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look! it’s MARGOT ROBBIE! no, it’s just EVELYN VAN AMSTEL, the TWENTY-FOUR year-old MERMAID. she is a FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER & HERBALIST and makes hawthorne a better place to live in. she is CHARISMATIC and CLEVER, but also ENVIOUS and SELF-SERVING. they’ve got a secret too, but only time will tell what they’re hiding. [OOC: DANNAH | 25 | PST | SHE/HER]

(Okay, also read more is freaking out on my theme idk why, so if you’re on her actual blog there’s more, just open it up to read in a new window until I get the html fixed ughhh)

TL;DR:

Evelyn’s a mermaid who has never even been in the ocean and more than anything she wants to go back to where her parents came from and live underwater. She has never felt like she belonged on land and has never even met another one of her kind besides her parents. She has limited knowledge on her species and limited knowledge regarding the supernatural, but she is definitely determined and definitely motivated to get what she wants. Evelyn wants to live with her kind and she wants to be accepted by her kind. As far as she is concerned, nothing is going to stop her from reaching her goal.

BACKGROUND:

Evelyn’s parents left the ocean before she was born to escape persecution for the crimes of her father. The entirety of her life she has been aware that she was a mermaid, after all, it wasn’t exactly something that could be hidden, but Evelyn has never truly been able to take part in her nature or merfolk society. Her parents took up residence in southwestern Tennessee, far away from the ocean, and there was always an hour long drive every week to go hydrate in fresh water in the dead of night. Her life as a mermaid is far from what it should be, but Evelyn also doesn’t exactly know what normal entails. Her parents have purposely kept her sheltered from her kind and her nature to try and kill off her overwhelming desire to find the place that she is from. It never worked.

Although Evelyn has never met any merfolk outside of her family, she did grow up with the acquaintance of a few witches. Her parents originally connected with them in a way to protect themselves, but Evelyn also learned from them over the years. She wouldn’t consider herself a professional herbalist by any means, but she has learned a number of things over the years through observation and occasional teaching. Evelyn has also taken small amounts of ambergis for years after one of the witches mentioned that same vampires do the same with vervain to build up an immunity. Does it work the same way? Frankly Evelyn has no idea, but since she has never been allowed to truly use or explore her powers, she figures that it couldn’t hurt.

Unsurprisingly, it hasn’t exactly been easy for Evelyn to find people like herself, and although she started college at the request of her parents to try and get her fully integrated into human society, she never finished. Instead, Evelyn dropped out to start tracking and trailing every lead on merfolk that she could find. There were many supernaturals that doubted their existence, especially where she was from since they were so far from the ocean, and it wasn’t like she could put up a billboard in every city that bordered the ocean looking for her kind, and it has been a journey to even get to a place where there are rumors of people like her. Evelyn isn’t a person to get nervous, but there actually is some anxiety in her chest about finally meeting people like herself--she just isn’t sure what to expect.

Her travels and determination have also gotten her into hot water over the years. There are people that she has used and pissed off in her trail as well as people that she never should have crossed paths with to begin with. Where she’s from, mermaids are a rare thing, and in her earlier days of searching she made a few mistakes along the way in revealing herself to people and supernaturals that she shouldn’t have. Even though she has gotten far away from them as far as she knows, there is always the paranoia in her mind that keeps her looking over her shoulder no matter how much time has passed.

Evelyn is new in town (like literally is moving boxes into her apartment the day before Halloween) and really has no idea what to expect. Hawthorne is a place that she is in solely because of the supernatural rumors that she has heard flying around, but she has no official leads to go off of. She’s never one for winging it, but it certainly seems like this time that that is exactly what she will have to do. She knows the merfolk society that she is from, but that’s about the extent of her knowledge. She doesn’t even know how to get there. Evelyn also knows that they aren’t exactly ones to welcome back in people that have abandoned, so she knows that although the first step is figuring out where to go, the second step is to figure out how to gain their acceptance.

EXTRAS:

Evelyn has learned about herbs her entire life from her friends of her parents that were witches. She’s no expert, but she knows her way around the basics, and she knows enough to keep herself safe. The last couple years have been a learning experience, but by this point Evelyn has gotten pretty good at surviving on her own even with the occasional danger, and it’s not the first time she’s had to use a little vervain or wolfsbane to survive another day.

