Eric Pearson

**Eric Pearson** is the deuteragonist of Edward and Eric. He is the youngest son of Paul and Susan, and the younger brother of Edward. He was voiced by Josh Peck for the first 6 seasons as well as the movie, Robert Capron from Season 7 to Season 9, and Finn Wolfhard in My Ed Academia.

## Personality

Eric is very dimwitted, clumsy, naive, lazy, and impulsive. Desiring to live a simple, exciting lifestyle, Eric tends to completely miss the obvious and act absent-minded, getting confused easily. As a result of these factors, Eric is also highly accident-prone and is a common victim of trouble. Nevertheless, his luck and blissful unawareness usually keeps him safe from any harm. Eric makes up for his lack of intelligence by being kindhearted, good-natured and happy-go-lucky, possessing a positive attitude towards everything and seeing everyone as a potential friend, including the likes of Principal Walker and Snodgrass Phthiraptera. His childlike naivety makes him the perfect target for manipulators (like the aforementioned characters, as well as Joey), due to the fact Eric hardly ever questions them and blindly follows their orders, thinking something good will come out of it. Even if a character happens to be a horrible liar, such as Constantinos in Dead Dallas when he frantically lied to Eric that Dallas turned invisible, Eric may still fall for it anyway.

Eric's stupidity can unintentionally lead to him coming off as a jerk and can exhibit violent behavior if something upsets him, such as in Red Ed Redemption when he assaulted Principal Walker for taking the last breakfast pizza at the school's cafeteria. Regardless, Eric still has a massive heart of gold and is highly loyal to his friends. He is a fan of cartoons and comics (both of which he often mistakes for reality), animals, toys, and amongst others. His hygiene is sometimes shown to be poor, he's very forgetful, and he is prone to spouting random nonsense, but Eric is full of genuine wonder. Eric greatly values The Lucky 6, as they see him for who he is rather than what he lacks, and he tries as much as possible to protect and support them, in his own inept way. (WIP)

## Skills

Eric is the least intelligent member of the series, and quite possibly any cartoon going by feats, given how he was able to score a -5 on a test that even inanimate objects could score a 100 on. This might sound like an enormous disadvantage, but Eric's stupidity has allowed him to blissfully do some incredibly impressive things sheerly due to lack of awareness, such as holding in his breath for days, achieving spiritual enlightenment, and even driving Satan to the brink of insanity in There Will Be Heck to Pay.

Beyond that, though, Eric is far more useful than one would normally think. While not extremely common, he does occasionally have completely unexpected moments of brilliance, such as putting a 1,000-piece puzzle set together within seconds, painting an exact replica of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" while blindfolded, regularly breaking into Edward's laboratory, giving a detailed explanation on why "women are a bane to society", building a fully-functional catapult out of nothing but bamboo, proficiently playing the xylophone, perfectly imitating Joey's voice and behavior, etc.

Much like Edward, Eric is impossibly lucky and will have success bent in favor of him during the most dire of situations. (WIP)

## Trivia

* His birthday is June 14.
* Eric is 12 years old.
* Eric is the third-tallest member of The Lucky 6, standing at 6'0 (182.88 cm).
	+ Surprisingly, he is also the youngest member.
* According to Edward, Eric's blood type is "DUMB+".
* As revealed in Eric Come Home, Eric once had an imaginary friend named Kevin.
* Eric is the only main character from Edward and Eric who didn't originate from the 1982 short, Bad Luck Benjamin.
* Although Robert Capron would go on to voice Eric after Josh Peck became too old to voice Eric, there were a few instances where archived recordings from Peck were used (most notably Eric's hysterical scream from The Hall of the Weens).
* During development, Eric was a lot more quiet, only speaking in incomplete sentences that rarely consisted of more than three words, and usually repeating the last words any of his friends would say, or an adjective describing whatever situation they would get themselves in to. In addition, his random strokes of high intelligence would've been a lot more common.
	+ Some of these traits ended up being kept in, such as Eric's occasional odd grammar.
* Eric was originally voiced by an adult actor, although said actor remains anonymous to this very day.
* In one episode, Eric says, "They say kids imitate characters from cartoons, but I have yet to become a talking sponge who works at a burger joint." This is a reference to two things.
	+ The namesake character from the longrunning animated series, *SpongeBob SquarePants*.
	+ The fact that most parents are overly sensitive in regards to their children watching cartoons, because they fear their kids will copy anything they see.
* Eric is the only main adolescent character to be voiced by a child actor (at the time). This was because Sauls felt a child actor would stick true to Eric's personality.