1. His favorite book when he was a child was Robinson Crusoe. This changed around high school when he got his hands on Dickens.
2. During his school years, Edward was the quiet boy in the corner who every girl had a crush on. True facts. The few girls attempted to flirt with him were brushed off or stared at skeptically. The whole thing disturbed him.
3. He always expected to become a teacher one day – a professor at a respectable university. (As he went to Harvard, it was unlikely he’d teach there – that rarely happened there.) Somewhere respectable and decent, where he could walk from his home to work and back again – no need for a car or anything else. He and Gina would have a few dogs, probably not kids, and things would be peaceful.
4. He had expected Lucas to be the best man at his and Gina’s wedding.
5. The music video for Telephone offends him for a variety of reasons that need no explanation.
6. He’s unconscious of the way he’s always gravitated towards the sea – it’s one of the few things that can truly calm him.
7. His life after gaining revenge is a blank slate. He has no idea what’s coming or what he’ll do – he just has the small hope that he’ll be content. He’s not sure who he’ll be – Evan, Xavier, or any of his others – because his plans at the moment aren’t in place yet, he’s still developing them and always will be.
8. Ditching Iris is one of the few things he feels like he might have made a mistake on and is his fault.
9. He likes the Dave Matthews Band, the Beatles, and the Police. Cuz it’s murder by numbers, 1-2-3 it’s easy to learn as your ABC’s… Since leaving prison, he has to say the first album of Panic at the Disco’s music is his brand of irony and derisiveness towards the world.
10. He’s forgiven his family for abandoning him, even if he hasn’t forgiven Gina. (Who frankly, might have more of an excuse to.) He wasn’t as close to them when the arrest happened anyhow and their town was quiet, small and no-drama. Things like these were ignored or dealt with quietly.