Basic Information
Name: Eva Chilver
Nickname/Alias/Etc: Earth Mother, Tree-Hugger, Hippie, elf
Gender: Female
Age:19 (Selena’s twin)
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 140 lbs
Home District:
Appearance
Hair Color: Platinum blonde.
Eye Color: Brown
Ethnicity:She is 1/4th Greek, 1/4th Italian, and 1/2 Cherokee.
Physical Appearance: Being Selena’s identical twin, Eva looks like Selena minus the angry tomboy ensemble. When one sees Eva, a sense of calm and peace washes over them, as if they were looking at a beautiful painting or nature scene. Like her sister, Selena has a very firm, fit body, though she does not possess the same muscle tone. She has the body of a dancer, with graceful limbs and somewhat broad shoulders. She looks almost immaculately healthy, with a little mediterranean olive complexion, contrary to her hair color. Her skin isn’t as dark as Salena’s, as if she spends her outside time in the shade. She walks with an overarching sense of grace and poise, never seeming to trip or stumble no matter what she’s walking on. Eva has a somewhat humble attitude and body language. She looks down when she walks and looks whoever she’s addressing in the eyes when she speaks. She almost always looks happy, usually wearing some version of a kind smile. Her hands are smooth and her body devoid of any kind of scarring. Her face looks very similar to Selena’s, heart-shaped with high cheekbones, a small forehead, and beautiful brown eyes speckled with green. She is incredibly beautiful, and her default facial expression seems to be a kind smile. If it weren’t for her sister’s toughness, they’d look completely identical.
Her voice is high and melodic, the makings of a good singer. It’s about an octave above your average woman’s voice. She very rarely laughs more than a quiet chuckle. When Eva gets angry, she seems to go into a shell and naturally draw away. Her smile disappears and she has a habit of hugging herself tightly, as if very cold. Eva’s hair is always a bright blonde, though as the moon grows fuller it seems to become more silver. Eva takes a lot of care of her long hair, usually keeping it in a braid which lays across her left shoulder.
Attire: Unlike Selena, who dresses pragmatically, Eva dresses fashionably. She loves dresses, wearing them even in winter. Anything made of fur immediately repulses her. Her clothing changes a fair bit according to the season. In springtime she’ll wear yellows, seafoam greens, and light purples. In summer she wears whites and bright pastel oranges and reds. In Autumn she dresses more earthy, wearing light browns, tans, and greens. In winter, she dresses in whites and greys. Her favorite article of clothing is a flowing white sundress with a golden belt that she wears on a fairly regular basis. Eva generally wears flats or pumps when out on the town, but generally dislikes shoes, choosing not to wear them when at home or in the woods. If it’s cold out, Eva will wear a shawl or sweater over whatever dress she’s wearing as well as thermal leggings.
Personality
Personality: Contrary to her sister, Eva is very motherly and kind. She’s gentle and sweet, with many social graces and ladylike qualities. She’s a very smart and rational girl, and is a pacifist, often avoiding a fight in any way possible. Eva can be somewhat judgemental, believing herself to be a good judge of character simply by a look in someone’s eyes or their body language. Though she tends to categorize and stereotype those she meets, she’s very forgiving and will give others a second chance. Eva absolutely hates lying and will not associate herself with those who do it.
Eva is somewhat competitive, but not in the fighting or hunting aspect. No, Eva wins fights with her mind. She has a fox-like sense of cunning and has worked hard to figure ways out of situations that do not require violence. She is very good at reading others from their body languages or stuff like that, and is good at picking up innuendoes or subtext. As stated above, Eva is a pacifist and avoids fights when at all possible. She is a vegetarian because she cannot stand to eat something which was once an animal, and absolutely cannot stand animal skins or mounted heads, finding them to be extremely offensive.
Eva has a love of nature. She spends the majority of her time in the woods, playing with or tracking animals. She loves hiking, tree-climbing, swimming, kayaking, stuff like that. She is generally opposed to city life, preferring to live in the country where there’s less pollution and honking horns. When she is in the city, Eva finds herself daydreaming, often staring out of the window at birds flying by or trees growing. If she is completely cut off from nature, like in a brick room with no windows, she quickly breaks down and can have panic attacks.
