Edward "Eddie" Mason

**Eddie** (エドワード・メイソン *Edward Mason*) is one of the antagonists of *Angels of Death.* He first appears on floor B4, becoming an obstacle for Rachel Gardener and Zack, due to an obsessive need to burry Rachel and make a grave for her; in a desperate attempt to feel loved.

Eddie becomes the main character in the game *Angels of Death Episode.Eddie ,* which explores more of his backstory.

## Appearance

Eddie is a young boy who is said to be around Ray's height[*citation needed*]. He wears a plain red scarf around his neck and a pair of gray blue denim dungarees with a plain white T-shirt underneath. He is also seen wearing dark brown mitten gloves and matching boots. On his head, Eddie wears a burlap mask which covers the entirety of his head and hides his face. There are stitches down the side of the mask and a hole where the mouth would be. Eddie is able to see out of two mismatched holes cut in the mask.

Although not seen without his mask in the original game, Eddie has fair skin and was shown to have bright orange hair and green eyes in Episode 3, I Swear To God. The manga adaptation also revealed Eddie without his mask, depicting him with the same appearance he has in the anime, along with many freckles.

Eddie is often depicted carrying a shovel, due to him being a grave keeper.

## Personality

Eddie is a kind and respectful boy who is very devoted to making graves and following his family buisness of grave keeping; proudly calling himself a "grave keeper's son" up until he was killed. Like many children, he holds a strong love for animals, cherishing all of his family pets dearly, while also being desperate for the love and approval of his parents.

He's shown to desperately crave "mutual love" during Episode 3, which can be mistaken as him being a necrophiliac (especially with the English dub painting him to be one), even though even he himself states that he's far from one at all. This "mutual love" is the primary reason he obsesses so much after Rachel, the suicidal girl protagonist of the series; because he sees everything he buries as his own personal treasure that no one can take for themselves. Treasures he also believes he brings joy and peace to, since he's the one to make graves/care for them (and seemingly, when living creature, gives a swift and painless death to with a simple blow to the head with his shovel). So, since Rachel's wish is to die, he thinks that by making her happy and giving her what she wants; while also then making her grave for her; that she will love him in her death for the rest time. Finally giving him the thing he so desperately craves for.

Though he is shown to be patient and kind, throughout Episode 3, Eddie grows more and more frustrated since Zack keeps interfering his and Rachel's interactions, making Rachel also refuse Eddie's offer to be the one to kill her. He persists for a while, growing more desperate as the episode goes on, before fully losing his patience and throwing a tantrum as a result.

He is childish and playful, and has a lot of energy. Often bouncing and jumping around all over the place when happy, or hanging upside-down from pipes when bored. His language also tends to be pretty direct most of the time, leading to him sometimes saying things which can come off as much harsher than he probably intended for it to sound.

Eddie loves art and when people clearly put a lot of love and care into the things they create, because he does the same thing with his graves. In the manga he was even shown to fully appreciate and support Shin's "art", even if said art was furniture made out of people, purely because he was able to tell at a glance just how much care Shin put into his works.

Eddie is also hinted to be shy about his appearance.

- Asking Girl not to look at his face even though he was wearing his mask

- Thinking his mask being mistaken for a Jack-o-lantern being a much better scenario than being laughed at for his orange hair, and

- Rarely taking off his mask at all, even around people he trusts dearly, unless they are his family.

## History

### Episode. Eddie

Eddie was born in a family that had been graveyard workers for generations. He was the third child of his family along with his three brothers Albert, Carl and George, and was often considered the best worker in the family business.

However, despite Eddie's hard work and determination in helping his parents, he never got things of his own, as all the stuff he had used to belong to his two older brothers, and the stuff he used to have all went to his younger brother. Even the family business was given to the eldest brother, Albert, due to family tradition; even if he worked better, longer, and harder than anyone in the family did.

His oldest brother, Albert, might be suffering from undiagnosed and unmedicated childhood schizophrenia (not confirmed) based on his violent and emotional behavior, along with seemingly experiencing some delusions about the people and animals around him. As a result, he starts to destroy/hurt things around him, including family pets. Eddie, loving the pets, pleaded Albert not to hurt the pets and offered his brother to vent his frustration on him. Since then, Eddie endured beatings from his oldest brother every night but never told any of his family because he didn't want to cause any more problems for anyone.

One night, he met an unnamed girl, both initially mistaking one another for a ghost due to their appearance (in Eddie's case, his pumpkin mask). Since then, the two of them met every night and grew close, spending their time together talking or making graves, though the unnamed girl always refused to talk about herself. Eddie even brought her to a secret cliff that only he knew the existence of, where he'd sometimes spend his time alone, enjoying the breeze and view.

