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[Chaotic_Emerald]

This Character is a Work in Progress; more details will be released during the RP she is going to be used in​

Demographics​

Name: Evelyn Winslow
Age: 24
Sex/Gender: Female (she/her)
Ethnicity: Russian‑American and mixed Northern European
Occupation: Junior archivist and conservator at the local Historical Library
Socioeconomic status: middle class; modest inherited cottage behind the library
Other notes: Recently assumed greater responsibility at the library after Arthur’s death; known locally as quiet, dependable, and a little old‑fashioned​

Physical Appearance​

Eye color: Sea‑glass to sky blue depending on light
Skin color: Pale with cool undertones; freckles across bridge of nose
Hair color: Long ash‑blonde with ashen streaks; soft waves or a messy braid for work
Height: 5'6"/170.68cm
Weight: 128lbs/58.06kg
Body type: Slim and slightly muscular from archival work and long walks
Fitness level: Moderately fit; good endurance for manual tasks and walking rather than athletic training
Tattoos: None
Scars/Birthmarks: Small crescent birthmark behind left ear; thin scar at base of right thumb from childhood paper‑cut infection
Other distinguishing features: Slim, callused fingertips often ink‑stained; faint bluish tint to fingertips in cold
Fashion style: Vintage‑inspired practical: wool skirts, knit cardigans, thrifted coats; muted palette - slate, navy, muted teal; sensible boots
Accessories: Tarnished silver locket she never opens; well‑worn notebook
Cleanliness/Grooming: Neat, utilitarian; hands often ink‑stained or dusted with paper fibers
Posture/Gait: Upright, deliberate, and careful around fragile objects
Tics: Rubbing her thumb along page edges when thinking; tapping an index finger when anxious
Coordination (or lack thereof): Precise with fine motor work; awkward when rushed or in chaotic physical motion
Weaknesses: Sensitive to heat; prone to emotional exhaustion mild sensory sensitivity to loud, high‑frequency sounds (triggers headaches)
Other notes: Often smells faintly of lavender and cold sea air, sometimes dill or black tea; Thistle (black cat) often at her feet​

History​

Key family members: Eleanor Winslow (mother, deceased), Thomas Winslow (father, deceased), Arthur Winslow (grandfather, guardian)
Notable events/milestones:
Parents died when she was seven during a suppression ritual intended to sever her emerging gifts (publicly recorded as a tragic medical mystery).
Raised by Arthur; apprenticed in conservation and Winslow household rites.
At 22 she took on more of Arthur’s duties
Experiences vivid, cold‑tinged dreams and occasional unexplained patches of local frost since adolescence.
Criminal record: Clean (family occult acts were kept secret from legal record)
Affiliations: The Local Historical Society; informal network of older townsfolk and a few practical allies who know or suspect Winslow methods
Skeletons in the closet: TBA
Other notes: some town elders view the Winslow legacy as necessary and dangerous in equal measure​

