Eden Maverick

### Relatives

Marcella [mom]Cerberus [dad]Moloch [brother]Vibrance [sister]Vienna [half-sister]Edith Maverick [adoptive sister]Ray Oswald [uncle]

## Appearance

Eden's silhouette is wiry and under-exercised. He is all long limbs, sharp angles, and lazy body posture. His hair is straight and black, typically styled in a shoulder-length choppy bob with two longer sections of hair framing his face and long bangs. His tired, downturned eyes are a blood orange-red, bright and inhuman in a way that may elicit uncanny valley from some people. This effect is heightened by his usual deep eyebags and semi-frequent dark makeup.

Eden is of both European and Filipino descent. His skin is pale and somewhat pasty due to a combination of his human and his demon heritage, as well as his unhealthy lifestyle. The skin on the back of his pointed ears is leathery and soft, coated in a sparse layer of fine dark fur. The same fur grows over his pointed tail and a portion of his lower spine. He has a cross-cut scar on the back of his lower-left abdomen left by a butterfly knife, and a few various others of long-forgotten or unimportant origin scattered across his body.

His dark red horns used to taper off into a razor-sharp point. However, they've been filed down and reduced to round, blunted points. His claws are naturally sharp and grow quickly, and those are frequently filed as well. His fangs are blunt and doglike, and he is missing his lower left canine tooth entirely.

As per his occupation, Eden has a variety of piercings and tattoos. Those include:

* 1 eyebrow piercing (left side)
* 2 standard earlobe piercings
* 6 additional ear cartilage piercings (3 per ear)
* 1 nostril piercing (right side)
* 1 standard tongue piercing
* 2 "ladder" genital piercings
* 3 small tail piercings (2 on one edge, 1 on the other)
* 1 large tail piercing (gauged, straight through the center)
* Smiley face tattoo on right shoulder (1st tattoo attempted)
* Shot glass with lime tattoo on left ankle
* Poorly done lasagna tramp stamp tattoo (done by Damien O'berlin, who has a matching one)
* Greyscale cats silhouette tattoos across hips

Besides piercings and tattoos, the rest of Eden's manner of dress is incredibly sporadic. He is prone to taking clothes from people he hangs out with, or from the dumpsters he digs in, so a lot of his wardrobe is subject to change and doesn't carry a consistent style. He is often decorated with accessories that respectfully amount to "whatever shiny shit he thought looked cool in his hair/on his belt/tied around his tail/etc."

## Personality

The impression Eden leaves is that of a shallow, self-absorbed, aimless deadweight high-school dropout. His moral compass is absolutely shot, and he hardly seems to care about anything besides his own immediate whims. He does radiate easy, comfortable confidence and social aptitude, and combined with his unusual yet conventionally attractive appearance, first impressions aren't too difficult for him. He is the type to attract strangers to him naturally, and then disappoint with his behavior, leaving a lot to be desired.

Eden's passive nature is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. He is relaxed, highly adaptable, and generally non-argumentative. However, he is also flaky and easily succumbs to peer pressure. His 'easygoing' indifference also leads him to show apathy towards or blatantly ignore situations (and people) that really require his care and attention.

He is prone to laziness and will always take the easy way out where it is offered. Eden attracts enablers into his life and then feeds them whatever attention he needs in order to keep them there. He will resort to manipulative tactics (gaslighting, weaponized incompetence, ghosting, excuses) where he feels it will further his motives. Eden is a heavily toxic person to people in all aspects of his life.

Surprisingly, Eden is relatively self aware and honest about his habits. On some level he believes that if he makes people aware he is toxic before treating them poorly, he is absolved of at least some of the blame. He jumps through lots of mental hoops in order to excuse his own actions; at least he'll tell you that if you ask, though.

Eden's poor attitude boils down to his deep-seated fear of failure. He is scared to acknowledge that his problems have solutions or that he is capable of change, because that also means he is capable of *failing* to change. He is scared to set dreams or goals of success for himself because he might never achieve them. He refuses to allow people to think highly of him, because if there are no expectations to begin with then he doesn't have anything to fail to live up to. He firmly believes in his lack of worth as a person and will actively fight to maintain that image of himself.

Because Eden refuses to tackle these problems, he uses escapism to avoid them instead. For the most part this means chain-smoking and drinking, experimenting with hard drugs, and sleeping around as often as possible. He will overindulge even to his own physical, social, and emotional detriment.

## History

Eden was born the youngest of triplets to his mother, Marcella, in a small offshoot Nevada town. He was the product of a human mother with a particularly intense soul, and Cerberus, the most powerful existing hellhound and Lucifer's personal pet. The second triplet, Moloch, shares Eden's full lineage. Their sister Vienna, despite being born alongside them, was actually fathered by Lucifer himself.

At the time of birth, Eden was the only of the triplets whose appearance didn't give away his demon heritage. Marcella needed a demonic child to give over to Satan, who did not know there was more than one child. Due to a conflict of interest with the town's church officials and Lucifer, the wrong child was secretly given over. Vienna stayed with the community in the living realm while Moloch went back with Lucifer to be raised as his son and as the future King of Hell.

