Deathbloom
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| "Even the plants understood my pain. Why couldn't you?" | |
| Evangeline Parker "Deathbloom" | |
| Player: Darwin | |
| Basic Data | |
| Class Focus: | Nature/Pestilence DPS |
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| R & D: | Science |
| Level: | 6 (Before Creeseman's Blessing) 48/Legendary (After Creeseman's Blessing) |
| Occupation: | Lumberjack Assistant (Former) Legendary Supervillain (Rukia's Faction, Current) |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Evangeline Parker |
| Known Aliases: | Deathbloom (Current) Eco-Eva (Formerly) |
| Identity: | Secret (Formerly) |
| Species: | Creesemanist Metahuman (Current) Metahuman (Formerly) |
| Age: | 21 |
| Height: | 5'4" |
| Weight: | 108 lb (As Deathbloom) 86 lb (As Eco-Eva) |
| Eye Color: | Blue with Black Sclera |
| Hair Color: | White |
| Blood Type: | Unknown |
| Biographical Data | |
| Birthplace: | Unknown |
| Birthdate: | Unknown |
| Nationality: | American |
| Current Residence: | Maritime Provinces, Canada Homeless (Formerly) |
| Religion/Faith: | Creesemanist |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Single In a relationship with Tristan Hart (Formerly, deceased) |
| Known Languages | |
| English | |
| Known Relatives | |
| Unnamed Deceased Parents | |
| Known Powers | |
| Chlorokinesis, Necromancy | |
| Training / Abilities | |
| Botany | |
| Equipment | |
| Footnotes | |
Warning: The following content contains mature and dark themes utilized throughout the character's story.
"I had crime forced upon me since I was six years old, yet I did my best and still became a superhero. But despite all that... no one ever truly cared. I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry for your loss. But we can't hire you. We can't accept your request to work overtime in this job that bullies you because you're mentally disabled. We won't help you financially unless you take off your clothes and act like a complete whore.
"I'm not taking revenge. I'm just trying to live again. Without having men take advantage of me. Through Creeseman, I was able to speak and voice my frustrations on this world. Through him, I can finally live the life that both my parents and Tristan wanted. No one will stop me from living."
- Eva Parker
Deathbloom, born Evangeline "Eva" Parker, formerly Eco-Eva, is a Legendary Class supervillain currently on the loose in Canada and is a follower of the Supercosmic Villain Bobby Creeseman, integrating the crux of Creesemanism into her philosophy. To date, Parker has been responsible for mass manslaughter up to the thousands and has taken over a large portion of the Maritimes, where her ravenous plants and toxic, necromantic monsters loom.
Further records in Parker's history have revealed that in addition to her occupation as a Lumberjack Associate, the botany graduate also lived a life of superheroism with the abilities of Chlorokinesis. Following her conversion to Creesemanism, Parker's powers underwent an extreme mutation, in which the plants under her command also manifest Necromancy. As a result of the nature of her powers, Deathbloom operates under Rukia, the Herald of Ruin, and is affiliated with her faction as one of Rukia's generals.
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Appearance
"Look at her. So strong. So proud. This is how a woman should be, wouldn't you agree, Surhoff?"
- Rukia of Ruin presenting Deathbloom to the MCPD
Eva is a young woman of below-average height, with shoulder-length grey hair, pale skin, and a well-developed figure. Among one of the more striking features Parker has, is her eyes which feature black scleras and white irises in response to Creeseman's blessing.
Parker presents herself very confidently, frequently seen wearing lavish dresses and a collar piece comprised of mutated black plant matter. When using her powers, Eva's irises take on a white glow. Since becoming a supervillain, it is implied that Deathbloom has amassed great wealth, as reflected by the jewelry in her possession including various necklaces and earrings.
Prior to becoming the supervillain Deathbloom, Parker suffered from severe malnourishment due to her poor financial and physical living conditions. As a result of this, Evangeline had a frail body and a gaunt appearance, even when participating in her volunteering ventures as the superheroine Eco-Eva.
History
"Behind every so-called 'supervillain' is a person whose story was never told. Because once it's been revealed, can you really say all your discrimination was just?"
