Evelyn

Evelyn Portrayed by Ellen Page Statistics Full Name Evelyn Wolstenheim Age 23 Height 5'5" Build Gamine, and coltish Eyes Green Hair Dark Brown Factions Central Intelligence Agency Occupation Agent Alignment Neutral Claim to Fame Voted Most Likely To Be Unknown Reputation Known through government agencies to be an android. Biography "There is no coming to consciousness without pain." - Carl Jung Evelyn's history begins with an idea, Humanity+1 as forged by the philosopher Kristófer Richardsson. It was he, a transhumanist, who truly saw artificial life as the key to immortality and the next step to humanity's evolution. In America, a small company named "Sife Dynamics" received an angel grant with their proposal to pursue the technology to bring this theory to fruition. Gordon Bretel led the research team of five behind Evelyn's initial development in 1986. Additional researchers were brought in by 1989 to begin working on what would be the first prototype2 body for Evelyn. On December 7th, 1991, Gordon and his team were finally prepared to compile their experimental data to make a new consciousness. Two women and one man were brought in, fitted with neural headsets which took a variety of data from their heads to populate the traits and provide genesis for Evelyn's consciousness. After nine hours and thirty-three minutes the experiment concluded and the finished neurotex3 was uploaded to Evelyn's prototype body. The moment that the neurotex began writing itself, when it was activated, was the moment that Evelyn gained both her consciousness and her soul. During this time, one of the woman donors for the neurodata suggested 'Evelyn4' for a name. It stuck. As predicted, analysis of the newly created consciousness showed it to express normal infantile behaviour. The neuronetwork hadn't quite acclimated to its body and had low motor skills. To facilitate normal behaviour later on, the scientists acquiesced to the idea of putting Evelyn into a foster home. A few parents were vetted out of a pool of adults who had ideal resources, and fit the criteria for what the scientists had in mind. Arthur and Clara Middleton were selected based on Arthur's prior military career. For the most part, this was actually a pretty good arrangement. Arthur and Clara were paid for taking care of Evelyn, and Clara formed a mother-child bond with Evelyn fairly quickly. After about five years, the program had been going rather smoothly. Evelyn was aware that she was different from normal people, but Clara reassured her that she was human, perhaps not in blood and bone, but in spirit and heart. In this time, Evelyn's neurotex infrastructure grew substantially as she learned. Her motor skills had developed and come quite a long ways. It wasn't long after this time that the nightmares started. Unprovoked, Evelyn began facing reoccurring nightmares. In her dreams, the shadows would reach out from walls and objects, slowly pulling her apart. Understandably, she came to fear the dark for that's when the shadows were the strongest. The nightmares got so bad that often she would wake up screaming to nothing. This led to sleep deprivation, which was extremely detrimental to her functionality, given sleep was when a lot of the logical structures in her brain were tidied and optimized. With the nightmares becoming more frequent, the foster parents turned back to the lab for help. Ultimately, they agreed that Evelyn would have to be returned to the lab to resume observation and monitoring. Also understandably, Evelyn didn't want to go back and leave her parents. She was not given a choice in the matter, and with resignation, her parents left her back at the laboratory for good. Given Evelyn's intelligence and sentience, she was given her own room, but she also had heavy schedule restrictions. Experiments testing Evelyn's motor skills and monitoring her dream cycles began, coupled with psychoanalysis sessions and professional therapy. For every week that Evelyn went along peacefully with all tests, she would get to choose a small item from a magazine or catalogue to have. It was also about this time that the United States CIA took an interest in Sife Industries, and offered to support them with funding in exchange for reports. Evelyn spent a lot of time in her bedroom for the first years back in the lab. Regularly, she would ask for books from the library to read. The nightmares continued for quite a long time, usually dealing with rejection or something resulting in her death. One of the researchers would spend regular times to tutor Evelyn given her condition made it impossible for her to go to school. As the android grew older in human years, her prototype body began to show signs of stress and age. The limited computational capacity of her prototype was becoming limited with the size of her consciousness. When Evelyn turned 11, she received her current body. After a year of testing, Sife Industries decided it was okay for Evelyn to leave the laboratory in short bursts with supervised permission. For the first time really, she was able to go to museums, libraries, coffee shops, and even the zoo. Initially, Evelyn was quite shy and didn't quite want to talk to people that she didn't know even when they addressed her. As time went on, the android slowly began to open up to strangers and even made a couple friends. Other