| Evelyn Jouvere | |
|---|---|
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| Gender |
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| Age |
15 |
| Birthday |
March 21st |
| Height |
5'5" |
| Weight |
136lbs |
| Blood Type |
O- |
| Region |
Valiant Sphere |
| Kingdom |
Vitesh |
| Allegiance |
The Valent |
| Rank |
Student Legionnaire |
| House |
Black Sheep |
| Class |
Dustan |
| Awakening |
Sage |
| Status |
Alive |
Female
Evelyn Jouvere is a 15-year old Awakened Sage who was present for and lived through The Rot, a mysterious incident that befell her home realm of Vitesh seven years ago, leaving it a barren wasteland dotted by the ruins of a once prosperous agricultural Kingdom.
Having grown up a Viteshan commoner, Evelyn, with her newfound abilities wishes to get to the bottom of the incident, and restore the entirety of her homeland to the deep, verdant state it was renowned for. To that end, and to the end of having the power to preserve such a pristine state, Evelyn is currently enrolled in the Continental Academy, under the Black Sheep House.
Personality
Ever since the day of the Rot, Evelyn has been committed to her personal quest of reversing the Rot that plagued her Kingdom, studying and specializing in biology to help extend the range and utility of her powers, due to them being primarily limited by both her own imagination and knowledge of the way plants and living creatures work. This has significantly affected both her personality and disposition, as the intelligent young girl is typically quite observant and curious. Contrary to popular belief, while Evelyn can be quiet, it may not be correct to label her a quiet or stoic person, often surprising people that get to know her with banter or "playful" insults.
However, Evelyn possesess unwavering determination in her quest, and as a result any new idea for a plant structure or new plant entirely is jotted down almost religiously and without thought, at times going entire days repeating the details of the organism being studied in order to be able to jot it down later. Where strange biology of creatures might repulse others, Evelyn instead is often excited, almost giddily, to the same degree one would expect from someone meeting their idol or a celebrity because it means she can learn more from them.
On matters of life and death, Evelyn possesses an uncomfortable level of maturity for an adolescent due to having witnessed the devastation that befell Vitesh with her own eyes.
Backstory
Driftwood
The Kingdom of Vitesh was well known for its forests, its woodlands, its beautiful savannahs and its uniquely gifted soil, which allowed the Kingdom to prosper on the back of pure ecological tourism and a globally competitive agricultural economic sector. Having worked to come up from poverty upon bringing in their eldest child and daughter into the world, the Jouveres made a name for themselves due to their sheer unrelenting dilligence and intuitive aptitude on both the paternal and maternal side. By the time Evelyn was six, they had already changed their life around, owning a sizable plot of land and instilling in their daughter the value of perseverance.
At that time, Evelyn would grow attached to the flora and fauna of Vitesh, losing herself in the green for hours at a time across a small creek not too far from her parents' farm. The singing of the birds, the swaying of the trees in the wind, the little squirrels hopping and darting about; Evelyn was so enamoured with it all that when her baby brother was born she would ask for permission take him on ventures along with her as long as she didn't stray far, showing him her favourite tree, the weirdest tree, the fattest squirrel, the coolest leaf.
At the age of seven, the elderly King of Vitesh passed away, a time of mourning for all that knew him, and for the Kingdom in total. However, during that period, his eldest son took the throne, a cruel and wicked successor to such a peaceful and honourable man. Rumour spread like wildfire that the son had assassinated his father to lay claim to the throne before it could be passed onto the King's second son, which Dario the Cruel wished to quickly extinguish. Taxes were put in place that were ridiculous, backed by a bribed nobility and Senate. Vitesh, a Kingdom once considered to be an idyllic paradise, gradually gained criminal activity as people grew desperate, stealing to survive at the expense of the livelihood of others.
In this quiet, people began to rebel and protest against the monarch. Cries of "Unfit King!" and "Spoiled Brat!" resounded throughout the community. Evelyn's father would deliver gift baskets and convoys of food grown on the farms to people, always having had a kind heart, and her mother would do her best to help people pay the taxes they couldn't shelf, remebering their own beginnings of poverty and the help and recognition they got when they struggled. Before one knew it, the Jouveres were considered the face of the resistance movement against Dario, the people having clung to them as communal heroes simply for being generous.
