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Banned
Post Mortem: Parasite Eve
Published by: Square Electronic Arts (US)
Developed by: Square
Genre: RPG
Number of Players: 1
Release Date:
US: September 9, 1998
Japan: Released
Europe: Released
Australia: Released
MSRP: $28.99
ESRB Content Descriptors: Animated Violence, Mature Sexual Themes
Features: Memory Card, Dual Shock
Christmas Eve. Manhattan, New York.
Pearl colored flakes drift slowly from a sighing onyx sky. Scants of gumdrop rain pokes it's nose here and there, reflecting the white glare of the falling snow. The effect is remniscet of the twinkle lights that currently infest and posses the city and add, most dutifully to the spirit of the Season. Lady Liberty stands vigilently despite the winter onslought, her proud gaze piercing the bleakness of the night.
Yet, while she is steadfast in her position, unwavering and defient, she weeps softly. Is it the melting of the eggshell snow that has rested beneath her copper crafted eyes? Or does she truly cry for her city? Does she know something we do not? Impossible. Nothing is amiss. The city is the same as the year before. Whats more, the holiday spirirt should outshine any evildoings or malcontent that would dare rear itself, right? Someone, somewhere however, is as warm inside as it is fridgid outside.
And So The Journey Begins
Mitochondria -
A microorganism that lives within human cells and has existed symbiotically with the nucleus for hundreds of millions of years. Critical for production of energy within living things, mitochondria has its own genetic code and the ability to evolve and multiply. What if this organism had it's own intentions and was waiting for the day to take over the human race...?
Plot
Aya Brea, a 25 year old NYPD rookie, is attending an opera in New York City's Carnegie Hall on a 'date' during Christmas Eve when suddenly nearly every person in the theater bursts into flames. Aya, an actress on stage and the man Aya came with are the only three people in the entire building who remain unharmed. Aya confronts the actress, Melissa Pearce, and before disappearing backstage Pearce cryptically mentions that the mitochondria in Aya's cells need more time to develop. After her encounter with the actress, Aya feels a change in her body: a sudden heat along with a new power. Aya travels backstage in search of Pearce and eventually finds Melissa's diary. She discovers the actress's greed for a particular part and her addiction to a certain medication. In the final room backstage, Aya encounters Pearce, who mutates into a flying monstrosity. Pearce declares that she is no longer Melissa Pearce, but "Eve", a being hellbent on a mission to free mitochondria everywhere. Eve escapes to the sewer system, but Aya confronts her once more after defeating a variety of mutated creatures, which would eventually be labelled "Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures", or NMCs for short. Eve states that she is going to give Aya more time to evolve and escapes while Aya is distracted battling a giant mutated crocodile.
After surviving through an uncomfortable press conference regarding the events at Carnegie Hall, Aya travels with Daniel, her NYPD partner, to see a mitochondria expert at the Museum of Natural History. Dr. Hans Klamp provides them with scientific information that is of no use, and Aya and Daniel suspect something about Klamp is amiss. In spite of their inklings, they return to their police precinct, only to discover that Eve is holding a show in Central Park. Aya travels to the park alone because Daniel would be subjected to Eve's dangerous power over mitochondria. She fights her way to the amphitheater where Eve is, but Eve once again departs as Aya arrives. However, Eve first uses her powers to liquify the entire audience at the park into an orange, slimy mass. Aya chases after Eve, and they end up fighting in a carriage. The horse loses control because of Eve's influence, and Aya falls unconscious.
The game then follows Daniel for a brief period of time. Daniel learns that his son, Ben Dollis, has escaped the slimy mass while his ex-wife, Lorraine, has been absorbed. At the precinct he also learns that the entire borough of Manhattan is in the process of being evacuated due to the threat that Eve presents. The scene then transitions to a Japanese man desperate to enter the borough despite police barricades. When one of the cops begins to burn, the Japanese man, Kunihiko Maeda, is able to slip through. The next scene portrays Aya waking up in Maeda's SoHo apartment; Daniel is there as well. Maeda reveals to the pair that similar incidents have occurred in Japan. It all began after a scientist tried to culture his wife's cells after she was involved in a car accident. Her mitochondria eventually overtook her physical body, but the lifespan of Eve, the mitochondria being, was short. Eve therefore donated her organs, and her kidneys were ultimately transplanted into a young girl. Eve tried to give birth to an ultimate being after acquiring the scientist's sperm, but she failed. After hearing the truth behind Eve, Aya is left contemplating whether or not she herself is a monster.
