Ivan-bad things

Overview Ivan is the protagonist of Bad Things; you play as him for nearly every Scene. He has only one friend mentioned throughout the game, that friend being Andrew. He and Andrew are both struggling, and their constant arguments reflect that.

Appearance Ivan appears as a gray‐skinned blocky Robloxian. His left eye is smaller than the other as well as having neutral expression. He wears a deep blue colored shirt with a Ouija board pattern on it. His pants are black, and he wears a red visor outlined in black with the word “ROBLOX” across the front. His hair is half short and black.

Description Ivan is the more sensitive of the two main characters, and takes pride in his abilities as a writer, as well as sometimes speaking in metaphors. He lives in an apartment building that serves as the main location in the story. The core motivation behind many of his actions has to do with his strong desire to leave a “legacy."

He is very attached to Andrew, his best friend, and always has his back, often offering to help him with his games and other issues. Despite their disagreements, the two are able to reconcile through discussion. Ivan can see past Andrew’s poor wording and understand the intentions behind them.

As the story progresses, Ivan is shown to behave impulsively and insecurely. His flaws show the most when faced with conflict, as shown in his arguments with Andrew. His insecurities also make him highly sensitive to criticism, often taking it to heart and growing bitter as a result. Ivan is mentally unstable, suffering from frequent hallucinations and nightmares, which only worsen as his friendship spirals out of control.

His desire to leave a legacy, caused by the lack of people at his father's funeral, grew into an obsession that drove him to commit cruel acts, most notably against Andrew. Ivan viewed Andrew's games as the closest way for him to gain a legacy, but Andrew's continued refusal at Ivan's attempts at helping with the game, as well as his off-handed remarks on Ivan's apartment and writing, led Ivan to grow increasingly resentful towards Andrew.

Ivan would continue to prioritize his goal over their friendship, trying to achieve it by controlling Andrew. The situation only worsened as Andrew moved into Ivan's apartment, where the two's relationship quickly turned very abusive, with Ivan as the perpetrator and Andrew as the victim

Trivia Ivan did have romantic feelings towards Andrew,[5] as he can be seen kissing Andrew's corpse in Scene 16.[6] This didn't last for long, because Ivan started seeing Andrew as a better version of himself, an object to worship,[7] instead of a partner.[8] Ivan's view of Andrew caused him to feel conflicted within himself, and therefore lead to his unstable behavior.[8] Ivan is gay and struggles with internalized homophobia.[9][10] Ivan is in his 20s.[11] Ivan is probably younger than Andrew.[12] Ivan met Andrew around the time they finished high school.[13] (around 17-19 years old) Ivan would never reflect on himself or his actions, nor would he ever admit he is in the wrong.[14] If Andrew were to kiss Ivan, it probably would've made things way worse.[15] Ivan left the stove on before killing himself, hence a gas fire happening right after.[16][17] Ivan lives off of inheritance.[18] Ivan likes to throw empty Bloxy Cola bottles off the roof.[19] Ivan is inspired from critiques of Cactus himself.[20] Ivan would probably like listening to the band duster.[21] Ivan would probably despise therapy.[22] The desaturated colors in his design emphasize that he is the “sadder and more wretched” one.[23] Ivan's Ouija board shirt reflects his tendency to have imaginary conversations with his dead father.[24] If Andrew were to admit he likes him, Ivan would use that as an opportunity to gain higher control over the game.[25] Ivan is portrayed as selfish and too weak to change that about himself.[26] Although, this wasn't the case initially. Ivan became selfish as an act of desperation and jealousy.[27] Ivan is left-handed.[28] Ivan is taller than Andrew.[29] Ivan has shorter hair than Andrew.[30] Ivan is stronger than Andrew.[31] Ivan is approximately 6 foot 8 inch or (203.2cm)

Andrew: Relatives Ivan (Ex-Friend) Unnamed old friends

Gender Gender/Pronouns Male, He/Him[1]

Overview Andrew is the deuteragonist of Bad Things; he is Ivan’s only friend mentioned throughout the game. He and Ivan are both struggling, and their constant arguments reflect that.

Appearance Andrew appears as a yellow-skinned Robloxian. His eyes are slanted, and his mouth has a similar shape to a cat's mouth. He wears a pink shirt that has “PWN” written inside a slanted rectangle on it, and his pants are green.

Description Andrew is a Roblox developer and greatly enjoys what he does, as seen throughout the game. His passion for game development often leads him to overwork himself, but he remains adamant about working solo and refuses any external input. This decision becomes a source of conflict between him and his best friend, Ivan, who wants to help Andrew with his game.

Outside of his profession, Andrew is level‐headed and calm, able to maintain his composure even in stressful situations. By his own admission, he is poor with words and not a particularly sentimental person, sometimes coming off as ignorant of others’ feelings, which is evident by his blunt remarks toward Ivan.

However, despite appearing standoffish at times, Andrew is genuinely caring toward the people close to him. In‐game, it is said that he held on to a photo of his old friends, and the item is implied to have been one of the first things he packed. His composed attitude and brash words are more or less a front for how he truly feels. Ivan is able to see past Andrew’s façade, stating directly in‐game that he knows Andrew often hides his wounds.

Andrew and Ivan's relationship took a sour turn after Andrew agreed to move in with Ivan, due to being unable to pay his rent and not wishing to return to his troubled household, who had rejected him after he came out to them.

While initially grateful toward Ivan, over the course of his time spent living at the apartment, Andrew became the victim of severe abuse at the hands of his former friend, depicted most prominently in Scene 11.

