(02-16-2017, 06:13 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Eve was never a "new" person living inside Juliette's body. That's not how the disassociation process works. Eve is a fragment of the original Juliette, with whatever parts of the Juliette's original personality that made her unable to live with her past suppressed.I’m on board with the idea that Eve was the result of a fractured personality with Eve dominant and Juliette subjugated. But the Eve persona existed on the fact that she was not Juliette, and did not share her past.
Eve did not tell Nick she had moved on, she told Nick he was talking about Juliette and should bury Juliette. I get the metaphor, but the reality was that, for Eve, Juliette was dead in order for her to be the only existing/functioning personality. The show never presented Juliette as taking control of the Hexenbiest and becoming a laser focused soldier. In fact, the show went of it’s way to establish that Juliette did not exist in any form other than bodily.
My point was that Eve experiencing Juliette’s emotions and memories would not make her immediately associate herself to Juliette. Realistically, Eve would react negatively to any behavior that suggested she was Juliette and not in total control.
It’s not that Eve is dealing with typical emotions. It’s that instead of reacting to them as the laser focused soldier would react to being compromised, she is too quickly accepting and embracing the Juliette personality as her own.
Eve was not frightened/shocked by the three-way mind meld with Diana & Adalind. But when the ugly face showed up in the mirror, her reaction was Juliette’s, even to the point of yielding to Nick for how they would proceed.
In the tunnel, Eve called out Nick over his obsession with the stick, prepared to challenge him if he refused to return it to it’s hiding place. That person was not in the bathroom when the ugly face showed up in the mirror. The person in the bathroom was comfortable following Nick’s lead without question, as though she’d never handled intense situations on her own.
So is this Eve submitting to Juliette’s emotions and memories of Nick or is this Eve unable to be an independent, in control operative now that she doesn’t have her Hexenbiest abilities?
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke