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🧍 Edwin Murray ^[2]
he / him ^[2+]

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ℹ️ aliases:
- Edwin ^[2+]
- “Daddy” (by 🧍 David Sean Murray) ^[1]
- “my love” (by 🧍 {Fiona}) ^[12]

ℹ️ species:
🧍 human ^[-]

ℹ️ born:
{19XX}
(24 years old) ^[21]

ℹ️ location(s):
- “the (textile) factory" ^[4|7]

ℹ️ resides:
(formerly) Queen Anne mansion ^[11]
- {Edwin}’s workshop ^[7]

ℹ️ role(s):
- founder of {Edwin}’s business ^[25]
- Fazbear Entertainment contractee ^[35]

ℹ️ relationships:

🧍 {Fiona}
- wife ^[10+]

🧍 David Sean Murray
- son ^[1|2+]

🤖 {“robotic vacuum”}
- invention ^[24]

🤖 Mimic
- invention ^[46]
- son’s friend ^[55]

🧍 Lucy
- ice cream vendor ^[31]

🧍 Fitz
- deliveryman ^[33]

🧍 Grant Starling
- contractor ^[38]

ℹ️ personality:
(formerly) creative ^[9]
(formerly) deliriously happy ^[13], excited ^[19]
(formerly) curious ^[22]
(formerly) ^[57] totally overwhelmed ^[42]
(formerly) ^[61] dissatisfied ^[37]
(formerly) ^[65] insecure ^[17]
- happy ^[48], relaxed ^[55]
- very pleased ^[58], satisfied ^[61]
- talented ^[41]
- focused ^[39]
- sympathetic ^[63]
- concerned ^[6], worried ^[32], fearful ^[53]
- fanciful ^[27], inspired ^[47]
- confident ^[65]
- private ^[5]
- feverish ^[43], passionate ^[44], energized ^[56]
- surprised ^[52], shocked ^[59], amazed ^[65]
- stern ^[16], irritable ^[3]
- derailed by grief ^[26]
- trapped ^[37]
- overworked ^[40]
- desperate ^[47]
- irresponsible ^[60], unresolved ^[67]

ℹ️ likes:
(formerly) lace ^[8]
(formerly) occupation ^[20]
(formerly) building / crafting ^[21]
- privacy ^[5], alone time ^[45]

ℹ️ dislikes:
- lace ^[14]
- memories ^[14]
- loss ^[15]
- working for others ^[36]
- cleaning ^[62]
- going to the laundromat ^[66]

ℹ️ misc facts:
- believed in robotic automation since childhood ^[23]
- had a mustache since 12th grade ^[18]
- achieved first technological patent in college ^[24]
- sighs a lot ^[34]

ℹ️ description:
(formerly) clean shaven ^[c]
(formerly) ^[e] stubble (chin, jaw) ^[a+]
(formerly) ^[53|d] poor personal hygiene ^[50]
(formerly) ^[53]  stinky ^[49|51], stale breath ^[51]
- 5'5" tall ^[29]
- short ^[28]
- short hair ^[a+]
- thick eyebrows ^[a+]
- bleary-eyed ^[43]
- furrowed brow ^[2]
- full mustache ^[a+]
- patchy arm hair ^[a]

ℹ️ accessories:
(formerly) bow tie ^[c]
(formerly) dress shirt ^[c]
(formerly) sweater ^[c]
(formerly) chino pants ^[c]
- thick rimmed glasses ^[a+]
- button-up ^[a+] flannel shirt ^[2]
- jeans ^[b+]
- lace-up ^[d] shoes ^[b+]

ℹ️ color(s):
- sandy-brown (mustache) ^[18]

ℹ️ abilities:
- engineering / inventing ^[24|26]
- architecture ^[30]

ℹ️ history:

📚 The Mimic

sources:
⚠️ (for our sanity, only the first instance of each source per media is included)

[1] “Daddy look, I’m a ghost!”
🧍 David Sean Murray

[2] “Edwin Murray, his brow in its usual deep furrow, swore when his son’s small but insistent hand tugged at Edwin’s flannel shirtsleeve.”
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[3] “‘That’s what you get for playing with dusty old lace,’ Edwin said, his annoyance ebbing a bit.”
- [narration]

[4] “It was early March, and spring rain was seeping in through a few of the cracks in the factory’s old brick walls and dripping down from a couple leaks in the tin roof.”
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[5] “He liked the privacy, even though the lack of light made the expansive space damp and musty.”
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[6] “Edwin was already concerned that David was going to catch a bad cold as he had the past two springs.”
- [narration]

[7] “And it’s my fault for not removing all the old lace before I started converting the textile factory into my workshop.”
🧍{Edwin} (graphic novel)

[8] “However, Edwin rather liked the lace.”
- [narration]

