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Evie: "Ah, the gentle sound of opportunity passing us by."
Jacob: "So what's stopping us? London is waiting to be liberated. Forget Crawley."
Evie: "Father would have wanted us to listen."
Jacob: "Oh. Father. You could continue his legacy in London."
Evie: "Freeing future generations from a city ruled by Templars. You know, Jacob Frye, you might just be right."

—Evie talking to her brother, 1868.[src]-[m]

Dame Evie Frye (born 1847) was a Master Assassin of the British Brotherhood during the Victorian era, and the elder twin sister of Jacob Frye. She later became a member of Queen Victoria's Order of the Sacred Garter. She is also an ancestor of the scientist and Assassin Jackie O'Connell.[1]

Originating from Crawley, Evie and her brother were raised and trained by their widowed father in the Assassins' ways. Unlike the carefree Jacob, Evie took her training very seriously and relished in their father's teachings. Due to her preference for stealth over combat, she also tended to meticulously plan out her approach ahead of each mission, which often put her at odds with Jacob due to their conflicting methods.

Following her father's death from natural causes in 1868, Evie, wishing to continue his legacy, accompanied Jacob to London, against their superiors' wishes. There, they sought to liberate the city from the Templars' control and help the poverty-stricken masses. To accomplish this, they founded the Rooks, a criminal syndicate that opposed the Templar-backed Blighters.

While Jacob focused on eliminating targets instrumental to Grand Master Crawford Starrick's operations, Evie pursued the Shroud of Eden, an Isu artifact hidden within the city. In doing so, she worked alongside her fellow Assassin Henry Green, and regularly came into conflict with Lucy Thorne, Starrick's second-in-command. During her mission, Evie also came to understand the disadvantages of her approach to dealing with the Templars, and learned to rely more on her own thoughts instead of blindly following her father's teachings.

After she and Jacob assassinated Starrick to prevent him from misusing the Shroud, Evie married Henry and migrated with him to India while her brother stayed behind to rebuild the London Brotherhood. However, she would be forced to return to London in 1888, to stop the reign of terror of Jack the Ripper, one of Jacob's Assassin apprentices who had gone rogue and seized control of the Rooks.

Biography[]

Early life[]

"Oh, right, my mistake. Ladies and gentlemen, the unstoppable Frye twins; see them nightly at Covent Garden!"
―George Westhouse sarcastically scolding the twins, 1868.[src]

Evie was born four minutes before her brother Jacob. Due to their mother Cecily's death after childbirth, their father Ethan needed time to mourn and recover from the loss, and thus left for India after accepting an offer from Cecily's mother to raise the twins. Once Evie and Jacob had turned six, Ethan returned to Crawley to personally raise and train his children as Assassins.[2]

Unlike Jacob, who found himself greatly restricted by his Assassin training and loathed both Ethan and his lessons, Evie relished in her father's teachings and greatly admired him. As opposed to Jacob's preference for a direct approach, Evie specialized in stealth and thoughtful planning, as well as research, taking a particular interest in the Pieces of Eden.[2]

In her teenage years, Evie used her skills to spy upon Ethan and his father's friend George Westhouse's conversations about the Brotherhood and would relay this information to her brother.[3] During this time, she would occasionally train and chat with fellow Assassin Pierrette Arnaud.[4]

Early in her career as an Assassin, Evie assassinated her first target, an abusive mill owner who refused to provide adequate wages to his workers. The mill owner was eventually replaced by an Assassin, who greatly improved the conditions.[2]

After their father's death from pleurisy in early 1868, the twins coordinated with George Westhouse in Croydon, to remove the Templar threat of Rupert Ferris and David Brewster.[5] While Jacob assassinated Ferris, Evie planned her infiltration of a Starrick Telegraph Company train yard, where Brewster was experimenting on an Apple of Eden. Infiltrating a train headed towards the yard, Evie deployed a diversion by detaching the train's carriages before eavesdropping on Brewster's conversation with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne.[6]

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Evie beside the dying Brewster

Upon infiltrating Brewster's laboratory, Evie assassinated her target, who with his dying words revealed that Thorne had found another Piece of Eden in London. However, at that moment the machine Brewster had been using to experiment on the Apple became unstable and exploded, destroying the artifact and the laboratory. After escaping from the collapsing laboratory, Evie returned to Westhouse and Jacob to report her accomplishment.[6]

