Eddie Soul

A dull blue overcoat layered over a white button-down shirt is the outfit Eddie is remembered in. He cuts a tall figure, and his cropped hair, dark brown in tone, sits above a pair of gray eyes.

Warmth toward his three children defines Eddie. Work pulls him away from home for long stretches, yet he still cooks, provides, and makes a point of thanking Rody for shouldering the care of Roro and Lala in his absence. When Humarise threatens those children, he surrenders to the cult and lends his skill to the Trigger Bombs, choosing captivity over any risk to them.

Compliance, however, is only a surface. Unwilling to let a plan for worldwide slaughter reach its end, he builds a deactivation key in secret, defying captors who hold every advantage over him. The gamble spares millions of strangers along with his own family, and it gets him killed.

The world remembers him afterward as a traitor bound to a death cult. Only later, through Rody, does the truth surface, and the son finishes the work the father died attempting.

Otheon knows Eddie as a famous engineer, successful enough to house his family comfortably. He marries and raises three kids: Rody is the eldest, with Roro and then Lala behind him. His wife dies not long after the youngest is born, and the eldest boy takes over much of the parenting whenever the job keeps Eddie away. One gift captures their bond: a puzzle box that Rody struggles with until his father nudges him toward the solution, holding a necklace inside as thanks for looking after his siblings.

Humarise, a terrorist cult that treats Quirks as an illness to be cured, abducts him for his talents. Threatened with his children's deaths, he swears loyalty to Flect Turn. The news ruins the Soul family. School expels Rody, Roro and Lala, other parents keep their own children away, and vandals cover the family home with insults aimed at Eddie. The three end up in a rundown caravan in Otheon's Shanty Town, with Rody taking illegal odd jobs to feed them. He smashes the necklace and eventually stops thinking about his father altogether.

Alongside other kidnapped scientists, Eddie develops the Trigger Bombs, devices that flood an area with Ideo Trigger and drive Quirks into a fatal rampage. Aware of the genocide they are meant to enable, he hides a kill code inside a deactivation key. The betrayal is uncovered and he is executed, but the key reaches his colleague Alan Kay, who flees the cult to deliver it and is hunted for it.

The briefcase carrying the key lands with Rody through a mix-up, and he crosses paths with Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki. A hidden compartment holds a puzzle built like the childhood one, so Rody opens it without trouble, finding the key and a microSD with Alan's recorded message. Rody keeps his face still, but his Quirk companion Pino weeps for him: his father had never stopped caring.

With two hours left on Humarise's countdown, the four break into the cult's headquarters. Rody is captured and offered Otheon's safety in exchange for the key, and he plays along up to the moment Pino exposes the bluff, opening Flect Turn's guard for Izuku. Shot through the chest, Rody drags himself toward the deactivation center and passes out; Pino enters the code with less than a second remaining while Izuku beats Flect Turn. Humarise is arrested, the Soul children are welcomed back into society, and Rody finishes what Eddie began.