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Edgar Teglee | Psychonauts | Not Reserved
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Character
Name: Edgar Teglee
Series: Psychonauts
Timeline: Shortly post-canon.
Canon Resource Links: The Psychonauts wiki is here, Edgar's page is here, and the contents of his mind have one here.
Personality: Edgar has something I can't find better wording for than a bull affinity, the appropriateness of which is on a more elaborate level than the typical animal-stereotype "slow and unwieldy with an explosive temper" interpretation.
For starters, Edgar is typically well-spoken, pleasant, nonaggressive, and nonconfrontational. He's more or less introverted, generally sticking to himself off to the side where he can best relax alone with his art, or whatever happens to be on his mind, and he can come off as intimidating, his size not helped there by the fact that it shows whenever he's not in one of his best moods. However, he's definitely not unfriendly and seems open to company, even of complete strangers, as long as they don't seem too taxing to keep around. He's more or less a gentle giant (for a certain value of "giant" - he's not especially tall, but dear god those arms!).
But he does have, as the fandom usually puts it for simplicity's sake, anger issues that can't be denied as among the traits of his that can't really be stepped around in a description. 'Course, he was much quicker to enter object-flinging rage mode before undergoing Psychonaut-style therapy. Still, he's moody/touchy and also somewhat easily annoyed. Raz's clearing up his mind is unlikely to have completely eliminate his obsessive bent, either - only a subject of the worst of it. He can get very caught up in nagging thoughts, which predictably tends to make him moodier until he comes to peace with them, gets his mind off of them, or finds an outlet for them - this practically encourages compulsion, which is only a quick fix if he's been stewing on whatever might be bugging him enough to steer himself into blues.
He is in general very heart-on-sleeve and sensitive. If he feels anything at all, positive or negative, it'll show to some level - the closest he has to a neutral mood is probably either melancholy or smirking contentment. He manages to give off a strangely calm air even then, and is usually good at keeping enough of a handle on his emotions to express them gracefully or at least with containment - I s'pose anger and frustration are the hardest feelings for him to do so with. He's rather self-aware, not particularly content with his worst points and reluctant to get into anything that'll bring them out. On the other side of the coin, he knows and adores his strengths. He does seem to have a healthy sense of pride - on the flipside of another coin, wounding it can effectively stomp his motivation. Overall, yes, Edgar is an outwardly gruff person who prefers to keep things at his own pace, doesn't suffer being baited, and isn't the first person anyone wants to be in a room with when he's ticked off. Then again, he's also in-touch, genial, expressive, and dignified.
Edgar is also transparently a romantic and a dramatic with a kind of... flamboyance? Not in an obnoxious or hammy way though he can drive into melodrama unchecked, but he seems to like to stand out, hence his heavy arm-tats and clothes - just another form of creative expression. He's polite yet somewhat theatrical when he speaks, laying on emphasis and body language. These might just be outgrowths or go hand-in-hand with the fact that, well, he's very much an artist. His vocation is his vacation - he goes about his painting with an aesthetic eye, a love of beauty and color, and a passion for what he does.
As a last couple of notes, from his background and small details, it also wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say he probably has some degree of perfectionism, a competitive streak, a need to always be doing something, and occasional ambivalence when it comes to interacting with women.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Edgar has stupendous physical strength - not super strength, but natural strength - and is an even stronger artist - again, intense, elegantly expressive, and committed to his fields of interest. His early focus on physical pursuits clearly wasn't for lack of brains, either, as he comes off as intelligent in the "right-brained" sort of way, and he is also normally polite and friendly.
His temper is, again, his most signature weakness - containing tendency toward frustration, offense, overreaction, and grudges and bound up with obsessiveness and more passive and internalized types of sensitivity, all together giving him a liability to make himself miserable. While this is likely not necessarily a bad thing, though he'll practically throw himself into feelings of annoyance or gloominess, he doesn't seem to get simply worried about anything with a non-emotional significance - he accidentally breaks a gas main breaking out of Thorney Towers and simply goes from "well, whoops" to "well, all right then" when he confirms that the gas isn't on - and when he proceeds to spill most of his cleaning chemicals in the room with said gas main, his reaction is really just another "well, whoops." Both those points and tendency to lash out when irritated also suggest a bit of physical carelessness.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder.
