Parasite Eve (video game)/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

=== Aya Brea ===

 

A 25-year-old police officer whose life changes when a date [[At the Opera Tonight]] (Tonight being Christmas Eve 1997) goes horribly wrong. As the only person to not not-so-spontaneously combust upon the awakening of Mitochondria Eve, she struggles to understand and rein in her own bizarre powers while racing to stop Eve from giving birth to the Ultimate Being and destroying and/or forcibly evolving humanity in the process. {{spoiler|She's immune to Eve because they share donor organs from her twin, Maya. More on that further down.}}

 

=== Mitochondria Eve ===

 

A mysterious, ancient evil that takes over the body of opera singer Melissa Pearce and sets about her master plan to reverse humanity's symbiotic relationship between the nucleus (banks of genetic information that dictate what cells grow where and when) and the mitochondria (organic powerplants that fuel cellular activity). To this end, she dissolves a solo performance crowd at Central Park into raw genetic material and allies with {{spoiler|Melissa's former doctor, Hans Klamp,}} to procure sperm for her [[Enfant Terrible]], the Ultimate Being. {{spoiler|Was carried by mitochondria in donor organs from Maya Brea that Melissa received, and allowed to awaken after Melissa pushed her body to its absolute limit via excessive doses of transplant-preserving immunosuppressants.}}

 

=== Daniel "Bo" Dollis ===

 

Aya's partner and [[Black Best Friend]]; combined, the manual refers to them as the "Father and Daughter Team" of the NYPD's 17th Precinct. His introduction is a [[Dynamic Entry]] that sets the tone for his take-no-nonsense approach to the Eve case, along with his determination to thwart any mundane threat that sets its eyes on Aya or his son Ben.

 

=== Benjamin Dollis ===

 

Daniel's son, in the custody of his ex-wife Lorraine due to his long hours on the force. Initially planned to reunite the family at Melissa Pearce's Central Park solo concert, but Eve's awakening changed all that. {{spoiler|Along with Lorraine, into part of the mito-mass that became the Ultimate Being's uterus.}} Likes dogs, and is quickly introduced to the K-9 unit's Sheeva, which goes about as well as you'd expect for a game reveling in its high levels of [[Transformation Trauma]].

 

=== Kenneth Baker ===

 

Chief of the NYPD 17th. Joined the force at about the same time as Daniel, and still maintains casual terms with him despite their difference in rank. Takes care of Ben while Daniel and Aya are on the scene in Central Park, only to get himself injured protecting him from the mutated Sheeva.

 

=== Kunihiko Maeda ===

 

Japanese biologist and walking [[Info Dump]] for the events of the novel, who hopped the first plane to New York when he heard of the fire at Carnegie Hall. After rescuing Aya following her clash with Eve at Central Park, he relates the tale of the original Eve's attempt to birth an Ultimate Being and discovers the reason behind Aya's immunity to the current Eve. Afterwards, his main role is [[Stop Helping Me|dispensor of inventory space-wasting good luck charms]], including one literal [[Chekhov's Gun]].

 

=== Hans Klamp ===

 

Anthropologist at the Museum of Natural History, who is mysteriously at work despite both the Christmas holiday and an evacuation of Manhattan following Eve's audience liquification event at Central Park. {{spoiler|Oversaw the operations that transplanted Maya Brea's organs into Aya and Melissa, supplied Melissa with enough immunosuppressants to let the mitochondria in Maya's kidney take her over as Eve, and [[You Fail Biology Forever|removed the mitochondria from his sperm]] to make it prime material for fertilizing the Ultimate Being. Apparently has been pulling a [[Long Con]] and considered a variety of potential organ recipients for creating the UB, as Lorraine Dollis is listed on the same HLA list that he pilfered from St. Francis Hospital.}}

 

=== Maya Brea ===

 

Is dead. Aya keeps having visions and flashbacks of her as she pursues Eve, though. {{spoiler|Is also the [[Bonus Boss]].}}

 

=== Aya Brea ===

 

Ace operative of the FBI's anti-mitochondrial mutant task force, MIST [[Fun With Acronyms|(Mitochondrion Investigation and Suppression Team)]], formed following reports of Eve's mutated animal minions spreading out from Manhattan. Three years since what has become known as the "N.Y. Blockade" incident, Aya's journey to destroy the newly-monikered "Neo-Mitochondrion Creatures" (NMCs) and put a seal on her own unpredictable powers has led her to Los Angeles. However, an investigation into an NMC outbreak near the ghost town of Dryfield, Nevada will hit closer to home than she ever imagined...

 

=== Gary Douglas ===

 

The last living resident of Dryfield (excepting his dog, Flint, and the hordes of NMCs Aya's come to clean out). A Vietnam vet with a gun collection big enough to claim the title of "The new Wayne", he helps Aya resupply during the investigation despite being compensated in [[Global Currency|some newfangled RPG currency]] rather than cold hard cash. After Aya's car is totaled by a herd of NMCs, he also volunteers his truck to get her and Kyle (below) to an old nuclear shelter that may be the source of the infestation.

 

=== Kyle Madigan ===

 

A so-called private detective Aya encounters in Dryfield, claiming to be looking into strange shipments going into a nearby nuclear shelter once owned by a doomsday cult. Since he's one of the few [[Escort Mission]] escortees in the business who doesn't suck for some reason or another, Aya teams up with him to discover the shelter's connection to the new NMCs. {{spoiler|Is a [[Double Agent]] for what's left of the Neo-Ark group, hired to bring Aya so that she could open the pathway to a runaway test subject. In turn, he was planted in Neo-Ark by the U.S. government, to pinpoint their Ultimate Being analogue for destruction via [[Kill Sat|orbital railgun]].}}

 

=== Eve ===

 

Wondered when she'd show up, eh? Don't expect the [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] of the last game, however - the new Eve's a [[Mysterious Waif]] {{spoiler|cloned from Aya herself}} and [[The Woobie|raised in isolation with the shittiest children's toys known to man]] - all to heighten her sense of fear and self-preservation as {{spoiler|the eventual living engine for Neo-Ark's not-quite-an-Ultimate-Being.}} At least her teddy bear's halfway normal.