#also yes beckett is a complete arsehole

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hey @rosyfingeredqueer I hope you don’t mind me answering your questions here, it just makes it a lil easier for me to write it all down than in chat ^^”

1. I know exactly what scene you’re talking about, and I think Evie would genuinely be okay with it from Sullivan because he’s her uncle. She trusts him and knows he’d never actually intentionally hurt her, and it’s actually pretty fun. If anyone who’s not like. Immediate family or someone she trusts completely, then it would be ‘that’s bad touch and I will hit you if you try it >:(’

So cool with Sullivan and other people she considers part of her family unit, not cool with strangers or acquaintances. She has to be willing to trust that it’s 100% fun or accident and no harm was at all intended.

2. So Evie’s sire is Rosetta, who leads the Ravnos Travellers that Evie and Kara were taken in by. In both Fledgling and non-Fledgling verses, Rosetta Embraced Evie earlier than she originally planned because she owed a very big favour to a Brujah called Rakepick. The deal was to Embrace Evie in LA, hang around the city for a few nights, and then the deal was settled - Rakepick didn’t mention the part where she planned to leak the unsanctioned Embrace to the Camarilla, because she wants to draw Roy out of hiding. In the Fledgling verse, Rakepick’s plan played out as intended, Rosetta and Evie were found and put on trial which led to the events of VTMB. In the non-Fledgling verse, Rosetta and Evie successfully escaped the notice of the Camarilla and were able to leave LA - maybe the Camarilla had enough going on that Rakepick’s leak wasn’t worth acting on? I’m happy to let you decide why the Camarilla decided not to go after Rosetta.

Anyways, as to how Evie feels about Rosetta... Rosetta is someone who wants Clan Ravnos to survive and be restored, but she’s also quite pragmatic about it. She has so many hopes to see her kind thrive once more, but knows the odds are practically non-existant. So when she Embraces Evie, she bundles up those hopes in her childe, but provides no emotional investment, because chances are this childe won’t survive more than a decade or two. Throw in the whole ‘Embracing her earlier than planned’ thing and Rosetta knows she has a childe who has the odds stacked against her. So she teaches everything she knows about her clan - their history, their powers, their brush with destruction - but expects it will eventually come to nothing.

Evie cottons onto that and is at just the right age where she doesn’t get it. She feels like a daughter whose mother only expects her to have children. To carry on a bloodline, to make more like them, and see to it that the knowledge is passed on. Nothing else is expected. And she resents that because she doesn’t want to make more Ravnos, she doesn’t want to exist purely for the clan alone, she wants to have meaning beyond that. Again, Rosetta had planned to Embrace Evie when she was older and perhaps more willing to Embrace and raise some childer herself, but hey, sometimes you owe favours to dangerous people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That being said, she’s not petty enough to withhold her information from a Ravnos who might need it and she knows it’s important to look out for each other, especially when things are the way they are. She just doesn’t like the idea of existing purely for the sake of expanding the clan.

As for the Tremere, Evie just. Doesn’t really care? Rosetta tried to teach her a little about their history and why everyone hates them... and Evie just kinda missed all the nuance as to why the Tremere are so hated because vampires seem to be power-hungry arseholes in general, what makes the Tremere so special? So yeah, she’s not got super strong feelings one way or the other.

Now, the Sabbat... she was lucky enough to not have such an explosively Bad start with the Sabbat that she has when she’s the Fledgling, but she still harbours a lot of negative feelings towards them over the whole ‘you murdered my mother when I was eight’ thing, as well as her whole moral position overall. Her understanding of the Sabbat is more nuanced thanks to spending time with Sullivan and Kara who are able to teach her more about the sect beyond what she would have seen in Bloodlines, but there’s a lot there that just makes her very uncomfortable and there’s stuff she’s straight up against. She’d be willing to cooperate with Sullivan when he’s on Sabbat business, but only so long as she’s not made to do anything that she’s against such as causing harm to innocents and the like.

3. I really want to say yes to her knowing Beckett, even when she’s not the Fledling, because her relationship with him was so incredibly formative when I created Evie, so I could never really toss it out completely for any verse. The circumstances would just be a bit different. Kara was a historian in life, and that carries over into her unlife - perhaps it led to her meeting Beckett, and him then meeting and taking a liking to Evie.

In all verses, he’s very encouraging of her, prodding her into thinking for herself and using what she’s learned to draw her own opinions rather than parroting what everyone else is saying. And he likes her boldness and the way she can ask so many questions, it’s nice to see that the youth can still be engaged with learning and discovery.

asdfghjkl Uncle Beckett takes Evie on field trips, which can range from breaking into a museum to dungeon delving in cursed ruins. He’s just got to make sure he brings her back in one piece or he’ll be dealing with some very angry Lasombra.

#rosyfingeredqueer #vtm #vtmb #evie byrne