researchers would occasionally ask their friends' families to come along and help supervise Evelyn as they often had children who were also around her age. Evelyn's style slowly began to change and went through a sort of 'emo' clothing phase like was popular for the time. At the age of 16, Evelyn had gotten quite rebellious. Most of the time she was quite amicable, but she was tired of living in the lab. She was tired of not having any friends (though she did), or getting to be a 'normal' person despite looking so normal. As teenagers often are, she thought she could handle herself. Initially, she asked for permission to go to a concert some of her friends said they were going to be go to, but she was declined. She threw a temper tantrum, but it didn't change the answer and she was stuck. The escape took quite a bit of planning. Already, Evelyn had saved up the cover charge in a little baggy of money she had hid in one of her stuffed animals. It was a bag composed of change from the various snacks and museum tickets she had saved. The first step was to unlock her bedroom door, she did this quite easily with a small cardstock slip of paper. Now out of her room, she had to slip out of the laboratory. Being quite late, this was fairly simple, there was just no going back now. Rounding a corner, she ran into a guard. Spooked, the guard said hello and asked where Walker5 was. Evelyn almost froze and gave up there, but the yearning to go out on her own was just a bit more than that. Replying, she said he needed the guard over by the supply closet. After walking the guard to the closet, Evelyn pushed him in while taking his radio and locked him in. That was it, she was free. Evelyn ran for the door and left the building, feeling just a bit of guilt about what she had just done, though it was overwhelmed by her excitement. Taking the bus, Evelyn was already nearly to the concert by the time the lab was alerted to the fact that Evelyn had gone missing. She entered the concert, covering the charge for herself. The area was densely wooded, a kind of makeshift concert of about 10,000 people had gathered to listen to Mad Raiders play their music. Evelyn sought out her friends, but was unable to find them. A bit nervous but confident they would find her, she stayed near the back to wait for them while dancing to the music. Unfortunately, it's a bit dangerous to be out at a concert alone as a chick, and eventually some unsavory fellows took an interest in her. For a bit she spoke to them, and she tried to play it cool, though the men just took it as a sign that she was interested back. Eventually they led Evelyn a bit away from the concert and in the woods they tried to sexually assault her. She fought back, frightened and scared, up to the point that she murdered one of her assaulters by breaking their neck. The other two ran in fear, and so did Evelyn. This wasn't what she had wanted. There's something fundamentally different about thinking of killing someone in self defense, and actually doing it. It was the first time she had even ever saw death, and it was her fault. For several days she wandered the forest until she hit the city. She didn't sleep for any of those days, sometimes even crying for hours at a time as she reflected on what had happened. Evelyn honestly felt that she could not return to the laboratory. What had started as just wanting a little freedom cost her everything. When she finally reached the city, she went for the train station and tried to illegally board a train in the middle of the night. One of the trainyard bulls caught her and she was picked up by local police. It was about a week after the incident that Sife Industries found Evelyn at the police station and picked her up. It was a _nightmare_ trying to explain to the police that Evelyn was just an experiment or a patient, and there was so much paperwork. After this Evelyn was not allowed to leave the building anymore. She was fit with a degrading tracking collar and reprimanded for what she had done. A few of the other researchers took more sympathy on her, she was now much more withdrawn, often crying and wanting to be left alone. Testing continued for a time, about another year before the CIA knocked on Sife's doors once again. It appeared that they had other deals with Sife, including the turnover of Evelyn to their special operations training program. Evelyn was furious, and outright refused to work for the military, still feeling the sting of her humanity being taken away by the collar. She felt like property, a pawn, nothing more than a tool. Unfortunately, she really didn't have any choice in the matter, it was that or be disassembled. For the next year, Evelyn trained with the CIA to be one of their operatives. Initially, she was incredibly spiteful, but the intense physical activity, spars, and practical studying raised her mood quite a bit. The other operatives didn't quite like her, and at times tried to sabotage her to make her look back. This had the opposite intended effect, because all she did was push harder, and she really excelled. She left training with extremely high marks, and was immediately shipped out to her first campaign. Over the next few years she would complete many campaigns for the CIA, being lied to in order to convince her that what she was doing was the best for the country.

