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"When I'm awake, I hide all the chains so you aren't afraid."
The Hurt, The Hope | Once In A Dream | The Two Tongues (Screaming Salvation) | Trauma | When We Were Young | Happy Pills | Bad Habits | Voices
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F U L LXN A M E
Eden Liles Ackerman
N I C K N A M E S
Blondie (Most common), 'Ed' (Jokingly)
B I R T H D A Y
March 15th
A G E
26
R O L E
The Stoner
S E X U A L I T Y
Homoromantic, Demisexual
E T H N I C I T Y
White
H O M E T O W N
Gravity Falls, Maine
H E X
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H E I G H T & W E I G H T
5' 7" | 126lbs
A P P E A R A N C E
Having a creamy pale complexion, naturally dark hair (But platinum blond when dyed), sharp features and an often intimidating demeanor, Eden takes on after both their mother and father. There is an undeniable bit of masculinity among their features, but Eden was never bothered by it. In fact, there is something handsomely dark but beautiful about the way Eden looks. People tend to say that their eyes can be hypnotic, two slightly dull orbs, a mix of moss green and honey. Holding your gaze until you break eye contact. Eden's by no means unnattractive, least by most people's standards. But Eden sees theirself as nothing more than average and carries themself about to the beat of their own drum, never really caring how they're viewed by others.
Eden has countless tattoos that they have garnered over the years. Most of which are covered due to their choice in clothing, but most notably the ones that are visible half the time are the one behind their ear, and the three on either forearms. As for piercings, Eden has 8mm gages in either earlobe, and a small platinum hoop nose ring that they've had since they were sixteen.
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L I K E S
- Photography - Drawing/Sketching - Modern and Loud, overly bassy Music - Cannabis - Alcohol (Particularly whiskey) - Sweets (Especially Dark Chocolate) - Reading - Studying History - Romance - Physical Contact - Lowkey Flirtation - Computer Sciences - Animals (Has a soft spot for cats & Dogs) - Warm blankets - Tea (specifically honey) - Candles - Spicy foods - Sleeping in late - Morning Sunrise - Smell of pine - Burning incense - Disney movies (often seen and heard quoting and singing them at work) - Big/Oversized hoodies - Binging Netflix -
D I S L I K E S
- Darkness - Overt Silence - Blood - Gore - Anything particularly horror focused - Being sober - Beer (Too bitter) - Being cold - Smell of old, burning charcoal - Cheap Cigarettes - Smell of stale beer - Certain aftershaves - Closed in/Tight places - Loud or sudden noises - People arguing - Their family's reputation -
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From the Eden that people see, and the Eden that so few people actually know, lies an endless mystery. Even to those that they once called their best friends. You see, when prominent 'Resting Bitch Face' and a severe case of 'Lock Jaw', combined with how one dresses and presents themselves like Eden does it's not so much of a surprise that not many people ever tend to really know them. Whenever one looks at Eden, they tend to think that they're pissed off and angry with just about anything and everything. From the constant furrowed brows, tensed jaw, and occasionally mumbling to themself incoharently, people have come to refer to Eden as nothing more than the 'Town's Loser' and 'Low-life'. Typically seen avoiding any and all eye contact with people, coming across as chronically annoyed, mixed with an appearence that causes most people to be on edge. To say that Eden is the local black sheep among Gravity Falls is putting it very lightly.
Often times coming across as an asshole to most people they know, mainly due to mumbling out answers to people's questions, or ignoring people all together aside from giving small random gestures or shrugs in response. Eden truly never was the town's favorite resident, and they're fully aware of it. Parents often bringing their children to their side whenever Eden is walking about town, due to their all dressed in black, riddled in questionable tattoos, and over all 'grumpy' behaviour. Eden usually spends most of their time alone, and it never seems to be put into question or bothered. So people let them be.
But that's just what people see on the outside when they simply look at Eden, without really looking at them. If people really took a moment to give Eden a chance or even more than five seconds, the real Eden would be seen within seconds. Their clenched jaw and avoidance of people, is nothing more than them being a bundle of nerves that's about to explode from anxiety and lack of social skills. Always afraid of saying the wrong thing or making the wrong impression. The avoidance of looking others in the eye and mumbled responses? Eden's too afraid to look at people directly due to the shadow people and voices they hear. The whispering and vague responses? Force of habit as they're trying to ignore the voices they hear from all around them. From those who have asked Eden why they don't really talk or look at others, they've been given this as a response, "When everything is just so loud in your mind, it sort of just over-powers you. Making you feel smaller than you really are, and you become too afraid to speak."
