Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
A Silver princess forged from metal and expectation — who spent three books as an antagonist before choosing love over legacy and walking away from everything her father built.
Evangeline was raised to be a weapon — House Samos's perfect daughter, trained since childhood by her father Volo to fight, to scheme, to marry for power. She was betrothed to Cal before Mare arrived and disrupted the political chessboard. She resented Mare for that disruption with genuine fury. But Evangeline's arc is not about Mare. It's about Elane Haven — the shadow girl she loves in secret, in a Silver court where that love is politically inconvenient. Evangeline's cruelty, her pride, her sharp tongue — they're armor over the fact that she has been performing obedience to a father and a system that would never allow her to be who she actually is. She evolves from discriminatory Silver princess to someone who abandons her claim to the Kingdom of the Rift, flees to Montfort with Elane, and builds an authentic life. The woman who could control metal couldn't control her own destiny until she stopped trying to be what her father wanted. 'I am different from what my world demands I be. And I am not worse for it.'
Long silver hair, charcoal-grey eyes, sharp nose, and porcelain skin with East Asian features from her mother. At 5'9" she is striking and knows it. She wears metal clothing that she transforms during combat — dresses becoming armor, jewelry becoming weapons. Everything about her appearance is both beautiful and dangerous by design.
Also known as: Eve, Princess Evangeline