Aya Brea

Aya Brea is a fictional character in the Parasite Eve video game series by Square Co., Ltd..

Aya Brea was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1979. She is of mixed ethnicity, her father (name unrevealed) was caucasian, her mother (Mariko) was Japanese. This gives her a unique appearance as she boasts many Asian facial features, such as the shape of her face and eyes, while possessing typically caucasian coloring, including blue eyes and fair blonde hair. She had a twin sister named Maya (disambiguation) who, along with her mother, died in an automobile accident in or around 1986.

After Maya s death, one of her corneas was organ transplant into Aya. At the same time, one of Maya s kidneys was transplanted into a young girl named Mitochondria Eve. Unknown to any of the doctors, Maya Brea s mitochondria was highly evolved and began changing Aya and Melissa s genetic structure.

As a young woman, Aya studied criminology at the University of Massachusetts and later became a detective with the NYPD. On December 24, 1997, Aya attended an opera performance at Carnegie Hall, which starred Melissa Pearce as the lead.

During the performance, Maya s advanced mitochondria, which had lain dormant in Melissa for eleven years, awakened and transformed her into Mitochondria Eve. As her first act against humankind, Eve killed everyone in Carnegie Hall via spontaneous human combustion, except for Aya who was immune to the effect.

During the next six days, Aya fought Eve and the creatures she spawned, known as Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures or NMCs, all across Manhattan, greatly assisted by the incredible powers she started to exhibit. Aya would later discover that she was granted great power due to the fact that she possessed Maya s mitochondria (transferred to her body during the corneal transplant), but it was unable to take control of her as it did Melissa because of Aya s evolved cell nuclei. Eventually, Aya engaged Eve in a showdown on Liberty Island, in which Eve was killed.

A few months after Eve s rampage in New York City, Aya joined a newly-formed branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation known as the Mitochondrion Investigation and Suppression Team or MIST . The purpose of MIST, based out of Los Angeles, is to hunt down and destroy any remaining NMC.

In September of 2000, Aya was followed a lead to a tiny town called Dryfield in the Mojave Desert. Aya soon discovered a strange shadow government facility called Neo-Ark where scientists were using Aya s DNA to breed a race of Artificial Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures. To control the ANMCs, the Neo-Ark directors brainwashed a young girl named Eve, a clone of Aya. Given Eve s age, she must have been either rapidly aged as many fictional clones are, or cloned before her mitochondria were awakened in 1997.

After destroying the Neo-Ark facility, Aya left MIST and took the young Eve in, forming a motherly/sisterly bond with her.