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River Tam ([personal profile] rivertam) wrote2018-03-17 02:24 pm

BIO: Radical Edward

Edward...

... Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky I

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NAME: Edward Wong Hau Pepulu Tivrusky I
FANDOM: Cowboy Bebop
PB: Rachael Leigh Cook
NICKNAMES: Ed, Radical Edward
SPECIES: Human
HEIGHT: 5'2" // 1.57m
BIRTHDAY: January 1, 2058
SEXUALITY: Asexual
HAIR: Red
AGE: 22
JOURNAL:
EYES: Brown
CANON POINT: 2076; post series by approximately 5 years.

personality
Colloquially known as Radical Edward and born on January 1, 2058 as Françoise Appledelhi, is a child prodigy skilled in hacking originally from Earth. She is a comically-eccentric person.

skills
HACKING: Ed is an expert hacker. There is not a computer system that has been built that she can't hack into.

ELECTROKINESIS: The ability to manipulate electricity. Variation of Elemental Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Kinetic Energy Manipulation, and Potential Energy Manipulation.

history
Almost nothing is known about Ed's past, except that she was born on January 1, 2058 on Earth and that she spent the first years of her childhood in an orphanage, left there by her father, a cartographer named Siniz Hesap Lütfen Appledelhi. In the manga, it is revealed that her best friend was a boy named Tomato (also the name of the brand of Ed's computer), also passionate about computer science. 

Having grown up without parents, she gave herself the name Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV. About two years before the start of the series, Ed fled the orphanage for unclear reasons: perhaps to search for her father,or perhaps out of a desire for freedom.

Before joining up with the Bebop crew, Ed built a reputation as a hacker with the nickname Radical Edward. It also seems that she was a fan of the Bebop well before joining the crew. In fact she had several posters as well as a remote controlled model made with a styrofoam cup and layers of cardboard.

GAME: [info - insanejournal.com] Beyond the Black
Miranda wasn't the first, last, or only cover-up the Alliance was involved in ...
GAME: [info - insanejournal.com] Underworld Angel
Morality comes in shades of grey, and none know it quite so well as the Alliance. Exposed for their crimes, they curl up to lick wounds and regroup. Humanity is still in desperate need of betterment, and those who don't leave the establishment in disgust after the origin of Reavers is leaked unite to rebuild a better, more elaborate project. What better way to skirt by the principles of morality than by choosing test subjects who technically shouldn't even exist?

Nobody knows for certain just how the technology was acquired, but cleverly reverse-engineered alien - some might say, Time Lord - tech allowed the same projects responsible for River Tam to continue unscathed. Drawing people from other points in time within parallel universes meant having no family or friends to answer to when those test subjects were harmed during experimentation - and having access to a vast array of natural talents unavailable in humans of their home world.

It worked, initially, but over time the lab rats began to grow discontent. Subjects from the same realities grew closer, patients with similar augmentations began training together in secret, and ultimately the Alliance learned an extremely important lesson: when you mistreat people with incredibly powerful abilities, you will get burned. Those dragged into a world where they never belonged have taken up residence on the once-abandoned planet of Miranda and, with great effort, hijacked the technology used to bend reality. They may not be able to seal the rifts in time and space, but they have been able to prevent the world from collapsing and redirect most rifts to the commandeered planet so newcomers aren't stranded without assistance in a vast, new universe.

Though it took years of war and unfathomable losses, the military compounds which once experimented upon innocent other-worlders have been destroyed. Project: Paradise Lost, the origin of River Tam, has finally seen its last day in the sun and, as far as the 'verse as a whole knows, things have gone quiet on the human augmentation front. Deep in a secret facility, however, Project: Odyssey has taken root - and with it, the Alliance has begun cannibalizing its own military forces, drawing in new recruits who show potential in further experimentation with enhanced powers. Perhaps it's true, what they say: war never changes.