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halfheartedcurse) wrote2012-03-26 01:51 pm
halfheartedcurse) wrote2012-03-26 01:51 pm
Application for Singularity
Player Information
Your Nickname: Surge
OOC Journal:surgeprise
Under 18? 20
Email/IM: HPlusFuture@aim.com (AIM is same)
Characters Played at Singularity: Breakdown, Kanaya Maryam
TRIGGER WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF SELF-HARM
Character Information
Name: Eve
Name of Canon: The Binding of Isaac
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU
Reference: TBoI@Wikipedia, Eve@TBoI Wiki
Canon Point: After a battle with Larry Jr. in Basement II, falling on her way to The Caves I.
Setting:
The Binding of Isaac is assumed to take place on a mostly normal Earth, with the exception that the supernatural is alive and well here. God and the Devil exist in all their this-is-what-humans-think-they-look-like-and-act-like glory, and power-ups are also things that actually happen and are gleefully acknowledged throughout the game. However, most of the former only matters inside of Isaac's basement, because that is where the entire game takes place. No one knows how much influence all of that shit has on the world outside of the game, simply because the only glimpses we have of it are Isaac's traumatized flashbacks, and most of his flashbacks simply show acts of playground bullying that aren't any different from the typical bullshit kids get in our universe.
Isaac's basement is comprised of 3 different sectors, as The Womb is inside his mother, and Sheol is inside her heart. Due to some sort of weird supernatural bullshit, Isaac is able to fit inside those last two places with no problem. The Womb and Sheol aside, Isaac must journey through The Basement, The Caves, and The Depths. Isaac's basement is also filled with monsters, which the game implies his mother put there, with the exception of certain bosses and power-ups, which are implied to be horrible failed abortion-monsters straight from the unholy bowels of Isaac's Mom's vagina. Or maybe they're all vagina abominations.
~*~It's a mystery.~*~
In the basement, Isaac can find certain items that have effects that are all caused by the supernatural bullshit going on in his basement, but that are not necessarily supernatural in themselves. The Technology power-up is a notable example of this, as it's a technological implant which fuses itself to Isaac's eye by magic. There are pills that have instant positive or debilitating effects. There are also famous religious texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Belial, which can enhance his abilities. In the basement, tarot cards also have a shitton of varying effects that this only apply to the major arcana, as the minor arcana cannot be found in the basement. That wold be way too many cards, which would be silly.
So yeah, before I mentioned something about God and The Devil existing. See, in this universe God is exactly as much of a dick as he seems. The game is based on the actual story of Abraham and Isaac, except without all the context. Even with the context (God making a bet with the Devil to see if this guy will do everything he tells him to), he still seems like kind of an asshole. He doesn't even help Isaac out until his mom is about to kill him, and even then all he does is knock her out with a bible. Or kill her with it. One of those.
It's like, youdamn motherfucker, late to the party much?
Satan is no better, as he repeatedly appears in the basement and offers Isaac powerups in exchange for his maximum health. Isaac also has the opportunity to defeat him in Sheol, which he can access after beating Mom's Heart in the Womb II. It's possible to read his appearance inside Isaac's mom as him influencing her to kill her kid while masquerading as God. In fact, long-term possession would explain pretty much everything in that basement, from the dead pets to the abortion baby power-ups to the monsters.
Anyway, basically nothing else matters but this kid's horrible, monster-filled, power-up having, magical hell basement. There really isn't much to explain aside from that.
Personality:
At the canon point I'm taking her from, Eve is hilariously traumatized, so much so that she's a little numb to it. She didn't used to always be like this, though she does have a lot of Isaac's hang-ups. She was impulsive, making a deal with the Devil and getting cursed for it, and then became more careful and withdrawn. She stayed away from people so that her curse couldn't be triggered by accidental injuries and because people are dicks and treated her like shit. Like any other kid, she played with toys and had some gothic leanings, which is probably why she kept her dead bird's carefully preserved corpse. Her unwillingness to take part on society has made her somewhat naive about things like manners, common courtesy, lying to people to make them feel better, and why you shouldn't wear a dead bird in your hair in public. Or at all for that matter.
Being stuck in her basement obviously changed a lot of that. She can't afford to not take advantage of her curse or dead bird anymore by being careful, and all the shit she's seen has seriously fucked her up emotionally and psychologically.
Unless she's effected by a power-up, she typically cries constantly from terror, anger, and because she can use her tears to protect herself. Even though she's scared as hell, Eve has enough bravery not to stay curled up in the fetal position crying, simply because it's not really an option. She isn't above her moments of utter paralyzing fear, but only succumbs to it for short amounts of time when she knows she's safe. Her icon on the character choice screen keeps her with a rather dour and annoyed facial expression. This, combined with the look on her face when she becomes the Whore of Babylon, implies that she's more pissed than Isaac is at her general situation. She's just as angry as she is scared that her life has become this horrible nightmare, and is willing to do anything she can to escape it. The more she's been exposed to monsters and realized how bad her life was before all this, the more accustomed to it she becomes, to the point where her crying simply becomes something she does as a reflex when she needs to protect herself. She's not okay with what her life has become, but she's not going to freak out at every new fucking monster because she can't really afford to do that anymore.
