EDEN

Splash art by Soul

> "You put the weight of YOUR problems and crimes onto us. When we had problems, you all turned away, just like how you all turned away for Ami. No matter how much we tried to scream for help from YOUR kind, you ignored us. We were nothing more than ghosts to you..."
>
> -Eden

**Eden** is a former student of Hope's Peak Elementary School, was a headmaster and the co-leader of the group in the Video Game Killing Game featured in the Danganronpa RP Hub. Her title is the **Li'l Utimate Art** [ lit. *Super Elementary School Level Art.* ]

## Personality

Despite her innocent looking appearance, Eden is shown to be rather cruel and arguably, one of the most sadistic out of the 5 kids, taking joy in the pain of adults and often comparing them to 'little bugs that can be squished', showing that she has no care for whoever she hurts in her path, the other kids being an exception. She also doesn't hesitate to point out the other participant's insecurities or bring up their pasts. An example of this being when she degrades Jinsei for changing himself for Rosemary. She also doesn't hesitate to use threats to get what she wants, often threatening the other participants with death or torture.

However, she is still quite childish for her age (11), speaking in third person and not being able to process long and specific words without the support from others. She's also actually quite sweet once you get to know her. In addition, she struggles to remember things easily, such as her forgetting what the side effects were of the medicine Mizuki gave her. She even struggles with telling what's food and what's not, being shown to eat inedible things such as a rotten banana, and even crisp bags. She often exaggerates her emotions, such as sadness. Getting in an upset tantrum when Dante was trying to escape.

Due to her trauma, she developed a huge hatred for alcohol and smoking, despite her smoking herself. She is also concerningly skilled at pickpocketing and finding hiding spots and flinches easily.

Even though she often acts happy, never seen without a smile on her face, most of it is a facade. She has a lot of insecurities and a low self esteem, such as with her weight and how much she eats. Always feeling pressured to protect the other 4 kids from danger, even if she 'can't protect herself'. She secretly wants to die, counting the days of when she turns 18 with glee.

## Talents and abilities

### Li'l Ultimate Art

Eden takes great pride in her art. When she was still with her parents, Eden drew to distract herself from the situation. Specifically, the areas around her like sunsets and rooms. She has practiced this for years and her passion for art stayed with her in present day, drawing just about anything.

However, Eden struggles to draw people and prefers to draw shapes and scenery.

### Torture Method knowledge

Eden has a concerning amount of knowledge when it comes to torture and methods of doing so.

### Street smart

Eden is surprisingly Street smart, knowing methods to get money and food, such as stealing it. She also knows how to run away and hide easily, sometimes being hard to spot by those she pickpockets from. Eden has also learnt to avoid noise diversions and distractions. An example is when she tried to steal a candy bar from Dante in chapter 4, to which he stops her from doing, giving her the candy bar afterwards and tells her to ask for it in the future.

## Background

### Prior to the tragedy

She was born into a poor and violent environment. Her parents were neglectful and abusive alcoholics. Due to this, they never bothered to look after her, not even feeding her or teaching her how to speak. They rarely ever noticed her and when they did, they didn't even recognize Eden as their child, but as someone who broke into their house.

Eden had to get food and money herself when she was really young in anyway she could, such as: stealing food from others, having to look through trash cans and it got to the point where she let people do whatever they wanted to her for just a single crumb. It's heavily implied this resulted in sexual abuse from others that was passed off as 'a game'. It's also implied that she did try and turn to the authorities for help but they never did anything.

After these events continuing for ages, her parents locked her out of the house, leaving Eden to repeatedly beg for them to open the door, she fainted shortly after.

Junko found Eden unconscious outside in the cold rain and took her in, warming her up and giving her food when she woke up. Eden could talk, but stuttered on her words and couldn't pronounce them well. It's confirmed that Eden was a name that she gave to herself, but it isn't confirmed whether this was because she didn't have a name to begin with or because she had an old one but disliked it.

Junko gave Eden a garden as a gift, though Junko didn't give it to her to be nice, but because she wanted to create the illusion that she was a good 'mother', knowing Eden never had a stable parental figure in her life. Junko was really manipulative towards Eden, gaslighting her when she witnessed Junko murder a child by triggering Eden's hatred for adults and when Eden was trying to open up to Junko about her suicidal thoughts, making Eden believe she was 'lying for attention' and pressuring her to protect everyone due to being the eldest out of the 5 kids.

At one point, Junko abducted Eden's parents, forcing her to torture them by cutting off parts of their bodies, starting off with fingers and toes, then hands and feet, then arms and legs and finally, their heads, killing them. When Eden realizes what she did...she looks to Junko to ask in shock: "WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!" for Junko to point out how Eden did all of the work and Junko just convinced her to do it, the sight of her dead parents resulted in Eden vomiting.

### Tragedy

When the tragedy occurred and after Junko died, Mira, Ren and Iruka looked after her. The 'console' was made where the killing game would be set. Along with the other kids, Eden agreed to be a headmaster of it as a means to take her anger out on the adults even further.

### Parents

Eden expresses extreme hatred for her parents due to them abusing her in the past, they're one of the main reasons why Eden hates adults and the cause of her fear of alcohol and getting hungry. Eden states that she has no shame that she killed them, proudly wishing she could do it again, despite her not wanting to kill at first.

But at the same time, Eden does not understand why they did what they did. Wishing that she could've been loved and noticed by them. Wishing she could be a 'normal kid'. She believes that it was her own fault for the way her life turned out.

**Parental figures**

### Okemia Geste

She seems to deeply care about Okemia and sees her as a close friend. In addition, she is quite protective of her. An example of this is when Okemia thought Ryu poisoned the food and Eden offered to taste test it for her to double check. Also, it's confirmed by Eden herself that she promised Okemia in particular that when she turned 18, then she'd kill herself.

She's often one of the first that Eden turns to when she has any problems. For example, in chapter 6 when she tells Okemia she wants to break the promise and tries to kill herself, which Okemia intervened in. Eden felt extreme guilt when she couldn't stop Okemia from executing herself, the burden weighing down on her even after Eden found out that nobody actually died.

Eden looks up to Okemia, being a big sister figure to her. Eden's jealous of her and wishes to be just as smart as she is and less 'stupid' so that Eden would be able to understand her own trauma and why she had to go through so much.

### Tanda

Tanda and Eden are shown repeatedly to be pretty close to one another. Eden often calls her 'Tammy'. Eden thinks Tanda is a good listener and friend, trusting her greatly when it comes to her ramblings, such as in chapter 3 when Tanda listened to Eden vent after Finn's death.

When discovering Tanda's problems, Eden always tries her best to help her, though it mostly ends up going wrong, Eden does have good intentions and like with all the other kids, wants to protect her.

Eden was even willing to try and press the button to get Dante executed when Tanda denied, but also failed to do so.

### Pete

They both canonically hang out a lot. Though due to Pete being a short name, Eden has learnt to use his name... though she has called him 'Peter' on a couple occasions in an attempt to seem more 'formal'.

Eden usually gives him his own space when he's upset due to his anger issues, though she does try and help him from time to time. They also seem to play fight and get competitive with each other a lot when playing games. In addition, Eden mentioned that Pete and Eden do pull a few pranks that end up getting them both in trouble. For example, they got a huge bucket of snow and made it so that whoever walked through the door first would have snow all over them during winter... Okemia ended up being the first to walk in and they both got in trouble.

## Song themes

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MARETU - Coin locker baby

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RIP - What gave it away?

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Poppy - Khaos x4

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Melanie Martinez - Orange Juice

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## Trivia

* The name Eden means "**place of pleasure and delight**." It is a magical, peaceful name with biblical roots and Hebrew origins.
	+ Eden's garden in the killing game is confirmed to be religious symbolism.
		- It is not intended to be linked to the fangame: Danganronpa: Eden's garden
* It was confirmed that Eden was originally going to be non-human, this idea was scrapped 2 days later
	+ This was due to the creator feeling like this wouldn't get Eden's character across and to cause less confusion
* It's implied Eden has some sort of eating disorder.
* She is the oldest out of the 5 kids, being 11.
	+ She is also the smallest, being 4'3"
* She canonically ate a living bird once in front of the other kids at one point.
* Eden, along with Finn, enjoys the barbie movies.
* She had to teach herself how to walk
* When Eden was really young and when she got hungry, she would 'swallow air' and pretend she was eating food.
* Eden doesn't know how to use a gun.
* Eden is unaware of road safety.
* She has a bottle of glitter in her pocket, along with Mister Ducky
* Ever since Dante told Eden milk would help her grow, she drank it a lot.
* Eden can't wrap up presents and puts a lot of stickers on it
* Eden doesn't clean her glasses but claims she can still see out of them perfectly fine.
* When Eden’s tooth fell out, she thought it was food and ate it.
* Eden doesn't know how to count past 20
	+ She was most likely taught later on by Okemia or Dante.