evening o'leary @ decaymod

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BASICS

NAME

Evening Isolde O'Leary (Shelly Elroy)

ALIAS

Evie
Eve
Evening in itself is technically an alias,shhh.

AGE & DOB

28 // December 24

PRONOUNS

She/Her

COMMUNITY

Whitney Field Depot; Theatre Troupe

OCCUPATION

Stage Manager
Actor
Trainee beekeeper

HOMETOWN

Boston MA

CONNECTIONS

Edgar De Leon Troupe Leader

Blythe Ferry Troupe actor

NAME connection

APPEARANCE

HAIR dirty blonde EYES hazel HEIGHT 5'8"

Evening tends to shapeshift her disposition depending on what she needs at that moment and who's she's interfacing with. She mostly tries to present as friendly, flirty, and intriguing enough that people will want to come see her in the newest show. Forcing starpower doesn't super work, though, and her at-rest personality (easy-going, still humorous,) seems to fit her better. She tends to use very big expressions to communicate what she wants to be emoting from moment to moment; genuine expressions are softer, as a rule.

Evening has the fancy idea that the Theater Troupe should be a light in the darkness of the apocalypse, and she dresses accordingly. In public, it's a lot of bright colors and statement jewelry. At rest, in stage manager mode or with the Troupe alone she just wears flannels and tshirts.

TRAITS & SKILLS

STAGE MANAGER

Places! 15 minutes til curtain! (Thank you 15.)

[ + ] organized [ + ] excellent at managing terrible personalities [ + ] resourceful [ + ] good memory for details [ + ] knowledgable about technical/creative aspect of theater [ – ] frazzled [ – ] lite god complex [ – ] impatient

ACTRESS

I had just signed the contract for my big break when the shit hit the fan

[ – ] but she's definitely not the BEST actress [ + ] accent pro [ + ] charismatic [ + ] comedic timing [ + ] training in dance, stage combat [ – ] eternal theater kid [ – ] egotist [ – ] used to softer living

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

My dad said I was going to get stuck up in LA. But I remember where I came from

[ + ] ambitious [ + ] scrappy [ + ] grounded [ – ] something to prove [ – ] accent when she lets it slip

CON ARTIST

Systems were made to be cheated. That's not my fault

[ + ] slippery [ + ] creative [ + ] adaptive [ + ] excellent recreator of documents, records [ + ] can fake proficiency at a lot of stuff [ – ] little evidence of personal identity [ – ] suspicious [ – ] morals also slippery [ – ] not genuinely good at a lot of stuff

TRAINEE BEEKEEPER

Bzzzz.

[ + ] unafraid of danger, or bees [ + ] fast learner [ + ] accustomed to little pains [ + ] good at harvesting honey [ – ] feels like this means settling down [ – ] not an expert at this either

HISTORY

FAMILY

A mother, father, two siblings. In Boston. Don't tell her otherwise.

cw: none!
Evening O' Leary was actually born Shelly Elroy, a name she has since completely let die. Her parents both worked in a canned goods factory in Boston, and she had an older sister and a younger brother. She discovered the stage early on, when her parents entered their very cute baby in local tv ad, and a local children's theater company where she starred in Annie at age 11. That Changed her. Shelly was accepted to an acting school in LA but later was politely asked to leave when they discovered her side gig of providing incredibly realistic looking IDs to peers. It wasn't a deterrent. She snuck into records before she left and clicked a few buttons to give herself a fake diploma. Fixed it!

Once she hit the streets, she was a pro at sweet-talking casting directors and executives. She just didn't have quite the talent to back up her own charm. Broke, it became necessary to get a new job, and she wasn't going to wait tables. Evening (this is about when she changed her name) faked her resume and convinced the Travelling Lantern Theatre Troupe that she had so much experience and training as a stage manager.

Surprisingly, she was really good at being a stage manager. But she didn't want to do that forever. Finally, years of grifting paid off when she booked a comedy with an undisclosed heartthrob actor. At the same time, parents called from home, begged her to come back to them while she could. She didn't. Surely a little pandemic wouldn't stop the stage. Everything was packed, and Hamlet was going to be her last hurrah before disclosing to the troupe that she was off to be a star. She ended up following them around the infected wasteland instead.

Evening was as surprised as anyone else to find her niche in this atmosphere. She helped talk the troupe out of any sticky situations they found themselves in, and did behind the scene work to ensure that they could still run as a theater company in any condition. It didn't hurt that the actor population dwindled to enough that she could also start insisting in getting lead parts at last. There were certainly times she could have left the troupe, but eventually it became clear Evening wasn't going to. They were the only people who really knew her.

When the troupe met a horde of zombies that they barely survived, she went into full stage manager mode again in support of the new leadership. Settling down at Whitney seemed like a good idea. With more internal reliability, she didn't have to scrap so hard at being a stage manager. There was time to focus on acting, and even picking up the task of being an assistant beekeeper at Whitney's apiary. It's a responsibility she didn't think she'd like, but it's sort of cool to have an honest living skill. So when she was asked to vote on staying with Whitney but losing some creative control, she was torn. She was ultimately a dissenter, and isn't particularly keen to listen to someone who hasn't seen their vision from the start, but. It's fine. She'll survive.

MISCELLANEOUS

➔ For the last month, she's been a little preoccupied with her role in the troupe's romantic entanglement polyhedron. She's extricated now, but left a little drama in her wake. Oops.

➔ Favors fighting zombies when she has to by punching them with Implements, but since this is not sustainable she has found proficiency with a big hatchet.

➔ Generally gets ingenue roles which she's good at; most prized recent troupe role was Johanna in Sweeney Todd. In denial about growing past those.

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