Eddie Dear

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## Eddie Dear

Eddie as he appears in The Neighborhood Page

## Neighborhood Description

"**Eddie** was a mail carrier who moved into Home from a distant town in order to establish a post office there, that of which was known as Eddie’s Post Office. Despite having a written origin, Eddie had never stated the correct name of where he came from through out the show's run. The running joke often had him stating a place that did not exist, followed by an admission to misremembering it as a place he delivered to as opposed to a place he lived.

Eddie's segments would often focus on arts and craft projects he would teach the other residents, which typically kept him behind the post office counter top. Uncovered printed material focused on preparing mail correctly, whether it was letters or parcels. Eddie would frequently be found in the neighborhood itself, often paired with a mail bag or a prop to be delivered. He would also become actively involved in skits involving the other neighbors, usually through providing solutions to others’ problems through labor.

Unlike Howdy's Place, Eddie's Post Office did not require compensation for its services. Home’s residents could come and go as they pleased before the day would end. Illustrated pages also noted that Eddie had a mother who was a mail carrier, but she was not given a name and only vaguely mentioned."

## Appearance

Eddie was four feet tall  with dark yellow skin and red hair. He had a stocky build and an oblong face with a geometric, yellow nose and dark, droopy eyes. He was often depicted in a mailman uniform, which consists of a white short-sleeve shirt with a blue collar, a rainbow tie, a blue hat emblazoned with red and yellow envelope, brown boots, and blue slacks with a brown belt. He was often shown carrying a red and yellow mail bag with blue bordering.

## Personality

Eddie was a very friendly and hospitable neighbor, very charming and helpful to others. He always tried to help other people in need, and he was kind enough to explain any doubts or questions people had. He even provided anything they needed without questions asked, and even shared his things with others.

He was also pretty talkative and very even-tempered, which is to say it took a good deal to make him angry. However, it came about faster with frustration.

Despite his clumsiness and forgetfulness, he was really smart and very organized during his job as the singular post man of the neighborhood, and took his job really seriously. He had a great deal of precision in his work for someone who presented themselves as a semi-clumsy busybody. Coincidentally, he was also a good source of 'How-to' information, but only when prodded for it.  He showed a lot of knowledge about literature and theater themes when the situation prompted it. Regardless of his forgetful nature with everyday tasks and details, he was pretty cultured and had great intelligence.

He was also one of the most fearful and jumpy neighbors apart from Poppy, getting nervous and screaming at everything during "The Macabre Menagerie of Monstrous Mischief-Making" holiday, surprisingly being startled more than Poppy during the activities. Even so, he still revealed that he enjoyed the horror stories told by the others during the holiday.

## Relationships

### Frank Frankly

It was a running gag that sometimes Eddie would ran into Frank at full speed on accident while delivering mail in the series.

Eddie was good at gardening and helped Frank with his plants often.  Frank sometimes attempted to help Eddie with remembering tasks, like tying a string around Eddie's finger and find color codes for every situation. This didn't seem to work and Eddie kept forgetting things.

Frank really cared about Eddie, even if he tried to hid this at times. He was worried about how hard Eddie worked to help and please everyone to the point where this could affect Eddie negatively or hurt him in the process. Frank was also impressed about Eddie's hard work and accomplishments even if worried. Frank knew Eddie was capable of taking care of himself and his job, but feared how others might abuse Eddie's generosity.

Frank sometimes teased Eddie when it came to bugs and how they scared Eddie a bit, and Eddie felt embarrassed when he did so. Frank was more playful around Eddie, and Eddie also seemed to appreciate his time with Frank, so much so that Eddie even used Frank's catchphrase, "frankly", at times while talking with others.

It's been highly implied in official artwork and finally confirmed by Clown that Frank and Eddie were in a romantic relationship or at least felt something for each other during the show.  However, the Welcome Home Restoration Project comments that it's possible that Frank and Julie were a couple, and they don't comment anything about Eddie. It is unknown if the WHRP are in the right or not.

### Julie Joyful

Eddie participated in Julie's activities and played with her at times, even if he was sometimes confused about her playstyle. He tried to understand her games and spend time with her nonetheless, and Julie appreciate spending time with Eddie too.

Julie had an idealized idea of Eddie's strength, believing and trying to convince others about Eddie's capabilities to pick up everyone in the neighborhood, included Home. She trusted Eddie enough to jump at him unexpectedly while he was carrying packages, knowing that he would let them go to catch her instead and ensure she doesn't get hurt.

### Barnaby B. Beagle

Eddie and Barnaby were friends. Barnaby would often give chase to Eddie as he tried to deliver the mail as an attempt to get his packages faster. Barnaby would also play at being a smaller dog, asking Eddie to pick him up despite being several feet taller than Eddie. When Eddie succeeded at this, Barnaby was genuinely impressed and checked on him when Eddie collapsed in exhaustion after releasing Barnaby.

### Wally Darling

Eddie was gentle and kind with Wally. Eddie called Wally "little buddy" affectionately because of his stature, and sometimes played games with him and Julie.

Eddie was a pretty talkative fellow. Since Wally was really quiet, Eddie could often talk freely with Wally when the two were alone, explaining in details his day while Wally listened.

### Sally Starlet

Sally acted a bit pompous, bossy and demanding with Eddie, asking him things like picking her up out of nowhere, encouraging him to held her higher and higher. Eddie, as the kind man he was, didn't protests about these strange requests and tried to help and give his time to all his friends, no matter how strange their petitions were. Sally also felt a bit jealous about Eddie's strength and tried to compete against him while Eddie just went along with her activities.

