In a recent article based off of Softpedia, Jun Takeuchi has said that Sheva's character was created to "complete" Chris. She is fast and smart and will be a good companion for Chris through out the game.
The rest of the article doesn't really talk about anything new.
Takeuchi Talks about Female Characters
“While designing Chris, we decided that since it's been 10 years since the original Resident Evil, he would be buffed up a bit. He's a little bit more burly, more of a tough guy than he was before. So when it came to making the secondary character, we wanted a character who would play off that and be different. So the most obvious difference was to make that character female. We also wanted to make a character who would be from Africa, now the area the game is taking place in, and be a guide to Chris, telling him about the different parts of the world he's not familiar with. So these are the kinds of reasons Sheva developed the way she is now.”
Takeuchi Talks about Female Characters
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