Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IVAge: 13 Seiyuu: Aoi Toda |
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Spike: "Na, Jetto, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
Jet: "Whatever."
Spike: "Rugrats, beasts, and tomboys."
Jet: (sigh)
Spike: "Don't give me that! Why do we have all three neatly gathered here?"
Ed
is a prepubescent computer hacker extraordinaire. She is both extremely intelligent
and extremely dysfunctional socially and is possibly insane. All the problems
that can be solved through a computer keyboard have met their match in this
strange child. She is an incredible chess player and has even boggled the
mind of THE chess master.
She was born on Earth and was abandoned to her own devises fairly early. She is quite the survivor. She is one of the few on Earth who lives on the surface of the planet, rather than underground. Because of her expertise as a hacker, she has gained a huge reputation and following.
But
notoriety doesn't stop a kid from becoming lonely. Her surveyor father took
off and she has no idea where he went, not that she seems to care all that
much. Ed's father has the same kind of demented overly long name -- Appledelphi
Siniz Hesap Luften. Appledelphi, 42, fights with Spike and fairly solidly
beats him up -- but then Ed's dad is about 466 pounds! Appledelphi's surveying
expedition is to regain peace and end chaos on the Earth by mapping the changes
in the landscape with each meteorite.
By the way, Ed's dad called her Francoise, when he saw her.
She also wants a few adventures off-world. When a weather satellite above Earth gains a bit of sentience and finds itself lonely, she becomes its friend and in order to save it sucks it into her computer and into herself.
Lonely for human contact of a certain kind, she hailed the Bebop with her remote control and made them come to her. And Faye promised her a place on the ship for information -- not that Faye had any intention of keeping that oath. But clever, ever resourceful Ed found a way to control them.
On
board the Bebop, she is the constant companion of EIN, the hyper-intelligent
Welsh Corgi, which Spike -- reluctantly -- brought on board. She can solve
the most complex of computer problems and play a mean game of chess with a
true chess master, but she can't seem to follow basic instructions -- like
watering Jet's bonsai. She fairly drowns the plants and Spike must clean up
after her.
Ein is a problem solving data dog, although he will never be thought of as a watchdog, as he as been known to flee mildly dangerous situations. Leave the watchdogging to Ed. Ein answers e-mail and finds the right person to answer the call. Ein also defeated the fail-safes and infiltrated the SCRATCH system file, when no human could in Brain Scratch. He's like the C3P0 to Ed's R2D2 -- well, loosely. In other words, together, they kind of make up one person.
Ed and Ein can usually be found sleeping.
After Jet is attacked by something, Spike gets on the computer to try to find out what kind of poison is coursing through his system.
Spike: "Looking at similar poisons ... crytosporidium, that's not it. Cholera?" Jet's eyes grow wide. "Nope. Ebola virus?" Jet's eyes grow wide again. "Nope." Jet relaxes. "Bifidobacterium? Not even close."
Faye: "So what is it?"
Spike: "Well it's --"
Ed: "A mysterious space creature! Spooky! The attack of a horrible space creature." She capers around.
Spike: "Oh, yeah, there's that possibility. Heh ... yeah, right."
Ed: "Then what is it? It's not in the database."
Spike: "Yeah ..."
Ed: "Those base-pairs are weird too."
Spike: "You think so?"
Ed: "We've never seen symptoms like this before either. Other than a space creature, what is it? What is it?"
Spike: "Well ... um, perhaps something like a rat went through a mutation and evolved into some mysterious creature and carried a mysterious poison."
Faye: "What's that about? That isn't too different from the 'mysterious space creature' theory! This is too silly."
Ed: "Aiya ... What are we gonna do, Ein? It's a space creature! It's spooky!"
She and Ein had a huge adventure alone, trying to find food for the crew. She came across some "mushrooms" once and watched her crew members eat them and become spaced out. So she's about as mischievous as she is smart and loony.
Neither
Ed nor Ein can be considered comic relief. They are true characters who have
their own problems, skills, talents, and needs.
Throughout the series, it amazes me still that Ed even knows who the others are. Her interaction with them is mostly on an informational level. The crew seems to have more interaction with Ein -- Jet tries to teach it to be more dog-like. Ed introduces them as Spike-person and Jet-person.
Again, Ed and Ein are one person and the traits one would logically give them as a girl and a dog, a fairly reversed. It is their intelligence that holds them together. When it is time to leave the Bebop, they pair leave together -- both somewhat reluctantly. Before she leaves, she hands Spike a pink pinwheel, which Spike later tapes to the outer hull of the Bebop.
Ed: "Water sploosh...."
Faye: "You know this place?"
Ed: "I think I know, I don't think I know. I don't think I know that I know, I think I know even though I don't think I know ...."
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