[9] “Although some of it had mildewed, he thought much of it might be salvageable, and he was sure his creative mind could come up with some use for it.”
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[10] “His wife, Fiona, had liked it, too.”
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[11] “Five years before, when Edwin had acquired the building, he and Fiona had also just purchased the old Queen Anne mansion they’d planned to restore to its original grandeur.”
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[12] “'And a canopy for our bed, my love,’ she’d added, winking at Edwin.”
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[13] “Back then—and it now seemed so long ago—Edwin had been a deliriously happy man.”
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[14] “After Fiona had died giving birth to David, Edwin had been tempted to get rid of all the lace.”
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[15] “However, throwing it out felt like just another loss.”
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[16] “’I thought you were going to play with your toys while I worked,’ Edwin said, doing his best to sound stern.”
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[17] “Edwin had never understood what Fiona had seen in him.”
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[18] “Whenever he’d asked her, she’d tweak the full sandy-brown mustache that Edwin had worn since his senior year in high school.”
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[19] “Edwin remembered how excited he’d been when he’d learned he was going to be a father.”
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[20] “He already had a job he loved, a gorgeous wife he adored, who, inexplicably, adored him back, and enough money to buy what he and his wife wanted.”
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[21] “For nearly all Edwin’s twenty-four years of life, he’d loved building things.”
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[22] “When he’d been about David’s age, he’d begun taking apart his mother’s small appliances so he could see how they worked, though they rarely still worked when he put them back together.”
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[23] “By the time Edwin was eight, he knew that he wanted to build useful machines that would change people’s lives.”
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[24] “His got his first patent on a robotic vacuum cleaner when he was still a college student.”
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[25] “Despite the bugs and high price point, it had sold well enough to allow Edwin to start his business right out of school.”
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[26] “If she’d survived giving birth to David, Edwin wouldn’t have been derailed by grief, and he wouldn’t have had to try to figure out how to invent his machines and take care of his infant son at the same time.”
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[27] “Or maybe Edwin was being fanciful.”
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[28] “David, remarkably big for his age, in spite of having two short parents, wasn’t an easy carry.”
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[29] “Pretty soon, Edwin, only five-foot-five himself, wasn’t going to be able to cart his son around.”
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[30] “Thankfully, Edwin was an engineer-slash-architect, so he converted part of the factory’s offices to a small apartment with a compact sitting area, a tiny galley kitchen, one bedroom, and one bathroom with an old clawfoot tub.”
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[31] “I suppose we could ask Lucy to get some of the special, invisible tiger ice cream made just for tigers out of the back for him when we get to the ice cream parlor.”
🧍 {Edwin}

[32] “If I can make this idea work, I’ll finally have the time I need to finish all this, and not worry so much about David.”
🧍 {Edwin} (graphic novel)

[33] “Recently, Fitz, the deliveryman who brought Edwin all his current projects and the supplies he ordered, had asked, ’Don’t you worry about the kid falling down stairs or getting hurt in the machines or locked into a room or something?’”
- [narration]

[34] “It occurred to him that he sighed a lot.”
- [narration]

[35] “I should catch up on the I owe Fazbear Entertainment.”
🧍 {Edwin} (graphic novel)

[36] “He’d spent the last year and a half abandoning his own work to bow to another company’s agenda.”
- [narration]

[37] “Edwin was trapped in a life he didn’t want to live, and he was doing projects he never in a million years thought he’d be working on.”
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[38] “'You’re doing the right thing,’ Grant Starling, the portly Fazbear Entertainment exec who’d negotiated the buyout, said as he watched Edwin scrawl his signature on the bottom of the twelve-page contract.”
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[39] “The machines he designed were intricate and required thousands of hours of focused work—not to mention very expensive parts and tools.”
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[40] “He just hadn’t had enough in him to do everything he’d needed to do.”
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[41] “You have a real talent,”
🧍 Grant Starling

[42] “He was behind schedule and totally overwhelmed.”
- [narration]

[43] “It put him three weeks behind in his projects for Fazbear Entertainment, but Edwin, working feverishly and essentially giving up sleep entirely for many bleary-eyed days, was able to take his idea from spark to completion in an amazingly short amount of time.”
- [narration]

[44] “Edwin attributed this speed to the passion he held for the project.”
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[45] “Even though he’d relish the time to himself, Edwin didn’t have the money to pay for a preschool program at the moment, and the free class was across town.”
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[46] “By pulling wiring from rooms that he never used, taking pistons from a defunct industrial washing machine, and borrowing steel and spools and gears and springs from the Leavers Machine, Edwin had fashioned the torso, arms, and head of a primitive-looking endoskeleton.”
- [narration]

[47] “Perhaps because the idea was inspired, or perhaps because Edwin was so desperate to find a way to take care of David without actually having to take care of David, Edwin was able to write the code for the program at nearly the speed of light.”
- [narration]

[48] “He took several shortcuts that any other programmer would have frowned upon, but he was happy with the result.”
- [narration]

[49] “Daddy, you stink,”
🧍 David Sean Murray

[50] “Between taking care of David and building his brainchild, Edwin had let a few things fall by the wayside. Personal hygiene was one of those things.”
- [narration]

[51] “His breath, he suddenly realized, was stale, and his armpits might have been lethal.”
- [narration]

[52] “Edwin blinked in surprise.”
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[53] “But first, he had to clean himself up.”
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[54] “Some primitive part of his brain felt a surge of fear.”
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[55] “Edwin relaxed and took his son and his son’s new friend up the stairs.”
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[56] “After catching up on some sleep the first night Mimic was completed, Edwin woke up energized and ready to go back to creating the characters Fazbear Entertainment wanted.”
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[57] “And because David was occupied with his new friend, Edwin had long stretches of uninterrupted work time.”
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[58] “He still wasn’t sure how Mimic was learning so quickly, but he was very pleased by this development.”
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[59] “The first time Edwin realized he hadn’t checked on David for hours, he was shocked.”
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[60] “It felt irresponsible, almost.”
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[61] “Edwin returned to his work, satisfied that Mimic was doing what Edwin had designed the robot to do.”
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[62] “But Edwin didn’t want to scrub cheese off Mimic’s parts.”
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[63] “The gesture tugged at his heartstrings, but he shook his head.”
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[64] “Edwin blinked in amazement.”
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[65] “Now even more confident that he could leave David in Mimic’s care, Edwin threw himself into his work.”
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[66] “And he hated going to the laundromat.”
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[67] “His resolve fled him a mere ten minutes after the incident.”
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