Eva March

Evelyn "Eva" Brookes (nee March) is the eldest of the March siblings.

## Bio

When Eva was first introduced,  she was portrayed as being just as unhappy as any of her sisters were regarding their family's poverty. She also felt her dad's absence keenly. It was easy to view her as vain and superficial, given how proud she was of her beautiful white hands, and how her *"*castle on a cloud*"* was of her having a family and enjoyed the very best of everything.

Even then, however, it was still evident that Eva had admirable qualities: in her father's absence, she helped her mother to look after her younger siblings as a second parent of sorts, and always tried to give good advice when they needed it. Later on, an encounter with the world of the rich taught her a hard lesson regarding the grim reality of so-called wealth, and Quinton's sickness made her better cherish the true blessings in life, such as good health.

As she matured, she blossomed into a beautiful lady and married Theo Brookes, the tutor of her neighbour, Ken. Together, they had three children: Faith, Hope and Dream (triplets).

## Personality and Traits

As a young girl, Eva was susceptible to beautiful things and longed for luxury. She was also particularly vain about her pretty white hands. In fact, she once confessed that her *"castle in the air"* was a lovely house full of all sorts of luxurious things: delicacies, fine clothes, fine furniture, pleasant people, and great wealth. (She also secretly wished to marry a rich man.)

But as she matured, she grew to understand that true worth did not lie in money, and she even learned to release some of her vanity, as evidenced by her father observing (when he finally returned home) that her hands were no longer as fair and fine as he had remembered them before he had left. Later on, especially after she married Theo, she learned to tolerate being poor and to wholeheartedly appreciate the blessings she had in life as well as the truly admirable qualities of individuals.

Hence, though Eva never truly lost her desire for beauty and luxury, the combination of maturity, marriage, and later motherhood helped her to grow into a sensible and intelligent woman who understood what really mattered in life. Her one constant feature was her care for her sisters, though her role as the oldest of them could lead her to be slightly bossy and overbearing at times.

## Appearance

At the age of sixteen, Eva was very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and pretty white hands.

As she matured into adulthood, she became a truly beautiful and lovely young woman, and on her wedding day, she was described to look very much like a rose herself - her face was fair and tender, with a charm more beautiful than beauty.

## Etymology

* Evelyn is a female given name of Hebrew origin and means 'living one'.
* Eva was named after her grandma, Evelyn "Eve" March.
* Eva's eldest daughter, Evelyn "Faith" Brookes, was named after her.
* Eva's true counterpart, Kristina Reyes Vaughn, was the very last Reyes sister alive with Aya's (the counterpart of Quinton) death at a young age, Alicia's (the counterpart of Amber) death because of childbirth complications, and Andrea's unfortunate death after publishing Olivia's Kids because of mercury treatment she took when she had Typhoid fever.

## Appearances

* The Little Ladies
* Good Spouses
* The Little Men
* Olivia's Kids