The next morning, the trio go to the museum, in order to learn more about the mitochondria, and discover that the nuclei in Aya's cells fight the Eve mitochondria. Dr. Maede discusses the theory behind this, mentioning real life author Richard Dawkins' book, The Selfish Gene. Then Dr. Klamp enters and watches the sample of Aya's blood and starts to ask her questions. When Daniel sees a list of names with his son and ex-wife on it, he tries to force Klamp to speak, but Aya stops him. The three of them leave and go to the police station to find that it has been attacked. Aya and Daniel search for Ben who is seen chasing the police dog Sheeva. Aya finally catches up with Ben and Captain Baker and protects him from Sheeva, who transforms into a Cerberus-like NMC.
After defeating the monster, Aya learns from Maeda that Eve will need sperm to give birth to the ultimate being, so they go to the hospital. Aya goes alone and gets trapped in the basement after Eve sabotages the elevator and causes a blackout. After restoring the electricity, Aya heads upstairs to the sperm bank where she finds that is too late. She then goes to the roof where, after a big fight, Eve appears and Aya realizes that her sister Maya is the true original Eve. A narrow escape from a pair of military planes that crash into the hospital then follows.
The next day, the player finds Aya in Chinatown answering a call from Maeda. Following Eve's trail, Aya goes into the sewers, reaching the water control plant. There the mass of people from the park enters the city water system. Aya continues to advance reaching the subway, where she is able to get above ground.
Aya goes to the museum for a third time. This time, the place is overrun with monsters and dinosaurs. She fights her way to Dr. Klamp's office, and there he tells Aya and her companions the truth about how Eve needed special sperm without masculine cells, which he has engineered for her, to create the ultimate being. After this explanation, he asks Eve to take him. Daniel and Maeda escape by jumping out of the window, while the doctor dies from spontaneous human combustion. Aya continues her search, finally finding a pregnant Eve on the fourth floor of the museum. After a discussion about evolution, the mass that has changed into a humanoid form takes Eve inside itself, forming a protective barrier so that she can give birth.
After several failed attempts to attack Eve, the military decides that a nuclear attack is the only way. Aya, the only person who can get near Eve without bursting into flames, is tasked with delivering a bomb that will destroy her. This takes place in front of the Statue of Liberty, but even after the explosion apparently destroys Eve, Aya wants to make sure so she parachutes into the island for a final showdown. Eve dies wondering if Aya is the mitochondria's natural enemy.
Everything seems to be over and Aya is recovering onboard a Navy ship, but an explosion takes place, and from the rest of the mass a creature is born and attacks the other ships. Aya decides not to leave, but fights the ultimate being. After fighting the many forms of the being, Daniel makes a suicidal jump to deliver Aya special bullets that can inflict extra damage on the being. Finally, Aya makes the ship explode with the being inside, putting an end to the crisis. When the three arrive in port, Maeda reveals that Aya received a corneal transplant from her sister Maya when she was young, which explains Aya's power. But Maeda also warns that Aya's mitochondria may well evolve differently than Eves.
The game ends with Aya, Maeda, Daniel and Ben again attending the opera. When the scene that began everything the previous year arrives, Aya's eyes turn red, she stands, and everyone else's eyes begin to turn red, too. However, this ending is not considered canon since the EX game presents the real ending. According to her Profile, this is what Mitochondrion Eve meant when she stated, "The more you use that power, the more you will become like me."
