Evangeline "Eva" Hollows

EVANGELINE CONSTANCE HOLLOWS | EVA | 16 | JUNE 29TH | FEMALE | SHE/HER | BISEXUAL | WHITE | INDIGO CHILD
STUDENT | HIGH SCHOOL | 10TH
ADHD, SAD

ART OF EVANGELINE BY NYAKOPA

Indigo Children are a race of humanoids who are born with a genetic modification granting them supernatural abilities. Their defining feature is a mark similar to a bruise in size and color somewhere on their body, hence the name "indigo children". Almost any ability is possible, but the they have divided them into classes amongst themselves ([URL]https://sta.sh/0stoi9qdww7[/URL]). Said abilities will usually begin to show themselves at around ages 8 - 13 due to the rise of hormones, although some may show earlier or later depending on the person. Indigo Children are discriminated against due to their abilities, and very often grow up in abusive homes because of this.

Evangeline has a petite figure, with enough curve at the hips curve be flattering. Her face is heart shaped, with a small sloped nose and pink lips. Her eyes are a perfect balance between green and blue, so much that they seem to flicker between the two in sunlight. They also contain gray flecks, giving off the effect of ice. Her hair is auburn, a very equal mix of red and brown, full of cascading waves that reach her mid back. It's almost always down except when drawing, at which point she throws it up in the scrunchie she always has on her wrist. She has a thick spattering of freckles across her nose and upper cheeks, which she hates, and her skin is decently pale.

Evangeline has always had a naturally kind and accepting nature. She's almost always the mother of every group, and finds no greater joy than in when she's making the people around her happy. She's open minded, rather quiet, and a dreamer of all things fantastic and impossible. She tends to be rather submissive and self sacrificing, but she is fiercely opinionated about the well being, value and morals of people and the world, and will never step down from defending these opinions and the people around her. She loves children, and spends much of her time helping to take care of the younger members of the facility. Artist that she is, she's very creative and color oriented, and has a passion for self expression through the creative arts. Always trying to be a good listener and a helpful friend, she loves service projects, babysitting, and similar forms of helping those around her.

Eva loves to give herself up for others, but it can come to a point where it does more harm than good. It even becomes selfishness at times. She tends to absorb everyone else's troubles while never dealing with her own, causing her to crack and become irritable or miserable. A bad case of social anxiety causes her to avoid going out anywhere crowded at all costs, and she tends to panic when made to interact with large groups. She's always scared of not being able to please everyone, causing her to sometimes conform to people and seem ingenuine. She has bad memory and concentration issues, often experiencing spontaneous memory gaps and rarely being able to focus on one task or conversation for more than 10 minutes. She has issues processing auditory commands and social cues, and connecting names with faces, as well as with being even lightly organized.

Eva's ability simply allows her to draw something on paper, and then extract it from said paper into a physical form, leading to dozens of possibilities. This ability depends highly on her artistic ability, though. If she drew a plain flat circle, nothing could be drawn from the paper but a simple circle. But if she were to draw a detailed ring with realistic proportions and dimensions, then that is what would appear. The larger the object the more difficult it is to extract, especially if it turns out to be heavy. Color matters as well, pencil drawings will only ever come out as monochrome. Extracting from surfaces outside of paper is immensely straining, so being without any renders her ability close to useless.

Evangeline’s mother was a former model who abandoned her career in order to raise a family. However, despite this Eva has never known or met her father, as her mother always chose to fall mute when the topic arose. She was quite the social butterfly as a child, making friends left and right with her astonishing charisma. Many people complimented her looks, saying she inherited her mother’s beauty. However, her mother would often describe her as acting like a disappointment in private. She could barely keep her attention span or hold a conversation properly, she had issues with memory, and was overall going to “ruin her mother's reputation” through school and otherwise. To escape the berating and the attention, from a young age she turned to art.

Ever since age three it had fascinated her, and she’d poured her heart and soul into becoming as a good as she is now. She often overheard her mother and friends calling her a prodigy, and mother soon chose to her sign her up for art lessons. It became her love, something she did at any and all times to fix any issue. However, she hated that her mother used this talent she adored so much as a tool to flaunt to her friends. She was constantly being made to draw for adults, always being pushed to live up to her mother’s perfect expectations, and she hated it.

Eva clearly remembers the day she discovered her ability, at age 13. One of the art classes she was currently taking had been focusing on photorealism, and she’d decided to practice by sketching her water bottle. It looked perfect, right down to the perspiration beads on the side. She remembers thinking right then that it looked so real, almost as if she could reach out and touch it. However, what she hadn’t expected was that as she placed her fingers on the paper, the drawing disappeared. A perfect black and white copy of her water bottle now stood on the desk in front of her, water and all.

Eva’s first instinct was to rush downstairs and tell her mother exactly what had happened. To her dismay, once she finally managed to drag her mother upstairs to show it the water bottle had fallen over and disappeared back into the paper, with the only difference being that it was now lying at a different angle. Her mother dismissed it as overactive imagination and left, leaving Eva horribly confused. Try as she might, she could not reproduce the trick. After an hour of attempts she decided to leave it be, and told herself it would likely be best to keep what had just happened to herself.

The ability didn’t remain hidden for long, though. A few weeks later her mother was once again showcasing her daughter’s artwork to impress some new friends. This time she decided to include news of this odd reappearing drawing Evangeline had related a few weeks ago, bringing about laughter as she asked her to perform the trick again. Feeling humiliated, yet obligated to obey her mother’s request, Eva shakily took out her paper and attempted to do what she had done then.

And it worked.

It was like magic, watching this little girl pull her drawings out of the paper without any trouble. Everyone in the building gathered to watch, bringing about unwanted fame. However, her mother prevented this from being displayed as true magic, and instead played it up as a trick she had taught her daughter. It then started turning into a ritual; every day multiple people would approach Eva and pressure her into drawing objects for them. Sometimes she could manage it, other times she couldn’t, her ability control wavered. Her mother drank up the fame, as news of her daughter’s ability spread throughout the entire town, turning her into an attraction more than anything else. Evangeline was being used as a tool for entertainment, she hated it, and yet didn’t know how to oppose.

This went on for a whole year before Eva was finally rescued from it, at a point where her mother had been neglecting several of her basic needs and obvious lack of energy to force her into performing. A member of the ICS was residing temporarily on the edge of town, and after hearing news of this child phenomena he decided to investigate. Eva was taken from her mother’s care due to charges of child neglect and abuse, and eventually claimed by the society. She soon fell in love with the workers there and her fellow Indigo Children, and did everything in her power to be helpful and to take care of anyone weaker than her. After a year she received a letter from the island and moved there with her two friends, applying at the academy in the process.

Evangeline has access to housing, food, clothing and money due to it being provided by the ICS.