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"Daddy, daddy! I don't want to go to jail! Send me all the lawyers! And hire someone to get this thing out of my head! DADDY!!!" |
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Evelyn Claythorne is the secondary antagonist of the Glitch Productions animated web series Meta Runner.
She is a member of the prominent Claythorne family from Great Britain, she is a Meta Runner who is a member of TAS Corp.'s team of gamers and was forced to be "Tari's Partner", despite the fact that she envies her.
Following the death of Derek Lucks, Evelyn was contacted by James Sheridan who has offered her the same abilites as Tari for revenge against her.
After gaining the same abilities as Tari, she starts having the advantage over her and gained the former TASCorp team after Sheridan brainwashed them. However, Tari once again defeated her in the game "Skybreakers" and she was later restrained by Lucinia Porter after she regained consciousness following Sheridan's death. Afterwards, she was left behind and taken into police custody due to being Sheridan's accomplice and was arrested.
She is voiced by Elsie Lovelock.
Appearance[]
Evelyn wears a black and grey overall dress, with white stockings and white Mary-janes. Her clothes have lights on which seem to change depending on her mood. For example: Green when she is prideful, yellow when she is neutral, and red when she is angry. In the final episode, her lights change to blue after her defeat. (The lights are only green and yellow in her first appearance; after that, they are only red up until her defeat.)
She has long, bright pink hair, with pink eyebrows and green eyes. Her Meta Runner arm is on her right. As of Season 3, she wears a headpiece designed by Sheridan to warp into video games like Tari. At the end of the series, the left side of her face has sustained scarring due to prolonged use of the device.
Hidden Heroes[]
Evelyn is a cyborg that has white rings as earrings on her pink ears, white hair, and black face with red eyes. She has a white, pink and black body.
Ultra Jump Mania[]
Evelyn appears in this game as a big deformed and glitchy Facepalm boss.
Skybreakers[]
In this game, Evelyn appears as a pink goblin with long pink hair and yellow eyes. Her outfit is similar to her real life outfit. She also wears a Mech suit during battle.
Personality[]
Evelyn is shown to be arrogant, snobby, conceited, and self-centered. She believes herself to be superior towards everyone that she deems "inferior" and often looks down on others. She is also attention-seeking and envious based on how she laments on how Lucks favorites Tari over her and even refers to Tari as a 'science experiment'. She even takes a TASCorp worker's game console and claims it hers which shows she likes to flaunt her power.
Later in the series, Evelyn becomes more despicable and malicious, to the point where she openly attacks Tari and ends up working with Sheridan to enact revenge on her.
Evelyn is shown to be a hypocrite, as she continuously demeans and criticizes others either for her own amusement or to weaken their spirits. However, she immediately gets infuriated whenever someone decides to mock her.
She also seems to be a sore loser, as she getting mad at Tari for defeating her, which caused her mind to spiral into a mental disorder. In addition, while she holds up better than her, Tari is better because Evelyn cheats while she plays honestly.
In the end, after the fall of Sheridan, she was proven to be helpless and impotent as Lucinia bound her to a chair and left along with MD-5 to which all Evelyn could was sob in defeat, even in police custody.
History[]
Background[]
Evelyn was one of TASCorp's Meta Runners, having been employed long enough to have known about Lucinia Porter's disapperance two years ago. It is implied that the only reason she was accept by Lucks into his company was due to "all the private coaches her parents hired for her", as she hinted at her showmatch with Tari.
Despite being a part of TASCorp for years, she wasn't a part of the main lineup unlike team captain Masa Shimamoto and "young hotshot" Belle Fontiere. She was forced to go through training every day and failed numerous screening tests, much to her frustration.
Six months before Hard Reset, after giving herself up to Lucks to save Masa, Lamar, and Sofia from incarceration inside of TASCorp, Tari was brought into the company and had special attention from Lucks, thus making Evelyn feel cheated that Tari was his favorite and didn't have to work for all her special treatment, resulting in Evelyn despising their newest member with a passion.
Season 2[]
By the time of Hard Reset, she appears to talk to Belle much to Belle’s annoyance. Evelyn talks to Belle about if Lucks favors her as she gets angry. She also berates Tari as she asks Belle if she would rather play with Tari or herself. As to which after Belle responds to saying that she would rather play with Evelyn she gets a confidence boost. Evelyn then talks about Lucinia and her disappearance to which Belle gets agitated. After an exchange Evelyn goes off to go back to her dorm room happily skipping away.
In training by Firewall, it is shown that Evelyn was sparring against Tari in Hidden Heroes. She clashes with Tari as she then puts Tari into a weakened state as to which Evelyn finishes her off under Belle’s command. As she looks at Belle who was shouting she gets dismissed to go along with Tari.
As she goes back to her room she shouts insults at Tari as to which she then bumps into a TAScientist. After insulting the one who bumped into her she then picks up their game that they dropped which was Pocket Gakusei. She holds it over by them as she mocks the scientist and Tari as she then takes it with her claiming that the waifus are all hers and that only losers play this game.
