Eva Tsunaka

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**Eva Tsunaka** is one of the 16 students of Eden's Garden Academy and the deuteragonist of the Killing Game featured in Project: Eden's Garden. She is the Ultimate Liar, and her motif is the **crow**.

## Biography

**"In a killing game, you need to be able to trust those around you. But with the Ultimate Liar, is trust even possible? Eva has made it clear that she doesn't intend to lie to anyone, but how can we believe any promise she makes? Truly a quiet and mysterious figure, she often stares into the distance and makes you feel like anything you say to her is being completely ignored, as if she is lost in her own world of thought."**
## Appearance

   Eva is a presumably young woman of above-average height and average build. Eva has pale skin with long black hair that fades to white, alongside a red headband and ovular glasses. Her red headband has a black crow feather attached to the left side of it. In addition, she wears a red and white blazer with a pin of a crow on the left side. Under the blazer, she wears a black shirt with a red and white tie with ruffles at the bottom.

She wears a blue skirt with red highlights along the bottom and a black partition in the center.

She has red high top sneakers with black thigh high socks.

## Personality

Eva is as mysterious as she is stoic, not displaying an inch of emotion during the prologue. She is only driven by logic and logic alone, frequently displaying odd behavior that may be the result of an ulterior motive. Her first reaction to being kidnapped during the prologue was to act asleep to test Damon. Her reasoning was that she “needed to see for myself if I could trust you”, which is seen as unusual by Damon, although it could just be a survival tactic after being kidnapped.

Her ability as Ultimate Liar has yet to be shown, however her dialogue frequently mentions “truth”, and “lies”, such as when she said “I’m not lying”, or “if you don’t believe me, go check it out for yourself.” During the prologue, if Damon enters the empty rooms that Eva already checked, she will mention to Damon that she told him so, with her sprite showing a slight hint of anger. She was hesitant to share her ultimate ability with the others, which is only logical, as the rest of the students immediately became suspicious, with Kai asking her how they were supposed to believe anything she said. However it can be inferred that so far, during the prologue, Eva has not deceived any of the students yet, perhaps saving her Ultimate ability for another time.

Eva is also shown to be a very cold, distant, and distrustful person, fitting her reliance on logic over emotions. While talking to the other students, Eva remains fairly unfriendly. Although not quite rude like Damon, Eva is prone to making sarcastic remarks, such as asking why Kai cares about whether Damon recognizes him or not, as she assumes his demographic is largely teenage girls. In another example, when Eloise is hiding and crying after being kidnapped, Eva suggests they leave them be, as it's not their problem if she doesn't want help. Wolfgang calls Eva out for her assumption, as this could have been someone in need, even calling Eva cold for this. Lastly, when the Killing Game is revealed, Wolfgang tries to keep all the Ultimates hopeful by suggesting no one here will kill each other, getting most of them on his side. However, Eva argues against this assumption, calling Wolfgang naive, as Ultimates have more reason to murder, not less, especially when a clear motive in guranteed survival and escape has been established. While her points were fairly reasonable, they serve as a strong contrast to the rest of the Ultimates besides Damon, showing Eva to be a rather cynical person.

During the trial, she acts very grounded and logical. Despite Wolfgang's emotional insistence without evidence that Cara's killer was not acting in self-defense and was instead committing a deliberate sadistic murder, Eva, alongside Wenona, are the ones to argue the most against this reasoning, stating nobody knows the killer and one shouldn't assume their morals based on nothing. On the other hand, most of the characters don't lean towards either direction, merely discussing the possibility of it being self-defense whlie not directly refuting Wolfgang. This shows that Eva might be acting emotional and biased in her own way, which differs from her previous behavior. On top of this, during the Logical Route, Damon does prove using his own logic that the murder could not have been self-defense, as the killer took way too long to prep a murder and went too far with the stabbing, showing the killing was most likely done in a sadistic nature and not out of panic or fear. This shows that Eva was incorrect in her emotional assumption, despite logic going in Damon's favor, even if Wolfgang was too upset to properly articulate his point himself. While Eva is mostly reasonable and intelligent, this case shows that she can be emotional at times, although in a much more subtle way than Wolfgang.

