Evanescians will differ in personality, appearance, age, gender, and so on and so forth (though the majority will probably be young women, as that is what I am most comfortable drawing). Once created, these characters will never be touched again in reference to anything.
I imagine Evanenscia to be planet Earth, just in a different dimension. Therefore, I will often reference Earthly monuments and cities, rather than having to create an entirely new planet with entirely new continents and countries and cultures. Also, in Evanenscia, anything is possible - literally. I'm not limiting this to different species or races, like elves and mermaids and other fantastical folk. Evanescians can be or do anything. You'll know it when you see it (hopefully).
I like the idea of this kind of project, where characters are abandoned as soon as they are brought to life, because I'm the type of person who quickly loses interest in creating prolonged stories. By generating people in rapid-fire succession, interest in the new and undiscovered is maintained, instead of working with the same personalities over and over again.
Bear with my proportions. I'm still getting the hang of this new style of drawing. Crooked hands and tiny feet are a real pain.
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Contents:
Skylar: The Moody Emo (October 2, 2014)
Blair: The Feminine Tomboy (October 10, 2014)
Aria: The Music Junkie (September 10, 2015)
Anthony: The Skater Boy (Coming Not-So-Soon)
Raschelle: The Harvard Model (Coming Not-So-Soon)
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October 2, 2014
Age: 17
Height: 5' 6"
Hair Color: Black, with blue edging her fringe
Eye Color: Brown
Skylar grew up in an affluent suburban town of San Diego with her mother, father, and two younger brothers. She was never comfortable at a young age with playing with the other kids, and as she entered middle and high school, the pressures of finding a clique only served to push her away from people. She only had one friend, to whom she grew closely attached to in 7th grade, but in sophomore year that friend began to talk to other people Skylar felt uncomfortable around. The loss of her best friend marked the most major change in her life as of yet. People began to refer to her as emo when they saw her sitting quietly and alone in class or during lunch. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy, and soon Skylar began to dress and style herself as a stereotypical emo. During the last two months of sophomore year, Skylar became clinically depressed and began to self-harm, though she never sought help or showed any outward signs. Summer was a time of finding new music and changing her look to reflect what she thought others saw her as (see Looking-Glass Self - I love my sociology class).
This change in appearance prompted the approach of the other (albeit few) emo/scene kids during her junior year. She began to hang out with them, and they pulled her out of her depression funk. But she also noticed that while they liked to have fun and laugh a lot, they had no real direction in life. Skylar didn't want to end up in a dead-end job, so while she accepted the occasional invite to hang out, she usually spent her time writing, drawing, or studying for school. Most of her junior year was devoted to reading up on the Writing Seminar and Psychology majors at Johns Hopkins University, which was her first choice college.
Her timeline ends in late April of her junior year.
Random Facts:
- Hobbies include writing, drawing, and playing the violin.
- Her favorite activity is to collect washed up shells on the local beach (preferably alone).
- She cannot stand love ballads, and when her bratty little brothers invade her private space.
- It was her new emo friends who convinced her to dye her fringe blue two months into junior year, despite the concerns of her relatively conservative parents.
- Her guilty pleasures are Lady Gaga and online browsing for evening gowns.
- Tea over coffee, cats over dogs, and Batman over Superman.
Full Name: Blair Ashlyn Montanari
Age: 21
Height: 5' 8"
Hair Color: Dark brown
Eye Color: Green
Blair grew up in the Brooklyn borough of New York with her single mother and her cat Dansat. Because of her outgoing personality and devil-may-care attitude, she was very popular in all levels of public education and had no trouble making friends. Part of her confidence was due to the fact that she began taking classical ballet lessons at age five, and has since regularly performed on stage, both with other dancers and as a principle soloist. Around her 16th birthday, the dance school she attended recommended her to take contemporary dance lessons in addition to ballet to expand her repertoire, and her workload for junior and senior year doubled. Blair thrived under the pressure though, and graduated high school as co-valedictorian and with a full scholarship to Juilliard's Dance Division.
