Evalin Berg

> “But now studying biology is like, three quarters of my personality.”
>
> Evalin Katrine Berg, OC6, Carolina

### Family

Harald Berg (father), Holly Piper-Berg (mother), Lydia Berg (sister), Gabriel Berg (brother), Samuel Berg (brother), Randall Berg (brother)

## Selection Info

### Blog Link

evalinkatrineberg.tumblr.com

Evalin Katrine Berg is a Selected from the Sixth Selection OC. She made it to the Elite and was eliminated after Challenge Eight.

## Personality and Skills

Evalin was a very kindhearted girl, and very into biology. She liked to help everyone around her, and often put the well-being of her friends and family over her own well-being. She also suffered from anxiety that got progressively more apparent as the Selection continued. Skills include running, memorization, and organization.

## Appearance and Face Claim

Evalin was 5’9” and built like a beanpole. She had curly blonde hair, blue eyes, and a face full of freckles. She almost always had a smile on her face. Faceclaim is Freya Mavor.

## History

### Pre-Selection

Evalin was born in Knoxville, Carolina, on the 27th of September, 2069, to Holly Piper-Berg, a high school advanced music theory teacher; and Harald Berg, a college neurobiology professor originally from Swendway. She grew up there with her parents and siblings (Lydia, Gabriel, Sam, and Randall), and developed a close friendship with her nextdoor neighbor, June. While Evalin and her siblings spent most of their summers in Swendway with her paternal grandparents, the Bergs were big on family events as a whole, and both sets of her grandparents came to Christmas at her house each year, until her maternal grandparents passed away in October of 2078. The death of her grandparents was a very traumatic period for the Bergs, and Evalin’s mother slipped into a deep depression for a little over a year, during which Evalin was often the child left to deal with their mother, despite her mother more or less blaming Evalin for their deaths, since Evalin had argued with her grandparents the week before they’d died, and had never apologized.

Despite struggling with a few anxiety disorders during her high school career, which led her to seek out therapy her senior year, Evalin graduated as salutatorian of her high school in May of 2088. She went on to attend the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Carolina, where her father was a neurobiology professor. There she majored in biology, with a focus on cellular bio. In particular, she did research in genetics and cancer. It was there that she became friends with a boy named Lukas in her physics lab, who would later assault her on Halloween of her sophomore year of college, though Evalin repressed the memory of that night until about a year later.

Evalin decided to register for the Selection at the insistence of her older sister, Lydia, who reminded her of her childhood crush on Prince Arin. Evalin was fairly certain she wasn’t going to be selected, though, given that the statistical odds of that happening were quite low. The professor whose lab she worked in during college was less than pleased to hear that Evalin had been selected, and attempted to blackmail her into smuggling classified information back to her by threatening to reveal what Evalin’s father was hiding in the attic of the Berg family home, and by threatening to ruin any chance Evalin had of getting into grad school by writing her a poor reference letter if Evalin did not help her. Evalin stormed out of her professor’s lab, though she had no clue that her father had been hiding anything in the attic. Later that night, at a surprise going away party her family and friends threw for her, Evalin learned that her friend Lukas was actually working with her professor. In a fit of anger and betrayal, she shoved him off of the front porch of the Berg family home, which earned a nod of approval from her father. Her last act before leaving Carolina was to tell her father that her professor knew what he was hiding in their attic.

### The Selection

Evalin flew to Angeles with Indiana Connors, Shala Lie, and Idalia Moretti, the last of which she would later become good friends with. She was initially a little overwhelmed by the selection process, feeling rather out of her element, but she quickly settled into a routine and adapted to the norms of palace life. Her initial interview with Arin went fairly well, and she found friends among the other Selected quite easily, talking readily with Clemence Westley and Regina Wright.

Arin took Evalin roller skating on their first date. They bickered almost the entire time, both on the car ride there, while roller skating, and again on the car ride back. While roller skating, Arin fell on his ass. Evalin got a nosebleed on the car ride back, and only then did she and Arin stop bickering. He helped her out, and walked her back to her room.

A few days later, upon hearing that Arin had fallen asleep while on a date with Idalia, Evalin offered to help cheer Idalia up by playing a prank on Arin, during which they covered his chair in the dining room with sheets of paper in his least favorite color. However, the pair timed their adventure incorrectly, and ended up getting stuck under the table while everyone came down for lunch. It was then, when Wylan Caldwell dropped a fork on the floor and had to look under the table to find it, that Evalin noticed that Idalia and Wylan might have feelings for each other.

