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Edgar Dugan
The Noir Detective
Edgar Dugan
The Noir Detective
Late 30s at the time of his death
Cisgender man (he/him)
Edgar Michael Dugan
Eddy, Dugan, Mr. Dugan, Ed, Do-Good Dugan (somewhat tongue-in-cheek, usually by Theo in the midst of an argument)
The Dugan Brothers Detective Agency
Whatever Happened To Richard Whitman?
Edgar
Wealthy Spearman
Ed-gar
Michael
Who Is Like God?
Mike-ull
Dugan
Dark
Do-gan
Goes solely by Eddy, and often bristles at being called Edgar.
Human (white, specifically Irish-Italian)
Short and stocky, heavyset
Overweight
Light
5'5"
Dark brown
Brown
Somewhat messy and unkempt, usually concealed under a hat. Starting to thin a little by the time he dies, not that he'll admit it.
Some stubble
- He's been kicked around a lot in his life, and has a lot of small scars and assorted aches and pains due to that.
- Gets shot in the shoulder at one point, which requires a hospital trip and a sling until it fully heals.
- Doesn't have much flexibility in his fingers, mainly because he's broken each of them at different points in his life.
Eddy is short and solidly built, with a broad frame and a mix of muscle and fat. Despite his height, he's easily the most intimidating of the Dugan brothers, as well as the one who's best in a fight. He can both take and land a hit. He has a soft oval face and dark brown eyes, along with thick hair in roughly the same hue. He usually has some stubble and also usually has some sort of cut or bruise on him--he's no stranger to fights, and he's taken up boxing on and off. He has an array of small scars across his body from the various scrapes he's gotten into, the most prominent being one on his right shoulder from a bullet wound.
Rough, low, somewhat gravelly
Dresses in the same way as his brothers--dark slacks, a nice shirt and tie, and a longcoat. Usually wears a hat along with it.
Eddy's first concern is always his family--orphaned at fourteen and left with two younger brothers to take care of, he didn't have much of a choice in that regard. He's quick to throw his life on the line for someone, whether they're a stranger or a friend, and loves the thrill of a chase or a fight. He's in that odd in-between of having had to fend for himself for most of his life--even before his parents died, he was often missing school to work odd jobs--but still not being the most emotionally mature, with a hair-trigger temper and a difficulty holding his tongue. Although those traits can come in handy, they wind up getting him in trouble more often than not, especially since he often overestimates just how good of a fighter he is. He's fiercely loyal, even to a fault, and cares about his younger brothers more than anyone else in the world. He has a strong moral compass, prompting him to start up the Dugan Brothers Detective Agency in the first place, and prides himself on offering aide to those who would be ignored, ridiculed, or harmed by the police. His loud yet overall friendly personality makes people open up to him, which helps with his PI work.
Despite having successfully raised his younger brothers and started his own detective agency, Eddy is deeply insecure about his own brains (or, more accurately, book smarts) in comparison to his brothers, especially Theo Dugan --in ensuring that Theo and Ted Dugan had a relatively good upbringing, he dropped out of high school during his freshman year and had already had a spotty attendance record beforehand, as well as a tendency to play the class clown instead of paying close attention in class, and never attended college. Eddy and Theo often bicker over Theo's plans to attend university, something which keeps getting postponed due to a lack of money--money which is usually put towards treating injuries Eddy racks up. Eddy sees Theo's desires to attend college as Theo desperately trying to avoid ending up like his stupid, meatheaded big brother who gets punched around for a living and Theo sees Eddy's PI work and other odd jobs as needlessly dangerous work that could be easily compensated for if Theo got a good education and a job that made lots of money, with Ted eventually stepping in as the voice of reason. Although Eddy partially dismantles this inferiority complex it never truly leaves him, especially when Theo leaves him and Ted to enlist in the military in hopes of getting that extra boost in college support.
