#evelynvanamstel

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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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“Okay, I understand there is blood everywhere, but can we please stop throwing water around. Unless you want to carry me home when I sprout a tail.” The annoyance had built quickly after Juliette disappeared. He could have dealt with the blood with her instead of alone, which was going less than perfect. “Excuse me,” he called to the next person who went to pass. “Can you move that chair about six inches towards me? I don’t want to risk getting water in my shoe and the night being more ruined than it already is.”

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