Later that night, Evalin was coming back from the kitchens with a backpack containing a bottle of bourbon and a bottle of tequila, when she bumped into Arin in the hallway. The two sat and talked in an alcove by the library. During the course of that conversation, Arin apologized for being an asshole, admitted to kissing Felicity Graham recently, and asked Evalin what she thought he should do about the Selection. She encouraged him to give all of the girls there a chance. After talking to Arin, she went to Clemence’s room, and shared this information with her, not knowing that Clemence already knew about Arin and Felicity’s kiss.

The day after that, Evalin met and spoke with Jackson Graham and Melissa Duthe, separately.

A few days later, Evalin bumped into Arin in the library, while she was completing some summer work for her university. Arin looked at her biochemistry notes with curiosity, and asked her to explain some of her notes on genetic mutation to him. This ended in him calling her smart, and then kissing her.

Evalin went on to participate in Hugo Stanton’s photography project, during which she found out that Arin had an interest in marine biology, and revealed that she used to enjoy watching ballets. Hugo encouraged Evalin to ask Arin to take her to the ballet. After it started to rain on her and Hugo, Evalin went back to her room, intent on working on her proposal project, but ended up writing a series of notes to Arin instead, which culminated in her showing up at his office, and asking him to take her to the ballet. Arin said no. Evalin left quickly after that, feeling quite foolish.

Evalin had a conversation with Leana Grant a few days later, while preparing for Wylan’s birthday party, where she opened up a bit about her fear of trying to find work in the future, after the threats her boss had made. The conversation ended when Evalin got a phone call from Lukas, which prompted her to wander the halls until she ended up in the kitchen, where she met Jen Li. She and Jen started to make chocolate chip cookies, until Princess Melanie wandered in. Evalin, Jen, and Melanie shared some wine and conversation, which ended when Evalin got yet another phone call, this time from her father. This phone call left her rattled.

She was therefore a bit sleep deprived when Arin knocked on her bedroom door the next evening, asking her if she would like to accompany him on a surprise date. She said yes, and was beyond ecstatic when they pulled up at the Angeles ballet. Evalin really enjoyed the show, while Arin was less than entertained. He did however say that he found her reactions to the performance cute, and the two held hands and sat on the floor of a private box at the theatre during the intermission. They then got dinner at a seafood restaurant, and went home.

Evalin got very busy with schoolwork until the day of the Independence Day ball, during which she consumed five glasses of champagne, and danced most of the night away. She talked to Reggie about plans for the future, and then danced with Arin, during which he admitted that he was still trying to figure out what his feelings for the girls were. Evalin then went outside and spoke with Hugo, thanking him for encouraging her to ask Arin to take her to the ballet, and pointing out a constellation to him. She then went back inside and talked to Clemence, which was when she realized that Clemence also had developed feelings for Arin. Later on, she threw powder in the air with Idalia, who ended up walking Evalin back to her room. That night, the memory of Lukas assaulting her came back.

After that, Evalin developed bad insomnia, and ended up making coffee in the kitchen one morning at 2am, when Arin walked in. She revealed to him that she was worried about her father after receiving an odd phone call from him weeks ago. Arin encouraged her to call her father, but she admitted that she was afraid to, because there were certain people who could pick up her father’s work phone (ie, Lukas) that she wasn’t sure she could handle talking to. Arin then offered to make the call for her, during which he spoke to Lukas. After Lukas hung up, Arin called him a twat, and Evalin ended up telling Arin about how she had recently remembered Lukas assaulting her. Arin comforted her, made her tea that was supposed to help her sleep, talked to her, and kissed her in the hallway outside of her bedroom. She was ready to tell him then that she loved him, but decided not to, afraid she might scare him away. That night, Arin also informed her that the families of the selected would be visiting the following week.

The day before families arrived, Missy and Evalin spoke again from the balconies of their rooms, which neighbored each other.