She then keeps the game and presumably plays a bit of the game herself as she goes back to her room. In Unreal Engines she then goes back to her room as she sees Tari there. Evelyn gets angry as she is about to grill and roast Tari there who was suspiciously in her room. However Belle then shows up as she calls for Evelyn but sees the sight unfold by her eyes.
Tari then hands Belle the mobile device of Pocket Gakusei to which Evelyn starts berating Tari. Belle then decides that she wants to talk to Tari in private which causes Evelyn to get excited to see how Tari will be punished. Though Belle told Evelyn to say which causes her to pout as she has to let Tari and Belle have their private talk. After some time of waiting Evelyn gets impatient as she goes out of the room to ask Belle how the punishment went for Tari. Presumably after some time she was spending her time training for the show match.
By the time the show match rolled around in Hack and Slash after Lucks tells his girls Tari and Evelyn to come on stage, Evelyn pushes Tari aside as she walks down the pathway as she blows kisses to her audience and extravagantly greeting them. Both Tari and Evelyn make it to the stage of course as Lucks then gives a speech, Lucks tried to give the microphone to Tari before Evelyn snatched it.
Evelyn then starts a long and self centered monologue about how she grew to stardom as part of TASCorp and her life as part of the Claythornes. After her monologue is done she then gives Lucks the microphone as to which he gives it to Tari to make her statement to the crowd. After Tari makes her statement and the crowd goes wild the plan that MD5 has put in motion happens.
As Tari trips and takes out the cord, Evelyn goes over angrily to berate her as Tari just tells her that it was by accident. After the lights turn on however, the event resumes as he sends both Tari and Evelyn to their respective pods basically. Once Lucks finished his speech about Hidden Heroes he then closes the pods as he lets the match begin. As the match happens Tari was getting attacked until Evelyn showed up to get the first kill from Tari.
Again Evelyn insults and belittles Tari as they argue a bit about it until a multitude of players attack. This causes them to have to make a run for it to safety as Evelyn keeps on demolishing any player that she has a chance to demolish. They then make it to safety as Evelyn angrily tells Tari to hurry up with healing basically. Evelyn and Tari get into a heated argument on why Evelyn hates Tari so much. To which she reveals that she hates Tari because she has been working hard yet Tari went up above the ranks even though she is not that good at gaming. Tari then by absolute irritation tells how much she wants to be left alone and how much she really does not like Evelyn. This causes Evelyn to go away as she leaves Tari to fend for herself.
As soon as Evelyn tries to go back to see Tari she sees Tari conversing with Masa as to which they saw her causing her to move back and hide away to let Tari do her thing. She then contacts Lucks about Tari’s betrayal of course which causes him to take action. Though before he could take action Sofia blocks him by making him stand in the spotlight of course. Lucks then gives the signal to crush Tari to Evelyn to which she smiles with absolute glee.
As Tari makes her way through the game Evelyn then tries to sneak attack Tari as she dodges the sword strike. Evelyn then starts to keep on attacking her of course as Tari tries to run away. However Evelyn then corners her as Tari’s only option is to fight Evelyn to which they start their battle.
After a heavy series of clashes, their fight ends in a massive stalemate to which Tari says it is pointless. Evelyn agrees but she has a sinister idea as she looks at her friends who were fighting as she then goes down to try to demolish Lamar but Masa pushes him out of the way as she demolishes Masa. Lamar tries to shoot but Evelyn deflects as Lamar is pulled to safety. Evelyn eerily threatens Tari that she cannot protect Lamar forever basically. And then she starts to go off as she goes to demolish as many players as she can.
A fair amount of time passes as when Tari and Lamar were surrounded by players Evelyn then sets up a fog as she eerily takes out the players one by one until only Tari and Lamar were left. As they were struggling to attack Evelyn she keeps on attacking as she stuns Lamar and is toying with Tari. Just as before she delivers a final blow Tari makes a comeback as she demolishes Evelyn which frustrates her. The game then ends as Evelyn is demolished and the stadium is in a frenzy.
Tari tries to get the cartridge but Evelyn goes out to prevent her unwittingly as she wrestles with Tari angrily. Though she gets pushed and blinded away back into her pod as Lamar called for help. She also gets locked in as Lamar closes the door so that Evelyn stays locked behind doors as she bangs on the door to open.
In Nightmare Mode it is shown that she is angrily ordering the scientists to fix and open the door. However she gets a call from Lucks to have a rematch with Tari in Ultra Jump Mania basically as she very much agrees of course. As she calibrates her computer she spawns in the point where Tari and Theo were about to reach the goal as she spawns in as the Glitchemoth. She does not allow them to finish as she places the flag on top of her head as she then proceeds to mock and attack Tari.
