as she was leaving, it felt like breathing

Amelia Rosalie Evans was the baby of her family, and an oopsie one at that. Her mother though, Ada, had wanted another daughter, so there was an excitement in the Evans household when news broke that Ada would be having a girl. And for years as a child, Amelia's life was good. Her mother was sweet and her father was a dutiful man on the Salem police force, her oldest brother was cool enough with her despite their bigger age gap, and Amelia was closest with her other brother, Wes, the two of them bonding over their love of books and music, often inseparable as they got older. That was all before though. Before Laurence had had his first traumatic night on the job. Before he became abusive. Amelia didn't even know what'd triggered it, just remembered being ten years old and sitting on the couch reading, and then hearing yelling, and then seeing her brother's blood. She never wanted to see that again--unfortunately though, that night was only the beginning.

Laurence had utterly changed after that night, and while he'd always been rather...difficult to be around, after that it'd just went downhill. He drank himself into stupors, and into anger, taking it out on his sons, but at least he never went after her. It took a long time for Amelia to realize that the reason she wasn't come after was because Wes took the brunt of it for her, to ensure that she didn't go through the same traumas he did. And to an extent, it'd worked. She didn't go through the same traumas, but she had her own. She still walked on egg shells for years, still jumped at every loud noise. She had nightmares and fears and was always terrified of it getting worse one day. That one day he'd hurt Wes too much and then he'd leave too--just like their eldest brother one day did.

It went on like that for years, and as Laurence grew more and more angry and awful of a person, the Evans siblings found ways to cope. Amelia was thirteen when she had her first beer, barely fourteen when she had her first cigarette and lost her virginity. Smoking and drinking and hooking up at random, these little escapes helped her tolerate how shitty her home life was, the slamming of fists and the screaming and how scared and angry she was that they all put up with it.

She was fifteen the only time Laurence actually left a scar on her. He'd gotten in her face before, yelling or shoving at her at times, but Wes always took the brunch of it. This time though, Laurence caught her smoking, and when she just scoffed in his face because the disdain was rich coming from him, he snatched it out of mouth and snuffed it out on her skin, the grip on her arm bruising and the alcohol wafting off his breath making her want to gag. The memory was still as prevalent in her mind as the burn scar still on her bicep, the feeling of the burning of her skin and how he held her still as she screamed echoing in her nightmares. She didn't stop smoking (or drinking) after that though, she just got better at hiding it. It went on like that for years too, with Amelia using getting drunk or getting high to get through their shitty home life while just trying to get through school, all the while still angry at their mother for not listening to their aunt Esme who was offering them a way out- to come live with her in California, in a little town called Aurora Bay. But Amelia wouldn't go without Ada and especially not without her siblings. No way. One sibling already bailed...she didn't want to follow suit.

But by the time Amelia turned seventeen, her bitterness had grown against Ada for just not leaving their piece of shit father. And all the while, it was Wes trying to convince her to leave, constantly pushing for Amelia to get out and go west and finally life a safe and normal life. Her big brother was like her best friend and surely he'd come along...except he wouldn't, which just further upset her. And as angry as Amelia was with him at wanting to stay, she knew he wouldn't budge- they were all stubborn in their own ways, and so finally after ages of coaxing her to..Amelia finally went on her own, making him swear to at least text her every day so she knew he was okay.

She did her senior year of high in Aurora Bay high and was immediately the new girl in school; secretive, alluring. She lived with Esme on Aurora Bay Drive, suddenly having more money at her disposal than she even knew what to do with. She managed to make a few friends, dated, started having a life here, but she still always worried about siblings, especially Wes. She ached for Wes to be here too, to know he was safe, but still, he stayed in Salem.

After graduating high school, Amelia got a job at the crystal shop in town, Luxe, because it made her feel closer to him, having spent years learning about crystals and wicca from him. She enrolled into college. She made a life for herself here, but there was still something missing. A Wes-shaped hole that hadn't been filled in her life.

Until finally, finally, Wes had arrived--bruised and broken but he was here and Amelia was determined to help put him back together. She was all for it when he got his own apartment, when he got a job. She remembered the first night he let slip about his boss' daughter. She remembered him freaking out when he got said boss' daughter pregnant- but also got to watch him grow into his own, practically maturing in front of her own eyes as he and Liza got closer, fell in love, got married and had their baby- one Amelia was totally obsessed with.

Finally, her life felt...stable. It felt good. So over Christmas break when their grandparents in Paris contacted them, offered to fly them out, while Wes obviously couldn't go...Amelia took them up on the offer. She flew out in January, meaning to just go for a couple weeks but she ended up staying for a couple months, living with her grandparents and just getting all she could out of it. She's finally decided to come back home though, back to Aurora Bay. She wants to finish school, wants to see her niece growing up, and she wants to just live a content life without the shadows of their father around every corner.

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full name: amelia rosalie evans

nicknames: ames, mia, amy (she hates this one)

birthday: january 23, 2001

hometown: salem, massachusetts

height: 5'7

fluent in english and french

knows how to play guitar and piano (better at the former)

moved to aurora bay when she was 17 years old (2018)

lived in france with her grandparents january-april 2024, moved back to aurora bay mid-april 2024

Family:

father: laurence evans (npc)

mother: ada evans (npc)

grandparents: rosalie and theodore evans (npc)

older siblings: vincent evans (npc), evelyn evans (npc) wes evans ( @wesxevans )

younger sibling: lucas evans (npc)

sister in law: liza evans ( @thelizaxevans )

niece: elise evans (npc)

nephew: theodore evans (npc)

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