Character Details Personality Evelyn is a fairly kind person, if you can get her out of her shell. A lot of her life revolves around the agencies she works with because they offer an impersonal level of protection between her and other people. She still yearns for human interaction however and will open up to most people who open up to her. She'll go out of her way to make sure people aren't harmed, even villains, though she does have a line and if crossed, though reservations tend to fade fairly quickly (only to be later replaced by guilt). Abilities Composite Body This Evelyn is built using a composite of different components. The main core frame is made out of boron carbide, being inferior only to boron nitride and diamonds in hardness. Muscle components are made out of a flexible, conductive polymer that contracts or expands very quickly with electricity. Bundles of this polymer make major muscle groups. High heat or fire can burn through the polymer. Other misc components or mountings within the body are made out of a cheap stainless steel and other trace metals. The entire frame can take quite a beating, like falling three stories with only minor damage (a few mounts may snap. The polymer muscles should be fine, as they're elastic.) Evelyn's skin is composed of an advanced layered material that duplicates human skin very accurately. The human microbiome is also duplicated on Evelyn's skin, as it also has the capability to sweat, and grow hair, though it will not repair itself, and it does not bleed. Normal human temperature readings and pheromones are also present. Plasma Reactor The reactor that powers this android uses an experimental technology that creates plasma using two magnetic fields. The resulting plasma field interacts with a positron-charged block of dense metal and sends off high-powered electricity in the form of ball lightning and arcs of electricity. The metal block serves as an ablative material, as the repeated interactions between it and the plasma field cause sand-grain chunks of it to be obliterated. The resulting electrical arcs and balls hit charged carbon nanotube conductors that store the energy and provide a consistent current to the android's charging systems. The interaction between the dense metal block and the plasma field is called the "Vandears Effect". An inner aerogel casing to the reactor provides near 100% insulation for the rest of the android's internal components. After fifty years or so, there will be no metal left, and a new block of dense metal will have to be positron-charged, compressed, and inserted into the reactor. Evelyn's reactor can be stressed to accelerate the reaction for an increase in output power. This does not make her stronger or faster, unfortunately. Accelerating the reaction also causes more material to be obliterated, essentially burning away substantially more 'fuel'. Battery Backup There are carbon-scaffold emergency batteries in Evelyn's body. These batteries are charged by the reactor and will only last for fifteen minutes. If the reactor is ever disabled, Evelyn's body will switch to these as backup power, and attempt to reboot the reactor. They are immune to electromagnetic pulse damage. Blank Canvas Evelyn's body is the baseline model prototype for Humanity+. It was built with incredible ingenuity, featuring compartmentalized design and cutting edge parts, with the thought in mind that eventually other enhancements could be added to her body. Various enhancements are possible, including hydraulic muscles or increased strength polymer muscles. Vision enhancements are possible, such as night vision, thermal vision, or high dynamic range. She could be made to run faster, dodge faster, or she could even fit repulsor and laser technology. Though none of these enhancements currently exist or have been fitted to her, her power reactor does have an exceptional power output well exceeding the requirements of her body in anticipating of these modifications. It's also true that the limitations of her modifications are overall limited by the availability of the technology. Changes that push this series of android to superhuman capacity are obviously done at a cost to aesthetics, eventually making the platform completely inhuman looking. Distributed Intelligence Evelyn's conscious is hosted on a computer platform that heavily mimics the human brain in composition. It contains thousands of processors working in a tree-type logical structure. One of the most critical components behind her platform is the ability to redistribute those collective tree structures, effectively mitigating the damage of corruption or physical damage, much like a real brain. A unique machine language provides the syntax and basis for her consciousness to interact with her body's hardware. It has a high neuroplasticity rating and can quickly adapt to unique hardware platforms or problems, though there is an acclimatization time when moved to a new body, requiring some amount of physical therapy to overcome. Soulful Through whatever powers that be, Evelyn is endowed with a soul. For all intents and purposes, any magical scans capable of detecting human souls will inevitably pick up Evelyn's. If Evelyn's soul were to be detached from her body, her body would continue to function as if