In February of the Year of the Rot, the King's castle went silent. No communications were heard from the castle, and no messages got inside the castle. Until, on the 20th of March, the King decreed that martial law would be instituted to keep the "peace". Due to the timing, many believe that it was Dario, who made a deal with a wicked Awakened Mage and caused the Rot. But if that was the case, why was he killed?
The Rot
To this day, even seven years from now, Evelyn being 15, rumours still abound. Was it the cruel King, infuriated by the insolence of his subjects, who brought the wrath of a jealous god down upon their Kingdom, wreaking havoc and hoping to shatter the ideals of the rebels? Then why did the Rot seem to bring down the castle first? Why would Dario sign up to die? Was he avoiding some cruel fate? Perhaps it was the deeds of the rebels, wishing to bring down the monarchy and plunge the kingdom into anarchy so that someone worthy could pick back up the mantle of leadership over Vitesh. Then why would they cause so many to suffer, so many to die? Was it a mistake? The work of an awakened Viteshan? Or maybe, it was the work of an external force. But Vitesh was peaceful, and had no enemies known to the general populace. Was it the foolish King? Did he set someone far too powerful off? Who knows, and who may ever know? Maybe that was the intention.
That day, that 20th of March was tense, as people were forced to retreat into their homes in fear of bringing down the ire of the Kingdom and it's military. Man, woman and child worried for their lives, though the threat of today paled in comparison to the sheer extent of the threat tomorrow would bring. Having been made the face of a resistance they originally had nothing to do with, the Jouveres, Evelyne, her parents, and her at the time two-year-old younger brother were all in danger, something her parents tried to conceal. Despite this, Evelyne understood very well the circumstances. They were now living with what was effectively a perpetual knife pinned up to the back of the throat, as if on borrowed time. Despite this, her father was still determined to take care of the farm, putting the children to bed and walking out to go inside the sheltered farm compound.
That night Evelyn had dreams, nightmares, visions.People were dying. No, plants were dying. She could hear them, hear the water flow up their stems slowly seep and drain out, feel the trees recoiling from, whatever it was was doing this. She hated this nightmare, she wanted it to stop.
And stop it did, as she was woken to a sudden frantic grab out of the bed she laid on, cradled in her father's arms. And beside him, her mother, carrying her brother, blissfully unaware of the circumstances and perfectly asleep. As her eyes opened to take in more of the world, Evelyn saw that her nightmare had become reality. Panic gripped the entirety of the Kingdom, and despite this, there appeared to be no soldiers helping the civilians, occupied with something else. Or perhaps, all lost? Evelyn had no time to ponder on such matters, as she saw the trees distort, wither away, and sink into the soil below, branches jutting through buildings and undoing foundations, buildings collapsing, and further, pebbles, from a stone structure far away, visibly falling like rain near the noble capital of Vitesh.despite their distance from it, as if launched. She, as well as everyone in Vitesh, could recognize the symbol and the intricate marking on the pebbles. They came from the castle.
In one night, Evelyn's world view was changed. Seeking to ease the load for her father Evelyn began to run herself, awake enough to understand having to, heading to a nearby clearing with the intent to get out of the Kingdom, atleast, until this disaster was through. Running together, Evelyn's mother and father ushered her along to run ahead of them, hoping to guarantee the safety of their child atleast. They would have stopped to give Evelyn her brother if the time to do so wouldn't have put the entire family in more danger. Evelyn made it to the clearing, turning back to see her parents make it through. As she turned, she looked above as debris hung a fair distance above them. If that hit, her parents would be lost.