Eden knew none of this and was separated from his family at birth. Having nothing to do with him in particular and never having wanted kids to begin with, Marcella drove a few hours and left Eden on the side of a dirt road to be found and picked up by some good-Samaritan passersby. He was eventually picked up and taken to a police station, where he ended up in an orphanage.

He was adopted as an infant by a young religious couple in LA, California who weren't able to have biological kids of their own. They raised him strictly but lovingly, with help, support, encouragement, and resources abundantly available to help him reach their sky-high expectations. For the first decade of his childhood, he was an overachiever with good grades, a healthy social life, and a bright, intelligent personality. He and his parents were very close- he was never embarrassed by them, and they spent a lot of bonding time together as a family.

In 7th grade at 13 years old, a high-profile yet shy French student moved into the area and joined his classes. Her name was Pandora; Eden was one of the only students to try to get to know her. They became close friends quickly. Eden was semi-fluent in French at the time, and tutored Pandora in English. They partnered up as often as possible and studied for their other classes together until they became infamously attached at the hip. The odd pair even began dating a few months in.

Everything good came crashing down during the summer of 7th grade. Eden hit puberty just before the school year ended, and began growing into his demonic features. Supposedly permanent adult teeth began falling out, only to be replaced by sharper canid ones. His spine began aching and elongated, sprouting into a strange tail-like growth. These changes were difficult enough to cope with on his own; it didn't help that they scared some of his schoolyard friends away as well. His parents hated his new look the most. Their behavior grew cold, scornful, and disgusted towards him almost immediately.

Eden and Pandora kept touch over the summer. They were assigned a large summer project together, and each had an assigned reading list that they found easier to stomach when they read side-by-side. Since Pandora lived in a mansion on her own, they usually studied there.

Towards the end of the summer, Pandora confessed to Eden how lonely she was living on her own. Eden, thoroughly moved and sympathetic, went straight home and asked his parents to let him move in with her. They reacted with immediate, overblown anger and defensiveness. Following that fight, Eden ghosted Pandora for the last few weeks of summer, rarely texting her back and refusing to see her at all in person.

On the first day of 8th grade, things were immediately different. Eden was distant with Pandora, avoiding physical touch and even recoiling when she first tried to hold his hand. He treated her with a lot less gentleness and patience as time went on. She continually tried to reach out to him, but the harder she did, the harder he pushed away. Although the pair never officially broke up, they eventually fell out of touch as Eden refused to acknowledge her even as a friend anymore.

At home, things got more and more difficult for Eden. His mom forced him to file his horns and nails down while she watched, and when they grew back, she made him file them again until they bled next time. She grew more and more paranoid by his ever-changing appearance, believing it to be the product of demonic corruption. She let him leave the house less and less often. Two days after Eden's 15th birthday, she adopted a 4 year old daughter and named her Edith. Eden and Edith were not allowed to interact almost at all. He was never trusted alone with her and was never allowed to refer to her as a sister. It was made clear to him the same day that as soon as he hit 18, he would be expected to leave.

Every aspect of Eden's life and well-being suffered for these changes. He stopped making friends, and stopped reaching out to the ones he had. His grades slipped to Ds and Fs as he stopped showing up to classes. Before he knew it, his reputation had managed a complete 180 and he was labelled a troubled child. When he felt he'd reached the point of no return at 17 years old, he decided to drop out of school.

When he told his mom he was going to abandon his education, it caused their most serious fight to date. She lost her composure and attacked him with plyers, ripping out one of his lower canine teeth. She intended to remove every fang, but he successfully shoved her off after the first one. He looked for something in is mother's expression to cling to, and finding nothing left, turned and ran from the house. He never went back to his childhood school or home.

Beyond that point, Eden drifted through life taking shortcuts and doing little to nothing to take care of himself. He slept in gutters and alleyways, or at the houses of the tipsy and the horny after they shared a few drinks at some club or other. Couch surfing was his only plan, and he had nothing to his name to worry about anymore. He eventually saved up enough pocket change to buy a secondhand tattoo gun, which he practiced with until he was good enough to sell his services illicitly. He fed himself on handouts and garbage in the meantime.

Eventually, he and Pandora found each other again when Eden crashed an event party she was hosting at her mansion. They slept together while both heavily intoxicated, and neither realized who the other was until the morning. Eden was horrified when he realized; he had vague memories of their childhood together but hid them from her thoroughly, pretending not to remember. They established a newer, rougher, on-and-off romantic friendship. He found and hid her highschool yearbook that morning, digging a hole and burying it in her own backyard. He intended to take as much of their past together as he could with him to his grave.

## Relationships

Pandora

Vibrance

Moloch

Vienna

Adoptive Parents

"Uncle" Ray

The Trap House

Damien

## Trivia

* He has a soft spot for animals (his favorites are cats, he's a little afraid of dogs)
* Is uncomfortable around children, but very defensive of them
* Technically has a pet doberman he won in an alleyway - it has no name and lives in the Trap House's backyard since it was too aggressive to pawn off on anyone else
* His favorite foods are grilled cheese and french fries
* In the absence of liquor, will often drink club soda or sparkling water straight - he likes carbonation but doesn't care for soft drinks
* Prefers his water room temperature
* Hates tomatoes
* Had a field day with the "water is wet" debate of 2017, wouldn't stop asking Pandora her opinion on it as a bit (he disagreed with her no matter what stance she took)