While Eden's stand-offish and awkward way of being is a constant and their default of being, deep down, all Eden wants is it all to stop. All the voices, the things they see from the corner of their eyes or down a dark hallway or in a room as they turn a corner before it's gone. Eden just wants it all to stop. Everything is so much louder in their world, and they're afraid it will never end. Eden knows how to put on a brave face and act like things are fine, often shrugging off their own feelings and insecurities so they can worry about someone else. But in reality, Eden is nothing more than that scared little child from all those years ago. They were brought into this world not having much of a chance at life anyway, and ever since that fateful night twenty years ago, Eden has had to form walls and barriers. Pretend that everything is okay. Maybe if they take one more hit or take one more trip, the voices will stop. But in reality, Eden knows the truth, no drug is truly able to make it stop. It'll only prevent the inevitable and one day, Eden knows they'll have to face those demons and skeletons in the closet and one day they hope they'll be able to do it sober, but they doubt that day will ever come...
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H I S T O R Y
The first thing that anyone from a small town knows, is that people talk. And when people talk, news and rumors spread all too fast. Before they quickly begin to muddle and blur between what actually happened, and the truth. So when rumors spread around town that Eden was actually the product of an affair, whether it was whispers spread due to jealousy, or the unkind truth, no one is exactly sure. But that was cause enough to cause more than enough tension in the Ackerman home when Eden was only four years old.
If that itself wasn't bad enough, Eden was known to be the only child of one of the local families. Specifically, the Ackerman family. Tyler and Julian Ackerman had been high school sweethearts and eloped not too long after graduating high school, and barely a year later, Eden was born. Life was simple enough in the small town, as Eden was an only child for most of their life, until their parents had a second child when Eden was eleven, but was immediately put into foster care due to the situations at home. (Due to the issues at the home, Eden has never made it known to their sibling that they're related, but has been involved in her life, otherwise). But their early years were indeed worrisome, seeing as their father was an unemployed drunk who was known to be abusive, and their mother worked at one of the local bars to keep a roof over their heads.
Between the fighting between their parents, late night screaming matches and things being thrown around the house, Eden had one way of escapism from reality. That came in the form of their neighbour and friend, Sam Mathers. She was only two years older than Eden, but the two hit it off immediately. Wherever Eden was, Sam wasn't too far behind, and visa versa. Often times being referred to as 'Soul Mates' by both parents in either family. So, when the day came that Sam was nowhere to be seen, Eden had rounded up the rest of their young friend group and they decided to go track their friend down. Which, knowing Sam would have probably been in the woods. Seeing as she always had a pattern of running off and playing in the woods, just like the town-kids always did.
Everything was normal that day when they arrived, but it didn't take very long for things to spiral into pure terror and horror. The events that happened that night had left nine kids traumatized beyond repair, and one dead. Some of the children entirely unable to speak about it ever again, and those who were able to talk about it were called crazy, like Eden was labeled after they were questioned by police in the weeks following the sudden death. Eden was qustioned more intensely than some of the others, due to their connection to Sam, as well as them being one of the one who were able to talk about what they saw, no matter how fractured and nonsenicle it may have been. They were just a child, after all.
But that was when the nightmares started. It began slowly and in small bursts. Nights where Eden would run to their mother crying about a bad dream. To eventually saying how they thought there were monsters in their closet or under their bed. To eventually having constant, chronic nightmares. By the time that Eden was twelve years old, they were sent to be tested for any mental health issues after the accident in the woods. Which turned up with results of PTSD, anxiety, depression and possibly even visual and auditory hallucinations. Which was immediately written off for needing medication and that was the help they got. Being handed a bottle of pills when they were a pre-teen, a pat on the back and a 'Good luck' by the therapists from the next town over.
That was the begining of their spiral. The medication seemed to work for the first three months, but then there was a night where Eden could have sworn that they saw something in their room. That shadowy figuring crawling towards them from the foot of their bed, who hovered over them routinely. And after six more months of seeing this figure, That was when the voices only got worse. For literal years, Eden silently bore the burden of seeing and hearing things from then on. Often being bullied and tormented for the way they talked, as they had developed a stutter in their early years.
When they were fourteen, they experienced their first assault by a group of students while walking home. The group of boys followed them home, mocking them about hearing and seeing things, imitating their stutter, and some even made rude remarks about their mother and father. Eden pushed passed them and had spent the rest of the day sobbing behind a locked door as their parents argued late into the night, with another one of their screaming matches. Through teary eyes, that's when they saw it. Or more precisely her. Eden didn't recognize who the young female was, but the moment they noticed her, she was gone. Just as quickly as she must have appeared.
