Inner Child

Effects

• Gives Isaac an extra life. Upon death, Isaac respawns in the current room with half of a Red Heart, a massive size down, and +0.2 Speed.
  • If Isaac doesn't have any Red Heart Containers, he will respawn with half a Soul Heart instead of half a Red Heart.
• When Isaac respawns as the inner child, he emits a blood explosion that deals 35 flat damage to all nearby enemies.

Notes

• Resurrection items activate in a set order. Inner Child is 5th in this order after (Soul of Lazarus) Soul of Lazarus, 1up!, (Lazarus) Lazarus' extra life, and Dead Cat.
• Once this item has been unlocked, if the current character's Tainted version was already unlocked or the current character is a Tainted character, it is guaranteed to spawn in the hidden closet in (Home) Home.
  • This item will appear even if Inner Child had been obtained earlier in the run, allowing Isaac to have two copies of the item.
  • Despite being hardcoded not to appear anywhere else for him, this specific occurrence of Inner Child will still spawn for (Tainted Lost) Tainted Lost.
  • If this item is obtained in Home, a viable strategy is to intentionally die towards the end of the fight with Dogma. Isaac will be respawned with the size down and Speed up, and these effects will carry over to the Beast fight along with the healing provided by Dogma, making Isaac much harder to hit for the fight.
• The size down from being revived by Inner Child is the same as if Isaac had collected Pluto.