But what could she do about it? There was nothing around to stop it, no guards to protect them. Her body, acting on it's own grabbed a twig that fell off a desiccated tree as she ran towards her parents, holding it over their head, as if having the opposite of survival instincts: naievety. Fortunately, Evelyn felt something leave her body and go into the twig, as it shifted it's form, morphing itself into a larger version of the shield of a Viteshan elite, supported by strong springy stems that absorbed the shock of the impact and deflected the actual debris, sending it flying safely in another direction. Too focused on her family's survival to process her newfound abilities, Evelyn beckoned her family away, surviving what would come to be known by many names in the Valiant Sphere as the The Rot, The Withering, or The Viteshan Collapse.
In the coming days, aid finally arrived in the form of Legionnaires of the Valiant Sphere, who cleared debris loiking for anyone who might be stuck and trapped under rubble. The Viteshan Collapse was unprecedented, both in the scale of the disaster and the number of casualties relative to the population, a measly 10% of the Viteshan population that were currently in Vitesh itself managing to survive. The announcement made that the King had been killed within that twisted night fell on deaf ears, as most of the survivors mourned more so for the people close to them that they lost than the King a majority of people believed had it coming. In time, the people of Vitesh moved to the other Kingdoms in the Valiant Sphere. As for the Jouveres, they moved to the country of Valour, where Evelyn decided that she wished to become a Legionnaire.
Powers and Abilities
Evelyn, as a Sage, has the power to manipulate and influence life-based energies, demonstrating the ability to detect and read life signatures, as well as connect to and commune with other living creatures through this energy. However, perhaps primarily, Evelyn is the bearer of a unique ability derivative of her Sage-type classification known as Eden.
Eden
Eden is a unique, exceptionally versatile ability, appearing to grant the user the ability to create plants with supernatural or mystical abilities even with regards to the multitude of abilities given by abilities or appear to grant Evelyn herself capabilities she would not naturally possess. With the use of her abilities, Evelyn has demonstrated the unique ability to seemingly generate and subsequently manipulate plant-based stem cells with the unique capability of being capable of becoming any form of plant life imaginable as she wills it.
Due to the unique nature of her powers, Evelyn is not limited by producing naturally occurring plant life however in any sense, as her powers are quite literally limited only by her imagination and her botanical and biological knowledge. As her power is over the stem cells she produces above her ability to manipulate what they manifest into, Evelyn has complete control over the plants she generates, as well as the way the stem cells differentiate. This allows her to seemingly create entirely new forms of plants, plant-based structures or lifeforms as long as she can imagine it, and think of a potential botanical mechanism for the unique nature of the plant she wishes to create.
As powerful as the ability is, it requires exceptionally potent imaginative prowess as well as either a potent intuition or deep knowledge of plant-based biology to achieve its true potential beyond being merely another plant-based ability. In addition, it cannot naturally affect other plants that are not generated from her stem cells, though the current user has managed to supersede this limitation by virtue of her own ingenuity. As a result, Evelyn is a long way off from her ability's true potential.
To make the process of plant creation easier, Evelyn has categorized plants and structures according to what they might be useful for. Scouters refer for plants that mimic extrasensory perception and aid in the detection of movement, sensory stimuli, heat, electrical fields, and any other form of presence she might be looking for. Warriors refer to plants with direct combative applications that can be used to great effectiveness, including improving her own physical prowess. Critters refer to entirely new forms of life that mimic animalistic behaviour generated from her plant stem cells. Operatives refer to plants that can be good if used for infiltration, reconaiisance and invasion. Chemists refer to plants that synthesize and use useful and potent chemical compounds.
- Perimeter: Scouter and Operative.
- Tyrant: Warrior and Bomber.
- Invasive: Operative and typically Warrior, depends on thing invaded.
- ....Dont have a name for this one ngl, maybe after i eat, had this idea for a year now still no name, kinda sad
Notable Equipment
- Tons of Sealed Journals: Evelyn carries on her person logs of hundreds of different plant species she has encountered while apprenticing as a botanist in the time between moving to Valour and applying to the Academy as well as unique or potentially useful traits of animal species and how she thinks they accomplish them. To that end, Evelyn's body is criss-crossed with seals and "lock-array" type seals powered by her abiliites as a Sage that enable her to carry them weightlessly on her person at any time and retrieve them at will.