Eureka (Eureka 7)

Eureka, also known as Eureka Thurston, is one of the main characters from the Eureka Seven series.
== Charactah Account ==
Eureka is a mysterious girl with an affinity for machines who has trouble opening up to other people until she crash-lands her LFO, the Nirvash, on Renton's house.
In the beginning of the series, Eureka acts extremely distant and odd around others due to the fact that she has had very little interaction with humans outside the military. Because of her lack of emotions and care towards others, she was very blunt and serious, nonchalantly going along with anything that Holland suggested or told her to do without as much as questioning his judgment. However, things changed when she met Renton. Eureka saw something different in him as a person when she discovered that he is also able to pilot the Nirvash alongside her. As time goes by, she begins to act less a socially awkward girl and more like an actual person as parts of her human side begin to emerge.
However, she becomes passive and weary due to her feelings that Renton can pilot the Nirvash better than her, causing her to feel unwanted and hopeless. This also caused her to reject and ignore Renton, never realizing that she was simply jealous of him and lonely that her partnership with Nirvash was strained. After he saved her from getting absorbed by the Scub Coral in a botched suicide attempt, she slowly changed from uncaring to sympathetic as she started to understand the hardships Renton has endured for her sake. When she found out that Renton left, she bursts into tears and blames herself for his abandonment, and realizes how important Renton is to her. When they are able to meet once more, Eureka claims that she has "chosen" him as her lifetime partner. Despite being happy with Renton, she feels remorse for dragging him into a war and staining his hands with blood, and develops a strong desire to make him happy with her.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
* Eureka Seven
* Eureka Seven AO
* Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1
* Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 3
* Eureka Seven Movie: Pocket Full of Rainbows
* Eureka Seven Recap
* Eureka Seven: New Order
=== Light Novels ===
* Eureka Seven
=== Manga ===
* Eureka Seven AO
* Eureka Seven: Psalms of Planets
* Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: New Order
=== Video Games ===
* Eureka Seven V.2: Psalms of Planets
* Eureka Seven Vol.1: The New Wave
* Eureka Seven Vol.2: The New Vision
== Trivia ==
* Eureka's true age is unknown and some of the Gekko crew thought of her as between 14 and 16. It is revealed that Eureka was found the same year Renton was born. After becoming Renton's wife and the mother of Ao and Amber, she has noticeably aged.
** It's possible that until she met Renton and fell in love, Eureka lacked a catalyst to physically change. (Even Norb noticed she was trying to become more human)
** Her headaches at the start of the series also stopped once she discovered her love for Renton. This suggests that subconsciously, Eureka was forcing her mind to evolve into a more human one, as after her near-death experience, she is very open with her feelings and no longer stoic.
* In the anime, Eureka was ashamed of her scars because they made her feel she was unattractive to Renton, while in the manga, she was grateful for her scars because she got them as she tried to prove that she loved Renton.
* In the film, Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows, Eureka's surname is Zita.
* After marrying Renton in episode 50, she goes by the name Eureka Thurston.
* In episode 50, the Thurston family record book revealed that Eureka married Renton on April 2, 12006.
* In episode 19, Eureka attempted suicide by almost allowing the Scub Coral to absorb her. This is due to her depression as being estranged from Nirvash and her belief that she is hated, and when she found a book with blank pages, she compared herself to it and felt she had no purpose in life. However, the thought of dying scared her and she pleaded for Renton to save her, which he did.
** This was the first moment (albeit subconsciously) Eureka displayed her feelings for him.
* In episode 39, Eureka is shown to be skilled in playing soccer, despite having never played before, and her jersey number was 7. (A joke most viewers picked up on.)
* In Eureka Seven: AO, her attire is similar to the one her sister-in-law, Diane, wears in the original series.
* In Eureka Seven: AO, her son, Ao, inherited his eye and skin color from her while having inherited his facial features from Renton. Early in the series, his hair was brown like Renton's but it changed into turquoise when he first came into contact with the Nirvash IFO.
* Eureka stated in both Eureka Seven and Eureka Seven: AO that what she loved most of all were Renton and their children (two biological children and three adoptive children).
* Even though Eureka has five children, it appears that Ao is her favorite, likely due to him resembling Renton and being the only one of her two biological children to survive, and she affectionately refers to him as "my Ao".
* Eureka is named after a famous exclamation attributed to the Greek sage Archimedes.
* Even though she calls Maurice, Maeter, and Linck her children and loves them dearly, Eureka never mentions them in AO.
* In the manga and novel series, Eureka sacrifices herself to save the planet from being destroyed (by the Coralians in the manga; by Dewey in the novels), and although he refuses to accept Eureka's death, Renton treasures her memory. In the anime series, she was supposed to sacrifice her memories in order to save the planet and part ways with Renton, however, due to the popular ratings, the ending was changed into a happy one where Eureka and Renton would be able to live happily together. In 2010, the producers of the series released an audio of the original ending with recurring scenes from the series, whereof which Eureka parts ways with Renton forever after sacrificing her memories and disappearing, but he promises her they will meet again someday.
* The only time Eureka ever turns into a full human is in the film, after which she sacrifices her memories to the Azo to save Renton from dying due to a gunshot wound.
* How Eureka sacrificed herself in Eureka Seven: AO to teleport the Quartz to a different time in order to save Ao and the planet from a Scub Burst is similar to how her father-in-law, Adroc, sacrificed himself in Eureka Seven by removing the Compac Drive from Nirvash in order to save his children and the planet from the First Summer of Love. Also, many believed the two had died as a result of their sacrifices, but in truth, Eureka is in limbo between worlds due to not having a specific time and place in mind, and Adroc merged with the Scub Corals for an unknown reason.
* In chapter 2 of the second light novel, Eureka actually told Renton that she hated him for flying Nirvash in a manner that opposed hers. This is the only time she has ever said this to him in the entire series. In the anime and manga versions, while she was jealous of him, she said she never harbored any ill will towards him and would worry that anything hurtful she said or did to him would make her lose him.
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== External Links ==
* Eureka at Eureka Seven Wiki
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