Evan Harkness

"Do you need me to drive you home?" - *Evan Harkness to Harriet Hidgens*

### Relatives

Isabella Harkness (sister)Leonard Harkness (Father)Christine Harkness (Mother) Gary Goldstein (Uncle, Legal Guardian)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Grey with a brown centrally heterochromatic ring

## Evan Harkness

### Personality

Evan is a dad friend. Growing up as a surrogate parent for his sister, Evan’s love language is taking care of people in any way he can. He tries to be kind and do right by people, but his constant frustration with the extraneous circumstances in his life means that sometimes he can be short tempered. However, he always takes responsibility for his actions. He’ll definitely put the comfort of other people above himself, and always put the safety of his loved ones above other people. The face that Evan puts on, of this funny and happy guy, is merely a face. He’s deeply unhappy with where he has ended up, but is trying to make the most of it.

### History

Evan was born in Hatchetfield, Michigan, to Christine and Leonard Harkness,  who maybe shouldn’t have had children. That didn’t stop them though, neither did their mismatched personalities or their destructive habits. As they say, you reap what you sow, and eventually the two people who created Evan became their own undoings, but we’ll get to that later. Like I said, he was born in Hatchetfield, MI, and lived in that tiny town with its tiny population in a tiny apartment, until he was three years old, at which point his Parents grew sick of the mundanity of the place and whisked him off to Seattle. It’s ironic, in hindsight. By removing Evan from Hatchetfield, they also removed him from something key, it’s psychic energy. They did not know this, but Evan was born with the Gift. His mother had an uncle who was similarly afflicted, although she was not aware of this fact. Without the energy that seeped through the very soil of the island, the energy of his ancestors, Evan’s gift would not manifest as they typically would. It would lay dormant and forgotten.

Now across the Country, in a technically-larger apartment on the water in Seattle, Evan had a relatively unstable childhood. Shortly after moving into his new home, his sister was Born. Isabella was a whiny baby, but Evan was not sure if there was anything he would be able to love more than his little sister. He wanted to protect her. He knew how scary dad could get.

This became a theme as Evan grew up, protecting Bella. She never really realised it, but he was always working behind the scenes, in the cogs of their home life, making sure that she was shielded and safe. Whenever their father flew into one of his murderous rages, Evan would offer himself up as the recipient knowing that this kind of treatment would break Bella, and also knowing that he couldn’t let his mother take it (even if he did resent her, perhaps misguidedly, for being a hand in his misery).

Both of their parents were doctors, so neither of them were really home a lot. This is how Evan grew a paternal personality. He used to be the one to cook his baby sister’s dinner, he’d pack her lunches for school, standing on a footstool in his kitchen unable to quite reach the cupboard without it, he’d read her bedtime stories and draw her baths before she was old enough to do it herself. He only really knew how to care for other people. When he wasn’t looking after Bella, he was looking after his parents. His mother worked more than his father, and was hardly in the house, his father was a recluse who made Evan cook his meals and clean the homestead they had created. All the work meant he fell behind on school, and his grades struggled which only enraged Mr. Harkness further.

Moving into his Teen years, Evan became a depressive and Bella was not helping. It was by this time she had begun to see their parents in their true colours, but was unaware that this behaviour was not new. That it had been happening since before she was born. She didn’t know the years of beatings and emotional fuckery that Evan had been subjected to. Evan still did his best to protect what was left of her innocence. In his mind, she didn’t need to know how bad they were, she just needed to focus on what was important. On school, on friends, on the things he never was able to. She needed him less now, and he knew that he was now preparing her for her future, which meant his time freed up a little. He did not have high hopes for his future. Until he discovered a passion for writing. Something other than cleaning up after his parents, who had now taken to drinking in bars rather than in their darkened living room. He enjoyed not being around them. He got a job at a dairy queen and began saving to move to anywhere else. Things seemed to be looking up just ever so slightly.
And then his parents died in a car crash.

And then his parents died in a car crash.

His father was DOA. His mother took two days to die, in which Evan did not leave her side. She had been the lesser of two Evils. She never was a secure base but at least he could confess wrongdoings to her without the fear of being struck. They had nice memories too, ferry boat rides. Evan’s maternal Grandfather had been a fisherman in Hatchetfield, and taught Evan’s mother how to do the same. She had been the person who had shown Evan how to work a boat. She’s the reason he became rather good at navigating on the water, the reason he became so adept at marine travel. This had been when he was younger. By the time she died, Evan hadn’t been on a ferry boat in a few years, hadn’t driven a boat in even longer even if he still knew how.

