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| − | {{Quote|That part of you the world sees, they think it's perfect. As God intended. Even these idiots and lunatics see it. There's something special about you. On the surface. But when they look deeper, when anybody with eyes to see looks at what you truly are. That's why they don't trust you. You're not what you're meant to be. Not yet. This place can see into your mind. And the things you've done. Oh, they're a sin, darling.|Eddie Gluskin as he's pursuing Waylon |
+ | {{Quote|That part of you the world sees, they think it's perfect. As God intended. Even these idiots and lunatics see it. There's something special about you. On the surface. But when they look deeper, when anybody with eyes to see looks at what you truly are. That's why they don't trust you. You're not what you're meant to be. Not yet. This place can see into your mind. And the things you've done. Oh, they're a sin, darling.|Eddie Gluskin as he's pursuing Waylon}} |
'''Eddie Gluskin''', commonly known as "'''The Groom'''", is the secondary antagonist of the prequel-sequel horror game, ''Outlast: Whistleblower''. |
'''Eddie Gluskin''', commonly known as "'''The Groom'''", is the secondary antagonist of the prequel-sequel horror game, ''Outlast: Whistleblower''. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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===Background=== |
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| − | Not much is known about Eddie Gluskin but, according to the documents, Gluskin was sexually abused by his father and uncle |
+ | Not much is known about Eddie Gluskin's early life but, according to the documents, Gluskin was sexually abused by his father and uncle, severely traumatizing him. He started to believe that he was raised on Leave It To Beaver as a stage of denial and as an attempt to cope with the experience. |
| − | Before being committed to Mount Massive Asylum he was a misogynistic and provocative serial killer who |
+ | Before being committed to Mount Massive Asylum he was a misogynistic and provocative serial killer who kidnapped and tortured women before killing them. When interviewed he denied his victims' deaths, insisting that the women in the photographs were "just sleeping". When shown a photo of his father and uncle, he alternated between trying to laugh it off as fake and flying into a berserk rage, showing that he developed a discomfort towards intimacy or anything erotic. When he was forced to take part in the experiments he started having delusions of marriage and wanting children. |
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| − | When the asylum riot began there were no women in the asylum, so he captured other variants and brutally attempted to perform sex changes on them, but the victims would die before the process was completed either during the surgery or killed by Eddie while he was driven further into his delusions. The procedure consists of Eddie castrating his victims in order to turn them into "women" so he can make them his "bride", with the addition of crudely adding breasts. Due to most, if not all of these procedures turning out unsuccessful, Eddie would either string his victims up in the gymnasium or decorate the vocational block with their mutilated corpses in extremely grotesque fashions. |
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===''Outlast: Whistleblower''=== |
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| − | Eddie Gluskin makes his first appearance at the start of the game in the Underground Lab, being forced against his will to enter one of the glass spheres in the lab to undergo painstaking restraint and experiments. Waylon Park is there working on one of the computers for debugging to allow the aforementioned experiment. Before |
+ | Eddie Gluskin makes his first appearance at the start of the game in the Underground Lab, being forced against his will to enter one of the glass spheres in the lab to undergo painstaking restraint and experiments. Waylon Park is there working on one of the computers for debugging to allow the aforementioned experiment. Before Eddie is finally restrained, he runs up to the glass begging for help, and exclaims that Waylon has the power to stop all of it before being forced again to enter one of the glass spheres. |
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| + | In the Drying Ground, a buzz saw can be heard revving up on the other side of a blocked door, along with a man screaming in agony. Zooming in with the camcorder reveals Eddie standing in the hallway. He stops and stares at Waylon for a brief moment, before disappearing from the corridor. |
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| + | After collapsing through a roof into the Vocational Block's attic, Waylon encounters Dennis, a patient with a multiple personality disorder who wishes to present Park to "The Groom" as one of his offerings in order to avoid ending up as one of Eddie's victims. Once Waylon escapes down to the third floor, Dennis' personalities proceed to taunt him, one of them noting that he handed himself over to "the Thing below". |
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| + | Shortly afterward, Waylon tries to open a locked door, only to be greeted with Eddie, who presses his face against the glass of the doors, smiling and calling Waylon "darling". He is notably scarred and acts out much like many Variants, though to a much higher degree; he has misogynistic and transmisogynistic fantasies and mutilates other men to make them look like his ideal woman, including genital and chest mutilation, all in an attempt to create a "bride" for himself. This gives him his label as "The Groom." |
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| ⚫ | During that time in the game, Eddie pursues Waylon. Waylon jumps down an elevator shaft to escape him, and gravely wounds his right leg while doing so, making him less mobile for the remainder of the game. With an injured leg, still attempting to escape Eddie, Waylon attempts to hide in a locker, but Eddie discovers this and drags the locker itself to another room - Eddie's "workshop," where he brutally mutilates others. |