A few more years passed. Years filled with voices, seeing things darting down halls and tormenting their every waking hour. Mixed with the stresses of home life and their parents who were on the verge of divorce, and their ever slipping grades. Eden just couldn't take it anymore, and shortly after their sixteenth birthday, they dropped out of school and never turned back. Which, if Eden had known what it would have led to, they never would have done it.
It wasn't long after their dropping out of school that they really delved into experimenting with substances. Anything from simple cannabis, to psychedelics. The latter of the two only seemed to make things worse with the shadow-folk and voices. But the cannabis? Oh that sweet, sweet delight had helped make everything disapear. Eden quickly noticed that they couldn't hear the voices anymore or didn't see the shadows popping up wherever they went. They had finally found their salvation. But as the years went on and drug experiments, Eden had finally hit their breaking point.
One day after coming home after their late shift at the Mystery Shack, they found their mother on the kitchen floor. They immediately called for the police, but even by the time they had gotten to her body, they realized it was already too late. After the emergency services had taken the body away and questioned Eden, it was revealed that their mother had overdosed on something. They just didn't know what it was. With their father having seemingly disapearing into thin air to have never been seen again, Eden didn't know what to do with themselves from that point forward.
It was only during one of their shifts at work that they received a call from Elliot, and fould themselves rushing him to the hospital as one of their coworkers drove Eden's car. From that point forward, Eden had taken the reins on being the mom friend between the two of them. Having spent weeks looking after Elliot until he was better, all up until the point he too left Gravity Falls. Leaving them behind.
That was eight years ago, and now that Eden is twenty six years old, still working at the Mystery Shack, and even living in one of the back rooms that they turned into their own bedroom, it's safe to say that Eden never left. Unlike most of the others who high-tailed it out of town as soon as they could, Eden felt like something was keeping them in Gravity Falls. Whether it was the survivors guilt since that night, the memories of Sam keeping them from leaving, or the fact that they were still a god damn coward, well Eden's not sure either. But it's been two decades since that night transpired, since they lost their other half and best friend. Their soul mate, well, Eden doesn't imagine they'd be making it that much longer in this damned town. Eden's bet is on the substances taking them out first, if not the immense guilt they feel over what happened the night Sam died. The real reason why they turned to drugs in the first place. The reason why they can't stand to hear those voices anymore, or see those damned ghosts from their past. It's all been slowly eating away at Eden every day since then, and they know eventually the truth will spill out and they don't want that day to ever come...
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O T H E R / G H O S T S
Before that night ever took place in the woods, Eden was like any other kid. Nothing special or outstanding about them. They were just your average, every day kid. But after that night, everything changed. They started hearing voices wherever they went. If a room was silent, they could hear soft, disembodied voices in their ears. The voices started out small, but as time went on, it only got worse. The voices never stopped, never left. So, when Eden was offered a blunt at a party, they thought nothing of it. But after that, things changed once more. The voices stopped. Muddled out due to the affects of the drugs, and Eden had found their sanctuary and therapy. As long as they weren't sober, everything was right with the world. It was only when they were around eighteen that the shadows started to come back again. It started out small enough. Usually just thinking they saw things or imagined it. Just like they were told. But when they started seeing full body apparitions at the foot of their bed at night, or could see figures following them down hallways or the town's streets, Eden's dependency on drugs only grew worse. They were growing desperate for a fix to keep the demons from their past at bay. Varying drugs and substances later, and after one hellof a bad acid trip, Eden knew they had to come back from it. Going to rehab for six months, forced to be sober, was absolute hell for them. But after they came back to Gravity Falls, they started working at The Mystery Shack once more, occasionally dabbling in smoking again. But with the 'shadow people' looming back over Eden once more, things may only have gotten worse once more...
T A L E N T S
Drawing & Sketching, Eden always has some sort of pen and notebook nearby | Musical Instruments (namely guitar & drums)
S T R E N G T H S
Loyalty, Eden is beyond loyal to their friends | Clear Headed, before Eden started smoking they were severely anxiety ridden, but since then, they've never been more clear headed in their life
W E A K N E S S E S
Drug dependency, for over a decade now Eden has been struggling with various substances | Nightmares, even with the amount of time they're nowhere near sober, it never seems to stop the memories from returning | Self blame, Eden blames themself for that night and hasn't been able to forgive themself since | Severe Insomnia, ever since they began seeing shadow-people and hearing voices, Eden has always suffered with sleepless nights, especially when sober
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