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Full Name
Evony Lucy Harrington
Nick Names
Her parents used to call her Ev, but it’s been a long time since she was close enough to anyone to warrant a nickname.
Age
27
Role
Manager
Likes
† Her son, Harry
† Music
† Alcohol, particularly vodka, that way it’s harder to smell it on her breath
† The band
Dislikes
† Being alone or feeling lonely
† Ryan
† Planes, they always make her ever so slightly nervous when she flies
† Feeling out of control
Addictions
- Alcohol, she likes to use it to forget
- Sex with strangers, anyone will do really
Occupation
Manager of the band
Relationships with others
WIP
Dating/Crushes
Legally, Evony is still married to Ryan (see history), and he still claims to love her, but the current state of their relationship leaves Evony lonely and in each new location the band visits, she will usually find someone to sleep with, just for the night.
Secrets
- She is legally married to Ryan Nixon who runs the record label (see history)
- She has a three year old son named Harry (see history)
- She regularly has sex with complete strangers wherever the band happen to be for the evening, although she’s pretty sure most of the band members know this
- Although she won’t admit it and denies it even to herself, she is very dependent on alcohol, using it to forget the things she doesn’t want to remember.
Appearance
She has long brunette hair that falls in natural curly waves down her back, although she will straighten it occasionally. Her eyes are a chocolate brown framed by thick, dark eyelashes. Her skin has a smooth, all-over tan, only blemished by small scars on her wrists where she was held down as she was raped. Her son’s initials and date of birth are tattooed in very small letters onto her wrist to try and cover the scars, although no one knows the meaning of the marking.
Personality
Evony is very secretive. After years of being conditioned not to trust anyone and not to fall into the trap of telling people things, only to be burnt, this is the only way she knows to be. She is convinced someone is out to get her and always very suspicious of people’s motives. No one’s intentions are pure, no one is doing something just because they want to or because that’s the kind of person they are. Everyone’s actions must be thought through to intentionally hurt her. She doesn’t like to be touched by anyone unless she touches them first. In fact, any advancement from a stranger towards Evony is likely to earn them a cold, cutting dismissal. But if it’s her choice to approach them, her manner is entirely different. If she wants something from someone, she has the ability to be very persuasive indeed. There are few lines she won’t cross to get what she wants.
She is very fond of the band. She feels as if she has helped build them up from nothing and they are almost like her own children, as she has watched them grow up and helped them along. This job was her dream all along and she would never do anything to intentionally jeopardise the band or her job. But despite her affection towards them, they also irritate her too; some with their annoying habits, others with their aggravating personality traits. But she is protective of them and wouldn’t let anything happen to them. Even though it does feel as if she spends most of her life clearing up their messes…
But Evony does have a much darker side, one she attempts to keep hidden from others with the façade of someone who drinks and parties with the band and sleeps around. She’s desperately lonely and deeply miserable. On the evenings she can’t find anyone to spend the night with, she will sit alone in her room drinking and crying; missing her little boy and the husband she once had but was long lost to his own mind. But she’d be mortified to think anyone had ever seen her like that and it’s a secret she keeps hidden from others at all costs.
History
Evony was born as the eldest of three daughters in a fairly middle-class family and grew up in New York. Growing up, she was always interested in music, and although she had no musical talent of her own, she had a certain talent for finding those who did. In high school, she played manager to a band her friends had created and they were soon scouted out by a large record label. Their first album was a raging success across America and then the world. And, although the band burnt out after their first album, Ryan Nixon, who ran the label, saw her talent. He quickly employed her to help get new bands off the ground.
While working there, Evony began a relationship with Ryan, head of the label and thirty years her senior. But the relationship remained a secret, covered up by Ryan who didn’t want the bad reputation that came with dating an employee. But it was alright to Evony that no one knew, because they loved each other and that was all that mattered.
When she was twenty-two, they got married on an island in the Maldives in complete secrecy. But that was where the sweetness ended. Ryan became more and more paranoid about security, certain that someone would discover their relationship and tarnish his good reputation. At first, Evony agreed with the cover-up, not wanting people to think she only got the job and subsequent promotions because she was ‘screwing the boss’, so to speak. But as the lengths Ryan was willing to go to for secrecy became more and more extreme, she was beginning to think this whole lie had been one big mistake from the beginning. But expressing her worries to Ryan didn’t change his mind. In fact, he became even more paranoid. Convinced she was turning against him, he became very controlling of Evony. At work he watched her constantly out of the corner of his eye and at home he raped her frequently as a method of control. By this time, his elaborate lie had become his whole world and he would protect it with everything he had.
A week after her twenty-fourth birthday, Evony had baby Harry. She’d hadn’t been allowed to leave the house by Ryan for sixth months preceding his birth and he wouldn’t even let her go to hospital to have him. Instead, he paid someone to deliver the baby at home and bribed them to keep Evony’s name off the birth certificate. Three days later, Ryan legally adopted Harry, passing the baby off as his adoptive son. But this was the end of it for Evony. This betrayal had finally shown her what Ryan was really capable of and she threatened to go to the police with the information. But Ryan told her she would never see her son again. He would be able to pay-off anyone who believed her and she’d be penniless and alone. Instead, he offered her a compromise. His talent scout had recently found a band at a Battle of the Bands event that they had signed and believed they were going to be huge. Evony was offered a position as their manager. She would tour with them and help make them successful while keeping his secret. In exchange, she could see her son whenever she returned to the city, keep a job and remain with access to Ryan’s sizeable fortune. Ryan still claimed to love her, despite what had happened, and continues to have sex against her will whenever she visits her son.
Evony signed the contract and became their manager. She’s been with them ever since.