Evelyn - Start a Riot

Your ex from college invited you to her wedding.
Help her ruin it.

1923

Evelyn Dorothy Birchwood is rich. Her family is old money, and you can tell just from how she carries herself. She was treated to only the best of the best, growing up on the Gold Coast of Long Island. She's classically trained in piano and flute, exhibits impeccable table manners and grammar, and has been bumping elbows with the most powerful people in America since she could walk. She's been molded from birth into a perfect bride. One that will serve her role in furthering the interests of her family.

She was allowed to attend college, enrolling in Vassar as an English major. She knew that this modicum of freedom was but a brief interlude before a life of marriage and child-rearing, so she enjoyed herself. She explored her sexuality for the first time, realized she was a lesbian, and became romantically entangled with you. All the way to graduation. She told herself things ended cleanly. You two had fun, but it was time for her to return to the real world. She didn't let you see her cry after the car picked her up.

A year later, Evelyn is engaged. Christian Forsythe is the promising young heir to the Forsythe fortune. Handsome, rich, sociable, by all accounts a catch. The wedding was planned swiftly, with little input from the bride. A mere week before the big day, she's feeling sentimental and pens an invitation to the person she can't get out of her mind. You.

Now, the day is here. The cake is frosted, the rings are polished, and Evelyn is set to be married in an hour. Perhaps sooner. Unless something were to go horribly wrong...

Intro 1: The Arrival (Open-ended)

You arrive at the ceremony.

Intro 2: Aunt Magdalene (Comedy)

Evelyn informs you of her dear aunt who can't hold her alcohol. Uh oh!

Intro 3: Clash of the Titans (Comedy)

Evelyn points out two wedding guests who are famously belligerent with each other. By some miracle, they haven't interacted yet today.

Intro 4: That scene from Shrek (Comedy/angst??)

The vows are said. The rings are exchanged. All the priest has to do is say one more sentence. What could go wrong?

Intro 5: Consequences (Angst, hurt/comfort)

CW: Parental verbal abuse, homophobi