Eddie Palmer
He/Him
26 years old
Violent
95 kg
Personality
Eddie is what you'd call a "gentle giant". He's an overall kind and generous person, but when he is insulted or triggered, he can become quite hostile and use an unreasonable amount of his strength rather than how much he should be using. Comments on his appearance are #1. He is also quite sensitive to comments on the way he speaks, as he possesses a small speech impediment from the scar on his lip getting in the way of how he pronounces some letters.
Other than that, Eddie is simply a rather unintelligent man. He is your stereotypical "country bumpkin" although his unintelligence is derived from the scars and deformations on his head and face rather than poor education or lack thereof. But, he is kind and hopeful despite this and can be a generally fun person to be around. He just doesn't use his head too much, but he loves to smile.
Appearance
Eddie is a slightly stout, heavily scarred, and strong-built man weighing in at around 250 lbs and measuring at 6'4''. His scars are obviously from a time when Eddie was much younger due to the sheer amount of fading seen on them. Whatever had happened to him happened long ago and had looked much worse than it is at his current age. The most prominent of his scars is a long, trailing scar beginning at his left ear, snaking laterally across his nose, and ending somewhere around the center of his left cheek. What is also important about this scar is the offshoot that leads down to his lip and resembles something close to a cleft-palate scar at the left edge of his upper lip.
Background
Eddie was born in the tail end of the summer, on his family's farm in Knox, KY, when summer slowly turned to fall. This is important because a large harvest of corn was near. When he was old enough to crawl, he was wounded grievously in an accident by farming machinery, leaving him heavily disfigured. It was only later, when he grew up to speak, that it was apparent that the injury affected his mental capabilities as well.
Both his appearance and capabilities as a student led to him being a sort of social recluse. He was bullied and called names. "Freak" was chief among them. When Halloween came around, he was named Frankenstein by his bullies.
After he graduated from high school with mediocre grades and close to no superlatives, he couldn't afford college on what his parents brought in from farming alone. So, he continued to work on the same farm he had since he could wield a pitchfork.
When the rifts appeared, he was afraid and had no clue what was going on, as most others had. His parents did not make it. After he buried them, he hid in the barn's loft for weeks, surviving off canned goods and leftover unsold produce from the harvest.
When the food he had scrounged up ran out, he was forced to leave with whatever canned goods he had left, a hunting knife, and a worn pitchfork as a weapon. Over the following months, Eddie scavenged from local farms and rural homes, but he was also quite knowledgeable in living off the land, so he fished and trapped for food as well.
Eddie rarely turned anyone away who was genuinely in need and asking for help. But, he would usually offer help in exchange for services like repairing his gear, so he personally wouldn't feel used. More than once, that kindness was met with betrayal, leaving Eddie robbed or chased away, but with the feeling that there were still good people out there worth helping.
The isolation that came along with Eddie's time spent in the barn left him feeling directionless. Rather than finding an established reason to keep going, he now wanders from place to place looking for someplace, someone, or somewhere that feels like home again.
