Eden Binari

*"𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐦."*

## Legal Documentation

### Occupation:

Baron

Wine Bar Owner

Historian

### Family:

Benji (Father)

Babette (Mother)

Edon (Brother)

Melody (Daughter)

James (Son)

## Vampire: The Masquerade

### Sect:

Anarch

Born to Benji and Babette Binari, Eden is the older twin to Edon Binari. Due to complications in the means of her birth, the twins were raised in a single father household and brought up knowing what hard work and love can do to progress the lives of others. Benji always strived to give his children not what they wanted, but what they needed, and that in turn crafted her to who she was from a young age. Molded by the world, Eden can incorporate her experiences and surroundings into herself to embrace the future Harling needs.

She has extensive cultural knowledge and finds herself leaning on those that value fields within education. Though she has never finished university, that has never stopped her personal research and studies to achieve better understanding of the past.

Today Eden Binari-Carpenter sits on the Barony Council for the Kindred Society, she is the second Baron in charge under the Anarch Movement for Harling. Though she keeps focus on the tasks at hand, there is a constant desire to return to a simpler time when this all first started.

## History

###  **The Mundane**

Eden lived a middle class lifestyle with her twin brother Edon and father, Benji Binari. It was a single parent household but a loving one. Benji spent time handling the affairs of the family business while running a small shop on the side.

Often there had been the wonder if her mother, Babette, was really to blame for the sadness that always lingered over her father. She was married to Tivon (Benji’s older brother) while having cheated on the man with his brother. It caused a fraction in the otherwise close family dynamic, one that Babette fell deep into and signed away the right of both Eden and Edon.

Life had remained vastly uneventful while growing up. The events of Harling were mundane and though the city was at large, one couldn’t help but feel so small in what their life purpose could really be. During a job fair in high school she found an interest in psychology after a delivery speech from the Director, Doctor Pandora Ballard about offering help to those that need it most. The speech was so passionate that Eden started shifting gears of her personal study.

While admiring history and the value of women that left their mark as a reminder that there is always hope to progress, she desired to find a breakthrough in the medical science of the mind. Collecting scholarships and getting into Harling University, Eden began her life as a student for higher education. This is where she had met another girl by the name of Hopper Edwards, a medical student that enlightened Eden into a new adventure within the mundane.

Eden and Hopper entered a relationship and moved in together after two weeks of dating.

The pair could not have contrasted more, and for the longest time that was a lot of their dynamic. Trouble in paradise kicked up six months into their relationship when Eden signed up as a volunteer for a sibling program for children. The goal behind this was to gain a better understanding of working with children as that was going to be the focus into her degree for psychology.

She was paired up with an eight year old girl named Melody Nelson. From the start she was  very antisocial and anti contact. The first few meetings were meant with a lot of silence, and while others in the program noticed the struggle, they offered to pair her with someone else but she refused. Eventually Melody finally spoke with Eden while they played a game of checkers. Conversation was limited, but it was a breakthrough. More time together meant breaking the surface of the defense that was built up and Eden couldn’t help but feel motherly enamored with her.

They spent more time outside of the program, and slowly pieces were put into place that Eden found herself wanting to adopt Melody out of the foster care system. New York required the bare minimum age to be twenty-two in order to adopt a child, but the other requirements were a problem for her to achieve. Eden made the choice to drop out of school and take on a fulltime job to start saving money to prepare for adoption. During this time Hopper was caught cheating on Eden and actively blamed Melody for the reason their relationship fell apart.

No one was going to convince her that the choice of adopting this girl was wrong, and that’s where her true story begins.

### **The Deschain's Cold Case**

Before dropping out of University, Eden took up a fulltime job working as an investigative journalist for an independent news company within Harling called “The Voice.” This proved to be an enjoyable workplace as she was able to research and put together informative articles about cold cases within Harling’s past. This was all in thanks due to a Hopper’s friend John. While he was supportive of Eden’s determination in adopting Melody, she remained blind for the longest time that he was vastly interested in her and thought it would bring them closer.

It did not, and often led to subtle harassment that his feelings were not returned.

Taking any leads that allowed her to work alone, she was given a file known as the Deschain Case. The outlining was very simply since it was a reopened case that happened during the 1950s about a husband murdering his wife and then killing himself several weeks later. The studio was given permission to investigate the property and Eden had the displeasure of driving into the mountains to take a look at the house herself.

It was an old manor, molded, rotted and dusty with more than just weather damage. Eden spent the better part of three hours on the property before finding a mirror that was in pristine condition within the study. Around the same time the air shifted in the room, she was grabbed and pulled out of the house before anything was able to be pieced together.

Through the freakout and confusion, she came face to face with a man named Spencer Lorian.

