Evey Hammond
| Evey Hammond | |
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Evey in V for Vendetta #6
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Vertigo imprint of DC Comics (originally Quality Communications) |
| First appearance | Warrior #1 (Mar. 1982) |
| Created by |
Alan Moore David Lloyd |
| In-story information | |
| Notable aliases | Eve, V, E-V (movie version only) |
Evey Hammond is a fictional character and the protagonist of the comic book series, V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. She becomes involved in V's life when he rescues her from a gang of London's secret police.
Born September 1981, Evey grew up on Shooters Hill in south-east London. As a child, she lost both her parents: her mother died following a nuclear war in the early 1980s and her father was arrested and executed by Norsefire, the fascist dictatorship that seized authority during the war's aftermath, because of his socialist political leanings. Sent to a youth hostel: she is forced to work packing matches into boxes for shipment and then begins working at a munitions factory.
Struck by poverty, Evey tries to become a prostitute. The first potential customer she approaches turns out to be a Fingerman, a member of Norsefire's secret police, working on a vice squad sting operation. As the man is about to rape her, she is saved by a mysterious man in a Guy Fawkes mask and black cloak, calling himself "V." V lets Evey watch him blow up the Houses of Parliament.
V takes Evey to his underground hideout, which he refers to as "The Shadow Gallery." He blindfolds her so she cannot see where they were going. Evey comes to confide in V, telling him about the death of her parents. V comforts her and she becomes dependent on him for safety and security. When Evey offers to repay V's kindness, he dresses her up as a young girl and sends her to distract Anthony James Lilliman, a paedophile bishop and Norsefire official whom he has targeted for revenge. Evey is stricken with guilt over her complicity in the bishop's assassination, with her realizing that V is far more sinister than she suspected.
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