Despite all her grace onstage, Blair mostly hated feminine things. The only skirts she ever wore were costumes, and the only time her hair was styled was either for a rehearsal or an imminent performance. She didn't like to wear much makeup, because her skin was so pale even the most neutral of colors showed up like face paint. Blair was a die-hard Yankee's fan, and could quote stats just as well as the next man, in addition to playing soccer up until the year she began contemporary dance lessons. While Blair was a very kind and helpful person, whoever got on her bad side would never recover. A quick wit and sharp tongue kept her in everyone's highest respects, as well as her formidable talent on the dance floor.
Her timeline ends at the beginning of her final year at Juilliard.
Random Facts:
- Hobbies include running, soccer, and hanging out with friends.
- Her favorite activity is learning a newly choreographed dance.
- She cannot stand K-Pop (both the music and the celebrities), and crooked picture frames.
- The saddest moment of her life was when she was pulled aside in 7th grade to be told her father died in combat in Iraq while trying to help an injured friend to safety. The friend survived.
- Her guilty pleasures are raves (she's attended Electric Zoo twice) and YA romance books.
- Coffee over tea, dogs over cats, and Batman over Superman.
Aria: The Music Junkie
September 10, 2015
Full Name: Aria Weinblatt
Age: 25
Height: 5' 3"
Hair Color: Dirty blonde
Eye Color: Light grey
Aria is from Floreasca, Romania, a wealthy district in the northern part of Bucharest, where she lived with her Jewish mother, father, and older sister. As a very active child, she did well in the Cambridge School of Bucharest. She not only earned top grades, but pursued a variety of extracurriculars, including cello lessons, futbol, and ballet. When she was 14, her sister left to attend the London Business School, and Aria grew disenchanted with her perfect life. She quit futbol and ballet and fell out with many of her childhood friends. She found a new group of decidedly delinquent friends, and by the time she was 16 she was regularly frequenting local clubs, getting high on various drugs, and ditching less interesting classes.
When she was 18 and in her last year at the Cambridge School, a new drug came out: Roșu Notele. Aria's parents were so afraid it would prevent her from graduating that year that they kept her under house arrest for five months. Aria was furious, and spent week after week bent over her prized cello, the one feature of her distant childhood she had chosen to keep. When she finally graduated, she immediately went out partying with her friends and afterwards they all retired to the closest home. Aria finally got to try Roșu Notele, a drug unlike any other because it wasn't made of any chemical or plant, but of concentrated music. Smoking it was akin to getting goosebumps one associates with really good songs, but multiplied tenfold, along with the usual feeling of intense concentration and happiness one associates with marijuana. And the best part was there was absolutely no health hazard, since it was just inhaling sound and vapor. Aria was immediately hooked.
She took three gap years after her graduation, and spent it traveling with friends across eastern Europe, staying the longest in Russia. They crashed in hostels, couch surfed, and essentially traveled as far as they could on as little money as possible. They smoked Roșu Notele every week, an ever-changing experience as its effects varied with every country's different strain, based on the local music.
Aria would've spent forever traveling and getting high, but she finally decided to satisfy her parents and applied to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She spent the last months of her third gap year relearning the cello, and a week after her audition received a letter of invitation. She was delighted to learn that her roommate was also a fan of Roșu Notele, and even better had a cache of strains from 48 different countries. After three years of study Aria attracted interest from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Aria saw, for the first time, a distinct possible career for herself.
Her timeline ends in the middle of her third year at MDW.
Random Facts:
- Hobbies include walking in parks and thrift shopping.
- Her favorite activity is getting high.
- Her pet peeves are cold soup and music supremacists.
- She got her eyebrow pierced when in Kiev, Ukraine, at age 23.
- She knows of a few distant relatives in the United States, but their last name was changed to Wainblat after the Red Scare.
- Her guilty pleasures are cheesy inspirational quotes and American chick flicks.
- Coffee over tea, cats over dogs, and she couldn't care less about comic books.
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