Eva Twilarch

Details:

Name: Evangela Twilarch 
Nickname(s): Eva
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: Gemologist (official), Jewel Thief (unofficial - I wonder why )
Nationality: British with Irish & Italian ancestry (great-grand parents).
Location: South England, United Kingdom.
Partner: Undisclosed.
Height: 5'9'' (179.26cm)
Weight: Undisclosed.
Eye Colour: Golden hazel
Hair Colour: Raven, red-brown with violet dip-dyed tips.

Star sign: Taurus
Religion: Spiritual, yet Atheist (believes in a combined spirit but does not subscribe to any existing faiths. Is deeply private about this and usually just replies as Atheist).
Favourite Colour: Purple
Favourite Food: Cream Tea.

History:
Eva was born to an extremely wealthy family and would never fully accept this. She bonded with the children of the estate's staff and shunned those of her own social class. Completely disinterested in the pursuits of her peers, Eva was more often found in the kitchens helping to fix her own clothes, washing dishes and learning to cook. Her parents were away too frequently and when they did return home, their over enthusiastic false-parenting made Eva recoil in horror.
Eva never considered herself an only child as there were always children around her; she once remarked coldly of her parents: "Blood may be thicker than water but all I would spare them is spit."
Eva's nanny, Ma Neyma, is the closest thing to a maternal figure in Eva's life and she wouldn't be without her. Neyma knew everything that was (and is) going on in Eva's life, including the troubles she found herself in during her early teens.
Eva's parents were in London, attending their usual full day of meetings on 7th July, 2005. They did not return home. When news came through of this disaster, Eva was more outraged over the attack on her country rather than her missing parents. The lack of closure haunts her even still, though the situation was made more traumatic by the local press continuously hounding her for statements regarding her parents.
This prompted Eva to move. Unwilling to leave her beloved country, Eva instead purchases property and built a house exactly as Ma Neyma wanted. Eva was adamant that the previous house be maintained and so decided to let the house out as a rest-bite centre for families with disabled children. 
Eva was 17 when her parents died, yet this didn't stop her from building on her parent's legacy. Along with the rest-bite centre, Eva also built wildlife parks and conservation projects - Ma Neyma attended all the meetings with her, though she never spoke a word. She simply beamed with pride and stared expectantly at the interviewing team.
Years passed and Eva attended university, gaining a degree in Geology; this fed into her passion for gems and jewels of which she had amassed an impressive collection over the years; building again on what her parents had collected. She had never known that her mother was also quite the magpie, it was bittersweet when Eva found the journals, lockboxes and safe keys - every time her mother had been away, she had purchased a jewel of significance for her daughter. In one journal her mother had written:
"I am not witness to the wonder that you become, you are like a diamond to me, forming perfectly without witness and under great pressure."
Eva's collection grew in notoriety as word spread of an upstart collector, with her qualifications and resources, many other collectors reached out to her, inviting her to join them as a partner. All were declined.
Eva did finally accept the invitation of a Mr Gil Post, the proprietor of her favourite (and later discovered to be her mother's favourite) jewellery store in Birmingham. The association of Eva's name with the store generated untold interest in the business - had it not been for Eva's acceptance, the store would have closed on account of Gil's recently departed wife. Gil's son took over the suddenly busy store with Eva as a silent partner.

Last summer, one of Eva's friends from University invited her to attend a grand ball hosted by the Elsevier family in Rockport, USA. Having little cause to decline the invitation, Eva set out to the big city with her friend.
Once there she soon became aware of the family's specialty, the whole of Rockport seemed to be aware of it, she felt stupid for never having heard of them before. The Elsevier family specialised in the breeding and preservation of a large cat breed, the Shedu. Initially, before seeing one, Eva assumed them to be like Norwegian Forest Cats; huge beasts, the size of a dog. How wrong she was. Shedus turned out to be the size of horses and were trained in many of the same disciplines.
At the suggestion of her friend, Eva signed up for a course known as the Shedu Novice Diploma; Eva later described this as "The families way of getting you hooked!" The diploma entailed being assigned a fully grown Shedu which you are observed interacting with. Once the family feel that you are competent, they certify that you are able to purchase and own a Shedu and even help you to adopt one. Eva immediately took interest in the resident cats and took to a queen by the name of Tournabouni, an Asian-type Shedu; slightly smaller and fluffier than her assigned charge for the SND but no less imposing. Eva alternated her time between her charge and the Asian's den, of which the Elsevier staff took positive notice...

Personality:
Eva is very down to earth. She's dependable and steadfast, confident and unrelenting. Bullheaded at times, fiercely loyal to her family. Constantly fighting for the underdog, Eva uses her money and contacts to do right by those she meets. 
To look at her and even to listen to her, Eva does not present as upper class, she IS of the people and considers herself working class.
Ma Neyma still makes her dinner, though on a Sunday, Eva makes a point of cooking for Ma.

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So yeah! This is my Shedu handler, she is ONLY to be used for Shedu related RPs, my horses are completely separate. She's the one doing the SND (obvs) and will be the documented handler for all my Shedus and likely will be the one that does any SPCs that I do for anybody else in future, once I get the SND.

References are from all over the place, I had the general idea of the pose I wanted for her, so I just kept looking for specific limb placements xD
Clothes are again out of my head, though the shoes are based on some converse that were bought for me about 2 weeks ago <3 Mine are gold, black and white animal print though. I love them ^^
The stately room bg was from a newspaper clipping but I can't remember which one x_x Hey ho!

Art & Character © OpalSkye