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Ed Carter is a main character in the Enemy series, first introduced in The Enemy. A former student of Rowhurst School, Ed lost his best friend Jack during the early days of the disaster. He is recognised by a scar that runs from his eye to his chin on the side of his face.


Appearance

Ed is described as being quite tall, with light floppy hair and soft brown eyes. He is considered good-looking by multiple characters, but eventually loses his looks when Greg Thorne strikes his face with a meat cleaver, giving him a scar running from his mouth to his forehead. Because of this scar, many characters find him scary or ugly, and most have no physical attraction for him.

At the beginning of The Dead, Ed is fourteen years old, a few weeks from his fifteenth birthday. As of The Sacrifice, he is sixteen years old.

Personality

Before the disaster, Ed was a kind and caring young man. He was good at chatting with girls and meeting new people, unlike his friend Jack, who was constantly nervous. He was described as being clever without being cocky or stuck-up, and always respected the people around him. Because of this, he never really found himself in any trouble with other students.

When the disaster struck, Ed found it hard to go forward in this new world. He became cowardly, scared of fighting, and always wanted to avoid confrontation with the grown-ups. As The Dead continues, Ed continued to get more and more tense, until finally, after Jack is injured and Bam killed he lost control and finally fought back against the adults. All his worry, fear and anger comes out and he attacks the sickos. From then on he is empty. He is cold when fighting sickos and sees it happening as if he was someone else. But he still retains his kindness and caring for others.

History

Ed lived somewhere in London with his parents and his older brother Dan. When Ed was eight, his family went on a trip to the west coast of France, and his father took him to the beach. Ed frequently wiped out while swimming in the ocean, and his father would grab him and pull him out of the water.[1]

Ed was a student at Rowhurst, a boarding school in Kent, and was part of the football and cricket team. He was stated by Jack to have been good at almost everything, and was very popular with girls. However, Ed had little to do with girls as Rowhurst was an all-boys school. His best friends were Jack, Harry Bamford, and Malik Hussein.

When the disaster first began, Ed received a phone call from his mother telling him to stay at the school.[2] Two weeks later, the Rowhurst students became trapped within the school as more and more teachers began to turn into sickos. The boys were aided by the English teacher Mr. Hewitt, who was the last of the teachers to turn.[3] Ed hid in the School House dormitory with Jack, Bam, Johnno, Piers, the Sullivan brothers, Kwanele Nkosi, Wiki, Arthur, Chris Marker, six boys from Field House, Justin, and two other "nerds" from Ed's physics class.[4]


Abilities

Equipment

  • Hand Gun: Ed possesses a handgun for the third part of The Dead, and is a good shot with it. It is revealed in a later book that it ran out of ammunition, but he keeps it as a reminder of his days in South London.
  • Armour: Ed wears armour throughout most of The Sacrifice, which is made up of a breastplate and various other pieces.
  • Club: Ed carries a club as a backup weapon.
  • Mortuary Sword: Ed uses a large Mortuary Sword as a weapon and is an effective killer with it.

The Dead

  • A to Z: Ed carries an A to Z to locate where places are.
  • Jack's Sword: Ed briefly uses Jack's sword as a weapon, to great effect.
  • Mask: Ed uses a gas mask when travelling through the Oval, to keep from breathing poisonous fumes.
  • Rifle: Ed uses an old military rifle with a bayonet fixed at the end as his main weapon for much of the novel. It eventually breaks during the Battle of Lambeth Bridge.

Kills

Book Victim Fate of Victim
The Dead To be added. To be added.
To be added. To be added.
To be added. To be added.

Sightings

The Enemy
1. The Enemy: Debut 5. The Sacrifice: Appears
2. The Dead: Appears 6. The Fallen: Appears
3. The Fear: Appears 7. The Hunted: Appears
4. Geeks vs. Zombies: Absent 8. The End: Appears


Trivia

  • Ed is one of the only characters to appear in all seven books.

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Notes and References

  1. The Dead, Chapter 15 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
  2. The Dead, Chapter 4 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
  3. The Dead, Chapter 1 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
  4. The Dead, Chapter 4 (Charlie Higson; 16 September 2010)
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