"Are you trying to find out my royal secrets?"
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"Is it Felis aulicus? Feles Aulicus? Felis aulicum?"
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If those Royal Guards think they’ve seen the last of me, they are very much mistaken. When the time is right, I shall show them who is the rightful princess of the kingdom! |
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Eva (Ima in Italian and other languages) is a seal-point Siamese (presumably resembling an old-style Siamese), Princess Ava's twin sister, and the main antagonist of the series. She is one of the two cats of the fictional Felis aulicus species (means "Cat of the Royal Court" in Latin), the rarest cat species known to people in the Big City.
She is the leader of her gang, which consists of herself, Zull, Gort, and Krakia.
Jealous of Ava's position of power, she hatches a plan to steal the Friendship Heart while her sister is busy with the Friendship Ceremony. She ends up breaking the Friendship Heart in two and accidentally sending Ava to the Big City. She escapes capture with one half of the jewel, leaving the other half in the heroes' paws.
Determined to become the next monarch of the Pocket Kingdom, she does everything she can to recover that half and keep Kate, Magic, and the Royal Guards from bringing Ava back. However, as fate would have it, this dark obsession led to her ending up being the Pet Buster's new prisoner.
She is voiced by Joanna Ruiz, Katherine Wilson, and Rebecca Forstadt in English, and by Marcella Silvestri in Italian.
Appearance
Eva is beige with dark gray color point markings on her ears, face, legs, and tail, and has blue eyes. She has a beauty mark next to her left eye. In the first episode, she wears a dark purple collar with light gray spikes. The collar is later replaced by one half of the Friendship Heart tied by a white string.
Depiction in the series
Little is known about Eva’s backstory, but she claimed to be evil all her life and never loved her sister despite Ava claiming that she was not evil, and that Eva was merely jealous of Ava’s position of power. This showed in a flashback in the episode, Operation 'Princess' (Part 2), However, it is completely ambiguous and vague to whether Eva or Ava is correct.
It is mentioned by Bella that Eva once attended her school and failed all her classes, though it is unknown whether or not it was done in an intentional way.
In both US and UK dubs, Eva speaks with a raspy and brash English accent. In the older English dub, she speaks with a much younger-sounding American accent with a bit of a valley girl twang.
Personality
Most of Eva's traits are especially negative.
Eva has leadership in her, and shows it well when dealing with her lackeys. However, she also has a short fuse, and tends to be ruthless with her gang, especially when she gets angry or frustrated at their plan not going as she had expected or simply Zull and Gort misbehaving or quarreling with each other.
Hatred and envy come paw in paw for Eva. She despises everyone in the Pocket Kingdom, including her own lackeys. However, she is especially jealous of her sister Ava because of both her position of power and her ownership of the Friendship Heart, to the point where she started doing bad deeds and plotting an usurp to overthrow Ava and make herself the monarch of the Pocket Kingdom instead. However, it is truly unknown what caused Eva to be that way, despite Eva trying to prove to Ava that she had been evil her entire life and never loved Ava. It is implied that she may have even taken great lengths to take another one's life, such as when she broke off the tree branch once Ava was under it, thankfully only ending up with her sister having an injured paw.
Eva also despises anything she sees as saccharine, and sees just about anything positive in an oxymoronic negative light, such as bright colors, the procession of the Friendship Ceremony, and even quakes at the mention of the word "love", finding it "disgusting".
She would never give up easily and would do anything to have possession of the Friendship Heart and take the title as queen, even if it requires her lackeys to take great leaps. However, as they tend to goof up when carrying out her plan, this would often frustrate her.
Bravery is also one of Eva’s primary traits, as it is shown that she and her gang hide out in the Ever Grey Swamp, a region other pets fear and would never go to, and even her underlings Zull and Gort were hesitant to agree with that decision. She also dared to meet Durillia, someone who a lot of pets have feared, and she showed no hesitation or fear when encountering her in her cave, and wasn't even bothered when she stepped paw in the Valley of No One, much to her lackeys' dismay,
She is also very clever, but is far from wise. She always seems to create cunning and devious plans to either steal the other half of the Friendship Heart or do another evil deed that would get in the protagonists' way, such as holding a Magic Drop or even takes it too far to where she kidnaps a pet such as Leo. However, despite her thoughtfully planned-out plots, she and her lackeys fail all the time, especially due to the incompetence of Zull and Gort. She would sometimes depend on Durillia for advice on whatever plan she would think about. Eva also knows all about the Pocket Kingdom's laws and how they work, and even knows how to do things that are considered against them, which are shown in her plans. Unlike her sister Ava, who is sharp as a tack, takes her time, and knows her morals, Eva is rather foolish and impatient.
She is also incredibly manipulative and can easily detect weaknesses in anyone, especially when she distracted the snow leopard at the Land of Eternal Snow by sending Gort disguised as another leopard to grab his attention, in order to fetch the Never Alone Flower. She has also found a way to win over the Pet Buster by striking a deal to send him pets in exchange for keeping her sister Ava hostage for ransom. However, her alliance with the Pet Buster did not last long as she got herself captured in part 2 of Together Forever.
It is possible that Eva may also have a sense of humor given the occasional puns she lets out depending on the situation, whether it regards Krakia (hence “ruffling a single feather”) or Puppy Key (hence “things getting even hotter”).
Trivia
- Eva has been described by some to be not a very well-written villain, due to a lack of backstory, the statement that she had always been "evil", and the lack of redeeming factors.
- Eva's growls sound more like a dog's growl rather than a cat's for unknown reasons in many dubs. However, she makes more cat-like noises in the French dub.
- Eva’s collar was initially going to be green according to the pilot trailer for the series, and her figurine was initially going to be released with that same color of collar. However, in the final show, her collar is purple instead, and her figurine was released with a light blue collar.
Quotes
See Eva/Quotes.
Gallery
See Eva/Gallery.
Merchandise
Giochi Preziosi
Main article: Giochi Preziosi figurines
Eva can be found in both blind bags and in 2- and 4-packs.
Backcard Descriptions
Note: These descriptions are reproduced exactly as they appear on the figurines’ backcards, including all errors.
Ima is the Siamese kitten twin sister of Princess Ami. Ima has decided to seize her sister's Princely Collar to oust her and take over the Kingdom of Pocketville.
In great secrecy, she plots evil plans to make sure that Ami cannot reign over Pocketville again.
Series 2
Flair release