After asking demanding questions about her presence within the manor the conversation started to turn further hostile before she decided to try and make a break for it. WIth a single word she felt rooted to the spot and unable to move. Most of that moment remained a blur but being light headed was a problem on it’s own.

Spencer explained that the supernatural were very much real in the world as he himself was a ‘vampire’, and what he was doing was saving her from a very temperamental spirit that refused to pass onto the afterlife. After confirming that it was haunted, he explained that his plan was to send someone to just kill them but Eden spoke up about that plan. There must be a more peaceful way of dealing with it if this was true, and she knew that there were missing links in the murder file which lead to the husband commuting suicide.

Spencer seemed interested in how this would play out and only agreed to let her try with help from an expert. That following night Eden met with a man named Carpenter and together they looked over the information she had collected.

> Eden, eh? Nice to 'meet' you, sorta. I'm Carpenter. Just Carpenter, not Mister Carpenter, just plain Carpenter. Spencer said you were a ghost expert, right?*"
> "*Well, mi- Carpenter. I would not say I'm an expert.
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> ―Carpenter and Eden

More info about that case go here.

### Harling Becomes an Anarch Free State

After the fight inside the main Unity Tower, the Kindred society took a short amount of time to reform into a new political system. As Dresden was recovering from her wounds, Eden spent the remaining time reaffirming with the new Barony Council on the Status Perfectus.

> We, the Kindred of the Free State, do hereby declare that we and our progeny, and all Kindred who choose freedom over oppression and liberty over tyranny, of all clans and generations, have as an inherent part of their being the spiritual substance called libertas, or Free Will. We further declare that, as we have freed ourselves from the bonds of mortality, so must we free ourselves from the forces that would rob us of our libertas. Not only must we continue to struggle on our own behalf, but on behalf of our brothers and sisters who continue to be robbed of their libertas by oppression, ignorance and fear.
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> The Anarch Free State is the political expression of that struggle. In choosing to free ourselves from political tyranny, we have also chose to embrace our own libertas and that of our brother and sister Kindred everywhere.
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> For these reasons we, the Kindred of the Anarch Free State - Harling, New York are meeting this night in solemn convocation, do hereby pledge ourselves to the following principles:
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> 1) We declare ourselves to be free and independent, owing allegiance to no creature and organization.
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> 2) We declare our ability to rule ourselves, with no prince, no primogen and no other ruler than that we choose for ourselves.
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> 3) We declare our kinship with oppressed Kindred everywhere and offer a home to all Kindred of all generations and clans who agree to dwell in harmony with us.
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> 4) We further accept our responsibility to our oppressed brothers and sisters everywhere and pledge to assist them at all times and in all places in their own struggle for the freedom that we declare to be the birthright of all kindred, from now until the end of time.
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> 5) We recognize our responsibility to maintain the Masquerade, and we pledge to protect and defend it.
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> Together we have established this Status Perfectus and recognize its duty to all Kindred.
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## Personality

Eden's personality is hard to pin down. Molded by her surroundings, she can incorporate her experiences into herself which often causes extreme compassion for others.

She is a very kind creature, as long as nobody frustrates her or dare push her over the edge of insanity. Although she may not be able to speak up about the things that trouble her often, she still carries a strong personality with her movements and gestures. She doesn't often give up on something she wants, and works very hard to obtain the things she does have. You can only achieve the things you want by working on goals to the desired effect.

Many can easily be seen as prideful, as she will hold her ground against anyone that insults her or the ones she cares for. A bit domineering at the right moments, she likes to be in control of things and to organize them efficiently but in a code others wouldn't understand. Never to waste precious time, often she has to be reminded to take some of that time for herself to destress. Eden dislikes being still for too long, and always finds a sort of ambient way to keep moving, even when she's settling down.

She has extensive cultural knowledge, and always seems to be learning new things. Having the study of history and linking it in events to your own life is something she often enjoys as it helps pick apart situations and gives an opportunity to solve a problem. Being able to converse with her and allow that passion in a topic to spark will bring her finding a better interest in you. As often the simple statement explains.. Passion sells.

## Appearance

Eden has large silver eyes that hide behind black framed glasses. Though her black hair is often pulled away from her face, in casual company she will let it down. There are no obvious physical aspects that set her off from others. She lacks wings, horns or anything of that sort which could make someone seem special even though like all Kindred she possesses fangs.

The ideal style she wears however is rather modest! No matter the reason she takes pride in keeping her legs covered to some extent as it gives her a boost in confidence of being protected and having that be something private to her person. While jeans are not often worn, Eden does lean on the support of stockings and leggings to achieve almost any look.

Despite her true age, Eden appears to be in her early twenties thank to both aging stopping when formally a ghoul and then that carried far into the embrace.

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