Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by
Ye Wenjie's granddaughter and Mike Evans' biological daughter — a particle physicist at the Diamond Light Source whose childhood mentorship of Saul Durand quietly seeded a future Wallfacer, and whose career ended with her own suicide inside Hyper-Kamiokande.
Vera was raised at the intersection of two parents she could not reconcile — a mother she barely knew, a grandmother who was a war criminal, a father whose anti-human convictions she half-inherited and half-rejected. She becomes a particle physicist because particles, at least, are not asking her to forgive them. She mentors the wandering Saul Durand because she sees in him the kind of unfocused brilliance she could have used at his age. The years in which the sophons make her data return only noise wear her down quietly. She walks into Hyper-Kamiokande in her work clothes and never walks out.
Mid-thirties, of mixed Chinese-American descent, with shoulder-length dark hair, sharp cheekbones, and the practical wardrobe of a senior beamline scientist — fleece, lanyard, jeans. There is something tightly held about the set of her jaw, the kind of woman who does not enjoy being photographed. She dresses well only when forced.
Also known as: Vera, Dr. Ye, 叶 Vera