Evangeline Fox

Official art by Micheline Ryckman (whimsicalillustration)

**Evangeline Fox** is the daughter of Maximilian Fox and Liana Fox. She has been working in her father's curiosity shop since she was twelve. Both of her parents died prior to the setting of 'Once Upon A Broken Heart'. Her father died the previous season, and her mother died a couple of years before.

Evangeline travels to the Magnificent North with her stepsister Marisol Tourmaline to attend Nocte Neverending, which kicks off a series of events that teach Evangeline who she truly is.

## Appearance

Evangeline's hair is rose gold, with soft waves of pink streaked through with pale gold. It is her favorite thing about her appearance. She also has gray eyes, a slender neck and a delicate appearance. She is described to be "looking like a fairytale princess, with her shimmering pink hair and her innocent smile."

## Personality

Evangeline is adventurous and compassionate. She is also emotional in the way that her decisions and thoughts often center around her own emotions. She is a good person, and she proves over and over again that she'll do anything for those she cares about, such as turn herself to stone for the sake of her stepsister and the boy she loves. She is also a romantic, and believes in the idea of a “love at first sight” and a “fairytale happily ever after”. She has always wanted a love like her parents had before they died.

Evangeline tends to blame herself for things like what happened to Luc and Apollo and tries her best to make amends even if she isn’t fully at fault.

She is also very smart and is quick to catch onto things like her figuring out Jacks’ elaborate plans once she finds out that Apollo is alive and is able to figure out where to find the mirth stone. She’s also quite playful as she likes to tease Jacks and provoke him, calling him a “coward” to annoy him. She is outspoken and not afraid to call Jacks out on his cruel actions and lack of empathy for others, and is quite brave and bold as she goes to test out the antidote she made for a love spell alone at the castle despite being a fugitive.

She can be too trusting and naive, as seen when she saves Luc after he begs her to only for him to betray her until Jacks saves her. Evangeline likes to see the best in people no matter how badly they treat her, which is shown through her believing in Marisol despite her previous suspicions of her, and opening up to her about the deal she made with Jacks. She has reached out to Jacks many times asking him to trust her, considering him her partner despite his cruel actions and words towards her.

## Plot

Evangeline has had her heart broken, and intends to mend it by speaking to a Fate. After realising that it is dangerous to put her faith in a Fate, she must overcome many difficult challenges to fix many disastrous situations that came from trying to mend her own broken heart.

### Once Upon a Broken Heart

At the beginning of the novel, Evangeline meets the Prince of Hearts in his church after going there in a last minute attempt to stop the wedding of her step-sister and fiancé. She finds herself striking a deal with him, owing him three kisses, for which he’ll choose the time and person, in return for him stopping the wedding.

After the bargain is complete and Evangeline returns home, she finds the entire wedding reception turned to statues. Overcome with guilt, Evangeline drinks a magical potion to free the wedding guests, and in turn turn herself to stone.

She stays in this state for six weeks, until a Fate by the name of Poison finally releases her. Upon turning human, Evangeline realises that she has become some sort of celebrity, with many suitors coming after her with a wish for marriage.

Later, Evangeline is invited by the Empress Scarlett to have tea with herself and her sister, Donatella. Evangeline accepts the invitation, and Scarlett asks her to be her ambassador to the Magnificent North, where she would participate in their traditional event, Nocte Neverending. Evangeline accepts, on the condition that she can take her step-sister, Marisol, with her.

When Evangeline arrives at the private dinner held by Prince Apollo the night before Nocte Neverending, she is surprised to find the Prince of Hearts there as well. He has concealed his true identity and is pretending to be just another young, insolent aristocrat named Lord Jacks, dying his hair a striking shade of dark blue. He has become a close confidant of Prince Apollo. Rumors say he's recovering from a great heartbreak, and that he's been exiled to the North after getting into trouble with a princess from the south, referring to Princess Donatella. Evangeline realizes that Jacks has set her up to be the one who would owe him three kisses and also to be the ambassador for the Meridian Empire to meet Prince Apollo.

Evangeline is believed to be the key that can unlock the Valory Arch.

### The Ballad of Never After

The book picks up right after the end of the first book. Evangeline is still hurt at Jacks' betrayal and is desperately searching for a way to wake Apollo from his suspended state. After trying but being unsuccessful in finding a cure. She agrees to Jacks' proposition, if she collects the 4 stones and opens the Valory Arch, he would help her wake Apollo. Evangeline still refuses despite the arrival of Lucien Jareth of House Acadian a supposedly distant cousin of Apollo who has now come to be the Crown Prince in his stead as everyone believes Apollo to be dead.

Apollo wakes unexpectedly, but this is due to a curse that was placed on him. The Archer's curse from the tale "The Ballad of the Archer and the Fox" which causes him to desperately hunt for his fox, in this case, Evangeline. In addition to this curse, a mirror curse is also put in place to link Evangeline and Apollo, so any physical harm that falls on one befalls the other.

Apollo begins his hunt but doesn't want to hurt Evangeline. Jacks saves her on various occasions. In the meantime, they search for the four missing stones to open the Valory Arch in Chaos' vampire castle where he has an extensive library. The books, however, are not very helpful as the text on the pages shifts, changes or disappears whenever someone tries to read it. Still, Evangeline gathers enough clues to go looking for the stones of which the Lucky stone is already in Chaos' possession.

Evangeline as a living key is the only person that can sense the stones and feels a pull toward them. Evangeline finds the Truth stone in the grave of Glendora Slaughterwood. Evangeline and Jacks had been at the Slaughterwood Castle because LaLa was betrothed to Lord Robin Slaughterwood and was holding a celebration.

