Edward Wong

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (born Fraçoise Appledelhi) better known as Radical Edward is the tetartagonist of the anime series Cowboy Bebop. She is an elite net-diver and infamous Hacker from Earth, being a very strange, somewhat androgynous, teenage girl assumed to be around 13 years in age. She has a feral aspect reflected in her mannerisms, bare feet, strange postures and gangling walk.
She is voiced by Aoi Tada in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Melissa Fahn in the English version of the anime. In the Netflix live-action series, she was portrayed by Eden Perkins.
==Appearance==
Ed is a skinny, copper-colored teenage girl with tufts of bright red hair. She is drawn with red cheek marks to accentuate her youth. Edward wears a loose sleeveless white T-shirt, tight bicycle shorts, and she is barefoot. Once she attempted to wear socks in Mushroom Samba but she immediately lost her balance, suggesting she may have never even worn shoes. She permanently 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". Her somewhat androgynous appearance often causes her to be mistaken for a boy.
==Personality==
Ed has displayed many unusual character traits that are common of a teenager, eccentric genius and a wild animal. She is a free spirit that sometimes shows emotion by growling or howling like a dog. Edward rarely walks in a normal fashion; she instead prefers 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 point of view and will sometimes respond to a character in nonsensical phrases. However, there is also plenty of evidence that underneath her eccentricities is a kind and caring girl.
==Biography==
Francoise was born on Earth, seven years prior to joining the Bebop, she was left (abandoned) at a daycare by her extremely absent-minded father, Mr. Appledelhi who had forgotten much about her due to his job taking a toll for his senses, then she found her way to a Catholic orphanage where she stayed for two years and befriended many children who had quirks similar to hers, the orphanage was also decorated with colorful pinwheels which she would later give to Spike before departing, 
Eventually, becoming Edward, she left the orphanage on her own before her father came looking for her there, until later setting up a fake Bounty to find him after looking at a picture left behind from the orphanage. During her time becoming adaptable with technology for three years building up on herself as a notorious hacker before joining Bebop.
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 Wong Hau Pepelu Tiverusky IV, a name she made up because she thought it sounded cool.
==Gallery==
Ed07.jpg|Ed and Ein
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File:Heaven's Door Ed.jpg|Edward in Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
== Trivia ==
* Due to her androgynous appearance, Ed's gender is mostly left ambiguous, with not even her own father knowing if she was a boy or a girl. Because of this, the series' director Shinichirō Watanabe usually adresses her using neutral pronouns. Regardless of that, in the actual series, Ed is usually referred to by others (including herself at times) as a girl and is adressed with female pronous.
* Her debut episode “Jamming with Edward” is a reference to the Rolling Stones album of the same name.
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