However, Albert's beating began to worsen and he started spending time in the living room at night, making it harder for Eddie to sneak out to meet the girl. To make things worse, the girl suddenly stopped coming no matter how many times he regularly visited the place where they would usually meet every night, making Eddie wonder if the girl also experienced the same thing he did, since the girl was always covered in bandages and wore the same tattered dress every time they met.

When one of the family birds got killed by Albert and a cat got an incurable disease, Eddie "realized" (with the help of the unnamed girl's past words "...You know, maybe everyone would be happiest if they became yours in the end...") that, if any of the pets died, he would be the one to make a grave for them. Not only would they be happy and at peace from just how much love and care he puts into each grave, but they would also be his "treasures", something that for once is truly "his" and no one else's. So, as a result, he started to anticipate the death of the family pets. Until he started to think that, since the pets were killed by his brother, it's still considered to be his brother's belongings and not his own, which means that the pets couldn't possibly be happy in their death. This led to Eddie then killing the ill cat with his shovel and burying it. He laughed happily after burying the cat as he considered the cat to be "his" now after he gave it a "proper" death and made a grave for it, also believing that he ended its suffering from his brother's abuse. After that, he killed almost all of the family pets, wishing all of them well and complimenting each and every one of them before killing them, truly believing he's doing something good.

    After many nights passed, the girl finally returned in even worse condition. She could barely stand and was very weak. Eddie helped her walk until they reached their secret cliff, where she finally admitted that she ran away from her abusive foster family and had nowhere to go and won't be a treasure to anyone, viewing herself as someone who basically doesn't even exist. Eddie thought of her words and saw her condition. He couldn't bear the thought of her being buried in a random grave in the middle of nowhere where she would be forgotten.

This led to a conversation where Eddie clearly stated how he felt about the whole situation, with the girl barely interjecting. In the manga this conversation isn't touched upon, but in the game, it was shown that the girl slowly realized what Eddie is talking and thinking about, before simply smiling before she was killed by him, comforted by the thought of being cared so much about by Eddie after her death. In the Manga this is also portrayed as him having manically enjoyed this death, even though in the game, he was instead shown to be very emotional about it and was even crying before and after the death happened. Even if he truly believed this to be for the best, it still clearly hurt him deeply.

It is still unknown how Eddie ended up in the building or how he ended up becoming the floor master of B4, but it is believed he was brought in by Gray. In *Episode 0.* Eddie seemed to have known Gray before Danny or Cathy did as Gray requested Eddie's help to bury the body of an escaped prisoner that Danny had killed.

## Plot

### Episode 2 & 3

When Ray and Zack make it to B4, Eddie has written Ray a note, proclaiming his love for her and claiming to know everything about her, including her wish to die. Ultimately, he wants to give her a place of eternal rest. He uses the darkness as cover to plant more notes in Ray's path and giggles to let her know he's watching her every step. When she and Zack are separated, Eddie confronts Zack, but again uses the darkness to his advantage when taunting Zack. He says he'll be the one to kill Ray because they were practically made for each other and because, unlike Zack, he understands her desires.

Afterward, he appears before Ray in the water control room. He repeats what he claimed in his notes, about knowing her desires and wanting to put her to rest. He questions her on why she chooses to stay with Zack when she doesn't immediately agree for him to be her executioner, getting even more frustrated when she brings Zack's promise. Eddie retreats when Zack breaks through the wall to get to Ray, but leaves her with parting words that he'll wait for her, meaning he'll be in the final room to get off B4.

In the game, manga, and novel, Eddie chases Ray through a maze as she searches for the control panel to turn on the lights. Ray tricks Eddie to attack at the wrong spot by throwing some rocks until she finally turns on the lights. He feels betrayed when she does so, also confused as to why she would choose Zack over him despite all his hard work to appeal for her. With no darkness to use as cover, his position is exposed to Zack who points out that he has been rejected by Ray. Eddie pleads to Ray one last time to let him kill her, but to his dismay, Ray rejects him once more. Letting his guard down, Zack cuts him down and pushes his body into the grave at the center of the maze that was originally meant for Ray.

In the anime, Ray tricks Eddie into dropping the controller he holds, which control the lights, by blinding his vision with her flashlight up-close and then slams him to the tombstone. The scenario afterward plays out similarly, which Eddie asking Ray why she won't choose him and being killed by Zack in a grave meant for Ray.

