Who Gave the Baker’s the Virus?
You’ll hear mention of a girl named Eveline quite often while playing Resident Evil 7. The family speaks of her usually with disdain, and journal entries scattered around the house and other areas are written by her or written about her. She’s a young girl, around 10-12 years of age, and it’s implied that she’s the youngest member of the Baker family, which she is… by force.
Eveline is the E-Series that has infected everyone in the house in pursuit of a family. She is lonely, so forces the Bakers to do her bidding and stick around. How does murder work into that when she can just make them her family and leave it at that? She wants more family members and friends, which requires more human subjects.
To acquire those, she forces the Baker family to go out and kidnap people, sometimes even killing them to bring them in. This is because her ability, which involves physical contact or the use of a mold that she can vomit up. Ingestion of the mold leads to mutation and psychological changes. But it can also revive the dead, although this leads to a different type of infected based on everything seen in Resident Evil 7. Large, black mutants which are referred to as Molded are humans that the mold has completely taken over, which is the case for all dead subjects.
