Full Name: Edwina May Bishop
Nicknames/Aliases: Eddie, Eddie Nine Lives, The Cowboy, The Horseman, The Drifter, The Vagabond, The Last Daughter of the Human Race, Subject 5930.
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Gifts: Her Humanity and her vast amount of skills, but nothing supernatural.
Loyalty: Herself and Gwen, the possible remnants of humanity, and most Wanderers. Though she is very strictly Anti-Erubesco, she still harbors disdainful feelings towards Liberty.
Description: No one has really determined if the infamous Eddie Nine Lives is a man or a woman. In fact, most people know next to nothing about the mysterious traveler, and Eddie prefers it that way. As such, she tends to wear rather concealing attire. On her upper body, she wears a loose, worn, button up shirt that was once white, but has become a grungy brown due to the grime of the wasteland. Over it, she wears a brown leather vest, which has also been beaten down by time. Over both of them, she wears a bandolier for her ammunition, with a loop on the back she uses to sheath her double-edged sword. On her forearms, she wears two leather wrist guards, with her stop sign shield affixed to the left one. She also wears jeans, which have been kept in pretty good shapes due to the chaps she wears over them. To hold them up, she has an old leather belt, with an antique belt buckle of a bronze colored star surrounded by elegant designs. On the right side of her belt is a leather holster to keep her six shooter. On her shoulders, she wears a shawl, which she uses to cover up the bottom half of her face. She also wears a cloak, which she often uses to cover up the rest of her more recognizable clothing. Finally, she wears a light brown cowboy hat, which she hides her hair in.
However, there is a person underneath that disguise. If anyone manages to get her to show her face, they will see one that has been aged by time and stress, giving her the appearance of an older woman than she is. They'll see her rough skin, tanned by a life working in the sun. They'll see her brown eyes and the seemingly permanent expression of anger and sadness that sits upon her face. They'll see her. Which is what she is afraid of.
Personality: When you've been through the kind of things Eddie has been through, it's nearly impossible to be a happy person. But, then again, it's hard to be happy when you're anywhere on the remains of the planet once known as Earth. But it's an even bigger challenge for a lone nomad. Due to her general lack of contact with other people, she's a fairly quiet woman, and only talks when it's necessary, or when she's alone with Gwen. But when she does talk to other people, she usually winds up saying the wrong thing due to her absent social skills, often resulting in coming across as rude or cold. But despite her less than friendly exterior, Eddie is a good person, who will help the weak and innocent without question.
Skills:
-Eddie is extremely skilled in the art of sharp shooting. While she prefers to use her antique six-shooter, she is capable of using most firearms with high speed and precision.
-Eddie is well-trained in many forms of combat, including hand-to-hand. However, she prefers to, in close range, use her expertise with her sword and shield.
-Eddie is very clever, an ability that is very useful in the wasteland.
-Eddie knows how to set up all kinds of traps, but is especially well-versed in traps using rope.
-Due to one of her main sources of income, scavenging, Eddie is able to appraise items one might consider junk quite accurately.
-Eddie knows the basics of mechanics, so she's able to fix certain machines, and build simpler ones.
-Eddie is fairly good at tracing and tracking, due to her business as a bounty hunter and the necessity of hunting in the wasteland.
-Eddie has, in the past, been taught how to use a forge.
-Eddie has a strong digestive system due to her less than savory diet. Connected to this skill, Eddie knows what parts of the human body one can eat without becoming sick.
-Eddie has a vast amount of skills in the departments of athletics and acrobatics.
Weaknesses:
-Eddie's biggest weakness is that she's a good person. She can easily be lured into a trap if she believes someone is in trouble.
-Eddie isn't exactly great at keeping her cool. She's not exactly a hothead, but it's not rare for her to become angry.
-Eddie is on a quest to completely wipe out the Erubesco, a quest that could very plausibly end up leading her to her grave.
-Eddie is on Erubesco's Wanted List twice: Once as the notorious bounty hunter Eddie Nine Lives, but also as the runaway Subject 5930.
-Eddie is only human, meaning that not only does she not have any Gift, but it also means that if word gets out that she's a human, she'll be hunted down.
Brief History: The first question to ask about Eddie's past is how exactly she exists. Where was the Bishop family when the rest of their race perished? It's a good question, but it's also one that's difficult to answer. During the course of the infamous war between humans and Gifted, Eddie's great grandparents, along with a number of family friends they invited to come wait out the apocalypse, hid in their small, isolated, countryside ranch, which, by some miracle, remained untouched by the raging war. And it remained untouched even after the war was won. However, about ten years ago, it was touched, and the touch was hostile. It was the touch of the Erubesco faction, come destroy the final shreds of humanities. The humans fought their hardest, but, in the end, their home-forged blades and antique firearms were unable to put up a fight against the powers and the state of the art weaponry supplied to the faction's soldiers. However, they did not kill all of the humans. They took the youngest one, a thirteen year old girl, to on of the many Erubescan labs. Not that the soldiers cared, but this girl's name was Edwina.
In the months that followed, Edwina was put through scarring tests. She was locked up in freezers to determine how long a human could last in harsh conditions, they held her underwater to see how long she could last without air, at times she was fed the bare minimum to see what the effects might be. It was all hell. But she only stayed there for seven months. One morning, while Edwina was being transferred from her "room" (it was more of a cell than anything) to one of the testing areas, the guards who were escorting her were called to deal with some escaped experiment. The two of them, along with Edwina, ran around the complex until they came across a white winged horse on the top floor, running for a window. It probably would have died then and there, for the guards had the rifle sights directly on it. However Edwina managed to steal one of the guards' sidearm and shot them, before jumping on the back of her fellow subject just as it shattered the glass and took to the sky. And that was the beginning of Eddie and Gwen, the Ashlanders.
As it turned out, the other test subject, or Gwen, as she preferred to be called, was a horse who had been given the abilities of flight and chameleon-esque camouflage, as well as increased intelligence and a lengthened lifespan. Almost immediately after the two had escaped, Eddie requested that they go back to her ranch. When they arrived, Eddie discovered, to her dismay, that the Erubescan soldiers had completely destroyed her home, apparently burning it to the ground. But that wasn't why Eddie had returned. Her parents had always told her that if there was ever an emergency, there was a stash of food, water, and weaponry buried under a certain tree near their home. She dug where she was told to dig, and found the resources she was promised: food, water, a double-edged sword, and her trusty six-shooter. The latter two she has kept to this day.
As the years past, Edwina became Eddie, and started to do odd jobs in order to get what she needed. For a while, her main source of work was scavenging. She knew what junk might be considered treasure to the proper person. But as time went on, Eddie picked up another job: bounty hunting. But she didn't go after the people on any of the official watch lists of either faction. No, she would only work for other Ashlanders. If someone was causing someone else trouble in the Ashlands, then Eddie, for the proper price, would deal with them, in one way or another. Her success in this business as made her somewhat famous, or infamous, depending on how you look at it. But really, this business is just a means to an end. Her real goal, she's decided, is to completely eliminate the Erubescan faction.
Other:
-Gwen has been modified with the modifications of flight, camouflage, intelligence, lengthened lifespan, and the digestive system of an omnivore, meaning she can eat meat.
-Due to an overall lack of food in the Wasteland, Eddie has learned how to safely eat other human beings, but only does so if she has already killed them for some other reason. She believes leaving corpses to rot is a waste.
-Due to her work, it is very possible that your guys's characters have heard of her.
-Hey, so I haven't come up with a good theme song for Eddie, and I'm taking suggestions! So go ahead and throw songs my way! ^_^
