Student Number 26:

Evangeline Athanasia Katherine McDowell (Evanjerin Atanashia Kiti Makudaueru?), listed as Evangeline A.K. McDowell (Evanjerin Makudaueru?) on the seating chart. The only Caucasian girl in the class, her birthday is not known; although her body stopped aging at age 10, she is over 500 years old and because of that she has the habit of refering to herself as old.

A cold and devilish little girl, she is actually a hunted witch and vampire, once having a six million dollar bounty on her head, nicknamed the “Dark Evangel” among other names. She rarely says much in class, and what she does say tends to lean towards an attempt to seem as evil as possible. She does have a soft side, however, which she rarely shows. She enjoys playing Go and is in the Go and Tea Ceremony clubs. She has two Ministra Magi, Chachazero and Chachamaru.

She was born in a castle in Europe during the Middle Ages, possibly in Ireland or Scotland (McDowell’s Mc means grandson of~ in Celtic languages), although it is not known if she was royalty or not. When she awoke on her tenth birthday, she found she had been turned into a vampire while she slept.

Initially she had the customary weakness of a vampire towards sunlight and so on that she learned to overcome, becoming a Shinso (真祖, Shinso?) vampire or “high daylight walker”. She developed her magical powers in order to get revenge on the man who turned her, whom she killed. She was initially forced to lead an itinerant life since she could not hide the fact that her body no longer aged, though she shows she can disguise herself as a much more physically mature version of herself.

Little more is known about her history until more recent times when she was saved by the Thousand Master, then pursued him mercilessly out of love thereafter until he managed to shake her off. Feeling rejected, she finally tracked him down in Japan, but was tricked into walking into an “anti-vampire soup” composed of garlic and leeks.

Employing the powerful Infernus Scholasticus curse, the Thousand Master confined her to the grounds of Mahora Academy and put in place a barrier to restrict her abilities. He claimed that Eva should try to “live in the light for a change” and promised her that he would free her from the curse when she graduated. Unfortunately, 5 years later, he “died”, thus her chance of being free from the curse was gone until his son Negi came. Konoemon Konoe, the School Dean, employed her as a security guard, personally keeping him informed about events occurring in the school.

Evangeline eventually turned on Negi, claiming that, as son of the Thousand Master, draining his blood would enable her to break the curse, although on close examination of what she actually said, it is questionable about whether she really intended to go through with it or not.

Evangeline specializes in ice-based spells and dark magic, and is shown to be incredibly powerful once in her full capacities. This is shown in her easy win over both Fate Averruncus and the demon-god Sukuna. Even devoid of her magical powers, she is still a very skilled fighter and can effortlessly take down a man twice her size, and was even able to overcome Setsuna with her physical abilities alone (though that may be due to the fact that Setsuna at the time was hesitant to strike at the body of a ‘child’).

Her title of Doll (or Puppet) Master stems from the fact that, not only is she able to animate dolls, but she can also control people against their will as if they were puppets. Negi convinces her to become his master in magical combat after he sees her true power in Kyoto, and she becomes a demanding teacher, expecting (as well as a daily payment of blood for the lessons) menial servitude from her student.

Despite the assistance she gave Negi in Kyoto, Herrman never captured her when he captured the girls who helped him in Kyoto, and in fact deliberately avoided her. But she watched the ensuing battle from a distance with Chachamaru and Kaede, noting with satisfaction that Negi’s adversity helped him develop his abilities further. There are clues that she may have a romantic interest in Negi, including her jealousy when she found out that he was also taking lessons from Ku Fei and more recently, a rather sensual kiss she gave him in her resort.

She has mentioned that she does not want to be involved in Chao’s plans, and that she will just sit and watch the whole thing. She also gave Chao full permission to do whatever she wants to Negi.

After the festival, Evangeline puts Asuna through boot camp to help her improve her fighting skills, as it was painfully apparent that Asuna was below Negi’s abilities. She forcefully made Asuna her second apprentice after she clear the boot camp. With her training finished, Evangeline began pitting her classmates against each other once the news of Negi’s plan to go to England got out.

Amused after seeing Makie, Ayaka and the Twins fail to capture Asuna, she then sets up the Badge Collection game, (most likely to test the results of the training Negi’s group had underwent). The rules were simple. One has to only steal away a special badge from one of the members in Negi’s new club. Doing so will give the person the right to accompany the club to Wales. However, the member who loses her badge will be forced to stay behind. Naturally of course, she didn’t inform Negi or the other club members of the game. In the end, their training proved true, and no badges were taken.

According to Chachamaru, Evangeline dislike the name “Negima-dan” as the temporary group name for the new “club” Asuna started. The badges she give out during the collection game is one of the attempt she try to rename the club.(As she was asked to become the Supervisor of the club by Asuna earlier) The badges are shape like a wing and contains the new group name “ALA ALBA”, which means “White Wing” in Latin. Chachamaru explain that this name is driven from Thousand Master’s group name “ALA RUBRA”, which mean “Crimson Wing”.
Trivia:

  • Evangeline’s Stats: B:67, W:48, H:63
  • Evangeline’s last name is a possible pun on the Japanese pronunciation of the phrase “make doll.”
  • Evangeline’s titles include:
    -Dark Evangel (Kana: Dark Evangel?)
    -Doll Master (Kana: Doll Master?)
    -Maga Nosferatu (Kana: Maga Nosferatu? meaning “the Undead Mage/Wizard”).
    -The Queen of The Night (Kana: The Queen of The Night?)
  • Several publications refer to Evangeline’s whole name as Evangeline Athanasia Kitty McDowell, however the original pactio card that Akamatsu released writes her name in Latin as Evangelina Athanasia Ecaterina MacDovell. This should have led it to become Evangeline Athanasia Katerina McDowell. Ecaterina, Katerina, and Kitty are all different versions of the name Catherine (the latter being a nickname).
  • Negima!: Although consistently a thorn on Negi’s side, she does assist when needed. In the final battle, her Pactio ability awakens her true power once again. In a rare act of kindness she casts a spell to reveal Sayo to the rest of the class because as she says “She’s the only one to know how it feels to be trapped at the school.”
  • Negima!?: After her defeat against Negi, Evangeline tries to stay on the sidelines during the Star Crystal crisis, watching from a distance and spending more time eating ramen and drinking tea with Takamichi and Chachamaru. However she finds herself a target of the true enemy, first turned into a giant and then possessed by the Star Crystals themselves. With the assistance of his students, Negi defeats Evangeline again by doing a Pactio on her, freeing her from the evil influence.

(Seiyū: Yuki Matsuoka, English VA: Laura Bailey, Spanish VA: Ana Lucia Ramos)

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