Mitochondria Eve
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This page is about a group of fictional characters. For the scientific term, see Mitochondrial Eve.
Mitochondria Eve is a fictional character who serves as the main villainess in the Parasite Eve film and game series. All Eves are actually women who have been taken over by the consciousness of the mitochondria in their cells. All the Eve incarnations have many powers, but they all possess a single, common power: the ability to cause living animals to combust.
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[edit] First Eve
The first Eve, as seen in the Japanese horror novel and film Parasite Eve, was a sweet young woman named Kiyomi Nagashima (née Kataoka), born in Japan on December 24 sometime in the 1970s. As a young adult, Kiyomi married Toshiaki Nagashima, a young pharmicologist and microbiologist specializing in mitochondrial research. Kiyomi was very badly injured in an automobile accident and soon suffered brain death.
Toshiaki, overcome with grief, agreed to let Kiyomi's organs to be transplanted on the condition that the surgeon give him Kiyomi's liver so he can cultivate the cells. The surgeon, desperate to save his patient, a fourteen-year-old girl, Mariko Anzai, agreed. Kiyomi's kidney was removed and transplanted into the girl and her liver was given to Toshiaki as promised.
Events quickly became stranger when Mariko started going through bizarre changes. Kiyomi's mitochondria was transforming Mariko's uterus. Meanwhile, Toshiaki had successfully cultivated Kiyomi's liver cells and a strange organism calling herself Eve was born.
Eve obtained Toshiaki's genetic code in an attempt to birth an "Ultimate Being". She proceeded to the hospital and abducted Mariko. Eve transferred the zygote into Mariko's womb, which progressed through the gestation progress in a matter of minutes, was born and reached biological maturity in a few seconds.
After the new Eve's birth, the old one died. Before the new Eve could lay waste to humanity, however, her molecular structure began to destabilize. As it turned out, the paternal mitochondria in Toshiaki's sperm were destroying Eve's maternal mitochondria. Toshiaki asked his "daughter" to join with him, which she did and they died together.
(In the film, Toshiaki confronted Eve before she put the zygote in Mariko. Toshiaki was able to connect with what remained of Kiyomi inside Eve and in the end, Eve and Toshiaki combusted and burned to death on top of the hospital. The Ultimate Being never was born)
In the film, Kiyomi/Eve was played by Riona Hazuki.
[edit] Second Eve
The second Eve was, in essence, two humans: Maya Brea and Melissa Pearce. Like Kiyomi, Maya Brea was killed in a car accident. Her kidney was transplanted into a young girl named Melissa Pearce and her cornea was transplanted into her sister, Aya Brea. Maya's mitochondria spent eleven years in a dormant state within Melissa. During the time after Melissa's transplant, she fell constantly ill and was advised to take immunosuppressant drugs; This was done in order to prevent her internal systems from rejecting the new organ (Melissa believed this was why she was sick). However unknown to Melissa, it was Maya's mitochondria that caused her illness and the immunosuppressants Melissa took allowed Maya's mitochondria to gain a greater control over her (This persisted and worsened her sickness). Finally on December 24, 1997, in order to star in an opera performance, Melissa who was feeling ill, overdosed on the immunosuppressant drugs. This drug overdose collapsed Melissa's immune system allowing Maya's mitochondria to finally take full control of Melissa, transforming Melissa into Eve.
Over the next six days, Eve tried to birth an Ultimate Being, just like her predecessor. Aya Brea, who was immune to Eve's powers, challenged her at every turn, but in the end, Eve was successful, using specially-engineered sperm that contained no paternal mitochondria. Eve was killed by Aya, but not before she gave birth to the Ultimate Being. Fortunately, Aya Brea was able to kill the Ultimate Being by blowing a ship similar to an Iowa class battleship up with the Ultimate Being aboard.
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[edit] Third Eve
The third Eve is the only benevolent Eve known to the series. She is a clone of Aya Brea born in a subterranean, shadow government facility known as Neo-Ark. The clone, dubbed simply "Eve", was brain-washed from a young age and used to control an artificially race of Neo-Mitochondrians. Eventually, the US government was able to find and destroy the laboratory thanks to the mole (hinted to be Kyle Madigan) who tipped them off and Aya Brea managed rescue the young girl, adopting Eve and raising her as a daughter or sister. But not before defeating her after she had merged the large pupa N.M. whom Aya had already defeated. In this form, she possessed phenomenal speed and power that rivaled the second Eve, but lacked the intelligence both the previous Eves seemed to possess.
After Aya successfully defeated this form, in a stroke of desperation, the N.M. version of Eve grabbed Aya and tried to absorb Aya into herself. However, there was yet another rebellion. Just as the N.M. Eve tried to fly out to Earth's surface and cause a pandemic on a planetary scale, Aya's cells fought against the organism trying to absorb her and caused the N.M. Eve to disintegrate, releasing both the real Eve and Aya. Eve had then seemingly lost her Mitochondrian powers as well as the memory of her past in Neo-Ark and returned to her benevolent self.
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