User:Maya/Characters/Eva Blau

Eva is a utilitarian activist born on the 24th of April, 200 AU. Her name is somewhat recognised among the academic community, particularly scholars of anthropology, but has no other reputable connotation to the public. In the underground, she is anonymous, but the actions of Eva and her peers against particularly unsavoury conglomerates are well-known. Though her name has since piqued the interest of several agencies, she maintains an elusive profile.

History
Born into a relatively comfortable home in Reichland, Eva was the third of seven children and eldest of four sisters. The plethora of siblings provided ample opportunity to develop a playful and empathetic attitude, especially outnumbered as she was by brothers during her early childhood. As the family grew, her parents became necessarily strict, especially testing the elder children who between puberty and habit were not prepared to be so closely managed. However, her parents maintained a precedent of unanimity and compassion, helping to smoothing over the bumps along the way.

Among her siblings, Eva was effectively the leader, for the brother before was rebellious and bitter, often taking away the attention of the eldest brother before him to help him cope with his episodic bouts of discontent. Her sisters especially looked up to her, as they were all the youngest of the family, putting quite a distance in years between them. Eva personally idolised her eldest brother, in awe of his patience and sensitivity; ironically, the two were perhaps the most distant siblings of the bunch.

Her parents both had backgrounds in the education field &mdash; her father a district coordinator and her mother a foreign language tutor &mdash; and they encouraged their children to follow in their footsteps. From the start, her mother taught the family Skytopian Common, conscious of the archipelago's growing influence in Reichland. Eva became particularly excited to learn the language after deciding to pursue an anthroplogy degree at New Hovlund University.

In preparation for the prohibitive costs of the trip and living abroad, she took advantage of a generous scholarship which applied specifically to Reichland students planning to study abroad with promising academic records such as hers. Eva's parents were happy to take the tuition off her shoulders until she graduated, as they had been doing for her eldest brother already. With so much support from her fatherland, it soon became clear that the valuable opportunity was to be a bittersweet one.

During her initial few years at the university, Eva demonstrated a unilateral focus on academia, even declining an offer to make a little coin on the side trumpeting at a local caf&eacute;. At first, she toiled in undergraduate anonymity, but each of her professors quickly learned they had an eager student on their hands. She took multiple opportunities to build a working relationship with her instructors, even occasionally getting her foot in the door as a teaching assistant.

After earning her Bachelor's degree, her attention turned to more personal interests, and she began to branch into philosophy and sociology. She co-authored several analytical articles, eager to make a name for herself, but the publications were of little special significance. Among the local professors, however, she had become known especially for her creativity and command over language, and her foreign perspective didn't hurt, either.

Her several years of study were truncated following her disappearance and subsequent financial delinquency. She delved completely into the underground without warning, leaving little in the way of clues regarding her whereabouts. For lack of nearby family, attempts to track her down have been unsuccessful; even her peers seldom have any insight. Ultimately, she has been written off by most as effectively dead to the world.