yan served Pierce County as an AmeriCorps volunteer who treated civic duty as upkeep. He learned that disasters do not start with weather alone. They begin with thin budgets, delayed repairs and officials betting they can get through one more season. During the 2006 100-Year Storm, floodwater ripped through the Puyallup watershed as crews raced to shore up failing levees. Ryan worked until his hands split open, guiding residents and stacking sandbags.
Then a falling cedar hurled him into toxic runoff as a substation blew apart. Lightning hit the water, his service pin, the gavel he carried, and cedar roots, welding them into a living core bound to his heartbeat.
He survived changed and in pain, carrying a green force that answered to stress, truth, and civic order. His first acts with power were acts of service: calming panic, opening routes and moving aid where systems failed. He learned that each gift kept the same rule his old work had revealed. Mello-Tone uncovers common ground, but makes him carry the strain it lifts. Gateways can move help across Pierce County, but only when rules and funding are clear enough to hold.
Exposure is his hardest power, forcing hidden records into public sight. As Evergreen, Ryan protects this region by keeping it honest, connected, and alive.
Abilities
Primary
Mello-Tone
Evergreen sends out a harmonic wave that quiets panic, rage, and fear across about a city block for up to three minutes. It cannot manufacture agreement, only reveal the shared ground already there. Every use shifts the eased strain into his own body and mind.
Secondary
Gateways
By drawing civic diagrams in the air, Evergreen opens portals that move medics, supplies, or evacuees across Pierce County. The gateways hold only while laws, authority and funding are clear. Unclear jurisdiction throws them off balance and turns them into storm-rifts.
Ultimate
Exposure
A solar-green burst marks targets with visible runes of their records, emissions, lies, and buried notes for twenty-four hours. Weak points burn red, falsehoods green, and bias purple. The effect is public and severe, so Evergreen reserves it for harm protected by secrecy.
When flood-relief lines outside a damaged aid center turned into shoving, threats, and claims of favoritism, Evergreen stepped between armed deputies and families. He used Mello-Tone once. Fury gave way to exhausted honesty as people simply named what they needed: insulin, blankets, transport, translation. He reset the line, kept either side from firing, then collapsed behind the trucks, shaking under the sorrow he had absorbed to keep strangers from tearing each other apart.
During a hospital transfer ahead of a chemical spill, Evergreen opened a Gateway and started moving patients across Pierce County. Mid-evacuation, a contractor dispute froze the emergency authorization linked to transport funds. The portal began shredding into green wind. Rather than force it and risk lives inside the rift, Ryan stopped the line, argued the procurement chain on his tablet, and pushed three agencies into lawful alignment before the opening failed.
After months of “unavoidable” levee failures, Evergreen traced the damage to a developer protected by donors, lawyers and sealed memos. At a packed public hearing, he used Exposure. Glowing runes spread across the man’s suit, surfacing buried notes, falsified emissions, bribed approvals, and the weak points behind his polished image. The room watched reputation collapse into evidence. Evergreen won the truth, but crossed into a harsher kind of justice he cannot treat lightly.