- Bobby Creeseman
Childhood
Evangeline Parker was born to two unnamed parents in the outskirts of America that had not fully recovered from the aftershocks of Doctor Destroyer's invasion of Detroit. When the child reached speaking age, the parents discovered that Evangeline possessed a very noticeable stutter and frequent lapses in memory. A doctor would diagnose Evangeline with psychotic schizophrenia, causing Parker to be classified as mentally disabled. In spite of this, Evangeline's parents raised the girl in a loving environment. Throughout her early years, Evangeline developed an interest in plants after her mother suggested her daughter wear flowers in her hair, which resulted in Evangeline being able to make friends more easily despite her speech impediment. Evangeline's mother would continue sharing her love for plants with her daughter, explaining that to her, nature would always be the purest form of beauty there was. No matter what mental disabilities plagued her daughter, if she could embrace nature, she could overcome anything. It would be through her mother's words that Evangeline developed a passion for botany.
Tragedy and Homelessness
Tragedy struck Parker's life early. One day, after a 6-year-old Evangeline returned from school she found her parents' deceased corpses on the floor. The death of her parents was revealed to be through gunshot wounds and the house had been robbed. The death of the girl's parents was among a large slew of other murders, and due to the immense backlog of cases, the investigation for Evangeline's parents was never launched. As a result of Evangeline's mental disability, the orphan was incapable of explaining her situation, which resulted in her homelessness.
For four years, an orphaned Evangeline wandered the streets where she would be forced by numerous strangers to assist in robberies and crime, which added to her criminal record as many of the crime groups would use the child as a scapegoat due to her inability to explain to the police of her situation. At some point, Parker had also been coerced by a group of men to assist in murder. According to the supervillain, this would be the first time Evangeline had witnessed a man die, and the second time she had witnessed a dead body. Evangeline also revealed that during this time, if she ever had moments of hesitation or tiredness, her captors would beat her into submission. The fear of being harmed by men was likely a significant contributor to her insomnia, which developed during her early years of homelessness. During her homelessness, Evangeline's schizophrenia ran rampant as she was incapable of affording or purchasing medication due to being a minor and her speech impediment. Evangeline had also stated that she would frequently hallucinate the reanimated corpses of her parents and all the people she had assisted in murdering in the alleyways whenever she attempted to sleep.
At ten years old, Evangeline was finally picked up by an orphanage. However, due to her extensive criminal record and mental disability, many families avoided adopting her.
Adolescence
By the time Evangeline reached her teenage years, she enrolled in Vanguard High School, with the orphanage staff acting as her legal guardian. Due to her mental disabilities and added illnesses as a result of her upbringing, many classmates avoided Parker, leading to frequent isolation and bullying. In one instance, Parker claimed that a group of girls had replaced the flower seeds in her backpack with a package of condoms, then proceeded to publically shame her in front of the whole school, labeling Evangeline as the "school slut". This label would stick as Parker was incapable of defending herself due to her stutter, which only fed into her humiliation. The boys in the school also took part in the bullying, frequently making the remark that Parker's white hair was the same color as male ejaculate, which only caused more rumors to circulate amongst the students of the school.
One day, Parker received a flower in her locker from one of the boys in her class, who was revealed to be Tristan Hart, who claimed he had an interest in plants like Evangeline. Though cautious of the bullying, Parker cherished the flower, frequently gazing upon it during break time and eventually accepting Tristan's feelings. Evangeline would introduce Tristan to the world of plants and botany, expressing her desire to become a botanist and bring more plants back into the world. For a time, Parker started to enjoy life with her new boyfriend as the two would meet frequently to grow plants in her orphanage's garden. It would be Tristan who gave Evangeline her nickname "Eva", and later Eco-Eva in response to her passion for plants and nature as the two continued dating.