Intimidating as he can be, Eddy is sweet to those who are close to him and will defend them with his life, whether they want him to or not. His desire to help others is like a burning coal in his chest--at one point Ted notes that he thinks Eddy's biggest regret in life is being born too late to enlist in World War Two, as he was a child during it and not old enough to fight evil in a way that he thought would count. Though he'd brag about being fearless, in private he'd be the first to say that his biggest fear is failure--namely, failure to protect Theo, Ted, or [[Character-1262588]], his client turned business partner turned girlfriend from any sort of danger. The idea of any of them being hurt or God forbid killed in a way he could have prevented (realistically or not) petrifies him. Ted described Eddy as the anchor that holds the family in place, as well as being a valiant man who wants to do good in any way he can. He often ends up getting paid less than he hires his services out for or even working for free due to either the client's economic situation or a guilty feeling about taking money from someone in such a desperate need of his services, something which infuriates Theo--as he says, it's selfish of Eddy to put himself in danger and rack up injuries and spend camera film when he won't even try to get half of his initial fee paid, and it's all well and good for Eddy to try and keep bread on other people's tables, but that doesn't matter if it's not putting any bread on theirs.
Eddy stands wide, with his feet apart and his shoulders squared, and is often ready to pivot into an attack or defense position. He often fiddles with the buttons on his coat or with the brim of his hat. He has a somewhat crooked smile, the kind almost always accompanied by a huff of laughter.
He loves a good fight and is pretty good at them too, often picking up and then putting down boxing or underground fighting at various points in his life to pick up money. His personality lends itself well to arguments or debates as well as comedy, not that he's given much thought to pursuing any of those routes.
An unexpected love he finds while getting to know Camila is poetry--he'd always brushed it off as something more Theo-like (and, privately, something that was too upper-crust for him to really understand) but when Camila loans him a book of her mother's poetry from the Harlem Renaissance, he realizes his misconception was incorrect and poetry is one of the truest forms of emotion. He writes her love poems, although it takes him several tries to write something he doesn't cringe at.
One word: protection. To protect his brothers, to protect Camila, to protect anyone who's been harmed by a person or by a system. Basically to protect anyone but himself.
Biromantic
Bisexual
Aries
ENFJ
Fight. No questions asked.
Boxing, reading and eventually writing poetry, keeping up work on his PI cases.
Born and raised in New York City, Eddy Dugan was the oldest of three children born to Michael and Maria Dugan, both of whom immigrated to the United States as children (from Ireland and Italy, respectively). His younger brother Theodore "Theo" Dugan was four years his junior, and his youngest brother Ted Dugan was ten years his junior.
When Eddy was fourteen, disease struck the apartment complex his family lived in, leaving his parents dead and Theo sickly. Eddy refused to give up, though, and didn't want to lose his brothers or have to live in an orphanage. Instead he managed to keep his head above the water, taking as many odd jobs as he could and selling any items which had value. Once he was 24 and Theo was 20, the two decided to pool their meager resources and start up a family business: the Dugan Brothers Detective Agency, which had Eddy and Theo as the main detectives and Ted, who was still in the closet and presenting himself as a girl, as the tagalong kid who was sometimes sent in to get evidence since he was more inconspicuous. While Theo saw the agency as a way to earn money for college, Eddy saw it as a way to help people who were done dirty by local law enforcement's corruption and lack of care for their issues and often either accepted less payment than he had initially charged or worked for free, which led to a lot of bickering.
Like Theo and Eddy, Ted put off college both out of a lack of money and a lack of a specific major and besides, he wanted to work with his brothers anyways. It was at age 18 that Ted realized he was transgender and came out to Theo before Eddy, mainly because he knew Theo was more science-inclined and would probably understand him better. Although Eddy realized why Ted came out to Theo first, it still sort of smarted. Ted was swiftly inaugurated as the third member of the Dugan Brothers Detective Agency.