The Three Eves
Aya Brea
Aya Brea was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1972. She is of mixed ethnicity: her father (name unrevealed), who is a journalist, was white, her mother (Mariko) was Japanese. This gives her a unique appearance as she boasts many Asian facial features, such as the shape of her face and eyes, while possessing typically Caucasian coloring, including blue eyes and fair blonde hair. She had a sister named Maya who, along with her mother, died in an automobile accident in or around December 1977.
After Maya's death, her organs were preserved, which allowed for one of her corneas to be transplanted into Aya, in 1986. At the same time, one of Maya's kidneys was transplanted into a young girl named Melissa Pearce. Unknown to any of the doctors, Maya Brea's mitochondria were highly evolved and began changing Aya and Melissa's genetic structure.
As a young woman, Aya studied criminology at the University of Massachusetts and was involved in their ROTC program, but any record of military service is never mentioned within the game. She later became a detective with the NYPD 17th precinct. Within the first 6 months of working at the precinct, Aya became involved in an incident known as the New York Blockade Incident to the general public. As an officer, she became part of the "father and daughter" team where she was partnered up with Daniel "Bo" Dollis, a veteran cop, who can be considered overly protective of her at worst. On December 24, 1997, Aya attended an opera performance at Carnegie Hall with her date (whose name is never mentioned), which starred Melissa Pearce as the lead.
During the performance, Maya's advanced mitochondria, which had lain dormant in Melissa for eleven years, awakened and transformed her into Mitochondria Eve. As her first act against humankind, Eve killed everyone in Carnegie Hall via spontaneous human combustion, except for Aya who was immune to the effect.
During the next six days, Aya fought Eve and the creatures she spawned, known as Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures or NMCs, all across Manhattan, greatly assisted by the incredible powers she started to exhibit. Aya would later discover that she was granted great power due to the fact that she possessed Maya's mitochondria (transferred to her body during the corneal transplant), but it was unable to take control of her as it did Melissa because of Aya's evolved cell nuclei. Aya fought and destroyed a strain of rapidly evolving mitochondria that threatened to enslave all humanity. Eventually, Aya engaged Eve in a showdown on Liberty Island, in which Eve was killed. After this however, she had to destroy The Ultimate Being, that Eve gave birth to. After an ongoing battle between her humanity and evolution, Aya successfully managed to destroy the creature with a little help from Daniel and Kunihiko Maeda (a Japanese scientist assisting them with advice in these matters). She soon became a hero among the government ranks for her courageous acts while few civilians are aware of the details of the event.
After the events in the game transpire, she, along with her friends try to make up for a lost Christmas by going to the opera at Carnegie Hall once again. During this time, Aya communicates with the entire audience's mitochondria and their eyes begin to glow a pinkish red. The meaning behind this ending is debated by many players. Some say that this is what Eve meant when she told Aya: "The more you use those powers, the more you become like me." This leads up to this ending possibly being non-canonical, where if the player plays through the Chrysler Building and defeats the Purebred Eve, Aya will lose her mitochondrial powers (albeit gaining newer, less superior ones leading up to the sequel) thus, saving the audience as well as all of mankind once again.
A few months after Eve's rampage in New York, Aya left the force and joined a newly-formed branch of the FBI known as the Mitochondrion Investigation and Suppression Team or MIST. The purpose of MIST, based out of Los Angeles, is to hunt down and destroy any remaining NMCs. During her time as a MIST Agent, Aya had always worked alone due to the abnormality of her powers. "I try not to show others my mitochondrial powers. I can see the fear in their eyes." Another fact worth noting is that due to her awakened mitochondria in her cells, Aya appears younger than her biological age. Despite having this as a benefit, Aya would be happier just living one normal life rather than living into another century beyond the 21st.
