Edward

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Edward
Personal Records
Date Of Birth	January 1, 2058
Estimated Age	13
Height	4' 5" (136cm)
Hair Color	Red
Eye Color	Amber
Blood Type	AB[citation needed]
Planet Of Origin	Earth
Known Aliases	Radical Edward, Françoise Appledelhi
Criminal Records
Hacking
Additional Information
Computer	Tomato

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV also known as Radical Edward, Ed, and rarely her birth name Françoise Appledehli (born January 1, 2058) is a hacker prodigy from Earth. She is a comically eccentric teenage girl around 13 years in age.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Session 9: Jamming with Edward 1.2 Session 14: Bohemian Rhapsody 2 Appearance 3 Personality 4 Development 5 Memorable Quotes 6 Pictures 7 References

[edit] Biography

Edward was born on Earth and abandoned at a Christian orphanage by her absent-minded father, Mr. Appledelhi, when she was ??? years old. Eventually Edward left the orphanage on her own before her father remembered that he had left her.

When she met the crew of the Bebop she was living as a nomadic hacker armed only with her computer, Tomato. She had developed a folk hero-like status among many Earthlings who created larger than life descriptions of her. At her core Edward is a joyful adolescent with an affinity for souvenirs, pinwheels and Ein the Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Her full name is Edward Hau Wong Pepelu Tivrusky IV.

[edit] Session 9: Jamming with Edward

Edward had been tracking Spike, Jet and Faye for some time and she learned about their exploits on other worlds before they landed on her home planet of Earth.

The crew of Bebop learn that a bounty is placed on the person responsible for making land carvings on Earth using a weather satellite from Earth's orbit. The news media and ISSP assume that a hacker is responsible for the act and few hackers are as storied by the local Earthlings as Radical Edward. With her computer Tomato and her hacking skills Edward is able to talk with the weather satellite who she calls MPU.

She discovers that the satellite created the land carvings on his own because he was lonely, and Edward hackings into the Bebop's communication line to tell them that the satellite is the bounty. She offers her help in downloading a copy of MPU for the Bebop in return for one favor: that Edward can become a member of Bebop.

[edit] Session 14: Bohemian Rhapsody

When Spike, Faye and Jet are tracking down the mastermind behind a recent Astral Gate heist, Edward plays a game of chess using a e-chess piece found on one of the mastermind's lackeys. It turns out that she is playing against the legendary Chessmaster Hex, a chess champion and computer programmer for the original Astral Gate design who planned the Gate heist 50 years ago. Edward could have checkmated Hex at one point but chose not to in order to prolong the game.

Although Hex has forgotten all about his planned heist, because he went senile in old age, the chess champion was still able to ultimately defeat Edward in the drawn out game of e-chess lasting days.

 

[edit] Appearance

Ed is a skinny androgynous teenage girl with tufts of bright red hair. She is drawn with red cheek marks to accentuate her youth, and she also has no discernible nose. Edward wears a loose sleeveless white T-shirt, tight bicycle shorts, and is always seen barefooted. Once she attempted to wear socks in Mushroom Samba but she immediately lost her balance. She sometimes wears a pair of large green goggles on her head or dangling from her neck. The goggles hook up to her computer and allow her to "net dive".

[edit] Personality

Ed has displayed many unusual character traits that are common of a teenager, eccentric genius, and wild animal. She is a free spirit that sometimes show emotion by growling or howling like a dog. Edward rarely walks in a normal fashion, instead preferring to run with her arms flailing, crawl on the ground, roll in somersaults, or walk on her hands. She is always talking about herself in the third person and will sometimes respond to a character in nonsensical phrases.

[edit] Development

Voice Actress: Aoi Tada

English Dub Voice Actress: Melissa Fahn

Originally, Ed's character was based on a description of the series' music director ("a little weird, catlike, but a genius at creating music") and was originally going to be a dark-skinned boy. It was changed to even the gender ratio on the Bebop, which was, with Ed as a boy, three guys and one girl. This original character design appears in session 5, stealing a clearly adult magazine from Annie's bookstore by smuggling it under his shirt. She is described as "Like a cat out of control." by director Shinichirō Watanabe. ^[1]

[edit] Memorable Quotes

Jamming with Edward

• "Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code!"

• "Not coming for Ed, Oo-la-la."

Ganymede Elegy

• "Duty calls, 3 o'clock tea!"

Toys in the Attic

• "Ai-ya, what are we going to do, Ein? *You* believe it’s a horrible alien, don’t you? (Ein Barks.) Spooooky!"

• "Where are you?! Are you heeerree Mr. Spooky-faced creature?!"

• "Exploration, experimentation, exploration, Explanation! I will come back alive, I trust you Ed!"

Bohemian Rhapsody

• "One, two, three, four-or. Ed’s gonna score more-or! Play Ball!"

Black Dog Serendade

• "Bonsai, bakchoy, wiseguy, waterboy! Light shines bright in the old town tonight!"

Mushroom Samba

• "High socks are cool! Gotta wear 'em outside!"

• "FOOD! Gimme, gimme, gimme!"

• "Pieces, pieces, all gone…"

Pierrot La Fou

• "Faye Faye! Smoke Smoke, Faye Faye! Puff Puff, Faye Faye!"

Boogie Woogie Feng Shui

• "Are you Jet’s girlfriend?! Does he have a THING for you?? All is fair in love and war!"

[edit] Pictures

It's Edward.

Not coming for Ed, Ooh la la!

Promise! Promise!

Ed is playing with Hex right now.

[edit] References