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Eddie Kaspbrak
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BASICS

CANON. it: chapter two.
CANON POINT. in the midst of the fight in the house on niebolt (through the Not Scary At All door)
AGE. 40
APPEARANCE. Eddie Kaspbrak.

IN CHARACTER

HISTORY. 1989

Eddie was thirteen when Bill Denborough, almost a year after little Georgie Denborough was murdered by Pennywise, asked him as well as their friends Richie Tozier and Stan Uris to go to the sewers to help him look for Georgie. From there, they meet Ben Hanscom and then Beverly Marsh through a common bully.
The following day, after they go swimming and stop at Ben's house where Ben teaches them a little more about the history of Derry. On Eddie's way home from there, as he passes the house on Niebolt Street, he runs into It as the leper and, then, It as Pennywise.
The next day, after cleaning up buckets of blood from Bev's bathroom, they head to the rock quarry where they meet and save Mike Hanlon from Henry Bowers and his gang in a rock fight. The Losers Club is officially formed.
In July, Eddie joins Richie and Bill to face It in the house on Niebolt. Eddie gets separated from the other two and is attacked by the leper. In the scuffle, Eddie falls and breaks his arm, leaving him especially vulnerable when Pennywise comes out to try to eat him. He's saved when Bill and Richie escape the bedrooms they became locked in and Beverly, Ben, and Mike enter the house. As a group, they menace Pennywise and he disappears. When Eddie's mother sees his broken arm, she forbids him to hang out with the other boys, but he learns shortly thereafter that his mother has been lying to him to make him feel fragile so he'll need her, he turns on her.
In August, the Losers enter the sewer to save Beverly from It and they fight Pennywise until they believe him to be dead. The Losers make a promise to return to Derry if Pennywise ever comes back.

2016

Eddie has lost all memory of the summer of 1989 and the people who were his best friends back then. We find out that he's a risk assessor in New York City, married to a woman named Myra who is eerily like his mother both in appearance and the way she treats him. On his way home from work one day, he picks up an incoming call on his car phone from Derry, Maine. It's Mike Hanlon calling him to remind him of the oath he made to return to fight It. Eddie promptly crashes his vehicle, but he agrees to return.
He meets with the other Losers at Jade of the Orient for a dinner and to catch up. It isn't until further into the meal that he and the others realize why Mike really called them to come back. After a terrifying end to dinner, they leave the restaurant and learn that Stan Uris has completed suicide. Eddie and Richie decide they're leaving and they all head back to the Derry Town House.
Eddie and Richie both reconsider and decide to stay for the fight when they learn that if they don't Bev has seen how they'll die. In the bathroom of his room at the Town House, Henry Bowers attacks Eddie, stabbing him in the cheek. Eddie hides in the shower, removes the knife from his face, and stabs Bowers in return, making his escape.
Mike Hanlon explains the Ritual of Chüd, which Mike believes will help them kill Pennywise for good. Eddie returns to the pharmacy where he spent his childhood filling placebo inhaler after placebo inhaler. There, he goes into the basement and it triggers the memory of being attacked by a leper when Eddie was 13. The leper attacks him again as an adult, but he realizes as he defends himself that he's able to choke it. The leper vomits on him and then disappears. Eddie runs back to meet the other Losers with the inhaler as his token for the Ritual.
The Losers meet Bill at the house on Niebolt to begin the final battle. When the Ritual of Chüd fails, the Losers are forced apart and Eddie and Richie come face to face with a set of three doors labeled Very Scary, Scary, and Not Scary at All. They start with Very Scary, thinking it'll be a fake-out. When it isn't, they slam the door and try Not Scary At All. For the purpose of Happy Hearts, Eddie and Richie will head down the hallway revealed and Eddie will pass through what looks to him like a mirror and will end up in-game.

PERSONALITY. If ever there was a character who personifies mama's boy, it's Eddie Kaspbrak. As a child, he grew up under the thumb of an overbearing helicopter mom who arguably suffered Munchausen syndrome by proxy and, whether through the power of suggestion or to subconsciously appease her, Eddie developed a severe case of hypochondria. It's stuck with him his entire life. Given his upbringing, he's not terribly independent. As an adult, he makes due, but he's not the type of person who wants to be the decision-maker, as shown by the fact that he married a woman who is so similar to his mother that they might as well be the same person (in canon, she's even played by the same actress). Eddie is content to be a follower; that's his comfort zone.

Having spent the better part of his childhood bullied and then, in his early teen years, having to fight It, a terrifying shape-shifting entity with the ability to take on the forms of things that scared the people looking at it most, Eddie was and continues to be understandably guarded. It might be a stretch to call him standoffish, but he can be if he feels like someone is taking digs at him.

Eddie was the type of person who needed a security blanket and, for Eddie, that security blanket has always been an inhaler. As a child, he'd been convinced he had asthma because his mother insisted that he did. As an adult, he knew that he wasn't an asthmatic but he continued to carry the inhaler, taking puffs of it in times of extreme stress or anxiety.

Toward the end of his life, Eddie finally started to become more independent and proactive. Largely, this is due to the fact that he is fiercely loyal to his friends, but it was really and truly cemented by the validation given to him by a pep talk from his best friend Richie Tozier who reminded him just how very brave he really is. Until hearing it from a third party, Eddie doesn't believe it, as evidenced a very short while earlier in the film when, while Richie is being attacked by a Stan-headed spider version of It, rather than being able to move to pick up a knife on the floor to kill it and save Richie, Eddie's fight, flight, or freeze response kicks in and all he can do is stand rooted to the spot, staring in horror.

Somewhere along the line, life became less about self-preservation and more about saving his friends. Eddie, in fact, was fatally injured saving Richie, arguably his closest friend out of the whole group of Losers, from the deadlights. He died finally showing the confidence and courage everyone else had been showing the whole time and was able to feel a surge of pride in himself and was able to use his last moments to give the Losers a piece of advice that enabled them to finally defeat Pennywise, in canon, even though he'll be coming from shortly prior to that point.

He's still likely to be incredibly anxious and neurotic, but he really does mean well. He's not likely the type to bend or break the rules without some serious egging on from someone else and he's the type of guy whose seemingly bottomless worries and stress make him overly cautious, which often leads him to hover and worry over others. .

ABILITIES

STRENGTHS. While this isn't necessarily touched upon in the film version (due to a change in the setting of the final battle, rendering it an unnecessary skill to mention), Eddie's sense of direction is pretty impeccable. He seems to always know which way he's going. He's a wealth of knowledge about health issues, as well, which while not necessarily a skill to be proud of is, in fact, one of his strengths. He's a risk analyst by trade, so he's also very good at weighing the risk/benefit of a given situation. Eddie does not have any superpowers.

WEAKNESSES. Eddie's weakness is that he doesn't believe that he can do things on his own and he lacks the independence and fortitude to try. It's something he's working on, but continues to be a weak spot. In that vein, he's been conditioned to believe that he's incredibly fragile, which only feeds into his worries that he needs to be so careful about everything he does.

OPT-IN. N/A.

ITEMS

CLOTHES. jeans, yellow t-shirt, gray hoodie, and a stab wound to the face (to be healed) covered in gauze.

ITEMS / PETS. Just his watch on his wrist and a cell phone in his pocket.

WEAPONS. N/A.

SAMPLES

LOG. Sample Link 1, Sample Link 2.
NETWORK. Sample Link

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