Name: Evelyn Lanford
Age: 9 years
Gender: Female
Personality: Evelyn is energetic and cheerful on most days, with a large sense of loyalty added into her as well. She loves making her parents proud, and providing moral support for her friends when they're feeling down. She's very much a tomboy, and has as much love for mischief as she does with nature.
Appearance: Evelyn is a Caucasian female who stands at 3' 10" tall, and weighs a solid 60 lbs. She has long auburn hair that falls down to the small of her back when allowed to fall straight, but most of the time it is kept to a pony-tail for convenience. Her eyes are emerald green, and they usually always have some sort of mischievous glint to them. Very much a tomboy, she prefers to wear cargo shorts and pants over skirts or dresses.
Her current outfit consists of tan cargo shorts that fall to her knees, a green t-shirt with a four leaf clover on the front (her 'lucky' shirt), white socks and green and white sneakers. Around her neck and tucked under her shirt is a silver-chained necklass with her birth stone, the Ruby, at the end of it. On her back, she carries a quiver for her bow, currently stocked with 12 soft tip (ie: useless) arrows.
Notable Skills: Evelyn loves going on 'adventures', which usually consist of her climbing the local trees. She's become great at climbing because of this, and her sense of balance is above average (for her age) as well.
She can also forage for food, having learned just what kinds of berries, mushrooms and leaves are safe to eat or not through both experience and study.
At her request (aka constant whining), her parents had gotten her a starter archery set [http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4014732&cp=4406646.4413993.4414427.4414430] when she was seven. She has since become fairly accurate and consistant with it but her arrows are all soft tips, and are no good for hunting. Given real arrows, or sharpened sticks, she could be helpful in limited combat.
Weapons: Youth compound bow [http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4014732&cp=4406646.4413993.4414427.4414430] with 12 soft tip arrows.
Gear/Miscellany: Evelyn is currently carrying four snack bars in her front pockets (two in each), two bottles of water in each of her two cargo pockets and a pack of gum in her left rear pocket. In her right rear pocket is a small 'pocket guide for adventurers of nature', which has tips and guides for safe to eat plants, where to set up camps, how to start a fire and things like that.
Bio: Born and raised in St. Louis, Evelyn knows almost all of the ins and outs of her local neighborhood, which consists of most of the blocks surrounding Lafayette Park. A proud and energetic tomboy, she is willing to explore dark alleys that most kids shy away from, and can climb a tree or fence in almost no time at all. She is well liked by the kids in her school because of her can-do attitude and willingness to help them out in their times of need, but most of her time is spent around nature, or reading about it in a book.
When the outbreak occurred, she was in Hodgen's Elementary School at the time, and the children were all contained within the building. Well, most of them. Evelyn quickly found a way out through a ground floor window. Quickly scaling the surrounding fence, she ran home to her parents, going through the alleys and other 'safe' areas. Her parents had been holding off the zombies fairly well, and gave her enough time to 'reinforce' the position by shooting arrows from her bow at the zombies.
Her parents knew that they would eventually be overrun, and that they needed to retreat to a safer area. Gunshots could be heard all around, but her parents decided that the nearby Lehmann House Inn was fortified enough to be safe. The current occupants allowed them in since they could be added to the defense. Even Evelyn helped out by bringing supplies around to the various floors. Things got hard when ammo was running low, and the group decided to go out for supplies, and find a new place to fortify. This became their undoing.
While out, most of the group ran out of ammo, and the zombies made quick work of them. Evelyn's parents were included in this. Despite her best efforts to get back to them and help, the group leader picked her up and fled, knowing that it was futile to save them. As soon as she was let down, Evelyn fled from the group, thinking that they were now her enemies. Now alone, Evelyn makes sure to only move when there are no zombies around, and most of her time is spent high in the treetops, where she is safe from the zombies below.
Other Notes: Evelyn's favorite color is green if it wasn't obvious already, and her current location is high in a tree in Lafayette Park with her supplies listed above.
