<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(http://slodive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreadlock-hairstyles/red-dreads.jpg)<br/>(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e6/0b/79/e60b7974367f87ce7b5e362ce3ac9d83.jpg)(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3330/3439294586_a5630c4ae6_z.jpg?zz=1)</div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Evolved Character Sheet</strong></span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><br/><strong>Character Name:</strong> Eva Bellamy<br/><strong>Codename:</strong> Feral<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong> American<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong> Bisexual<br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong> 1<br/><br/><strong>Occupation:</strong> Currently underemployed as an occasional pet sitter, occasionally unemployed and homeless.  <br/><strong>Education:</strong> Ph. D in Marine Biology from UC Berkeley<br/><strong>Wealth Level:</strong> Impoverished.  There is considerable family wealth among the Bellamy's, but Eva is estranged from her family (and much of humanity by this point).<br/><strong>Languages Known:</strong> English and Spanish <br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong> 28<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5’9”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 128<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong> Red<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong> Blue<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong> Unknown model<br/><br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong>  Eva is a fairly tall woman with sinewy musculature and a lithe body.  She wears her fiery red hair in dreads, often braided or coiled into long tails she ties back to keep clean and neat.  Her skin is the pale, freckle-less kind found amongst certain redheads, and she rarely - if ever - bothers with make up.  Eva pays not the least attention to her clothing, wearing whatever is clean, available and fits - and often enough of late discovered in a thrift shop.  <br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>  Quiet and reserved, Eva has become a woman of precious few words, and these often spoken only to those whose nature is not duplicitous or cruel.  Though her demeanor might strike some as passionless or cold, nothing could be further from the truth.  Her withdrawal and reluctance to embrace most human company is simply a defense mechanism, to help preserve her sanity.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong> There was a time the whole world was Eva's oyster.  If American royalty could be said to exist in boho Northern California, it would have been the Bellamy's. Her father, Jacob Bellamy, is a U.S. Senator, his family's world replete with all the perks and pluses that come with being fabulously influential and wealthy.  The second of three children, Eva was privately schooled with the children of kings and presidents.  She got along well enough in the rarefied air of her family's status and position, but in the end she eschewed a career in politics - or anything else that requiring the limelight - to pursue her passion for the ocean and sea mammals at Berkeley.<br/><br/>In 2009, Eva was at the start of her graduate work for her Master's when she began to feel the first faint stirrings of 'something isn't quite the same anymore.'  She had always been passionate about her work, but now she could almost <em>see</em> the lattice work of connections building between herself and the orca - and not just the orca!  The otters, the seals - even the teaching assistant's dog!  (which was weird, to say the least).  By the time she finished her doctoral work, Eva realized she could actually understand the animals - <em>all</em> of them, whether in the sea or on land, each to their own, great and small.  And more stunning still, they could understand her too, and accepted her and loved her like no other.  <br/><br/>But there was a trade off, of a grimmer sort.<br/><br/>For all the uncomplicated beauty of speaking with and understanding the animal kingdom, there was one species of the two-legged variety whose presence began to cause her genuine, physical pain.  Humans are, at their basest nature, animals.  But the complexity and duplicity of their darkest thoughts and emotions overwhelmed her senses, afflicting her with disabling migraine headaches to the point where she had to withdraw from most all human associations, sacrificing education and work and family alike.  Her parents and siblings claim she has suffered a tragic mental breakdown that has resulted in her current circumstances - and if they suspect anything else?  It would be political suicide to have a child among the Evolved.  'Crazy' at least has the virtue of being pitiable, a social cause to blazon into new slogans and posters.  "Super powers" though, are another matter entirely, and no one sane intentionally curries the notice of TAC-6 - most certainly not a U.S. Senator.<br/><br/>Over the past couple years, Eva has been able to build a mental wall of sorts between herself and most humans, that has allowed her to begin re-emerging from her self-imposed homeless wanderings of the past year.  She must still be extremely vigilant and pick her company carefully, and she has only just begun to reassemble a life for herself that includes others like herself, the Evolved.<br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong> Sailing and swimming in the open ocean; quiet, natural spaces; thunderstorms; being amongst animals of any kind<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong> Crowds; loud, obnoxious people; cruel people; city centers<br/><strong>Strengths:</strong>  Empathic to a fault, Eva is a generous and giving soul; nonjudgmental; courageous when it counts<br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong>  Painfully shy; skittish in crowds; hair trigger temper when she - or the ones she cares for - are threatened; merely mortal - she has no supernatural physical powers<br/><strong>On's &amp; Off's:</strong> Undine's On's and Off's (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=241533.0)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Notes</span></strong><br/><br/>She is almost invariably accompanied by a wild/feral animal, or animals, of one type or another.  There is simply a natural attraction there Eva finds soothing and comforting.<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Powers</span></strong><br/></span><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Animal Communication (10):</strong> </li></ul>This power is a two-way street:  Eva can both communicate telepathically (or physically, in some cases) with most every known type of animal (but for humans); and in turn, she can understand the intent, 'thoughts' and emotions of these beasts.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Animal Empathy (10):</strong> </li></ul>Eva's power allows her to 'feel' whatever emotion any beast - mammal, reptile, bird or insect - is experiencing in any given moment.  This ability includes physical sensations, both pleasurable and painful.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Beloved of Nature (7):</strong> </li></ul>The beasts of this world accept Eva as one of their own, no matter the species.  If she is threatened, the nearest animals (dogs, cats, wolves, rats, snakes, bees - you name it!) will come to her aid as if she were a pup, cub, foal, hatchling or larvae of one of their own.