Name: Evangeline (Eva) Riovas
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Eva tends to dress modestly yet at the same time she likes to look cute and attractive. Thus she often wears clothing that covers much of her skin but still shows off her figure such as tights and sweaters. While she feels somewhat shy about showing off her body and skin, she also enjoys it and doesn’t regret how she looks. Eva has a healthy and somewhat athletic body as it’s lithe and build for sprinting. She’s stronger than she looks but not super human so she can hold her own in most physical activities despite her delicate appearance. She takes very good care of her hair and teeth, ensuring a nice and healthy sheen. She has a single faded scar going up both her arms from wrist to elbow as a reminder of darker times and what she’s fighting for.
Hero Outfit:
Eva’s dress is based off a few designs she saw of medic characters in video games. It’s primarily blue and white with a few red accessories and has a few gadgets to help her in the field. She has a utility belt containing tools and basic first aid equipment when using her powers would be unnecessary, such as bandages, gauzes, disinfectant, tweezers, and a plier. She has wings on her back that don’t really allow her to fly however they do provide illumination bright enough to blind her opponents if they aren't prepared or expecting the flash. She can also just make them glow brought enough to surround her in light and bright up a dark room. Lastly she carries a hollow but sturdy metal staff. It doesn’t serve any particular purpose aside from being a weapon for self-defense. She can collapse it into a rod to make it easier to carry.
Quirk:
Healing Touch - Eva’s quirk allows her to mend wounds and undo injuries through physical contract. Any part of her body would do, but her hands are the most convenient. However the healing isn’t instant and the more severe the wounds the longer it takes to heal. Cuts, bruises, and soreness she can undo fairly quickly but broken bones, massive lacerations, and ruptured organs take even longer, especially if she can’t make direct contact with the injured body parts. Eva’s healing also doesn't affect any poison or illness in the body, so that has to be cured by other means. She also can’t undo fatigue or dizziness if it’s not due to any physical injuries.
There is a secondary ability that Eva’s quirk is capable of using as well. It effectively evokes an adrenaline rush in those she touches, allowing them to gain a surge of strength and energy that goes beyond their normal limitations for a few minutes. However afterwards the exhausted is even worse than it normally be and trying to use additional adrenaline rushes will just make things worse.
Backstory:
Eva’s mother and father were two doctors who had minor quirks but were very popular among heroes for their skills. However when Eva was born, her mother had complications during the delivery that resulted in her death. After her death Eva’s father had a massive shift in personality. He became much more focused on work, forcing Eva’s material grandparents to take care of her. When she was a child and first learned of her quirk, she thought that her father would be proud that her powers could heal people. But instead he hated it. He thought it was a mockery of his skill and cruel irony that his wife would die just so her daughter could heal others. Eventually her father had a mental breakdown and had to be admitted into psychiatric care, and Eva was adopted by her grandparents.
Things didn't get much better from there. While her grandparents were good people, they were old and suffered from their own illnesses. Eva wasn’t even ten years old before her grandfather had passed away. Many people who visited her were friends of her family, either her mother or father, but soon they stopped coming. Not because they didn't want to but because they started dying too. Eva’s childhood was filled with death and soon she developed a sort of morbid fascination with it. She wanted to know how and why these people were dying. Eva wanted to know how she could help.
All this dying wasn’t good for Eva’s mind however. She desperately wanted to help others using her powers, so she always went out of her way to visit people and use her quirk to heal them. She was successful some of the time, healing minor cuts and bruises, and once even saved someone’s life in a car accident by using her quirk to stop them from bleeding out. But so many more times her powers wasn’t able to save others. People who were dying from diseases, or were simply killed instantly. Her own grandmother was a victim when a villain who had robbed a bank ran her grandmother over during a car chase, killing her instantly. Despite everything Eva did, even though she was standing right next to her when she was hit, she couldn’t save her grandmother.
At one point Eva even tried to kill herself. She just couldn’t handle all this death and wanted to join her friends and family. She had slit her arms from elbow to wrists, waiting for her to bleed out. But her quirk didn’t let her. The moment she removed her blade the wounds closed on themselves and left an ugly scar instead. She tried again and again, but each time her wounds closed up and made the cuts uglier. Eventually she just gave up and curled into a ball, waiting to die alone in her home. She was only twelve years old.
Eventually child services found her a few days later, taking her in their custody. Because her father was still mentally unwell, she had to be taken to an orphanage. It was there that Eva found salvation; she was adopted by a christian organization whose head priest was a complete nerd. He played video games and was a complete weeboo. Despite that, he also used video games and anime to help guide children on the right path. Eva herself took to playing video games and roleplaying various characters to feel more useful. Because in video games, when she helps people they have a happy ending. She was able to fight bad guys and feel good about winning, instead of just being glad that she wasn’t dead. Slowly as she started to recover from the mental scarring, she started to look into more mature video games that dealt with more ambiguous morals. Soon it became less about “Good versus Evil” and just “You versus Them”. In an odd way, it reignited Eva’s desire to be a hero. It gave her hope that she could do good, but it also taught her that she doesn’t quite know what “good” is.
So between playing video games and middle school, Eva decided that she’ll do what she always wanted to do when she was a little girl. She wanted to be a hero. She wanted to grow and learn what it really means to save someone’s life, and what it took to be good. She has much to learn, but she was going to give it her all.
Supporting Characters
Father Anderson - A priest who led the orphanage that Eva stayed at. He’s a bit of a dork but he’s a good person, and he helped Eva reignite her heroic spirit. He has a quirk that allows him to react to things very quickly.
Miss Akira - The Child Service officer who found Eva. Even after she was dropped off at the orphanage the two kept in contact with each other. She helped Eva fill out the paperwork to apply to UA. Her quirk allows her to make keys to open any lock.
Other: Eva is half-Japanese, half-american, though her mother was also half-japanese and half-american. So she’s more a quarter japanese. Eva is skilled in many different types of video games, mostly arcade stuff. She has very hone reflexes because of it, and is surprisingly good with a gun once she gets use to the recoil. While she fights with a staff she’s never had formal training except copying moves from other characters in fighting games. All things considered, she’s pretty good at it. She is also a master of the claw machine and can even beat the ones that are rigged against her.