In spite of the bullying that now had extended to Tristan, the couple started the Plant Research Club, where the two would initiate research in different types of plants and their response to external stimuli. Tristan expressed interest in the effects of plant pheromones and their ability to act as defense mechanisms to protect against predators. Initially supportive of her boyfriend's expeditions, Eva supported Tristan's research and helped provide her expertise. Tristan and Eva continued with their research, with their work being showcased at the Vanguard Science Fair and attracting the attention of several botanists from neighboring universities. Following their academic and research success, one of Tristan's friends, Shannon, offered his expertise to increase the funding of the club by offering his expertise in fundraising. Now with the help of two people, Eva's passion for botany continued to grow.
The Bloom Project
As Eva and Tristan continued their research, Eva began to notice that Tristan had become increasingly fixated on pheromone control. Upon asking her boyfriend what he intended to do with the research, Tristan explained that by tapping into the potential of controlled pheromone emission, he and Eva could expand the growth of the plants to not just their school, but also throughout America and even the world, making the world into a beautiful place just like Eva's mother wanted. Though Eva was touched by Tristan's ambition, the young botanist suspected that her boyfriend was bordering on extremism. More and more time was spent on his research, as opposed to with Eva, causing Eva to become increasingly concerned. The tension between Eva and Tristan had become increasingly strained.
Shannon, realizing the tension between the two, inquired about the situation, and Eva confessed that she was feeling more and more on edge with Tristan's behavior. On one instance, Eva had caught Tristan speaking to himself deliriously, repeating the words "bloom" over and over again, which greatly disturbed her. On the night before the Plant Club's second debut at the Millennium City Fair in which the club aimed to present their research to Harmon Industries, Shannon confronted Tristan and explained that his girlfriend was becoming concerned with his behavior. Tristan brushed Shannon off, but Shannon insisted on resolving the problem early rather than later. A fight would break out between Shannon and Tristan, with Tristan accusing Eva of cheating on him. Tristan left Shannon and Eva alone in the clubroom.
Heartbroken, Eva cried deliriously, with Shannon comforting her. As Eva continued expressing her frustrations, she also revealed that she knew much of this could have been prevented if she had just picked up the signs early on when Tristan wanted to pursue pheromone research. As the research that was conducted was without proper protective equipment, Eva believed Tristan had become influenced by the pheromones, which had eroded his hormonal system. Guilt soon plagued Eva as she realized that she had a part to play in Tristan's downfall into insanity due to choosing to support her boyfriend through his ambitions. Unbeknownst to Eva, however, Shannon had predicted this all along and had already injected Eva with a modified version of the pheromones Tristan had worked on, sending Eva into a delirious state. Realizing too late, Eva attempted to escape Shannon, but Shannon pinned her down and proceeded to rape her, filming the entire event and broadcasting it to the rest of the school.
The next day, Tristan, Shannon, and a deeply traumatized Eva attended the Millennium City Fair. Tristan, unaware of Shannon's deception, became increasingly distant from Eva but held off on breaking up with her as he had noticed Eva's unstable state. As the booth had been constructed with the help of Shannon and his friends, Tristan and Eva had time to speak on the events that had happened the other night. Tristan confessed that he had also noticed that his mental state was deteriorating and wanted to stop the research, but because the pheromones he and Eva were working on had badly corroded his hormone system, he found himself incapable of stopping. Eva promised to help Tristan as much as she could, when suddenly, Tristan received news of the rumors on his phone. Horrified, Tristan instantly turned to his girlfriend, showing the video footage Shannon had taken of himself raping Eva and asking for an explanation. Devastated, Eva attempted to explain her case, but her stutter soon worsened, making her words incoherent even to her boyfriend. Angered, Tristan believed the rumors that Eva had cheated on him and proceeded to smash the booth that the two had worked on together, against his girlfriend's pleas.
