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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.

( The long version )

Hiatus Mission November 2016

Evan's mission is as follows: he gets to babysit a litter of Khipri! Lucky guy. Young khipri are puppy-sized, with tough scales like a pangolin, but a long furred chinchilla-like tail and long rabbit-like ears, but by six months they're about the size of tigers. They need lots of warmth and attention to thrive, which is where Evan comes in! The ALASTAIR unit on this world is a little caught up with some local issues, namely the fact that this litter's mother and every other Khipri adult is getting poached, so they don't have the firestarting hands to spare.

Neither the species doing the poaching nor most of the members of the ALASTAIR team that's borrowed Evan are strictly humanoid, and so Evan spends most of his time with the khipri litter feeling as if he's bunkered down in the middle of a monster war. It's not so bad, though -- with a little bit of help from his loaner team Evan excavates and kits out a den in relatively protected territory. The team leaves him with food supplies for the kits, a general guide to the non-poisonous foliage in the area, and some brusque but heartfelt wishes of good luck, but the general consensus is that the more they check in on him, the riskier it is for the hidden litter they're trying to safe, so Evan is mainly on his own.

He regrets that fairly quickly. There are six baby khipri to keep track of and they're at the age where their energy is boundless. He quickly grows to adore them despite his caution about getting attached (leaving Imber behind broke his heart a little, after all), and ends up naming them for the pine cones they resemble -- Douglas Fir, Blue Spruce, White Spruce, Jack Pine, Juniper and Giant Sequoia (who is the runt of the litter). He spends any time he's not spending working on improving (and improving the camouflage of) the den chasing the little creatures around. They're smarter than they look, and Evan more than once questions the assertion that they aren't at least slightly sentient. They escape the den a lot until he gets canny to their tricks and sets up a door that takes thumbs to operate. This works while they're still smallish, at least.

As a surrogate parent, Evan isn't exactly a khipri himself. He can't teach the youngsters how to hunt or the ins and outs of surviving the native hazards that their planet has to offer, but he does his best. One thing he imparts with careful thoroughness is caution around strangers; the kits are naturally friendly, and Evan's terribly certain that's going to get them poached themselves the moment they meet some unfriendly creature in the woods. He hides them whenever anyone comes to the den to visit, even friendlies, and guards them with a great deal of suspicion for anything odd in the woods.

About halfway through his stay, one of the species that includes the poachers finds the den and just about makes off with one of the kits while Evan is sleeping. The kits have learned some of his caution, though, and Juniper squawks up a storm while she's being kitnapped.

Evan just about fries the intruder in his panic. It effectively runs the poacher off, but Juniper is burned too. He calls his temporary team in a tizzy and they send a healer to help, but Juniper will always be marked on her right side where the flames got at her. Evan is wracked with guilt for this, and rather than risk it happening again he conscripts help to relocate the den. The changed location works, and when it's time to go, his litter is alive and well, about the size of pitbulls, and absolutely heartbreaking to say goodbye to. He has tried to draw their likenesses before he left, but he's no artist and they're pretty bad representations. If ALASTAIR allows it, though, he's kept a few scales from their not-infrequent moulting. He is eager for adult conversation with other sentient creatures again, even if he will deeply miss his entire litter of troublesome pinecones.

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APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: JKat
CONTACT:

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CURRENT CHARACTERS: none.

CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Evan Friave-Goodlace
CANON: Original
AGE: 20
APPEARANCE: Evan is five foot six with short-cropped pale red hair, brown eyes, pale skin, and a build that's compact but not muscular. He dresses like your average marginally conscientious college boy: nice button-up shirts and jeans, slightly shabbily taken care of. His face is squarish, his eyes are slightly bagged, and his lips are thin. This is a reasonable likeness.

CANON POINT: Not really applicable, but Evan is currently in college for computer sciences.

BACKGROUND:

Note: Evan is a second gen OC. He's the progeny of a couple of other OCs whose stories have been played out already. I haven't included much about them as their background is not exceptionally relevant, but I can revise it in if you'd like!

Evan is from Earth, of the supernatural-underground genre. His world is a five-minutes-into-the-future urban fantasy, where humans dominate but certain supernatural creatures have learned to exist under the radar. In his part of the world, he knows of elementals, dragons (with the ability to glamour themselves human), draconians (bastardized humanoid dragons), therianthropes (particularly werewolves, though he's aware of other breeds in other parts of the world), and vampires. Most humans are unaware of the other species, except for a scattered handful. Supernatural creatures are on the decline, and have mostly been forced to band together to keep treading water.

Evan exists about ten years into our future. Climates are warmer, technology is better, pants are tighter and politics are less stable, but otherwise our norms are his norms.

He grew up in a big farmhouse outside of a city in Alberta, Canada. His mother is a fire elemental wearing a human body, and his father is human but involved in the supernatural world by dint of association with her. By the time he came around his parents had settled entirely into their human routine, so his childhood was not necessarily replete with exciting events or personalities: the strangest things he's had to contend with are meeting other supernatural folks, who for the most part have also become adept at looking and acting human over the years. He's grown up knowing a pack of werewolves with which his parents are good friends, a few young dragons who have established themselves in the area, and a small scattering of Kay's elemental peers... but to a recalcitrant youngster, most of those folks are simply his mom and dad's friends and not all that interesting. He's aware that there's more to the world than the classic human experience, but he hasn't personally encountered much of that himself.

He spent his early years mostly by himself, as his sister was five years older than him and there weren't a lot of other kids in the area. He was fairly content with this arrangement, and otherwise, took part in the classic human rites of passage: he started school when he was five, graduated high school, and is currently going to university to earn himself a degree in Computer Sciences. He has always known that he was gifted, mostly because pretty much everyone in his life has told him as much. Other than that, his experiences have been very average for a young white male in 21st century Canada.

