<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/RK9d9kH.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Evelyn “Evie” Grant-Sterling<br/><strong>General Information: </strong>Evie’s a heavily augmented former SpecOps soldier with considerable front-line fighting skills, be it hand to hand, small arms, or heavy weapons. She also has an expertise in demolition and explosives. She’s a Resource War veteran who contracted for a number of corporations and went freelance after running afoul of the law—something about ripping a Kronos executive’s arm off. She’s spent fourteen years doing jobs up and down New Vegas and knows all the players. Her reputation is for competence, and for having a conscience, and she has her share of enemies. Most of her mods are related to her artificial legs and left arm, which she lost in the Resource Wars.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Evie was born Evelyn Grant-Sterling in an old-money New Vegas family that had developed ties to organized crime. When her mother discovered Evie making out with her best fried Mai, the daughter of prominent Yakuza, at Mai’s high society debut in the coat room, Evie’s mother reported the indiscretion and Mai was promptly whisked back to Japan and forcibly married to a criminal.<br/><br/>Evie would never forgive her mother. Faking credentials saying she was 18, she joined the military and transformed herself through basic training and the early skirmishes of the Resource Wars. At first, Evie was driven by self-destructive impulses, but as she developed skills on the battlefield, she envisioned saving Mai from her tyrannical family. In the midst of charging an enemy position, Evie was fired on by a tank and blown halfway to hell.<br/><br/>They rebuilt most of her body and she was so young her body handled the rebuild uncharacteristically well.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Family Secrets</div><div class="spoiler_body">Not even Evie knows her guilt-ridden mother paid a small fortune for the rebuild, bribing a higher-up in the military. When Evie eventually applied for placement in Japan to pursue Mai, her mother intervened a second time and ensured she got what she desired.</div></div><br/>In Japan, Evie confronted Mai and offered to run away with her. The two rekindled their teenaged romance and became lovers, but there came a sticking point: Mai had a three-year-old daughter and refused to leave her. It took years to arrange for a coyote to help both Mai and her daughter escape, and Evie spent that time taking military-connected security gigs that drew the attention of SpecOps.<br/><br/>The night of Evie’s escape plan, everything went wrong. It devolved into a brutal fire fight, and Mai demanded Evie run her daughter to the coyote’s location first. By the time Evie returned, Mai had been shot and killed by her own vengeful husband. Heartbroken, Evie turned the child over to a friend and former lover from the Resource Wars, Abe Uehara, who along with his wife badly desired a child. For a while, Evie visited the girl in spite of the pain; she was Mai’s spitting image, possessing too much of her childhood friend’s qualities. She’d have kept visiting, but Mai’s Yakuza husband hounded the Ueharas, who before long had to leave Japan and go dark. From time to time, they still sent Evie pictures of her best friend’s child.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Evie’s Secret</div><div class="spoiler_body">Evie hasn’t told the other Jacks, but that’s why she knew Naomi before she joined the Jacks; Naomi is Mai’s daughter, and it breaks Evie’s heart seeing the grown daughter of her first love. She can’t help but love Naomi too, since she possesses so many of Mai’s qualities, but Evie is worried the truth would make their budding relationship far too strange, or that Naomi will despise her for both letting Mai die and hiding the truth from her.</div></div><br/>Evie threw herself into the SpecOps, making her mark for having a unique, half-suicidal talent for fighting with a furious disregard for her own life. She returned to New Vegas and worked as support detail for military-grade hitters assembled by Kronos, where eventually she made the second-biggest mistake of her life: Falling for her mission, Xerana, then known as Sunshine. Sunshine was the first person since Mai who made Evie feel things again.<br/><br/>It came to a gruesome close when Sunshine uploaded bad code; in the heat of her episode, Evie confronted her. Rather than kill Evie, Sunshine tore off her own arm. Evie attempted to calm her, which gave her CO an opportunity to shoot Sunshine in the back of the head. Under orders, Evie cradled Sunshine in her arms and obediently returned her to Kronos. She last saw her taking off in a med-evac craft. The corpos never told her the details, but her CO admitted they had “decommissioned” Sunshine, taken her offline. Killed her, Evie believed.<br/><br/>Evie erupted violently and tore off her Kronos handler’s arms. Her CO gave her an opportunity to go on the run rather than face prison, and Evie did. Ever since, she’s taken her SpecOps talents into the New Vegas criminal underworld. For fourteen years she took any job her conscience could abide, building up an impressive reputation as a merc with a gift for violence and little sense of self-preservation. It’s a testament to Evie’s skills she survived to middle-age; among the few mercs and heavies to reach her storied age, the rest are retired, training others, or have turned fixer.<br/><br/>Evie stood out for her refusal to put down her gun; she holds a particular disdain for anyone who harms anyone female or feminine, a thing that’s gotten her called “old fashioned” in some quarters. Driven out of self-hatred for her inability to protect the two loves of her life, she joined the Jacks when Kiyoshi hired her through a fixer and completed an entire mission with Kiyoshi before meeting Xero.<br/><br/>When Evie met Xero the first time, she came off as laconic because she was unable to string four words together; she’d found Sunshine again, but Xero had no memory they’d ever met. Naturally, Evie became a Jack the instant she was offered the position.