Genevieve Harper

Name: Genevieve (Eve) Harper
Age: Technically four, but looks thirty
Birthday: March 20
Gender: Cis female
Species: Bio-engineered
Class: Teaches college
Subject/Work: Culinary arts. Eve is a chocolatier and owns a candy store on the island where she makes everything, so she teaches a class in candy / chocolate making.

Appearance Description:

• General. Eve is obsessed with perfection, and so she keeps her appearance neat and tidy. She matches colors—the mismatched sock trend irritates and baffles her—and matches accessories. She always wears makeup, and makes sure to wear colors that don’t clash (and when she wears nail polish, she’s even more anal about making sure her nail polish matches her makeup matches her clothes matches her accessories). Her clothes are never wrinkled—always ironed, always freshly washed.
• Face. Eve’s brown hair parts in the middle and reaches down to the bottom of her shoulder blades. She generally keeps it tied back into a tight bun, but when it’s down, it has a natural wave to it. Her eyes are also brown. Her cheeks are scarred and pockmarked, which she is wildly insecure about, and she uses makeup to conceal the blemishes.
• Build. Eve was built to have an “ideal” classical ballerina’s body. She’s 5’5” with a long neck, long arms, long legs, a medium length torso, and a general slimness. Her chest is rather flat. Her right leg, from mid-thigh down, is a prosthetic—a much better one than the one she was originally given.
• Style. Eve tries to keep her style practical and elegant. She loves turtlenecks and warm sweaters as much as she loves short skirts and dresses. She does not make the same effort to hide her prosthetic leg as she does to conceal the blemishes on her face. She always, always wears a ruby necklace, and does not ever take it off; if need be, she will tuck it in her shirt, but it doesn’t come off.

Personality Description:

• Perfectionist. Genevieve is obsessed with perfection. She needs to not only do her best, she needs to do the best. She has high expectations for herself, and high expectations for those around her—her students, her employees, etc. She works, works, works, works, and works, certain that magnificent results will come of this. She can nitpick about anything, though it’s not in the spirit of being mean—it’s in the spirit of constantly improving. Her perfectionism drives her to also feel naturally competitive, and, when she fails at anything, she sees it as a personal flaw that she is responsible for fixing. She tends to feel overwhelmed on any given day, but handles herself well.
• Ambitious. Genevieve equates success with perfection; if she’s doing well at something, then it means she should be successful, right? She is a very goal oriented person, and is driven by an absolute need to achieve. Her goals keep her on track, and her goals give her a reason to get up in the morning and do her best every day.
• Entrepreneurial. Though she runs her own business, Genevieve isn’t just entrepreneurial in the financial sense. She takes risks, she’s inventive, and she tries to come up with new and exciting ideas in her daily life, as well.
• Stern. Genevieve isn’t the class clown; she isn’t very funny, and she doesn’t try to be. It isn’t that she doesn’t enjoy fun—she’s driven toward experiencing every aspect of life she can, and fun is something that happens frequently—but her natural disposition is to take things seriously. It’s part of her perfectionism. If she doesn’t take it seriously, then she can’t do it well, and if she can’t do it well, she can’t do it perfectly. In her classroom, as well as in her shop, she’s a stickler for rules and doing things the “right” way.
• Open-minded. In almost all ways a person can be open-minded, really—though more specifically, Genevieve is especially open-minded about experiences. She looks thirty, but she’s really only four. She’s still learning about the world, and about people. She loves to learn, and she would never turn down an experience or a friendship that could teach her something new.
• Protective. When it comes to her students, her employees, her candy recipes, and herself, Genevieve is extremely protective. Because of her own experiences in the world, she’s especially protective of other women. She’s quick to intervene in situations of injustice, or in situations where something just seems off. She isn’t one to shield her students or her employees from the world, but instead, talks candidly about the way things are. Her stern disposition also makes her the kind of person who doesn’t take any shit—which she thinks makes her a good role model for her students, and which she thinks is a good way of teaching them to protect themselves.
• Possessive. Genevieve isn’t good at sharing. She isn’t used to having things that belong to her, and only to her. To her, “sharing” sounds like people taking something that belongs to her and not giving it back—she knows this isn’t exactly the case, but it’s happened to her to many times in the past for her to feel comfortable lending anyone anything, from books to a cup of sugar. People who ask her for things make her suspicious.

Powers:

• Invisibility. Eve can become invisible, turn other objects invisible, and turn other people invisible, so long as she is touching the object/person. She can still see the people/objects that she turned invisible even when they aren’t visible. When the physical contact ceases, so does Eve’s ability to keep other things invisible. She would like to learn how to keep other objects/people invisible even after they are no longer touching.
• History of Objects. By touching an object, Eve can learn its history—where that object has been, what that object has witnessed, and what people have done with it. She cannot discern the identities of the people who have touched the object (as usually she is only seeing someone’s hand), and sometimes—if an object has a very long and complicated history—she does not get the chronology in order, but rather “sees” it all at once, making it hard to tell what happened and when.

