Eddie Essex

Edison Quincy Essex's family moved to Washington State when his father, Jonathan Essex, got a promotion and a new job, working for the Pacific Northwest branch of Xailenrath Omniversal.

His older sister, Rachel, quickly moved out of the new family home to attend college. The area they settled in - Seaport City, Washington - was a nice enough small suburban 'city'. The high school that Eddie had to attend, Wendigo High, however, was very special, as it was created specifically to educate the local metahumans. Eddie's parents had no idea that he had powers of his own, as he had kept it a secret from them for years, fearing how they would react. Eddie attends Wendigo high simply because his house is zoned for that particular school district.

(Neither Eddie nor his parents know that sister Rachel also has superpowers.)

For the first time since manifesting his abilities AND moving across the country from the only home that he'd ever known, Eddie at least somewhat felt at ease and 'among his own kind'. What he wasn't prepared for was the sheer amount of overly complicated drama that came with being around a horde of superpowered teenagers. Luckily, Eddie has backup: His close-knit group of friends, and himself - lots and LOTS of himself.

Of course, Eddie often succumbs to an odd form of low self-esteem that manifests in constant bickering with himself. He'd never truly harm himself, but, in a way, he is, very literally, his own worst enemy.

Eddie Essex is proficient in playing a myriad of musical instruments and at arts and crafts projects that he finishes in record time when working together with his clones.

Every Saturday Morning, Eddie takes all of his 'selves' down to the local park, hides himself in a secluded place and meditates for half an hour or so to 'get his head together', sorting through the week's various memories and experiences to stave off any dissociative tendencies that might occur - a technique that he learned from his friend, Darryl "Sonny" Van Horn, Jr. - a telepath.

Eddie Essex is at present, able to generate up to about 32 clones of himself comfortably - 39 with a strain that will generate a feeling of fatigue and/or nausea the longer these last few are manifested. It is believed that, the older and more experienced he gets, the more replicants he will be able to comfortably generate.

Multiversal Counterparts:


 * Ed Essex/"Excess" of Super Boot Camp (Universe Aquarius)
 * Eddie Essex, Sonny Van Horn and various other denizens of the PowerTrip comic have alt reality counterparts in Universe Aquarius's "Super Boot Camp"..