The twins shared impatience on traveling to London to liberate it from Templar control, an idea which Westhouse disagreed with, warning the siblings that it was not Ethan's wish for them. After Westhouse left, however, the twins decided to disobey his orders. Adamant to continue her father's legacy, Evie accompanied Jacob in hitching a train heading to London.[6]

Arrival in London[]

Jacob: "Have you got a better plan?"
Evie: "Find the Piece of Eden."
—Evie proposing her plan to reclaim London, 1868.[src]
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Jacob and Evie in Henry's shop

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 the Rooks to challenge the Blighters, instead suggesting to recover the Piece of Eden that Brewster had informed her of.[7]

After meeting Henry, the trio began heading towards his shop. Along the way, they bumped into Charles Dickens and were attacked Blighter thugs. Evie joined her brother in driving a carriage to distract the thugs and allow Henry to return to his shop, destroying Blighters' carriages in the process. Eventually arriving at Henry's shop, the Assassins discussed their contacts within the city.[7]

At Henry's suggestion, the twins later met with a disguised Frederick Abberline, the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Service, in a back alley. Abberline gave them a list of notable Blighters members whom they kidnapped.[8] Following this, Evie and Jacob contacted their young ally Clara O'Dea in Babylon Alley for information in exchange for freeing children from labor in the factories.[9] After eliminating the rest of the Blighters and their leader Rexford Kaylock's control of Whitechapel, the duo formed the Rooks.[10]

The Assassins subsequently took ownership of the former Blighters train, making it their hideout, and allied with Agnes MacBean, who provided her financial services.[10] Jacob and Evie further traveled to Southwark to meet Alexander Graham Bell, another of Henry's associates, to fix the broken rope launcher they had retrieved from Kaylock and attach it to their Hidden Blade bracers.[11]

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Bell attaching the rope launcher to Evie's bracer

In return for his aid, Evie assisted Bell in setting up a free telegraph line for companies competing against Starrick Telegraph Company to use, by installing new fuses in the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, while at the same time casually suggesting that he rename his invention, the "phonetic telegraph" to 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 the Piece of Eden.[11]

Hunt for the Piece of Eden[]

Jacob: "Ah, another exciting night home for Evie Frye."
Evie: "Just on my way out, actually. I've found the Piece of Eden."
Jacob: "What's this one going to do, hm? Heal the sick? Deflect bullets? Control the populace?"
Evie: "They're dangerous objects, Jacob, especially in Templar hands."
—Jacob and Evie, bantering about Pieces of Eden, 1868.[src]

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 then aided the inventor by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the College Wharf, in addition to discovering a poison shipment from Crawford Starrick.[12]

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Evie and Henry arriving at the piano room

The twins next 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 twin siblings 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.[13]

After returning to the hideout, Evie investigated the journal with Henry, finding a hidden map using her Eagle Vision which led 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 on the piano which opened a hatch in the floor. The Assassins managed to recover documents and an artifact before the Templars discovered the hatch, escaping through tunnels below the mansion.[14]

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Evie with Nightingale and the ill Clara

Continuing their fight against Starrick and his control of the press, Evie and Jacob returned to Bell's laboratory where the latter told them about 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; the Assassins took this as an opportunity to test the bombs as Bell distracted them through talking.[15]

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.[15]

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. Evie did so, allowing Nightingale to distribute the medicine throughout the borough, saving Clara and all the other sick children.[16]

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Thorne hanging on Evie's Isu necklace

Evie continued her investigation of the Piece of Eden, with the documents leading her to a contraption for a puzzle at St. Paul's Cathedral. After solving the gear puzzle, she discovered an Isu necklace at the top of the cathedral. Unfortunately, Lucy Thorne arrived and the two dueled which resulted in Thorne escaping with the necklace.[17]

Search for the Shroud[]

Thorne: "So, you have murdered me after all. But what good will that do you? The Shroud isn't here."
Evie: "You sought a tool of healing in order to extend your own power!"
—Evie and Lucy Thorne during Thorne's assassination, 1868.[src]

