Evie Grayson

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**Evie Grayson** is the main protagonist of the 2019 Facebook Watch series *The Birch*. An outcast among her peers, Evie summons The Birch to take vengeance on the group of drug dealers that have begun to seize control of her town.

She is portrayed by Xaria Dotson, and Zamira Dotson as a child.

## Physical Appearance

Evie is a seventeen year old Caucasian girl with pinkish-purple hair and blue eyes. She wears a yellow rain jacket.

## Characteristics

Evie is largely an outcast among her peers, universally being seen as "creepy" and with a large number of her peers being largely unsympathetic towards her and any plight she may have. Despite her reputation, Evie is a good-hearted young woman, though she, at times, allows her emotions to overwhelm her.

## Background

Evie Grayson was born in 2001 and grew up in King’s Point, her mother was a nurse and her father was a mechanic. She had a happy childhood when growing up with her parents, they showed love and care to her when she was a child but it all changed when she became a teen. Her father fantasied not wanting her to see the cruel adult world for what is was and her mother took drugs form the hospital she worked at and soon died of overdose in 2018. After the death of her mother, she became solitary to everyone except her father and got bullied for her shyness.

## The Birch

### Season 1

#### Through The Woods

Evie goes to her mother's grave to talk to her spirit and witnesses Thurston Polk and two of his friends killing a man who has gotten behind on his drug payments. Evie tries to flee, but is captured, and Thurston threatens her into keeping quiet about it. Distraught, Evie goes home, but on her way back finds a strange-looking talisman. At home, she tries to research the talisman, only to stumble upon a video on the Dark Web that was posted by Kelly Bernstein, whose brother had extensively researched the creature behind the talisman and went missing. The next day, Evie takes the talisman to school and plants it on one of Thurston's friends. She then goes to the woods and recites the incantation from Kelly's video, which summons The Birch.

## Relationships

### The Birch

At the start Evie was quite desperate for her life to turn up and had a relieved attitude when first seeing the Birch and where on good terms for a couple of days, even Evie seeing the birch as a mother figure. But after seeing the horrific things she did, Evie made an enemy of the Birch and had a grump exterior to her until she needed her again, but after she turned bitter again.

### Lily Grayson

Lily and Evie had a loving relationship to one another when Evie was a child but that changed when she became a teen. Lilly became a drug addict which made her behavior change to seeing her daughter as a burden but Evie still loved her even though she got upset with her at times. The drug taking eventually killed Lily which greatly upset her, she didn’t want to accept her mother was gone so she went to her grave to try and resurrect her, but it failed.

### Buddy Grayson

Evie was (like with her mother) very close to him, but he was a lot more playful with her and liked to fantasises to protect his daughter from the cruel real world. When Evie became a teen, Buddy and her had a joking sarcastic relationship but Evie got upset with his attitude. Yet again she was greatly affected by his death.

### Thurston Polk

Evie and Thurston don’t have much of an interaction at the start despite for him giving her death threats, she has a great hatred for him. As the series goes on though, she forgives him and has silent respect for him.

## Trivia

* Young Evie is portrayed by Zamira Dotson, Xaria Dotson's younger sister.
* Evie is very similar to the titular character of Neil Gaiman's novel *Coraline*, thought this could just be a coincidence or a reference to the movie's theme of family and the focus on Coraline's "Other Mother".

## References

1. ↑ *The Birch,* Season 1, Episode 1, "Through The Woods". Modderno, J. Casey (writer) & Ross, John William (director) (October 11th, 2019)