Even though Eve is rightfully terrified out of her fucking mind, she cares more about not dying than she does about being scared. She would rather brave her hell basement and MAYBE have a chance to live, than to stay where she is and DEFINITELY be stabbed to death by her mother. Ultimately, she looks out for her own survival and is even willing to hurt her mother and celebrate her death when a bible falls and cracks her head open. While she prefers not to hurt things that aren't monsters, she has no problem murdering the small beggars she finds in her basement if she desperately needs the resources to keep herself alive. Seeing as she's still fighting everything in her basement, it's safe to say Eve has a good amount of perseverance.
Eve's life was not always sunshine and puppies before this all happened. She was teased a lot for various reasons that aren't really important to her now, but she figured it was okay. Sure, her mom didn't pay her that much attention ti her and got her really bad gifts every single birthday. And sure, every pet she ever had died of mysterious causes, but that's life. Shit happens.
Except it doesn't happen all the fucking time, every single time unless your mom is fucking insane and the world is conspiring to make your entire life one giant 'Fuck You'.
The amount of horrible secrets she's found in her basement have basically taken everything Eve thought she knew about her relationship with her mother and shat all over it. She knows that her mother has been keeping some seriously fucked up shit in their basement, that some of the things there are failed experiments and (literally) aborted brothers and sisters. She's also found out that her mother has apparently killed every single one of the pets she's ever had. It's also implied that her mother was generally horrible at parenting before all this, neglecting her child to watch Christian broadcasts and getting her terrible things for gifts (a blonde wig and a pile of shit among them). When she attempts to prevent Eve's soul from being corupted further, Mom starts feeding her dog food, rotten milk and lard. This, combined with her backfired deal with the Devil, has made Eve unwilling to take authority figues at face value, and unwilling to trust parental figures and adults as a whole. Due to the sheltered way she was raised, she probably has a lot of misconceptions about how parents are supposed to act and would be surprised at any non-terrible parental figures.
Eve is rather self-centered and has a narrow scope of vision, not really looking at the bigger picture, and seems mostly concerned with details that she sees as important. She won't think much of an event that effects a huge amount of people or a massive area, but will flip a shit if something hers goes missing or if someone doesn't put a new roll of paper in the bathroom. A lot of the thoughts she has in the basement are based off of Isaac's own, which just goes to show that she does flip out about the smallest things sometimes, unable to see the forest for the trees and remembering past nuances and crying about them instead of the fact that she's trapped in a fucking terror cave.
However, some of the thoughts are retrospective, which only serve to remind her that her life wasn't all that great before her mom did all this shit to her and that she was just lying to herself to make herself feel better. Knowing that she spent so long wasting her time doing this, Eve has tried to take a more realistic approach to things, which has just ended up making her overly negative because of her environment. In life, you can say that things will get better and maybe they actually will, but things in her basement never get better so it's hard for her to keep up that optimism without wondering to herself if she's just naming a habit of lying to herself again. Her outlook on live isn't the most positive, which is understandable seeing as her life went from kind of bad to totally bad to eldrich levels of fuck-awful. Still, there is a part of her deep down that believes there is a light at the end of every tunnel, otherwise she would have given up and let herself die in the basement ages ago.
The basement has changed Eve's previously careful nature and now she does make the most of her curse and her familiar. She is Risk for Reward based character, so she's not above succumbing to her curse by badly damaging herself, or throwing herself at an enemy so her bird will attack them when they hurt her. She does only do this when she is in dire straits, but damaging herself for an added bonus is a legitimate strategy to her. She puts her survival very high on the list of "Shit She Wants", and if she has to endure a little (or a lot) of pain to ultimately make it out alive, then she will deal with it. Completing Sheol with her even unlocks the Razor Blade power up, an item that inflicts damage on the user in exchange for increasing attack power in the place they are in.
Lastly, her clusterfuck basement has given Eve a high tolerance for weirdness. Aside from her constant crying and occasional moments of paralyzing fear, she really does not have time to panic about the fact that most of these monsters are really fucked up. She's too busy trying not to die to freak out about them, and she's also too self-centric to give it much thought. At this point, she's honestly so horrified that she cannot really comprehend half the awful shit that's happened to her. As far as she knows, this is a thing that is happening and she can't really dwell on it now. Being chased by monsters who have been shown to actively be out to kill her in any way possible has also made her ridiculously paranoid, and her deal with the Devil that caused her curse has made her unwilling to take anything from anyone without knowing what they want in return. She's more than willing to give over some coin in exchange for an item, or a little blood in exchange for some coin, but she doesn't permanently exchange her health for anything anymore.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions:
Like Isaac, she can use her tears as damaging projectiles. They fly about 5 feet out, give or take a foot, and can only be used while she's crying. Getting hit by a tear is about as painful as being hit with a baseball thrown relatively hard, since the tears are shown to have a knockback effect.
Since she has Mom's Knife (see below), this only takes effect when she dies and loses her items, as they do not come with each respawn and need to be retrieved from puddle of blood that is her corpse. Why? Because. for the sake of not having repeats of ridiculous power-ups, the items are simply too batshit insane to be respawned on her by a teleporter.
Due to her status as an unlockable character, Eve is a bit different from Isaac. She has a lower amount of health and a lower attack score (two hearts and two points in attack power respectively), and doesn't start with any items. In Singularity, this can easily translate to her being about as strong and durable as your average 11 year old. However, Eve is wicked fast for her age and has excellent agility, surpassing Isaac on this front.