With the booth and samples shattered, the pheromones that Tristan and Eva were working on spread wildly, infecting plants all around the fair and turning them into ravenous monsters. Several of the monsterized plants slaughtered nearby civilians and deeply injured Tristan. From the chaos, Shannon laughed wildly, explaining that if it hadn't been for Tristan and Eva's help he wouldn't have been able to get so far ahead with his plan. Angered, Eva demanded Shannon explain himself, for which Shannon revealed that this entire time, he also harbored feelings of attraction for Eva. However, since he was unable to sleep with her, the rest of the school ridiculed Shannon for being rejected by the "worst of the worst girls". Angered at the ridicule, Shannon devised a plan to both repair his reputation through the disguised rape and to also punish Eva for rejecting him. However, in spite of his "success", many saw through the lie, and the truth had been revealed that Shannon had indeed sexually assaulted Eva, ruining his reputation even more. As a result of himself being cornered, Shannon chose to destroy the killswitch to the out-of-control plant infestation, essentially initiating a kamikaze attack on Tristan and Eva. Following Shannon's declaration, a mutated carnivorous plant appeared from the ground, and devoured Shannon, killing him instantly.
With the plants out of control, Eva desperately attempted to try to contain the infestation while also protecting her boyfriend, who had become increasingly hallucinogenic as a result of the pheromone exposure. Despite this, Eva comforted her boyfriend, explaining to him that the hallucinations that he was seeing were not real. And that she herself had spent almost a lifetime dealing with the hallucinations herself. Realizing that Eva had never cheated on him and that the pheromone research had reached such a violent degree, a deeply remorseful Tristan proposed setting the research on fire. However, this would also result in Tristan losing his life due to him being required to enter the deep expanse of the plants. Angered, Eva rejected Tristan's request, explaining that the superheroes should have arrived by now, but Tristan shot down Eva's retort, reasoning that by the time the heroes arrived, the infestation would result in a nuclear solution. Both he and Eva knew that.
Tristan would launch a full-scale assault on the plants, lighting a match. However, to Tristan's disbelief, the plants had suddenly manifested sentience in response to the heightened pheromone influence. Before Tristan could light the plants on fire, a monstrous mutated head appeared from the organic mass and ripped his arm off, to Eva's horror. Eva rushed forward, but was pinned down by the plants, and would watch as the monsters continued to tear and rip apart her boyfriend right in front of her very eyes.
Awakening
"Every time a new flower bloomed in our clubroom, you would smile. But it never lasted. If it meant making sure you never ran out of smiles... I would fill the whole world with flowers."
- Tristan Hart to Evangeline Parker behind his motivation for The Bloom Project
Eva watched the plants continue ripping Tristan apart until the plants shifted their attention. Realizing that his girlfriend was now in danger, Tristan mustered one last final push and managed to grasp the lighter, setting the plants aflame. Though the flames were incapable of destroying the mutation, the distraction was enough for Eva to drag her boyfriend out of the mess.
Now in Eva's arms, Tristan apologized profusely for everything he had done. From pursuing the research to accusing her of cheating, and causing her to be assaulted by Shannon, Tristan claimed that his death was well deserved. However, before Tristan could continue, Eva cut him off, tearfully demanding Tristan to do his best to live in spite of his fatal injuries. Tristan revealed that during his scuffle, he had found the killswitch that Shannon had destroyed - a powerful reagent capable of unleashing a specific type of pheromone that could control the plants. Tristan also confessed that the killswitch was in fact the main reason for his research - to be able to produce plants at an accelerated pace. Tristan explained that the Plant Club had slowly begun gaining more traction, allowing more and more members to join and appreciate the beauty of the flowers. However, the rate at which the Plant Club had delivered was not fast enough, and as long as the Plant Club remained barren the bullying would never stop for Eva. Tristan also revealed that because Shannon had destroyed the killswitch in his kamikaze attempt, the pheromone had been damaged to the genetic level such that it could not be activated manually and that it had undergone mutation. Tristan's final words to Eva would be to live, just as her parents would have wanted.
