Evanescent Charming

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Evanescent Charming is another of the school's many Charmings, who in her Legacy Year was assigned to the fairytale The Riddle as the next princess.

Evanescent, despite her status as a 'popular girl' is considered a laughing stock around the school due to the infamously terrible perfume brand released in her name, one colloquially described as 'smelling worse than a dead horse.' Beyond that, Evanescent seems to keep a relatively low profile, fading into the generic Charming crowd.

Personality
Sullen, petty and irritable, Evanescent keeps people at arms length solely by virtue of how unpleasant she is. She seems generally disinterested in the people or happenings around her. She can also seem rather elitist as she only really hangs out with other nobility, and is pretty rude to anyone else.

Evanescent is one of the many students who's just playing their parts and nothing more. She hangs out with popular people and does popular people things like going to parties, and shopping. She rarely looks like she enjoys any of it. Evanescent always possesses a kind of hostile edge and never seems to be happy.

She is a complete conformist, and it's very calculated on her part. Evanescent isn't unintelligent, and she is always up to date on all of the school gossip and trends at all times. She is very fixated on fitting in with others, at the cost of her own happiness. She doesn't even bother trying to appear like she is anything more than a shallow trend follower, and so that's how she's seen. However she despises it. Completely and utterly.

The truth is that Evanescent intends to be forgettable. She is full of self hatred, and is wracked with guilt about the things she's done in the past. Everything about her image, from the infamous perfume line, to the blandness of her reputation were orchestrated by her family to distract anyone from digging up the actually damning information. As such, Evanescent feels like she has no choice but to grit her teeth and tolerate it.

So... the question would be, what kind of person is she? An unhappy one. She always exists in a haze of stress, and this makes her very very irritable. She wants to be a good person, but she doesn't know how sincere that desire is. She has a tendency to stay silent and suppresses her true opinions on things. No one really knows much about her, because she finds it too much effort to express herself, or talk about how she's feeling. Due to this reluctance to speak honestly, she ends up being quite passive-aggressive. She'll say things, but never directly to someone.

She's generally pretty bitter. She feels like she's blown her chance to be the person she wants to be, and so she resents... pretty much anyone who's doing well in life. When other people get positive attention, or she's overlooked, she feels empty. She's developed kleptomaniacal tendencies, often stealing from people who seem better off solely out of jealousy. She finds anyone overly friendly, or saccharine incredibly annoying. However she tends to force a polite smile. She considers them better people than she'll ever be.

She has an almost vicious love of gossip. Anyone getting torn down from their position of positivity Should she open up to someone, she's... not very different. She's quite cynical and sarcastic, for better or worse. She believes that the world is unfair, and while her belief is founded on rational reasons, she often twists it in a way that fuels her negativity. She has an extreme inferiority complex, that leads to her having a lot of mood swings within a short space of time. However she tends to stay on the negative side of the scale. Evanescent dreams of being someone great, and people liking her. However she feels trapped by circumstance.

Hobbies and Interests
Evanescent does her hobbies alone and only her friends really know what things interest her, since she's so closed off about things.

Making Watercolours
Evanescent isn't particularly into art, but she always kind of thought that ancient art history (particularly how pigments and paints came to be) and when she found out that making paint was a thing people still did, she decided to give it a try. Unexpectedly, she loved it, and it's become a full fledged hobby. She doesn't really do anything with them once they're made, she just enjoys making them.

Fashion history
She quite likes fashion. It gets passed off as a shallow interest, but she's actually very knowledgeable on the subject.

Running (Athletics)
When they see her jogging in the mornings and evenings, people tend to assume it's just a fitness or a weight thing, but Evanescent just genuinely loves running. In middle school she was very into athletics but she gave it up in high school as part of her identity change. She seriously misses it, and seeing anyone doing athletics kind of pisses her off.

Backstory
Evanescent Charming, formerly Fleeting Charming is the daughter of a mid-ranking Charming family. And that's all she wants you to know.

Parallels
To her name
 * Evanescent: soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
 * Vanessa's someone who conforms to social role to the point where she's seen as just another in a collective, rather than standing out on her own merits- hence, easily forgettable.
 * Both she and Iconic are based off of pop art.
 * However Evanescent has a much more faded watercoloury colour palette to reflect how she's more faded than Iconic.
 * Her clothing is inspired by 1500s clothing, which is no longer relevant in the modern age. This century was chosen as a nod to the famous Warhol quote that Everyone has their 15 minutes of fame (before being forgotten etc)
 * Elements of her design (her heels with insects floating in them) are a nod to Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, which is peak immateriality.
 * She is linked to insects, which have very short lifespans, and are often used to symbolise ephemerality
 * Her role is a generic princess in a fairytale which has multiple variants, driving home that she's in a position where she's easily forgettable.
 * She quite literally undergoes a name change and her family attempts to erase her former identity, hence even the solid parts of her identity are impermanent.
 * Although not the actual definition, her interest in athletics is due to her former name Fleeting.
 * Her interests in history and watercolours are both based on this too.
 * There are both lightfast and fugitive (will fade) paints in watercolours.
 * Additionally, the fact that she doesn't use or give away the paints means that her hobby is essentially futile.

Trivia

 * Evanescent is sometimes nicknamed Vanessa (e-vanes-cent) by friends. Iconic in particular loves to call her this.
 * People also call her Eva sometimes but she really isn't fond of it.