EVA

EVA, also known as Tatyana (Russian: Татьяна), and later known as Big Mama, was a spy and femme fatale, who fought alongside Naked Snake during Operation Snake Eater. While posing as a KGB agent, she actually worked as a spy for the Chinese People's Liberation Army, tasked with obtaining the Philosophers' Legacy. EVA later became the surrogate mother of Solid Snake and Liquid Snake.

Early life
EVA was born in Meridian, Idaho, on May 15th, 1936. At some point in her childhood, she, along with several other children across the world, was taken by the Philosophers and raised in a joint US-Soviet-Chinese facility, receiving spy training at one of the Philosophers "charm schools," so she could become a "sleeper agent." As a result of this, she was indistinguishable from any other native-born American.

She eventually joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Staff Headquarters - Second Division. There, she learned techniques such as "bandit shooting," a horizontal sweep using the Chinese Type 17 Mauser pistol.

Prior to the CIA's Virtuous Mission in 1964, EVA, posing as KGB operative Tatyana, was sent to Tselinoyarsk to oversee the development of Nikolai Sokolov's Shagohod and retrieve data on the weapon. A few days later, she was taken prisoner by Colonel Volgin, along with Sokolov, during the theft of the Shagohod by GRU forces. By posing as Sokolov's lover, and pretending to serve the colonel, she successfully infiltrated the Soviet military fortress of Groznyj Grad, while Sokolov was forced to continue his work on the Shagohod,

More than a week later, EVA met Naked Snake in Tselinoyarsk, during Operation Snake Eater, as a supposed KGB spy sent by Soviet leader Khrushchev, and one of the former NSA codebreakers who had defected in 1960 along with ADAM. She used her position in Groznyj Grad to supply Snake with information relating to Tselinoyarsk and its environment and to acquire intelligence on the Shagohod. EVA considered killing Volgin's subordinate, Major Ocelot, following a brief battle, in order to cover their tracks, but Snake convinced her not to, so she instead decided to rush back to Volgin before Ocelot returned to maintain her cover.

Afterwards, EVA (as Tatyana) was tortured by Volgin in order to coerce an uncooperative Sokolov into completing the Shagohod's development. When it began to rain, Volgin decided to have her "entertain" him until the weather cleared. Throughout their respective missions, EVA and Snake began to develop romantic feelings for one another. EVA later stole C3 explosives, from a vault containing Western weapons for research purposes, which she would later provide to Snake. She also suggested that he disguise himself as Volgin's subcommander and lover, Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, due to Raikov having access to Sokolov's location, and was of a similar build to Naked Snake.

EVA later recovered the Shagohod data from Sokolov, and proceeded to interrogate him in regards to the location of the Philosophers' Legacy, threatening him with her supposed "Kiss of Death." When he was unable to answer, she revealed her bluff by using her lipstick. Unbeknownst to EVA, Snake eavesdropped on the two after having successfully infiltrated Groznyj Grad, though he was eventually captured by Volgin shortly thereafter. EVA nearly broke her cover during Snake's subsequent torture, and was nearly killed by a suspicious Ocelot, before Snake put himself between the two, costing him the use of his eye in the process. EVA organized an escape route for Snake when he eventually broke out of Groznyj Grad's prison, though the path was blocked by GRU soldiers, forcing Snake to risk his life by jumping from a waterfall. Afterwards, EVA met with Snake at Tikhogornyj, revealed the C3 she had stolen earlier, and gave it to Snake to aid him in destroying the Shagohod. She would also plant some of the C3 on a nearby rail bridge to prevent Volgin's forces from following them, when they made their escape.

However, EVA's deception was discovered by Volgin when she attempted to obtain the Philosophers' Legacy from an underground vault, and was nearly killed by the colonel until The Boss volunteered to execute her personally (in reality, The Boss was actually trying to get her out of harms way). Afterwards, when the Shagohod and Volgin had survived Snake's attempted sabotage, EVA came up with the plan to lure Volgin to the C3-laden rail bridge to destroy it. When that plan failed, EVA helped Snake defeat Volgin and the Shagohod once and for all by distracting Volgin while Snake shot at him. She eventually broke down after witnessing Volgin's violent death.