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| + | Eddie gasses the locker Waylon is inside of to "calm him down". Waylon wakes up 12 hours later and sees Gluskin mutilate other captive inmates through the slits of the locker door. Shortly after this, Eddie strips Waylon of all his clothes and places him on a table, preparing to cut into him with a buzzsaw, with Waylon's body placed so his genitals are aimed towards the blade. Just before the spinning buzzsaw reaches Waylon's body, a Variant comes in and engages in a fight with Eddie. Waylon uses this distraction as an opportunity to escape through a broken window, breaking his leg in the process. |
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| + | Once Waylon escapes, he is forced to go back in the block and find the key that unlocks the door to the Male Ward. Eddie continues his pursuit of Waylon and captures him once more, shouting out misogynistic slurs while chasing him. He puts a noose around Waylon's neck while berating Waylon for "betraying" him, and attempts to hang him on a pulley system, along with many previously deceased and mutilated hanging victims. |
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| − | Gluskin gasses the locker Waylon is inside of to "calm him down" while he first cuts into another victim. Shortly after this, Gluskin strips Waylon of all his clothes, places him on a table preparing to cut into him with a buzzsaw - with Waylon's body placed in a way where his genitals are aimed at the buzzsaw. Just before the spinning buzzsaw reaches Waylon's body, he is saved at the last second when another prisoner intervenes and attacks Gluskin. Once overpowered, the other prisoner flees, pursued by Gluskin. Waylon uses this distraction as an opportunity to escape. After killing the other prisoner, The Groom returns and resumes his pursuit of Waylon, shouting misogynistic slurs while chasing him. He captures him once more, knocks Waylon into a gymnasium with his many deceased hung victims, puts a noose around Waylon's neck and attempts to hang him too. Waylon is able to fight this, and a struggle ensues. Waylon puts up enough resistance so that it causes a sudden weight shift in the pulley where Waylon falls safely while Gluskin is entangled in the ropes of his pulley system and pulled upward into a hanging metal bar, impaling and killing him. |
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| + | Waylon struggles for his life as he is lifted, with his weight causing some of the ceiling and pulley system to break away, which forces Eddie to use more strength to lift and hang Waylon. Eventually, Waylon's weight becomes too great of a burden for Eddie to lift. This causes a sudden weight shift in the pulley; Waylon falls, while Eddie is caught up into his own ropes and pulled upward to be impaled on a hanging metal bar. Eddie uses his dying breath to grab Waylon's hand, sadly telling him "We could have been beautiful." Waylon falls down and lands on the ground, causing Eddie to be further impaled on the bar, killing him. |
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| − | If Waylon films his dead body with the camcorder, he will express his hatred of him by saying he's "trying not to laugh" at this death in a note written to Lisa. |
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*His role in the story is similar to [[Richard Trager]] as they both capture the protagonist, cut off body parts from the variants, speak in a polite tone along with calling the protagonists "buddy" or "darling" and saying that they are heavier than they look. Both are killed in an attempt to kill the protagonist. |
*His role in the story is similar to [[Richard Trager]] as they both capture the protagonist, cut off body parts from the variants, speak in a polite tone along with calling the protagonists "buddy" or "darling" and saying that they are heavier than they look. Both are killed in an attempt to kill the protagonist. |
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*The modes of torture and killing of Eddie are similar to [[Beyond Birthday]]. |
*The modes of torture and killing of Eddie are similar to [[Beyond Birthday]]. |
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| − | *He seems to be based on serial killer and grave robber [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein Ed Gein] due to them having the same first letters in their names, killed their victims by cutting them in half from the genitals, both had their victims body parts made into or added to objects. The only difference is while Gluskin was |
+ | *He seems to be based on serial killer and grave robber [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein Ed Gein] due to them having the same first letters in their names, killed their victims by cutting them in half from the genitals, both had their victims body parts made into or added to objects. The only difference is while Gluskin was misogynistic mass murderer, Gein's victims were mostly corpses he dug up from graveyards and it was only confirmed that he killed two women. |
*The song he sings is "I Want a Girl" by Harry von Tilzer and William Dillon. It is the same song played in the trailer for Whistleblower. |
*The song he sings is "I Want a Girl" by Harry von Tilzer and William Dillon. It is the same song played in the trailer for Whistleblower. |
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*A dead man was hung from strings as one of his former "brides". |
*A dead man was hung from strings as one of his former "brides". |
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| “ | That part of you the world sees, they think it's perfect. As God intended. Even these idiots and lunatics see it. There's something special about you. On the surface. But when they look deeper, when anybody with eyes to see looks at what you truly are. That's why they don't trust you. You're not what you're meant to be. Not yet. This place can see into your mind. And the things you've done. Oh, they're a sin, darling. | „ |
| ~ Eddie Gluskin as he's pursuing Waylon |
Eddie Gluskin, commonly known as "The Groom", is the secondary antagonist of the prequel-sequel horror game, Outlast: Whistleblower.
