Evie Frye

"My father taught me every intricate detail of the Assassin heritage. While my brother was off wasting time in the streets, I honed my skills. If we're to take this city, it will be by my blade."

- Evie Frye.

Dame Evie Frye (1847 – unknown), born to Ethan and Cecily Frye, was a Master Assassin of the British Brotherhood active in London during the Victorian era, and the elder twin sister of Jacob Frye. She was a member of the Order of the Sacred Garter, and the grand-aunt of Lydia Frye.

Originating from Crawley, Evie and her brother moved to London to overthrow the oppressive Templar-led establishment and help the poverty-stricken masses, following the death of their father by natural causes. To accomplish this, she and Jacob founded the Rooks, a criminal syndicate that opposed the Templars.

During their time in London, the twins came into contact with the biologist Charles Darwin, the novelist Charles Dickens, the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, Metropolitan Police Sergeant Frederick Abberline, the nurse Florence Nightingale, and Queen Victoria herself.

Early life
Evie was born four minutes before her brother Jacob. Due to their mother Cecily's death after childbirth, the twins were raised by their grandmother in Crawley until the age of six, after which they were trained by their father, Ethan Frye, in the ways of the Assassins. Evie relished in her father's lessons and gravitated in planning and research on the Brotherhood, and the Pieces of Eden, unlike the carefree Jacob.

Early in her career as an Assassin, Evie assassinated an abusive mill owner who refused to provide adequate wages to his workers; her first assassination target. The mill owner was eventually replaced by an Assassin.

After their father's death in 1868, the twins coordinated with George Westhouse in Croydon, to remove the Templar threat of Rupert Ferris and David Brewster. Having her research and plans for her attack in Starrick and Co. train yard, Evie deployed a diversion by detaching the train's carriages to infiltrate Brewster's laboratory and recover a Piece of Eden from him and the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne.

Upon gaining access in the laboratory, Evie assassinated Brewster, who was experimenting the artifact on a machine and destabilizing it, causing the machine to malfunction and explode. She later returned to Westhouse and Jacob to report her accomplishment. The twins shared impatience upon traveling to London, an idea which Westhouse disagreed, warning the siblings that it was not Ethan's wish for them. Adamant to continue her father's legacy, Evie accompanied Jacob in hitching a train heading to London.

Arrival in London
The twins arrived in Whitechapel and decided to seek out the Assassin leader Henry Green who apprised them on the Templar control over London. Evie contradicted her brother's proposal in creating a gang called Rooks to challenge the Blighters, instead suggesting to recover Pieces of Eden. The trio bumped into the writer Charles Dickens and Blighters thugs. Evie joined her brother in driving a carriage to distract them in chasing Henry, destroying Blighters carriages in the process. Returning in Henry's hideout, the Assassins discussed their contacts within the city.

They later met with a disguised Frederick Abberline, the Chief of Metropolitan Police Service in the back alley. Abberline gave them a list of notable Blighters members whom they kidnapped. Following this, Evie and Jacob contacted their young ally Clara O'Dea in Babylon Alley for information in exchange of freeing children from labor in the factory. After eliminating the rest of the Blighters and their leader Rexford Kaylock's control of Whitechapel, the duo formed the Rooks.

The Assassins took ownership of the former Blighters train, making it their hideout, and allied with Agnes MacBean who provided her financial services. Brother and sister further traveled to Southwark to meet Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Green's associate, to fix the broken rope launcher and attach it to the Assassin Gauntlet.

In return for his aid, Evie assisted Bell in setting up a free telegraph line for companies competing against Starrick Telegraph to use, by installing new fuses in the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, while at the same time suggesting that he rename his phonetic telegraph as the telephone. Returning to Bell's carriage, the latter showed Evie his smoke bombs and provided her the formula. Evie then made her way to a Blighter stronghold to loot metal components and returned to Bell's workshop. The twins headed to their hideout where they were greeted by Ned Wynert, who gave them his business card. The Assassins began planning their next move, Evie focusing on recovering precursor artifacts.

Hunt for Pieces of Eden
Seeing Jacob's plan to destroy the Templars a brash and reckless idea, the siblings were in disagreement. They headed to Alexander Graham Bell who added a dart mechanism to their gauntlets. They aided the inventor by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the College Wharf, in addition to discovering a poison shipment from Starrick.

The twins decided to recover an artifact from Lucy Thorne's shipments. As Jacob eliminated the guards, Evie searched the chest and found documents and a book with an Assassin insignia on the cover. Unfortunately, more Blighters came, forcing the twins to take the carriage. Evie took the defense while Jacob took the reins. Ultimately, they were forced to abandon the carriage, along with the documents, but Evie managed to keep the Assassin book.

After returning to the hideout, Evie investigated the journal with Henry Green, finding a hidden map using her Eagle Vision which lead to the Assassin Edward Kenway's mansion. They discovered that Lucy Thorne and the Blighters had taken control of the mansion which forced them to sneak inside and scrutinize the Kenway's memorabilia for clues. Evie deciphered a code in the piano which opened a hatch on the floor. The Assassins managed to recover a documents and an artifact before the Templars discovered the hatch, escaping through tunnels below the mansion.

Continuing their fight against Starrick and his control of the press, Evie and Jacob returned to Bell's laboratory where the latter told them Starrick's efforts of bribery to coax the inventor to his side. This caused him to invent voltaic bombs to stun assailants and offered them to the twins with insulators to protect the Assassins from harm. Soon enough, the infuriated Blighters arrived; they took this as an opportunity to test the bombs as Bell distracted them through talking.

