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Green Eyes is a former Human that fell through the cracks and ended up in a manifestation of Limbo known as "The Drains". She fell off a ledge and into the water, where she was saved by another Other, who couldn't get her out of the water and kept her alive by turning her into what she currently is.

She informs Blake Thorburn, who names her Green Eyes, of his situation and aids him in reaching the next area. He returns the favor by getting her out of "The Drains" and into a lake in Jacob's Bell.

Personality[]

Having fallen into her current state, she's rather placid towards others but cautious. She lingers in the shallows to avoid confronting anything capable of killing her and focuses on the present, getting food and surviving, so she doesn't think of the future or past anymore. In other words, she became accustomed to her life there. Even after leaving she states she doubts she had any dreams before her fall or she would have held onto them and she would be content with simply being safe, well-fed, and in the company of friends.

After being there so long and losing so much of her Self she can't remember her own name, or certain words or details, but accepts the one Blake gives her. She's lonely given the only other voice she hears is that of the man who sells snails if she can find something to barter with.

She seeks company and, as such, became grateful to Blake for both helping her escape the shadow of her past known as the Black Fish, generated by Limbo, by bringing her into the world. Her loyalty to him is so great that the only way that he could hurt her is to lie to her or tell her he never wants to see her again. She declares him her hero, not exactly boyfriend yet, but there's nothing she wouldn't do for him.

But beneath her nice nature she's rather vicious in a fight, a predator. Still a bogey man after all, her Self has been heavily influenced by the abyss.[1]

Relationships[]

Thorburn Bogeyman[]

Welcomed him when he came to the place, admitted that she thought she might have made him like she was if he hadn't found his feet. Attracted to him.[2]

Black Fish[]

Tied to her nature as a bogey man, whenever she is in the abyss the black fish will be hunt, it is not some aspect of her but a predator.[3][4]

Appearance[]

Green Eyes could be compared to an attractive deep sea fish; her flesh is transparent and skeletal, veins, teeth and even her namesake eyes visible through it, her frame is still feminine and slim, though the colors of her body are thrown off by her visible organs, the final feature that clinches her mermaiden appearance is the ivory tail that takes up her lower half.[5] There are fins at her elbows, spine, and the end of her tail with narrow bones.

Her voice is breathy sibilant quality, like an actual fish she gives of distinct ammonia sillage mixed with earthy sent of the Abyss section she originates in.[6]

Her long pale hair is typically plaster to the side of her head given her aquatic activities.

Chronology[]

Before the Story[]

When she arrived in Limbo she wandered for a long while in the rain until she found a big store that she couldn't enter and some other people robbed her. She ran before they could hurt her, but she slipped over the edge and ended up falling into the waters below, where another Other kept her alive.

He breathed for her and helped her grow accustomed until she could hold her breath for a few minutes, then he left and came back with raw fish, tore it with his teeth and regurgitated it for her. The cycle continued for weeks until her skin was torn from his sandpapery skin against hers and then regrew scarred and tougher until she became what she was at present. At some point he left and never came back, forcing her to learn to swim to survive.[1]

At some unknown point she met a deity, or possibly Deities.[7]

Null[]

Then she waited by the ledge where she fell in until she spotted Blake, waiting to see if she could save him the way she had been saved. When he beckoned her forth and proved to be friendly, she informed him of the state of things and how the place changed you. She then helped him cross a large gap to get to the other side and reach the next tunnel.

She asks him to come back some time if he wants and when he offers her anything in his power for the help, she asks for a kiss since giving him something to think about could get him killed. He leans down and she kisses him on the cheek before disappearing under the water.

Mala Fide & Malfeasance[]

In Mala Fide she is sought out by Faysal Anwar as part of an agreement with Blake. Through a device he provided, she was able to leap from "The Drains" and into a semi-frozen lake in Jacob's Bell.[8] Even though she couldn't vocally communicate with Blake, she was grateful for the release and blew him a kiss, promising not to kill or maim anyone or draw enough attention to get her sent back. She is later summoned into a bathtub at the Hillglades House to aid in defending it.[9]

Duress[]

When the fighting escalated and reached the second floor, Green Eyes emerged to help Blake and the others. In the ensuing fight she proved to be rather viscous as she found, moving with surprising swiftness as her claws raked the the skin of a giant and her teeth bit into its flesh. With Eva, Alexis, and Tyler's help she managed to rip out its spine with her teeth and retreated into the library with the others. She was willing to continue to help so long as Blake was willing to bring her back from The Drains if she got killed again, although she wasn't happy with the suggestion to go back there to escape the siege.

When they have to enter into Limbo to get away from the attack, she's noticeably angry since they end up someplace worse that the Drains and she has to climb out with limited space. At the top she and Tyler go out to fetch sticks and bones to build an effigy for Blake to inhabit. As he pulls his heart out and nearly collapses, she helps him get into the body and goes out with him back to the Hillglades House.

There she helps him start a fire, piggybacking a ride on his back when they needed to get around faster. When Blake goes after a Necromancer and Ogre Shaman she killed one of the women by wrapping her barbed tail around her mid-section and "degloved" the entire area to make her bleed out. She claims she could smell the woman wasn't human.

Execution[]

Green Eyes appears again after Blake has been stabbed and offers the suggestion that he calls down Molly. When they talk she states that she had never met a happy god before accompanying Blake in repairing himself and planning his attack on Sandra. She later hitches a ride on his back and discusses how she'd be happy with him as long as he never lied to her or abandoned her before dealing with four goblins and then saving Evan.

She then tries to assist him while dealing with the Duchamp husbands but he asks her to stay out of it, leaving her lagging back. She jumps in anyway, nearly getting cut in half but making an opening for him to exploit as they continue on. Once they are attacked by Maenads she manages to sneak up on Jeremy Meath with Evan's help, threatening to castrate him until Blake called her off. After they had split apart, with her attacking a giant gargoyle, and met back up she seemed upset when she thought Blake had eaten Evan, but quickly turned back into trying to tease him before they spent a moment with one another.

Sine Die[]

Green Eyes accompanies Blake's group and ends up being set on fire by the Dragon, needing help to move afterwards and losing at least half her face.

Possession & Judgement[]

Green Eyes, though upset by Blake's spirit now residing in Rose's body, follows and protects Rose from being killed by one of Murr's constructs and then agrees to join with her in the strike against the firm to get rid of Barbatorem possessing Johannes' corpse. She vouches for Rose, stating that there was no one there who'd like to erase her more, but she was good for her word.

When challenged by Barbatorem to voice for humanity, Blake entrusted Evan to her and she also states that she wouldn't let Blake die, even if he hated her for whatever she did to make that happen. After Johannes' Demesne is swallowed by the Abyss, she is convinced by Rose and Evan not to kill her as she takes what little remains of Blake's flesh to heal.

Epilogue[]

In the epilogue it's hinted that the woman talking to Evan is Green Eyes, as seen through the eyes of a normal person without magical assistance. She disappears from Dominic's view before he can peer through it.

Abilities[]

  • Underwater Adaptation: In becoming an Other, Green Eyes gained the ability to survive in water for extended amounts of time, swim quickly, resist the cold, hear more acutely, and see in the darkness.
    • She does not have the ability to vocally communicate underwater, it being taken up by her gills.
  • Predatory Adaptation: She has been given claws that can cut through thick hides, teeth that can rip out a spine, and her tail can cleave someone in half if whipped around and the scales are barbed.

Trivia[]

  • Not what you pop-culture tells you to expect when you think 'mermaid', arguably closer to a Siren but even that isn't close.

Fanart Gallery[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 “You might be right, but how do you get out?” I asked.

    “Only way I know is to go further in.  In here, you are what you eat.  It’s easy to- to let yourself go.”

    “Let your Self go,” I echoed her.  Her thoughts seemed to have a thread to them, but I was having trouble connecting the dots.

    “That’s what I said, yeah.  I… it’s hard to remember the details, but I arrived, and I wandered for a long while in the rain.  I found this big store, you know the kind, one of the huge ones you could spend half a day inside, but the parking lot was fenced in, and I tried walking around to find the front door, but it was like every side of the store was the back of the store.  That’s when I first realized something was wrong, because I’d just left this… this place, and found a city and I somehow found myself-”

    “There.  Here,” I said.

    “Yeah.  I found a group of people, and they told me that there was nothing there.  That it’s just landscape, for show.  They laughed at me and took what little I’d brought with me.  I ran before they could hurt me, and I got here, after a couple days.  Except I didn’t get far.  I stepped onto that broken bit of ledge right there, and I fell.  Just like you almost did.  Water pushed me down, and I wasn’t strong enough to swim against it.  Someone saved me.  He wasn’t strong enough to lift me up, either, so he pressed his lips to mine, and breathed for me.”

    “Breathed?”

    “He could breathe like I can now.  For hours, he breathed for me.  And he’d stop, making me hold my breath, then start again.  Until I could hold it for a couple of minutes.  He left me, holding my breath, and came back with raw fish.  Tore it with his teeth and regurgitated it for me, kept breathing for me… for days.  Weeks.  Pressed his sandpapery skin against mine, and we… yeah.  I wanted to, and I dunno if that’s that syndrome or whatever from that movie with the bookish girl and the big horned ox guy-”

    “Beauty and the Beast.  You’re thinking of Stockholm syndrome,” I said.  I didn’t elaborate, arguing for why it wasn’t Stockholm Syndrome.  That would have been assholish, arguing when she was sharing her story.

    “Yeah.  I forget words sometimes.  Somewhere along the way, my skin came apart, because his skin was rough and the water just kept coming down so hard.  But I healed and everything back together in scars and tougher bits, and then I could breathe underwater, and I have teeth and claws to hunt fish with, and I can see better in the dark and…”

    “…And the other guy?”

    “I was in a state where I couldn’t swim.  He went to get food for- for me, and one day he didn’t come back.  Eventually I had to swim, and I did.  Now it’s just me.”

    “Waiting at that same ledge?”

    “I thought I’d save you if you fell in, like he saved me,” her voice was a thin whisper.  Almost reluctant, abashed.

    The shiver that took hold of me right then was more profound than any the cold had gotten out of me so far. - Excerpt from Null 9.1
  2. - Excerpt from 11.x (Histories: Others)
  3. Carl: This question has been bugging me for a long time: are the shadows that pursue you in the abyss, like Carl and the black fish, as well as the visions blake sees, unique to the drains or universal to everywhere in the abyss

    Wildbow:Universal, but very personal to the individuals, to the extent that I would urge avoiding lumping them into one category. Green Eyes' shadow, for example, isn't a bundle of memory and just wants to cause her physical harm. She is always, so long as she is in the abyss, prey of the Black Fish. - Wildbow on Reddit
  4. “I’d like to get away from the black fish… but I can’t think about the future like that.  I have to think about food, and keeping certain areas blocked off, and figuring out where and when to rest where I can’t get surprised or cornered.”

    “Nothing, then?” I asked.

    “You should be doing the same,” she said.  “Focus on the now.  Realize just how much trouble you’re in here.  Giving you something to think about could get you killed.” - Excerpt from Null 9.1
  5. Female, emaciated, her eyes reflecting like a cat’s might, but as pale green circles instead. She was perched on the heap of wood and the torn-up shopping cart. Only her upper body was visible, collarbone and ribs standing out with skin stretched taut around them. Her naked breasts were small, her arms tense with the exertion of holding herself up. Her hair was plastered to her head, her face looked like she was wearing a section of someone else’s skull as a mask.
    [...]
    She wasn’t wearing a skull mask. Her face was skeletal, the skin virtually transparent, veins visible beneath the surface, red, blue, and yellow-black.

    I was pretty sure people didn’t have yellow-black veins like that.

    All this time, I’d been thinking she didn’t blink. Now I saw that her eyelids were so transparent that I couldn’t tell. Her eyes, luminous green in the dark, were a pale milky white right now.

    Her teeth were tiny, narrow, and sharp, visible through transparent lips.
    [...]
    The light came on just in time for me to see her dive. Her tail broke the water, and I saw a flash of albino white scaling, and skeletal ridges separating transparent fins. - Excerpt from Null 9.1
  6. “Hi,” [Green Eyes] said.  Her voice was airy, halfway between hiss and whisper.
    [...]
    I could smell her, and she smelled faintly of ammonia, joining the smells of rich mud and the damp, mildewy smell of the drain itself. - Excerpt from Null 9.1
  7. “Evan,” I said.  “Let’s listen to Molly when she says she doesn’t want to talk about something.”

    “Thank you.  I’m not saying I’m becoming a god.  It’s… only an idea.”

    “That’s a hell of an idea,” I said.  I looked out over the town.

    “Scary idea,” Green Eyes said.  “I’ve never met a happy god.”

    Just about everyone present glanced at her.  Green Eyes didn’t elaborate. - Excerpt from Execution 13.2
  8. - Excerpt from Mala Fide 10.5
  9. - Excerpt from 11.x (Histories: Others)
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