![]() Unable to take the abuse anymore, Isaac locked himself in the big toy chest that was in his room and slowly died from asphyxia. Isaac only had his pet cat and best friend Guppy to cheer him up, until he died from unspecified causes. At the same time, he was being bullied by other kids according to the sequences shown between each floor. When his father finally decided to leave, Isaac’s mother's mind (already fragile because of the Christian dogma she was being fed through TV shows) was shattered and she became extremely abusive to him, making him dress as a girl, calling him a demon and forcing him into his closet to punish him. Isaac would witness such fights or at least hear them from his room, and he grew to believe that he was the reason for his parents breaking apart. Isaac was born to an alcoholic father and a mentally disturbed mother who would argue a lot, ending in verbally violent fights. The various endings help us to find out Isaac’s hidden real story. ![]() The style of the opening sequence and the epilogue makes us understand that these events are imagined by Isaac and that the truth is actually different. However, it is revealed to only be a story by Isaac himself (as implied by the style of the sequence, which looks like a drawing) when the style changes to a more realistic one in which Isaac’s door bursts open as his mother barges in with a knife. The epilogue narrates that as she was about to end Isaac’s life, Isaac’s mother was killed by a Bible dropping from above. He then proceeded to go down into the depths until he met with his mother and killed her in a fight. Isaac, who witnessed everything through a crack in his door, escaped through a trapdoor leading to his basement: this is where the game starts. She took a kitchen knife and headed for Isaac’s room. The voice came back one last time and asked her to sacrifice Isaac, to which the mother complied. When the voice came back and told her it wasn’t enough, she locked him in his own room. One day, his mother, who regularly watched Christian shows on the television, heard a voice coming from above asking her to wash her son from all sin, so she took away everything she considered to be evil, namely his drawings, his toys and his clothes. According to the introduction sequence, Isaac is a little kid who lived alone with his mother in a small house on a hill.
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