Ivan became highly controlling over Andrew's creative works, often altering them without permission or force Andrew himself to alter it. Andrew became subjected to severe mental abuse from Ivan, who lashed out at him by constantly knocking, shouting at him and berating him. He would also punish Andrew by making him sleep on the floor and deprive him of sleep.[2]

The abuse escalated as Ivan got more violent when Andrew wasn't working on his game, breaking and smashing Andrew's surroundings to terrorize him. Andrew began to lock himself up in the bathroom and sleep in there as it was the only place safe from Ivan's abuse.

However, during an incident in which Ivan prevented Andrew from going outside and tried to force him to work on the game, Andrew hid in the bathroom but Ivan forced the door open and entered, choking Andrew and depriving him of his last safe spot within the apartment.

Trapped in Ivan's apartment, Andrew endured the abuse for an unspecified period before reaching a breaking point. After an argument with Ivan on Christmas Eve, Andrew revealed that he had found a new place, one that was far away, and was going to move out, despite the decision being financially unsustainable for him.

Andrew left his belongings behind in a hurry to escape Ivan, fearing for his life. This resulted in Ivan gaining access to Andrew’s computer and led to him leaking Andrew’s games. Andrew returned one final time to confront Ivan before leaving for good. He left behind several games containing messages directed at Ivan, detailing their relationship and how his feelings had shifted as the situation escalated.

Andrew remained scarred by the abuse even after escaping, becoming apathetic toward himself to the point where he felt numb and dead, alike that of a frozen body in the cold as described in Scene 13. His original love for Ivan having fully turned into hatred at the end of the game.[3][4]

Andrew isn't dead.[5] Andrew's perspective of the story is told through odd numbered scenes[6] mainly via his games, as played by Ivan.[7] Andrew is probably older than Ivan.[8] The reason behind Andrew crying in the beginning of Scene 16 is that his parents got mad at him for coming out as gay. [9] Despite the fact that Ivan wants Andrew, Andrew himself does not really want Ivan.[10] If Ivan were to actually try apologizing after all his abuse, Andrew would just shut the door in his face before he gets the chance to apologize. [11] Ivan leaking Andrew's games is what made him expose Ivan. [12] Andrew saved some money (presumably from his older games), and he took the first chance to get as far away from Ivan as possible, despite being unsustainable.[13] Andrew's parents are very religious.[14] Andrew wouldn't be very sad if he found out about Ivan's suicide.[15] Andrew willingly let people beat him up, rather than fighting him.[16][17] Andrew is seen cooking a pot of water,[18] although he does know how to properly cook food.[19][20] Andrew is shorter than Ivan.[21] Andrew has longer hair than Ivan

Ivan's mom appears in Scene 12. She is a gray-skinned R6 Robloxian characterized by the Chestnut Bun hair. Her torso is red, and her legs are pitch black. Canonically, Ivan's mother would not deny the claims of Ivan's abuse towards Andrew, if shown proof.[1]

Ivan's father appears in multiple scenes, either as his full figure, or as the slightly opened casket. He is a terrifying black R6 Robloxian, taller than usual. He is made out of scraped[2] burnt flesh, with a skull leaking through. He occasionally gives advice to Ivan, before eventually getting tired of it and forcing him take his own decisions.[3]

Ivan's father apparently has always taken care of him, and he could never ask for a better dad.[4] He used to work as a firefighter, before getting crushed to death completely when attempting to save someone else.[5] Only about 8-9 people went to his funeral.[6] Hence, Ivan doesn't want to end up like him.[7] He wants to remain known in the world.[8] Not only that, but the last image of his father is his “charred corpse in an empty church”.[9] However, the mix of desperation and trauma after seeing his father's charred corpse, left him ptsd which is why he occasionally shows up as a hallucination of the charred corpse he saw, speaking to him and walking as if he was actually there. he occasionally hallucinate the smell of charred flesh. He also walks kind of like a charred zombie, dragging along the ground, leaving behind charred black skin samples, yet it is all just in his head. He shows up to teach Ivan life lessons.

Ivan's apartment is made up of a multiple meter high story apartment building with an elevator without any sort of windows, where as ivan lives at the top on floor 406 at the very end of the long hall featuring rooms from 395-406. the very end of the hall featured a red heavy steel door that leads to the roof top where there are no ladders or stairs. The only way down is with the elevator. His apartment is built up of a livingroom, a bathroom, a bedroom and a closet, with a small, open kitchen area for the right side to the livingroom. The livingroom contains a TV stand with a small box TV on it. There's a table standing in front of the TV stand, a green couch, and multiple small plants sitting in the corners of the room. The kitchen is a meter behind the couch, a small, open kitchen area with basic equipment, a gas oven, a refrigerator with a small freezer sitting on the top and a few drawers and cabinets. Further inside the house and to the left is a hallway that leads to the bedroom, to the left of the simple hallway is a bathroom with the only lockable door in the apartment. Containing a simple shower, a sink and a toilet. At the end of the hall is the bedroom, containing dual lighting where the right side glows softly blue and the left side glows a stronger red, the bedroom containing a simple red bed, blue carpeted floor, a drawer to the left of the room, a small table and a chair in the opposite corner at the right side, there being an old hard-drive-style pc, a keyboard and a mouse standing on it, and above the bed is his father's fire axe whom he got after his father's passing as a passing on to him (that'll be important later). And the closet next to the door leading back from his bedroom, contains maybe 20 pairs of the same clothes he always wear, and a small box with a golden lock who nobody really knows what's in. Based on the fact that ivan's car is the only one that is in the parking lot, he might be the only one living in the apartment building. Again, there are no such thing as windows, adding to that detextured, monotone desatuteted look of the place.