Eve comes with two pre-set power-ups that are passive until activated a certain way.
Eve's Dead Bird: Eve keeps a dead bird in her hair at all times, as a sort of familiar. Whenever she is attacked, the dead bird comes to life and begins attacking whatever attacked her until it's dead. In addition to that, it will stop once Eve is a significant distance away from harm and begin following her until she enters a different area (i.e. another room, sector or zone). Once she enters a different area, it settles back into her hair in an inert state. The game considers the most chaste of brushing against an "attack", so I'm limiting the bird by having it only come to life and attack people who actually physically attack Eve with some amount of hostility.
Whore of Babylon: In the game, once Eve gets down to half a heart, she turns into a demon and shoots blood tears that do 3 times as much damage, which would be like getting hit with a dodgeball flung by some steroid-taking hulk named Steve. Since health isn't measured by hearts in Singularity (but wouldn't that be hilarious), I'm going to have to revamp this a bit. So when Eve is severely injured, she will resort to this form, which will not heal her present injuries but cause them to stabalize so she won't die right away. It will cause her to grow an extra foot, get a bit bulkier, sprout massive horns, etc. and just generally increase her melee strength (which doesn't really exist in BoI but whatever) to about the equivelant of an adult chimpanzee until she is either healed to a point where she reverts to being human again, or until she's killed.
By the way, she explodes into a shower of blood when she dies. I'm keeping that effect in Sing and mentioning it here because I think it's funny as fuck.
Throughout the game, you can collect a ridiculous amount of power-ups, but due to the fact that most of them are silly and a little overpowered, I'm only choosing the approximate amount she would find in the basement by the point she is in. If I want more, I will either canon update her and request them on the page, or request to find them in the Junkyard.
PHD: In the game, a PHD is a power-up that tells you the effect of any pill and changes the effects of negative ones into positive ones. In Sing, it will just give Eve a ridiculous and unexplained knowledge of what effects any medicine will have and will be a passive ability that she doesn't have to knowingly activate.
Razor Blade: Causes damage to the user in exchange for upping the amount of damage they can do for a short amount of time. She can only use this power up once every six rooms in the game. In Sing, we'll say it lasts about 10 minutes and she can only use it three times a day. Otherwise, it's fatal. Eve has to activate the razorblade herself and will have to physically cut herself with it to get it's effects to work.
Mom's Knife: It's a magic knife. It can be thrown or wielded in melee combat, and does a shitton of damage. The damage amount increases the longer Eve charges the shot. It always returns to her after being thrown. In the game she shoots it from her mouth but in Sing she will throw it like a normal person, and the reason Eve can throw it so well is because it's a magic knife. She wouldn't be able to throw anything else as well, and it doesn't auto-target anyone, so it can miss. It has a penetration effect but it will be limited in game so that it only applies to fully charged shots and it can't punch through the station. The most it will be able to penetrate is a single person and maybe a metal wall.
Inventory:
For the sake making sense, we can assume she carries some of the power-ups around physically, strapped to her person with improvised straps or something.
~*~IMAGINATION~*~
The PHD is a folded piece of paper that is actually a legit diploma with her name on it and everything, the razor blade is a razor blade, the knife is a knife and the dead bird is a dead bird. The the only non-tangible item is the Whore of Babylon, because that's more the name of her curse when you play as Eve. The items can be taken away from her and used by other characters with my permission and the permission of the other mun, obviously.
1 x Key (unlocks fuck all)
5 x Coin (1 Nickel)
2 x Bomb
Eve's Dead Bird
PHD
Razor Blade
Mom's Knife
Appearance: Binding of Isaac isn't exactly a game that puts a lot of stock in unique character design. Eve looks exactly like Isaac, with the exception of black hair that's styled asymetrically and cut short in the back. She also has on some eyeshadow and keeps a dead bird in her hair.
When she enters Whore of Babylon mode, she grows in size, her entire body turns black, she grows a pair of massive horns, her teeth become huge fangs, and the mark of an upside down cross appears on her face.
I could probably find a Played By for her if any of the icons I've made from the game creep anyone out, but seeing as this is an application and not a guarantee, I think I'll wait to see if I get in first before mucking about with it.
Age: There isn't really a set age for any of the characters in the game, so I'm going to say she's around 13. Isaac seems younger, but this is an AU anyway.
OC/AU Justification
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
Let me just summarize the game in case no one went to the Wikipedia or whatever. Wikipedia summaries are full of shit half the time anyway.
Issac is a kid who may as well be home-schooled, since he is shown to have socialized with other kids, but is never shown in school. He and his mother live in a small house on a hill, and he plays with toys and draws and partakes in his interests while she watches Christian broadcast television non-fucking-stop. He's perfectly happy with all his toys and shit until his mother hears a voice from above. This voice basically tells her that her son is being corrupted by all his swag shit, so she goes completely batshit, takes his clothes and toys, ransacks his room and then leaves him like that.
So Isaac is now miserable and naked when his mom hears The Voice a second time, telling her that her son is still being corrupted by outside influences. In response to this accusation, Isaac's mother locks him in his room and shuts him away from the world.
Finally, Mom hears The Voice a third time. It tells her that in order to prove her love and devotion to God, it wants her to sacrifice her son. Isaac's mom sees no problem with this, grabs a butcher's knife from the kitchen and starts walking to her son's room to murder his ass. Isaac understandably flips every shit and the kitchen sink (except not really because he's still locked in his room) and, after discovering a trapdoor conviniently located in his room, escapes down into the basement of his house.
In the original game, Eve is one of the unlockable characters, and as such, isn't really her own separate character with her own storyline. Like all the others, she's implied to be just another faucet of Isaac, sort of like a split personality. Cain is Isaac with an eye-patch, Judas is Isaac with a fez, and Magdalene is Isaac with a wig on and some gender dysphoria. Isaac apparently has the tendency of deluding himself that he is these people to cope with the stress, which makes sense given the trauma he has to put up with.
The AU idea is that rather than being a different personality of Isaac's, Eve is her own person and also the main character of The Binding of Isaac as opposed to Isaac himself. In addition to that, she's also slightly older than the game implies the main character is. Or maybe she isn't. The game isn't clear on how old any of the characters are, because you are never to old to be traumatized or find out that your mom doesn't love you.
Due to her abilities, this does change the brief story given in the game somewhat, as Eve does have her curse and her Dead Bird upon entering the basement.
Isaac is generally seen as innocent because he does nothing to deserve what his mother does to him. Eve is much the same. She doesn't deserve what Mom is doing to her, but The Voice is right when it calls her corrupted. In the game, you can make a deal with the Devil for the Whore of Babylon, which Eve did earlier in her life on a whim. This is what accounts for her frailty, as the Devil usually takes health when you make a deal with him. Seeing as she's cursed with the Whore of Babylon, she was extremely cautious when it came to getting injured before she ended up in the basement, spending most of her time in the house out of nessecity, unlike Isaac who stays inside because he enjoys it.
Mom doesn't know about her curse, and until The Voice demands she take Eve's things and lock her up, is content to watch her Christian broadcasts. However, she finds out about her curse after The Voice asks her to sacrifice her daughter and she severely injures Eve with a knife several times. Now only does the dead bird comes to life and start attacking Mom, but the injuries also trigger Eve's curse. The jig is then up with her mother and Eve hauls as down to the basement after her bird distracts her mother long enough for her to find the trapdoor. Due to this, Eve's version of Mom is out for her blood not only because God told her to, but also because it turns out that her child really is an abomination. In addition to that Eve enters the basement in Whore of Babylon mode in this AU, and eventually heals while she's there.
Another factor in the game is that, while in the basement, Isaac can find the heads of his former pets (among other things), and the Dead Bird is one of these. Unlike Isaac, who lost the corpse of his beloved pet bird, Eve kept and preserved it, putting it in her hair and benefiting from it's innate supernatural abilities. Her mom didn't find this weird as fuck, probably because her mom is a shitty parent. Who lets their kid play with dead birds? I mean, really...
Aside from that, the rest of the game runs it's course normally, with Eve decending into the basement and attempting to escape her mother, whom she eventually confronts and enters in an attempt to kill her once and for all by striking at the heart. She does so, and from her mother's heart, enters Sheol. In Sheol, she finds and murders the Devil, freeing herself from the nightmare as a whole.
In the canon point I've taken her from, Eve comes before all the matricide.
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples
Log Sample:
She is, quite frankly, surprised she isn't dead. She's fallen from on high and landed in piles of scrap metal and space rock and dropped what little she managed to gather in the basement. She's bleeding from so many places and trying desperately not to panic, because even when they hurt her, the monsters never really made her bleed. But she's alive, even if she's currently the Whore of Babylon, skin black and face marked. She's alive and that's what's important. She's so used to her curse that turning into a monster doesn't even scare her anymore. Not like it did the first time, when she attempted to desperately bandage her wounds and fix herself up before her mother found her.
But being stationary never got her anywhere in the basement. When monsters attacked, it got her hurt, and staying still stands in the way of progress. So she moves, slowly at first, pulling herself off the ground and trying hard not to look at the scrapes and gashes all over herself. She pushes herself off the ground and bolts away as soon as she's on her feet, running from the site of her fall and towards a dark corner between piles of junk. The darkness is good for Eve, it means that there's further down to go, that there's still hope of excape somewhere below.
The lights around here are too bright and they don't feel like home, which she isn't sure is a bad thing. They don't feel like the basement either, which is a good enough observation to get her moving again, crawling out of the crevice and looking for something to heal her up.
That's when she sees it. A small metal monster looking at her with strange glowing eyes and squeaking towards her with outstretched hands. That's what does it in the end, and Eve immidiately bursts into tears. They pool at the rims of her eyes, and the moment she blinks as hard as she can, shoot forward and hit the robot in the face, knocking it over and splashing it with blood.
Network Sample:
okay
hi
i'm eve
and i'm not dead
which is actually pretty okay
and i escaped from somewhere bad
which is also okay
but i don't know where i am
and there were robots and they kind of scared me
and there were funny smelling showers
and there was a lady who said something about a sacrosanct
but she looked like a ghost so i ran away
and it was really really weird
and they put this thing on me
i guess it's like a robot enhancing thing which is okay
i found some of those in my basment once but i didn't have enough coins for it
they gave me clothes too
but they tried to put me on a bed and hold me down so i ran away again
they were too nice
it was weird
and the holding down part was creepy
can someone tell me where i am
and if it's worse than my basement
i'm used to things getting worse
but a warning would be nice this time
Your Nickname: Surge
OOC Journal:
surgepriseUnder 18? 20
Email/IM: HPlusFuture@aim.com (AIM is same)
Characters Played at Singularity: Breakdown, Kanaya Maryam
TRIGGER WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF SELF-HARM
Character Information
Name: Eve
Name of Canon: The Binding of Isaac
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU
Reference: TBoI@Wikipedia, Eve@TBoI Wiki
Canon Point: After a battle with Larry Jr. in Basement II, falling on her way to The Caves I.
