A Certain Scientific Railgun/Magical Index verse

Summary goes hereAppearance

Evelyn has short and curly shoulder-length crimson red hair and piercing green eyes. Physically, she’s one of the maturely built girls in her class… sometimes being mistaken for a high school student by ignorant observers. One tend to wonder if she’ll be mistaken for a college student in a few more years. She’s usually not seen far away from her sturdy leather shoulder bag that she uses to keep an assortment of objects… or to hide the use of her abilities.

At some point, she does opt to let her hair grow long… making this long waterfall of dense curls that’s difficult not to spot in a crowd. Alternatively, she passes herself off as a brunette when she is hoping to not be watched or disturbed.

She’s typically seen wearing the Tokiwadai Middle School uniform which consists of a short-sleeved white dress shirt worn under a light brown vest with the school emblem on the left side, a dark tan pocketed skirt that reach halfway down her thighs, white knee-high socks, and brown leather loafers in the summer or a tan buttoned jumper (a shade darker than the summer vest) and a checkered blue skirt with black and tan crisscrossing lines in the winter.

She also keeps a pitch black body-suit made using company research…. somewhere. Despite appearances, it can take a wide variety of shapes… from ballgowns to full on body armor at will.

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Background

The lone surviving heiress of a large international conglomerate, Evelyn was transferred to Academy city by her aunt and uncle as part of a business deal with one of their partners in order to continue a project originally started by her grandfather.

She grew up in the United States and outside of issues with local terms and lingo, she speaks fluent English and Japanese. Just don’t ask her to pronounce “Gekota" properly since she’s still trying to figure that out.

She’s marked down upon arrival as a gemstone with a power level grade of “4+” as they were only able to collect information on Level 4 espers for use as a reference for their initial assessment.

Both the magic and science sides of the city have some interest in her for some unknown reason. It’s rumored that her two warring grandparents and their agendas might have something to do with it.

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Notes

As part of the Esper Ascendency Plan, Evelyn was made Misaki Shokuhou’s assigned roommate. Outside of a few failed attempts to move her to another room, their relationship is unknown.

Her pet seems to be registered as a service animal in order to to prevent or reduce the possibility of her emphasizing her powers inadvertently. Most people mistake it for a stuffed animal or a strange looking cat or dog. However, it’s capable of changing it’s form at will, but it’s an ability not usually observed.

She at some point opted to create a disguise form for use during periods she’d prefer to avoid… certain kinds of people while running errands and other tasks. Although it mostly is used while volunteering part-time at the hospital. In any case, if she knows the sisters or of certain other people, it’s likely while working under Heaven Chancellor as a diagnostic. However, that doesn’t mean she actually knows them, but she has seen them in the Hospital frequently.

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Reality Break

Not too much is known about the true nature of Evelyn’s ability… other than\ supposedly that she can somehow impose her own personal reality on her surroundings. It’s range and potency is unknown.

Evolution is more of a symptom or side effect of her ability and manages to abstract her capabilities somehow. If she’s able to understand it, she can use it, refine it, and create new versions of it at will and on the fly, develop resistances, create counter attacks, and more.

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Esper Ascendancy Plan

As for the Esper Ascendancy Plan… Not much is known about it outside of trying to encourage her development by providing experiences to help her grow. It’s said to be an evolution of the original project that ended in disaster years ago… one of the reasons why she was sent to a school with powerful Espers instead of an alternative.

There’s technically several known phases in the experiment…

First, pushing her to interact with as many high ranked Espers as possible to see if additional data alters her test ranks. (Successful, ranking went from level 4 to 5)

Second, putting her into as many dangerous situations as possible in order to see if it can push her to raise her rank to level 6. (Inconclusive. Power levels exceed comprehensible limits)

Rumor has it that her grandfather was not only trying to make espers of his own, but something else… and his granddaughter was there to witness the event. The data is in her head… just waiting to be released somehow.

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The reason behind the 4+ designation is basically due to reasoning about the relationship of processing power and emulation in an attempt to reach a baseline estimation of her powers. You see, in order to effectively run the software made for another machine’s hardware, the machine running the emulator has to significantly exceed the performance of the machine it is imitating in order to run the software correctly.

Of course… it’s not exactly possible to position her in the hierarchy due to the same issue as before. Not enough samples and way too much unknown potential.

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Rough Timeline

14 Years Ago

Evelyn Lancaster is born

10 Years Ago

The New Mexico incident occurs.

5-6 Years ago

Evelyn is transferred to Academy City.

2 Years Ago

Evelyn reaches Level 5 following Misaki and Mikoto. However, due to family interference, her ranking is not released to the public.

Evelyn constructs her “Hikari Shinkyo” Persona

Last Year

Evelyn is transferred to Tokiwadai Middle School and made roommates with Misaki Shokuhou. Makes contact with Mikoto Misaka shortly after.

Evelyn’s ability starts messing with system scans. Phase two stalls due to Reality Break’s evolution.

“Hikari” starts volunteering at the hospital.

Present Year

A convenient “leak” from the Lancaster Group exposes Evelyn’s Level “5+” status to the public and attracting attention from the dark side of the city.

Evelyn Lancaster pulls her first disappearing act.

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Normal/Disguise form (Attempted prototyping)