Realizing that in the end, Tristan had done everything for her sake, a grieving Eva turned her grief into fury. Eva took the killswitch and faced the horde of monsterized plants, and in a moment of desperation, ingested the killswitch in an attempt to activate the pheromone through her own hormonal system. Remembering the time she had spent with Tristan, then her time spent with her parents, and the words her mother had spoken to her about nature, the pheromone activated from within Eva's body. A powerful wave of pheromones emitted from Eva, halting the momentum of the monsterized plants as Eva stepped forward with her awakened abilities. Now commanding the plants all around the chaos, Eva demanded a complete ceasefire of the monsters, reducing them to their primitive counterparts as the plants under her control wrapped and subdued the monsters. However, due to collateral destruction that had spread throughout the fair, Eva found herself incapable of stopping all the monsters. Grief struck and frustrated at her powerlessness, Eva screamed at the top of her lungs, watching as the monsters began to close in. Moments before becoming overwhelmed, however, the familiar shine of a blue and white power armor appeared, revealing Defender from within the expanse of monsterized mutated plant flesh. Eva would lose consciousness, surrounded by The Champions, but her eyes never left the corpse of her boyfriend.
College Years
A year after the incident, later dubbed The Millennium City Bloom Disaster, an eighteen-year-old Eva Parker graduated from Vanguard and attended Saint Williams University, where she majored in Botany. Eva would suffer from severe PTSD from both the incident as well as the rape, but due to her poor financial situation, she was incapable of affording therapy. Additionally, because Eva had reached adult age, she was no longer eligible to receive the benefits of the orphanage. As a result, to pay off the rent for her residence, Eva sought employment. Searching for work was compounded with further complications as the young botanist realized that no companies would hire her due to her schizophrenia, turning her away as she was still considered mentally disabled. Eventually, Eva settled with an associate job for a lumberjack company, seeing no other choice as the company was the only company that would hire someone of her status. During the interview, Parker recalled that many of the staff had bullied her for being a woman, with a tally on the board that was made for flirting attempts on her. A one thousand globals bet would later emerge amongst the lumberjack staff on who would manage to sleep with Eva first. After word got out about Parker's major in Botany, the bullying only intensified as many of the workers would force Eva to uproot the same vegetation she used to admire. On one account, several workers stole Eva's medication for her schizophrenia, resulting in Parker hallucinating Shannon for an entire week leading to an extreme nervous breakdown, believing Shannon had never died and would rape her again. Parker realized right away that the only reason the company had hired her would be because she would be sexually objectified, however, seeing no other choice, she would accept.
In spite of the bullying, Eva continued to delve into her new metahuman abilities. Realizing that she had the ability to control nature, Eva would use her powers to restore the destroyed forestry of her lumberjack company under the identity Eco-Eva. Due to Eva's status as a mere sex object in the company, and thus was largely disregarded, no one suspected Parker to be the same vigilante who would undo all of their work. As Eva continued her vigilantism in secret, the young superheroine expanded her reach beyond the forestry damaged by her company, but also throughout the outskirts of America, with the intention to bring about the renewal of nature throughout the world just as Tristan and her mother wanted.
Inflation and Economic Crisis
For several months, Eva managed to balance her school life with her job and vigilantism, however, yet another roadblock would present itself: an overwhelming increase in the inflation of goods, housing, and taxes in response to the heightened funding for UNTIL. Despite the still recovering economy of Eva's region in America, Governor Lucas Campbell would pour funds for the superheroes following Mayor Calvin Biselle's campaign in increasing the security of Millennium City.
These changes manifested themselves in a significant recession: job prospect decline, severe downsizing, and a reduction in wages. Despite the negative effects incurred on the citizens, prices began to soar due to an increase in demand for housing and food.
In Eva's case, her already strained financial situation had been pushed toward poverty. Parker would recall that her diet had reduced to as little as 580 calories a day, much of which consisted of stale bread and occasional leaves of lettuce. In an attempt to try to keep the residence that she rented out of, Eva begged her landlord for any way to backlog any rent payments. However, Parker's landlord would deny her request and instead propose that she pay half of the rent, but in exchange, for half of each month she would become homeless.
Due to Eva's severe malnutrition, the workload expected of her at the lumberjack company became far more relentless, with Parker showing signs of fatigue and weakness. Despite showing obvious signs of malnourishment, Eva's colleagues remained non-sympathetic, continuing to offload their work on Parker and forcing her to hard labour. It would be around this time where Eva's strength as a vigilante had severely declined. However, Eva would still continue her vigilante life as Eco-Eva due to her determination to uphold the ideals presented to her by Tristan and her parents.
