Profile: Deryn Evans

Personal Data

Name: Deryn Evans
Gender: Non-Binary
Pronouns: They/Them
Age: 16 years old
Birthday: March 3rd
Ethnicity: White
Nationality: American
Species: Human
Sexuality: Pansexual

Family: Deryn is an only child to a lesbian couple, one of their mother being trans. Their parents are a house painter and a college professor of early modern history, both are low-level mutants.

Strengths: Confident, gentle, caring, can read and persuade others easily,
Weaknesses: Easily overwhelmed, overly empathic.

Appearance and Style: Light-brown bordering on blonde during the summer shoulder-length hair, usually kept in a bun. They are rather thin and tall at 5’8”. Their style consists of natural colored sweaters, jeans or leggings, and soft brown boots. They wear light makeup and sometimes paint their nails warm tones.

Superhero Data

Supranym: Pisces
Status: Alive, Active

Metahuman Type: Mutant
Abilities: Empathy, can read people’s emotions and manipulate them.

Ravenhold Data

Acceptance to Ravenhold: Reccomendation

Class: Four
Power Category: Psychic
Roommate: Mitch

Backstory

Deryn was the children of two women who love each other so much, both being queer they allowed Deryn to express themself however they wanted from a young age, and Deryn although assigned male at birth always had a very unique perspective on gender, feeling neither yet also both male and female at times.

Deryn was born in Pennsylvania but when they were six their family relocated to Pennsylvania when their mom was offered tenure at a University. The anxiety of moving to another state and the children finding Deryn ‘weird’ is what caused their Empathic powers to awaken in second grade.

Deryn’s powers were always temperamental, although their Ma tried to help them learn focus techniques they never quite been able to turn their empathy off. Still, their powers allowed Deryn to make friends easily, being able to know what to say and do, but Deryn always had a nagging feeling people didn’t like them for who they truly were.

Deryn’s life was otherwise ordinary for many years, their mothers keeping them very busy with extracurriculars; piano, yoga, meditation, and later a part-time job at a family friend’s coffee shop.

However, Deryn’s life went upside down with their first love; Anders. Anders was a young and closeted transgender boy at school, Deryn being always so understanding drew them together and they had a brief relationship where they both lost their virginity. However Anders fear, anxieties, and religious-induced self-hatred pushed Deryn to try to push him toward accepting himself and coming out, but he wasn’t ready and the two fall apart soon.

Love for Deryn came again a year later when they met Charlotte a new student at their school. Deryn had learned from Anders, and the two were in love like only dumb teens could be, thinking they’d be together forever, them against the world… And then Charlotte’s mother died in a drunken hit and run, and she was utterly destroyed, Deryn let her grieve for weeks, then months, but Charlotte wasn’t getting any better.

So Deryn tried to help with her power, breaking the greatest taboo of any psychic; she altered her girlfriend’s mind. She tried to ease Charlotte’s pain, but Deryn was inexperienced; they meant only to ease the pain but instead, they took it completely; Charlotte could no longer feel anything about their mother and quickly became horrified at the betrayal.

By all accounts Deryn should have gone to jail, what they’d done was a severe crime, but Charlotte didn’t report them, they just shut them out. Deryn fell into a depression, they admitted what they’d done to their worried mothers. They understood Deryn’s motives but what they had done was crossing a line that never should be crossed.

So their Mom made some calls, she was related to someone who worked at Ravenhold and asked to get her child help. It was then that Deryn was sent to Ravenhold the next year.

Misc Information

• Hometown is Bellfontaine, Ohio.
• Deryn worked at a family friend’s Coffee shop since they were 14 as a Barrista to learn work ethics, Deryn loves the job and is a bit of a whiz when it comes to making coffee and tea drinks.
• Deryn plays the piano quite well and has done some recital as part of a classical music ensemble.
• Deryn and their family are vegetarian and their favorite foods are pasta, especially vegetarian lasagna and cheese ravioli.
• Deryn is an avid coffee drinker and has a love for mienral and sparkling waters.
• Deryn has a small intersex calico cat names Hermes they use as an emotional support cat and to ground themself when their empathic powers are overwhelming them.
• Deryn likes to do pencil art, read books and enjoys classical music.
• Deryn has been in two relationships, both of which ended poorly and is sacred of getting attached again.
• Deryn is into Astrology and fortune telling although she does not take it entirely seriously.
• Deryn is Agnostic having been raised without much religious baggage from either of their mothers.
• Deryn does meditation and yoga as it aids them centering themself and control their powers when they get out of control.
• Deryn has been on estrogen for a few years wanting to have a more feminine body.