Eve

**Eve Validus** is a major recurring character in the *Divine Comedy*.

Eve is the mother of humanity, one of the more benevolent empresses of Hell, co-ruler of Treachery, and the wife of Satan. She is the matriarch of the Validus family and is known for her sweet and motherly disposition.

## History

### Background

Eve was created by God as one of the many alternatives for Adam in case he rejected his other potential wives. Eve was created after Lilith and Tiamat but before Naamah, Agrat, and Eisheth. When Adam saw them he proposed to all of them but they all rejected except Eve who accepted his proposal. Because of Eve's naivety and curiosity she was more submissive to Adam, though only to some degree, but she did share the same privileges where they could freely roam the Garden of Eden and eat from the Tree of Life.

Eve is shown to be the more intelligent of the two and like Lilith would eventually come to find Adam stuffy and overbearing, wanting to spend more time learning about herself and all that is around her than to just be wholly complacent to Adam. Because of this, she convinces Adam to separate from one another for a time to work on different parts of the Garden. Eve would later meet and be under of the wing of none other than Samael himself. Samael found Eve's inquisitive and bubbly nature to be amusing and despite their contrast in personalities the two became quite close. Aside from Samael she also developed good friendships with the likes of Lucifer and his band of angels including other archangels in Heaven like Raphael and Gabriel.

### Original Sin

After the war in Heaven, Eve continued on with her life of paradise in Eden though she was particularly concerned with Samael and the others often asking what happened to them but none of the angels could give her a clear answer. All the while, Eve would continue to get into more disagreements and arguments with Adam until eventually they separated once again and went to different parts of the Garden. While she was resting beneath, she was surprised by an owl not just approaching her but also speaking to her unaware that it was actually Lilith in disguise. Taken aback by this at first she found herself having a rather friendly and light-hearted conversation with owl, talking about Adam's suffocating presence and the nature of how things operate in this newly born world.

Eve would be comforted by Lilith until the latter focused on the mission at hand and led her sister to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil where all her questions will be answered when she gets the bigger picture of things without having to worry about Adam and the angels. When she approached the Tree of Knowledge she did not know what to expect until she was met by a talking snake who startled her so much she threw several fruits at him until he managed to calm her down saying that he is a friend of the talking owl and that they both became like this from the "magic fruit". He played into the thoughts that Lilith already implanted by saying how she herself would not only gain full sentience but also get the answer she's always wanted to know; to know about herself. Convinced, Eve took the fruit and when she saw Adam approaching she convinced him to eat this fruit despite being told not to in the beginning.

As they ate the fruit in that one act of rebellion, Eve became "self-aware" of her thoughts both good and bad. When the alarm broke out, God calls out to them and demanding an explanation as to why they did the one simple thing He told them not to do and why they were hiding from Him. Adam explains that he hid out of fear because he realized he was naked and then points to Eve as the real offender who tried to tell God that it was a talking snake and his friend a talking owl that talked her into it.

### Fall of Man

Eve and Adam were cast out of Eden as a result of their disobedience, their immortality taken from them and Eve as well as all womankind cursed with labor and period pains. Eve and Adam were now forced to live out their lives on Earth and tried to survive against the ecosystem that now turned against them. Despite their predicament, Eve proclaimed that they still have the opportunity to explore the planet that was meant to be ruled by them though Adam was not as optimistic. Adam and Eve embarked on various adventures, engaged in many shenanigans, and escaped perilous situations either through sheer luck or wit. Though their relationship was rocky and strained, they managed to find common ground to aid the other.

At some point they met the Giant known as Prometheus who took pity on Adam and Eve. Concerned that Eve is already pregnant, along with there being dangerous creatures that roam the Earth, and that the nights in the desert would be cold, Prometheus gave fire to the couple in hopes that it would keep them warm in the cold desert nights and also provided them with a companion named Orthrus, a large two-headed dog.

As Eve went out to find water with Adam taking a different direction she passed out from the scorching heat. Unbeknownst to her she was approached by Samael himself who came to Earth to try and make amends with Eve for what he had done only to find her unconcious unto the ground. Samael conjured heavy rain that cooled her off and brought her to a cave to recover. When Eve came to she was immediately frightened by who was in front of her though she couldn't fully make out his appearance because of the darkness of the cave. Slowly, Eve and Samael would speak again after the whole thing with the snake and fruit with Eve venting her frustration about Adam's controlling behavior, something that Samael sympathized with as he had to deal with Lucifer himself. As Samael tended to her wounds, the two slowly began to fall for each other until it culminated into them making love.

From their union Eve gave birth to Cain who then had a brother named Abel from Adam. Abel was Adam's favorite which estranged him from Cain but Eve loved him as equally as she did Abel. When she learned of Abel's death at Cain's hands and the latter's disappearance, Eve was utterly devastated to where her marriage with Adam was now completely severed. Eve separated from Adam for 130 years and all the while she would be watched over by Lilith and her sisters, guarding her silently.

### Marriage to Satan

Upon her death, Eve returned to Eden and for a while she was happy until God Himself noticed that she starting to lose her optimism and was quite down from all that transpired. Seeing how lonely and saddened both she and His son Samael were from what happened between them, God had the bright idea to marry her off to Samael which shocked both Eve and everyone else in Heaven. Hesitant at first God was able to convince her since He's "the Almighty and knows what He is doing". Though Eve left Eden willingly, she was technically forced to come to Hell by God. Samael was similarly forced into the situation by his scheming Father, although they had been smitten with each other for a while.

When Eve met up with Samael for the first time in a few hundred years the Devil did his best to give his would-be bride some space, even creating a garden for her where she might feel comfortable. In the beginning it was rocky as Eve was angry towards Samael for "tricking" her and making her life miserable but as the months went by, especially hearing and following the advice of her sisters as well as having a genuine heart-to-heart with Samael, Eve was able to see the old archangel she first grew close to and truly understood why he did what he did. The two would eventually come to love each other genuinely, and she brought a kinder side out of him while he would treat her with nothing but kindness, love, and support. Their marriage was sealed as Eve accepted him as her husband with her not only becoming the co-ruler of the Ninth Circle but also one of the empresses of Hell. She also bore many children with Samael.

## Trivia

* She is based on the same Abrahamic figure of the same name who is regarded as the first woman and the wife of Adam (though in some traditions she is the second as Lilith is the first) who ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and was subsequently cast out of Eden alongside Adam.
* Eve's theme song would be "Without Question" by Elton John/Tim Rice.
* While she loves all animals she appears to favor the platypus.
* Though Eve is not much of a drinker the series writer states that her favorite is a pomegranate martini.
* It is shown in Eve's contacts that she hangs out with other chthonic figures such as Persephone, Isis, Mictecacihuatl, and Baldr.
* Eisheth reveals that the Venus of Willendorf figurine was slightly modeled after Eve's own figure.
* Eve reveals that she took care of Jesus when he was a baby.
* Under a legal contact with the officials Heaven, Eve is allowed to visit Cain and his children once a year. Specifically during the vernal equinox which is March 21st.
* The story between Eve and Satan is apparently famous in both Heaven and Hell as shown when Lilith was telling the story to Charlie when she was younger and Abel telling it to Collin.
* Eve has several cottages stationed across Treachery for wayward demons to warm up from the unforgiving atmosphere of the Circle.