User blog:PsychoticSilverRose/Eve Moonlit and the Vessel of Sloth

Nemesis didn't see the doll as 'Michelle' because Eve wasn't present in the doll by then. (Nemesis will not be important in this blog. Why she saw past the illusion Gallerian was under is for another discussion.)

Some of us now believe that Eve is the demon of Sloth, right? And we know that she became Mikulia, Platonic, and Margarita. During this time, until Elluka revealed her deception, and that the real Margarita had died before marrying Caspar. We know that Eve and Elluka did battle of some kind. Two powerful mages, one immortal, revived by the Sin Ark and made the vessel of Levia-Behemo, and the other potentially a demon...

However, we don't seem to know the exact conclusion of the battle. Did Elluka successfully absorb Eve and dissolve her? Did Elluka fail to completely absorb her and that be the end of Eve, and part of Eve was still separate? Or did they completely merge?

The answer to the third question is, frankly, no. Had the two merged to create a new being, then why would 'Elluka' gather one of the pair of scissors acting as the vessels of Envy? The answer--she wouldn't. This brings us to the other two questions. The answer to the first question is likely no, as well. Elluka seems to fail at several things regarding the sins, and Eve called her present plan to absorb and dissolve her impossible. It seems more likely that Eve was absorbed, but not dissolved.

But wouldn't Elluka know she had failed to completely destroy Eve? Not necessarily. Eve was a powerful mage who fooled everyone into thinking she was dead. So it's entirely possible that she could have continued to fool Elluka, and make her think she had won. And Elluka goes on her way thinking she has succeeded at ridding the world of a demon for good.

Now, the primary attribute of Sloth is laziness, right? Well, that would denote Eve being more than willing to wait for the perfect time to strike. Eve would resurface and do a mental battle with Elluka between gathering one of the pair of scissors and meeting Gallerian. The result of this battle, however, would then be that Eve and Elluka essentially merged to form who we know now as Ma. Irina is irrelevent at   this point, as she had likely been finally killed by Elluka at the Merigold Plateau.

Now that Elluka and Eve are one, their goals become skewed and form Ma's goal. But this brings to light another issue--Eve is presumably the demon of Sloth. But what if--and I know I'm going out on a real loose limb--the demon attribute Eve may have gained was left behind in the doll? Eve and the demon of Sloth would become separate. Banica became the demon of Gluttony by devouring the previous demon, so it is possible that Eve no longer existed as the demon of Sloth.

As it is, the doll asked, in Master Of The Court, 'How can the heartless me understand?' This implies, if we take heartless to mean soulless, that Eve is nowhere to be found in the doll. But then we go back in time to when Gallerian had the doll and thought it was his dead daughter, Michelle. If Eve was no longer in the doll, then how was Gallerian fooled? The answer I give you? Ma used her magic to actively deceive him specifically.