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Hi all! Thought I'd make a little analysis for Eve and the Clockworker's Doll, just to lay down all the facts. Now, let's begin! ''Note: This post is still incomplete. I will be updating it regularly as I comb through more information.''

Origin
The Clockworker's Doll first appeared in the song Miniature Garden Girl. In the song, she talks about mysterious objects who laugh at her, telling her that they're all the same. We later learn that these are the vessels of sin. At the end of the song, it's revealed that the one singing is not in fact a human; it's a doll. A year later, mothy releases Heartbeat Clocktower, which features the awakened Doll with burns on her body.

Mothy releases a song in 2011, Capriccio Farce, which features the Doll - now the "Master of the Court", revitalized by Gear's sacrifice. He then releases Flower of the Plateau a year later, which features an oddly out-of-character "Mikulia Greeonio", becoming a florist in Merrigod Plateau and killing those who knew of her past as a prostitute.

We later see the Doll again in The Daughter of Evil novels. It's the vessel of Sloth, and can apparently be used to control those who are demonically possessed. It's also revealed that Prim intended to use it under the right conditions, but we don't find out what those conditions are or what she wants to do with it.

In the Lunacy novel, we see I.R. make the doll as a vessel for the Demon of Sloth, who was using Mikulia Greeonio as a host at the time. The demon successfully migrated into the Doll, leaving Mikulia. For some reason, the Demon of Sloth has a fixation of Eve Moonlit's appearance. In the wake of the Venomania Event, Mikulia becomes a prostitute in the Lasaland brothel. Makes sense, since the Flower of the Plateau states she was a prostitute before moving to Merrigod Plateau! Later on in the EFEC novel, we have Platonic, a thief who's said to be Mikulia's descendant and is resistant to demonic influence due to the dregs of Sloth.

The Reveal
The Gift novel dropped a major plot bomb on us: the Demon of Sloth is Eve herself, a human soul used in place of a demon. We were kept in the dark about this until it was revealed, because Eve is a demon in function and in spirit, sort of like an "honorary" demon. We also learned that the Doll is capable of activating and becoming conscious, often assuming the identity of a real person. We see this was the case with Mikulia and Platonic; Mikulia Calgaround assumed the identity of the original Mikulia and married into the Calgaround Family. Meanwhile, Platonic assumed the identity of the unnamed Calgaround family daughter around the EC 300s - she has the dregs of Sloth because she's literally the Doll.

More Ambiguity
In the SCaP story, it's revealed that Irina made the Doll to act as a "soul cage", to keep Eve's soul trapped inside. We also see that Eve is still her lovable crazy, and won't stop her acts of Sloth.

In the Pierrot novel, we have Irina referring to Eve as the "Master of the Court"; Ichika's provided illustration also features Eve in the Doll's attire.