Species Abilities: Not so much an ability as a caveat—Eve was sculpted out of marble, and brought to life with an enchantment. The ruby necklace she wears is what keeps her human. Taking it off turns her back into stone.


Biography:

TRIGGER WARNING FOR ABUSE / ISOLATION / ABLEISM.

Year 1:

• The man who makes her carves her out of marble does so hoping to make himself the “perfect wife,” though he does not realize such a thing cannot exist. Only once the marble is perfect does he enchant a necklace and put it around her neck, turning her into a human being.
• The first thing Eve hears is You’re beautiful. The first thing she sees is his face. The first thing she touches is his hand—wrinkled, the skin half-leathery and half-elastic. The first thing she tastes is his mouth, and then second, a glass of water. The first thing she smells is sunflowers.
• It takes her some time to walk with poise instead of stumbling, and an equal amount of time to learn how to speak without it feeling like her throat is one long hot wire. He is patient with her, but only as long as she does what he asks.
• What he asks for is the following: never talk back to him; don’t question his decisions; clean the house; do the laundry; iron his clothes; and have dinner waiting for him every night by the time he returns home. She does not know where he is returning from because he does not tell her there is a world beyond the door.
• At the end of the first year, he hosts a New Year’s Eve party and invites forty of his friends to show her off. Until this moment, she thought they were the only two humans in the world. Learning that there are more, learning that there really is a world outside the front door, and learning that all these people have names shatters her. She asks him what her name is, and he tells her “my wife.” He tells her not to tell anyone that he carved her out of stone, and she promises she won’t, and it is the first time she promises him something without being sure she’ll keep it.

Year 2:

• She finishes her daily chores as quickly as possible. It leaves her two hours to herself at the end of every day. She goes outside and learns what snow is because it falls from the sky and into her hair.
• Every day she goes a little bit farther—to the end of the driveway, to the end of the street, to the end of the block. One day she finds the library, and that is where she goes every day for the next four months. He taught her how to read so that she would be able to make him fancy dinners from his recipe books, and now she uses the skill to absorb everything, to learn everything there is to learn about the world, and the more she reads the more certain she feels that she should run away.
• One afternoon, she doesn’t make it home before her husband. He’s waiting for her at the kitchen table and as soon as he sees her, he demands to know where she’s been. She lies, and he realizes she has learned how to lie, learned how to disobey, learned to think without him telling her what she should be thinking. He rips the ruby off her neck, turning her back into stone.
• When she awakens, she finds that he has taken one of her legs from her; he turned her into stone and then smashed the leg off her statue. It does not hurt, not physically, but she spends the day weeping.
• In a month, he gives her a poorly made prosthetic that doesn’t fit well and that doesn’t enable her to get around easily. He needs things done around the house, and giving her a prosthetic is the only way to make sure she does what he asks. But even a poorly made prosthetic gives her a way of leaving, and it’s right back to the library.
• The librarian falls in love with her, and she feels similarly. She tells the librarian what she is, and the love does not falter, and she realizes now that love should be kind above all other things. When he finds out, he turns her into stone again. This time when he puts the ruby back around her neck, allowing her to be human, she finds her face scarred and slashed, and he tells her that no one will love her but him now because she isn’t beautiful. Because she isn't perfect. And perfection and having a beautiful face are one in the same, aren't they?
• At the New Year’s Eve party, he locks her in her bedroom and does not allow her to leave. He tells all the guests she is too ill to put in an appearance.

Year 3:

• Early in the year, her isolation and emotional distress cause her powers to surface. As soon as she discovers she can turn herself and objects invisible, she strangles him (she thinks he's dead, BUT IS HE REALLY??? who knows). She packs a single bag of belongings and leaves a note for the librarian to say where she's going and that she hopes they'll meet again. (WILL THE LIBRARIAN FOLLOW HER?? stay tuned & hit me up if u wanna play this character)
• It was, after all, the librarian who told her about Manta Carlos Islands, and that is where she goes.
• Realizing she doesn't have a name, she chooses one. She goes through baby name books like wildfire, and then remembers the Bible. Eve, the first woman. Genesis, the creation. And so she picks the name Genevieve, because it sounds lovely and because it reminds her that her origins need not define her.
• She already knew how to make chocolate because the man who made her liked her recipe. And though it reminds her of him, she opens a candy store where she specializes in chocolates and homemade candies. She does not do it to be nostalgic; she does it because she is good at it and because she thinks it is important not to let him soil everything she liked about her previous life. She likes chocolate. She can't let him own that.

Year 4:

• She spends all of her time nurturing her business, and it succeeds. This surprises her, but not entirely. It is a delight, but she knows that it is because of her hard work. There is no luck here. All of it is on her.
• She applies for a position to teach a chocolatier class at Starlight Academy. She is given a position as an adjunct professor, which elates her.

Additional Information: Based on the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea~