Isaac (The Binding of Isaac)

Isaac Moriah is the titular main protagonist of The Binding of Isaac Series. He is the son of the game's main antagonist, his Christian mother. Appearing as the titular character, he is the most balanced one out of all of them in the game. Isaac is known for having a rather tough life with an alcoholic absentee father and a bigoted, mentally unstable mother. Isaac tends to be on his own, due to him being constantly bullied by other kids.
==Biography==
According to the introduction sequence, Isaac is a little kid who lived alone with his mother in a small house on a hill. One day, his mother, who regularly watched Christian shows on the television, heard a voice coming from above asking her to wash her son from all sin, so she took away everything she considered to be evil, namely his drawings, his toys and his clothes. When the voice came back and told her it wasn’t enough, she locked him in his own room. The voice came back one last time and asked her to sacrifice Isaac, to which the mother complied. She took a kitchen knife and headed for Isaac’s room. Isaac, who witnessed everything through a crack in his door, escaped through a trapdoor leading to his basement: this is where the game starts. He then proceeded to go down into the depths until he met with his mother and killed her in a fight. The epilogue narrates that as she was about to end Isaac’s life, Isaac’s mother was killed by a Bible dropping from above. However, it is revealed to only be a story by Isaac himself (as implied by the style of the sequence, which looks like a drawing) when the style changes to a more realistic one in which Isaac’s door bursts open as his mother barges in with a knife.
The style of the opening sequence and the epilogue makes us understand that these events are imagined by Isaac and that the truth is actually different. The various endings help us to find out Isaac’s hidden real story. Isaac was born to an alcoholic father and a mentally disturbed mother who would argue a lot, ending in verbally violent fights. Isaac would witness such fights or at least hear them from his room, and he grew to believe that he was the reason for his parents breaking apart. When his father finally decided to leave, Isaac’s mother's mind (already fragile because of the Christian dogma she was being fed through TV shows) was shattered and she became extremely abusive to him, making him dress as a girl, calling him a demon and forcing him into his closet to punish him. At the same time, he was being bullied by other kids according to the sequences shown between each floor. Isaac only had his pet cat and best friend Guppy to cheer him up, until he died from unspecified causes. Unable to take the abuse anymore, Isaac locked himself in the big toy chest that was in his room and slowly died from asphyxia. The events from the game are a flashing recollection of Isaac’s memories as he was losing his mind from the lack of oxygen, some bosses even referencing Isaac choking in his chest (especially Hush and ???, also known as the Blue Baby).
After Isaac disappeared, his mother apparently looked for him for a long time since she hung missing person posters around the house. She ended up finding his skeleton in his chest. Meanwhile, Isaac was revived in a gray, gloomy landscape which he started to roam and which was confirmed by Edmund McMillen to be Purgatory.
==Appearance==
Isaac is a humanoid character who looks quite like a baby. He is naked, has a round bald head that is bigger than his own body and big round black eyes that are constantly crying.
Each character from the game being one of Isaac's multiple personalities, his appearance varies depending on the character.
==Personality==
At first glance, Isaac is a normal child who loves drawing and playing with his toys. He also had a lot of affection for his late cat Guppy. However, he seems to be emotionally unstable due to the abuse he is subjected to by other children as well as his mother, as shown by the short sequences that play between floors and evidence his trauma. As a result, he is said to be secluded.
Isaac has a strong imagination. It was implied several times and finally revealed in Ending 20 that he is imagining all the events of the game while he is choking to death in his chest. Isaac is desperate enough to put an end to his own life because he is convinced that he is the reason why his parents spent their whole time arguing. Because of his Christian mother's abuse toward him, he considers himself as a "devil" and a "bad" person. Isaac has a lot of dark thoughts, drawing pictures of his parents covered in blood and various pictures of demons. He might have been very close to his father before, as he seems to have been traumatized by his departure (probably also because it further ruined his mother's sanity).
The way Isaac's mother is portrayed throughout the game (i.e. as a monster) may be a projection of how Isaac actually sees her in real life, as evidenced by Ending 21 as well as the fight against The Beast who wears Isaac's mother's worn out clothes.
Isaac shows heavy signs of dissociative identity disorder. He often disguises as characters from the Bible, including demons, who make up most of the playable characters from the game. In Ending 22, his mother even calls him "self-destructive and disturbed, just like his father". He also seems to have a traumatic relation to bodily fluids, excrements, insects and religion, all of them being recurring elements in the game, either items or enemies.
==Abilities==
Isaac tends to cry a lot, but he is able to turn his tears into actual damaging bullets in order to attack, enabling him to slay any monster that dares to cross his path. He can also use certain items to power up his abilities.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Isaac, like the game itself, is a reference to a story from the Bible known as the binding of Isaac. It is about how Abraham was commanded by God to sacrifice his son Isaac to prove his love and loyalty to him before being stopped when God acknowledged it.
*Isaac is left-handed but draws with his right hand, hinting at Christian people's controversial habit of repressing left-handedness.
*Isaac is bald because his mother shaved his head.
*Isaac has irritable bowel syndrome, IBS even being an item from the game.
*Isaac's last name, Moriah, is a reference to Mount Moriah, the place which Abraham takes his son to be sacrificed.
*Isaac's voiceover in Rebirth was done by Tallulah Bossi, Matthias Bossi (member of Ridiculon and voice of Dad/Narrator) and Carla Kihlstedt's (musician and voice of Mom) daughter. For Repentance, the voice was done by their son, Viggo Bossi.
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