The Bergs’ visit got off to a rocky start when Arin had a rather awkward conversation with Evalin’s parents, during which Evalin’s father brought up marriage. Then, Evalin’s older sister, Lydia attempted to threaten Arin, but Evalin led her away before she could. This left Arin to have a terrible conversation with Evalin’s oldest brother, Gabriel, who informed Arin that he had known about Evalin’s assault, but hadn’t said anything about it to Evalin, since he thought Evalin didn’t remember, and he didn’t want to upset her. He also revealed that both Lydia and Evalin’s father knew about it, too. Later that day, Evalin’s father revealed to Evalin and Gabriel that the thing he had been hiding in their attic in Knoxville was actually a box of Swendish naval designs, given to him by Evalin’s paternal grandfather, who was a naval engineer in Swendway until the 2040s, when he moved to Illea. Evalin and her father agreed that they have to turn the designs over to the royal family, and told Princess Safiya about them, not knowing that she was romantically involved with the Swendish Prince Theo. This was followed by a lunch with Clemence’s mother, step-father, and half-sister, during which Gabriel got into a fight with Celemence’s mother, which resulted in Clemence yelling at them both, and her mother leaving. The Bergs decided to have dinner in the music room that night, and ate with the Morettis. Later that week, Evalin got to meet Reggie’s uncle after he yelled at her and Reggie for being awake too late at night. A day later, Evalin’s younger brother, Randall, broke into Wylan’s bedroom, and picked the lock of Safiya’s, in an attempt to woo Jen’s younger half-sister. At the end of family week, Evalin found out that Lydia and Gabriel knew about her assault, and kicked them both out of her bedroom, insisting that she would deal with the issue herself.

During the attack by Swendway, Evalin hid out in her room with Missy, but the pair was barged in on by a Swendish soldier, who was intent on having his way with Felicity. Without more than half a thought, Evalin and Missy made a homemade flamethrower using hairspray and a lighter, which resulted in Evalin being shot in the left side of her abdomen, which left her with two broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. While the soldier was holding a gun to Evalin’s head as she bled out on her bedroom floor, Jackson burst in through a secret passageway that connected to Evalin’s room, that she hadn’t known about, with a metal rod that he used to kill the Swendish soldier. He then carried Evalin to the hospital wing, accompanied by Missy, who was helping Felicity along. Evalin had a blood-loss induced hallucination of her dead maternal grandparents, which brought up a lot of emotions that she had been pushing down for twelve years.

During her stay in the hospital, Evalin was roommates with Clem, and the pair opened up to and comforted each other. Evalin was visited by a very withdrawn Idalia, who gave her a necklace and a card for her birthday. Arin also visited, and Evalin called him a hypocrite. Then Missy visited with a birthday cake. Clem teamed up with Gabriel over the phone to get Evalin the birthday presents her family had brought her during family week, which included a bottle of bourbon (father), a bottle of tequila (Clem), a yellow cardigan (Clem), a bracelet (Lydia), some books (Sam & Randall), and a digital picture frame with pictures of Evalin’s family, including the dead grandparents that Evalin had recently hallucinated (mother). Two days later, Jen visited with cookies. After hearing about the death of the Queen, and being released from the hospital, Evalin visited Arin in his rooms, and brought him flowers and a card.

A couple of days after the queen’s funeral, Evalin had a conversation with Arin in the library, during which he admitted that he was not in love with her. Evalin decided aloud that she is going to move in with Gabriel, who had recently moved to Angeles for his job, and finish her undergraduate degree, before going on to grad school, or maybe travelling. Arin was not thrilled by this idea, since he was of the opinion that Gabriel was a dishonest dick, but he and Evalin decided to stay friends anyway. Evalin said goodbye to Clem, and the next morning, she moved into Gabriel’s apartment in downtown Angeles, about 30 minutes away from Angeles University.

### Post-Selection

During the Selection pause, Clem called Gabriel, and asked if she can spend the night, since she didn’t want her half-sister Tracie to see her as upset as she was at that moment. Evalin ran out to the supermarket to buy Clem cake, when she received a text from Jen asking if she could spend the night at Gabriel’s before she caught a flight to Allens the next morning. Evalin said yes, not knowing that Clem more or less felt like Arin had cheated on her with Jen. The four had a very awkward night in Gabriel’s apartment, during which they talked about bad first loves, Lydia’s upcoming wedding, and Randall’s love for Jen’s half-sister, Sara. The next morning, Evalin revealed that she had been trying to study more languages to fill up her newfound free time, and Jen and Gabriel argued over breakfast, after he insinuated that Arin only made decisions with his dick. During the rest of the pause, Evalin and Clem hung out a few times.

In November of 2090, Evalin was officially accepted to transfer to Angeles University for the spring semester of 2091, which would be her last semester of college. Upon being accepted, Evalin immediately began applying for research positions at the University. After four unsuccessful attempts at getting a position, she managed to earn one on her fifth try, with a younger professor who specialized in research on the genetics of cancer.

In December of 2090, Evalin travelled to Germany with her younger brother, Randall, to chaperone Randall and his girlfriend, Sara Wagner. Evalin thoroughly enjoyed her time in Europe. After this, she returned to Knoxville for her sister's wedding on January 4, 2091. She reconnected with Clemence Westley, who had also come for Lydia's wedding, and the two spent a day going around the city and catching up. At Lydia's wedding, Evalin surprised her sister by singing a duet for her with Randall. After this, Harald pulled Evalin aside to talk to her about something, and Evalin could not stop herself from asking him why he had decided to keep her sexual assault secret from her. When Harald failed to apologize, Evalin left the wedding, and returned to Angeles early after spending a night in Clemence's hotel room.

