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Eddy Beadles

Eddward "Eddy" Beadles- English/Welsh ancestry, with distant Choctaw Native American; Eddy Beadles is an obnoxious boy from Mississippi who is often loud-mouthed, insensitive, and tactless, having bullied Rafael Nichols and been his frequent tormentor since the 5th grade. He is nicknamed "The Skid" and was raised in a craftsman bungalow with his pet Corgi, and his racist and homophobic tendencies are due to the influence of his upbringing. He is usually seen in the company of Trenton Walker and Carter Reid, his two lackeys, and picks on other students, especially Rafe, who is Afro-Latino and homosexual. He is tall and appears older than his actual age, with short, ruffled dark brown hair, fair skin, a long, narrow face, and close-set brown eyes that always appear to be gleaming with irony towards other people. Eddy lacks empathy for others and has antisocial tendencies as a result of being beaten, mocked and ridiculed for years, making him want to belittle and project those same attitudes towards the people at his school. He also has an inferiority complex that he tries to conceal with a mask of superiority by undertaking the role of a class clown and smart aleck when in public. Often cocky and rude, he can also be foul-mouthed and seem perverted with his liking for adult-related materials, leading to his mother having once installed a parenting device to monitor and discipline him for her. He tries to have the article " Standing Up for the White Race" published on The Edge and is a conservative Republican who supports MAGA and posts on forums like The Apricity. Eddy often plays video games and feels hatred over being mistreated by his extended family, and his raunchy sense of humor and actions towards females can appear questionable at times. 

He can be verbally aggressive and impulsive, saying spiteful, malicious things in a fit of anger, and has been shown to have poor self-esteem due to his relatives' actions toward him. It is also suggested that he is secretly a closeted gay who is in love with his friend Carter, despite his constant denial of his attraction to the same sex due to his own distorted value system. He feels particularly confused about his romantic feelings upon recalling his family's claims that they would disown him should he bring home someone who was either black or a male. Although he tries to redeem himself, these constant inner battles cause Eddy to fall into a deep depression, which later drives him to attempt suicide sometime during high school through a self-inflicted gun wound, much to the surprise of his classmates. During Friendship Day however, Hannah, Mia, Eitan and Anthony head to an annual potluck to celebrate with everyone, and he arrives in his usual curmudgeonly way, despite claiming to hate the holiday, and even scoffs at the latter two's "Kranch", which is ketchup and ranch combined. He cannot even bring himself to say anything nice to Gretel Grant-Palermo and her cousin Bailey, who are disgusted with his behavior, and he admits that he has a problem. Despite thinking Anthony is dumb, he agrees to get help from him, whereas Hannah's father tells that her grandmother that he is going to start his day off by saying hi to everyone in the city. Anthony and Eitan try training Eddy to be agreeable, believing that his issues come from hating everything, yet every time he snaps, they toss Kranch into his mouth until he says something nice or encouraging. He eventually tries talking to Hannah and manages to withhold saying anything negative or offensive to her for a moment. The more he plays with her, the more unhappy he looks, and she notices this and asks Mia what would happen if he continued to agree to everything. 

She explains to Hannah that Eddy would most likely build up like a volcano and eventually explode from hiding his true feelings, scaring her two male friends. Eddy ultimately explodes as predicted and sulks, and the boys admit that they were wrong for trying to change him and say that he would probably be better hanging out with old people. This actually ends up being the solution all along as he is finally able to be himself around the elders who share his similar views of everything. Mia is confounded by this contradiction, but doesn't have time to think as her peers arrive with expired ketchup and the prospect of having a ketchup war. He admits that while he still thinks everyone else is "stupid", he does think that they actually offered a good idea for once and is finally happy. Eddy always points out the littlest of flaws in things, like the inconsistencies in the Barnacle Banquet live show and the spelling of "421 Grand Aªvenue". His habit of shouting a lot suggests he is neurodivergent, and he is presumably left handed, as he wore his baseball catcher's mitt on his right hand during a little league game. He is often shown to be a poor student, but excels in leadership and team organization which usually involves exploitation of others' weaknesses. He has evolved into a person of stunningly articulate manipulative talents and techniques and employs this skill to get what he wants. Eddy cannot resist indulging in slugburgers, to the extent of surfing the web to discover a new recipe for it, and he also likes peanut butter and cheese pretzel bites, mud pie, and eating medium rare steak. He has a childlike side to his demeanor, as he secretly enjoys the Despicable Me series from Illumination studios, and he once tried to join a group of kids during a game of Mermaid Tag. He grew up listening to dubstep but is a fan of Logic and The Kid Laroi, meanwhile he considers his favorite subject in school to be US History. 

He basically grew up as an only child but has an older half-sibling known simply as "Eddy's brother", who is an antivaxxer and moved out of the house when he was only 5 years old. Eddy also has hidden depths, as his teachers begin to encourage him to channel his anger in a more productive way by joining the debate team, or perhaps playing a sport. He participates in the cross country team from the start of his junior year and eventually outpaces Timmy, and his favorite activity is skipping stones. He starts a business by selling burgers and invents the Egg-o-Matic for the annual science fair, and he comes up with the topic of lowering the drinking age for his 11th grade speech class. He also tends to watch episodes of Sons and Anarchy and certain animated shows, such as King of the Hill religiously whenever they air on television. During a community center rehearsal for their choir concert, Eddy and the other children were guided to a successful session by their director, Mrs. Swick. As his friend Trenton attempts to fold up the chairs, he lets the word "shit" slip, and he starts using it, despite the girls' objections. He decides to spread awareness of the word to the others, the first student being Carter and the second being Mia, who takes offense, and soon afterward all the students are turned into a group of potty-mouths. The anti-swearing program is done initially through a program initiated by the principal, which doesn't work, as he's "not the dad of the other kids". Eddy's mother, who wears a bridge gives him full permission to swear and leaves her child with his lesson: "You just gotta decide if that's the kinda person you wanna be." He apparently takes this to heart, but decides he won't stop swearing and to drop the "S-bomb" instead, yet during the big finish, he gets back up and loses his balance, singing "Valley Stream is the..." 

It would appear that now would be the best time to drop the S-bomb, but Eddy, upon seeing his mother in the audience and taking his advice to heart, he realizes he can't do it and decides to restrain himself, rounding off the play with its intended finish: "...the best." He acknowledges that while he thought about cussing, he doesn't want to cuss all the time because being the potty-mouthed jerk that ruined everyone's day is not the person he wanted to be. Eddy never quite loses his characteristic hot temper, but comes to terms with the root cause of his behavior, which he attributes to the emotional neglect that he experiences at home. Despite his flaws, he admits that he has a soft spot for his mother, whom he appreciates for her sacrifices after the untimely passing of his father. He determines that he would like to avoid following in his brother's footsteps and not engage in criminal activity, particularly due to his record of falsifying checks, illegal street racing, and being a compulsive liar. He later finds solace in an elderly man at the senior center whom shares his vocal opinions and engages in sessions of bingo with him. Eddy continues to maintain his "tough guy" facade at school, as he knows that he has a reputation to uphold, but will reveal his vulnerable side on rare occasions. He essentially disappears and is never heard of again upon graduating, reappearing over a decade later through a series of cryptic Instagram posts. He is shown to be genuinely happy by then and explores his sexuality as an adult, with his being seen in a public photo wearing a sports coat with too-long sleeves, tan pants, and bright red tie. There are begonias in the background as he stands next to a man and a little boy, and he is working as a loan officer for a mortgage company that is located in downtown Poughkeepsie. ESTP 8w7