Sometimes in those two painstaking days, she woke up from her coma and conversed with Evan before drifting back off. The final time, she spent it telling him to take care of Bella. He secretly resented his mother for never even trying to help get them out of that home. But maybe, in shielding her from her husband, Evan had shielded her from the truth. She couldn’t have been that naive surely? He didn’t know. He left while she was still awake, knowing that she would be dead soon, but not saying goodbye. He was on a ferryboat when he got the call, three hours later. He wondered if she would have apologised. Probably not.

His mother had a cousin, unrelated to the ancestor with a gift. He was a Lawyer and the Harkness’ siblings’ next of kin. Gary had looked after Evan when he was a baby, and Begrudgingly let the two children live the rest of their childhoods in his large stately home, in Hatchetfield, Michigan. Realising that he and Bella had zero inheritance from their parents, and being unwilling to ask any more from Gary than he was already giving, Evan took it upon himself to get a job. Eventually he found work at Hatchetfield’s lumber yard, on the edge of the Witchwood forest.

### Relationships

#### Isabella Harkness

Evan has a Love/Hate relationship with his sister. He finds her annoying and bratty at times, and rather ungrateful. That being said, he has devoted his life to keeping her safe, and would move mountains for her. He has the utmost faith that she will go on to do amazing things one day just as long as she keeps her focus on what's important.

#### Gary Goldstein

Gary and Evan don't know each other very well, but Gary has been known to express sympathy and charity to the siblings. He lets Evan drive one of his cars, and pays for their food. Evan learned later that Gary actually looked after him when he was a baby, and once he learned this, he tried to get along with Gary a little more. This means that they have a decent friendship.

#### Chad Mendoza

Chad is Evan's best friend. The two bicker like cat and dog, flirt like an old married couple, and genuinely enjoy each other's company.

### Extra information

#### Skills and abilities

* *Telekinesis:* Evan was born with the ability to manipulate objects in relation to their surroundings. This happens when he visualises and focuses his mind's eye on the object he wants to change. This also works in a Metaphorical sense, in which he can pull people's souls from the brink of death.
* *Boatmanship and Watersports*: Evan is a relatively talented boatman, being taught how to sail from an early age. Similarly, growing up in waterside areas means he is good around water and a fast swimmer.
* *Woodworking*: Working in a Lumber Yard means Evan is adept at woodworking, being particularly handy with an axe.
* *Spatial Relations*: The tangible nature of his gift makes him good at spatial configuration.
* *Musical Proficiency*: Like his sister, Evan can play the guitar, the piano, and for some reason he can play the saxophone.
* *Sweet-talker*: Evan can charm his way out of many situations with his quick wit and fast tongue. He finds that he can charisma his way through interactions with all people bar one.

#### Weaknesses

* *Allergic to Peanuts*
* *Clumsy, easily embarrassed and flustered.*
* *Harriet Hidgens.*

### Extra Trivia

* Each aspect of Evan's name comes from parts of pop culture that Robin enjoys
	+ Evan is the protagonist's name in one of Robin's favourite Musicals, Dear Evan Hansen.
	+ Seeley is the name of David Boreanaz' character in "Bones" (Seeley Booth)
	+ Alexander is the name of the character that was the original faceclaim for Evan. The first faceclaim was Nicholas Brendon in the role of "Xander Harris" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
	+ Harkness comes from the TV show "Wandavision" Being the surname of the antagonist, Agatha Harkness. It is a scottish surname and also has Etymological roots as an adjective, Harkness is the "State of being bright and radiant"
* Originally Evan's name was "James Robert Harkness"
* Evan Harkness' original Hatchetfield timeline takes place in the Yellow Jacket timeline, as it hinges on him getting the Black Book from Miss Holliday's (Holloway's) office.
* Evan is bisexual but has a preference for women. In the instance he survives his time in Hatchetfield, he moves away and has an unsuccessful marriage to a man before returning to the island.

### Links:

- Evan's lore document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ekut1RrEPWmMMnMtv\_pQYBirmtf\_WhtYrJJkpjuBSGM/edit