Biography
Background
Not much is known about Eddie Gluskin's early life but, according to the documents, Gluskin was sexually abused by his father and uncle, severely traumatizing him. He started to believe that he was raised on Leave It To Beaver as a stage of denial and as an attempt to cope with the experience.
Before being committed to Mount Massive Asylum he was a misogynistic and provocative serial killer who kidnapped and tortured women before killing them. When interviewed he denied his victims' deaths, insisting that the women in the photographs were "just sleeping". When shown a photo of his father and uncle, he alternated between trying to laugh it off as fake and flying into a berserk rage, showing that he developed a discomfort towards intimacy or anything erotic. When he was forced to take part in the experiments he started having delusions of marriage and wanting children.
Outlast: Whistleblower
Eddie Gluskin makes his first appearance at the start of the game in the Underground Lab, being forced against his will to enter one of the glass spheres in the lab to undergo painstaking restraint and experiments. Waylon Park is there working on one of the computers for debugging to allow the aforementioned experiment. Before Eddie is finally restrained, he runs up to the glass begging for help, and exclaims that Waylon has the power to stop all of it before being forced again to enter one of the glass spheres.
In the Drying Ground, a buzz saw can be heard revving up on the other side of a blocked door, along with a man screaming in agony. Zooming in with the camcorder reveals Eddie standing in the hallway. He stops and stares at Waylon for a brief moment, before disappearing from the corridor.
After collapsing through a roof into the Vocational Block's attic, Waylon encounters Dennis, a patient with a multiple personality disorder who wishes to present Park to "The Groom" as one of his offerings in order to avoid ending up as one of Eddie's victims. Once Waylon escapes down to the third floor, Dennis' personalities proceed to taunt him, one of them noting that he handed himself over to "the Thing below".
Shortly afterward, Waylon tries to open a locked door, only to be greeted with Eddie, who presses his face against the glass of the doors, smiling and calling Waylon "darling". He is notably scarred and acts out much like many Variants, though to a much higher degree; he has misogynistic and transmisogynistic fantasies and mutilates other men to make them look like his ideal woman, including genital and chest mutilation, all in an attempt to create a "bride" for himself. This gives him his label as "The Groom."
During that time in the game, Eddie pursues Waylon. Waylon jumps down an elevator shaft to escape him, and gravely wounds his right leg while doing so, making him less mobile for the remainder of the game. With an injured leg, still attempting to escape Eddie, Waylon attempts to hide in a locker, but Eddie discovers this and drags the locker itself to another room - Eddie's "workshop," where he brutally mutilates others.
Eddie gasses the locker Waylon is inside of to "calm him down". Waylon wakes up 12 hours later and sees Gluskin mutilate other captive inmates through the slits of the locker door. Shortly after this, Eddie strips Waylon of all his clothes and places him on a table, preparing to cut into him with a buzzsaw, with Waylon's body placed so his genitals are aimed towards the blade. Just before the spinning buzzsaw reaches Waylon's body, a Variant comes in and engages in a fight with Eddie. Waylon uses this distraction as an opportunity to escape through a broken window, breaking his leg in the process.
Once Waylon escapes, he is forced to go back in the block and find the key that unlocks the door to the Male Ward. Eddie continues his pursuit of Waylon and captures him once more, shouting out misogynistic slurs while chasing him. He puts a noose around Waylon's neck while berating Waylon for "betraying" him, and attempts to hang him on a pulley system, along with many previously deceased and mutilated hanging victims.