Setting:
The Binding of Isaac is assumed to take place on a mostly normal Earth, with the exception that the supernatural is alive and well here. God and the Devil exist in all their this-is-what-humans-think-they-look-like-and-act-like glory, and power-ups are also things that actually happen and are gleefully acknowledged throughout the game. However, most of the former only matters inside of Isaac's basement, because that is where the entire game takes place. No one knows how much influence all of that shit has on the world outside of the game, simply because the only glimpses we have of it are Isaac's traumatized flashbacks, and most of his flashbacks simply show acts of playground bullying that aren't any different from the typical bullshit kids get in our universe.
Isaac's basement is comprised of 3 different sectors, as The Womb is inside his mother, and Sheol is inside her heart. Due to some sort of weird supernatural bullshit, Isaac is able to fit inside those last two places with no problem. The Womb and Sheol aside, Isaac must journey through The Basement, The Caves, and The Depths. Isaac's basement is also filled with monsters, which the game implies his mother put there, with the exception of certain bosses and power-ups, which are implied to be horrible failed abortion-monsters straight from the unholy bowels of Isaac's Mom's vagina. Or maybe they're all vagina abominations.
~*~It's a mystery.~*~
In the basement, Isaac can find certain items that have effects that are all caused by the supernatural bullshit going on in his basement, but that are not necessarily supernatural in themselves. The Technology power-up is a notable example of this, as it's a technological implant which fuses itself to Isaac's eye by magic. There are pills that have instant positive or debilitating effects. There are also famous religious texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Belial, which can enhance his abilities. In the basement, tarot cards also have a shitton of varying effects that this only apply to the major arcana, as the minor arcana cannot be found in the basement. That wold be way too many cards, which would be silly.
So yeah, before I mentioned something about God and The Devil existing. See, in this universe God is exactly as much of a dick as he seems. The game is based on the actual story of Abraham and Isaac, except without all the context. Even with the context (God making a bet with the Devil to see if this guy will do everything he tells him to), he still seems like kind of an asshole. He doesn't even help Isaac out until his mom is about to kill him, and even then all he does is knock her out with a bible. Or kill her with it. One of those.
It's like, youdamn motherfucker, late to the party much?
Satan is no better, as he repeatedly appears in the basement and offers Isaac powerups in exchange for his maximum health. Isaac also has the opportunity to defeat him in Sheol, which he can access after beating Mom's Heart in the Womb II. It's possible to read his appearance inside Isaac's mom as him influencing her to kill her kid while masquerading as God. In fact, long-term possession would explain pretty much everything in that basement, from the dead pets to the abortion baby power-ups to the monsters.
Anyway, basically nothing else matters but this kid's horrible, monster-filled, power-up having, magical hell basement. There really isn't much to explain aside from that.
Personality:
At the canon point I'm taking her from, Eve is hilariously traumatized, so much so that she's a little numb to it. She didn't used to always be like this, though she does have a lot of Isaac's hang-ups. She was impulsive, making a deal with the Devil and getting cursed for it, and then became more careful and withdrawn. She stayed away from people so that her curse couldn't be triggered by accidental injuries and because people are dicks and treated her like shit. Like any other kid, she played with toys and had some gothic leanings, which is probably why she kept her dead bird's carefully preserved corpse. Her unwillingness to take part on society has made her somewhat naive about things like manners, common courtesy, lying to people to make them feel better, and why you shouldn't wear a dead bird in your hair in public. Or at all for that matter.
Being stuck in her basement obviously changed a lot of that. She can't afford to not take advantage of her curse or dead bird anymore by being careful, and all the shit she's seen has seriously fucked her up emotionally and psychologically.
Unless she's effected by a power-up, she typically cries constantly from terror, anger, and because she can use her tears to protect herself. Even though she's scared as hell, Eve has enough bravery not to stay curled up in the fetal position crying, simply because it's not really an option. She isn't above her moments of utter paralyzing fear, but only succumbs to it for short amounts of time when she knows she's safe. Her icon on the character choice screen keeps her with a rather dour and annoyed facial expression. This, combined with the look on her face when she becomes the Whore of Babylon, implies that she's more pissed than Isaac is at her general situation. She's just as angry as she is scared that her life has become this horrible nightmare, and is willing to do anything she can to escape it. The more she's been exposed to monsters and realized how bad her life was before all this, the more accustomed to it she becomes, to the point where her crying simply becomes something she does as a reflex when she needs to protect herself. She's not okay with what her life has become, but she's not going to freak out at every new fucking monster because she can't really afford to do that anymore.