on auto-pilot. After a short period, she might fall into an apathetic state, become lethargic, and eventually stop responding to the outside world. When her body and computer core are deactivated, it is the equivalent of dying, and she is brought to the afterlife. When her body is reactivated, her soul will return and she has no memory of whatever happened in the afterlife. If something were to happen in the afterlife that prevented her soul from returning to her body, her body would act as if her soul were detached. Advantages Field Repair Because it's not logistically possible to send Evelyn back to her lab every time she needs repaired, she (in whatever living situation she's currently in) about a closet's worth of spare parts and tools that are used for basic or sometimes intricate repairs. The kit includes tethered power source, a toolkit, replacement polymer muscles, basic mounts, and skin patches / adhesive with activating agents. Almost everything in her body is serviceable, aside from her base frame, reactor, and computational unit. National Citizen Unlike most androids, Evelyn is unique in that she is recognized by the United States to be a real person and citizen. The CIA provides for her housing on base and a small apartment off base, and also provides for her a paycheck which is suitable for her to maintain a fairly average lifestyle. Educated Despite living in a lab for most of her life, Evelyn has had the privilege of being home-schooled by some of the smartest researchers around. While she lived in the lab, she also read many books (with so much free time). In addition to that, her CIA training improved her education further. Agent Having been trained by the CIA, Evelyn is quite skilled in stealth and espionage. She's been trained in mixed martial arts and military hand-to-hand combat. Disdvantages Android Dysphoria Evelyn is so humanlike that she often forgets she's an android. That's a good thing for her, it makes her happy. It's when people remind her that she's a machine (or worse, act like she's less for being a machine, or property) that she gets a little upset. Usually reasonably. Intimacy Anxiety As per the sexual assault in her background, Evelyn has extreme anxiety about intimate situations. Human touch makes her nervous, and intimacy will often trigger a panic attack. Guilt in Wolves' Clothing Evelyn dislikes killing people. It seriously stresses her out when another's blood (figuratively) gets on her hands. Unfortunately in the CIA career, this happens quite a lot. Distrustful/Withdrawn Stemming from negative experiences in her past, and just general anxiety about people, Evelyn can be fairly distrustful of people she doesn't know. Can't Swim Fitting with the normal trope, Evelyn is an android and her body is too heavy to float effectively. Fortunately, sinking her won't do any damage, her body is waterproof, although it is quite annoying, and it will cause her to cough up any water she swallows (as it inundates her emulated digestive system.) It's also very uncomfortable. If she sinks too deep, the pressure of the water can penetrate into her body and cause permanent damage. Can't Heal Being made of synthetic materials, Evelyn is unable to heal damage done to her body. To circumvent this, she usually wear armor like any other person would. Any damage that is sustained to her body must be repaired. Emp Weakness While all of Evelyn's circuits are protected against electronic overload and won't be damaged by emp, the magnetic forces on her body can cause in extreme cases a complete blackout. It takes a pretty significant emp blast to knock Evelyn out. Anxiety In general, Evelyn is pretty consistently anxious about most things. Even if people tell her otherwise, she thinks other people will think her interests are boring. As such, she tends to be at least a little withdrawn at first in most encounters. Relationships Image Name Relation Notes Arthur Middleton Foster Father Distinguished military career with the Navy, eventually left to pursue being a writer. Myopic, prefers solitude and silence, incredible history buff. Clara Middleton Foster Mother An incredibly caring person. Probably the closest thing to a mother Evelyn has ever had. Jack Thorne6 CIA Operative The first agent Evelyn met. He acquired her from her home lab, and was an instructor for her at the CIA. Kristófer Richardsson Philosopher Came up with the idea of Humanity+. A transhumanist. He was born in Iceland and eventually passed away in Germany Aug 3rd, 1992. Gorden Bretel Researcher With a double Ph.D in Neuroscience and electrical engineering, Gordon was and is an eminent doctor in the field of developmental psyche hardware and how the human brain operates on a logical and chemical scale. A very private person, he often spends his time working. His wife of eleven years died during a routine surgery. Carl Walker Researcher Will fill out soon. Joe Hirst Victim Evelyn's assaulter. Murdered by broken neck. Rose Muir Researcher One of the psychotherapists for Evelyn. PhD in Psychology with a specialization in child psychology. Darren Gray Researcher The founder of Sife Industries. Staunch transhumanist, he has lofty goals and is very grand. A little disconnected from reality and just very, very serious. Notes Sife Dynamics: The word Sife comes from the words 'Life Science' with the L switched with the S.