| Ed They were calling him by his real name when growing up. He never liked his name though. He always wanted to be considered a superhero of sorts and one night in his youth as his mother lay in her bed behind a locked door, emitting loud lengthy moans, he decided he wanted to be called the Invisible Man. This was his second choice: his first was Superman, but for some reason this did not feel right to him. When he told his wishes to his mother and stepfather, they laughed and said if was going to be called the Invisible Man then would it be okay if they fed him invisible food? Shortly after running away from home for the second time at the age of 17, he tried to go by the name of E.D. These were the initials to his name: Ernest Dixon. Pretty soon the folks he associated with in the factory town where he now lived started to call him just Ed and he didn't mind too much because for what ever reason he thought Ed sounded better than Ernest. Ernest sounded gay to him. He was not gay and resented the fact that some might infer that he was indeed gay because of his name. The basis of this was unknown to everyone, perhaps even to Ed (Ernest) who could never really come up with a reason satisfactory enough to explain his name changes and why he thought Ernest sounded gay. It just did. Ed's behavior in these years took a turn for the worst and this was readily seen through his coworkers in the factory. The good natured ribbing exacted on Ed in the beggining turned to complete avoidance for fear of his "psycho-ness" as one coworker said. His court ordered psychologist did not give a favorable review to the judge regarding his outlook for Ed living a normal life. Ed in the opinion of the doctor should be institutionalized but in Ed's mind this was not an alternative and fled the factory town and his factory job and moved to the eastern part of the state where he lived in a homeless shelter. He found work as a laborer on a construction site but this ended the day he blindsided his supervisor with a two by four, causing the man to permanently lose vision in his left eye. So Ed was a case. Somewhere in his life he crossed the point of no return, the place where things that should fire in the brain but do not become like stagnant cess pools and once one reaches this place is subsequently blinded to the ramifications of his actions. Ed was blind socially. He was unable to see things as other's see them nor was he aware that he could not see these things. He lived wholly in the chakras zone 1 and 2 and was so overcome by his need to fullfil urges that sometimes he would go days in a row without sleep obsessing. This progressively worsened over the next 10 years of his life and at the age of 27 had been incarcerated on three different occasions. His friends had fallen out of his life by this point. Prison will do that. His only friend at this point was a fat kid that went to high school. Ed felt powerful around this kid and the kid liked the attention he recieved from Ed. When he arrived at the home of the Steven's on the fatefull night when the 13 year old boy's life would be forever branded, he had not eaten for 2 days. His cheekbones protruded out of his face and created a hollowness on either side of his nose where it seemed like his skin was nothing more than a loose piece of pale green leather drooping. He wore a sweatshirt and jeans wrinkled and with stains of some kind at the elbow and knees and did very little to hide how skinny he had let himself become. He was hungry and every ounce of energy that most people use to fill their bellys he was using obsessing over his desire for sex and violence. |