Socially, Eva is fairly extroverted. She has a natural grace when talking to people and has had many a boyfriend in her time. She is appalled by smokers, however, and generally tends to avoid them at all costs. She once went ballistic when a classmate blew a puff of cigarette smoke in her face. She tries to be somewhat ladylike and proper, but can lose her temper occasionally and shrink away to contain herself. When Eva is angry or upset, she goes into a kind of antisocial shell where she’ll draw away from people and stop speaking. It is not uncommon for her to cry when in this state. Depending on how much isolation she can achieve and the season (it’s worst in the winter), Eva’s blue periods can last days.
Hobbies/Interests: She spends incredible amounts of time out in nature; hiking, exploring, tree-climbing, playing with animals, tracking, etc. She loves dancing and playing/listening to music. She plays flute, a little violin, and wants to learn piano. Eva’s music library contains mostly pop, light indie rock (like John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson, etc.), and country music. She’s a fan of Lindsey Stirling as well. She’s good with making arts and crafts, especially dreamcatchers, which she learned how to make from a friend of her’s. She has a seeming obsession with good-smelling candles, always keeping them around her shared house with Salena to keep everything nice-smelling.
Skills/Talents: Eva is incredibly dexterous, flexible, and graceful. Dancing and gymnastics have given her an excellent sense of coordination, making her an excellent climber (though that also has a little bit to do with her power). She’s not particularly good with new languages, and has no clue how to fight whatsoever. She’s a very good flute player and sings excellently. From Salena she has learn a lot of good wilderness survival skills. She’d make a good boyscout. She’s a decent cook, just good enough to do things like bake bread and make pasta and stuff.
Prized Possession: Eva really doesn’t particularly care for possessions, though she loves her white dress. She has a pet kingfisher named Halcyon which lives in a large bird cage in her room and is released on a regular basis to fly around. She owns a Nissan Leaf, an electric car, so as to keep the environment less polluted.
Quote(s): “Well hello there, little squirrel. How are you doing today? oh dear, an owl ate your family? I’m so sorry!”
History/Bio: Eva Chilver was born one minute and five seconds before her twin sister Selena. Eva’s mother left when she was very young. She doesn’t know what happened to her, though has always been curious. For the first few years of her life, she bounced back and forth between her uncle and father with her sister. Her father worked on an oil rig, and so was gone for many months of the year. From an early age, Eva showed herself to be good with animals and people alike. People felt comfortable around her, and she was quite the social butterfly. She was smart, too, and her dancing and gymnastics hobbies kept her graceful and ladylike, unlike her sister. When Eva turned ten, she was offered a scholarship to go to a prestigious boarding school in New York for her dancing. Knowing that this would give his daughter a better life than he could give her, Eva’s father allowed her to go, and for four years Eva lived at the boarding school, learning expert dancing and becoming rather intelligent. Eva rejoined her twin in school at age fifteen, now drastically different from her. Unlike Selena, Eva did fairly well in school, having a knack for biology and environmental science. Through some act of luck, Eva received a half scholarship to Boardwalk University, where she studies environmental science. After finding out that her sister also planned to move to Black Fall, Eva and Selena decided to rent a house within driving distance of the university together so that they’d be away from the city and closer to nature.
Family: Father, uncle, some cousins, though she doesn’t know them very well.
Relationships
Selena Chilver | Good | Sister | I love Selena. She’s a great sister, but I wish she weren’t so violent, and that she’d learn how to dress better. |
Fred Macroshelys | Good | Friend | Though on first sight one would assume Fred to be a terrible ogre, but he’s really a very nice man. He makes great soups too. I stop by his home every once in a while. |
Abilities
Power Class & Rating: Other
Power: Earth Mother. Almost the polar opposite of her sister, Eva is the queen of nature. Whenever any living being, be it a human, an animal, or even a plant, is near Eva, they feel an aura of reassurance and warmth. Eva’s presence naturally calms living things nearby, decreasing aggression. Prey animals like deer, rabbits, and rodents seem to flock to Eva when she is near, and predators bow their heads and stop their hunting at sight of her. At her touch, living things often find their natural abilities to be strengthened. Plants grow taller and greener and animals find their senses and natural instincts increased by the touch of her hand. This limitedly affects humans but does not strengthen supernatural abilities. Simply Eva’s presence has an effect on the wildlife around her. The leaves of trees above her thicken in her presence, providing her shade, and animals bow their heads at her presence. This ability does not affect animal metas as much as it affects normal animals, but they too seem to have a sort of reverence for Eva, and are greatly calmed down in her presence.