Despite Sally using lengthened names for all neighbors, she didn't seem to have one for Eddie, simply calling him "mailman" while Eddie called her "ma’am" instead. It seems like Sally undervalued Eddie to some extent and disregarded a lot of things he said and did. Even if Eddie was the only one to recognize Sally's costume during "The Macabre Menagerie of Monstrous Mischief-Making" holiday, she didn't show appreciation for this.

### Howdy Pillar

Eddie had to often go grab orders from Howdy's Place to deliver to the other neighbors. Howdy didn't seem to want having much conversation with Eddie when he went there, keeping it mostly professional and reminding Eddie to keep on track and do his job. Howdy found Eddie a bit too chatty for his taste, and didn't truly listen to him while Eddie tried to talk to him.

### Poppy Partridge

As the mailman, Eddie was one of the only neighbors who saw Poppy daily because of his job, since she spent most of her time at home. Currently, little is known apart from them having a professional relationship and respecting one another.

### Home

Eddie also tried to give his time to Home and always made small talks with him.

## Trivia

* Eddie was the only male character with eyelashes.
* Eddie's voice has been described as deep and amicable, with a southern accent. He may have sounded a bit like "a deeper Andy Griffith".
* I'ts been confirmed several times that Eddie was gay.
	+ It's been also revealed that Frank and Eddie were in a relationship.  Clown's has also drawn images of the two with rings on their fingers, which implies that Clown has at least considered or liked the idea of them marrying at some point.
* Eddie was first conceptualized in October 2020.
	+ He was inspired by Parakarry, S.D. Kluger and Glockenspiel.
	+ He was going to be called "Eddie Pepper" at first,  and the surnamame "Dear" was going to be added to Julie instead.
* His favorite color was purple. All the favorite colors of every neighbor put next to each other forms a rainbow.
* Eddie knew how to play the violin.
* He loved arts and craft, and was really good at it. He preferred paper-based craft like making gift boxes, envelopes, snowflakes, confetti, party decorations, letters, cards and origami.
	+ He also enjoyed sewing and was his second favorite activity.
* He hummed a lot.
* Eddie had trouble remembering things.
	+ He sometimes even forgot his own name and mixed it with others when writing letters.
	+ Talking with inanimate objects helped him with his forgetfulness.
* Eddie was left handed.
* There are only two functional clocks in the town; the watch in Eddie's wrist and the large clock that resides in the middle of the town.
* He was the creator of Mail-in-Time day, a day where you write a very special letter for your best friend with your favorite stamp on the front. Since they were so special, it took all day to make the card, and they put it in the mailbox just before dark. It was the equivalent to Valentine's Day in our world.
* Eddie was originally going to be a milk man.
* Eddie's hypothetical favorite food was Bread pudding, though he found gelatin mold foods really pretty despite not liking the taste of them.
	+ His favorite type of cheesecake was "S'Mores Cheesecake".
	+ Eddie's favorite type of coffee was Blonde Roast with a little bit of sugar. It helped him with his job.
* Eddie's puppet was a live-hand puppet that needed both hands to work.
* Eddie styled his puppet hair with white school glue every morning.
	+ However, he would never use glitter glue because it wasn't very professional, not even for special occasions, since all days were special to him.
* He was always in uniform and took his job as the town's postal carrier very seriously. His track record was impeccable, always arriving on time and all deliveries brought in perfect conditions despite his clumsiness. Even so, he didn't mind if he got dirty during his job.
	+ The reason why he is always in such a hurry when he’s delivering mail despite the low population in Home is because he is very insistent on helping when help is needed.
* His mother was also a Postal Carrier, and perhaps his entire family.
* He often talked with his belongings and other objects. He treated them like people and complimented them.
* Eddie collected stamps.
* He liked to decorate everything with hearts.
* Eddie slept in a murphy bed disguised in the back of the Post Office.
* Eddie was the only character that dyed his hair a different color during the Halloween 2023 update. He dyed it black, just like Frank's. Coincidentally, Eddie was dressed as **Frank**enstein's monster.
	+ The split design Eddie used for his makeup and to color his eyelids is pretty similar to his wrist watch.
* Clown revealed that all the asks sent by users in Clown's Tumblr and asking something to the characters were delivered to them by Eddie himself, but he didn't know where these letters came from. The letters also had a blue and white color palette, just like the past default Tumblr theme. However, since this post was made in 2020, it is unknown if this information is still canonical.
* He was not good at baking and cooking, he always stayed out of the recipe.
* He was the most responsible option to wield a sword. However, he would have used it for boring and mundane task, and hardly would have used it as an actual sword.
* The song "Esperar pra Ver" by Evinha reminds Clown about Frank and Eddie.
* When dancing, Eddie liked to do The Stroll.
* He liked the song "Rockin' Robin" by Michael Jackson and sing to it.
* He would have liked *The Huckleberry Hound Show*.
* If the Welcome Home puppets meet the Muppets, Clown thinks that Eddie would get along with Oscar because his grumpy and catty disposition would be funny for him, and he is someone who he would bother for company playfully and take him anywhere.
* If he had been in the world of Splatoon, he would have used an E-liter weapon, because he loved organization and precision like Frank, but was also patient, careful and supportive.
* Clown has created a personal Welcome Home x Pokémon AU just for fun.
	+ In this AU, Eddie is both a delivery carrier and Gym Leader, either a dragon or flying type. He often helps people fix things at home.  Trainers fight him in the post office, decorated with an unknown theme.
	+ His Pokémon team is Dragonite, Corviknight, Eevee, Yamper, Joltik and Pelipper. He named all his team. Dragonite is named "Sugar", and wears a matching mailman hat like him.  His Eevee never evolves.
* Clown also described their own take in a Welcome Home x Alice in Wonderland AU. Eddie would be the one to take the role of the White Rabbit in this universe, always in a hurry and accustomed to run everywhere.

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