In early September of 2000, Aya was following a lead to a tiny town called Dryfield in the Mojave Desert where she met a 29-year-old P.I. from Texas called Kyle Madigan (who she formed a partnership with). With Kyle's co-operation, Aya soon discovered a strange shadow government facility called Neo-Ark where scientists were using Aya's DNA to breed a race of Artificial Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures. To control the ANMCs, the Neo-Ark directors brainwashed a young girl named Eve, a clone of Aya. Given Eve's age and various clues in the game, Eve is thought to be a clone that ages rapidly, considering she looks 10 years old and was cloned after Aya's mitochondria was awakened in 1997. Two more disturbing theories which have been put forward are that Eve is actually a clone of Maya Brea or possibly a clone of Aya made before Aya's mitochondria awakened, thus suggesting the shadow government knew about Aya's potential. After discovering that Eve, as well as the ANMCs were all made from her, she felt obligated to "finish what she started" and once again, save humanity from an ominious fate which was ultimately the cause of her own physical existence.
After the destruction of the Neo-Ark facility, as well as her "struggle" having finally ended, Aya left MIST, any documents containing information regarding the NMCs were disposed of by the US Government, she took the young Eve in, forming a motherly/sisterly bond with her, and thanks to one of her friends in MIST, Rupert Broderick, pulled some strings and created a profile for Eve saying that she's Aya's sister, no questions asked. Aya's boss, Eric Baldwin was discovered to be a mole for the shadow government and was ultimately locked behind bars for treason courtesy of Aya learning so from another one of her friends, Pierce D. Carradine. Baldwin's place leading MIST was taken by Rupert Broderick following the inside investigation. Kyle Madigan (who disappeared after the Neo Ark events) meets with Aya and Eve in N.Y, and is hinted that both Aya and Kyle are getting involved in a romantic relationship.
Melissa Pearce
Mitochondria Eve is a fictional character who serves as the main villainess in both 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.
The first Eve was seen in the Japanese horror novel and film Parasite Eve. The second Eve was, in essence, two humans: Maya Brea and Melissa Pearce.[1] 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 Pearce. 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).
Years later, Pearce is an opera singer living in New York City. 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 because revealing her true form, Eve. Melissa gets the lead role for a production though after the lead died in an apartment fire. During her performance at the opera people began to burst into flames, the only person not affected was Aya Brea. While the people were burning, Melissa plays a Piano before she transforming into more powerful form, Mitochondria 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 up a ship similar to Ticonderoga Class AEGIS with the Ultimate Being aboard.
Judith Siirila provided Melissa's singing voice.
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 created 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 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.
Characters
Daniel Dollis
Daniel Dollis is a veteran detective with 20 years of experience and a long time colleague of Aya Brea. He is 42 years old and operates in the 17th Precinct of the NYPD police. He has a very one-minded nature towards his profession, making him sometimes gruff and disclosed to spending time with his family. It is because of this, that his wife, Lorraine divorces him nearly a year before the events of the game, leaving him with the custody of their son Ben Dollis.
During the events of Parasite Eve, Daniel serves as a supporting role for the Aya, giving her encouraging words of experience while he attempts to function with the terms of his divorce and the eventual death of his ex-wife. Prior to Aya's confrontation of the Ultimate Being, he nearly sacrifices himself in order to deliver special mitochondria-laced bullets to assist her in the battle. He also finally reconsiders the effects of his neglect of his family in place of his profession and is shown spending time with his son. In the events of the second game, he is presumed to be still working at the NYPD police district. Though he doesn't make an actual appearance, he's briefly mentioned by Aya as being a terrible cook, and is compared with Gary Douglas; Aya considered both men were "stubborn, but with a heart of gold".
Ben Dollis
The eight year-old son of Daniel and Lorraine Dollis, he is an inquisitive and perky young child that finds himself disappointed with his father's obsession with work. He frequently attempts to unite his family together, and is devastated with the mutation/death of his mother by Eve. In the ending of the game, he is shown finally spending quality time with his father as they attend a concert act.
Hans Klamp
A 37-year-old scientist that achieved a master's degree in scientific studies and resides at the American Museum of Natural History Laboratory in New York. Sometime during his studies he became obsessed with the study of Mitochondria and its ATP energy.
He becomes slightly insane near the climax of the game, and provides Eve with the necessary scientifically altered sperm to birth the Ultimate Being. In the end, he asks EVE to take him and dies of human combustion.
