Parker is a physically fit man in his mid-twenties. He's never had any history of physical illness (aside from like, minor allergies), though he does have a family history of Alzheimer's (on his maternal side).
He suffers a psychological addiction/emotional crutch to power, but since he's never without some superhuman power in the City, that hasn't been a severe problem for him in of itself. His drive to accumulate more power (and his failure to do so) has inspired bouts of situational depression.
Eddie is a physically fit man in his late thirties. He once had terminal brain cancer, but -- one convoluted plot line and a Lazarus Pit later -- he now no longer has brain cancer. He has suffered a lot of head injuries, most notably that one dealt to him during Infinite Crisis, which left him in a coma for about a year. His behavior often incites a lot of physical confrontation, which is the sort of confrontation that he rarely fares well in (both canon and in-game examples are numerous). And yet despite that, Eddie has no present chronic physical illnesses (nor any canon familial histories of such) and he usually heals suspiciously quickly from any damage inflicted upon his body.
Psychologically speaking, Eddie's woes are a bit more complex. He has nurtured a severe case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder from adolescence, something developed in part because of his abuse home environment. In the same turn, his obsessive-compulsive tendencies manifested around the guilt that his father's abuse provoked. These manifestations revolve around the epicenter of truth versus lies; for example, when planning committing a crime he is literally compelled to discuss it, and outright lying about it is impossible. Truth folds into guilt, which spurs the manifestation of his obsessive-compulsive state because of his childhood trauma.
The riddle compulsions are the notable manifestations. These are compulsions that he has since tried to transform into an asset of his personality, a signature, rather than a weakness. That success comes in degrees, and often when he is fracturing or losing control of a situation (or of himself), his riddling tendency regresses from a behavioral asset to a blatant compulsion.
Eddie can be callous and whimsical about human life or the right of other human beings, a perspective suggesting something sociopathic in nature (but, at the same time, this perspective can be justified as simply human cruelty magnified by his already established personality disorder).
OH AND obviously, Eddie has been frequently hospitalized in both hospitals and mental institutions.
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He suffers a psychological addiction/emotional crutch to power, but since he's never without some superhuman power in the City, that hasn't been a severe problem for him in of itself. His drive to accumulate more power (and his failure to do so) has inspired bouts of situational depression.
Eddie is a physically fit man in his late thirties. He once had terminal brain cancer, but -- one convoluted plot line and a Lazarus Pit later -- he now no longer has brain cancer. He has suffered a lot of head injuries, most notably that one dealt to him during Infinite Crisis, which left him in a coma for about a year. His behavior often incites a lot of physical confrontation, which is the sort of confrontation that he rarely fares well in (both canon and in-game examples are numerous). And yet despite that, Eddie has no present chronic physical illnesses (nor any canon familial histories of such) and he usually heals suspiciously quickly from any damage inflicted upon his body.
Psychologically speaking, Eddie's woes are a bit more complex. He has nurtured a severe case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder from adolescence, something developed in part because of his abuse home environment. In the same turn, his obsessive-compulsive tendencies manifested around the guilt that his father's abuse provoked. These manifestations revolve around the epicenter of truth versus lies; for example, when planning committing a crime he is literally compelled to discuss it, and outright lying about it is impossible. Truth folds into guilt, which spurs the manifestation of his obsessive-compulsive state because of his childhood trauma.
The riddle compulsions are the notable manifestations. These are compulsions that he has since tried to transform into an asset of his personality, a signature, rather than a weakness. That success comes in degrees, and often when he is fracturing or losing control of a situation (or of himself), his riddling tendency regresses from a behavioral asset to a blatant compulsion.
Eddie can be callous and whimsical about human life or the right of other human beings, a perspective suggesting something sociopathic in nature (but, at the same time, this perspective can be justified as simply human cruelty magnified by his already established personality disorder).
OH AND obviously, Eddie has been frequently hospitalized in both hospitals and mental institutions.