Waylon struggles for his life as he is lifted, with his weight causing some of the ceiling and pulley system to break away, which forces Eddie to use more strength to lift and hang Waylon. Eventually, Waylon's weight becomes too great of a burden for Eddie to lift. This causes a sudden weight shift in the pulley; Waylon falls, while Eddie is caught up into his own ropes and pulled upward to be impaled on a hanging metal bar. Eddie uses his dying breath to grab Waylon's hand, sadly telling him "We could have been beautiful." Waylon falls down and lands on the ground, causing Eddie to be further impaled on the bar, killing him.
Personality
Gluskin can easily be seen as a deranged romanticist. He is very obsessed with the conception of obtaining the "perfect bride" and creating a line of children with his wife. He has an amorous vocabulary, normally referring to others by the term of endearment "darling". If angered, however, his choice of words becomes more derogatory and vulgar. Gluskin compares his lifelong quest and inability to find his soul mate with the song I Want a Girl, which he sings repeatedly.
Gluskin has something of a misleading and counterfeit personality. While he seemingly acts extremely charming and kind, something unexpected of a person of his large frame and disfigurements, his obsession and constant disappointments of finding his wife has made him incredibly violent to his failed "darlings". When his victims attempt to escape him, he becomes extremely abusive and insulting, dropping any sense of false affection and even more destructive, shouting that they betrayed him (as if they had no reason to whatsoever). His opinions of women have been thinly revealed through dialogue and it has been identified as misogyny. It is revealed that he used to be a serial killer who targeted and murdered only women before his incarceration. As there were no women incarcerated in the Asylum, Gluskin responds by abducting males instead and castrating them then replacing with female organs whom he rapes.
It is unclear to what extent his affection for his wives goes to. He does seem to have concern for their well-being, showing discontent when Waylon hurt himself but proceeded to leave him to die when he discovered he would rather be killed than be with Gluskin and showed some remorse over another of his victims death but continued to throw him aside. If he did have a child, he vowed to treat them with love and become the father that he never had, as his sexually abused him while growing up.
Despite his insanity, originally at the the beginning of the game, he was shown to be fully aware of what was happening to him and begs Waylon to stop all of it.
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Trivia
- His role in the story is similar to Richard Trager as they both capture the protagonist, cut off body parts from the variants, speak in a polite tone along with calling the protagonists "buddy" or "darling" and saying that they are heavier than they look. Both are killed in an attempt to kill the protagonist.
- The modes of torture and killing of Eddie are similar to Beyond Birthday.
- He seems to be based on serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein due to them having the same first letters in their names, killed their victims by cutting them in half from the genitals, both had their victims body parts made into or added to objects. The only difference is while Gluskin was misogynistic mass murderer, Gein's victims were mostly corpses he dug up from graveyards and it was only confirmed that he killed two women.
- The song he sings is "I Want a Girl" by Harry von Tilzer and William Dillon. It is the same song played in the trailer for Whistleblower.
- A dead man was hung from strings as one of his former "brides".
- If Eddie catches up to Waylon and kills him an animation will play which involves Eddie picking up Waylon stabbing him three times then pushing him to the ground and stomping him in the face.
- There is a bug where sometimes a second Eddie's A.I will be spawned at the moment the first Eddie A.I grabs you and kills you.
- His outfit and weapon in the story may have been a reference to Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth as the main villain, Dr Charles Cavendish, wore a wedding dress and carried a razor in an attempt to kill Batman and his hostage during an asylum riot.
- He has a diagram of male genitals and he has written on it where he believes he should perform the torture showing a lack of knowledge towards sex changing.
- He is similar to Lola Stone from The Loved Ones, both are serial killers who's victims were mainly the opposite gender, but during their stories they also kill people of the same gender (women and other variants for Eddie, boys and Bright Eyes for Lola), both call their hostages by romance themed nicknames but quickly call them the opposite (Gluskin calls the protagonist darling on the first encounter but later calls him a whore while Lola calls her hostages her prince but calls them frogs afterwards), both have romance-themed attacks on victims and hostages (wedding for Eddie, prom for Lola), have romance-themed clothes and both have possible incestuous relationships with their fathers however Lola has romantic involvement with her father while Gluskin was sexually abused by his father and uncle.
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