PERSONALITY:
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.

ABILITIES:
Computer sciences second-year university education as well as particular skills with network infrastructure and security (for 21st-century computing systems).
He is an exceptionally thorough learner and observer.
He's not hurt by heat, though he'll be sweaty and uncomfortable like most people.
He can raise the temperature of objects he can touch.
He can produce, control, direct, and extinguish fire.
(He has been experimenting with expanding this to other forms of combustion, with inconsistent results.)
He can light himself on fire, and his human body remains uninjured by the exercise.
He suspects he has some latent powers that haven't developed yet because he's not entirely mature. He's right. For reference, these will be: teleportation, telepathy, and transformation into a mutable body that's made of fire. These won't manifest until he's in his thirties.

A note on Evan's nature: Evan thinks of himself as "half" elemental. This is not strictly true. He's fully human, in the sense that his body is entirely human, but an immature elemental shares his consciousness and exists in a symbiotic relationship with him. This isn't a case of split personalities: right now they're literally the same mind, but when the elemental matures it has the potential to split off from him and become its own creature. Beings with the insight for it will be able to tell he's not a blended creature, but instead a human with an add-on.

I am a-ok nerfing any of his fire skills if it'd be better for the game, although if possible I'd love to keep his imperviousness to heat.

INVENTORY:
One pair of jeans
One button-up polo shirt
Four dollars and fifteen cents, Canadian coinage
A pair of well-made sneakers
A canvas summer jacket
A leather wallet with credit card, Alberta driver's license and ID, school ID ("Old Strathcona Academic"), health care card, an old Magic card ("Cerulean Wyvern"), and two twenty-dollar bills
House keys
An ornate silver lighter (engraved E.F.-G.)

WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE:

[Evan does not like getting bad marks.]

Trustworthy recruits? How about decent teachers? Does anyone else have a real problem with this -- this grading?

Really, if they're going to grade us we should at least get some sort of -- I don't know, rubric beforehand. Or a decent postmortem! I don't know, did we have to kill that guy? They talk like they know what we should have done, in which case, tell us! How are we supposed to improve if we don't know what we missed?

Hff. If an entire class fails a test, that's on the teacher, not the students.

[Never mind that the grades had averaged a quite a serviceable C. Evan's crossed his arms defensively and is frowning.]

I mean...

Even I could tell that that could've gone better. I'm just looking for a little guidance, you know. This is all such a massive responsibility.

LOG SAMPLE:
Around the Tree from August 6th to 12th (Evan at the Home Tree)

CR Chart: Futurology

Friends

Kida Nedakh

Princess Badass

I really get the sense that she's looking out for me, which makes this place feel much more friendly. A true friend.

Laedo Ledo

Staunch Alleye

Eye think this gueye's a sight for sore eyes. Too much?

Ana Ramir

Flexmaster

Trees don't fuck with her, tornadoes don't fuck with her. Probably thinks rollercoasters are dull.

Riza Hawkeye

Fledgling Pyro

I feel a little odd being the one to teach her a new skill, but it's nice to have some new fire powers around.

Sieglinde Sullivan

Science Witch

She looks eleven and acts like a thirty-five-year-old with a doctorate. Remarkably even-keeled.

Haise Sasaki

A Real Star

Understated, thoughtful, and generous with his time. Should take better care of himself.

Meallan Lavellan

Literally An Elf

Far too good at cutting to the quick of things. Is he flirting with me or is he just really, really nice??

Serene Charlord

Ironically Named

Friendly, except when she's not. Always intense, sometimes frighteningly so, obviously has a history.

Papyrus

He Is Bones???

It's hard to argue when a skull tells you that you're friends.

Acquaintances

Fairy King Harlequin

SuperTyke

He and Seig should start a club for hyper-competent tweens. Possibly afraid of vomit?

Achilles

~Hero~

Apparently got his medical degree from a horse??

Sigma Klim

This Guy

Smells like a bro, handsome, is the reason Ramir didn't kiss me, is a pretty decent guy. Sigh.

Kojuro Katakura

Dad Club President

A very fatherly kind of guy. Godsend with a flute.

Keats

BOOKS BOOKS

A source of endless paper!!

Neutral

Rin Tohsaka

Egg Snarker

She's basically my sister, but in miniature.

Hellboy

Brick Shithouse

A helpful fellow who is basically the size and colour of a barn.

Dipper Pines

Not Mabel

I've never met him, but he's related to Mabel and Ford, so he's probably alright.

Keith

Squidge Jungle Gym

Sorry. Sorry.

Fiona

Forager Fantastic

At the very least doesn't eat just anything she finds on the ground.

Gilgamesh

Cocky Child

Lightly less obnoxious as part of the Magical Preteens Club.

Tony Stark

Walking One-Liner

Sass city. Makes me feel at home.

Loki

Ostensible Deity

Knows about Slamburgers? Best argument for omnipotence I've yet seen.

Shizuo Heiwajima

Fellow Insomniac

As puzzled by Undyne as most of us.

Aradia Megido

Trolling Troll who Trolls

But for all that, kind of sweet? For a dead girl?

Giovanni Rammsteiner

Uhhhh

Wondering if I should be scared of him. Jeez.

Disliked

Transferred or Sent Home

Ford Pines

Knower of Things

It's hard not to look up to someone who's been through so much and kept his scientific spirit alive.

Ranmaru Rindou

The Friendiest

If she were the welcoming committee for everyone around here, no one would ever leave.

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Evan Friave-Goodlace

Hiatus Mission November 2016

Futurology Application

CR Chart: Futurology

Friends

Acquaintances

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Disliked

Transferred or Sent Home

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