Eve (Buffy-Angel)

Eve is a female television character who features in Buffy-Angel.

Biography

Eve was "liaison to the Senior Partners" of Wolfram & Hart after Angel and his crew takes over the Los Angeles branch of the firm. Never trusted, she comes and goes at her leisure, usually stirring up trouble as she goes. Though she appears human, Eve is actually a Child of the Senior Partners, a being given human form and created to do their bidding.

At some point she met and fell in love with Lindsey McDonald. The two hatched a scheme to slowly but surely demoralize Angel through a variety of means. Eve and Lindsey use a spell to make Angel and his team believe the existence of two vampires with a soul endangers the existence of the universe, then manipulate Spike into becoming a vigilante and reminder of the work Angel used to do. Eve frequently mentions Spike's new status as champion when he was re-corporealized. (Episode: Destiny) In addition, she was responsible for putting a parasitic creature on Angel that sends him into a world of illusions, in which Angel has become a loser and Spike the champion. (Episode: Soul Purpose)

The plan all along is for Spike to save Angel from the agent. Unfortunately for Eve, Angel, in a moment of cognizance, recognizes Eve as she unleashes the parasite. Although she tries to talk her way out of it, Angel and his friends trust her even less now. The revelation she has been working with Lindsey against Angel puts her on the run. Eve hides in Lindsey's apartment, using the runes covering it to remain beyond the Senior Partners' radar.

Eve's position with the firm is ended when she is confronted by the new liaison, Marcus Hamilton, and forced to sign away her immortality. She comes under the legal protection of Angel, as Angel believes she can be useful against the Senior Partners. Lindsey eventually returns from his own prison, thanks to Angel, and the two are able to spend some more time together before Angel approaches Lindsey for a final mission against the Circle of the Black Thorn, and Lindsey agrees to join in the battle. Eve is skeptical of Lindsey's chances of survival during the last battle, and Angel's enigmatic words he isn't going to return only emphasize it (Lindsey is ultimately assassinated by Lorne). Lorne himself had, at a previous meeting, prophesized Eve has a terrible future ahead of her, and it seems to be coming true, having lost her job and her love with nowhere else to go, she remains in the crumbling Wolfram & Hart offices when they are destroyed, asking Angel where she should (or could) go, having just learned that Lorne had killed Lindsey.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Eve appeared to genuinely care for Lindsey, even going as far as incapacitating Angel with a parasite and keep his team from discovering Lindsey's plans. (Episode: Soul Purpose) After the Senior Partners abducted Lindsey, Spike commented that Eve's only reason for existing was to see Lindsey again. (Episode: Underneath) After Angel told his friends and Lindsey to spend the day as if it was their last, Lindsey chose to spend it with Eve. After learning of Lindsey's death, Eve's suggested that she had nowhere to go. (Episode: Not Fade Away)

Eve and Angel had a one-time encounter at Wolfram & Hart's Halloween party, where Lorne's empathic powers went out of control, so he began to unintentionally write destinies instead of reading them. He told Angel and Eve to "get a room" because of their "sexual tension." When Angel suggested they should talk about it, Eve remarked: "It's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. (Episode: Life of the Party)

Notes

• Eve was created by Joss Whedon where she was portrayed by actor Sarah Thompson and featured in the setting of Angel.
• In an interview, Thompson commented on the character, "I'd worked a lot but I hadn't worked on something with that kind of fanbase where it was fans that were so passionate. It was really hard and I would go online and I would read things and it really hurt my feelings and I became super-insecure about that work. [...] It's tough. And I think on Angel it was especially tough because the fans were so passionate but if they don't like you, they really don't like you. They want you off. It's not just, 'Well, I don't really like her.' It's like, 'I HATE HER!' But on the flip side I did a lot of conventions for Angel and met a lot of people that were really positive and were really supportive and encouraging. So I had that experience also but I try to just push it out of my mind because otherwise I'd just be depressed."

Appearances

• Angel:

External Links

• Buffy Wiki Entry

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