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"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | Who do you think you are? I know who you are, "Seb". I know what you crave, what you fear... Will you be able to live with yourself knowing what I'm going to make you do? Poor little Joseph couldn't... Too bad they dragged you into this. But either way, you're mine to do with what I please. | „ |
| ~ Ruvik gloating at Sebastian. |
Ruvik is the secondary antagonist of The Evil Within series. He serves as the main antagonist of the first game, the secondary antagonist of The Assignment DLC, and a minor character in The Consequence.
He is a slender, sharp-featured man who looks like a walking cadaver due to his extensive disfigurement from several burns and scars. He can teleport and appears to be immune to most physical attacks, seemingly unconstrained by the laws of reality. Ruvik tortures everyone he encounters, driven in equal measure by his own insanity and an apparent thirst for vengeance.
Shut out of the world, Ruvik carried on his studies by himself. His skin is illogical and unable of controlling his body temperature due to severe burns. He was notorious for being at the physical boundaries of his body and for suffering from constant migraines and seizures, both mental and physical.
He was portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley.
His Heinous Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- Alongside Marcelo Jimenez, Ruvik experimented on and tortured several animal and even human test subjects for several years.
- He killed both his parents at a young age despite only his father being responsible for Ruben's imprisonment, while his mother was unaware and assumed him dead.
- He corrupted the world of STEM, turning people who died while connected to it, into serial homicidal monsters, one of the worst being The Sadist.
- He killed or tried to kill anyone who went into the world of STEM.
- He managed to manifest into beacon hospital and killed anyone who stood in his way, including the police.
- He sent Kidman, Joseph, and Sebastian into STEM and tried to kill them in different scenarios like:
- Knocking out Sebastian and forcing him into the Sadist’s lair to try and get him tortured or killed.
- Transforming Oscar Connelly into a Haunted, forcing Sebastian to kill him.
- Multiple times in the story he turns Oda, Kidman, or Sebastian into a haunted which is shown to cause them immense pain.
- Turning Valerio Jimenez (Brother of Marcelo) into a haunted, getting him killed.
- Creating the monster version of his sister, Laura, and sending her to kill Sebastian.
- There are several other attempts to claim the trios lives, but there is WAY too much to list.
- He killed Dr. Marcelo with the Amalgam Alpha.
- Even after he recognizes Sebastian and Joseph were forced into STEM by Mobius, Ruvik still attempts to kill them simply for sadism and (involuntarily) intervening with his plans.
- He mind raped and possessed Leslie in order to escape Beacon Mental Hospital.
- His affect on STEM would carry over into the Evil Within 2 as the kidnapping of lily brought back his corruption to union.
- While his fate was horrible, it was not played for sympathy, as Sebastian himself previously called him out for his attempts of sympathy.
- His torture traumatized Sebastian Castellanos. This caused Sebastian to be declared crazy by his peers, lose his job as a police officer, and fall into a deep depression for 3 years.
- Thanks to the chaos he caused in the first game, Samuel Dista, the main villain of The Interlude comic and a former MOBIUS agent, would become a serial killer and hunted down deep cover MOBIUS agents in his one-man war against them.
- Even in the second game, Ruvik's influence lingered as it also led the existence of Union, another version of STEM, where his influence would posthumously continue as Theodore Wallace would use Sebastian's failures in Beacon to psychologically manipulate him into giving Lily Castellanos, his daughter and the new core of STEM, and conjured The Sadist, The Keeper, and Laura as revenge to drive Sebastian to insanity for defying him (which failed after Sebastian stopped them all).
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is too much of a tragic monster to count as he and Laura were victims of the house fire in the past, leading to him getting burnt to near death and with Laura ultimately becoming a vegetable before dying for good. In addition they were scapegoated by the villagers themselves, who rioted at them after both his father and mother bought out their lands, even though both of them had nothing to do with it.
- Not to mention, the infamous barn fire pretty much burnt Ruben alive, who was just a child at the time, to the point of utter disfigurement.
- Tragically, while Laura was not killed by the fire, she was badly wounded and became a vegetable before ultimately dying. Due to this, it would ultimately put Ruvik to the brink of mental decline, starting from his childhood, and started seeing visions of her for the next few years. This doesn't even help the fact that Ruben, after getting disfigured, was treated like a monster by his father and was imprisoned in the basement.
- He also shows to have great attachment to his older sister Laura, who served as his morality chain and the person he truly cared for, where basically Ruvik would never fall to villainy had it not for her death. After seeing his sister's death, it became the catalyst of who he is in the present.
- In addition, his brainchild project, STEM, was revealed to have him created it for the sole purpose of wanting to relive with Laura and live his life out with her, during The Assignment DLC. This shows that despite being a sadist, Ruvik's care for Laura is genuine, as her death is entirely the reason why Ruvik even became a villain in the first place.
- He was also betrayed by both MOBIUS and Dr. Jimenez, who both stabbed him in the back, under The Administrator's orders, as they wanted STEM for their own purposes. He had a justified reason to be angry given that his project, whose actual purpose is to revisit his life with Laura before her death, is now being used for MOBIUS' malicious purposes of world domination with their twisted agenda. It doesn't also help the fact that MOBIUS eventually betrayed him and reduced him to nothing more than his brain to be used as a core for STEM, which is basically another reason why he became a sadistic torturer within STEM because of their betrayal of having his hard work getting stolen by both MOBIUS and Dr. Jimenez.
Trivia[]
- Ruvik originally was Near Pure Evil before he was removed and approved as IH due to his tragedy being too much for the category.
- Ironically, his father was approved as Near Pure Evil.
- He is one of the two The Evil Within characters to be Inconsistently Heinous alongside Esmeralda Torres.
External Links[]
- Ruvik on the The Evil Within Wiki
- Ruvik on the Villains Wiki