Nifty is Eve in disguise
This theory adds onto to a few other popular ones, that being Eve is Alastor's dealmaker under the guise of Lilith, and Eve is the cryptic "Roo." What I propose alongside that, is that she's hiding in plain sight among the hotel guests, and that disguise is Nifty.
Spoilers up to the season 1 finale below:
Evidence:
When you think about her in conjunction with the show's established themes it falls into place: Adam, the s1 antagonist is a misogynist who wanted Lilith's obedience. Eve will foil Lilith; while she's all about hating subservience and breaking chains, Nifty is a parody of the stereotypical 50s housewife, 'likes being forced' and spends her time cooking, cleaning, and obsessing over men. Eve was created from Adam's rib to ensure his next wife would lack the autonomy to rebel. Designed to be the epitome of Adam's submissive ideal, it makes sense Eve would choose a 50s housewife as her disguise, they resonate with her.
The old logo is her face / her and Lucifer's placement on the prime cover.
She collects little pieces of men because that's what she was made from / is enamoured with Pentious in particular because he's a snake. "never leave me again" <- double meaning alert. / "HATED THAT SONG" because she was never offered forgiveness so easily. Not even Charlie catching her in the trust fall is foreshadowing; unlike Lilith who had Lucifer, no one came to her side when she committed the original sin.
The all-female exorcists were made by Adam to serve him. Their masks have horns like Lilith and a missing eye like a cyclops. They're hybrid clones of the two wives that left him. Eve is the only character in the intro whose eyes we haven't seen.
Every large ensemble show has a mole arc and she's the only one with no established goals. It's always the one-note gag characters you should look out for.
There's no confirmation if Nifty made a deal with Alastor. I think Eve is the one who's got him 'on a leash' though he thinks it's Lilith. He lets Nifty follow him around and she plays up the fangirl persona to keep a close eye on him.
It's the perfect refuge in audacity disguise. Acting innocent in hell in suspect. Being an unhinged stalker raises no questions. Alastor himself says he has no idea what tf her deal is.
I made this theory a few days ago but I was delighted to see more evidence in the final episode. See this?
It's elaborate foreshadowing disguised as a gag. She's not just doing this for the funsies she is MAD mad. Vengeance!
Conclusion:
Whether this means she's the big bad or unlikely ally, I can't say. If it's the former, her goal is to be redeemed with the other guests and enter heaven so she can get revenge on everyone else. S1 leans heavily into heaven vs hell so it would make sense for the final antag to be a 3rd party wildcard who wants to burn both sides to the ground for failing her. Heaven casted her out, hell unintentionally doomed her to an eternity of suffering with the fruit of knowledge, then left her.
Nifty be Shifty.
I absolutely love this, and I’d like to offer a few things and raise a couple questions:
Visual similarities to Lucifer/Charlie:
Oddly, Nifty looks very similar to both of them.
For Charlie: You’ve got the white skin, pink/red cheeks, oddly weighted outlines around the eye, & even the little sharp side eye lashes.
For Lucifer: they both seem to wear these long black gloves over white skin + the cheeks again. Just some similar design choices I wanted to highlight.
Extra Odd things:
1)
We see this very brief couple of frames when Charlie is freaking out about the extermination happening in a month. This is the only time Nifty actually looks threatening.
Certainly she’s manic sometimes but you can see the frames below are the only other times she’s got a ‘frowning’ eye, and the first is when they’re getting ready for the battle.
Why did she look like that for a brief moment? Literally nothing else is happening atm besides Vaggie calling out “Sweetie” to Charlie. The only thing I can think of is that she’s vindictively happy that Charlie is going to fail and the angels will come.
2)
This face she makes when they all find out about the new extermination date I think confirms that idea.
3)
Also I want to highlight two quotes from the show:
- “Charlie told me to stab, so I did” another reference to the obedience thing.
- See below. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like some foreshadowing. The only important mother/child relationship we have is between Charlie and Lilith. We might see ‘Eve’ taking a chance to threaten Charlie to keep her in line by killing her mother
Last, a question. Something that’s pinging my brain but I can’t get a handle on it:
Why does Nifty freeze in front of the camera? Something about capturing her image possibly?? Something is up there, just don’t know what yet.