During their escape through Lazorevo, EVA became distracted by her motorcycle's ruptured fuel tank, causing the bike to crash. She received a wound to her abdomen after being impaled on a tree branch, though she survived thanks to Naked Snake, using Para-Medic's medical advice. She later helped Snake escape from Tselinoyarsk by piloting a WIG she had arranged to be located at Rokovoj Bereg, making a brief stop in Galena, Alaska. After she and Snake share a night of passion, EVA disappears the next morning, leaving an audio tape behind to explain her actions. In this tape, she revealed that she had been ordered to kill anyone who knew about her mission, though she made the distinct decision not to kill him as he slept on the cabin floor; not because they had fallen in love, but because she had promised The Boss not to. She also revealed that The Boss's true mission had been to recover the Legacy, by pretending to defect, with the knowledge that she would have to die to prove America's innocence to the Soviets, following the nuclear destruction of Sokolov's research facility.

EVA retrieved the microfilm containing the Philosophers' Legacy and the Shagohod's missile launch data for the Chinese government. With the launch data, the Chinese government eventually developed its own nuclear weapons technology later that year. However, the microfilm that EVA recovered turned out to be a fake. Unbeknownst to her, half of the real Legacy made it back into the hands of the CIA thanks to Ocelot. This blunder cost EVA her job at PLA Intelligence and she was expelled from China. Around the same time, Snake tried to locate EVA but couldn't find a trace.

According to official records, EVA disappeared in Hanoi during the Vietnam War in 1968.

The Patriots
In 1971, Big Boss (Naked Snake) and EVA reconciled after he tracked her down and rescued her in Hanoi. He invited her to become a founding member of the Patriots along with himself, Zero, Para-Medic (Dr. Clark), Sigint, and Ocelot.

In 1972, EVA volunteered to serve as a surrogate mother in Les Enfants Terribles, a project designed to clone Big Boss and maintain his image as an icon for the organization. She was originally implanted with eight clone fetuses, though six were intentionally aborted in order to encourage stronger growth in the remaining two. EVA later gave birth to the clones, who would become known as Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. Despite the fact that Big Boss disapproved, and eventually left the group in opposition to Zero's methods, EVA saw the clones as her own children.

EVA would remain in contact with Big Boss, passing on cassette tape recordings to his private military company, the Militaires Sans Frontieres in 1974. In them, she detailed further information on The Boss's final mission in Groznyj Grad, and the motivations behind her actions, having been entrusted to pass this on to him. These tapes were later supplied to Big Boss by MSF's subcommander Kazuhira Miller, with the latter explaining that they were delivered with no return address except with the name EVA, with Big Boss hesitantly explaining that she was an "old acquaintance." In addition, Big Boss had previously speculated that EVA's original account on the reasons behind The Boss's mission, shortly after the end of Operation Snake Eater, may have been part of the CIA's coverup, after he encountered Dr. Strangelove at the AI lab.

After Big Boss' "death"
After young rookie Solid Snake unexpectedly foiled Big Boss's coups d'état in Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land, Zero put Big Boss in a nanomachine-induced coma, which motivated EVA and Ocelot to secretly defect from the Patriots. After EVA and Ocelot enlisted the assistance of Naomi Hunter and Gray Fox to kill Para-Medic (Dr. Clark) in 2003 and Ocelot killed Donald Anderson himself during the Shadow Moses Incident, Zero was the last one alive and went into hiding. Sometime, after losing contact with Ocelot after the Big Shell Incident, EVA fled to Eastern Europe and became "Big Mama", leader of the Paradise Lost Army. In addition to taking in war orphans, she worked to stop Zero's proxy-AIs (and, by extension, the war economy) forever.

In 2014, during Old Snake's mission to terminate Liquid Ocelot, Raiden revealed that he had worked with Big Mama to steal Big Boss's body from the Patriots in exchange for help in rescuing Sunny. Snake went to Eastern Europe to find the body and keep it out of Liquid's hands.