Starter: Tauros of course, haphazardly but appropriately named Pablo. (As a matter of fact, Picasso had an affinity for bull and bullfighting imagery and compared himself to a bull or minotaur, but anyhoo.)
Password: Strawberry Marmalade.
Samples
First Person Sample: [A video feed comes on to Edgar poised in front of a large black canvas - between two and three meters away from the 'Gear, gesturing eagerly with a wide paintbrush.]
Pablo - you've, ah, got it, then?
[Pablo the Tauros moos, and the camera bobs down, up, and back into place.]
Fantástico - [He grins - and there's a bit of a self-entertained, oddly eager chuckle in his tone.] This is something I've always wanted to do.
[Edgar turns, faces the canvas, takes a puffy, relishing breath, and splashes the brush into one of the paint globs covering a sheet of paper on a desk to his right. He begins sliding it over the canvas in wide, broad strokes.]
At home, there is a well-known video - of a particular famous painter, painting a bull on glass, on the opposite side of the camera. His name was Pablo Picasso -- in fact, that is why I picked the name "Pablo" for you, you see!
[The Tauros ever so slightly gives a fidgety shake of his head - or so the movement of the 'Gear suggests, assuming that it's mounted in some way between his horns. His trainer paints on, with a couple final splotches and sweeps adding the forehead studs and horns of an illustration of a Tauros, mostly shape formed by thick, bold, bright outlines and form strokes.]
A-a-and - cut!
[Edgar turns away from the canvas while gesturing toward it, smirking.
He doesn't seem to care to cut the feed. He only takes a couple steps closer to the camera-mon, enormous arms crossed.] Our own recording of the painting of a bull. You have no problem with the results, I hope.
[The Tauros's moo, for the Pokémon-whisperers out there, is a no.]
It is simple, of course - but it's meant to be. Essential to suggesting a bull is less the details than the shape - the high back, the strong shoulders. Cows, as bulls technically are - no offense meant - are not thought of as "beautiful" things... but there is an elegance, to them. A powerful grace. [Hint of a laugh in his tone again.] To think that I could enjoy painting a bull again.
Third Person Sample: My.
Edgar had forgotten what it was like to lose a fight (fights with himself across his extended stay at the asylum aside).
He'd brought his team to challenge the Gym and they'd lost, just lost, and now he was simultaneously ashamed and vexed, and thinking about everything just behind him - that burned down asylum with the room full of canvas upon canvas covered in pink bulls and cleft-chinned matadors in green - had him, on top of that, ashamed and vexed of being ashamed and vexed.
Perhaps this is why the battling wasn't the job he was specifically assigned as a Pokémon trainer - or keeper, or something along those lines, since apparently trainers were normally the ones who did the battling. He wasn't sure where the lines were.
Part of another thought that welled up with a thick and sour-bitter feel from time to time. While handfuls of the others here, from what he understood, had some knowledge of this - it all worked mostly just like a popular game of some kind - he'd spent years upon years chained up with his canvases, and worse, even more embarrassing than he'd realized it could be until that one most gifted young psychic lad in the goggles took that door into his head and saw into the hearts of his neuroses, was that he had cheated himself out of all of that time - looking back and back subconsciously without even realizing that he was fixed on one point, where one loss was the cause of another and by extension the cause of another.
That didn't make him feel any better about getting aggravated about that lost match. Pokémon liked to fight, as far as everything indicated. Battling wasn't altogether avoidable, but losing any one match was - and honestly, what if this meant he was behind, or honestly hadn't the faintest idea what he was doing and had forgotten how to fight to the point that he couldn't even direct one, and the animals in his charge would remain behind? Or that's what he was risking thinking by getting annoyed about losing. And he could think about that, or think about trying not to think about that. Either way, he would be, again, ashamed and vexed on something.
Unless he just shifted tracks...
If nothing else, there were certainly moments in the match, where flashes of releases of energy and surges of dynamic intensity in the Pokémon's moves, steps, and flaps were timed together thrillingly - perhaps painting or at least drawing some expression of their memory would be a constructive redirection.
That and a good exercise in "capturing" the odd and impressive animals of this world in another way.
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