<br/><br/>But Evie has a habit of history catching up to her, something that would happen again when they found those Yakuza trying to force themselves on Naomi. All Evie really remembers is tearing one apart with her hands. It was Xerana who carried Naomi from the hellhole, but Evie was the last one out, and left a legendary mess. Ever since, she’s been sullen, aroused, and confused around Naomi, their physical connection intense, but Evie doesn’t trust herself with the younger woman yet.<br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Pansexual, usually dominant<br/><strong>Role:</strong>Heavy<br/><strong>Skills:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Combat: If it kills people, Evie can fight with it (her fists also kill people). Evie fights with the cunning of a veteran but is most known for her fearlessness and willingness to be hurt, if that’s what it takes to win. She can fire accurately from the hip as long as it’s not long range.</li><li>Demolitions: Good with explosives and able to pull off breaches, shaped charges, and precision sabotage. With the right tools, she can build an EMP. Without the right tools, she can improvise explosives with common ingredients found in garages.</li><li>Reputation: Evie knows most of the players in New Vegas and most of them know her. She’s done some favors, but her do-gooder streak has made her some enemies too.</li></ul><br/><strong>Description:</strong><br/>Natural red hair and blue eyes, and she was gene-modded for height by her parents, putting her at 5’11’’ even before her cyberware modifications. She’s athletic, with strong shoulders, but has curves. When she’s wounded in an organic location, she tends to have the skin re-healed with a silver pigment and so she has silver patterned over her torso in places where wounds have penetrated her armor. Her left arm and both legs from the mid-thigh down are obviously synthetic and there’s no natural tissue leftover in her lower legs, which requires they be recharged from time to time. She’ll sometimes use a wheelchair around HQ, except around Naomi.<br/><br/><strong>Augments: </strong>Her legs are full-synthetic and left arm is mostly synthetic, making them exceptionally powerful. She’s had mods in her bones and musculature to “even out” her strength in the rest of her body enough that she won’t tear anything organic when she jumps or punches. She’s on the high end of what’s possible for physical strength and the alloy on her left arm is particularly impervious. Evie’s skilled enough to catch a bullet on the arm if it’s fired at short range.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong>Heavy body armor to protect her fleshy-bits, and whatever weapon fits the job. Her favorite weapon is a large revolver that can be loaded with standard cartridges or trick-shot.<br/><br/><strong>Relationships:</strong><br/><br/><em>Xerana</em><br/>Fourteen years ago, Evie found her life’s second true love and it was a skinny 20-something turned deadly super soldier. It was intense, forbidden, and everything Evie needed, but when a bad string of malware made Xero pop a circuit, it all went sideways.<br/><br/>Now, years later, she took a job for Xero through Kiyoshi and suddenly she’s staring into the eyes of a woman she loves, who doesn’t remember her. Evie hasn’t come clean, she’s too invested in her secrets, but she’s going to do right by Xero this time around.<br/><br/>Evie sees Xerana as a force of nature, one she both wants to command and be commanded by. So far in their attempts to come closer together, they’ve encountered a lot of friction, but Evie’s hoping they can work it out. Even if they didn’t she’d still fight for Xero until she’s dead or can’t fight anymore.<br/><br/><em>Naomi</em><br/>Evie gets weirder than normal around Naomi. Her attraction is intense and physical, and she sometimes catches herself doting on her. But she can be hot and cold, sometimes seeming to try to distance herself, retreating into her gruff mercenary façade. It’s deeply confusing behavior, but on some level, she doesn’t seem to trust Naomi. She hasn’t let Naomi see her in the wheelchair yet.<br/><br/>Evie went ballistic on the Yakuza the night they found Naomi, in a state of rage even Kiyoshi’s never seen her in.<br/><br/><em>Kiyoshi</em><br/>Of all members, Kiyo might be the closest to a friend for Evie, in the sense of companion and common traveler. Whether or not Kiyo feels the same, Evie just loves the little guy. She loves how Kiyo has her back and she has his in a fight, she loves how they’ve started to learn one another’s moves and how to fight as a pair.<br/><br/>Kiyo is perhaps the most likely person for Evie to confide in, though she hasn’t quite gotten up the guts to share either of her two secrets.<br/><br/>Evie likes to razz Kiyo for his different combat style, but it’s in jest. She’d go to the mat for Kiyo as quickly as the rest, and he’s the one she most enjoys drinking with.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ons, Offs, and Sex</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ons: Evie’s had a string of lovers and there isn’t much she hasn’t tried, and not much she doesn’t like. She tends to take charge, but she also has a tendency to look for the things she knows will turn her partner on the most. She can be exacting and cruel if she thinks someone is getting off on it, but she'd much rather take command and bring them to ecstasy. She's been around the block and can have a fairly debauched imagination.<br/><br/>Evie's spent plenty of time in bed with women and men, and as a top, and because of her physical bearing and strength, more than a few lovers want her to penetrate them. As a result, Evie’s body modifications allow her to use a real-feel strapless dildo, which she can neural link with to receive reciprocal pleasure. It's generally something she reserves for partners who desire it; she’s just as pleased to use her fingers, her mouth, or whatever is on hand to bring someone off if penetration is what they're after.<br/><br/>Left to her own devices, Evie loves rope bondage; exhibitionism; giving and receiving oral, anal, or vaginal sex; group play; dirty talking; orgasm control; spanking; and after care.<br/><br/>Offs: Toilet, blood and gore, and death.</div></div>