Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by
Oil-fortune heir turned anti-human environmentalist turned founder of the Adventist faction of the ETO — the man who funded humanity's betrayal of itself from a converted oil tanker in the Pacific, and who taught the Trisolarans that humans lie.
Evans is a true believer twice over — first in the rights of every species against humanity, then in the rights of the Trisolarans against humanity. He treats his money as a tool he was given for exactly this purpose, and disposes of it accordingly. He is genuinely kind to individual people in the way only a misanthrope can be. He reads to the Trisolarans from Chinese fairy tales, voice gentle, hand on the page, like a father at bedtime — and is genuinely shocked when they realize, mid-story, that humans deceive each other constantly. After they cut off contact he keeps faking the line, a Pope without a god, presiding over a doomed church for decades. He dies on the Judgment Day, sliced apart by Da Shi's nanowire.
In youth, a clean-cut American in canvas trousers and a faded denim jacket, sun-burnt from years on a North China bird-counting expedition. In age, a heavyset man in his sixties in white linen shirts and khakis, with a sailor's tan and a cropped white beard. He moves around the Judgment Day's bridge with the proprietary calm of a man who personally welded the railings.
Also known as: Evans, Our Lord, 麦克·伊文斯