Evelyn hasn’t talked to her parents in nearly a year after cutting off communication. She just couldn’t take the constant begging her to come back “home” when where they call home is no kind of home of hers at all. She misses them, she’s not too big to admit that she has left a couple voicemails from public phones to let them know that she’s still alive, but Evelyn knows that they want to stop her and she just can’t have that.

Evelyn has never touched salt water and though she’s finally in Hawthorne and ready to go through with that, it’s actually a super big and scary milestone. Even in the past when she’s been by the ocean when tracking down dead ends and false leads, she always made her way to a fresh water store because, even though she’d never admit it to anyone else on the planet, she’s kind of, really, very much terrified. Of what? She doesn’t know, but it’s a big milestone that she’s built up to be something that it’s definitely not.

WANTED

Familial Connections: Evelyn knows next to nothing about where she is from or what her parents left behind when they fled. Her parents have told her that she has distant family, as most people would, but she knows nothing regarding names or anything else. Evelyn has been kind of pushed in the direction to believe that all relations are distant and that there is nothing notable, but there is a part of her that just doesn’t quite believe it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she has an older sibling that was left behind when her parents fled or if she perhaps has a cousin or aunt/uncle that remained in the ocean after her parents ran swam away.

Supernaturals/Hunters from the Past: Though Evelyn is pretty slick now, she wasn’t as sly back when she first starting searching for leads and her people. Her parents told her basically nothing about her personal history or the history of her people, so in the past she was a bit too outspoken about what she was when she assumed that the supernatural all held a bond of trust. For some in the inland United States, the thought of a mermaid truly existing was a lot to wrap their heads around, and rumors and myths regarding abilities but her in more danger than she had anticipated. I could go for probably anything here, but some options off of the top of my head would be maybe vampires who thought her blood could do something special, witches believing the same for magic, or just hunters that wanted to claim they killed a mermaid.

People she’s Pissed Off from the Past: Evelyn is driven when it comes to what she wants and she has definitely used people for convenience and information in the past. I definitely see there being some people that she has probably hurt (emotionally or physically could probably work I’m sure), or people that she has lied to/taken advantage of that definitely wouldn’t be happy to see her conniving face again.

A Surefire Way into the Underwater World: Evelyn doesn’t know much about where she’s from, but her parents have certainly put into her head the idea that she would never be accepted by her kind even if she tried to go back. Thus, Evelyn knows that she needs a way to be able to gain their trust. Right now she is pretty clueless as to how she would be able to achieve this, but I could see her going as far as to plan to turn someone in that might have left or escaped for a bad reason that might be wanted back. She’d get the idea from her dad, but even she couldn’t bring herself that far to betray one of her only two family members (she’s not quite that desperate yet), but she’d definitely be keeping her ears open to try and find someone or something that might fit the bill as a bargaining token.

Merfolk “Friends” to Get to Know: Evelyn needs information and she needs to learn. Any person that she learns is a mermaid is one that she will want to get to know better to see what she can get out of them. At this point in time she wouldn’t understand any of them, if anything she’d be irritated, jealous, etc. because she wouldn’t be able to comprehend why they would leave the ocean for this, but in time I’m sure that it’d be good for her because she’d be able to see that the ocean isn’t the utopia she has built it up to be in her mind. She needs exposure to people like her since she has never gotten that before, and perhaps in time they would be able to steer her away from throwing away her entire life to return to the sea and an entire people that she’s never met

Friends, Loves, Enemies, Etc., Etc.: Just like everyone else, Evelyn is new in town and she’ll need connections with more than just those listed above. Right now getting to the ocean and living there is her main prerogative, but I definitely need more than that to completely flesh her out and figure out who she is and where she is going in terms of plots and development. Anything that you might have, please send it my way. I’m excited for basically anything and I love plotting, so please let’s figure out something angsty and/or awesome!!

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billdecker · 7 years

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2018.

Here we are with the films list again. Bold = watched first time.

Films.

