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gazeboeffect〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Lor
AGE: 30
JOURNAL:damselflies
IM / EMAIL: sa22ybaskets@gmail.com
PLURK: errorchord
RETURNING: Yes
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Eddie Kaspbrak
CHARACTER AGE: 13
SERIES: It (2017)
CHRONOLOGY: End of the movie
CLASS: Very reluctant hero
HOUSING: Anywhere
BACKGROUND: Wiki
PERSONALITY:
The creature It takes the form of a child's greatest fear in order to "salt the meat" before eating them. When It appears to Eddie, it takes the form of a leper, rotting from the inside out. Fear of illness is something that drives Eddie, but underneath that is another fear—his own mother.
Eddie's mom would make any kid go a little bit crazy. She's been telling him that he's sick ever since he can remember, and why would a kid's mom lie to them about something like that? An entire cabinet in the Kaspbrak kitchen is filled with various medications, and Eddie himself carries around several wherever he goes, using the alarm on his watch to remind him when to take what. His most important possession is his inhaler, which he uses for his severe asthma. The Kaspbraks even have an account at the local pharmacy so that Eddie can stop by and pick up medicine if necessary. In general, Eddie presents to adults as frail, sickly.
The only problem with all of that? It's bullshit. His mom has been lying to him for his entire life. Eddie doesn't have asthma, and his medications are all placebos (though he doesn't find this out until near the end of the movie). It's anxiety that causes Eddie to suffer from what seems like asthma attacks, anxiety brought on by fear of his mother's reaction. "My mom's gonna kill me" and "My mom will have an aneurysm if she finds out we've been playing here" are frequently spoken by Eddie throughout the movie—not that his friends listen. If it were up to Eddie's mom, he wouldn't even have friends, but though he's under her thumb when it comes to most things, Eddie has a rebellious streak when it comes to the Losers' Club, his group of buddies.
When Eddie's around other kids his age, he's much more normal. Though still a hypochondriac, and prone to complaining about staph infections and looking out for poison ivy, he can be just as foul mouthed and playful as the rest of his gang. In fact, when Eddie's with his friends, in contrast to his meek behavior around his mother, he's loud. Loud and angry, always wondering why the hell he's being dragged into the sewers on his summer vacation or why Richie is doing a stupid fake British voice in his ear or why his loogie wasn't crowned the winner in the boys' spitting contest. Though Eddie seems perpetually annoyed with his friends, it's all out of love. He's fiercely loyal to the other Losers, and it's the thought of them in trouble that drives him to finally stand up to his mother: "Protect me? By lying to me, by keeping me locked inside this hellhole? I'm sorry, but the only people who were actually trying to protect me were my friends."
The love Eddie has for his friends is enough for him to quiet the constant anxiety inside him enough to go after It twice—once inside the house on Neibolt Street, where the leper appeared, and finally into the sewers themselves. And when It becomes the leper again and vomits on Eddie, Eddie's response isn't to run away but to scream in pure rage and attack.
POWER:
Pill Generation: Eddie is able to manifest small amounts of pills. In periods of anxiety, they'll be random—Tylenol? Antibiotics?—but if he concentrates, he'll be able to decide which tablets he wants to create. He can only create them, not manipulate their ingredients or potency, and he'll be limited to only creating medications that are known to exist (aka no creating a magic tablet that can cure any disease, or something that will magically wake someone from a coma, etc).
Fanny Pack of Holding: Though a regular black fanny pack in appearance, Eddie's fanny pack will be able to hold up to approximately 100 pounds without feeling any heavier. Eddie will only be able to store inanimate objects inside, nothing living. Once the 100 pound limit has been reached, attempting to store anything else inside will cause the pack to become unbearably heavy.
Illness Transference: Eddie can cure someone of illness by touching them—but he can't absorb the illness himself and he must transfer the illness to another person via touch, or he'll become increasingly incapacitated to the point where he won't be able to move or speak.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ On the screen is a small boy with worried eyes. He holds up his right arm, which is encased in a white case with the word LOSER scrawled across it in black ink. The S has been covered over with a red V, making the word LOVER instead. ]
Hi. My name's Eddie. [ But seriously, who cares? He has more important things to focus on. ] I have a few questions about some real serious stuff—how does health insurance work in this universe? How am I supposed to go to the doctor and get this cast off if we don't have health insurance? Am I supposed to walk into any old place off the street? What if it's a total hack and he ends up cutting my arm and giving me gangrene or something? And if I get gangrene and my arm falls off, will the nanites make it grow back? Like what if—
[ And then he swings his arm, attempting to point for emphasis, and ends up sending his comm flying off the table and onto the floor. The video abruptly turns to a sideways view of the legs of a chair. ]
Oh shit— [ And then Eddie's scooping the comm off the floor. There's a brief shot of his blushing face, and then he just… turns it off. Because. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM threads
FINAL NOTES: So Eddie is coming from the end of the movie, after he's found out his pills and inhaler are placebos—however, his arrival in MoM, as well as any period of high anxiety, will mean he'll likely backslide as far as his fear of illness and belief that he is sick himself. He's going up against thirteen years of manipulation by his mother.
On another note, since I'm taking Eddie from the 2017 movie, which differs from the source novel in many ways, I'll only be incorporating character info from the novel if it can be reasonably assumed—aka Eddie's dad is absent in the movie and his absence is never mentioned, so I'm assuming that as in the novel, his dad died of cancer when Eddie was little.
