Eddie Long

“
Nah, you guys are my team! I’d do anything for you, just like you'd do anything for me, right?
”

—Eddie Long, "One of Us is Getting Cancelled!"

**Eddie Long** is one of the main protagonists of *Alpha Betas*. He is a driven and focused young adult who is the leader of Alpha Team, a team secretly formed by The Energy Division, as he is always described as a try-hard and show off by his friends and co-workers.

## Appearance

### Body

Eddie is a tall, muscular and pale figure, being taller than the rest of his best friends, He is seen with brunette-colored hair with a bunny-shaped hair tip on top of his hair.

### Clothing

He wears a maroon shirt with orange stripes at the end of his sleeves and an orange logo in the center, along with blue pants. He is shown to wear red socks with raven-black shoes.

## Personality

He is the obnoxious and impressionable out of the rest of Alpha Team, he is the first to and the last to give up. He has a cocky-try hard demeanor, but is also described to be very awkward. He is heavily based off his Voice Actors personality. He is also shown to be somewhat flirtatious when flirting with his crush, Ruby, and always shown to be embarrassed and upset when either she dismisses his feeling or his friends point out his behavior.

## Skills and Abilities

### Skilled Marksman

Eddie can shoot any weapons and on any locations.

### Skilled Swordsmanship

In The Zombie Deathrun, shows that Eddie can cut the heads of zombies with blades.

## Weaknesses

### Strengthless

In the real world, Eddie is weak as he couldn't do any damage to the security guard.

## Behind the scenes

### Name and basis

The name "Eddie" is a short form of various names like Edward, Edwin, Edmund and Eddison. Would generally be the short form of Edward which is of English origin meaning 'wealth' or 'guardian of riches'.

Long is the pinyin romanization of a Chinese surname. It includes 龍 / 龙, which translates to "dragon" in Chinese.

### Debut

Eddie debuted in the series premiere, "This is Alpha Team".

## Trivia

* His Energy Division account password was **believeinyourself69**.
	+ His password was revealed in a teaser-tweet in December 2020.
	+ The word "believe" in his password formerly was typed as "belive", however, It was changed for unknown reasons.
* Like his voice-actor, Eddie is of Asian-Canadian descent.
	+ This is shown from the way he pronounces "Sorry" in the Pilot.
	+ In Issue Two, Eddie says himself that he is Canadian.
* Eddie's shirt symbol carries over to multiple games.
* Eddie is bisexual.
	+ In a 2021 live-stream, Evan Fong says that Eddie is "such a gay character", a few moments afterwards, Tyler Wine calls Eddie "a bisexual king".
	+ In the same stream, the crew had expressed interest in writing out a "gay scene" with Eddie in it, which was first suggested by David Nagle.
	+ Initially, Eddie is the first character in the Alpha Betas series to be confirmed LGBTQ+.
* In "Eddie's Interview", Eddie says he's pretty much useless in much of things.
* In "One Last Mission", it is revealed that Eddie has the ability to suck his own dick.
* In "Get to Know The Energy Division Documentary", his full name was revealed to be **Eddie Long**.
	+ This is most likely a reference to his voice actor's name being Evan Fong.