Cavan is a boy of incredible health and vitality, which is quite the blessing considering all the accidents he gets into! His frame is a little on the padded side, which no doubt helps insulate him whenever he takes a particularly bad spill, but he is quite tall with no signs yet that he's reached his full height. His skin is rather fair and freckled, particularly so across his nose and cheeks, and marred with the occasional scar from the few of his worst accidents. He keeps his hair cut down to the shortest fuzz after one too many accidents involving the braid he used to have, and what hair he has left is a rich red-brown colour. His eyes are hazel brown.

Cavan wears the most skin-tight clothing he can find, as he has an uncanny ability to get tangled in any extra folds or wrinkles, no matter how slight. He also tends towards wearing lighter colours so people can see him coming, with pale oranges and yellows as his favorites.

For one that gets caught in an incredible number of hapless accidents, Cavan is an amazingly happy young man! His grin is ever ready, and he always gets up from a fall with a laugh. He is not fearful or over-cautious as one might expect, but instead goes about ready and accepting of the fact that he'll no doubt get in another mishap of some kind before long. After all, he knows it's inevitable, so why be afraid of a certainty? Life's too short not to laugh at it, and after all, his horrid luck is pretty damn funny!

If anything, his bad luck only makes Cavan even more adventurous. How many trees can he climb before he falls and gets his pants snagged by a branch on the way down? How many firelizard nests can he find on the beach before he's noticed by the queens and chased away by an angry flock of flits? How many mud puddles can he leap over before he finally slips and tumbles face-first into one? Far from all of his accidents are the result of some little 'adventure', of course, though it is true a significant portion of them could be avoided if he was a little more worried about being careful.

Cavan is a very friendly boy, outgoing and willing to make a friend out of anyone. He's just as inclined to go talk to the lonesome little girl outside the crowd as he is to waltz into the crowd itself, and has a cheerful charisma that earns him friends with relative ease. He also has an incredibly sharp memory and eye for details, and would make an excellent Harper if only he could stop spilling inkwells and breaking gitar strings!