Post by Edward LeNoire on Sept 21, 2014 3:33:05 GMT
Character
Name: Edward “Eddy” LeNoire (call-sign Bebop)
Faction: Anti-Earth Union Group
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Birthday: February 14, UC 0058
Blood Type: A-Pos
Ethnicity: Half French-descent Lunarian, other ethnic half unknown
Character Paradigm: Lone Wolf
Specialty: Razor
Description
(No photo available at this time)
Height: 5’9” (180 cm)
Weight: 192 lbs (87 kg)
Hair Color and Style: Dark red hair, kept short and slicked back
Eye Color: Bright blue-gray
Identifying Marks: Several jagged laceration scars on the upper left arm, mid and upper chest.
Skin Tone: Pale
Build: Average, fit but a bit hefty in the waist
Clothing: Eddy’s signature accessory on or off duty is a pair of vintage John Lennon-style Teashades with violet mirrorshades and silver frames. His AEUG uniform is in amethyst purple, lacks sleeves and sports a V-neck collar. On the right shoulder, the patch of the 11th Autonomous Corps (The Sweepers) and on the left, the patch of Norman Coblenz’s Hildebrand Team. Off-duty, he wears a rather colorful outfit that consists of a white Panama hat, Hawaiian shirt and beige shorts.
Family
Mother: Melanie
Father: Unidentified
Siblings: None
Personality
Even though he’s pushing thirty, in many ways Eddy is still the carefree young man he was in his youth before the One Year War. He’s generally relaxed in demeanor, a near-shameless flirt, not above cracking a joke or two at anyone’s expense – including himself – and almost always has a smile on his face. In other respects, however he’s matured considerably from the young man that flew with something to prove. Although he still tends to be arrogant on occasion, it’s toned down a great deal and his hotheadedness and cockiness has all but vanished, replaced by patience and a respect for those he serves with and the cause he fights for. Eddy speaks English and French fluently with little to no accent and has a tendency to curse in the latter.
History
A native of the unofficial capital of the Moon, the autonomous lunar city of Von Braun, Eddy was the result of a brief, but tumultuous affair between his mother Melanie – a skilled neurosurgeon – and a man whose identity is all but unknown to Eddy, a choice made by his mother for reasons known only to herself, though she hints it’s more for his benefit than anything else.
Though his mother’s position at one of Von Braun’s major hospitals endured the family lived comfortably, Eddy’s frustration over the lack of information on his father’s identity and lack of a stepfather or father figure entirely manifested in him being a bit of a hell raiser and ruthless prankster, getting into trouble at school and in the neighborhood, much to Melanie’s frustration. By the time he started middle school, however Eddy found a peaceful outlet for his aggressions – his newfound passion for music. Teaching himself how to play the piano in his spare time, by 17 Eddy displayed a talent for the instrument considered near-prodigal by most of his peers and teachers. His grades subsequently improved as well and much of the hell raising behavior toned down or disappeared entirely, though his arrogance was still an issue.
By the time he began attending the Shepard University of Music on a scholarship Eddy had further refined his ability with the piano, learned how to play the saxophone with proficiency and discovered that jazz, bebop and blues were his preferred genres to perform. He had a part-time job helping to load cargo at one of Von Braun’s major spaceports and often performed in local nightclubs for additional cash toward his tuition – and for the simple pleasure of giving his audience good music to listen to. Though he’d more or less straightened out, Eddy still lacked direction, a goal in life. Fate would soon provide him one, however.
As the One Year War’s opening salvos split the Earth Sphere in half and left billions dead in a matter of days, Eddy didn’t want any part of it and supported the general stance of neutrality felt by Lunarians. But that all changed when the devastation of Operation British sunk in. Eddy realized that as much as the war seemed far away, he couldn’t ignore the plight of billions of people on Earth that were either dead, dying or suffering from the colony drop. He equally came to the conclusion that if Zeon was willing to drop a colony full of spacenoids – the people they claimed they wanted to protect – onto Earth, then Zeon would be capable of anything. So, despite Melanie’s staunch objections, right off the heels of the Battle of Loum, Eddy dropped out of the university, quit his job at the spaceport and left for Earth. Once there, he enlisted in the Federation Forces and was enrolled in the Federal Military Academy in Nijmegen under a newly established emergency training program.
For nine months, Eddy was put through a grueling training regimen to hone his mind and body, struggling at first but quickly rising to the challenge, the possibility of another British always looming over his head. Although he was considered by most of the instructors to be nothing but an arrogant, cocky, hotheaded, skirt chasing, jumped up little shit – and he did little to convince them otherwise – Eddy was nevertheless attentive, eager to participate and strived to prove that he belonged in the uniform. He also displayed a tendency to think outside the box, loved to wildly improvise and possessed of a willingness to bend the rules to win.
In early August, the twenty-one year old Eddy was summoned to the superintendant’s office and met with a Commander Jamitov Hynem, from the Office of Naval Intelligence. To the utter shock of the young trainee, the Commander was there to recruit Eddy into a mechanized special operations team he was putting together, the 11th Autonomous Corps, later known as the Sweepers. Though Eddy was noticeably skeptical, Jamitov noted that he didn’t simply look for obedient soldiers with clean records, that he always preferred soldiers willing to think outside the box and bend the rules and regulations to get the job done and that for all intents and purposes, Eddy fit the bill despite his youth and inexperience. Unable to offer him time to think it over, Jamitov needed an answer now. Intrigued by the prospect placed in front of him and eager for a real challenge, Eddy accepted Jamitov’s offer with earnest. He finished out the remainder of his training in early September and was immediately shipped out to Jaburo, where he met the rest of the candidates for the Sweepers and began a two month period of special operations and pilot training.
By late November, the Sweepers were almost ready to begin field operations, Eddy himself particularly eager to jump into the fire as their sharpshooter. Again, fate would provide a rude awakening to the young man in the form of the Zeon Earth Attack Force’s invasion of Jaburo. In spite of his extensive training, simulator experience and bragging, Eddy found himself unprepared for the brutal reality of war. Though he managed to keep his cool at first, said cool crumbled upon witnessing two of his teammates get cut down by a squad of “blank” Zaku IIs – lacking any markings or emblems indicative of Zeon – and then having the first of several nasty run-ins with Norman Coblenz, the “Master Instructor” of Zeon’s Mobile Training Battalion and a skilled fighter in his own right. Though he managed to land a chest slash on Coblenz’s Efreet, Eddy’s GM was swiftly disabled and he spent the remainder of the battle stranded, spared only because his cockpit appeared destroyed. But he had to be hospitalized afterward with a concussion and lacerations to the left arm and chest, saved from more severe injury thanks to his normal suit. He managed to recover after a few days rest and stitching up, but Eddy was clearly affected by his experience at Jaburo. With encouragement from Jamitov and Sweepers commander James T. Ennis, Eddy learned from the experience at Jaburo and matured, though his arrogance and newfound temper proved to be a recurring problem for the remainder of his service.
He and the Sweepers would fight almost without rest or respite for the remainder of the One Year War – from providing crucial support in the retaking of North America and California Base to taking the fight against Zeon into space aboard the Pegasus-class assault carrier Stallion piloting a GM Command Space Type, fighting tooth and nail at Solomon and providing crucial defense for the Solar System, engaging a Zeon advance fleet en route to A Baoa Qu and finally spearheading the charge at A Baoa Qu itself, later participating in post-battle rescue / clean-up efforts. Eddy grew close with Ennis, their mentor-student bond turning into a friendship where the Lunarian came to see the “Headhunter” as a surrogate father figure. He also found the “love of his life” in the Stallion’s intelligence officer, a lovely Russian Earthnoid from the American Midwest by the name of Ava Vrataski. Though the two clashed on more than one occasion, they also ruthlessly flirted with one another until a genuine attraction blossomed.
In addition, Eddy found himself clashing swords with Coblenz (and by extension, the Sweepers with Coblenz’s Hildebrand Team) another four times before the end of the war, becoming the acknowledged nemesis of the Master Instructor and in an odd way, his final student. Their first clash post-Jaburo was during the North American campaign when the Sweepers and Hildebrands clashed at California Base. Though Eddy didn’t get taken out of the fight this time, he was still outmatched by Coblenz’s raw fighting ability. Their second encounter was en route to Luna II, where Coblenz’s new mothership, the mobile cruiser Luxembourg engaged the Stallion in an attempt to take them before joining Admiral Tianem’s fleet. The attack failed with damage to both ships and Eddy managed to hold his own against Coblenz’s Rick Dom, though the duel again ended in Norman’s favor. It wasn’t until the Battle of Solomon that Eddy scored a decisive victory over the Master Instructor in a duel of sabers and fisticuffs that’s still considered the stuff of legends, resulting in Coblenz’s Rick Dom almost completely trashed and Norman himself injured, only surviving due to the Hildebrands coming to his rescue. Their fifth and final encounter was at A Baoa Qu where like most aces, Norman upgraded to a top-of-the-line mobile suit, an MS-09S Dowas. Instead of a decisive victory for either man, the two fought to a draw, permitting a brief face-to-face confrontation. As they prepared for another go, Coblenz suffered a severe heart attack from a combination of his age, too much stress from G-forces and relying too much on stimulants to compensate, but before that killed him, he impaled himself on Eddy’s beam saber, an act that still haunts LeNoire to this day. Despite their brief but intense rivalry, Eddy and Norman parted ways not as enemies, but as men trying to do right by their countries in spite of their faults.
After the signing of the Granada Peace Accords and the official end of the One Year War, Eddy and the rest of the Sweepers were commended for their distinguished service and given some rather lucrative choices for post-war postings. But even with Ennis’ personal appeal, Eddy decided he’d had enough of living as a soldier and tendered his resignation. In his own way, Eddy was lost once again, unsure of what his place was in a post-OYW Earth Sphere, now haunted by the demons still lingering from the war. As much as he wanted to stay with Ava (or as much as she wanted him to remain in the military with her), Eddy decided that his answers lay elsewhere. Subsequently, he spent the next four years on a personal sojourn throughout the Earth Sphere, traveling and working on independent tramp freighters, passenger liners and cargo haulers, watching and participating in the reconstruction and consolidation of the Sides, returning to the Moon for a short while, even visiting Side 3 and getting to know its citizens. He kept in touch with only a few, including his mother, Ennis and Ava. One of his most notable tales was catching a view of the hijacked Islands Blade and Ease being hurtled toward Earth during Operation Stardust, the significance of the event only becoming clear when news of another colony drop reached the ship Eddy was working on at the time.
By February ’85, Eddy’s sojourn had come to an end, having put his lingering demons to rest and he’d returned to Von Braun with the goal of returning to Shepard and finishing his education. He reconnected with his mother and reconciled with Ava, the two choosing to remain friends until Eddy got his life straightened out. However, he lost touch with Ennis and most of his old comrades from the Sweepers and rejected an offer from a representative of now-Admiral Jamitov Hynem to reinstate his EFF commission and join the elite Titans taskforce, choosing to remain a civilian. But once again, fate would rudely interrupt Eddy’s plans for the future.
In July of that year, Eddy was contacted by one of his old teammates from the Sweepers, now a member of the fledgling Anti-Earth Union Group. Though the reunion started out friendly enough, it turned hostile when she tried to persuade Eddy to join the AEUG, the musician and once-again college student wanting nothing to do with it. After attempting to appeal to his “warrior’s pride” and the desire to affect positive change in the Earth Sphere, she confronted him with footage of the Titans gassing Side 1’s 30 Bunch during an AEUG rally – an incident that had been for the most part suppressed. Though he initially brushed off the footage as falsified, after reviewing the footage again and again and again, Eddy realized to his horror that it had indeed happened, that Jamitov’s Titans were responsible for this atrocity and hadn’t been held accountable for it. Then the fear appeared again – the fear of another colony drop like Operation British. If the Titans were willing to gas an entire colony full of relatively innocent people just to eliminate their enemies or even stamp out dissent, what else would they be willing to do? With a heavy heart, Eddy met with his old comrade a few days after and agreed to join the AEUG. He once again dropped out of Shepard ever closer to finally graduating with his bachelors, said goodbye to his mother once again and kept contact with Ava limited, for fear that as much as they loved each other, she’d possibly expose him. Rather than serve as an active combat pilot, however, Eddy became a training officer, helping to either train green rookies from scratch or rehabilitate the skills of veterans that hadn’t piloted a mobile suit in ages, following the legacy left behind by his nemesis Norman Coblenz. For the next year and a half, Eddy reestablished his own skills as a pilot, though he shifted his abilities as a sharpshooter over to dogfighting with a preference for marksman-type weapons.
As of February UC 0087, Eddy is pushing thirty, holding a position as senior instructor (though some have taken to calling him “Master Instructor” over his staunch objections) with the AEUG’s Sixth Replenishment Squadron aboard the auxiliary carrier Geronimo, having trained, retrained, flunked and passed over a hundred prospects. He spends his off hours playing his saxophone, reading up on combat tactics and shooting the shit with his trusted right hand, fellow training officer Sechs Sonnenberg.
Name: Edward “Eddy” LeNoire (call-sign Bebop)
Faction: Anti-Earth Union Group
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Birthday: February 14, UC 0058
Blood Type: A-Pos
Ethnicity: Half French-descent Lunarian, other ethnic half unknown
Character Paradigm: Lone Wolf
Specialty: Razor
Description
(No photo available at this time)
Height: 5’9” (180 cm)
Weight: 192 lbs (87 kg)
Hair Color and Style: Dark red hair, kept short and slicked back
Eye Color: Bright blue-gray
Identifying Marks: Several jagged laceration scars on the upper left arm, mid and upper chest.
Skin Tone: Pale
Build: Average, fit but a bit hefty in the waist
Clothing: Eddy’s signature accessory on or off duty is a pair of vintage John Lennon-style Teashades with violet mirrorshades and silver frames. His AEUG uniform is in amethyst purple, lacks sleeves and sports a V-neck collar. On the right shoulder, the patch of the 11th Autonomous Corps (The Sweepers) and on the left, the patch of Norman Coblenz’s Hildebrand Team. Off-duty, he wears a rather colorful outfit that consists of a white Panama hat, Hawaiian shirt and beige shorts.
Family
Mother: Melanie
Father: Unidentified
Siblings: None
Personality
Even though he’s pushing thirty, in many ways Eddy is still the carefree young man he was in his youth before the One Year War. He’s generally relaxed in demeanor, a near-shameless flirt, not above cracking a joke or two at anyone’s expense – including himself – and almost always has a smile on his face. In other respects, however he’s matured considerably from the young man that flew with something to prove. Although he still tends to be arrogant on occasion, it’s toned down a great deal and his hotheadedness and cockiness has all but vanished, replaced by patience and a respect for those he serves with and the cause he fights for. Eddy speaks English and French fluently with little to no accent and has a tendency to curse in the latter.
History
A native of the unofficial capital of the Moon, the autonomous lunar city of Von Braun, Eddy was the result of a brief, but tumultuous affair between his mother Melanie – a skilled neurosurgeon – and a man whose identity is all but unknown to Eddy, a choice made by his mother for reasons known only to herself, though she hints it’s more for his benefit than anything else.
Though his mother’s position at one of Von Braun’s major hospitals endured the family lived comfortably, Eddy’s frustration over the lack of information on his father’s identity and lack of a stepfather or father figure entirely manifested in him being a bit of a hell raiser and ruthless prankster, getting into trouble at school and in the neighborhood, much to Melanie’s frustration. By the time he started middle school, however Eddy found a peaceful outlet for his aggressions – his newfound passion for music. Teaching himself how to play the piano in his spare time, by 17 Eddy displayed a talent for the instrument considered near-prodigal by most of his peers and teachers. His grades subsequently improved as well and much of the hell raising behavior toned down or disappeared entirely, though his arrogance was still an issue.
By the time he began attending the Shepard University of Music on a scholarship Eddy had further refined his ability with the piano, learned how to play the saxophone with proficiency and discovered that jazz, bebop and blues were his preferred genres to perform. He had a part-time job helping to load cargo at one of Von Braun’s major spaceports and often performed in local nightclubs for additional cash toward his tuition – and for the simple pleasure of giving his audience good music to listen to. Though he’d more or less straightened out, Eddy still lacked direction, a goal in life. Fate would soon provide him one, however.
As the One Year War’s opening salvos split the Earth Sphere in half and left billions dead in a matter of days, Eddy didn’t want any part of it and supported the general stance of neutrality felt by Lunarians. But that all changed when the devastation of Operation British sunk in. Eddy realized that as much as the war seemed far away, he couldn’t ignore the plight of billions of people on Earth that were either dead, dying or suffering from the colony drop. He equally came to the conclusion that if Zeon was willing to drop a colony full of spacenoids – the people they claimed they wanted to protect – onto Earth, then Zeon would be capable of anything. So, despite Melanie’s staunch objections, right off the heels of the Battle of Loum, Eddy dropped out of the university, quit his job at the spaceport and left for Earth. Once there, he enlisted in the Federation Forces and was enrolled in the Federal Military Academy in Nijmegen under a newly established emergency training program.
For nine months, Eddy was put through a grueling training regimen to hone his mind and body, struggling at first but quickly rising to the challenge, the possibility of another British always looming over his head. Although he was considered by most of the instructors to be nothing but an arrogant, cocky, hotheaded, skirt chasing, jumped up little shit – and he did little to convince them otherwise – Eddy was nevertheless attentive, eager to participate and strived to prove that he belonged in the uniform. He also displayed a tendency to think outside the box, loved to wildly improvise and possessed of a willingness to bend the rules to win.
In early August, the twenty-one year old Eddy was summoned to the superintendant’s office and met with a Commander Jamitov Hynem, from the Office of Naval Intelligence. To the utter shock of the young trainee, the Commander was there to recruit Eddy into a mechanized special operations team he was putting together, the 11th Autonomous Corps, later known as the Sweepers. Though Eddy was noticeably skeptical, Jamitov noted that he didn’t simply look for obedient soldiers with clean records, that he always preferred soldiers willing to think outside the box and bend the rules and regulations to get the job done and that for all intents and purposes, Eddy fit the bill despite his youth and inexperience. Unable to offer him time to think it over, Jamitov needed an answer now. Intrigued by the prospect placed in front of him and eager for a real challenge, Eddy accepted Jamitov’s offer with earnest. He finished out the remainder of his training in early September and was immediately shipped out to Jaburo, where he met the rest of the candidates for the Sweepers and began a two month period of special operations and pilot training.
By late November, the Sweepers were almost ready to begin field operations, Eddy himself particularly eager to jump into the fire as their sharpshooter. Again, fate would provide a rude awakening to the young man in the form of the Zeon Earth Attack Force’s invasion of Jaburo. In spite of his extensive training, simulator experience and bragging, Eddy found himself unprepared for the brutal reality of war. Though he managed to keep his cool at first, said cool crumbled upon witnessing two of his teammates get cut down by a squad of “blank” Zaku IIs – lacking any markings or emblems indicative of Zeon – and then having the first of several nasty run-ins with Norman Coblenz, the “Master Instructor” of Zeon’s Mobile Training Battalion and a skilled fighter in his own right. Though he managed to land a chest slash on Coblenz’s Efreet, Eddy’s GM was swiftly disabled and he spent the remainder of the battle stranded, spared only because his cockpit appeared destroyed. But he had to be hospitalized afterward with a concussion and lacerations to the left arm and chest, saved from more severe injury thanks to his normal suit. He managed to recover after a few days rest and stitching up, but Eddy was clearly affected by his experience at Jaburo. With encouragement from Jamitov and Sweepers commander James T. Ennis, Eddy learned from the experience at Jaburo and matured, though his arrogance and newfound temper proved to be a recurring problem for the remainder of his service.
He and the Sweepers would fight almost without rest or respite for the remainder of the One Year War – from providing crucial support in the retaking of North America and California Base to taking the fight against Zeon into space aboard the Pegasus-class assault carrier Stallion piloting a GM Command Space Type, fighting tooth and nail at Solomon and providing crucial defense for the Solar System, engaging a Zeon advance fleet en route to A Baoa Qu and finally spearheading the charge at A Baoa Qu itself, later participating in post-battle rescue / clean-up efforts. Eddy grew close with Ennis, their mentor-student bond turning into a friendship where the Lunarian came to see the “Headhunter” as a surrogate father figure. He also found the “love of his life” in the Stallion’s intelligence officer, a lovely Russian Earthnoid from the American Midwest by the name of Ava Vrataski. Though the two clashed on more than one occasion, they also ruthlessly flirted with one another until a genuine attraction blossomed.
In addition, Eddy found himself clashing swords with Coblenz (and by extension, the Sweepers with Coblenz’s Hildebrand Team) another four times before the end of the war, becoming the acknowledged nemesis of the Master Instructor and in an odd way, his final student. Their first clash post-Jaburo was during the North American campaign when the Sweepers and Hildebrands clashed at California Base. Though Eddy didn’t get taken out of the fight this time, he was still outmatched by Coblenz’s raw fighting ability. Their second encounter was en route to Luna II, where Coblenz’s new mothership, the mobile cruiser Luxembourg engaged the Stallion in an attempt to take them before joining Admiral Tianem’s fleet. The attack failed with damage to both ships and Eddy managed to hold his own against Coblenz’s Rick Dom, though the duel again ended in Norman’s favor. It wasn’t until the Battle of Solomon that Eddy scored a decisive victory over the Master Instructor in a duel of sabers and fisticuffs that’s still considered the stuff of legends, resulting in Coblenz’s Rick Dom almost completely trashed and Norman himself injured, only surviving due to the Hildebrands coming to his rescue. Their fifth and final encounter was at A Baoa Qu where like most aces, Norman upgraded to a top-of-the-line mobile suit, an MS-09S Dowas. Instead of a decisive victory for either man, the two fought to a draw, permitting a brief face-to-face confrontation. As they prepared for another go, Coblenz suffered a severe heart attack from a combination of his age, too much stress from G-forces and relying too much on stimulants to compensate, but before that killed him, he impaled himself on Eddy’s beam saber, an act that still haunts LeNoire to this day. Despite their brief but intense rivalry, Eddy and Norman parted ways not as enemies, but as men trying to do right by their countries in spite of their faults.