Things go fairly well for the agency, with Camila Martez joining as an unofficial fourth member, as she has her own career outside of them. In addition to working with the agency, she and Eddy hit it off outside of work and start a relationship. Unfortunately things take a turn for the worst when Theo's already poor health suffers--at the same time that Eddy is shot in the shoulder during a PI gig gone wrong. With the brothers low on money and two of them incapacitated, Ted takes a job working with a tabloid paper and photographs the affair between Richard Whitman and Augusta Martin , securing a hefty paycheck and putting the agency on the map. Still, things carry on as they had been before, which spawns Eddy and Theo's biggest fight yet: Theo, sick of continually putting off his education to, in his mind, entertain his brothers' hero complex, announces that he's joining the military to serve and then having them help with his college. Predictably, Eddy is outraged and points out that Theo can't even enlist with his health issues, to which Theo says he's gotten his papers forged to exclude them. Eddy makes his peace with it and reluctantly lets his brother go, only to receive the news he was dreading months later: Theo was dead before even enlisting, having fallen severely ill during training. This sends Eddy into a deep depression since he views Theo's death as something he could have prevented if he'd fought harder to keep him there--or if he'd just helped him off to college in the first place. He throws himself into more and more dangerous situations before returning home to drink and cry as Ted tries to tentatively help him.
Eventually he and Ted are hired by a battered wife to take a job to catch her capo husband in an affair, which gets them a hefty payday--and also the rage of the mob directed at them. The capo's men show up to try and intimidate Eddy and Ted into throwing the photos out but Eddy refuses, and tells the men that it was all him and not Ted at all, even though Ted was holding the camera. Later that week, Eddy is shot while he and Ted are walking home from the agency. He died that night in the hospital.
The next day, Ted finds Eddy's hat at the doorstep of their apartment. He liquidates the assets and gets the hell out of New York City as quickly as he can.
Dropped out of school in ninth grade, and had a spotty attendance record even before that
April 7th
His hat. It originally belonged to his father, and it's one of the few pieces of his dad's clothing that fits him, since his dad had a build much closer to Theo's lanky frame.
Theo Dugan . He's close to Ted too, but since he's ten years Ted's senior and only four years Theo's, he and Theo have always been closer. Later in the story, though, this role shifts to Camila as he and Theo start to bicker more.
[[Character-1262588]]
Theo Dugan and Ted Dugan (younger brothers)
His fists
Private Investigator
Somewhat anarchist-leaning but knows nothing about political theory and has no interest in learning.
Grew up Catholic and still somewhat devout
Red and brown
If asked he would absolutely answer with some type of alcohol (which one? Depends on the day) but in terms of food food, probably just a classic New York hot dog.
Theo Dugan : Theo and Eddy were always close despite their age difference, and even before their parents died Eddy looked after his younger brother. Although they bicker more and more as the years go by, Eddy would still lay his life on the line for Theo, not that Theo would ever ask him to. Still, the two have an underlying sense of resentment--Theo, a somewhat prodigious science geek, often condescends to Eddy, who lacks a steady formal education, whether he means to or not and Eddy, who prides himself on being good in a fight, often assumes that Theo, slender and frequently ill, can't pull his own weight to any degree and condescends in turn.
Ted Dugan : Ten years Ted's senior, Eddy tried his best to raise Ted once their parents died. Ted is something of a brother and a son to him, though much more of the former, and he's fiercely protective of him to a degree that he isn't with Theo, mainly because he spent so long seeing Ted as his baby sister before Ted came out as transgender--and while Eddy doesn't have a super deep and thorough grasp of what it means to be transgender, he supports Ted full-heartedly and moves him from being the unofficial DBDA mascot-slash-tagalong-younger-sister to a full member. After Theo's death, Eddy and Ted's relationship also becomes strained since Eddy more or less quits his own agency due to grief--and is then killed when he and Ted try taking on another case to revive the agency. Although Theo's death was hard, Eddy's death wrecked Ted, who left New York City for years following it and was hesitant to return. To Ted, Eddy was his north star and compass rose, someone to look to for protection and guidance, as well as the closest he can remember to a father. As Ted builds up his own career as a PI, he begins to embody Eddy more both physically and mentally, eventually becoming a hybrid of his two brothers.