Name: Edward "Eddie" Cantor Dean Door: Left Canon: The Dark Tower Canon Point: Wizard and Glass, as they're camping next to the thinny Age: 23 Appearance: Eddie is in his early 20s, with dark hair and hazel eyes. Before Mid-World, he had the sickly pallor and bony build of a junkie and only made it to 'cute' by the skin of his teeth, but after travelling in Mid-World he's packed on some muscle and shaken the addiction. He is now officially cute. Congrats, Eddie. History: Character wiki · The Drawing of the Three · The Waste Lands · Wizard and GlassEddie's character page is a little thin and the novel plot summaries don't include everything, so I'll throw down a quick Eddie-specific canon rundown up to his canon point here also: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE:- Eddie is a 23 year old heroin addict from New York in 1987. He's devoted to his awful older brother Henry, a Vietnam War veteran who is also addicted to heroin, and in point of fact is the person who got Eddie hooked in the first place.
- Eddie is trying to smuggle cocaine through airport customs for a mob boss named Enrico Balazar. Roland Deschain, a gunslinger from another world called Mid-World, enters a door into Eddie's mind and, upon realising that an air stewardess has noticed the cocaine strapped to Eddie's chest, helps Eddie remove and hide it on the other side of the door. He's grabbed by customs agents, but they obviously can't find any cocaine and have to let him go.
- He takes the cocaine to Balazar, who has Henry doped up to the gills; at some point while Eddie gets the cocaine from the other side of the door, Henry dies of an overdose. When Eddie finds this out, he and Roland end up in a massive firefight against Balazar and his men. He witnesses one of his men decapitating Henry's corpse. Eddie is, understandably, very upset.
- After they've killed Balazar and his men, Roland drags Eddie through the door and closes it forever, stranding Eddie in Mid-World for good. They're on a long, endless beach. Eddie goes through painful heroin withdrawals as they move up the beach towards the second door.
- They reach the second door, which leads to New York in the early 60s. Roland brings Odetta Holmes through to Mid-World. Odetta is a young black woman who is a double leg amputee and uses a wheelchair. She has multiple personality disorder and her alternate personality is a cruel, hateful woman named Detta Walker who is extremely antagonistic towards Roland and Eddie, whereas Odetta is friendly and pleasant. Eddie bonds with Odetta and they eventually fall in love.
- They travel to the third door together. Roland goes in alone, and Eddie stays behind searching for Odetta, who has disappeared. It's Detta who finds him, and she trusses him up for the monstrous lobsters on the shore to kill him, but Roland engineers a situation where Detta and Odetta are forced to acknowledge each other, thus creating a third combined personality, Susannah.
THE WASTE LANDS- Roland, Susannah and Eddie are travelling through a forest. Roland has been teaching Susannah and Eddie to shoot.
- Eddie is attacked out of nowhere by an enormous robot-bear called Shardik, who is dying from a parasitic infection that has driven him mad. He climbs a huge tree to get away from Shardik, and Roland and Susannah come back just in time for Susannah to kill Shardik.
- Eddie has a vision of a key that he must whittle to help Jake Chambers, a boy in New York in 1977, and also Roland. (Jake and Roland first met in the events of the first book, The Gunslinger, when Jake was hit by a car in his own world and woke up in Mid-World; he travelled with Roland, but Roland let him die. When Roland opened the third door on the beach, he came to 1977 and managed to stop Jake from being hit by the car, causing a paradox: if Jake was never hit by the car, then he couldn't have come to Mid-World. Roland remembers both timelines at once.)
- Eddie whittles the key and is able to create and open a door in order to pull Jake through to Mid-World. The ka-tet, a fancy name for the group brought together by ka (basically fate or destiny), is formed.
- The gang travels to a city called Lud which has been raged by a war that's gone on for generations. They have to cross a bridge to get there, and Eddie's fear of heights almost cripples him but he manages to run across a particularly tricky part of the bridge in order to save Jake from falling into the water. However, Jake is taken by someone from the city, and the gang splits up: Roland goes after Jake to save him, and Eddie and Susannah go looking for a train station serviced by Blaine the Mono(rail), which Jake believes they need to ride to get out of Lud and through the wastelands safely.
- Eddie and Susannah run into inhabitants of the city and kill many of them to defend themselves. They manage to find the train station, and escape from Lud on Blaine.
- Blaine is sentient and also evil and insane due to system degradation, and as he goes speeding off into the wastelands he announces his intent to kill himself and everyone on board.
