Bethany#18

Bethany is a character added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance. She is unlocked by defeating Mom's Heart or It Lives in hard mode with Lazarus without losing a life. Bethany starts with three Red Heart containers, four soul charges (2 Soul Hearts), and Book of Virtues. Bethany is unable to utilize Soul Hearts and Black Hearts as health. When picked up, they instead are converted to a resource unique to Bethany called "soul charges" at the rate of one charge per half heart. The number of soul charges currently owned is listed along with the pickup counters. Soul charges can be consumed to use Bethany's activated item when the item isn't fully charged, at the rate of one soul charge per empty bar of charge.

• Wisp Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart or It Lives! on Hard mode as Bethany.
• Book of Virtues - Defeat Isaac as Bethany.
• Urn of Souls - Defeat Satan as Bethany.
• Blessed Penny - Defeat ??? as Bethany.
• Alabaster Box - Defeat The Lamb as Bethany.
• Soul Locket - Defeat Ultra Greed as Bethany.
• Vade Retro - Defeat Ultra Greedier as Bethany.
• Divine Intervention - Defeat Hush as Bethany.
• Glowing Baby - Defeat Mega Satan as Bethany.
• Star of Bethlehem - Defeat Delirium as Bethany.
• Revelation - Defeat Mother as Bethany.
• Jar of Wisps - Defeat The Beast as Bethany.
• The Zealot - Use Red Key (etc.) to open the hidden closet in Home as Bethany.
• Hope Baby - Earn all Hard mode Completion Marks as Bethany.

• In Antibirth, Bethany was unlocked by having a total number of 12 Soul Hearts or Black Hearts at once.
• Conceptually, Bethany first began as the main character for a game envisioned by developer Kilburn as a college research project, originally named "Dora".[1] She was added to The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth (the fan creation that would later become Repentance) after Kilburn deduced that she wouldn't be out of place [2] in the game.
• Her name is a reference to Mary of Bethany. She was the sister of Lazarus, and is sometimes identified as Mary Magdalene or as an anonymous sinful woman in the Gospel of Luke.
• Bethany, the village Mary lived in, was a town in the West Bank of Jerusalem. Martha and Lazarus likewise lived there, and the raising of Lazarus from the dead occurred there as well.
• Bethany's locked Icon shows her bound in chains.
• She shares this with Magdalene, Cain, Samson, Eve, Lazarus, and Jacob and Esau.