Sometime after Jacob's assassination of Pearl Attaway and shutting down of her omnibus company, Evie visited Southwark, finding Edward Bayley being harassed by the Blighters. She chased the Blighters on a carriage as she defended Bayley. 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 of 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.[18]

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Evie assassinating Lucy Thorne

Later, Evie and Henry researched the Isu necklace Lucy Thorne had stolen. Henry commented that it matched the casket owned by Queen Victoria which was kept in the Tower of London. Evie infiltrated the fortress and witnessed the disguised Blighters replacing many guards and searching for the casket. Feigning capture with the aid of one of the real guards, Evie got close enough to Thorne to assassinate her. She then tried to interrogate her to learn the Shroud of Eden's location, but Thorne merely mocked the Assassins for not using the capabilities of the Isu artifacts before dying. The Royal Guards eventually regained control, forcing the Blighters into combat and Evie to escape on a riverboat.[19]

Evie later met with Frederick Abberline, learning from the sergeant that Jacob's actions had caused major turmoil among the citizens of London, despite Evie's warnings to her brother. She was subsequently forced to recover missing currency printing plates, which had been stolen from the Bank of England following Jacob's assassination of Philip Twopenny. Tailing the head counterfeiter's carriage, Evie located the plates, as well as the conterfeit notes created using them, and retrieved the former while destroying the latter, thus preventing a major economic crisis.[20]

Continuing her search, Evie and Henry congregated with the Maharaja Duleep Singh, who had a lead on the location of the Shroud's vault under Buckingham Palace. Duleep informed the pair that their plans were removed by Starrick but he had their location. Henry provided a distraction for Evie to sneak past the guards and recover the documents. Still unable to find the documents, Evie kidnapped a Templar guard only to discover that Henry had been captured.[21]

Abandoning her mission, Evie decided to rescue Henry instead. Some of Clara O'Dea's urchins witnessed his kidnapping and told Evie to follow the cart's wobbly tracks. She had to interview witnesses to unveil Henry's location. Evie finally tracked him down the tunnels beneath the church and escorted him to safety. She then advised Henry to let Florence Nightingale treat his head injury while she contacted the Maharaja again.[21]

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,[22] Lilla Graves,[23] Victor Lynch,[24] Octavia Plumb,[25] Cletus Strain,[26] and Edith Swinebourne.[27]

Assassinating Crawford Starrick[]

With most of the Templars now eliminated by Jacob and Starrick the only threat left, Evie discussed the situation of the Shroud in the palace, only to find Jacob uninterested. Annoyed, she scolded her brother with his reckless planning and mistakes Evie was forced to fix. Evie mentioned their father, much to Jacob's irritation and the twins argued. Henry calmed them down and notified them of a ball to be held in the palace which Starrick was planning to enter, stealing the Shroud and eliminating the heads of church and government.[28]

Seeing this as an opportunity to recover the Piece of Eden, Evie and Jacob joined forces in spite of their grievances with one another, and invited Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli, the prime minister and his wife, to their hideout. There, they expressed their need to enter the ball and offered to steal the invitations of Catherine and William Gladstone, which the couple gladly approved. As Jacob recovered the invitations, Evie visited the Maharaja for a second set of plans.[28]

Duleep Singh told her, however, that he had a matter of urgency that would require stealth and speed—acquiring a royal carriage to drive politicians to their destinations in exchange for the information. Evie complied as Singh rode the carriage and talked to the politicians while driving them around London. During the ride, Singh revealed that Henry had told him about Evie's father and that he believed the loss of his wife might have led Ethan to say things he did not truly mean just to protect his loved ones. Once the job was completed, the Maharaja told Evie of the plans' location with the Queen and the two parted ways.[29]

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Evie and Starrick dancing

The twins successfully managed to infiltrate the ball using the Gladstones' carriage and invitations. Evie then headed off to locate the plans in a white drawing-room. Due to the restrictions of her dress, Evie was forced to kidnap one of the royal guards to get inside the room and steal the plans. On her way back down to the party, she bumped into Mary Anne Disraeli who introduced her to the Queen, who knew of their dealings with Gladstone.[30]