While at LaLa's betrothal party, Evangeline is attacked by Petra another key who was alive by use of the Youth stone. Evangeline is forced to kill Petra and Jacks comforts her after she is flayed while Apollo is being tortured thanks to the mirror curse so Jacks take her to the Hollow while there Jacks leaves and returns though with an injury of a knife to the ribs thanks to LaLa and Jacks and Evangeline spend the night together and Evangeline finds the Mirth stone.

After Apollo attacks Evangeline once more the same day they were going to open the Valory Arch. Evangeline and Jacks have a conversation in which he finally confesses the truth, he didn't want to open the Valory Arch, he just wanted the stones reunited as they can be used to travel back in time, although just once. He tells her it's because he wants to return to the moment he met Princess Donatella as she is supposed to be his one true love. He wants to fix things so she won't leave him heartbroken for another. Evangeline is sure Jacks doesn't have true feelings for Donatella as Evangeline realizes she loves Jacks and thinks he might reciprocate her feelings. She pleads with him not to go through with his plan as this will alter the course of time and Evangeline and Jacks will never meet. He will remember her but she won't have any memory of him. Jacks insists this is what he wants and Evangeline is respectful of his choice. He doesn't say goodbye and Evangeline goes with Chaos to Wolf Hall, and Evangeline opens the Valory Arch.

Inside the Valory Arch, there are the members of the Valor family believed to have been slaughtered. Chaos turns out to be Castor Valor who had been nearly killed and saved by Jacks who took him to his mother Honora Valor, a great healer. Castor turned into a vampire with an insatiable hunger and a helmet had to be put in place to stop a series of killings. Honora removed the curse of the helmet. Chaos believes himself capable of controlling his urge for blood but in truth, he is not. He attacks Evangeline, biting her neck and draining her blood. Jacks arrives too late to save Evangeline who dies in his arms.

Jacks is devastated at Evangeline's death. He screams and cries tears of blood. He decides to use the stones to return back in time and save Evangeline instead of returning to the moment he met Donatella. He does it and tries to prevent Evangeline from being killed by Chaos. Jacks is the only one who knows the stones have already been used. When they open the Valory Arch this second time he goes with Chaos and Evangeline. After Evangeline opens the Valory Arch and Chaos is inside Jacks hurts Evangeline with hard words to get her to leave. She leaves in tears, thinking it's the end for them and he will use the stones to return in time to when he met Donatella and she will have no memory of him.

While she is crying she thinks that she has to tell him she loves him, and as the stories tell, love triumphs above all things, so maybe if they fight together they will find a way. When he goes back to the Valory Arch to look for Jacks, she finds splattered blood, and when she wants to go inside the Arch to investigate further she finds Apollo at the door. She is scared he will hurt her due to the Archer's curse but he tells her the curse was broken by Honora. Evangeline can't keep thinking and asking about Jacks which angers Apollo. His demeanor suddenly changes and he attacks her, seemingly using magic, he takes away all her memories. When Evangeline comes to her senses she can't remember anything. He feigns to have just found her and introduces himself as her husband, she doesn't have any memory of him but he assures her she is safe with him and he won't let her go.

## Relationships

### Jacks

Evangeline first meets Jacks in the Prince of Hearts church, where she finds him bowed in the corner tearing at his own shirt. After striking a deal to stop her first love from marrying her stepsister. As a result of this, Evangeline owes three kisses, which Jacks will choose the person and time at which they occur. Later, the two meet again after Evangeline gets invited to the North and she starts to fulfil her side of the deal by kissing people. It is revealed that Jacks needs her to open up the Valory Arch and she realizes he is only using her as a tool to do this. However, as the story progresses, the two seem to at least feel a physical attraction towards one another and Jacks even starts to show a more protective side. After he pushes her out of the way of an attacking vampire, she questions whether this instinct was solely based off of his desire to use her or if it was something more. In a Ballad of Never After, Evangeline begins to realise her true feelings for him, and suspects Jacks feels likewise through the affectionate moments they share in Merrywood Manor. However, she is unsure if these moments are true, for she soon discovers the Mirth stone hidden in the inn, which Lala warned could cloud their judgment. As Evangeline had her memories stolen from her by Apollo, Jack does his best to help her remember and calls her "Little Fox," those words resonate with Evangeline and she evidentally does remember that her true love is Jacks

### Luc Navarro

Evangeline began secretly dating Luc until two weeks ago*,* when Luc and Marisol announced that they were going to get married. This leads a confused and broken-hearted Evangeline to the Prince of Hearts' church, where she asks Jacks for help in stopping their wedding. When Evangeline realizes that Jacks turned the entire wedding party to stone to accomplish this, her guilt leads her to take their place in order to free them.

### Prince Apollo

Evangeline goes to the Magnificent North as the ambassador of Valenda after being chosen by Empress Scarlett and Princess Donatella for Nocte Neverending. As she enters the first ball on the first day, she finds Prince Apollo quite attractive, just like other girls do. As part of her bargain with Jacks, she kisses Apollo with Jacks's blood on her lips. This places Apollo under a potent love spell and he becomes obsessed with Evangeline. Under the influence of the love spell, Apollo declares that he has found the love of his life in Evangeline and asks her to marry him. She is forced to accept by Jacks and they get married.

## Gallery

By @bethgilbert\_artEvangeline and JacksBy @ekatdoodlesEvangeline and Jacks by Rosiethorns88By morgana0anagromby @clarywhy@lulureadsssBy @whimsicalillustrationEvangeline & Jacks by @taratjahEvangeline & Jacks by @timelessprintscaBy @starsthatdreamJacks and Evangeline Ballad