Eva can communicate with animals as well. They seem to understand her speech and she understands the sounds they make. Animals naturally respect her, and wild animals address her as “Earth-mother”. She communicates best with mammals, but can also do the same with birds. If around her long enough, animals will begin to obey her commands, like a deer named Actaeon, who follows Eva and protects her when she’s in the woods. If a wild animal sees Eva in danger, it will attempt to defend her. While Eva is unable to communicate with plants as well as with animals, she has the ability to limitedly command plants. She climbs trees so well because at her touch the trees grow footholds to help her climb safer. When she is trying to hide, plants grow thicker around her, shrouding her from sight. If Eva were to fall from a tree, the plants below her would grow thicker leaves to cushion her fall. Branches strengthen themselves when Eva crawls along them, adding to her excellent tree-climbing ability. If she is in major trouble, hard-stemmed plants like trees will actually change their shape to protect her (causing some really wonky-shaped trees in the woods). Being pure, Eva has the ability to clean water of disease or dirt with her touch.
Another aspect of Eva’s power is that she has the power to replicate the aspects of animals. By touching them, Eva can copy evolutionary advantages which animals possess, like the gills and flippers of a fish or the agility and keen sense of smell of a deer. Once she touches the animal, she can use the animal’s ability for approximately twenty-four hours before it fades away. Using this ability slightly changes Eva’s physical characteristics to a degree. For example, if Eva replicates the adaptations of a deer, her face could be elongated slightly and her nose could turn black, or if she replicated a lemur she would gain its prehensile tail, opposable feet, and some vestigial characteristics such as a light coat of fur. Her first ability actually assists her second one, as non-domestic animals become calm around her. She can control whether or not the aspects of an animal are expressed or not, so as to avoid walking somewhere with the nose and fur of a deer or something.
And yes, she can fly if she touches a large bird.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks: Well first and most obviously, the first half of Eva’s powers only work in rural environments. The concrete jungle is simply not her cup of tea. When not in nature, Eva gets somewhat jumpy and loses most of her abilities. There are no plants to catch your fall when you’re in the middle of a city block with no trees. Eva’s animal magnetism also does not work very well on domesticated creatures, as they are detached from nature. The better trained an animal is, they less they will obey her. Eva is weakened by pollution, another reason why she doesn’t live in the city. When exposed to large amounts of carbon dioxide or smoke, she exhibits the symptoms of an asthma attack. Polluted water burns Eva’s skin (I know this seems like it contradicts her water purifying power, but her pollution cleaning has to be activated). Another slight problem with Eva’s power is that it just so happens to be winter, meaning that she loses some of her abilities (there’s no leaves to cushion your fall in winter). Also, most animals are hibernating or have migrated south, so she has less to control.
As far as the secondary animal replication goes, Eva is confined to use of one animal at a time. If she replicates the aspect of another animal, she loses the aspects of whatever animal she already had in her. Eva cannot choose what aspects of an animal she gets. The power only works on non-domestic animals (unless she owns the animal herself), so she cannot copy the aspects of your average pet dog or cat. Eva is confined to the traits of female animals as well, being female. This means that things like the antlers of a deer buck or the tusks of a bull elephant will not replicate for her, even if she does replicate a male animal. If Eva replicates a male animal, she remains female with female animal characteristics. Also, she has to actually touch the animal, so going to a zoo or something won’t help her unless she breaks into the tiger cage. Finally, Eva lives in Black Fall, Pennsylvania, not the African savannah or the South American jungle. She’s not exactly going to find a tiger wandering through the ghetto or a wild monkey swinging between the power lines. Eva is confined to what animals she has to work with, which are generally your usual North American animals like deer, foxes, wolves, bears, hawks, etc. For some reason, Eva cannot replicated bugs.