After the signing of the Granada Peace Accords and the official end of the One Year War, Eddy and the rest of the Sweepers were commended for their distinguished service and given some rather lucrative choices for post-war postings. But even with Ennis’ personal appeal, Eddy decided he’d had enough of living as a soldier and tendered his resignation. In his own way, Eddy was lost once again, unsure of what his place was in a post-OYW Earth Sphere, now haunted by the demons still lingering from the war. As much as he wanted to stay with Ava (or as much as she wanted him to remain in the military with her), Eddy decided that his answers lay elsewhere. Subsequently, he spent the next four years on a personal sojourn throughout the Earth Sphere, traveling and working on independent tramp freighters, passenger liners and cargo haulers, watching and participating in the reconstruction and consolidation of the Sides, returning to the Moon for a short while, even visiting Side 3 and getting to know its citizens. He kept in touch with only a few, including his mother, Ennis and Ava. One of his most notable tales was catching a view of the hijacked Islands Blade and Ease being hurtled toward Earth during Operation Stardust, the significance of the event only becoming clear when news of another colony drop reached the ship Eddy was working on at the time.
By February ’85, Eddy’s sojourn had come to an end, having put his lingering demons to rest and he’d returned to Von Braun with the goal of returning to Shepard and finishing his education. He reconnected with his mother and reconciled with Ava, the two choosing to remain friends until Eddy got his life straightened out. However, he lost touch with Ennis and most of his old comrades from the Sweepers and rejected an offer from a representative of now-Admiral Jamitov Hynem to reinstate his EFF commission and join the elite Titans taskforce, choosing to remain a civilian. But once again, fate would rudely interrupt Eddy’s plans for the future.
In July of that year, Eddy was contacted by one of his old teammates from the Sweepers, now a member of the fledgling Anti-Earth Union Group. Though the reunion started out friendly enough, it turned hostile when she tried to persuade Eddy to join the AEUG, the musician and once-again college student wanting nothing to do with it. After attempting to appeal to his “warrior’s pride” and the desire to affect positive change in the Earth Sphere, she confronted him with footage of the Titans gassing Side 1’s 30 Bunch during an AEUG rally – an incident that had been for the most part suppressed. Though he initially brushed off the footage as falsified, after reviewing the footage again and again and again, Eddy realized to his horror that it had indeed happened, that Jamitov’s Titans were responsible for this atrocity and hadn’t been held accountable for it. Then the fear appeared again – the fear of another colony drop like Operation British. If the Titans were willing to gas an entire colony full of relatively innocent people just to eliminate their enemies or even stamp out dissent, what else would they be willing to do? With a heavy heart, Eddy met with his old comrade a few days after and agreed to join the AEUG. He once again dropped out of Shepard ever closer to finally graduating with his bachelors, said goodbye to his mother once again and kept contact with Ava limited, for fear that as much as they loved each other, she’d possibly expose him. Rather than serve as an active combat pilot, however, Eddy became a training officer, helping to either train green rookies from scratch or rehabilitate the skills of veterans that hadn’t piloted a mobile suit in ages, following the legacy left behind by his nemesis Norman Coblenz. For the next year and a half, Eddy reestablished his own skills as a pilot, though he shifted his abilities as a sharpshooter over to dogfighting with a preference for marksman-type weapons.
As of February UC 0087, Eddy is pushing thirty, holding a position as senior instructor (though some have taken to calling him “Master Instructor” over his staunch objections) with the AEUG’s Sixth Replenishment Squadron aboard the auxiliary carrier Geronimo, having trained, retrained, flunked and passed over a hundred prospects. He spends his off hours playing his saxophone, reading up on combat tactics and shooting the shit with his trusted right hand, fellow training officer Sechs Sonnenberg.