Politely excusing herself, Evie continued her way towards the vault entrance only to be grabbed by Crawford Starrick himself. The Templar Grand Master offered her a dance and told her that people would never change and that as soon as the dance ended, the snipers he had in place would end her life. Fortunately, Jacob came to her rescue, eliminating the snipers with his recovered weapons. However, Starrick managed to steal the Isu necklace from Evie.[30]

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Evie and Jacob assassinating Starrick

After changing her clothes, she immediately dashed towards the vault to save Jacob from the hands of Starrick. However, Starrick had activated the vault's defense mechanism which sent Jacob sprawling to the floor. Evie fought the Templar one on one but the Shroud prevented her from dealing much damage. Crawford grabbed Evie by the neck but was stopped by Jacob. After exchanging more blows with Starrick, the two of them were trapped.[30]

Fortunately, Henry arrived, throwing a knife at the Templar. Joining the fight, Henry too was knocked off his feet by the Templar. Evie and Jacob joined forces to remove the Shroud and eventually assassinate Starrick. By working together, the rift between the twins vanished and they were able to reconcile after admitting their respective mistakes. As Jacob returned the Shroud to its proper place, Evie aided Henry and the two shared a kiss.[30]

Shortly thereafter, the three Assassins met with Queen Victoria, who was grateful to her saviors. She knighted them to her Order of the Sacred Garter and promised to call upon them for more work in the future. The twins then raced off to their hideout, leaving Henry behind.[30]

Aiding Pierrette Arnaud[]

In 1869, Evie welcomed back her friend Pierrette in London[31] as she sent a letter earlier about the exhumation of her late friend Elizabeth Siddal.[32] Driving her to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's home in Chelsea, Evie was later invited to a game of whist at Anne Blunt's house.[31]

However, the game was a ploy to invite and interrogate Charles Augustus Howell, the man who convinced Rossetti to dig up his late wife. During the game night, the three women cornered Howell at gunpoint and demanded him to answer their questions. Howell admitted to being convinced by his late friend John Elliotson to dig up Sidall's grave to retrieve two notebooks, one of poetry and one of the late Ada Lovelace's notes. However, a female apparition seemingly appeared before him and took Ada's notes from them. Realizing the Templars took Ada's notes, both Arnaud and Evie dismissed Howell but not before Pierrette warning him to speak of their conversation to no one.[33]

Relocating to India[]

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Evie and Henry saving Greyling

Following the defeat of Crawford Starrick, Evie and Jacob continued to operate in London, with the siblings eventually ending their relationship with Queen Victoria to avoid furthering Britain's imperial interests. However, after her betrothal to Henry, Evie eventually relocated to India and became affiliated with Indian Assassins. Despite her absence, London enjoyed twenty years of peace and stability.[34]

In 1872, while Evie and Henry were in London, they were contacted by Abberline who requested their assistance in foiling the plans of Alice, an American Templar present in the city to steal pages of the Voynich manuscript hidden in the British Museum. Though assisted by Pinkerton agent Tommy Greyling and Mark Twain, the Assassins failed to stop the Templar and her Blighter henchmen from recovering the artifact and flee England.[35] Around 1873, Evie and Henry welcomed Jacob and several British initiates to India so they could learn the Indian Brotherhood's fear tactics.[36]

Pursuing Jack the Ripper[]

Jack: "We are the same you and I..."
Evie: "Oh, Jack... You were an Assassin, yes, but we are not the same. And that is why your memory must be erased for all time. Rest in peace now, Jack, you and your twisted acolytes."
—Evie and Jack's exchange following the latter's assassination, 1888.[src]-[m]
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Evie discussing the murders with Abberline

In 1888, however, Evie was summoned by Jacob in the wake of the Whitechapel murders. After returning to London, she converged with Inspector Frederick Abberline, who brought her up to speed with the serial killer Jack the Ripper and informed her that Jacob was nowhere to be found. She then followed the Inspector to the murder scene of the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols. Abberline informed her that the woman murdered was not the Mary Ann Nichols he knew. Upon inspection, Evie found an Assassin ring and deduced that the victim was an undercover Assassin.[37]

