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Character Information
Character Name: Aya Brea
Age: 32
Birthdate: November 20, 1972
Fandom: Parasite Eve
Canon Point: 2005 (4 years post-Parasite Eve 2)

PERSONALITY:

While may is a certain mousy innocence to her disposition, Aya is a fighter, and circumstances have always seemed to call her to the front line. She was, after all, the only one unaffected by the Second Eve’s powers during the New York Blockade Incident. Left to fight her own battles in situations when no one else could, Aya developed feelings of isolation and loneliness, ostracizing herself from social situations. While she has a history of working with others or, at least, she has worked with organized groups in the past, she is a Lone Wolf at heart. As such, she feels that she’s more effective doing things solo, anyway, and isn’t one to flaunt the fact that she’s different. She prefers her privacy, thank you very much.

Typical for a former cop, Aya has a very strong moral code. She comes off as meek and a bit of a pushover at times, like her insistence to pay for taking things from an abandoned store or bar in a deserted town full of monsters. She is also not the type to quickly shoot someone, provided that they are not an immediate threat (if they are, she will empty a clip into the poor bastard). Over time, however, she’s learned to wizen up a bit, be quicker to act, and even quicker to exercise that trigger finger when the time calls for it.

Her vast knowledge in firearms makes her somewhat stand out amongst her peers, despite the fact that it does comes with the job, as she’s typically amongst the best in her field. Aya is knowledgeable in guns and some melee combat; though given her history in the police force and ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) experience, it’s more than likely that she has some skills in close-quarters combat as well. The fact that she’s able to carry around massive weapons like assault rifles (and even bigger artillery) like it’s nothing may also indicate that Aya is much stronger than she looks. Appearances are deceiving, though, as she’s pretty effective on the battlefield. Her time on the police force and natural intuition has taught her to trust her gut instinct, and she is fairly good about following it. For the most part.

She is sarcastic, cocky, and morbid, and she isn’t without a grim sense of humor. Really, you could say she fits perfectly into the “deadpan snarker” trope. It doesn’t help that Aya has a bad habit of not being able to take people seriously sometimes, particularly when they express any sort of romantic or physical interest in her; she tends to simply brush them off. It’s easier for her to pretend that people are just being insincere most of the time than to be earnest about it.

In any case, she prefers to keep most of her relationships on a strictly professional level (i.e. the police force). It’s not often that she gets herself involved in intimate affairs, possibly because her mitochondrial powers include a side-effect that involves her body being able to “communicate” with another organism. Which has a tendency to be... awkward. Surprisingly, however, she somehow finds a way to be pretty patient with most people, even if they are annoying. It’s just that when her patience finally runs thin that she has a danger of losing her temper, going against that professionalism and letting her thoughts and emotions get ahead of her.

To many, Aya can be seen as a true philanthropist under her weary and “so done with your shit” personality. She has also come to accept the reality that someone like her can’t even dream to ever have the normal life she’s always hoped for. On the flipside, she can be and nurturing, almost maternal as far as children are concerned. She’s always had a way with kids, regardless of the fact that she has never had any herself (as far as Eve goes, the girl’s only relation to Aya is the fact that she was cultured from Aya’s cells. However, Aya still took it upon herself to raise the girl as her sister/mother figure).

She approaches others with a welcoming nature most of the time. The problem with playing the role as a mother/older sister is the fact that Aya puts her work and other people first, but oftentimes doesn’t even think to look after herself. This does make her come off as particularly brash and careless at times as far as her personal safety goes.

Aya has a history of what one could consider survivor’s guilt. For example, her surviving the car accident that killed both her mother and her sister as one thing, and being the sole survivor of the opera massacre that led into the New York Blockade Incident, for another. With events such as the fighter pilots that acted as a shield so that Aya would live to fight against Mitochondrial Eve, it’s no wonder why she’s basically saying “Why me?” at the culmination of events. One could very well interpret Aya’s inclination for self-sacrifice as a product of her guilt. So yeah, she pretty much hates it when people put themselves on the line for her, no matter how inevitable it is, but she’s more disposed to doing the exact same thing. What a hypocrite.

Oftentimes Aya feels alienated, being significantly different from everyone else around her. It doesn’t help that she genuinely considers herself a monster; fearing of becoming the creature that the Second Eve said she would be, and the fear of hurting the people she loves follows her. For that reason, and the fact that her Parasite Energy had a way of making the people around her uncomfortable (at least, it did when she was home, where not everyone was a super special Mitochondrial Madam like she is), Aya doesn’t make a habit out of using her powers in front of other people. Considering that her powers have a way of manipulating the mitochondria of living things around her, this is probably a good thing, though. At times she struggles with the realization that she is not quite what you would consider human, but something else entirely. What that something is, she has yet to figure out... if there is even a name to give a being like her.

Finally, it is also safe to note that Aya is self-sacrificing. This could be considered her greatest strength, or her greatest weakness, as she has a penchant for putting the wants and needs of others before her own wants and needs. If someone is in danger, she can be compulsive without always thinking things through. This has earned her the reputation while working for MIST of acting recklessly and going against orders (which seemingly put a dent in her salary. Oh well. Like she cared).

This sense of sacrifice is taken to an even greater extreme, putting the lives of the people she cared about over her own. When the time had called for it, she would even go so far as to give up her own life for the ones she loves. While at one point she feared death, struggling and striving to live, she can face death with a smile, as though it were a future that she had been prepared for all along.

APPEARANCE:

Being of Asian and Caucasian descent, Aya bears features of both her Japanese mother and her American father, with her narrow eyes and facial structure in contrast to her blue eyes and platinum blonde hair. Seeing that her traits display a genetic improbability, she pretty much falls into the But Not Too Foreign trope.

While she isn’t above formal wear when the occasion is deemed appropriate, Aya has a casual, modest manner of attire. One could describe her style as being cool, fashionable, though simple.

Aya is attractive, though she never uses her sexuality to an advantage (ever the Deadpan Snarker, she expresses her cocky personality when dealing with people instead). She is lithe in figure, but not frail; she is fairly agile, and while she’s not exactly super strong enough to lift monoliths, she is by no means physically weak, either.

Another noteworthy trait is that Aya looks nowhere near her actual age. While she is physically pushing her forties, she forever appears significantly younger due to the day her mitochondria awakened at twenty-five. She looks as though she has not aged a day since, and could very well possibly be considered ageless due to her advanced biology.