## Relationships

### **Damon Maitsu**

Eva Tsunaka was the first person Damon met in Eden's Garden Academy, as they both woke up in the Boiler Room. Eva first tries to "test" Damon by pretending to be unconscious on the floor in front of him, when in reality she woke up before him, all to see what he would do. However, even after her test, Eva still doesn't trust Damon enough to tell her admittingly suspicious talent as the Ultimate Liar despite Damon immediately stating his without her even asking. This distrust seems to go both ways, as during the investigation of Cara's murder, Damon comments to himself that Eva is more likely to cause a murder than solve one. While the two do cooperate and investigate together for much of the Prologue, they don't seem to have a particiularly friendly and trusting relationship. Regardless, Damon doesn't seem to express any contempt for Eva unlike some of the other Ultimates, most likely for not even knowing her talent for the first half of Chapter 0, when the major reason Damon acts so arrogant is due to much of the cast having "useless" talents in his eyes.

However, their unremarkable relationship takes an interesting turn once the Killing Game offically begins. After Wolfgang encourages all the Ultimates to stick together and not succumb to the Killing Game, as none of them have the heart or will to kill in his eyes, Eva expresses exasperation as his naviety. Eva claims that Ultimates have more reason to kill, not less, as they would do anything to accomplish their goals, including outside of the Killing Game. The only way they can accomplish their dreams is by resorting to murder, and Eva states that getting them to trust each other will only make them more vulnerable to getting killed. While many fight against Eva and defend Wolfgang, Damon ultimately decides to side with her, as he also felt a sense of irritation at the others being so willing to believe in one another. Eventually, Damon gets heated to the point where he makes an entire speech about how most Ultimates have useless talents that are nothing more than pointless hobbies, doing nothing to better the world. This results in the cast fighting against Damon, and he feels alienated as a result, concluding "it's me versus them". However, Eva never argues with Damon regarding his stance on Ultimates, most likely because she doesn't possess a normal talent and thus doesn't feel particularly aligned with the others. Ultimately, Damon and Eva have largely similar beliefs, which both result in them being alienated from the others, although to a much bigger extent with Damon. Due to this, their relationship has the potential to become friendlier in the future, as they are the main people on each other's side currently.

## Quotes

### Chapter 0:

* "One can never know whether they're in the presence of a friend or foe... which is why I needed to see for myself how much I could trust you."
* "As for myself...you may call me Eva Tsunaka."
* "Mmm. I don't think you could handle it."
* "Poking you in the face, dragging you by the feet... I even bridal carried you at one point."
* "In a situation like this, making assumptions is all you can really do."
* "Can we just leave them be? If they don't want help, it's not our issue."
* "Why do you care what he thinks? Isn't the demographic for people like you largely teenage girls?"
* "...Ultimate Liar."
* "This girl... She's just a dummy."
* "We shouldn't make a lot of assumptions......about the killer's morals. This could have been self-defense."
* "Do you actually believe no one here will try to kill? You're really naive. I don't know how you made it as a lawyer."
* "It's obvious. Compared to normal people, Ultimates are more prone to killing, not less. Living with constant praise from the public has ruined our sense of self... If you need examples, just look around the room."
* "In the outside world, Ultimates will do anything to further their goals. The same is probably true here. Once you realize your dreams can only be achieved if you escape...you'll resort to murder."
* "If you continue to convince all of these people to trust each other, they'll only be more vulnerable. Unless, that was your plan all along? Is it possible you \*want\* to make everyone vulnerable......so it would be easier for you to kill them?"

## Name Etymology

"Eva" is a name associated with "life", and is most commonly used as a Latin variation of "Eve", who is in the classical biblical story Adam and Eve, fitting into the religious symbolism of Project: Eden's Garden.

## Trivia

* Eva is the only one out of the cast whose bio deliberately hides information about, such as her age and birthday.