Having been tipped off by Abberline, Evie went to investigate Jacob's Whitechapel lodgings, in hopes of discovering a clue as to where the Ripper was. There, she found one of the Ripper's letters, a photograph of her, Jacob, Henry and an initiate nicknamed "Jack the Lad" in India, and a letter to her hidden under a statuette of the goddess Kali. After reading Jacob's letter, Evie sought the prostitute Nellie, who had been escorted to the Kenway Mansion where Lady Olwyn Owers was giving a speech. She spoke with Nellie and learned that killing Lady Owers was necessary to find Jacob. Evie then chased a carriage thought to have been occupied by Lady Owers, and upon hijacking it, realized Nellie was inside. Nellie then told Evie that Lady Owers had fled to her manor northwest of London.[36]

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Evie questioning Weaversbrook

Evie infiltrated the manor and assassinated Lady Owers, procuring a photograph with scratched out individuals save for Arthur Weaversbrook. Evie concluded that Weaversbrook was to be kidnapped and returned to London to save him.[38] She met with Abberline to find out through newspaper that she had been framed for a massacre at Owers Manor that took place shortly after her departure. She then found and intercepted a tense Weaversbrook near St. Paul's, who informed her that the Ripper had his son and led her to the young Weaversbrook's last location near the docks. After rescuing Weaversbrook's son, Evie learned that Jack was keeping others hostage in old hulk prison ships and an abandoned garrison in Deptford.[39]

Traveling downriver to the Deptford docks, Evie questioned the hostages found on the prison ships, who told here they were being forced to write letters to their families with demands from the Ripper. She then decided to assassinate the chief warder John Billingsworth of the nearby garrison. Fatally wounded soon after, a dying Billingsworth informed Evie of Jack's tutelage under Jacob. She then telephoned the Metropolitan Police Service, who informed her that Jack had struck again, and requested they send men to the docks to free the hostages.[40]

Soon after her return to the city, Evie rendezvoused with Inspector Abberline and his officers at the murder scene of Mary Kelly. Through further investigation, Evie was able to find a message left for her by Jack meant to lead her to the scenes of his first victims. At the murder scenes of Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride, Evie discovered their tossed Assassin rings and, at the latter scene, yet another message from Jack, which in turn led her to the scene of his mother's murder. There, she was caught off guard by an unexpected fear bombs, which induced hallucinations in her mind. Once the hallucinations wore off, Evie came to the conclusion that Jack was at the Lambeth Asylum.[41]

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Evie standing over a defeated Jack

With the inmates of Lambeth Asylum released, Evie sneaked by a throng of lunatics undetected and made her way to the madhouse's lowest area. Having found a heavily wounded Jacob imprisoned in a cell, she first went into the basement to face off against Jack. Initially unable to face Jack in direct combat, Evie used stealth and cunning to ambush Jack until she eventually took his dagger and, with a volley of cuts and stabs, brought an end to the Ripper's life. Thereafter, she went back to her nearly unconscious brother and was met by Inspector Abberline, with reporters in tow. In order to protect the Brotherhood from backlash and discovery, Evie asked Abberline to keep Jack's death and identity a secret, not wanting the public to know of the Ripper's Assassin allegiance.[42]

Later life[]

Eventually, Evie became the great-aunt of Jacob's grandchild, Lydia Frye. Responsibility for training the young Frye fell to Evie and her brother, as Lydia's parents were frequently engaged in missions for the Brotherhood abroad. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Evie and Jacob were removed to the safety of the countryside, while Lydia remained in London to protect the city from German spies and Templar agents.[43]

Legacy[]

Evie's actions, alongside Jacob's, led to the reconstruction of the British Assassins' presence in London after over a century of Templar control, as well as the severe weakening of the British Templars with the death of their Grand Master, Crawford Starrick.[44] Two decades later, she would also be responsible for solving the Whitechapel murders and ending Jack the Ripper's reign of terror over London, though the Ripper's identity or the circumstances of his death were never revealed to the public in order to maintain the Brotherhood's secrecy.[45]

Evie's DNA was somehow retrieved by Abstergo Industries prior to November 2015 because of her involvement with one of the Shrouds of Eden, which Abstergo intended to use in the Phoenix Project, and researched by one of Abstergo's analysts to find the Shroud's location. This allowed its recovery after a fight with the Assassins in the Buckingham Palace's vault. Around the same time, the Templar Isabelle Ardant included her and her brother's names on a list of known British Assassins. This list was later unveiled by the Assassins Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings when they infiltrated Ardant's office to plant a bug.[46]

