Eric

Eric has been Mitsuo’s best friend since Mitsuo adopted him and Walker into the Van Gang off the streets of Hellawes. he works as a welder. Eric has longish sandy blond hair, hazel eyes, and a noticeable tan, he stands five foot 11 inches (180 centimeters) tall. He is considered to be a classically handsome American, well built, with big broad shoulders - a football player's body; he played football in middle school. Openly gay; as a bent telophone pole as he puts it, though you’d never know from his behavior, though its fairly obvious in hindsight thanks to his flamboyant personality. Eric is an Otaku, and loves anime and to a lesser extent video games.

He draws his own crude triple-x rated webcomic, which he is horribly embarrassed to share with Anep, who he considers to be more talented. Eric treats Anep as the gay younger brother he never had, though hes a bit jealous as he had had his eyes on Mitsuo since he first joined the van gang, Mitsuo would often taken Eric, and rarely be taken by him; for years he was Mitsuo’s favorite lay in the gang; he was kinda miffed that Mitsuo choose Anep; a nobody he just met who wasn’t even part of the gang, as his chick instead of Eric, but eventually he moved on after seeing Mitsuo truly happy for the first time with Anep, and has since started looked for his own special someone.

Eric was the first homeowner in the gang, having a tiny home inside a cargo-container, he has a verandah with a small hanging garden on the side of his home, which is simply large enough for a small bedroom, large tub and shower, and a kitchenette and dining area, and a small living room area overlooking the verandah through sliding glass doors. Slobby, Eric prefers to tend to his garden rather than clean his own home, though there is nothing rotting or perishable in the mess; but he leaves his dirty clothes on the floor, leaves things out too long, clutters everything, he always throws away trash but has a problem picking up after himself.

Eric loves to garden and is a master of his craft, typically working 10 hours a day sometimes seven days a week. In his free time he can sometimes also be found creating metal sculptures at the shop, his boss giving his employees the freedom to use his equipment so long as it doesn’t interfere with their jobs, they pay for materials themselves, along with the request that the company be given mention at art shows. He maintains a garden around his tiny home; on the deck and the sides; the home is nice enough modeled after a painted lady house.

Eric and Walker are a dangerous mix; drawing out each other's disturbing fantasies and aggression, and need Mitsuo to keep them levelheaded; he and Walker were adopted into Mitsuo’s van gang so he and Stanford could keep an eye on them and keep them out of trouble. Though he’s a weeb, Eric has a functional life outside Anime and Video Games, unlike Walker, though whenever they weeb out in public Mitsuo and Stanford feel a surge of second-hand embarrassment.

He and Anep watch anime together, if only by AR chatting across town during, with Eric enjoying Yaoi and barely-not-gay sports animes; unlike Mitsuo who finds them too cheesy or stupid or pedestrian. Eric is big into yaoi, bara, slash, and shipping like Anep is, though they don’t really share a type as Eric is mostly a top and Anep is a bottom; though they both agree Mitsuo is ‘sexy as fucking fuck’ and love to be on their knees or bend over for him.

Dropping out at 16 like most people who had an idea of what they wanted to be or do in life; he and Walker got in with a bad crowd and were being groomed to become interrogators for a real gang, before Mitsuo came along and saved them from their antisocial weirdo behaviors and gave them a place to truly belong rather than a place that exploited their worst traits.

Eric works in a general store in Hellawes, and in his free time can be found creating metal sculptures. Eric is attracted to the Skullz because of their creed, and because he doesn't want to live a quiet life like everyone else; getting together with the Color Gang to be useless and fight and have fun. He keeps videos and photos from their lives before the Skullz on his coil, back when it was just the Van Gang, a bunch of overzealous and dorky kids acting like big tough beatboxers and street thugs; considering this part of his life to be very endearing, though he and his friends have grown out of the social malcontent wannabe part of their youth.

Eric’s adventure weapons are a huge double handed sword, hollow, with a chainsaw blade on the outside. He also wears plated nano-laminante armor, the heavy variety, not like Mitsuo.