During her spring semester at Angeles University, Evalin joined the Cross Country club, and became good friends with her professor's other research assistant, named Lauren. She became much more social, until Harald's death on March 17, 2091. After the funeral in Knoxville, where Evalin and Holly had a falling out, Evalin became more withdrawn, throwing herself solely into her schoolwork, research, and running. After her brother Gabriel left to join the navy, Evalin decided to get a tattoo of the molecular skeleton of oxytocin over the spot where she had been shot on her left side, because it represented familial love. During this time, Evalin also accepted a graduate school admission offer at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. She also found out that she was a finalist for a research grant that would be awarded in Munich, Germany, in July of 2091. She remained in Angeles until a few days after Jen Li and Arin Schreave's wedding, and then left for Europe.

Evalin won the research grant in July of 2091, and spent most of her summer travelling around Europe, before settling down in an apartment in Zurich in August of that same year, and beginning her PhD program there. On September 27, 2091, she adopted a German shorthaired pointer from a local animal shelter as a birthday gift to herself, and named him Pluto. In November of 2092, she met the goalie of the Swiss National Soccer Team, Timo Hunziker, at a local cafe. He spilled coffee on her, and offered to buy her another coffee to make up for it. During their initial encounter, Evalin refused, and simply left the cafe, but when the two bumped into each other again two weeks later at the same cafe, and Timo once again asked if he could buy her a coffee, Evalin accepted, and the two spent a couple of hours talking before Evalin invited him back to her apartment, to see if Timo could truly get the coffee stain out of the shirt she had been wearing two weeks prior, like he claimed to be able to do.

This initial encounter was followed by a series of dates around Zurich, including trips around old town, a trip to the zoo, multiple museum trips, and a trip to the Christmas Market in old town, where Timo and Evalin had their first kiss, and later decided to become an exclusive couple. Evalin attended multiple parties hosted by Timo's teammates as well, where she was often the designated sober person. On New Years Eve of 2091, Timo took Evalin to see a performance at the Zurich opera house, and then to a fancy restaurant in old town. The two ended the night by dancing in his kitchen as the new year was rang in. Their relationship continued to go strong in the spring of 2092, even when Evalin left briefly to attend Clemence and Gabriel's wedding in March of 2092, after which Timo gave Evalin a key to his house, and she unofficially moved in. During the summer of 2092, when Timo went to Angeles to play in the summer 2092 olympics, he briefly got to meet Evalin's mother and siblings. The Swiss soccer team got the silver medal that year.

In September of 2092, Clemence came to visit Evalin and Timo in Zurich, and Timo mentioned to Clemence that he was planning on proposing to Evalin by the end of that year. On September 27, 2092, Clemence and Timo went into old town to pick out a ring, planning to have Evalin join them once they were done. However, Evalin texted saying that she had had a bad day at work and didn't feel up to going into old town, and was just going to go back to Timo's house instead. At the same time, Timo's mother texted him to inform him that she, his step-father, his step-sisters, his half-sister, and his half-brother were all going to swing by for a surprise visit. At that moment, Timo made the split second decision that he was going to propose to Evalin on their back deck when he got home. He did just that, and Evalin said yes, and there was much celebration.

The pair tied the knot in Angeles on July 4, 2093, and then went on to have a fun honeymoon in Bonita. Timo's wedding gift to Evalin was a nice house in Angeles. Life returned to normal after this. Evalin continued working on her PhD, and Timo continued on playing soccer. Evalin cheered him on during the World Cup in the summer of 2094. She graduated with her PhD in May of 2096, which her and Timo had a lot of fun celebrating. About 7 weeks later, Evalin found out that she was pregnant with their first child. At the same time, Timo was coming to terms with the fact that his soccer career would soon be at its end, and Evalin was receiving job offers from multiple universities. The pair decided that it would be best for them to move to Angeles, since they already had the house there, Evalin had received a very nice job offer from Angeles University, and she'd be able to have her family and friends there during the birth of her first child. Evalin moved ahead of Timo, because he had to stay in Switzerland to finish training for his last olympics. The Swiss soccer team won gold in the 2096 Olympic Games, but while making the final save, Timo tore his ACL.

