Character meme, how about Eva?

featherquillpen:

AAAAAARRRGGHHHHH MY EVA FEELINGS

Eva is like if Marco were turned up to eleven and also a suburban mom. 

Except that’s not entirely true. There are a few important differences. Like the dark reckless streak in Eva that cautious Marco would never really entertain. Marco’s terrible driving we can excuse on account of he’s a fourteen year old, but in #30 we learn that Eva also drove like a maniac and she was an adult-ass woman with a small child. She went out sailing by herself on the regular, presumably because she liked getting a fun and exciting break from her life. And let’s say nothing of her insistence on crushing Edriss to death even though she was beat to shit and needed to clear out of the Pool yesterday.

Also I get the strong sense that Marco is entirely irreligious, while Eva is a religious Catholic – in her own particular way, of course. Hands down my favorite Eva line is from Visser when she tells Edriss, <You infested me at random, so you believe. But I believe in higher powers, Yeerk. I believe I was taken so that my son would grow strong and wise and someday destroy you.> GOD I’m tearing up just TYPING that line. I mean holy SHIT. That’s Eva’s Catholicism right there: she believes she was taken so that Marco could become a FLAMING SWORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE HAND OF GOD TO SMITE THE EVILDOERS. That’s how she sees her son. WOW.

(I mean lbr Marco would be totally weirded out that his mom thinks of him that way, but this is about Eva, not about him.)

No but seriously that is all so important to me. There are so many fictional moms who are broken up to see their hero sons are no longer the sweet innocent boys they once were. And that’s valid. But I love so much that Eva’s response to finding out her son has lost his tenderness and become a hero is, “Oh, sweet, now he’s a badass like me and he can help me bring the wrath of God to our enemies. Right on!” But it’s not in a shallow way, because she knows just how much the war takes from you. She cheers him on knowing exactly how much he had to sacrifice to get where he is.