The twins further aided the inventor in the telegraph station to keep Starrick from spreading false information throughout London and show people the truth about his operations by distracting the guards and defending Bell with their newly acquired weapon.

Much later, Evie visited the Lambeth Asylum after Jacob's assassination of Dr. John Elliotson where she saw an ill Clara O'Dea who came searching for medicine for the children in her care. However, Clara fainted in Evie's arms. Fortunately, the door to the hospital was opened by a woman who identified herself as Florence Nightingale and asked the Assassin to recover supplies for the cure.

She continued her investigation, with the documents leading her to a contraption for a puzzle in the St Paul's Cathedral. After solving the gear puzzle, she discovered a precursor necklace at the top of the cathedral. Unfortunately, Lucy Thorne arrived and the two duelled which resulted to Thorne escaping with the necklace.

Search for the Shroud
Sometime after Jacob's assassination of Pearl Attaway and shutting down of her omnibus company, Evie visited Southwark, finding a man, Edward Bayley, harassed by the Blighters. She chased the Blighters on a carriage as she defended the man. The pair rode to Attaway's former omnibus factory to steal the deed and return it to Bayley, safeguarding the businessman's family from the Templars. Grateful to his savior, Bayley introduced Evie to the founders of the London General Omnibus Company, notifying her their endeavor to supply the needed omnibuses for the city. Realizing that her brother had caused more problems for the citizens with his assassinations, Evie warned Jacob of the consequences of his actions.

Much later, Evie and Henry Green researched the precursor necklace Lucy Thorne stole. Green commented that it matched the casket owned by the Queen Victoria kept in the Tower of London. Evie infiltrated the fortress, witnessing the disguised Blighters took care of aware guards and search for the casket. Eventually, she managed to assassinate Lucy Thorne who mocked the Assassins of not using the capabilities of the precursor artifacts. The Royal Guards eventually regained control, forcing the Blighters into combat and Evie to escape in a riverboat.

Evie met with Frederick Abberline, learning from the sergeant that Jacob's actions had caused major turmoil in the citizens of London, despite Evie's warnings to her brother. She was forced to recover the currency printing plates, whom Jacob was accused of stealing. Abberline also requested her to destroy counterfeit notes while she was at it. Evie then tailed the counterfeiter's carriage and finished Abberline's request.

Eventually, Evie aided her brother and the Rooks in taking control of London's boroughs during gang wars against the Blighters by eliminating their Templar leaders Bloody Nora, Lilla Graves, Victor Lynch, Octavia Plumb, Cletus Strain, and Edith Swinebourne.

Later life
Following the events of 1868, Evie and Jacob continued to operate in London. Eventually, Evie became the great-aunt of Jacob’s grandchild, Lydia Frye. Responsibility for training the young Frye fell to Evie and her brother.

At the outbreak of war in 1914, Jacob and Evie were removed to the safety of the countryside, while Lydia remained in London to protect the city from German spies and Templar agents.[2]

Personality and characteristics
"For every mission, there is a right way and a wrong way. Barging thoughtlessly into combat is, more often than not, the latter."

- Evie Frye.

A true tactician and firm believer in the teachings of the Brotherhood, Evie took to the lessons of her father in a way that her brother did not, being more studious and more interested in the lore and history of the Assassins. She planned her missions carefully and patiently, considering every angle to ensure the best chance of success. Sometimes, this worked against her, as it meant that she was slow to act.

By contrast, her brother Jacob was much quicker to spring into action, yet his plans lacked sufficient forethought as a result. While the twins' means were frequently at odds, their motivations were the same, and the pair were at their most effective when they worked together, as they balanced each other out.

Equipment and skills
"A true master of stealth can blend into any environment. If I remain still, my enemies will have no idea I’m about to strike."

- Evie Frye.

A Master Assassin proficient with the Hidden Blade, Evie was able to assassinate her targets skilfully and stealthily. She excelled at masking her presence, to such an extent that guards were unable to notice her as long as she remained still.

As the carrying of weapons openly was forbidden at the time, she relied on an arsenal of hidden tools, much like her brother. Evie was capable of using a cane-sword, a Kukri, firearms, brass knuckles, Throwing knives, smoke bombs and voltaic bombs, which let loose a blast of electricity upon impact. Her Hidden Blade was also equipped with a rope launcher, allowing her to scale buildings quickly as well as create ziplines, and could fire hallucinogenic darts.

While her brother specialized in brutal and straightforward weaponry like the brass knuckles and the firearms, Evie's stealthy nature led her to prefer more subtle tools like the cane-sword and throwing knives. She was especially proficient with the latter, being able to carry a larger amount and hit targets at a greater range than her brother.

She was also a skilled freerunner and possessed the rare ability of Eagle Vision.

Trivia

 * Evie's name is of biblical origin, being an alternate form of Eve, which means life. Frye is a derivative of the English word free.
 * Evie is the first playable female character in one of the Assassin's Creed franchise's main entries and the third playable female character in the franchise as a whole, having been preceded by Aveline de Grandpré and Shao Jun.
 * Evie and Jacob are the third and fourth Assassin protagonists from a main instalment to wear robes whose primary color is not white, the other two being Arno Dorian and Shay Cormac while he was still allied with the Assassins.

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