Psychological Traits​

Personality type: INFJ — introspective, principled, empathetic, quietly intense about meaning and care; pragmatic, improvisational tendencies; moral urgency to help combined with flexible methods
Personality traits: Methodical, deeply curious, improvisational, warm in private, guarded in public, persistent, strategically secretive
Introvert/Extrovert: Introvert; prefers solitude and small, trusted company but will lead when rescue or justice demands it
Mannerisms: Pauses before speaking; tilts head when recalling details and curious; fingers nearest object when making a point; hums soft sea‑shanties when anxious
Educational background: B.A. in History, Folklore minor, and hands‑on apprenticeship with Arthur
Intelligence: High verbal, pattern, and emotional intelligence; excellent associative recall when cued by tactile/temperature stimuli
Self‑esteem: Professionally competent; lately she privately struggles with fear of being the cause of past tragedies
Hobbies: Restoring torn letters, pressing coastal flowers, sketching tide charts, knitting, evening walks on the harbor
Skills/talents: archival research, coaxing stories from reluctant townsfolk, basic herbal remedies and saline rinses
Loves: Winter dawn light, the smell of vellum, small town traditions, handwritten letters and marginalia, old maps
Morals/Virtues: Protect the vulnerable, preserve truth, prevent harm
Phobias/Fears: claustrophobia, Athazagoraphobia, (more TBD)
Angered by: Willful forgetting, historical erasure, people who weaponize pain or grief for gain
Pet peeves: Mishandling archives, sloppy handwriting and cataloging, dismissive attitudes toward oral histories
Obsessed with: Discovering what actually happened the night her parents died; learning her family history
Routines: Morning tea while reviewing the day’s inventory; dusk walk to the pier; nightly journaling of dreams; weekly herb market visits
Bad habits: Isolates under stress; procrastinates difficult emotional conversations; chews cuticles when anxious; Keeps secrets; overworks to atone
Desires: to repair past harms; more TBD
Flaws: Avoids confrontation, quick to self‑blame, secretive, tendency to justify bending rules, can be emotionally distant to preserve objectivity, prone to overwork and emotional burnout
Quirks: Names houseplants for ancestors; folds tiny corners of paper into a repeating pattern without thinking; leaves a bowl of seawater on the windowsill “for luck”
Favorite sayings: “Let the tide tell you what it needs.” “Do not erase what you cannot face.”
Disabilities: None diagnosed; sensory sensitivity and anxiety manifest physically
Secrets: Keeps copies and extracts of documents she withholds (details TBA)
Regrets: None currently
Accomplishments: created a small program of consented archival recoveries with local elders (informal)
Memories: Warm childhood recollections of candlelight and whispered arguments about “keeping things safe”; recurring dream of a frozen shoreline under eclipse and figures wading outward and not returning
Other notes: Driven by a hybrid ethic - chaotic in method, lawful in goals​

Communication​

Languages known: Fluent English and Russian; working Latin for archival labels; reading competence in 18th‑century script and paleography
Preferred communication methods: Written notes, quiet face‑to‑face conversation, annotated marginalia in books
Accent: Soft American accent with Russian lilts; sometimes uses Russian idioms or phrases in private speech
Style and pacing of speech: Slow, deliberate; precise when cataloging facts; quick and scattered when excited, nervous, under pressure
Pitch: Low to mid; calming when she’s not anxious
Laughter: Soft and infrequent; often a breathy, private chuckle among trusted friends
Smile: Small and genuine in private; warmer among trusted friends
Use of gestures: Minimal and contained; uses hands to emphasize detail (more TBA)
Facial expressions: Eyes convey most emotion; rest of face remains composed and controlled
Verbal expressions: Prefers implication and story over blunt statements; uses archival metaphors (“this needs conserving,” “let it rest until it’s safe”)
Other notes: TBA​

Strengths, Weaknesses, and Abilities​

Physical strengths: Steady, precise hands; endurance for long conservation sessions and moving archival crates
Physical weaknesses: Low tolerance for intense heat; disoriented under panic; (more TBA)
Intellectual strengths: Archival reasoning, associative recall, pattern recognition, methodical research habits, tactical use of evidence and leverage
Intellectual weaknesses: Poor quick arithmetic and abstract improvisation under social pressure; can get lost in anecdotal threads
Interpersonal strengths: Deep listening, ability to earn trust and coax memories from elders, trustworthy public face for victims when needed
Interpersonal weaknesses: Difficulty asking for help, keeps secrets by design, transactional intimacy, avoids vulnerability
Physical abilities: Conservation techniques, delicate stitching and mending, basic herbalism and first‑aid (cool compresses, saline rinses), practiced cold-water treatments
Magical abilities:
To be determined
Her family is known to dabble in every type of magic and she has yet to find her focus
Physical illnesses/conditions: Occasional tension headaches and insomnia; seasonal mood dips despite affinity for cold
Mental illnesses/conditions: Generalized anxiety disorder; grief‑related depression in waves
Other notes: TBA​

