evantuality | Evan Friave-Goodlace

Male, apparently human
20
5'6"
Lightly built
Mild Canadian accent, speaks quickly
ALASTAIR uniform or jeans and a button-up
Can create and mess with fire

tl;dr: Evan is an understated, technically-minded young man who likes puzzle games and jokes that don't always hit the mark. He thinks a lot of himself, but doesn't like to give much away, and can be easily won over with a little bit of enthusiasm for learning.

Evan Friave-Goodlace

Evan is an understated young man, given to slipping under the social radar. He tends to be a bit disengaged from the people around him, and is used to being overshadowed by more flamboyant personalities. When his curiosity is piqued he can be quite keen on whatever's interested him, which can make him much more engaged and engaging, or a lot more annoying, depending on how much the subject of his curiosity likes nosy nerds with endless questions.

He's got a snarky, surreptitious sense of humour and an obscure kind of wit that's prone to odd logic leaps and doesn't always hit the mark. Intelligent and well aware of it, Evan tends to think a lot of himself, and judges others by his own high standards. He doesn't really understand people. Mostly his friendships happen because of some degree of effort on the other person's part, except those that have grown up around mutual learning. He's not given to malice or spite, and is a terrible liar. Cruelty won't ever naturally occur to him: if he legitimately doesn't like a person he'll simply act as if they don't exist. When he can, he prefers to be frank, if only because it's simpler. He's well practiced at common courtesy and tends to be self-possessed, as long as he feels reasonably steady. When he flusters he can get quite inarticulate, and is prone to retreating from uncomfortable situations or clamming up.

With friends or colleagues he loves to share the things he's interested in and will spend hours in another's company sharing knowledge, working out puzzles or playing games: he's just not all that good at undirected social time. He's used to the vague sense that people think he's annoying, so if he finds someone who's genuinely willing to engage he can be quite earnest and enthusiastic, and all-around hard to get rid of. He can be an incredibly good listener as he tends to give it his all. Someone who's in his good graces can get him to do just about anything by challenging his sense of pride, but really, as long as it's offered in good faith he'll try almost anything once.

He's got an intense ability to focus and a hunger for knowledge, which is his main driving force. It almost doesn't matter what he's learning as long as his brain is engaged, but it comes at the price of never quite being able to turn it off. Evan will get bored and antsy and even progress all the way to angry if he's forced stagnant for any period of time. He's happiest when kicking ideas around, particularly those that relate to technological or mathematical problems, or when learning about other places, whether or not he'll ever actually visit them.

Evan, by dint of long habit, keeps his elemental skills under wraps as well as he can. Back home, people either already know what he is, or should never find out: either they're part of the supernatural community and know him through his mother, or they're regular humans with no context for elementals. He's practiced with his skills and is proficient with them, but even in the safety of home prefers to be subtle rather than flashy.

First Impressions

AGE: 20
HEIGHT: 5'6"
WEIGHT: Skinny (about 140lbs)
GENDER: Male
MARITAL STATUS: sooooo single
HAIR: Pale red
EYES: Warm brown
ORIGIN: Edmonton, Alberta, Earth
LANGUAGE: English, very broken French

VISION

Not tall, not built, Evan's got the physique of someone who doesn't tend to spend much time moving about. He's gained a little bit of muscle and a tan from the Nalawi mission, but he's still essentially a pale, skinny young man, broad-shouldered enough to imply a certain presence but lacking the bulk or the height to fill out that promise. He will often hold himself with carefully-studied nonchalance, which he will quickly forget when he finds something interesting. He will talk with his hands when excited, using precise motions and leaning into conversations.
When he's not in his uniform, he can almost always be found simply in jeans and a tidily buttoned-up collared shirt, which he has taken to rolling the sleeves up around his elbows. He's got a squarish face, a strong jaw, defined cheekbones, and bags under his eyes that never entirely go away. He'll not infrequently have a satchel with him, or be wearing the sunglasses they've been gifted with, for nice hands-free practicality reasons. They do not really fit with his look, but just try telling him to take them off.

SOUND

He's got a light midding timbre, one that does not carry a lot of weight behind it, and he uses it with a great deal of tonal variance, particularly when he's feeling enthusiastic or sarcastic. He is prone to talking quickly when agitated and very frequently will cut himself off mid-sentence when his mind has already skipped to another thought or when he's overly worried about the impression that he's making.
He frequently equivocates, using emphasis phrases such as 'well, then', junk syllables like 'um', and repeating words to pad out his speech and give him time to think. When he's relaxed, which is not all that often, he will speak more slowly, more easily, and without such linguistic noise.

SCENT

Evan does not wear any scents, nor is he in the habit of using scented products. He smells basically like regularly-washed young man, and his threshold for getting sweaty is pretty high so he's rarely manky. When he's been using his powers he will sometimes smell of hot, dry air, or if he gets really heated, hot, sweaty air.

MISC.

These days, often found with his notebook-slash-sketchbook. He's a terrible sketch artist, but he tries for the sake of science.
art from my tumblr, upon which you can find about six million other pictures of him.