He shares the same name as Avery, a character in Home for the Holidays.
- The surname Wilshere is of English and Welsh origin, which means: Settlement, tricky, capricious.
- In The Senior, Chapter 11, if you're dating Kaitlyn, she will mention that Overknight Records wants her band to perform together with Avery Wilshere.
- Avery's songs include:
- Lift Me Up
- How to Start Again
- Queen of My Heart (mentioned in a premium scene in Chapter 1, performed without special effects in Chapter 8)
- Last Dance
- Hurricane
- Love who I'll Be (determinant, if chosen to sing a duet with your character)
- It is revealed in Chapter 1 that Avery has 20 million followers.
- In the same chapter, he/she ordered the mango-banana smoothie.
- If you go to the fair with Avery, he/she will also mention going to the fair with his/her sisters, and that he/she can't remember the last time "the three of [them]" were together, meaning that he/she has two sisters.
- It is revealed in Chapter 3 that Avery is one year older than Your Character.
- In Chapter 8, if you go to the hot tub with Avery; he/she will give info about each sister.
- One of them is a mother and an ER physician in London, one goes to a university, and one owns a bed & breakfast back in Blackawton.
- In a premium scene in Chapter 12 of Big Sky Country, Book 2, if you choose to play a romantic song for Curly and Bentley, "Lift Me Up" will be played and Bentley will mention Avery to Curly.
- Simon Hendricks is an Avery Wilshere fan, and was apparently caught lip-synching to his/her songs by a coworker.
- Part of "How to Start Again" can be sung by Bloodbound MC and Adrian Raines in a premium scene of Bloodbound, Book 2. Another part of that song is sung by Tyler Woods in a premium scene of Murder at Homecoming.