Eveline Tilly Forrest

Born in a greenhouse... grown from the soil. One man's quest... for life.
It begins in a research greenhouse in the Brazilian rain forest. A botanist is researching the secret behind plant life and growth, specifically in the realm of plant consciousness and sentience. The man, oddly enough is named Edward Richard Forrest, a point made by many a colleague and somewhat a sore spot for the poor man. His life was about botany. He eat, drank, and breathed plants and their inner workings.
He relocated with a research firm to the rain forests of Brazil, leaving his jeering co-workers in Washington State, USA. The firm was conducting tests on rare plant life in those hot and remote places. But Dr. Forrest had other theories. He believed that all life, including, and especially plant, had consciousness... and thought, a hypothesis ridiculed by many of his associates. It was here in Brazil that he would meet the fruition of his work, and also his death.
Three months into his research in plant genetics he stumbled upon a rare tree that seemed to respond to stimuli, not just to it, but to the other plants around it. He set up a control tent around the tree, making a portable greenhouse to study the effects the tree had upon it's plant neighbors. It seemed to know what those around it was doing, and responded to actions around the other plants near it. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the tree had fused itself with the roots of other plants around it, to gain nutrients from those plants around it, including rapid regeneration to damage to itself. Dr. Edward Forrest had found his vindication.
In the coming months, however, the tree began to change. At first it was a small bump upon the trunk of the tree, about the size of a quarter. By the second month is was the size of a large cat... and to Dr. Forrest's horror and fascination it was starting to look... Human. This was something unheard of, could this be a reaction to his team's presence around the tree? A defense mechanism? What ever it was, it was Forrest's find that would propel him to one of the greatest finds in all of history. He could taste the Nobel prize already, and the vindication of his work. It was such a great shame that he never lived to see it.
By the fifth month the growth was clearly human in appearance. The growth was smooth, very smooth almost... skin-like. Samples taken shown however human-like the growth, it was still made of plant matter, the appearance was the only thing human about it. As the fifth month of the discovery of the tree was coming to a close, the growth was almost completely separated from the tree, save for two small string like branches extending from the base of the "neck" of the growth.
The "skin" like bark was completely smooth, if not firm, was pale, but a small hint of green adorned it in the light. It's "hair" which was comprised of strong, but flexible leaves was long and thin, and could be mistaken for hair, if the dark brownish strands didn't hold that hint of green, like it's skin. The form was apparently female, around late teenager in age and gave a strange combination of some of Dr. Forrest's female research assistants. It was in the beginning of the sixth month studying the tree that the growth opened it's eyes. It's eyes were a bright vibrant green hue, like the rest. They moved with a questioning gaze... with thought.
Dr. Forrest's initial experiments showed the growth was in fact apart of the tree, and was responsive... if not completely curious about it's surroundings. The research assistants took immediate liking to the growth... Convincing the doctor to stop referring to "her" as "the Growth" and he gave her the name Eveline Tilly Forrest, after his mother. The research assistants nicknamed "her" the Dryad. Eveline had an insatiable curiosity about the world around her and absorbed everything she could around her, quickly learning a few things, such as speech, some basic manners, dressing herself a point made determinedly by the assistants. In the month she was conscious she grew into a bright and questioning "person". Dr. Forrest announced his findings to his patron company, ready to reveal Eveline to the scientific community. The research would never make it to the company, and Dr. Forrest never made it out of the shade of that tree alive.
Six and a half months after the tree began it's growth, Eveline had become a beloved member of the research team, and was almost more of a mascot and sister to the researcher than a test subject. Supplies had been late for almost a week now, and the researchers began to feel worried. It was on this day that their lives would end. It began with the warning of the proximity alarm going off in the office tent. The guard who when to greet what he believed to be the late supply truck was met with a hail of gunfire, leaving him dead at the entrance of the campsite.
True alarm ran through the camp as the assault had begun. Dr. Forrest's letter had been intercepted by a group of drug smugglers, running up from a neighboring country. Smelling the prize of a lifetime, they had decided to claim the discovery for themselves, to be sold to the highest bidder. Dr. Forrest knew the gunfire announced what it always did, and will continue to do forever... Death. Forrest tried to tear Eveline away from her mother tree, trying to explain what was happening.
Eveline,wide eyed with fright would not leave her mother tree. As the researcher was trying to pull her away from the tree, to make her run, a spat of fire, sulfur and bullets ripped the scientist across the back, pulling him down with her. As her line was stretched, the twin branches were ripped from the tree, leaving them connected together with a seed the size of a grape. With the doctor's dying breath, he told his subject to run. Another blast of firearms hit a Bunsen burner along the research area, sending the greenhouse tent roaring in flames.
Dr. Forrest gave the Dryad a paper with a link to his research account and told her again to run, save herself... to flee the country, get the money and go. The doors of the greenhouse tent slammed open, revealing the smugglers to the pair to a backdrop of death and horror. Eveline finally tore herself away from the doctor as one of the smugglers ended his breathing with a rip gunfire. She tore away, teary and desperate, running to the door at the rear of the tent. Her escape, and her only source of freedom...


