Eve Moonlit

"These wam, tender fruits, I want to keep them no matter what."

Eve Moonlit, born Eve Zvezda, is a witch from Nemu village who was selected as the first candidate for Project 'Ma'. She commits the Original Sin, the source of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Project 'Ma'
Eve, a witch who lived in the village of Nemu, was chosen as the candidate for Project 'Ma' after falling in love with its lead scientist, Adam Moonlit. Kissing her, Adam told Eve that she would be the mother of the gods, the Mem Aleph. Eve, unsure about why she was there, was embraced by her lover and told that it was okay. At some point, she told Adam she wanted to get married with him in Eldoh's Forest afterwards. After being implanted with the divine seed, Eve carried and later gave birth to her children, Cain and Abel. However, they were born dead and Eve, covered in blood, screamed in horror that she could not find her children.

Original Sin
With the project a failure, the witch and her lover, Adam, fled from Divine Levianta to Eldoh's Forest in Elphegort. Living in a small home in the forest as woodcutters, the two married in the woods like she wanted, just the two of them, telling eachother that they loved one another. However, Eve, in her despair, became envious of those who had children, wanting to have what she lost. In EC 001, she discovered two fruits on the ground. In her hunger, she took them, certain they were god's gifts to her and that Adam would cry from joy if he saw what she found.

While heading back home, Eve found herself chased by the looming shadow of a bear and began running with her fruits in hand away from it. Unwilling to give up her "happiness", Eve hurried on despite knowing the fruits were the bear's "treasures". Eve cried as she ran and stumbled through the forest before finally reaching her home, fleeing from the bear close behind her. Just outside her home, Eve looked back to see the bear lurching at her and, with her eyes turning red, killed it as it barely clawed off her cloak.

Exasperated, Eve entered her home with the fruits still in hand and was greeted by Adam. Seeing the fruits, Eve saw his smiling face descend into horror. As Adam explained to her how their children were already dead and that she needed to return "these children" to their mother, Eve's dellusions broke and she recognized the "fruits" she stole were actually twins: a boy and a girl. Mortified, Eve screamed at the revelation, realizing her crime but refusing to give up her stolen children. After Adam told her she could still fix it if she did it now, she retorted that she couldn't because she had already killed a woman, not a bear, outside their home who was carrying a small milk bottle: the mother.

As a result, the two woodcutters kept the children and raised them as their own. In EC 014, a year after the Great Levianta Fire Disaster, the effects of the catastrophe spread to Elphegort, causing famines and pestilence. With a gloomy expression, Eve and her husband led their foster children deep into the forest before abandoning them and returning home. However, the twins returned to their house with the help of a "little glass bottle" filled with moonlight and, hallucinating that she was a witch and Adam was her henchman, entered their home and killed them, Eve's foster daughter pushing her into an oven and burning her alive.

Legacy
After her death, Eve's body became the embodiment of her Original Sin. The twins recovered their false mother's Original Sin from her scorched remains and split it into seven pieces. Forming the Seven Deadly Sins, they unleashed evil upon the world, praying that someone would "cleanse the filth created by our pretentious mother". The vessels corrupted by the sins wreaked havoc on numerous occasions, corrupting their holders and causing catastrophes for nearly 1000 years in the region of Evillious. A murder case was opened regarding their deaths.

The spirit Michaela, when asked by Elluka to imagine the image of an Elphegort woman, pictured Eve the night she stole the twins from Meta. She then reincarnated as a human with the witch's visage. Michaela considered "The Original Sinner" the most wicked of wicked people who went mad with malice. Similarly, the Clockworker's Doll was crafted in the image of the Original Sin and was aesthetically compared to The Original Sinner.

Personality
Eve is regarded as a wicked witch and is considered an evil woman by those who witnessed her commit the Original Sin, namely Michaela. She becomes distraught with grief over the deaths of her unborn children. Because of their deaths, she began to envy the happiness of others which turned into anger. Out of her desire to regain what she had lost and in her hunger, she took Meta's children, believing they were fruits.

She loves Adam very deeply and was willing to flee with him to Eldoh's Forest to be married after her children died. Eve was also horrified by her own actions after Adam made her realize she stole children instead of fruits and showed remorse for her actions. Nevertheless, she abandoned the children she stole and raised in the forest.

Skills
As the Witch of Nemu, Eve wielded powerful magic. She so famous for her skills that it was claimed that she was the best in Divine Levianta. Due to her abilities, she was selected as the first candidate for Project "MA" and was expected to successfully birth the twin gods.

Appearance
Eve is a pale-skinned woman with long, green hair tied in two pigtails and green eyes. She is described as beautiful, her visage earning both Michaela and the Clockworker's Doll acknowledgement of their appeal. When part of Project 'Ma', Eve wore a baggy, white dress with pink ties along the sides. After fleeing to Eldoh's Forest, she wore a different white dress with frills and a dark blue-green vest and skirt. When traversing the forest, she donned a plain, black cloak with a hood.

Connections to Other Characters
Adam Moonlit: Her husband, originally a scientist of Project 'Ma', who finally brought her to her senses after kidnapping Meta's twin children. He helps her to hide her sin, although he doesn't do the deed himself.

Hansel: The male twin kidnapped by Eve.

Gretel: The female twin kidnapped by Eve, who ultimately killed her.

Meta Salmhofer: The real mother of the twins. She was falsely accused of killing Eve's children which led her to becoming part of Project 'Ma' to avoid the death penalty.

Michaela: A spirit who received a body resembling Eve's from a sorceress, Elluka Clockworker

Master of the Court: Irina based the doll's appearence on her.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Eve Moonlit is based on Eve from  Judeo-Christian lore. Like her namesake, she is responsible for committing the Original Sin after stealing the 'Forbidden Fruit' (the twins).


 * Eve's maiden surname, Zvezda, is the slavic word for "star".

Curiosities

 * Eve's black hood in Moonlit Bear  resembles the attire of a "witch", foretelling her outcome in Abandoned on a Moonlit Night.
 * The three female protagonists of the Original Sin Series (Meta, Eve and Elluka) share the nickname "Witch".
 * When Eve is "attacked" by the "bear" in Moonlit Bear, her eyes turn red.
 * Eve's hometown, Nemu, literally means "sleep", referencing the connection between some character portrayed by Hatsune Miku and Sloth.

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