Relationships​

Partner(s)/Significant other(s): None currently
Lover(s): She's had a few relationships but no one significant to note
Parents/Guardians: Parents (Eleanor and Thomas Winslow) died during a suppression ritual when Evelyn was seven; Arthur Winslow (grandfather/guardian) later died attempting the same suppression ritual
Children: None
Grandparents: Arthur Winslow (mentor/guardian)
Grandchildren: N/A
Family: Small, scattered extended kin; some distant relatives aware and wary of the Winslow craft
Pets: Thistle, an older black cat who never left Arthur’s side until his death. Now he follows Evelyn.
Best friends: June Mercer: pragmatic colleague and confidante who knows Evelyn’s grief and works as her emotional tether; not fully aware of every supernatural detail but trusts Evelyn implicitly
Friends: A handful of older town elders who check on her and a conservator contact at a regional museum
Rivals: A rival archivist in a nearby town who questions her methods; a local figure sympathetic to suppression doctrine who sees Winslow methods as a liability to be controlled. She never understood what he was against, Arthur told her to never worry about it.
Enemies: No openly declared enemies; some concealed resentments from people harmed by past Winslow interventions
Colleagues: Library staff, members of the local Historical Society, occasional academic collaborators
Mentors/Teachers: Arthur (dead but present through journals and artefacts); potential living mentors include a retired ferryman who remembers Winslow pier rites or an elderly conservator with practical craft knowledge
Idols/Role models: Women historians and conservators who preserved marginalized stories; Arthur as a complex, flawed teacher
Followers: None
Strangers: People sometimes confide stray memories to her instinctively; strangers are sometimes calmed by her presence
Non‑living things: A satchel she carries everything she needs in; (more TBA)
Clubs/Memberships: local Historical Society; informal lore‑keepers' group (some members unaware of the magical aspect)
Social media presence: Minimal; a pseudonymous account sharing anonymized archival finds
Public perception of her: Quiet, dependable, somewhat eccentric; viewed as the last responsible Winslow steward by many elders
Other notes: Town elders treat her with a protective ambivalence - grateful for saved names but wary of the Winslow legacy​

Character Growth​

Character archetype: the reluctant inheritor
Character arc: Moves from secretive guilt and reactive improvisation toward building transparent, accountable practices
Core values: Protect the vulnerable; preserve truth; minimize harm; improvise when institutions fail
Internal conflicts: fear of being the source of harm; urge to protect others immediately vs. the moral cost; isolation vs. the need for trusting teachers and allies
External conflicts: municipal pressure when records, ferries, or ledgers are affected by unexplained changes; (more TBA)
Goals: Short term - stabilize fragile registry entries safely (more TBA). Long term - TBA
Motivations: to live her live the way her parents wanted her to
Epiphanies: TBA
Significant events/plot points:
TBD/TBA
Other notes: TBA​

 

[Chaotic_Emerald]

More Information(deeper description of personality and background; likes and dislikes)

Personality Description:

Evelyn moves through life with quiet insistence. She’s meticulous, attentive, and deeply loyal to the small things that hold a community’s past together. She treats people and objects with the same careful regard: patient observation, steady hands, and an instinct for what should be conserved and what should be released. In everyday settings she is reserved and precise, using measured metaphors drawn from tides and paper; with the few she trusts she is attentive in practical ways -making tea, mending a jacket seam, or sitting with someone until their story finishes. Those habits grew from childhood routines and from years of conservation work; they are her default language of care.

Under that calm is a restless pragmatism. Evelyn distrusts procedures that value paperwork over people and will improvise when rules would harm an individual or a memory. She keeps private records of difficult decisions and the fragments she uncovers, not from spectacle but from an ethic of accountability: if she must bend a rule, she wants a paper trail to explain why. She is methodical in pursuit of results - keeping careful notes, copying marginalia, following odd leads but flexible in tactics: if a public refusal would destroy a fragile truth, she will find a quieter route to preserve it. That mixture of discipline and improvisation makes her unpredictable to outsiders; she can appear to accept an answer at face value while quietly arranging a different solution behind the scenes.

Emotionally she balances compassion with self‑protection in ways that can look contradictory. The unresolved loss of her parents shaped a persistent, private curiosity; she pores over medical records and registries not out of obsession but because names and small facts matter to her sense of justice. Arthur’s guardedness taught her discretion, and town elders’ reticence taught her tact - so she often shoulders burdens alone, keeps secrets that might hurt others if revealed, and overworks to atone. That distance can make her seem aloof, but it also makes her steady: in crises she is the person who will sit through someone’s grief and then translate that grief into concrete steps that prevent future forgetting.

Her moral shape is pragmatic and principled at once: she prizes truth, the preservation of names and memories, and minimizing harm; she accepts that achieving those ends sometimes requires bending rules, but she insists on accountability for every transgression. She documents difficult choices and keeps careful records so that when she must act irregularly there is a clear rationale to revisit and justify. Loyal and quietly fierce, she gives trust sparingly, but when given it she proves durable and action‑oriented

Background:

Childhood (birth to7)

Evelyn’s earliest years were domestic and intentional: a household where her parents folded Russian phrases into conversation, kept American holiday rhythms, and preserved a few European habits from distant relatives. Mornings often began with strong black tea, weekends with zakuski, and evenings with candlelight and stories at the kitchen table. Those modest rituals taught her to notice texture and cadence and planted the habit of treating ordinary things as worth keeping.

