

One of her kidneys was transplanted into a teenage girl by the name of Mariko Anzai. This car crash was planned by Eve, who had previously influenced Kiyomi into getting an organ donor card. On her final birthday, she suddenly finds herself asleep at the wheel, dreaming she awakens just as she crashes into a telephone pole. On her birthdays, she has a recurring dream that is reminiscent of projected conditions on earth from millions of years ago, before the symbiosis between mitochondria and cells proposed by the endosymbiotic theory.

In the novel, Eve is revealed to have developed over the years in a Japanese woman named Kiyomi Nagashima. The first Eve Main article: Kiyomi Nagashima 1.1 Differences between the novel and film.SHE is just borrowing an image of "Mitochondrial Eve"." So there is a little trick of description in my book. SHE is a monster made from hepatocytes (liver cells) of a modern human. Hideaki Sena notes, "The monster in my book is not identical to the genetic meaning of "Mitochondrial Eve". Mitochondria Eve take their name from the theorized Mitochondrial Eve, a historic woman (or women) in Africa that modern humans derive their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from.


As such, the Eves have arrogant, cold, merciless and ruthless personalities. They consider humanity to be useless and unnecessary parasite to the planet. The goal of the Eves are to kill, eradicate and slaughter humanity - every human on the planet - in favor of producing "superior" organisms that have the ability to control and manipulate their own DNA. In the novel, they are portrayed as connected organisms present in the cell, contrary to normal mitochondria, which are individuals.Īll the Eve incarnations have many powers, but they all possess a single, common power: the ability to telepathically cause living organisms to combust, melt into slime, or transform into Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures (NMCs). All Eves are women who have been taken over by the consciousness of the mitochondria in their cells. In actuality, there are multiple Eve incarnations. Mitochondria Eve, also simply called Eve, is the main villainess and antagonist in both the Parasite Eve novel/ film and game. You HAVE the ability to EVOLVE! Why take the side of a DOOMED species?! -Eve trying to convince Aya Brea to give up on humanity
