Oh, Evan. My pure, precious, baby boy. My child. I love you so very much.
Even though the entire plot of the book centers around your ongoing pain.
Evan is both the main character... and one of the most impractical choices for the main character. He has the least amount of power involved, and powerless main characters are a bad idea. And yet he still has the most pivotal role, just by being himself. Ever since he took over the role of main character from Iri, I've just known that this story has to be his.
(These details are going to be all over the place as I write whatever comes to mind as I go along so be prepared.)
Evan Morales is sixteen and a sophomore in high school. He lives in New Mexico and wears long sleeves way too often for the climate, which may be related to his mutations and may not be.
I don't actually know what species Evan technically is. He used to be crossed with a plant and be able to photosynthesize and all that jazz, but that doesn't feel right anymore, so I'm back to the drawing bored. All I know is he's crossed with another species (possibly multiple other species), he has some sort of physical disorder (possibly a thyroid issue, like being unable to regulate his own body temperature, or some kind of fine motor movement issue like Restless Leg Syndrome), he possibly has some sort of mental disorder (besides ADHD, which he is not officially diagnosed with but has some symptoms for), and he's so unique and important to the research of the people who kidnapped him that they had to get their hands on him. Maybe he's crossed with some sort of reptile? I'm not sure.
But honestly it wouldn't even matter to the plot exactly what species he is, so moving on.
The main characteristic of Evan that people notice is his constant fidgeting. Swinging his keys around his fingers, drumming on his practice pad, running his fingers through his hair, playing with other people's hair (there's a high probability that he's secretly very good at braiding hair), bouncing his leg, bouncing balls against the wall. If I knew him in real life, he'd drive me bonkers. And he drives multiple other characters bonkers, especially when he's constantly forced into close quarters with them.
He's an ESFP, the absolute worse personality type to be forced into what he's forced into. I actually did the calculations for this. But he was an ESFP before I did the calculations, so it just happened to work out that way. He's generally happy, but also gets angry easily and doesn't really know how to hold his tongue or, when he's fired up, control his impulses. This causes lots and lots of problems for him as the story goes on.
Pre-Spock, Evan lives with his little sister Gabi and a foster mom/family. The story starts recently (a couple months maybe) after they had to move in with the foster family because their grandmother, who was their legal guardian before, was determined too unwell to take care of them and medically forced into a retirement home. At school, Evan plays either snare or tenor drum in the marching band (I can't decide...), has a B-average grade with some honors classes, and has a nice group of friends to eat lunch with, including his girlfriend, Ximena. The story either takes place near the beginning or the end of the school year. Either way, he ends up missing the end of sophomore year and the beginning of junior year because of the events of the story.
Evan's Hispanic and a citizen of the USA (I believe his grandparents immigrated to the US, but it's possible his parents were born outside the US as well). His skin is on the lighter side of the South American spectrum, like hot cocoa with cream in it. His hair is chocolate-brown and has a little bit of natural wave/curl to it with some sort of short-on-the-sides-long-on-the-top style that's easy to run his fingers through and play with. His eyes are a dark hazel-green. You can usually see him wearing a jeans, a sweatshirt or t-shirt (or a t-shirt on top of a sweatshirt), and sneakers. His tees are mostly rock band and other music stuff, like a shirt from last year's marching band show or a Hard Rock Cafe shirt. Idk what his favorite bands are yet, but I know his rock tolerance levels are far higher than mine (Imagine Dragons would be low for him and high for me). Usually you can see him smiling to himself and nodding his head along to the music in his earbuds as he ambles along to class with his lanyard in his hand spinning around and around his fingers. Or sharing an earbud with Ximena with his arm around her as he tries to get her to sing along with him.