Tari and Evelyn then battle together and after some time Evelyn gets stuck and into a stun lock too as she tries to mash her way out of it but her arm overloads. This causes her to have to lose control for a bit as Theo makes his way and earn Tari and Theo the victory thus clearing the game to return it back to normal. Evelyn is frustrated as she tries to reprimand her failure with Lucks but gets cut off.
Presumably she must have called a limousine to go back to her parent’s house as within the car in Fatal Error she curses Tari as she makes a comment about wanting her powers there. As she talks to herself about wanting her powers she gets a call from a stranger. The stranger promises her powers just like Tari as she is skeptical. To ease Evelyn’s concerns even more the stranger says that his name is Sheridan.
Season 3[]
Evelyn after a week later now works for Sheridan and now has Tari's abilities! She transports Tari into her virtual dollhouse of Silica City as she more than torments and attacks Tari. As she has the upper edge she mercilessly beats Tari up as when Tari tried to punch Evelyn she more than just knocks Tari out instead. While dragging the unconscious Tari, Evelyn takes her to Sheridan's lab placing Tari onto the operating table.
As Sheridan starts to operate on Tari, Evelyn mainly just watches over Tari herself.
Criminal Record[]
- Criminal Accusation/Aggravated Assault: Throughout the whole series, Evelyn has been seeking revenge against Tari for supposedly ruining her.
- Theft: Evelyn bumps into a TASCorp Scientist playing Pocket Gakusei. She steals his game, much to the dismay of the TASCorp scientist.
- Betrayal: In her debut showmatch, she refuses to work with Tari and in the end, tries to kill her.
- Assault: Evelyn attacks Tari in the real world after she assumes that she ruined her special day.
- Cheating: In Season 2, Evelyn appears in Ultra Jump Mania as a big facepalm boss. In Season 3, she conjures a lot of weapons Tari can't have, making her get an unfair advantage over Tari. She also thinks that it is okay to kill people in Vagabond's Landing when it's not allowed.
- Conspiracy: Evelyn teams up with Sheridan to get Tari's powers in addition to exacting revenge on her.
- Kidnapping: Evelyn prevents Tari from warping into Turbo Crash 9 and instead warps her into Sheridan's servers, as well as preventing her from leaving it. Evelyn also grabs onto Theo until he licks her in the face. To make things worse, Evelyn also teleports Lamar into Sheridan's server.
- Attempted Murder: Evelyn uses her knife to attempt to kill Tari.
- Battery & Torture: Evelyn knocks Tari unconscious with her pineapple hammer and drags her to Sheridan's testing room, where she allowed Tari to be tortured by Sheridan.
- Child Murder: Evelyn chokes on Theo until he is shown disintegrating.
- Resisting Arrest: Instead of showing remorse for her actions, Evelyn barks at her father to release her, showing that she won't accept her fate at all.
Trivia[]
- Before Season 2 aired, her name was found on the display of Tari's Meta Runner arm during the trailer, under "Partner Name", leaving people to theorize that Evelyn was her name.
- Evelyn seems to have similarities to Saiko Bichitaru, both personality wise, and hair colour.
- They also share the same voice actor (as of SMG4 Shorts: Meggy Learns Japanese), although it was revealed earlier in Saiko's song Darkest Hour.
- However, her personality can also be attributed to Bob, another attention craving character who is also hated although to a smaller degree. Heck, she even has a picture of herself with a love letter to herself, signed by herself. Even Tari thinks that she has a mental problem.
- Unlike Saiko, Evelyn has no sympathetic qualities.
- She is the youngest child in the Claythorne family.
- She is currently the GLITCH staff's favorite character, due to her personality being made specifically for fans to hate her.
- Evelyn's prison number is 072619, this is a reference to the date of the first episode of Meta Runner released (26th July 2019).
- Evelyn's height is revealed to be 5 feet in the credits.
- Evelyn is the only Meta Runner character to actually be incarcerated.
- Lucks and Sheridan were supposed to be arrested but they died before they could go to jail.
- Masa and Belle were arrested by the police but then were captured by Sheridan on the way.
- Masa's charges were later dropped.
- Evelyn is the first antagonist of Luke who was imprisoned for her misdeeds.
- Evelyn has various similarities to the Team Killer Ink Leader:
- Both characters are bullies to the main protagonist, Evelyn for Tari and the Team Killer Ink Leader for Meggy.
- Both characters are callous and spiteful.
- However, while the Team Killer Ink Leader is racist towards humans and would never extend to a higher level of villainy, Evelyn becomes more despicable and malicious, to the point where she openly attacks Tari and ends up working with Sheridan to enact revenge on her. Additionally, whereas Evelyn's hatred towards Tari is based on envy, the Team Killer Ink Leader's hatred of Meggy is based on discrimination and racism. Also, Evelyn has no racist qualities.
- Both have no redeeming qualities.
- Both characters are hated by fans of their respective series due to their personalities.
- Both characters are sore losers.
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