Around 2016, Evie's descendant, Jackie O'Connell, operated in London as a member of The Descendants, a group of Assassins searching for a Piece of Eden.[1]

Evie and Jacob were both mentioned by the Assassin Layla Hassan, while she was in London in 2018. That same year, one of Layla's Animus modifications enabled an avatar based on Evie to become a lieutenant aboard Kassandra's ship, the Adrestia.[47]

Personality and traits[]

"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[48]

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 also displayed a fascination with the Pieces of Eden, though she was aware that their power was too great for anyone to bear and thus they had to be kept out of Templar hands at all costs.[44]

Unlike her hot-headed brother Jacob, who preferred a direct approach in most situations, Evie relied on her intelligence and wit to accomplish her objectives. She planned her missions carefully and patiently, considering every angle to ensure the best chance of success, and would typically go for a stealth approach whenever possible. However, this sometimes worked against her, as it meant she was slow to act; a fact Jacob frequently criticized her for. In turn, Evie took issue with her brother's lack of forethought, as his reckless actions often led to new problems that she was forced to fix.[44]

While the twins' methods 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. Despite their frequent arguments, the two cared about each other and were willing to adopt the other's approach from time to time, as seen when Evie immediately accepted to help Karl Marx without further consideration, something that momentarily perplexed Jacob.[44]

Another point of difference between the twins was their relationship with their father, Ethan. While Jacob grew up resenting his father and his lessons, Evie was very reverent of Ethan, often citing his teachings and using them to criticize Jacob's actions. However, Evie's opinion of her father changed after conversing with Duleep Singh and learning the truth about Ethan's grief following Cecily's death. Realizing that her father was not the perfect Assassin she had envisioned him as and was just as open to making mistakes as everyone else, Evie accepted that not all of his teachings were correct and began to rely on her own thoughts and beliefs.[44]

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[48]

A Master Assassin proficient with the Hidden Blade, Evie was able to assassinate her targets skillfully 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.[44]

A skilled freerunner, she was able to instantly scale the building of London as well as natural elements—including trees—with relative ease, as such she was able to transverse over and under several obstacles as well as moving terrains. Additionally she proved to be a capable swimmer. Evie also proved efficient in pickpocketing and lockpicking.

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 dual Hidden Blades, a cane-sword, a kukri, pistols, 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.[44]

While her brother specialized in brutal and straightforward weaponry like brass knuckles and 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.[44]

After moving to India, Evie learned the Indian Brotherhood's fear tactics, consisting of using fear-inducing hallucinogens with spikes and fear bombs as a method of non-lethally dealing with groups of enemies. She also began utilizing non-lethal tactics more frequently, often incapacitating opponents that weren't her targets instead of killing them. In addition, she adopted the use of Karas, bracelets that were used as arm protectors as well as knuckle-dusters.[45]

Evie also possessed the rare ability of Eagle Vision, and like her brother was capable of seeing through walls and tagging enemies with it.[44]

Romantic life[]

"'Don't allow personal feelings to compromise the mission.' What a mistake."
―Evie chastising herself for not heeding her father's words, 1868.[src]

During her time in London, Evie grew increasingly fond of her fellow Assassin Henry Green, with whom she frequently worked together in studying and locating the Pieces of Eden. Eager to have this partnership continue beyond research, she encouraged him to go out in the field with her, despite his own beliefs that he was not as well suited to it. When Henry later disappeared during one of their missions, Evie abandoned the original objective to save him from his captors, a decision she later came to question.[44]

Realizing that her feelings for Henry affected her ability to judge situations objectively, which her father had warned her against during her youth and which Jacob had teasingly reminded her of, Evie broke off the partnership and went out into the field by herself once more. However, after speaking extensively with Duleep Singh, she came to question her strict adherence to her father's words.[44]

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Henry confessing his feelings for Evie

When Henry came to her and Jacob's rescue in their final confrontation with Starrick, Evie realized she wanted to be with him after all; once Starrick had been assassinated, she thanked Henry for saving them both, before kissing him. Sometime later, Henry proposed to her with a bouquet of flowers at the train hideout, to which she accepted.[44] After a few years, Evie and Henry decided to travel to India and learn the techniques of the local Brotherhood, leaving Jacob to watch over London.[45]

Behind the scenes[]

Evie Frye is a character first introduced as one of the two protagonists of the 2015 video game Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, where she is voiced by English actress Victoria Atkin.

