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|individual name= Evelina Caecilius Iucundus
|image  = Evelina (TFOP).jpg
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|species = Human
|race= [[Human]]
|origin  = [[Earth]]
|home planet= [[Earth]]
|mother  = Metella
|home era= [[79]]
|father  = Lobus Caecilius
|appearances= [[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]''
|brother = Quintus
|actor= [[Francesca Fowler]]  
|only    = The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)
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|actor  = Francesca Fowler
|clip    = Peter Capaldi's 1st Appearance in Doctor Who - Doctor Who - Fires of Pompeii - BBC
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'''Evelina''', daughter of marble merchant [[Lobus Caecilius]] and his wife, [[Metella]], was a young [[Roman]] woman living in [[Pompeii]] on the eve of its destruction in [[August]] [[79]].


'''Evelina''' was the daughter of [[Lucius Caecilius Iucundus|Caecilius]] and [[Metella]] and the sister to [[Quintus]]. She was forced to join the [[Sibylline Sisterhood]], a local cult of oracles influenced by the alien [[Pyrovile]]s. She had herself breathed in the Pyrovile's dust and had [[psychic]] powers. The Doctor transported her, with her family away from their burning house in [[the TARDIS]], so as to escape the [[volcanic]] eruption. The Doctor told her that the link with Pyrovile had been broken, so that she was no longer psychic.  He also explained that her ability to see the future was due to Mount Vesuvius' eruption being so powerful (the Doctor told Donna it had the power of 24 nuclear bombs) that it cracked open a rift in time for a second and the effects echoed backward through time. Six months later she was living in [[Rome]] with her family and going out more as she was seeing a boy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'')
Evelina showed some precognitive abilities, and so was promised to the [[Sibylline Sisterhood]], a local cult of oracles influenced by the alien [[Pyrovile]]s, as a consecrated priestess.


==Behind the Scenes==
Like her parents and brother [[Quintus]], Evelina was spared from Pompeii's destruction by the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s timely intervention.
*The [[Caecilius]] family ([[Lucius Caecilius Iucundus|Caecilius]], [[Metella Caecilius Iucundus|Metella]] and [[Quintus Caecilius Iucundus|Quintus]]) were based upon characters used in Latin text books, in turn based on actual historical characters but Evelina was invented by [[James Moran]] so she could be a member of the Sibylline Sisterhood.


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Her [[psychic]] abilities vanished with the Pyroviles and the city — the Doctor explained that her ability to see the future was due to [[Mount Vesuvius]]' eruption being so powerful that it cracked open a [[Time rift|rift in time]] for a second and the effects echoed backward through time — so she was free to be an ordinary young woman once more and date, to her father's consternation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'')
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Evelina, daughter of marble merchant Lobus Caecilius and his wife, Metella, was a young Roman woman living in Pompeii on the eve of its destruction in August 79.

Evelina showed some precognitive abilities, and so was promised to the Sibylline Sisterhood, a local cult of oracles influenced by the alien Pyroviles, as a consecrated priestess.

Like her parents and brother Quintus, Evelina was spared from Pompeii's destruction by the Tenth Doctor's timely intervention.

Her psychic abilities vanished with the Pyroviles and the city — the Doctor explained that her ability to see the future was due to Mount Vesuvius' eruption being so powerful that it cracked open a rift in time for a second and the effects echoed backward through time — so she was free to be an ordinary young woman once more and date, to her father's consternation. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)

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