Eve

Name: Eve Tacet-Yin-Dove

(Tacet was her Rosharan family's name, Yin was her Scadrian family's name, and Dove was her first surname from Newcago)

Age: 16

Physical description: Chin length dark hair. Extremely pale skin, though not to the point where it looks unhealthy. Dark, almost black, eyes with a thin circle of ice blue surrounding the pupil. Just reaches 5' when not slouching and at perfect posture. Almost always wears all black.

Investiture: None.

Strengths: Extensively self-trained in self defense (has unique style). Eve has experience with most weapons, but prefers throwing stars and knives - she's got pretty much impeccable aim. She's also very light on her feet (thanks to her size), recognizes the sound of footsteps intuitively, and is physically flexible.

Weaknesses: Eve is teeny and can easily be overwhelmed in contests of strength. She relies too much on being quicker that her opponents.

Family: None left.

Backstory: She's been adopted twice and lost her entire family thrice. Her family in Newcago to Epics. Her Scadrian family to Hemalurgists. Her Rosharan family to a rogue group of Radiants with a long memory and a pretty big grudge. Eve's had connections to Alleycity for quite a while, but only now is getting ready to act on them.

*The Doves (age 0-5):*Eve’s first mother was a charity organizer, her father an accountant. She had two older brothers. One was 12, the other 8. As children they’d have contests with an intent of scaring one another. Eve practiced walking quietly and eventually even at a young age started naturally being utterly smile. When she was four, she was out on a playdate with another kid when her eldest brother had his friend over. She was an Epic with fire powers and lost control. The Dove house burnt down and all were killed, but Eve. One of Eve’s mother’s friends was a worldhopper and a worker at the orphanage Eve was placed in. She took Eve to Scadrial where she dropped her with her friends the Yins.

*The Yins (age 5-10):*The Yins adopted Eve as one of their own. She always knew she wasn’t really one of them - they were dark-skinned and she extremely pale. But they always treated her kindly. They had one child of their own, a female atium misting two years older than her who became her closest friend and basically a sister. The parents were both gold mistings. They were very aware of her past and when she developed a want to learn how to fight, they supported her the whole way. It was when she was out in a field training in swordplay that an infamous Hemalurgist came by and killed them in order to harvest their abilities. When Eve entered her house to find their corpses, she immediately sent a spanreed to her mother’s old friend like she’d told her to in case something like that ever happened. It turned out, Eve learnt talking to her son who was now in possession of it, that she’d been killed by a Coinshot accidentally overshooting who ran out of coins and landed on her. Eve was devastated and at age 10 visited Alleycity for the first time, catching a ride from a kindly worldhopper who she never saw again. There she lived as a beggar for a year before the childcare authorities found her. They dropped her with the Tacets on Roshar.

*The Tacets (age 11-15):*The Tacets were a more elderly couple who had never been able to have children. They took to Eve immediately and loved everything about her, even her pessimistic attitude. The Tacets were Alethi, but didn’t force her to take on any of their customs - it was her choice whether or not to cover her safehand. She didn’t typically, being left-handed, but did on occasion. Eve didn’t really communicate with many people her age while on Roshar, she was extremely introverted and spent most of her time practising her aim and stealth. She kept that up for five years. When she was sixteen, things went wrong again. It turned out that the Tacets’ cousins actually owed heavy debts to a group of Radiants and had been avoiding taxes. To that clan, the punishment for that was death to all relatives related by blood or marriage. They left Eve alive, before that point she had never taken upon herself the Tacets’ name, deciding she didn’t qualify under the requirement, but made it clear that if she ever told anyone what had happened they would hunt her down. Knowing there was no way their neighbors wouldn’t ask, Eve fled in panic back to Alleycity.

Outlook: She blames Investiture and other like abilities for her losses - considers them the world's real largest enemy that most people just haven't recognized yet. Eve is hesitant to kill any average person like herself, but point her towards an Allomancer, Feruchemist, Radiant, or Epic and she'll have no extensive moral qualms. Granted, there still might be a few, though not as many as otherwise.