Eveline is not technically human, although she looks and feels like one to those whodon't look hard enough. She is in fact a sentient plant. This, however, does not remove from her humanity. Eveline is a warm and caring person, if a bit curious about life. She is often in awe of the human world, only knowing what she was told by her only family, the researchers who discovered her. While curious and questioning, she also is shy around strangers, especially those who look quite fearsome, due to trauma.
Eveline feels at home more around plants then she does other life. Humans are a point of fascination for her, and animals, while understood, are frustrating for her to deal with, especially vermin and those who poison plants. She quite literally has a green thumb, and has a way with taking care of plants, her favorite being flowers and fruit bearing trees. Eveline is quite timid, and doesn't like arguments, loud sounds, music or violence, preferring peace and quiet to noise. She also prefers the company of women to men, remarking on their, usually, soft nature, and, for her, are easier to relate to.
Eveline has bright green eyes, pale skin and dark, near brown hair. Every part of her also carries a very slight green hue, which is most visible in bright sunlight. Eveline prefers warmer weather to cold, and dislikes the snow, although rain she is often fond of, as well as cloudless days. Eveline survives off of sunlight, but needs to eat plant matter to gain the minerals and other essentials to keep herself alive. She cannot, literally, stomach animal matter, save for that created by pollen and other plant byproducts, such as honey. Animal matter will be rejected by her form.



Eveline's consciousness, her being relies upon the seed attached to her neck. The seed appears like a necklace, but is connected to the back of her neck. While the seed is on her, her body has very quick regenerative abilities, bruises heal in seconds, lacerations heal in minutes and broken limbs can take days to heal. If a piece of her body is removed, it may take weeks to grow back, but it will. Eating plant matter can help speed her regeneration. If the seed is removed from her neck, it will try and reattach itself, and any body part of her's will regenerate if in a three foot radius of the seed, if it is removed more than three feet from her body, she will die, unless the seed is replaced before decay starts to set in. That being said, Eveline is, in reality, a plant. She is weak to the cold, fire especially. Any anti-plant chemical, such as weed killer is poisonus to her more than another human, and lack of sunlight and her supplemental minerals will leave her wilted, and may die from lack of sustainability. Her blood is actually a sap-like substance and, while flammable, can help stimulate plant growth, like fertilizer on steroids .


Eveline has a green thumb, literally. She can communicate with other living plant-life, and,after a fashion, control it. she can enhance growth and can help stimulate plant-life to revive them, should the plants be malnourished or harmed. That being said, she can manipulate the plant growth in many ways. She can enhance plant growth in an accelerated rate, causing branches and roots to grow and form to her will. She must remain touching the plant to manipulate it, but to do so leeches from her own substance, and will weaken her the longer she does. She has the ability to commune with a tree, to absorb herself into a tree and become one with it. Doing so, she can absorb the tree's nutrients, but while in this state she cannot move, and she can be forcibly removed from the tree if it is too severely damaged. Communion with a tree can take in the range of ten to thirty seconds, depending on how tired she is at the time, while accelerated growth of plants can take an average of thirty seconds to grow about four foot of new plant material, while the more intricate the growth the longer and more it takes out of her.


Literally plant reproduction. Eveline can absorb a plant's essence and create a seed of that plant. She can also rapidly create any fruit or blossom from any plant she touches, but it can only be the last plant or seed she has absorbed. The larger the plant, fruit or blossom she can create, the more it takes from her to make. Watermelons and pumpkins are especially hard on her to form. A normal apple will grow within a minute, while grapes can be just a few seconds. A pumpkin or watermelon can take maybe half an hour, while seeds can take a few seconds to form.

All she owns is the clothes on her back, and a modest sum from her "Father's" research funds.