Snake followed a member of the Paradise Lost Army and ultimately reached Big Mama's hideout. There, she revealed to him the creation of the Patriots. She also revealed Big Boss's body, which was being kept alive, but unconscious, by nanomachines. However, in reality, this was really Solidus Snake's body as Big Mama had acquired it to stand in as a ruse while she was repairing the damage done to Big Boss's real body, with parts from Solidus and Liquid Snake, as well as waiting for the AI system to be brought down so Big Boss could be revived from his nanomachine-induced coma.

Soon after, it was discovered that a trio of Dwarf Gekko had followed Snake to the hideout, and PMCs were closing in on them. As EVA, members of the resistance, and Snake moved out, decoy vans were set to allow the van with the corpse of "Big Boss" to get away. Riding with EVA on her motorcycle, Snake protected her and the van from PMCs in a frantic chase through the city, until Raging Raven's continuous attacks caused them to crash. EVA fell from the motorcycle and became impaled on a protruding spike, in a manner identical to her bike crash in Tselinoyarsk, fifty years earlier. After Snake defeated Raven, he tended to the injured Big Mama, and they headed for their getaway cruiser and the corpse of "Big Boss" only to find Liquid Ocelot waiting for them. After Liquid beat Snake with CQC techniques and defeated Meryl Silverburgh and her troops by activating Guns of the Patriots, Liquid had Vamp toss the corpse of "Big Boss" to Snake and EVA as it burnt (since Liquid Ocelot no longer needed Big Boss's DNA). EVA, in an exhausted and hallucinatory state, threw herself into the fire in order to save "Big Boss". Snake saved her from Liquid Ocelot's gunshot but badly burnt the left side of his face in the process.

Snake held Big Mama in his arms until the moment she died. It appeared she died from the combination of her injuries from the motorcycle crash and from the fire into which she leapt attempting to save the biomort. Big Boss revealed to Snake that Big Mama had actually died from a new strain of FOXDIE within Snake, and that she had been partially involved with Ocelot's master plan, by reviving Big Boss in order to stop Zero.

Personality and traits
During Operation Snake Eater, EVA never revealed her real name to Naked Snake. When Snake asked for her for it, she refused to tell him and asked "What's wrong with Tanya?" Matka Pluku, the name she adopts during her anti-Patriot activities, is a Czech phrase that means "Mother of the Regiment."

As a spy, EVA used her feminine charm to infiltrate Volgin's ranks. During Operation Snake Eater, EVA told Naked Snake "the least you can do is call me Cynthia"; a reference to the codename of Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, known as the most successful spy in history. She was active during World War II, and used her wit and charm to elicit countless secrets, even the Naval codes of French Vichy government. Snake also called her "a regular Mata Hari", a Dutch exotic dancer during World War I who was accused and executed for being a spy.

EVA's personal data as of 1964 reveals that: her eyesight was 20/16; her blood type was "A"; her favorite liquor was wine; her measurements were 36-23-33; her favorite flowers were roses; her favorite jewellery were emeralds; and her ring size was 5½. Her medical history reveals that she has had breast enhancements and proctitis. Prior to posing as EVA, she received a wound near her breast, but refused to answer Naked Snake when he asked her how she got it.

EVA's hobby was motorbiking. Rosemary speculated that one of the reasons why she was so skilled with a bike was because she was afflicted with rider's high.

EVA's favorite food were instant noodles, while her least favorite food were potatoes. According to her food history, she has also eaten a Tsuchinoko. EVA planned to have a sushi dinner with Naked Snake, upon returning to the United States at the conclusion of Operation Snake Eater, expressing surprise when Snake mentioned that he wanted to try Otton Frog.

EVA's favorite animals were dogs. She once owned a dog named Fido, and sometimes dreamed about the day he became housebroken.

In 2014, EVA carried a Chinese Type 17 pistol similar to the one from Operation Snake Eater, which she lost during the bike chase at Groznyj Grad.