Even though Eve is rightfully terrified out of her fucking mind, she cares more about not dying than she does about being scared. She would rather brave her hell basement and MAYBE have a chance to live, than to stay where she is and DEFINITELY be stabbed to death by her mother. Ultimately, she looks out for her own survival and is even willing to hurt her mother and celebrate her death when a bible falls and cracks her head open. While she prefers not to hurt things that aren't monsters, she has no problem murdering the small beggars she finds in her basement if she desperately needs the resources to keep herself alive. Seeing as she's still fighting everything in her basement, it's safe to say Eve has a good amount of perseverance.
Eve's life was not always sunshine and puppies before this all happened. She was teased a lot for various reasons that aren't really important to her now, but she figured it was okay. Sure, her mom didn't pay her that much attention ti her and got her really bad gifts every single birthday. And sure, every pet she ever had died of mysterious causes, but that's life. Shit happens.
Except it doesn't happen all the fucking time, every single time unless your mom is fucking insane and the world is conspiring to make your entire life one giant 'Fuck You'.
The amount of horrible secrets she's found in her basement have basically taken everything Eve thought she knew about her relationship with her mother and shat all over it. She knows that her mother has been keeping some seriously fucked up shit in their basement, that some of the things there are failed experiments and (literally) aborted brothers and sisters. She's also found out that her mother has apparently killed every single one of the pets she's ever had. It's also implied that her mother was generally horrible at parenting before all this, neglecting her child to watch Christian broadcasts and getting her terrible things for gifts (a blonde wig and a pile of shit among them). When she attempts to prevent Eve's soul from being corupted further, Mom starts feeding her dog food, rotten milk and lard. This, combined with her backfired deal with the Devil, has made Eve unwilling to take authority figues at face value, and unwilling to trust parental figures and adults as a whole. Due to the sheltered way she was raised, she probably has a lot of misconceptions about how parents are supposed to act and would be surprised at any non-terrible parental figures.
Eve is rather self-centered and has a narrow scope of vision, not really looking at the bigger picture, and seems mostly concerned with details that she sees as important. She won't think much of an event that effects a huge amount of people or a massive area, but will flip a shit if something hers goes missing or if someone doesn't put a new roll of paper in the bathroom. A lot of the thoughts she has in the basement are based off of Isaac's own, which just goes to show that she does flip out about the smallest things sometimes, unable to see the forest for the trees and remembering past nuances and crying about them instead of the fact that she's trapped in a fucking terror cave.
However, some of the thoughts are retrospective, which only serve to remind her that her life wasn't all that great before her mom did all this shit to her and that she was just lying to herself to make herself feel better. Knowing that she spent so long wasting her time doing this, Eve has tried to take a more realistic approach to things, which has just ended up making her overly negative because of her environment. In life, you can say that things will get better and maybe they actually will, but things in her basement never get better so it's hard for her to keep up that optimism without wondering to herself if she's just naming a habit of lying to herself again. Her outlook on live isn't the most positive, which is understandable seeing as her life went from kind of bad to totally bad to eldrich levels of fuck-awful. Still, there is a part of her deep down that believes there is a light at the end of every tunnel, otherwise she would have given up and let herself die in the basement ages ago.
The basement has changed Eve's previously careful nature and now she does make the most of her curse and her familiar. She is Risk for Reward based character, so she's not above succumbing to her curse by badly damaging herself, or throwing herself at an enemy so her bird will attack them when they hurt her. She does only do this when she is in dire straits, but damaging herself for an added bonus is a legitimate strategy to her. She puts her survival very high on the list of "Shit She Wants", and if she has to endure a little (or a lot) of pain to ultimately make it out alive, then she will deal with it. Completing Sheol with her even unlocks the Razor Blade power up, an item that inflicts damage on the user in exchange for increasing attack power in the place they are in.
Lastly, her clusterfuck basement has given Eve a high tolerance for weirdness. Aside from her constant crying and occasional moments of paralyzing fear, she really does not have time to panic about the fact that most of these monsters are really fucked up. She's too busy trying not to die to freak out about them, and she's also too self-centric to give it much thought. At this point, she's honestly so horrified that she cannot really comprehend half the awful shit that's happened to her. As far as she knows, this is a thing that is happening and she can't really dwell on it now. Being chased by monsters who have been shown to actively be out to kill her in any way possible has also made her ridiculously paranoid, and her deal with the Devil that caused her curse has made her unwilling to take anything from anyone without knowing what they want in return. She's more than willing to give over some coin in exchange for an item, or a little blood in exchange for some coin, but she doesn't permanently exchange her health for anything anymore.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions:
Like Isaac, she can use her tears as damaging projectiles. They fly about 5 feet out, give or take a foot, and can only be used while she's crying. Getting hit by a tear is about as painful as being hit with a baseball thrown relatively hard, since the tears are shown to have a knockback effect.
Since she has Mom's Knife (see below), this only takes effect when she dies and loses her items, as they do not come with each respawn and need to be retrieved from puddle of blood that is her corpse. Why? Because. for the sake of not having repeats of ridiculous power-ups, the items are simply too batshit insane to be respawned on her by a teleporter.
Due to her status as an unlockable character, Eve is a bit different from Isaac. She has a lower amount of health and a lower attack score (two hearts and two points in attack power respectively), and doesn't start with any items. In Singularity, this can easily translate to her being about as strong and durable as your average 11 year old. However, Eve is wicked fast for her age and has excellent agility, surpassing Isaac on this front.
Eve comes with two pre-set power-ups that are passive until activated a certain way.
