Eduard (EC)

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## Joshua Eduard Graves

### Age

20 *(Descent)*24 *(Inferno)*

Late 40s *(Fallen)*

### Occupation

Former supply runner for the Tent City *(Post-apocalypse)*Former supply runner and soldier for the Airstrip Group *(Post-apocalypse)*

Former scholar for the People *(Post-apocalypse)*

Former second-in-command of the Frontiersmen *(Post-apocalypse)*

### Family

David Graves - father *(zombified)*Veronica Graves - mother *(zombified)*

### Series Lifespan

Descent -- Present

> *"Call me Eduard,"*
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> -- Joshua takes on his middle name as his first name, revealing his true identity in the process
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**Joshua Eduard Graves**, better known as **Eduard** or the **Burned Man**,is the protagonist of the *Eduard Collection*. He is the son of political activists David and Veronica Graves. After witnessing the reanimation of his parents and being too scared to put them down, Joshua vowed to no longer be weak and slowly developed into the infamous figure shown in the original series.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Denver, Colorado

Joshua Eduard Graves was born in Denver, Colorado, in the mid-1990s. He is the son of activists David and Veronica Graves, who led several political campaigns across the country, including being part of a presidential campaign.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Descent

A few weeks following the global outbreak, a compound full of political activists, isolated from the rest of the population, have survived the plague. However, supplies are running low but nobody is allowed to leave for fear of contracting the zombie infection, effectively dooming them all to starvation. Joshua is the son of David and Veronica, members of the compound's leading council.

### Inferno

Several years later, Eduard has joined Jeremiah as part of the Airstrip Group and is one of their primary supply runners.

### Baptism

Continuing immediately on from the end of *Inferno*, Eduard is rescued from the river by tribal scouts, who bring him back to their camp. Sholto, the tribe's leader and healer, begins to try and heal Eduard's horrific burns, which cover more than 70% of his body, exposing parts of his bones. The others try to convince Sholto to put Eduard out of his misery, but Sholto refuses. That night, Eduard suddenly wakes up.

### Rising Sun

Eduard is mentioned in the epilogue of *Rising Sun* when he witnesses Akira and Joshua's plane crash land and he rushes over to help.

## Killed Victims

* Sholto
* Numerous counts of zombies

## Relationships

### Moby

> *"This is **peace** I am offering. Take it or leave it,"*
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> -- Eduard tries bartering a peace deal between his own group and Moby's
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### Hector Granger

> *"You see now, my friend? **We** are the **future**,"*
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> -- Hector to Eduard after their cleansing of the People
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Eduard and Hector have a neutral relationship; according to Eduard, it is an alliance, but according to Hector it is a friendship. The two first met when Hector broke into Eduard's tent, wanting to see the "Man Who Should Not Have Lived" for himself. Hector, as the tribe's most junior scribe, was then assigned to teach Eduard the ways of the People. Over the course of a few years, the two of them formed an uneasy alliance.

Following Hector's fall into delusion and the rise of his mission to forcibly unite all survivors under one society, Eduard becomes one of his most loyal allies, due to their shared goal of "changing the world". However, Eduard continued to despise Hector and only followed him as he believed he was his best chance to creating the world he envisioned.

Later in life, Eduard would come to regret serving Ajax.

## Trivia

* Joshua was revealed to be Eduard in the twist ending of the first book, *Descent*.
* Through his father, Eduard is of Mexican descent, and of French descent through his mother.
* After being set on fire, Eduard sustained burns to over 70% of his body, causing him to lose most of his skin, including his nose, his ears and one eyelid, and exposing the bones of his ring and pinkie fingers on his right hand and parts of his left shoudler blade.