OOC INFORMATION Player Name: Anya Are you over 18?: Yes Contact:kaldwin Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION Character Name: Edward 'Eddie' Kaspbrak Canon: Stephen King's IT, namely the 2017 + 2019 movies Canon Point: Chapter One while inside IT's lair during the final confrontation underneath the Neibolt house. Background:"They´re gazebos! They're bullshit!" + "A clown. Yeah, I saw him, too."
Suitability:
Despite only being thirteen-years-old, Eddie has lived through a multitude of horrible troubles that no teenager should have to go through without being able to rely on a single adult. Within Derry, Maine where he was born and raised there has been a darkness that has lingered over it for centuries that has ultimately ends up poisoning the people that stay there. Like the other Losers in his group, Eddie has grown up facing the adults and other kids that have been poisoned by this darkness with his overbearing, neurotic hypochondriac mother at the center point of his personal troubles. This doesn't even include the being at the center of this darkness, Pennywise the Dancing Clown and the horrors that he has faced while chasing down the truth.
Powers:
Eddie is your normal thirteen-year-old kid from Earth in the late 1980s. His only real skills are rock throwing, serious bicycling, first aid and seriously random hardcore healthcare facts. Want to know how many people die every year from coconuts falling on their noggins? Here's your kid. Perhaps the only thing that could be considered 'supernatural' about him is his impeccable sense of direction in that he never, ever gets lost.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
So there are actually two important moments that come to mind. Firstly is the events that have led to the Losers entering the Well House that day. Following the disappearance (and ultimately murder) of Bill's brother their group came together to discover the dark secrets that have hung over their town since its founding centuries ago. It has spurred the group to realize their strength together and how they are better together than they are apart. It has given him not only friends but a family. Secondly, and because of this new-found strength, he was able to stand up to his mother and call out her bullshit.
Overcoming his weaknesses and then finding new strength with the group has allowed him to grow in ways that Eddie could not have ever considered. He is more than the small, delicate child that needs his mother to watch over and protect him. He's more than some sick little kid that will never amount to anything without her and he has the inner strength to stand up to her. More than that he can stand up for his friends to her and even to even dancing sewer clowns from beyond space and time.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
Although Eddie has a moral code to protect himself from fear of the unknown and anything that might possibly cause him sickness or be 'infected' as it were there is also an important aspect of him when it comes to protecting his friends. He is loyal and brave; especially to the people he calls his friends with the energy to fight tooth and nail for them if needed. It's his loyalty to his friends that have him continuing to return to the sewers and finally venture both into Neibolt and under it in order to find both the truth and save his friends.
Although he is learning to expand his circle, his friends and himself are most important.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
There is something about all of his friends that Eddie seems to admire — Bill's leadership; Beverly's bravery; Richie's ability to speak his mind; Ben's knowledge; Stan's ability to be so reasonable and how warm-hearted Mike is in comparison to him. He wants so badly to show even an ounce of these qualities but mostly he wishes to be brave in the face of danger when his friends need him.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Eddie is extremely naïve. He also has a very black and white view of the world and believes most everything he is told even if it comes across as wild to most people. That said, Eddie is also opinionated and frankly blunt for a kid his age. He has a sharp tongue, curses and doesn't stop himself from saying something just because it might hurt someone's feelings. That said, he has a hard time understanding himself and his own feelings and it's because of that that he has these moments of outbursts and hurt emotions on his part.
So he's also loud, opinionated and talks in a manic way that can easily put people off. That said he also has a nurturing side to him that comes from the want to take care of others because of how health conscious he is overall even though it can be overbearing.
In the end: Eddie is a neurotic hypochondriac with a sharp tongue, manic spells and enough anxiety issues to shake a stick or two at. Because of this he doesn't know how to handle his emotions or issues calmly because everything is usually blown out of proportion in his mind. His fears are all health related with a version of a leper haunting him in both childhood and adulthood.
Ultimately I decided on The Lovers although both The Empress and Strength came in at close second. I choose this because although does not see it in himself, he is defined by his loyalty to the other Losers both as a kid and as an adult. They are the most important people in his life and although he might need a push or a good pep talk, Eddie is willing to do anything for them which does include losing his life as an adult in order to protect them.
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