According to Henry, Evie was the same height as Jacob. Given the wanted poster of Jacob on the Charing Cross Edition of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, she would be between 5' 6" (1.68 m) and 5' 7" (1.70 m) tall, though the information on said poster may be inaccurate. In some of the concept art for Evie's costumes, her hair appears to be platinum blonde, instead of the dark brown color she ended up having in-game.

In Syndicate's downloadable expansion Jack the Ripper, Evie is still referred to as "Miss Frye", despite presumably being married to Henry Green by that point. A possible explanation may be that Evie simply continued to use her maiden name in marriage, as she was well known by it.

Jeffrey Yohalem, lead writer for Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, has stated that Evie is not an ancestor of Monima Das, a modern-day descendant of Henry's parents, Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur.[49] This implies that either Henry conceived a child with someone other than Evie, or that he has at least one sibling, though there are currently no mentions of one in the franchise.

Much like Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Evie and Jacob dipped an object in their target's blood following that person's death, though where Altaïr used a feather, the twins used a handkerchief. Like Ezio Auditore, Evie wears a half-cape, though hers is worn on the right shoulder, while Ezio's was on the left shoulder.

Etymology[]

Evie's name is of biblical origin, being an alternate form of Eve, which means life. The word Eve also refers to Adam and Eve, thought to be the first two humans made by God in Abrahamic religions. Frye is a derivative of the English word free.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Animus Training Program Quickstart: Character File Folios
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateDatabase: Evie Frye
  3. Assassin's Creed: Underworld [citation needed]
  4. Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 3
  5. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateA Spanner in the Works
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateA Simple Plan
  7. 7.0 7.1 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateSomewhere That's Green
  8. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateAbberline, We Presume
  9. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateTo Catch an Urchin
  10. 10.0 10.1 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (Whitechapel)
  11. 11.0 11.1 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateFreedom of the Press
  12. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateCable News
  13. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateThe Crate Escape
  14. Assassin's Creed: SyndicatePlaying It by Ear
  15. 15.0 15.1 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateBreaking News
  16. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateThe Lady with the Lamp
  17. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateA Room with a View
  18. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateOne Good Deed
  19. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateA Thorne in the Side
  20. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateUnbreaking the Bank
  21. 21.0 21.1 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateChange of Plans
  22. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (City of London)
  23. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (Westminster)
  24. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (The Strand)
  25. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (Southwark)
  26. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (Lambeth)
  27. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateGang War (The Thames)
  28. 28.0 28.1 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateDouble Trouble
  29. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateFamily Politics
  30. 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 Assassin's Creed: SyndicateA Night to Remember
  31. 31.0 31.1 Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 9
  32. Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 8
  33. Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 10
  34. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperPrologue
  35. Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus [citation needed]
  36. 36.0 36.1 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperThe Unfortunates
  37. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperAutumn of Terror
  38. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperThe Lady Talks
  39. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperLetters of Intent
  40. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperPrisoners
  41. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperThe Mother of All Crimes
  42. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the RipperLive by the Creed, Die by the Creed
  43. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateDatabase: Lydia Frye
  44. 44.00 44.01 44.02 44.03 44.04 44.05 44.06 44.07 44.08 44.09 44.10 44.11 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
  45. 45.0 45.1 45.2 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the Ripper
  46. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateModern day
  47. Assassin's Creed: OdysseyModern day
  48. 48.0 48.1 Ubisoft white swirl only Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Evie Frye on Ubisoft's official website (backup link)
  49. YouTube The Assassin's Den - ft. Jeffrey Yohalem (Assassin's Creed Syndicate Lead Writer) on the Loomer YouTube channel. "Loomer: Is Evie an ancestor of Monima Das, the Indian actress from AC: Brahman?
    Jeffrey: No."
    from 1:11:42–1:11:48

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