WIZARD AND GLASS- Blaine loves riddles! He agrees to a riddle contest, where the prize is that he will let the gang off before he kills himself. The ka-tet tries to riddle Blaine fruitlessly for hours, all to no avail, because he knows all of their riddles no matter how difficult they may be. Roland warns Eddie to stop being foolish and keep his head on straight, otherwise he could get them all killed. This wounds Eddie terribly.
- Eddie is bad at riddles, but he likes jokes, especially bad ones. After everyone else has exhausted their supply of riddles, Eddie starts throwing terrible jokes at Blaine, who short-circuits because he can't come up with the answers. The old classic "Why did the dead baby cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken!" is Eddie's final nail in Blaine's coffin.
- They manage to get off Blaine just in time, and Roland apologises to Eddie for dismissing him earlier.
- The ka-tet realises they are in Topeka, Kansas, but it's an empty and blighted version with no people. They find a newspaper, which Jake reads, and find out that the population of the entire world has been ravaged by a superflu with 99.9% mortality rates. It's 1986, but it's not Eddie's world: they're in a different world entirely.
- They travel along the interstate for some time, until they find something Roland calls a thinny, a place where reality has eroded and the space between worlds is thin. They set up camp by the thinny, and Roland prepares to tell them the story of his youth.
CR AU (Optional): n/a Personality: + Caring: After Susannah is drawn into Mid-World, Roland thinks to himself, Eddie will be all right now. His brother is dead but he has someone else to take care of so Eddie will be all right now. That's the best way to describe Eddie: he needs to take care of people. He'll complain endlessly and with plenty of verbal creativity, but he's nothing if he can't take care of someone. He's fiercely loyal to Roland and the ka-tet, and will put his own paralysing fears aside in order to protect any one of them: though absolutely terrified of heights, Eddie ran instinctively onto an exposed bridge girder above deep and choppy waters to stop Jake from falling into them. He needs to look after someone – Susannah, but before that it was Roland (as much as he griped), and before her it was his brother. – Facetious: Eddie loves to joke. He's always cracking wise and making fun, always has a quippy comment up his sleeve. He jokes even when he's upset or pissed off, and in that case they can become barbs rather than good-natured ribbing. Further, he's been accused by Roland of not taking himself, other people, or the current situation seriously – Roland even thinks of him as kamai, or ka's fool, but Eddie doesn't know that. On the plus side, his facetiousness sometimes lends well to serious, otherwise threatening situations – as Eddie's brother once said, when he's in the zone, he could talk the devil into setting himself on fire, and if Eddie hadn't been there during the riddle contest with Blaine then the entire ka-tet would have died. But for the most part it could push him right past charming and into 'annoying as hell' territory, and it has undeniably been hurtful and frustrating for others. – Fearful: Fear is Eddie's final stumbling block. Anger and the instinct to protect have often driven his fear away in key moments – for example, fighting Balazar and his thugs, shinning up a tree to get away from Shardik, and saving Jake on the bridge – but sometimes he needs others, especially Roland, to loosen that fear from him. It's always a little shameful to him when it happens; extreme emotions usually send tears pricking in his eyes, and shame makes him angry. On more than one occasion he's threatened to kill Roland when fear has driven him to a breaking point, even going so far as to point a weapon at him, and Roland has always been acutely aware that Eddie was indeed capable of letting his fear pull the trigger. He's moved past his fear on multiple occasions but he hasn't yet been able to entirely let it go, and he hates that. – Self-destructive: Eddie spent much of his childhood being functionally raised by Henry, and it's really quite a surprise that Eddie didn't turn out more like his brother. Even from a young age, Eddie knew the difference between right and wrong, but unconditional, devoted love for Henry blinded him to the way he was being treated. For example, Eddie protested when Henry bullied and teased a young woman on their way to the basketball court, but accepted Henry's cruelty and unrepentant mean streak when it was directed entirely at Eddie. As Jake thought when he was watching this happen: Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else. Essentially, Eddie knows right from wrong, but in the past he could be swayed into straying firmly into the wrong to protect his brother, or simply because his brother told him to. The only reason Eddie is a drug addict is because Henry started using first, and Henry's the reason Eddie ended up smuggling cocaine through airport customs. With another influence like Henry, or even just without the regiment and structure of Roland's mission for the Tower, it's very likely that Eddie will end up making more self-destructive decisions. Powers and Abilities: None, just a regular guy! Inventory: One of Roland's revolvers – similar in size and shape to a Colt Walker. |
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