Eve's Dead Bird: Eve keeps a dead bird in her hair at all times, as a sort of familiar. Whenever she is attacked, the dead bird comes to life and begins attacking whatever attacked her until it's dead. In addition to that, it will stop once Eve is a significant distance away from harm and begin following her until she enters a different area (i.e. another room, sector or zone). Once she enters a different area, it settles back into her hair in an inert state. The game considers the most chaste of brushing against an "attack", so I'm limiting the bird by having it only come to life and attack people who actually physically attack Eve with some amount of hostility.
Whore of Babylon: In the game, once Eve gets down to half a heart, she turns into a demon and shoots blood tears that do 3 times as much damage, which would be like getting hit with a dodgeball flung by some steroid-taking hulk named Steve. Since health isn't measured by hearts in Singularity (but wouldn't that be hilarious), I'm going to have to revamp this a bit. So when Eve is severely injured, she will resort to this form, which will not heal her present injuries but cause them to stabalize so she won't die right away. It will cause her to grow an extra foot, get a bit bulkier, sprout massive horns, etc. and just generally increase her melee strength (which doesn't really exist in BoI but whatever) to about the equivelant of an adult chimpanzee until she is either healed to a point where she reverts to being human again, or until she's killed.
By the way, she explodes into a shower of blood when she dies. I'm keeping that effect in Sing and mentioning it here because I think it's funny as fuck.
Throughout the game, you can collect a ridiculous amount of power-ups, but due to the fact that most of them are silly and a little overpowered, I'm only choosing the approximate amount she would find in the basement by the point she is in. If I want more, I will either canon update her and request them on the page, or request to find them in the Junkyard.
PHD: In the game, a PHD is a power-up that tells you the effect of any pill and changes the effects of negative ones into positive ones. In Sing, it will just give Eve a ridiculous and unexplained knowledge of what effects any medicine will have and will be a passive ability that she doesn't have to knowingly activate.
Razor Blade: Causes damage to the user in exchange for upping the amount of damage they can do for a short amount of time. She can only use this power up once every six rooms in the game. In Sing, we'll say it lasts about 10 minutes and she can only use it three times a day. Otherwise, it's fatal. Eve has to activate the razorblade herself and will have to physically cut herself with it to get it's effects to work.
Mom's Knife: It's a magic knife. It can be thrown or wielded in melee combat, and does a shitton of damage. The damage amount increases the longer Eve charges the shot. It always returns to her after being thrown. In the game she shoots it from her mouth but in Sing she will throw it like a normal person, and the reason Eve can throw it so well is because it's a magic knife. She wouldn't be able to throw anything else as well, and it doesn't auto-target anyone, so it can miss. It has a penetration effect but it will be limited in game so that it only applies to fully charged shots and it can't punch through the station. The most it will be able to penetrate is a single person and maybe a metal wall.
Inventory:
For the sake making sense, we can assume she carries some of the power-ups around physically, strapped to her person with improvised straps or something.
~*~IMAGINATION~*~
The PHD is a folded piece of paper that is actually a legit diploma with her name on it and everything, the razor blade is a razor blade, the knife is a knife and the dead bird is a dead bird. The the only non-tangible item is the Whore of Babylon, because that's more the name of her curse when you play as Eve. The items can be taken away from her and used by other characters with my permission and the permission of the other mun, obviously.
1 x Key (unlocks fuck all)
5 x Coin (1 Nickel)
2 x Bomb
Eve's Dead Bird
PHD
Razor Blade
Mom's Knife
Appearance: Binding of Isaac isn't exactly a game that puts a lot of stock in unique character design. Eve looks exactly like Isaac, with the exception of black hair that's styled asymetrically and cut short in the back. She also has on some eyeshadow and keeps a dead bird in her hair.
When she enters Whore of Babylon mode, she grows in size, her entire body turns black, she grows a pair of massive horns, her teeth become huge fangs, and the mark of an upside down cross appears on her face.
I could probably find a Played By for her if any of the icons I've made from the game creep anyone out, but seeing as this is an application and not a guarantee, I think I'll wait to see if I get in first before mucking about with it.
Age: There isn't really a set age for any of the characters in the game, so I'm going to say she's around 13. Isaac seems younger, but this is an AU anyway.
OC/AU Justification
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
Let me just summarize the game in case no one went to the Wikipedia or whatever. Wikipedia summaries are full of shit half the time anyway.
Issac is a kid who may as well be home-schooled, since he is shown to have socialized with other kids, but is never shown in school. He and his mother live in a small house on a hill, and he plays with toys and draws and partakes in his interests while she watches Christian broadcast television non-fucking-stop. He's perfectly happy with all his toys and shit until his mother hears a voice from above. This voice basically tells her that her son is being corrupted by all his swag shit, so she goes completely batshit, takes his clothes and toys, ransacks his room and then leaves him like that.
So Isaac is now miserable and naked when his mom hears The Voice a second time, telling her that her son is still being corrupted by outside influences. In response to this accusation, Isaac's mother locks him in his room and shuts him away from the world.
Finally, Mom hears The Voice a third time. It tells her that in order to prove her love and devotion to God, it wants her to sacrifice her son. Isaac's mom sees no problem with this, grabs a butcher's knife from the kitchen and starts walking to her son's room to murder his ass. Isaac understandably flips every shit and the kitchen sink (except not really because he's still locked in his room) and, after discovering a trapdoor conviniently located in his room, escapes down into the basement of his house.
