It's definitely creepy that he named her after the woman he was in love with. Extra creepy for me because back when we didn't know anything about TIM I named my canon femshep Eva lol.
I made that connection a few weeks ago, but, to respond to what you said...
IIRC (it's been a few months since I read 'Evolution'), Eva Coré wasn't Harper's love interest. Oh, there was suggestions he might have been interested in her, but the real romantic entanglement was between Eva and Harper's best friend, Ben Hislop, that never got resolved because Ben went and got himself turned into a husk. Oops. And then Ben, under the influence of the Reaper artifact, killed Eva. Double oops.
Both Ben and Eva's deaths probably weighed heavily on Harper, and, yeah, probably served as the basis for the infiltration unit. But not as his robot girlfriend.
(As for the haircolor thing: I'm guessing it wasn't an issue with the colorist back in the comic so if you want to draw a connection, I'd say the 'bot hair color is probably more canonical than the comic.)
Yeah, paged through the comic again and looks like it was more Ben/Eva than Harper/Eva. However, it doesn't rule out that maybe Harper had feelings for Eva too?
So perhaps it's one of (or a combo) of TIM just naming the sexbot after Eva as a personal touch, using an existing ID of a long-dead friend, or perhaps a sexual fantasy of a woman he couldn't have?
Eva was a follow-up to EDI, since Cerberus lost her when she went self-aware and ran away with Commander Shepard. Building a sex-bot platform for Eva was most likely TIM's choice since he intended to use her directly for his own goals. Including 'fully functional body' was perhaps high up on his requirements for Eva. I cannot imagine anyone else than TIM utliziing those functions for personal reasons.
Had the Alliance or EDI herself designed the physical platform, I imagine they'd have made her less... pronounced, and not 'fully functional' in the sense of what Cerberus designed.
Ugh, I don't want to remember the whole "sexbot" mess from pre-release.
Haven't read the comic, but if we want a less creepy explanation, could he have just hijacked her identity for the 'bot because she's dead and no longer using it anyway? It's probably more convenient to adapt your spy/assassinbot to an existing ID than to create a new, fake one.
Of course, this still doesn't explain the... extra features.
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Ew.
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IIRC (it's been a few months since I read 'Evolution'), Eva Coré wasn't Harper's love interest. Oh, there was suggestions he might have been interested in her, but the real romantic entanglement was between Eva and Harper's best friend, Ben Hislop, that never got resolved because Ben went and got himself turned into a husk. Oops. And then Ben, under the influence of the Reaper artifact, killed Eva. Double oops.
Both Ben and Eva's deaths probably weighed heavily on Harper, and, yeah, probably served as the basis for the infiltration unit. But not as his robot girlfriend.
(As for the haircolor thing: I'm guessing it wasn't an issue with the colorist back in the comic so if you want to draw a connection, I'd say the 'bot hair color is probably more canonical than the comic.)
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So perhaps it's one of (or a combo) of TIM just naming the sexbot after Eva as a personal touch, using an existing ID of a long-dead friend, or perhaps a sexual fantasy of a woman he couldn't have?
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EDI is sexualized enough as it is without trying to read even more into it. :/
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Had the Alliance or EDI herself designed the physical platform, I imagine they'd have made her less... pronounced, and not 'fully functional' in the sense of what Cerberus designed.
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now to go bother all the other voice actors for similar confirmations
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Is it wishful thinking to hope this means other VAs will be recording new lines as well?
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Haven't read the comic, but if we want a less creepy explanation, could he have just hijacked her identity for the 'bot because she's dead and no longer using it anyway? It's probably more convenient to adapt your spy/assassinbot to an existing ID than to create a new, fake one.
Of course, this still doesn't explain the... extra features.
(Or excuse them.)
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