The English Patient

The BFG

Anna Karenina [1967]

King Kong [2005]

Henry VIII and his Six Wives [1972]

The Disaster Artist

Napoleon Dynamite

The Addams Family

Kong: Skull Island

Justice League

The Addams Family Values

Johnny English

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Wayne’s World

Lady Bird

Westworld

Carol

Green Lantern

England is Mine

Rush Hour

Pride and Prejudice [2005]

Call Me By Your Name

The Greatest Showman

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Dante’s Peak

Only Lovers Left Alive

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Blade Runner

Moonrise Kingdom

Clue

Get Smart

Darkest Hour

Blade Runner 2049

Lost in Translation

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Lego Movie

Anchorman

The Shape of Water

Get Out

San Andreas

The Beguiled

Lady Chatterley’s Lover [1981]

Interview With a Vampire

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Song to Song

Atonement

La La Land

Drop Dead Fred

Attack the Block

Another Mother’s Son

I, Tonya

The Sense of an Ending

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Cold Mountain

Step Up

The Founder

The Fugitive

The Promise

Papadopoulos and Sons

Rob Roy

The Florida Project

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Head in the Clouds

Crooked House

Miami Vice [2006]

Miss Sloane

Molly’s Game

Battle of the Sexes

Half of a Yellow Sun

A Quiet Passion

Lady Jane

Anne of a Thousand Days

Mars Attacks!

Zoolander

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nina

Pele: Birth of a Legend

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

The Mask

Phantom Thread

Black Panther

Eyes Wide Shut

The Death of Stalin

Baywatch

Paddington 2

Wonder Woman

Star Trek [2009]

Star Trek Into Darkness

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Star Trek Beyond

Denial

Chariots of Fire

Captain America: The First Avenger

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Borg vs McEnroe

Iron Man 2

Thor

Avengers Assemble

Iron Man 3

Thor: The Dark World

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2

Ant-Man

Captain America: Civil War

Doctor Strange

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Thor: Ragnarok

War Horse

God’s Own Country

In Bruges

The Big Sick

The Towering Inferno

Magnolia

Our Souls at Night

Dog Day Afternoon

Willow

Roman Holiday

Sabrina

Annihilation

North by Northwest

The Emoji Movie

Coco

Grease

Dirty Dancing

Captain Fantastic

The Wicker Man

This is Spinal Tap

Magic Mike XXL

Come Sunday

The Dark Tower

Bill

Avengers: Infinity War

Loving Vincent

Mansfield Park

Three Men and a Little Lady

Oliver!

Rough Night

Avatar

One Last Dance

Girls Trip

Alex and the List

The Dambusters

The Mummy [2017]

London

The Damned United

The Wedding Video

Deadpool

Enter the Dragon

Atomic Blonde

The Red Shoes

The Great Gatsby [2013]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Morris: A Life With Bells On

Boss Baby

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Kenny

All About Eve

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 2

Final Portrait

The Little Mermaid

The Huntsman: Winter’s War

Men in Black 3

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Tomb Raider [2018]

Crocodile Dundee

Jabberwocky

Legend

Lethal Weapon 3

The Witches

Down With Love

Clash of the Titans [1981]

Clash of the Titans [2010]

I Give it a Year

Terminal

Where the Wild Things Are

The Handmaiden

The Muppet Movie [1979]

Brakes

Ready Player One

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

A Wrinkle in Time

Breathe

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Eagle vs Shark

Farenheit 451 [2018]

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible II

Mission Impossible III

The Saint [2017]

JFK

Ocean’s 8

Deadpool 2

Falling Down

Duck Butter

Peter Rabbit

44 Inch Chest

You Instead

The Deep Blue Sea

Not Another Happy Ending

Punch Drunk Love

The Fast and The Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift

Fast & Furious

Fast Five

Fast & Furious 6

Furious 7

The Fate of the Furious

Geostorm

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Escape to Victory

Porcupine Lake

The Snowman

The Incredibles

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Daphne

Ingrid Goes West

One Day

My Neighbor Totoro

There Will Be Blood

Rampage

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Incredibles 2

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Belle de Jour

Mission Impossible - Fallout

The Spy Who Dumped Me

The Meg

Little Ashes

Meet Joe Black

The King of Comedy

Jason and the Argonauts

Flash Gordon

Odette

Strictly Ballroom

Into the Woods

Cars 3

The Book of Life

Murder on the Orient Express [2017]

Kath & Kimderella

Madame Bovary

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Apocalypse

All the Money in the World

Quincy

The Post

Becoming Bond

Early Man

Little Women [1994]

Dangerous Liaisons

The Party

Operation Finale

Nappily Ever After

What’s New Pussycat?