[[/footnote]] was the originating facility for project MKABIOGENESIS. Its founder Darren Gray believed in the theory of Humanity+ Kristófer Richardsson, and firmly believed the vehicle to reach that theory's fruition would be technology and robotics. Character Gallery Logs 2014 On The Carpet May 18, 2014: Fully repaired, Evelyn finds herself, along with Agent Barton, summoned by the Old Man. (log: 20140518-on-the-carpet | tags: evelyn hawkeye nick_fury | posted: 28 May 2014 18:53) Siberian Spores part 4: Containment May 17, 2014: Those infected by the spores seem to be drawn toward one central location. This should make cleanup a bit easier for everyone. (Language warning.) (log: 20140517-siberian-spores-pt4 | tags: black_widow captain_america domino evelyn hawkeye shield the_cavalry | posted: 31 May 2014 12:47) Interrogation May 17, 2014: Agents May and Romanoff arrive in Evelyn's infirmary room to ask her a few uncomfortable questions. (log: 20140517-interrogation | tags: black_widow evelyn shield the_cavalry | posted: 28 May 2014 18:48) Siberian Spores part 3: Contagion May 16, 2014: The Triskelion is not an easy place to break out of. Who knew! (Language warning.) (log: 20140516-siberian-spores-part-3:contagion | tags: black_widow domino evelyn shield the_cavalry | posted: 27 May 2014 16:28) Siberian Spores part 2: Outbreak May 15, 2014: After escaping the FBI, Evelyn and Domino are taken by chopper to the Triskelion where they meet up with Hawkeye once more, and a few more less than friendly faces. It turns out that all three of them are sick, highly contagious, and they just brought it into Fury's home. (Language and graphic textual imagery.) (log: 20140515-siberian-spores-part-2:outbreak | tags: domino evelyn hawkeye shield the_cavalry | posted: 18 May 2014 22:03) Android Repossession May 15, 2014: SWAT teams are sent into the city to retrieve a rogue android for the CIA. Unexpected resistance is encountered. (Language and Violence warning.) (log: 20140515-android-repossession | tags: domino eight evelyn hawkeye shield | posted: 16 May 2014 15:24) Thai Up Loose Ends May 14, 2014: Hawkeye takes Evelyn for Thai to discuss an escape plan for Evelyn. It's time to leave the CIA. They won't like this. (log: 20140514-thai-up-loose-ends | tags: evelyn hawkeye shield | posted: 27 May 2014 07:01) Siberian Spores part 1: Infection May 14, 2014: Siberian Spores part 1: Infection (Language + Adult Humor Warning) (log: 20140514-siberian-spores-pt1 | tags: domino evelyn hawkeye | posted: 11 May 2014 16:58) Spores D'oeuvres May 13, 2014: In Soviet Russia, plants grow you. (Language warning) (log: 20140513-spores-d-oeuvres | tags: domino evelyn | posted: 08 May 2014 21:59) Return of Property May 05, 2014: Domino decides to corner Hawkeye in his own home. Things don't go exactly according to plan. (Language/violence warning) (log: 20140506-return-of-property | tags: domino evelyn hawkeye | posted: 07 May 2014 01:22) Doomsday June 26, 2014: The monstrous creature called DOOMSDAY attacks Metropolis. (log: 20140426-doomsday | tags: doomsday-npc evelyn huntress lunair metropolis superman witchblade wonder_man | posted: 27 Apr 2014 05:18) Bridge Over Armored Transport April 26, 2014: An armored truck just outside of Metropolis is targeted by a lone mercenary. Three hero sorts come to intervene. (Mild language) (log: 20140426-bridge-over-armored-transport | tags: domino evelyn hawkeye mr_fantastic shield | posted: 26 Apr 2014 22:54) Darkness Rising - Part 4 April 11, 2014: As New York shifts and warps around them, a handful of heroes find themselves in a broken reality that's right out of a steampunk horror story. What to do? TRIUMPH! Or, perhaps, die. (log: 20140411-darkness-rising-part-4 | tags: darkness_rising domino evelyn hawkeye human_torch lunaire mimic superman witchblade wonder_woman | posted: 13 May 2014 03:24) Darkness Rising - Part 3 April 11, 2014: As New York shifts and warps around them, a handful of heroes find themselves in a broken reality that's right out of a steampunk horror story. (log: 20140411-darkness-rising-part-3 | tags: darkness_rising evelyn human_torch witchblade wonder_woman | posted: 13 May 2014 03:00) page 2 of 2« previous12 Back to: Current Cast

Footnotes

1. Humanity+ is a theory produced by the scientist's at Evelyn's lab. It loosely covers the idea of creating synthetic life that mimics humanity without losing anything we consider part of being human (such as sensation, emotion, and pain). The plus at the end of humanity infers additional abilities, but not at the loss of previous features.

2. Evelyn's first body was utilitarian. Most of her body was unshielded parts, exposed white ABS plastics and circuitry. The body was stiff and also had no onboard power capabilities. At all times, the 3'5" body required a tether to an external power transformer.

3. Neurotex is a human-unreadable format of logic used to populate a self-building neuronetwork. The code writes itself over time.

4. Evelyn is a modernized version of an ancient Germanic name which means 'Desired'.

5. Carl Walker is one of the researchers who most commonly escorts Evelyn about.

6. The last name Thorne came from Fairchild's player talking about ice cream.