there is no character who is a one-to-one parallel to evelyn clawthorne. she represents everything in the demon realm that drew caleb to leave behind gravesfield. if caleb had other witch friends that inspired him to do so there isn’t any time or reason to describe it in so much detail so all of it is encompassed in evelyn. textually, caleb left phillip to be with evelyn. but emotionally, he left behind a suppressive environment where he was always under pressure to be someone he could never be, in favor of a world where he can be himself and be loved for it. it’s like luz, but they expand on the people around her better because ultimately the show is about her.

eda is luz’s evelyn in that eda’s bird palisman initially lured luz into the human realm. she is the splitting image of her ancestor, and shows luz a whole world of magic that she had only dreamed of.

willow and gus are luz’s evelyn in that luz never had any friends while she was in connecticuit. when she meets them, she finds out that she isn’t alone. there are people out there who would be friends with luz for who she really is.

amity is luz’s evelyn in that she is the witch that luz fell in love with. luz’s other friends are already a reason for her to want to stay behind on the isles, but her love for amity is one more motivation for this. also the first time she met luz’s brother she beat the shit out of him just like the real evelyn did with her brother in law we love to see a girlboss winning

amity, willow, and gus are all hunter’s evelyn in that they show him he has a chance to leave behind the oppressive environment he grew up in. that even if he gave up everything he’s ever known, there will still be people who care for him.

flapjack is hunter’s evelyn in that he gives him an attachment outside of phillip. belos was hunters only family, but flapjack, a memento from the real evelyn, shows that even outside his family, there can be someone he cares about. who will love and support him no matter what.

luz is hunter’s evelyn in that she makes him question his worldview. he has been raised to fear wild magic, but luz shows him it’s not all bad. that she and others who practice it are not all bad. hunter’s hatred of criminals and wild witches, which he had adhered to, fell apart when he grew to care about someone within that group.

hunter is not luz’s evelyn. he supports her like the rest of their friends, but by the time he becomes her friend, luz had already fallen in love with the boiling isles and no longer needs additional reasons to want to stay. belos, while eager to blame hunter for lots of things, doesn’t think this either. he blames luz for leading hunter astray and blames the boiling isles for leading luz astray, but doesn’t care enough about the witches around her to go into specifics.

but to belos, hunter is his caleb. luz sees herself as belos, but she is belos’s caleb as well. he wants hunter to care for him like caleb used to. but he also hates caleb for leaving, so he hates hunter as well. he wants luz to make the “right” choice as the new caleb, to forsake the boiling isles and choose the human world with him.

but hunter and luz are not the perfect caleb that belos imagined ought to exist. and when they are similar to the real caleb, they are similar for the reasons belos killed his brother in the first place. so belos kills every single golden guard. he tries to kill everyone luz loves and get her on his side before trying to kill her as well. and all the while, he rages at all the calebs, and the entire island of evelyns, all of them leading astray the people he’s projected onto.

but phillip wittebane never bothers to think about why luz and hunter chose the boiling isles over him. he never wonders what about evelyn clawthorne and the demon realm was so appealing to caleb. and of course, he never wonders what he himself did that drove his brother away.