Behind the scenes
The defection of NSA codebreakers ADAM and EVA is based on a real life incident in September 1960.

Although Laughing Octopus holds the distinction of being the first character to use the word "fuck" in the English version of the series, it was first used by EVA in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 3, when she says "Fuck you" in English to Volgin. This line was changed to "Go to hell" during localization.

According to Hideo Kojima, EVA's character was unpopular with the English voice actors.

EVA's alias, Tatyana, is also the name of the Bond Girl in From Russia with Love.

According to the non-canon recruitment mission in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, after fleeing China under the threat of the PLA executing her for her blunder in regards to bringing back a dummy microfilm of the Legacy, she became a cargo pilot and did her own delivery service, at least one of her customers was the San Hieronymo Peninsula. Despite the fact that the CIA had supplied her with a fake microfilm, she also had no hard feelings against Snake, as she realized that this was naturally expected in the spy business. She intended to rescue Snake when he contacted her (due to a frequency in the security base's lockers), but she was shot down by a surface-to-air missile before she could land at the airport, resulting in her crash-landing in the Western Wilderness. When contacted at the Communications Base, EVA says "Это Татьяна. С кем я разговариваю?" which roughly translates to "This is Tatyana. Who am I talking to?"

Though Metal Gear Solid 4 states that EVA was involved in Ocelot's plan to destroy the Patriots, it is never made clear whether she was aware of Ocelot's willing assumption of Liquid Snake's persona as part of said plan. Piggyback Interactive's Complete Official Guide states that EVA died believing Liquid's ambitions had really taken over those of Ocelot, and that Ocelot had intentionally concealed the truth of his possession from her.

EVA herself does not physically appear in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, but she is referenced a few times. In addition, her final message to Big Boss after Operation Snake Eater can be heard shortly after Big Boss was forced to euthanize The Boss's horse, and is also selectable in the Data Files entry of the Briefing Files. She also supplied Snake with tapes detailing The Boss's history during Chapter 5.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

 * In Metal Gear Solid 3, during some of the first-person view cutscene moments, if the player presses R1, Naked Snake may be looking at EVA's breasts or behind.
 * If the player refrains from removing the transmitter from Snake, after his torture session in Groznyj Grad, the path to the waterfall will be guarded by an Ocelot Unit. Nevertheless, for navigating through this, the reward is a hilarious slapstick scene in which EVA removes the transmitter herself.
 * If the player arrives at the Tikhogornyj Waterfall during an alert phase, the scene of her arrival will be extended slightly where it depicts EVA killing the guards before jumping into the waterfall cave on her bike.
 * During the escape through the woods, EVA can be interrogated for her personal information. During this time, she'll also say "up up down down left right left right...", referring to the Konami Code. Also, if the player puts a magazine on the floor she will be disgusted.
 * If the player tranquilizes EVA in Zaozyorje, she will start talking in her sleep about Snake, The Boss, and her dog named Fido, repeating the phrases, "mmm, right there" and "that feels so good..."
 * If the player called her in Bolshaya Past South, EVA would tell Snake about The Boss carrying EVA's bags for her, commenting on how she sometimes dreams about it. She would also tell Snake that she used to have a dog, commenting on how she sometimes dreams about the day her dog became housebroken. This makes her sleep-talking about The Boss and her dog significantly less disturbing.
 * If the player drags EVA while she is tranquilized through mud, it will change her hair color brown.
 * If the player harasses her too many times, EVA will kick Naked Snake in the groin hard enough to kill him.
 * If EVA's HP reaches more than half and she doesn't have any serious non-story related injuries by the time they reach Zaozyorje East, checking EVA in the model viewer will have her wearing her black bikini instead of her biker outfit.
 * If the player calls EVA when backtracking to Dremuchij, Dolinovodno, Ponizovje and Graniny Gorki, in addition to supplying information about the areas, she'll also question Snake as to why Snake is back in those areas and remind him to continue forward to the next area.
 * If the player had earlier procured the book weapon, still had it in his/her inventory, and called EVA shortly after leaving the prison area of Groznyj Grad, EVA, when questioned by Snake as to whether or not she threw any items away, will respond that she didn't throw anything away, not even the magazine that Snake had while sarcastically referring to it as a "fine piece of literature" to Snakes embarassment.
 * If the player views EVA's model viewer at certain points in the day at full health, there is a 50% chance each time that she will be doing something different. Early morning, she is seen doing morning exercises. At prime time, she is making alluring poses that involve her putting her hand on her hip and chest. At midnight, she is either lying down or making a sexy pose.
 * During the trek through Zaozyorje, EVA's medical and food history can be accessed. Below is the Medical and Food related things she had prior to Zaozyorje:

Other appearances

 * In Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, EVA is the magazine's centerfold as well as on the pages of the magazine. She also appears in the game as a hidden recruitable character, and is the only non-canon hidden character to have a graphic novel still of her (it is seen during the debriefing after her recruitment). She is also referenced (although not by name) in an optional radio conversation with Roy Campbell when he advises Snake using psychology to have him find a girl.
 * In Portable Ops, EVA uses her alias Tatyana as a call sign for her cargo plane.
 * EVA makes a cameo appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as an obtainable sticker, usable exclusively by Solid Snake in The Subspace Emissary.
 * EVA's Type 17 pistol can be obtained in Metal Gear Solid 4 by either earning the Hound emblem in a single-player session, or by using a password (See Secrets).
 * EVA's revelation to Big Boss about The Boss's true mission in Tselinoyarsk is heard during Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, after Big Boss fails in his pursuit of Peace Walker into Nicaragua. Also, EVA is briefly referenced by Big Boss and Kazuhira Miller in a conversation shortly after Extra Op. Mission # 29.
 * EVA and Olga's clothing can be used as costumes in Rumble Roses XX.

Portable Ops recruitment
''In Portable Ops, the player is given the option to recruit EVA. This section details how the recruitment takes place.''


 * After recruiting Sokolov, the player will be informed of a Spy Report from the Silo Entrance that was never actually received. Head to the Silo Entrance and interrogate the Soviet Officer located on top of the bridge area. The Officer will mention "a man with twirling revolvers" who was seen in the Town.


 * A Spy Report from the Town will then be received, regarding a Government Official who prowls around at night time. Head to the Town at nightfall and locate the Government Official in one of the upper buildings. Interrogate him about the "revolver-twirling man," and he will mention that he went to the Airport to visit a friend.


 * Travel to the Airport and interrogate the FOX soldier at the control deck in order to learn the man's radio frequency: 141.23.


 * A Spy Report from the Guest House will then be received, regarding another Government Official. Head to the Guest House, locate the Official, and interrogate him twice. He will then reveal that there is a radio frequency written inside one of the lockers at the Security Base.


 * A Spy Report from the Western Wilderness will then be received, regarding yet another Government Official. Head to the Western Wilderness, locate the Official, then, rather than interrogate him, capture him instead.


 * Travel to the Security Base, and locate the radio frequency in a locker in the northwestern building: 142.52.


 * Next, travel to the main building of the Comm Base, and relay the second frequency (142.52). EVA will answer, and inform Snake that she will arrive on the peninsula in a week. After waiting a week, a Spy Report will be received, regarding the crash of EVA's plane in the Western Wilderness.


 * Head to the Western Wilderness, and locate EVA in the basement cell. After the following conversation, EVA will automatically be recruited.

The PAL password, used as an alternate means of unlocking EVA as a playable character, is 016K/HYH: the motorcycle license plate for the motorcycle she used during their escape from Groznyj Grad during the climax of Snake Eater.

"A female spy encountered by Snake during Operation Snake Eater. Once worked with the National Security Agency (NSA), but later defected to the Soviet Union, posing as lovers for both Colonel Volgin and Nikolai Sokolov. She would later aid Snake in his mission."

- Official description in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus

Notes and references
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