### Episode 8 & 10

Eddie appears as a hallucination that Ray saw from the hallucinogen spread by Gray. He taunts Ray for heartlessly stomping on the hands of the corpses that appeared from underground and states how selfish she is.

He then appears again during the court session together with Cathy and Danny as witnesses to testify against Ray, claiming that he will tell what he likes about her and what he dislikes about her. Eddie wanted to go first, but to his chagrin, Cathy goes first instead. After Cathy's testimony, Eddie testifies how much he liked Ray and could see many similarities between her and himself that he believed they would be a match. However, after being killed, he realized that unlike him, everything that Ray did was only for herself and he couldn't understand why she's so stubborn of choosing Zack over him. This leads him to conclude that Ray is a witch and requests that she's being sentenced to death by being stabbed by spikes. However, seeing Ray ignoring him, Eddie grows desperate, pleading for her attention and promising to make things up to her, making Gray end his testimony while telling the boy that he has let his heart being bewitched by Ray, forcing Eddie to stand down.

## Modus Operandi

Eddie initially killed animals by hitting them with his shovel and then buried them and even made them graves[*citation needed*]. As a floor master, despite his youth and small stature, Eddie is able to kill victims who are older and bigger than him by using the darkness of his floor to blind their vision, coupled with his agility[*citation needed*]. Eddie usually delivers a fatal strike to the head, instantly killing his victim[*citation needed*]. Like the animals and the girl before, Eddie makes graves for those he has killed himself, and graves for those who died by the hands of the other floor masters; making his floor a cemetery[*citation needed*]. Against Zack, Eddie is heavily dependent on the darkness of his floor to fight because even though he is agile, Zack is still stronger and faster.

## Quotes

"Rachel, is there no way i can be good enough?"[*citation needed*]

"The only freedom we're given is for our actions on our own floors..."[*citation needed*]

"You can relax. It's dark, cool, and comfortable inside the earth."[*citation needed*]

## Relationships

### The Girl

Eddie befriended the unnamed girl when she found him making a grave in the middle of the night by coincidence[*citation needed*]. The two of them quickly grew close with each other, sneaking out of the house every night to meet at the graveyard where they mostly spent their time talking and Eddie even taught her how to make graves. Eddie is very fond of the Girl to the point he refused to let anyone take her, which led him to kill and bury her in his grave[*citation needed*]. Coming from an abusive family, the Girl found solace and comfort in Eddie, doing her best to make him happy whenever he was sad in return[*citation needed*]. Her closeness to Eddie reached the point where the Girl willingly resigned herself when Eddie was about to kill her, feeling satisfied to be one of Eddie's treasures within the graves that he made[*citation needed*].

### Rachel Gardner

Eddie fell in love with Ray at first sight and since then determined to kill her and bury her in one of his graves, even making her grave the best one amongst other graves he had made[*citation needed*]. He claims that they are very similar in wanting something of their own, so he often compares himself with her and says they are meant for each other[*citation needed*]. For this reason, he attempts to convince Ray to have him kill her instead of Zack several times, but in the end, fails horribly. Her rejection only increases his desire to kill and bury her even more[*citation needed*].

### Zack

Eddie shows a strong dislike for Zack, seeing him as an obstacle that gets in the way between him and Ray to be together along with the fact Zack destroyed a few graves. His dislike for Zack causes him to make the grave for Zack the worst of all the graves he made and even left it half-done[*citation needed*]. His dislike grew stronger after Ray prefers to be killed by Zack instead of him, making Eddie throwing a tantrum by calling Zack dumb and more of a brat than himself[*citation needed*]. Zack also returns Eddie's hatred against him, annoyed by Eddie's nerve for making the worst grave for him and constantly calling him the boy "damn brat" or "grave digging shit-head"[*citation needed*].

### Shin

Shin was a character who only appeared in the episode.0 books, he was originally going to be the floormaster of B4. He met Eddie when he was looking at Shin's notebook, which he left at a church by accident. Eddie had accused Shin of being a grave desecrator, but they eventually got along after figuring out that Shin was not destroying his graves. Shin died in a unknown way, it was supposedly suicide.

## Trivia

* Eddie's face is never revealed in the game. However, it was in both the manga and the anime. Eddie is revealed to     have messy orange hair and his eye color is emerald green.
* Eddie's mask is shown to make facial expressions. Although, this most likely just to express him better.
* It is hinted that, in addition to burying his own victims, Eddie buries the bodies of the victims killed on other floors. In the game, the body of a man killed in B3, Cathy's floor, can be found on floor B4's morgue.
* The name "Edward" means "Protector" or "Guardian", while "Mason" means "Stoneworker"