Ms. Yu
And grace, too
Character Information
History
Yu Zhen was born in New York's Chinatown in 1960. She was the only child of Chinese immigrants who fled China's civil war in 1949. A free-spirited and willful child, she learned to fend for herself from a young age.
She joined the global law-enforcement group W.A.T.C.H. in 1976 after helping them "unofficially" on a few cases. There, she met her future husband, William "Bill" Mitchell, aka the hero Cooperstown. They were wed on December 21st, 1978.
She retired from crime-fighting in 1985 after apparently suffering a miscarriage, only to return in 2015 looking 40 years younger than she usually would be.
The Star Child
Evelyn, her husband Bill, and their former teammates Dirk Nebula and MENIAC were abducted in 2003 by the insane extra-terrestrial calling himself the Star Child. He spent months torturing and killing them, only to resurrect them in bodies that were based on how he remembered them when he fought them in 1977 as part of W.A.T.C.H. None of them seem to have aged a day since.
Following this ordeal, Evelyn spent several years in mental institutions and abroad before returning to Paragon City.
Personality
Evelyn has always been headstrong and unafraid to say what's on her mind. Her brutal honesty has caused a few awkward moments in her career but has also made her a faithful friend.
The Star Child made her a 60-year-old in a forever 16-year-old body. It also altered her brain's speech centers, causing her to speak in broken English unless she intensely concentrated on what she wanted to say.
She has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and anxiety disorders and is followed by a psychiatrist.
Since she semi-retired from crimefighting, she now owns and operates Lee Ho Fook's, a traditional Sichuan restaurant in Talos Island.
Abilities and Equipment
She is a self-taught archery expert with the traditional Chinese longbow and possesses above-average acrobatic skills.
Despite her youthful looks, she is a 40-year veteran crime-fighter.
Her weapon of choice is the Chinese longbow.
She bestowed to her granddaughter Cindy the one she previously used, which had been in her family for five generations.