In the original game, Eve is one of the unlockable characters, and as such, isn't really her own separate character with her own storyline. Like all the others, she's implied to be just another faucet of Isaac, sort of like a split personality. Cain is Isaac with an eye-patch, Judas is Isaac with a fez, and Magdalene is Isaac with a wig on and some gender dysphoria. Isaac apparently has the tendency of deluding himself that he is these people to cope with the stress, which makes sense given the trauma he has to put up with.
The AU idea is that rather than being a different personality of Isaac's, Eve is her own person and also the main character of The Binding of Isaac as opposed to Isaac himself. In addition to that, she's also slightly older than the game implies the main character is. Or maybe she isn't. The game isn't clear on how old any of the characters are, because you are never to old to be traumatized or find out that your mom doesn't love you.
Due to her abilities, this does change the brief story given in the game somewhat, as Eve does have her curse and her Dead Bird upon entering the basement.
Isaac is generally seen as innocent because he does nothing to deserve what his mother does to him. Eve is much the same. She doesn't deserve what Mom is doing to her, but The Voice is right when it calls her corrupted. In the game, you can make a deal with the Devil for the Whore of Babylon, which Eve did earlier in her life on a whim. This is what accounts for her frailty, as the Devil usually takes health when you make a deal with him. Seeing as she's cursed with the Whore of Babylon, she was extremely cautious when it came to getting injured before she ended up in the basement, spending most of her time in the house out of nessecity, unlike Isaac who stays inside because he enjoys it.
Mom doesn't know about her curse, and until The Voice demands she take Eve's things and lock her up, is content to watch her Christian broadcasts. However, she finds out about her curse after The Voice asks her to sacrifice her daughter and she severely injures Eve with a knife several times. Now only does the dead bird comes to life and start attacking Mom, but the injuries also trigger Eve's curse. The jig is then up with her mother and Eve hauls as down to the basement after her bird distracts her mother long enough for her to find the trapdoor. Due to this, Eve's version of Mom is out for her blood not only because God told her to, but also because it turns out that her child really is an abomination. In addition to that Eve enters the basement in Whore of Babylon mode in this AU, and eventually heals while she's there.
Another factor in the game is that, while in the basement, Isaac can find the heads of his former pets (among other things), and the Dead Bird is one of these. Unlike Isaac, who lost the corpse of his beloved pet bird, Eve kept and preserved it, putting it in her hair and benefiting from it's innate supernatural abilities. Her mom didn't find this weird as fuck, probably because her mom is a shitty parent. Who lets their kid play with dead birds? I mean, really...
Aside from that, the rest of the game runs it's course normally, with Eve decending into the basement and attempting to escape her mother, whom she eventually confronts and enters in an attempt to kill her once and for all by striking at the heart. She does so, and from her mother's heart, enters Sheol. In Sheol, she finds and murders the Devil, freeing herself from the nightmare as a whole.
In the canon point I've taken her from, Eve comes before all the matricide.
And What Did You Score?
Samples
Log Sample:
She is, quite frankly, surprised she isn't dead. She's fallen from on high and landed in piles of scrap metal and space rock and dropped what little she managed to gather in the basement. She's bleeding from so many places and trying desperately not to panic, because even when they hurt her, the monsters never really made her bleed. But she's alive, even if she's currently the Whore of Babylon, skin black and face marked. She's alive and that's what's important. She's so used to her curse that turning into a monster doesn't even scare her anymore. Not like it did the first time, when she attempted to desperately bandage her wounds and fix herself up before her mother found her.
But being stationary never got her anywhere in the basement. When monsters attacked, it got her hurt, and staying still stands in the way of progress. So she moves, slowly at first, pulling herself off the ground and trying hard not to look at the scrapes and gashes all over herself. She pushes herself off the ground and bolts away as soon as she's on her feet, running from the site of her fall and towards a dark corner between piles of junk. The darkness is good for Eve, it means that there's further down to go, that there's still hope of excape somewhere below.
The lights around here are too bright and they don't feel like home, which she isn't sure is a bad thing. They don't feel like the basement either, which is a good enough observation to get her moving again, crawling out of the crevice and looking for something to heal her up.
That's when she sees it. A small metal monster looking at her with strange glowing eyes and squeaking towards her with outstretched hands. That's what does it in the end, and Eve immidiately bursts into tears. They pool at the rims of her eyes, and the moment she blinks as hard as she can, shoot forward and hit the robot in the face, knocking it over and splashing it with blood.
Network Sample:
okay
hi
i'm eve
and i'm not dead
which is actually pretty okay
and i escaped from somewhere bad
which is also okay
but i don't know where i am
and there were robots and they kind of scared me
and there were funny smelling showers
and there was a lady who said something about a sacrosanct
but she looked like a ghost so i ran away
and it was really really weird
and they put this thing on me
i guess it's like a robot enhancing thing which is okay
i found some of those in my basment once but i didn't have enough coins for it
they gave me clothes too
but they tried to put me on a bed and hold me down so i ran away again
they were too nice
it was weird
and the holding down part was creepy
can someone tell me where i am
and if it's worse than my basement
i'm used to things getting worse
but a warning would be nice this time