NAME: Lor
AGE: 30
JOURNAL:
damselflies IM / EMAIL: sa22ybaskets@gmail.com
PLURK: errorchord
RETURNING: Yes
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Eddie Kaspbrak
CHARACTER AGE: 13
SERIES: It (2017)
CHRONOLOGY: End of the movie
CLASS: Very reluctant hero
HOUSING: Anywhere
BACKGROUND: Wiki
PERSONALITY:
The creature It takes the form of a child's greatest fear in order to "salt the meat" before eating them. When It appears to Eddie, it takes the form of a leper, rotting from the inside out. Fear of illness is something that drives Eddie, but underneath that is another fear—his own mother.
Eddie's mom would make any kid go a little bit crazy. She's been telling him that he's sick ever since he can remember, and why would a kid's mom lie to them about something like that? An entire cabinet in the Kaspbrak kitchen is filled with various medications, and Eddie himself carries around several wherever he goes, using the alarm on his watch to remind him when to take what. His most important possession is his inhaler, which he uses for his severe asthma. The Kaspbraks even have an account at the local pharmacy so that Eddie can stop by and pick up medicine if necessary. In general, Eddie presents to adults as frail, sickly.
The only problem with all of that? It's bullshit. His mom has been lying to him for his entire life. Eddie doesn't have asthma, and his medications are all placebos (though he doesn't find this out until near the end of the movie). It's anxiety that causes Eddie to suffer from what seems like asthma attacks, anxiety brought on by fear of his mother's reaction. "My mom's gonna kill me" and "My mom will have an aneurysm if she finds out we've been playing here" are frequently spoken by Eddie throughout the movie—not that his friends listen. If it were up to Eddie's mom, he wouldn't even have friends, but though he's under her thumb when it comes to most things, Eddie has a rebellious streak when it comes to the Losers' Club, his group of buddies.
When Eddie's around other kids his age, he's much more normal. Though still a hypochondriac, and prone to complaining about staph infections and looking out for poison ivy, he can be just as foul mouthed and playful as the rest of his gang. In fact, when Eddie's with his friends, in contrast to his meek behavior around his mother, he's loud. Loud and angry, always wondering why the hell he's being dragged into the sewers on his summer vacation or why Richie is doing a stupid fake British voice in his ear or why his loogie wasn't crowned the winner in the boys' spitting contest. Though Eddie seems perpetually annoyed with his friends, it's all out of love. He's fiercely loyal to the other Losers, and it's the thought of them in trouble that drives him to finally stand up to his mother: "Protect me? By lying to me, by keeping me locked inside this hellhole? I'm sorry, but the only people who were actually trying to protect me were my friends."
The love Eddie has for his friends is enough for him to quiet the constant anxiety inside him enough to go after It twice—once inside the house on Neibolt Street, where the leper appeared, and finally into the sewers themselves. And when It becomes the leper again and vomits on Eddie, Eddie's response isn't to run away but to scream in pure rage and attack.
POWER:
Pill Generation: Eddie is able to manifest small amounts of pills. In periods of anxiety, they'll be random—Tylenol? Antibiotics?—but if he concentrates, he'll be able to decide which tablets he wants to create. He can only create them, not manipulate their ingredients or potency, and he'll be limited to only creating medications that are known to exist (aka no creating a magic tablet that can cure any disease, or something that will magically wake someone from a coma, etc).
Fanny Pack of Holding: Though a regular black fanny pack in appearance, Eddie's fanny pack will be able to hold up to approximately 100 pounds without feeling any heavier. Eddie will only be able to store inanimate objects inside, nothing living. Once the 100 pound limit has been reached, attempting to store anything else inside will cause the pack to become unbearably heavy.
Illness Transference: Eddie can cure someone of illness by touching them—but he can't absorb the illness himself and he must transfer the illness to another person via touch, or he'll become increasingly incapacitated to the point where he won't be able to move or speak.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ On the screen is a small boy with worried eyes. He holds up his right arm, which is encased in a white case with the word LOSER scrawled across it in black ink. The S has been covered over with a red V, making the word LOVER instead. ]
Hi. My name's Eddie. [ But seriously, who cares? He has more important things to focus on. ] I have a few questions about some real serious stuff—how does health insurance work in this universe? How am I supposed to go to the doctor and get this cast off if we don't have health insurance? Am I supposed to walk into any old place off the street? What if it's a total hack and he ends up cutting my arm and giving me gangrene or something? And if I get gangrene and my arm falls off, will the nanites make it grow back? Like what if—
[ And then he swings his arm, attempting to point for emphasis, and ends up sending his comm flying off the table and onto the floor. The video abruptly turns to a sideways view of the legs of a chair. ]
Oh shit— [ And then Eddie's scooping the comm off the floor. There's a brief shot of his blushing face, and then he just… turns it off. Because. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM threads
FINAL NOTES: So Eddie is coming from the end of the movie, after he's found out his pills and inhaler are placebos—however, his arrival in MoM, as well as any period of high anxiety, will mean he'll likely backslide as far as his fear of illness and belief that he is sick himself. He's going up against thirteen years of manipulation by his mother.
On another note, since I'm taking Eddie from the 2017 movie, which differs from the source novel in many ways, I'll only be incorporating character info from the novel if it can be reasonably assumed—aka Eddie's dad is absent in the movie and his absence is never mentioned, so I'm assuming that as in the novel, his dad died of cancer when Eddie was little.