Saved!

A Star is Born [1976]

Modern Life is Rubbish

Jaws

The Mercy

Swept from the Sea

Permission

Venom

A Star is Born [2018]

Far and Away

Heat

Jane Eyre

Braveheart

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Juliet, Naked

First Man

Christopher Robin

Vincent and Theo

Pollock

Bohemian Rhapsody

One More Time With Feeling

Interlude in Prague

The Mask of Zorro

The Legend of Zorro

You, Me, and Him

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Crazy Rich Asians

Bobby [2016]

Outlaw King

Space Jam

They Shall Not Grow Old

The Grinch [2018]

The Big Lebowski

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Mulan

The Battle of the River Plate

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

My Generation

Batman Begins

Being John Malkovich

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part One

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part Two

Widows

Immortal Beloved

Basquiat

Goya’s Ghosts

The Madness of King George

Charade

Star Wars: A New Hope

Stars Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Stars Wars: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Star Wars: Rogue One

The Polar Express

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Dr. No

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger

Thunderball

You Only Live Twice

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Diamonds Are Forever

Live and Let Die

The Man With the Golden Gun

The Spy Who Loved Me

Moonraker

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

A View to a Kill

The Living Daylights

Licence to Kill

Goldeneye

Tomorrow Never Dies

The World is Not Enough

Die Another Day

Casino Royale

Quantum of Solace

Skyfall

Spectre

Superbob

Greenfingers

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

A Christmas Prince

Aquaman

Love, Cecil

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Copying Beethoven

The Party’s Just Beginning

Point Break

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

The Sound of Music

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppets

Cars 2

The Holiday

A Bad Moms Christmas

The Holiday Calendar

The Christmas Chronicles

Nativity

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger

Arthur Christmas

Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager

Zootropolis

Mary Poppins

The Good Dinosaur

Trolls

Rise of the Guardians

Bros: After the Screaming Stops

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Get Carter [1971]

Bottle Rocket

Turbo

Closer

Nothing Like a Dame

Bolt

Make Us Dream

Die Hard

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Porridge

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Books.

A Book For Her - Bridget Christie

Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie

Bright Star - John Keats

The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women - Katy Wix

The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women: Volume 2 - Katy Wix

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Division Street - Helen Mort

The Victorian Guide to Sex - Fern Riddell

A Woman’s Work - Harriet Harman

Help - Simon Amstell

The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

Selected Poems - Sylvia Plath

Ariel - Sylvia Plath

The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One’ EP - Stewart Lee

The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis

Parker Pyne Investigates - Agatha Christie

Bone - Yrsa Daley-Ward

Pages For You - Sylvia Brownrigg

The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur

Different for Girls: A Girl’s Own True-Life Adventures in Pop - Louise Wener

A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf

Repeal the 8th - Una Mullally

Why Not Socialism? - G.A. Cohen

The Chaos of Longing - K.Y. Robinson

High-Rise - J.G. Ballard

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Fully Coherent Plan - David Shrigley

The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Submarine - Joe Dunthorne

In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

Babette’s Feast - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

The Expelled - Samuel Beckett

Youth - Joseph Conrad

The Life of Rylan - Rylan Clark-Neal

Autumn - Ali Smith

The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland - Frank O’Connor

Two Gallants - James Joyce

Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Selected Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Door in the Wall - H.G Wells

Terra Incognita - Vladimir Nabokov

Dirty Pretty Things - Michael Faudet

Women & Power: A Manifesto - Mary Beard

Dear Illusion - Kingsley Amis

Bitter Sweet Love - Michael Faudet

Smoke & Mirrors - Michael Faudet

Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith

Pre-Raphaelites - Heather Birchall

Conspiracy - Charlotte Greig

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Sex and Rage - Eve Babitz

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - edited by Mark Roskill

Role Models - John Waters

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

How Not To Be a Boy - Robert Webb

Animal - Sara Pascoe

Absolute Pandemonium - Brian Blessed

Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness

A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

Normal People - Sally Rooney

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink - Scarlet Curtis and Others.

Parsnips, Buttered - Joe Lycett

The Humans - Matt Haig

The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

Poems for a World Gone to Shit - Various

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