Other: Eva lives with her sister Selena in a two-story stone house near the edge of the Black Fall woods. It is a rather old-looking house, and it’s a wonder that the two could afford such a building.
Also on a quick note, Eva’s power has convinced her of a pantheistic view of theology. Like the Native Americans, Eva believes that God is in all living things, from a squirrel to a tree to a person. This isn’t an overly-important aspect, but she generally doesn’t like killing things, and when she does she’s generally somewhat apologetic.
Sample Post: Like a splendid doe Eva Chilver raced through the forest, graceful as a ballerina as the skirt of her dress floated behind her feet. Though it was cold and winter, she wore no sleeves and did not appear to feel the cold. Her bare feet kissed off of the snow with every step, oddly enough leaving no footprints. She came upon a fallen tree propped against another and nimbly climbed its trunk, unaffected by ice which clung to the bark. She ran through a fork in the next tree and vaulted into another, landing on a branch that seemed too thin to hold her weight. The branch did not waver in the slightest, however, and Eva crawled along it and climbed across to the top of the trunk, where she rested as a soft wind began to blow through the woods. The woods were quiet now that the stream had frozen, and a thin layer of snow laid across the ground and tree branches. Eva heard a crunching below her; Fred must be taking a walk. She looked down at the tremendous turtle-like man below her and then continued to climb through the trees like a squirrel, never once losing her footing even when clamoring on icy branches. She moved with grace and poise like a dancer.
She came to the end of the row of trees and rested on the top branch. In front of her was an enormous oak, bare of leaves and rocketing high above all of the other trees. It was the eldest of all the trees in the wood and happened to be the only tree which Eva had yet to climb. Perched upon the top branches of the tree she was in, she squatted down low and launched herself at the trunk of the great tree. She held on tight to the thick bark, though there seemed to be nothing to hold onto, and quickly began to scramble up the bark like it was a climbing wall. As she approached the top of the tree, she could feel something very wrong. The hand-holds she had been using to hoist herself along the tree were beginning to disappear. As she approached the top of the tree, she pulled herself up onto a branch and heard a loud, definitive “crack!”. She jumped up in the air and grabbed onto a branch above her as the branch below her cracked and fell to the ground where it turned to splinters. Cracks began to echo through the tree as the trunk shook and shuddered. Eva willed the tree to stop, but dead wood was useless to her. A monstrous roar echoed through the trees as the branch Eva held onto split and fell from the tree.
Nearly fifty feet she fell, far enough to kill. She tried to scream, but no sound came out. Just as she was about to hit the ground, something soft and vine-like grabbed her around the waist and pulled her in. A nearby pine tree grabbed her out of midair and wrapped itself almost snakelike around her as the tree collapsed. As she curled into a ball and the pine tree’s soft branches wrapped around her to keep her safe from harm, she connected to the tree. She felt what it felt and sensed what it sensed, and it was beautiful. It was near-impossible to describe, the senses of a tree. The sweet smell of pine needles filled her nostrils and the tree gripped tighter as the sound of roots pulling from the earth echoed through the trees and the trunk struck the ground with a mighty “BOOM!”
The tree unfurled and Eva gently stepped to the ground before the connection to the tree fell silent. She looked over and saw that in its efforts, a massive branch from the oak struck the base of the pine tree and snapped its narrow trunk. She knelt before the dying tree as it resumed its natural shape and began to die. She placed her hands on its trunk and felt its pain. Once more her breaths were filled with the smell of pine needles.
“Thank you, my dear friend.” she said “You have saved my life, and I will be forever grateful.” The tree remained motionless, but she could feel it trembling in her mind. It was strange to feel what a tree felt, completely indescribable with human terms. As she touched the bark of the tree and ran her fingers through the pine needles, the tree felt happy. Then it’s feelings left her and the smell disappeared as the tree died.
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