Once in Angeles, Evalin accepted a job as a professor and researcher at Angeles University, and Timo started to work as a freelance personal trainer. The pair had four children total, all of which they loved dearly, and supported in any way they possibly could. Throughout her career, Evalin gave multiple NedTalks, and continued to pioneer new methods in cancer research and treatment, while also teaching courses in Cellular Biology and Cancer Biology at Angeles University. She was incredibly happy and fulfilled in both her professional life and her home life.

**Relationships**

### Family

* Maternal Grandfather: William Christopher Piper, 22/05/1999 - 01/10/2078
* Maternal Grandmother: Josephine Catarina Piper nee Kilcullen, 14/09/2004 - 01/10/2078
* Paternal Grandfather: Edvard Reidar Berg, 12/12/2000 - 02/07/2094
* Paternal Grandmother: Amalia Maria Skjeggestad-Berg, 30/11/2002 - 27/06/2095
* Father: Harald Rune Berg, 11/01/2030 - 17/03/2091
* Mother: Holly Rey Piper-Berg, 27/05/2036 - 07/11/2125
* Sister: Lydia Reidun Judge nee Berg, 09/02/2065 - 11/01/2170
	+ Brother-In-Law: Devon Arata Judge, 14/08/2062 - 24/12/2150
		- Nephew: Harry Edward Judge, 29/03/2093 -
		- Nephew: Liam Josiah Judge, 17/04/2096 -
		- Nephew: Nathaniel William Judge, 11/08/2098 -
* Brother: Gabriel Marius Berg, 26/12/2066 - 06/06/2166
	+ Sister-In-Law: Clemence Organa Westley, 30/11/2067 - 06/09/2069
		- Nephew: Riley Victor Berg, 13/12/2096 -
		- Niece: Leia Charlene Berg, 21/07/2100 -
		- Nephew: Jonas Harald Berg, 14/08/2108 -
* Brother: Samuel Rune Berg, 17/01/2068 - 03/02/2160
	+ Sister-In-Law: Juniper Belle Berg nee Iscariot, 02/09/2069 - 06/01/2171
		- Niece: Athena Gloria Berg, 08/04/2096 -
		- Niece: Minerva Renata Berg, 08/04/2096 -
		- Nephew: Joshua Antony Berg, 22/07/2105 -
* Brother: Randall Kristoff Berg, 29/07/2073 - 09/06/2169
	+ Sister-In-Law: Sara Wagner-Berg, 01/11/2071 -
		- Niece: Karen Mayhem Wagner Berg, 19/04/2092 -
* Spouse: Timo Alexander Hunziker, 04/02/2067 - 04/07/2143
	+ Daughter: Josefin Clemence Regina Hunziker, 19/02/2097 -
	+ Son: Willem Arin Frederick Hunziker, 07/01/2099 -
	+ Daughter: Karolina Idalia Jen Hunziker, 12/10/2102 -
	+ Son: Edwald Hans Harald Hunziker, 12/10/2102 -

### Friends

* Lukas Bernhardsen (Formerly)
* Juniper “June” Iscariot
* Idalia Moretti
* Regina “Reggie” Wright
* Clemence “Clem” Westley
* Melissa “Missy” Duthé
* Hugo Stanton
* Jen Li
* Arin Schreave

### Romantic Interests

* Preston (Gabriel’s best friend) (formerly)
* Stephen, the Valedictorian of her high school (prom date) (formerly)
* Arin Schreave (formerly)
* Timo Hunziker

## Quotes

> “But for your information, my life needs binder clips to hold it together, in the very least. There’s too much going on for paperclips.”
>
> Evalin Katrine Berg, OC6, Challenge 0

> “Did you just admit to paying people to tolerate you?”
>
> Evalin Katrine Berg, OC6, Challenge 2

## Trivia and Notes

* Evalin means “wished for child.” Her parents gave her this name because she was born prematurely, and they wished nothing more than for her to survive.
* She grew up speaking both English and Swendish.
* By modern standards, Evalin was 1/4 Norwegian, 1/4 Swedish, and 1/2 Irish.
* Her paternal grandfather taught her how to swim and how to sail.
* Her favorite snack was apple slices dipped in peanut butter, and her favorite drink was black coffee.
* Libra sun, Aquarius moon, Virgo rising.
* Her favorite color was yellow, and her second favorite color was pale blue.
* Despite being 5’9”, she was the shortest member of her family, due to her premature birth.
* Her premature birth also left her with extremely poor eyesight.
* Her favorite flowers were daffodils.
* Here, have her playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NGn11e6KSme6lnbR0sHwW?si=09FTv3iiQfCicuX2dVu3QA