Eve Silva Paragorica
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| Full name: | Eve Silva Paragorica |
| First appearance: | LittleBigPlanet 2 (2011) |
| Latest appearance: | LittleBigPlanet 3: The Journey Home (2014) |
| Portrayed by: | Jules de Jongh |
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— Eve Silva Paragorica, "A Nurse, A Tree And A Duck" | ||
Eve Silva Paragorica is a major character in LittleBigPlanet 2, and the creator curator of Eve's Asylum. She is the asylum's caretaker and looks after those suffering from the Negativitron's meanie infections.
History
LittleBigPlanet 2
Eve Silva Paragorica makes her first appearance in LittleBigPlanet 2, where she serves as the fifth creator curator in its story mode. After the Negativitron reduces Huge Spaceship to an inoperable wreck, the Alliance concludes that their only hope of leaving Craftworld is to seek out inventor Dr. Herbert Higginbotham. However, Dr. Higginbotham fell victim to a meanie infection while staying at the Factory Of A Better Tomorrow and was promptly sent to Eve's Asylum For The Mentally Alternative to be overseen by its titular caretaker. Sackboy and Clive Handforth set out to Eve's Asylum on Avalon Centrifuge's orders, but arrive too late, as the Negativitron rains down fire and Meanies on the asylum's tree. The chakras within the tree face devastation, and Eve begs the two Alliance members to join her at the top to reclaim the asylum and its patients.
Navigating through the burning tree, Sackboy helps to extinguish it, fighting through an army of Meanies to reach Dr. Higginbotham's boudoir. Once inside, Eve shrinks her and Sackboy down to enter Higginbotham's body, where the two utilize Dr. Higginbotham's white blood cells to clear out the remaining infection plaguing his brain. Dr. Higginbotham is cured, and Eve joins the Alliance back at Avalonia, where Dr. Higginbotham repairs Huge Spaceship to its former self. As the Alliance prepares to leave, Eve insists that Avalon join them quickly; Avalon disregards her pleas and gets sucked away by the Negativitron. After the Alliance crash lands on the Negativitron's surface, Eve aids them in the final battle.
LittleBigPlanet 3: The Journey Home
Eve reappears as one of the invitees to the heroes' reunion party. Collecting all her nature-related stamps at Clive's Factory sends his invitation for the party, where she arrives with gifts and vines that bloom behind her. Additionally, if she was invited, one of the party photos would show her playing with OddSock, throwing him a bone to fetch.
Development
General Information
Physical Appearance
Eve is a one-eyed nurse with a slim figure and robot-like extremities. Her head is a red apple with small, round pink lips and a bite taken out of the right side, which is covered by a black eyepatch. The head is protected inside a white plastic birdcage adorned with red medical crosses on the top and on the sides of its ruff-like base. Her single eye has a black eyelid and a pupil that changes according to her emotions. Meanwhile, her straight black hair features square bangs framing her forehead and a tailbone-length mane that flows down her back, widening to the sides like a cape. Her metallic shoulders are hexagonal in shape, with screw heads outlined in red. She wears a white dress with a red line, along with matching boots and gloves.
Personality
Eve is one of the softer yet more determined members of the Alliance. She displays a loving, compassionate, and protective personality, and maintains a hopeful attitude in adverse situations. As the main caretaker of her asylum, Eve is dedicated and responsible toward her patients, and is determinated to help them when the Negativitron burns up their treetop dwellings, believing that they would be lost without her “care” and “love.”
Eve demonstrates competence in her medical skills when she assists Sackboy in curing Higginbotham of his Meanie infection, and she proves her loyalty and dedication to saving her patients from their invaders. Additionally, she often uses Spanish words and phrases in her speech.
Gallery
Trivia
- Eve has two surnames, which is common in Hispanic cultures where the first is the father’s and the second is the mother’s maiden name.
- The red cross on Eve's cage was retroactively changed to gold to comply with the Geneva Conventions.
- Eve's name and design reference the biblical Eve, who took a bite from the forbidden fruit, most commonly depicted as an apple.
- Another evident reference is the worm/snake that takes control of her brain in earlier builds of LittleBigPlanet 2.
- In one of the small scenes during the LBP2 credits, she is presented as a literal "forbidden fruit" in a mischievous joke, with numerous Sackbots following her, enchanted by her beauty.