Those routines shaped a temperament of patient observation and practical care. She learned to listen for the end of a story, to steady a quivering voice, and to tend small consolations. The blended household traditions made her comfortable shifting between cultural registers and gave her an early sense that continuity is made of many small, repeatable acts.

Loss and Guardianship (age 7 to early teens)

When she was seven, Evelyn’s parents died in an incident recorded in public paperwork as a tragic household accident. The event reoriented daily life: grief, practical reorganization, and the need for a steady presence to manage the household and practical affairs. Her grandfather Arthur became that presence, maintaining the routines she knew.

Under Arthur’s guardianship Evelyn learned hands-on competence and a restrained approach to comfort. He taught her how to mend fragile things, keep careful notes, and sit with elders who thought their memories unimportant. Arthur gave instructions and structure but resisted detailed conversation about the past; his discretion left many of Evelyn’s deeper questions unanswered and shaped a cautious, investigative habit in her.

Education and Apprenticeship (late teens)

Evelyn’s curiosity about the past and the habit of following small traces led her to formal study: a B.A. in History with a Folklore minor, supplemented by internships in conservation and archival practice. Classroom work provided technical skills and a framework for turning fragments into coherent narratives. Study also taught her to value documentation as a form of accountability.

In parallel she pursued long, practical apprenticeships under Arthur and with a regional conservator. Those placements reinforced patient manual labor and the social skills needed to work with elders and civic institutions. The mix of theory and craft made her methodical, adaptable, and comfortable with both solitary tasks and the quiet social labor of preserving community memory.

Early Career and Present (early to mid‑twenties)

Evelyn gradually took on an expanding portfolio at the local library and historical society, assuming day‑to‑day conservation tasks, managing inventories, and running a small consented archival recovery project with town elders. Neighbors know her as exacting, dependable, and quietly eccentric. Her investigation into her parents’ death remains an undercurrent. She has reread the official medical records, traced public registries, and followed marginalia and misfiled receipts that hint at associative connections, only to meet guarded silence. Arthur offers practical guidance but stops short of answers, and town elders are tight‑lipped. The absence of clear explanations hardened her resolve to keep following small traces while she fulfills the visible, necessary work.​

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Likes​

Black tea (strong, with a slice of lemon or a dash of honey) - Simple zakuski (pickles, salted herring, rye bread) - Warm rye bread with butter - Dill and lightly pickled vegetables - Small bowls of borscht or clear fish soup on cold mornings - Winter dawn light - The smell of vellum and old paper - Lavender sachets and dried lavender in linen - Sea salt and wet‑stone/harbor air - Freshly brewed black tea, herbal infusions, and occasional strong coffee - Pressing flowers - Sketching tide charts - Careful, exacting work (mending, stitching, conservation) - Handwritten letters and marginalia - Listening to elders and recorded stories - Slow routines and candlelit evenings - Making tea and simple comfort food for others - Thistle the cat and animals that seek warmth - Muted, vintage clothing and sensible boots - Neat archives, good handwriting, and clean provenance - Solitary work that lets her concentrate - Recovering a lost name or restoring a damaged record​

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Dislikes​

Willful forgetting and historical erasure - Sloppy handling of archives or artifacts - Bureaucratic procedure that ignores people - Loud, high‑frequency sounds - Intense heat and oppressive warmth - The smell of burnt food or acrid smoke - Public spectacle or performative charities - Invasive questions about painful personal history - Dishonesty, obfuscation, and evasive authorities - People who weaponize grief or pain for gain - Untidiness in records and sloppy cataloging - Being rushed or forced to improvise under pressure - Gossip that distorts someone’s memory - Unfinished work left without documentation - Waste: especially of fragile or unique materials - Being treated as a curiosity or spectacle - Being forced into public confrontation over private grief - Emotional manipulation disguised as care - People who dismiss oral histories as irrelevant - Overly sweet, cloying desserts or cheap, mass‑produced snacks​

 

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