Evie

Name: Evie Lux (EE-vee LUX) Species: Dutch Draft Horse (Anthro) Age: Mid 20s

Appearance Build: Tall, graceful, toned silhouette. Coat: Glossy chestnut coat, silky mane styled for maximum impact. Eyes: Deep hazel eyes with a warm sparkle Clothing: High-fashion ensembles from luxury designer brands, often accessorise with statement jewellery and flawless makeup. Augmentations: Occular HUD implant in her left eye with a direct neural feed to the social net

Personality Core Traits: Charismatic, outgoing, subtly manipulative, thrill-seeking. Temperment: Warm and approachable in public, loves attention and control, thrives on secrecy. Humour: Playful, teasing, often used to disarm people before exploiting them. Values: Fame, indulgence, and absolute control; Image is everything but power leads to more opportunities Flaws: Narcissistic, impulsive, and dangerously curious. She underestimates consequences and believes she’s untouchable. Because so far she has been. Motivations: Maintain her influencer empire and perfect image. Indulge her darkest cravings - shrinking others for amusement or worse. Stay ahead of exposure and scandal at any cost. Quirks: Evie never tolerates bad lighting. Even in tense situations, she’ll adjust lamps or angles to make sure she looks perfect.

Background Origin: Evie was born into a comfortable, upper-middle-class family in Echelon City’s entertainment district. It was a world of curated perfection and constant visibility. Her parents were minor socialites with ties to corporate PR firms, so Evie grew up surrounded by cameras, events, and the idea that image is everything. From an early age, she learned how to charm, how to pose, and how to turn attention into currency. Evie attended a prestigious corporate academy, majoring in media communications and brand strategy. She was never the top student academically, but she excelled in networking and presentation—skills that mattered more in her world.

Career: By her early twenties, she had leveraged her family’s connections and her own charisma to launch a personal brand as a lifestyle influencer: Eve D'Lux

Her rise was meteoric. Evie mastered the art of aspirational content; luxury fashion, curated travel, and motivational snippets that felt authentic enough to hook millions. Behind the scenes, she cultivated relationships with biotech corporations for sponsorship deals, which is where she first encountered a fixer working for a company developing a serum that allowed size manipulation. She had never even considered of such a thing could exist, and what started as curiosity became obsession, and eventually, indulgence.

Current Status: Evie is now one of Echelon City’s most recognisable influencers, with millions of followers and lucrative brand partnerships. Her public persona, Eve D’Lux, is radiant and dripping with luxury. But beneath the glamour lies a predator’s mind. She uses her access to experimental tech to shrink people, treating them as toys or trophies in private. Every public post, every perfect smile, hides a secret hunger for control and dominance over others.

Her life is a balancing act between maintaining her carefully curated image while indulging her darkest cravings. She thrives on secrecy, manipulation, and the thrill of knowing no one suspects the truth. At least, no one who can tell the tale

Era & Tone Timeframe: Near-future, late 21st century. Tone: Gritty realism with corporate dominance, systemic inequality, and species tension. No flashy neon cyberpunk, think utilitarian tech, militarized streets, and omnipresent surveillance.

Species Premise Humans and anthros evolved side by side, forming distinct cultures but sharing the same world. Centuries of uneasy coexistence led to integration but not equality. Today, megacorporations rule everything: law enforcement, healthcare, infrastructure. Governments are hollow shells; justice is a subscription service.

Echelon City A sprawling metropolis built of steel, glass and concrete. Some older areas have brick-built tenements and factories, but most was cleared and redeveloped Corporate towers dominate the skyline, casting shadows over slums and industrial zones. Streets hum with delivery drones, armored patrols, and the desperation of those living paycheck to paycheck.

Society Humans: Dominant in the board rooms, and use the money and power this gives them to remain there. However, despite corporare power being weilded primarily by humans, there is little solidarity between executives and the rest of humanity; some 98% of humans are economically endangered: no- or low-income work, no job security, no savings. Anthros: Valued for physical attributes and adaptability. Larger, predator species are often employed in security and enforcement roles, with smaller anthros finding roles in more detail-oriented, delicate work. Prides and Prejudices: Many humans distrust anthros; centuries of media manipulation have this deeply engrained. Anthros are equally as wary around humans; learned experience being hard to shake, even if the vast majority of humans have more in common with them than the rich elites. Discrimination against cuts both ways, with in not being uncommon for bars, restaurants, hotels, and shops to be officially human or anthro only. This has bled into the false narrative that some areas are 'no go" zones for humans, again perpetrated by the predominantly human owned media Law & Order: Corporations own police forces, courts, and prisons. Dissent is punished harshly, and loyalty rewarded (at least until those loyal are no longer needed)

Technology Cybernetics: Commonly available but ofter utilitarian as provided to assist with work. Reinforced limbs, joints and bones are common amongst labourers. Ocular implants tend to be used by security personnel. Neural links find a home with white-collar workers of all types. Many companies will advertise their augmentation program as a benefit of working for them, despite the reality being they oblnly provide them as a deep cost-benefit analysis shows they improve productivity and, more important for some, tie staff to roles; it's hard to quit a job when their technology is embedded so deep it needs intrusive surgery to remove. Fashion-focused implants do exist, but are rarely seen outside if celebrity culture due to cost. Surveillance: Omnipresent. Between CCTV, an overbearing security and police presence in the streets, and digital tracking, privacy is as good as dead. Facial recognition camera report of where you go. Digital payment providers track what you buy and where. Algorithmic analysis of what you say and type identifies underlying attitudes, thoughts and predicts what you will do next. Analog Resistance: Amongst all this, a subculture clings to old tech - things like paper notes, dumb phones, cd players, physical cash - as a way to evade the ever present tracjing. It's a broad church, with members having their own reasons for being a part of the subculture. Some use old tech to regain some semblance of a private life, whilst others are using it to try and evade detection of their crimes.