OOC: CR chart.
BELLA SWAN
Twilight
My heart hasn’t beat in almost ninety years, but this was different. It was like my heart was gone-like I was hollow. Like I’d left everything that was inside me here with you.
Allow me to be melodramatic, even if the following statement is entirely true: Bella Swan is the entire reason for Edward's existence. Before ever meeting her, Edward describes his life as, "a moonless night". He had little attachment to existing; he felt mostly like living (though he does not consider what he does to be "living") was a chore, but he was doing it for his family. Being very fatalistic as well as pessimistic, Edward didn't have much hope that his life would change at all. Once he fell for her, he fell hard and permanently. Bella, to him, is an ideal: she is caring, sympathetic, kind, and courageous. She is everything he wished he could be. She is everything that being human has to offer.
And that's why his feelings about her are so complicated. Edward thinks he is selfish, but essentially everything he does upon meeting her is for her. He lies for her. He defends her. He kills for her. He leaves her for her own good. He tried everything he could think of to make her stop loving him so she could have a normal, human existence. When he realizes he loves her and she is attached to him, he tries to pull back. He wants and doesn't want her to love him. Unfortunately (to him), his plans to force her to move past him backfired and she became all the more attached to him.
Bella almost literally has a leash on him. He is willing to murder for her - and has. She keeps him sane. Without her, he would pretty much fall apart at the seams. Despite having such a despicable view of himself, over the years with her he came to accept that she loved him, though to this day he doesn't understand why. He does, however, believe she makes him stronger than he ever was before.
VENOM
Guilty Gear
He had to be kidding - except he didn't think Venom understood humor. Or at least wielded it properly.
Venom, to Edward, is an odd specimen. He's tentative about the assassin, but at his core… he genuinely likes him. Although his interest in him was minimal at best at the beginning, Edward wasn't going to turn a blind eye to a man who would help him when he had nothing to offer in return. The beginning of their relationship actually started when Edward attacked him during the event of Nightshift 43, when a memory caused Venom to become gravely injured and cough up a lungful of blood… onto Edward's face. Though both men were dying, Edward still believes he killed Venom himself, so he felt he owed the man a favor.
The feeling of debt only increased when Edward realized Venom was not going to spread the fact that the former is a vampire.
It snowballed from there. As they began a seesawing game of give and receive, Edward found that he liked Venom initially because his mind is quite easy to read, laid out like a book. Because Edward had relied on his telepathy so much, having it taken away was like having a broken leg and then losing a crutch. Venom was what he was used to: a liar, but with all of his thoughts open to him. It was comforting, in a way. Over time, he's learned a few sparse facts about Venom from his thoughts: his aversion to vampires, his career as an assassin, and his somewhat wanting morals. In all of these things, Edward finds a kinship, and that feeling was multiplied when Venom agreed to supply Edward with a steady source of blood (though it was to help Venom with a set of information he wanted regarding the patients, Edward respects that Venom has gone through a lot more trouble then he ever needed to).
"Abe" Sapien
Hellboy
And until that point, his curiousity on Abe's current status as human or nonhuman was only cursory. But now.... well, he certainly hadn't ever met a monster that had been born as such. They always became them.
Edward did not think anything of Abe except "worried, skittish man" until he forcibly thrust Edward out of his mind. Which, as far as Edward had thought, was impossible. So now he is very clearly curious about Abe, especially considering… he's a fish man. A fish man. And Edward thought werewolves were strange. Regardless, he is one of three people in Landel's who is aware that Edward is a vampire, but Edward trusts him marginally because he saw that Abe is quite amiable. He's still kind of weirded out by Abe's memories of vampires, though. And that fact that he is a fish man.
JUN (dropped)
Persona 2
What good was his trove of medical knowledge if he couldn't even put it to use? He had seen the wound - smelled the blood pumping out frantically - and had known it was fatal. That was the smile of a boy on death row.
Jun was Edward's first roommate, the first person he met in Landel's, and his own personal information dump. Jun told him the initial basics about the institution - the night shift, the monsters, the name of the place - and he experienced his first night in Landel's with him. Surprisingly, it did not end up well: both of them ended up being nearly blown up by a brainwashed robot girl firing missiles, eventually were both mortally wounded by the curse from Nightshift 43, and both died.
Besides that fun romp, Edward recognizes Jun as a… somewhat normal high school boy. He only thought that, really, until he heard the multitude of voices and the death of one of his close friends in Jun's mind while he was dying. Upon hearing that, he began to suspect Jun was not all there in the head. But damn, he was polite, as well as determined to suffer in silence. And that made Edward like him.
Now that he's gone, Edward does miss the boy somewhat - he feels bad about Jun getting hurt because it had been Edward's idea to go outside in the first place (mostly because the hallway before the Recreational Field had had blood in it and he almost lost himself in front of Jun). Edward highly suspects he is dead and regrets the loss.
SAM WINCHESTER
Supernatural
He probably should have apologized for their last meeting, mostly because Bella and male and same room all together in one sentence tended to put him on edge and it had been an incredibly awkward few minutes. But he didn't.
Edward first met Sam while interrupting a conversation he and Bella were having. Because he is a male and was talking to Bella, Edward's jealous nature kicked into high gear (I never claimed his jealous streak made sense). Initially, he doesn't like him. But he doesn't really like any boy who talks to Bella, even if he is quite a bit older than her.
The second time Edward met Sam was in the Tasty Burger of Doyleton during Dayshift 49. During a severe rainstorm, a large group of patients were corralled into the restaurant and a nurse happened to push Sam over right into Edward's ice cream. Suffice to say, things between them remain remarkably awkward. However, he realizes that Sam doesn't really give a hoot about Bella so he's okay with the taller man for now.
He also wants to know why the hell Sam knows about werewolves and zombies, but he just assumes it's something he saw in the institute. Edward does not know that Dean is Sam's brother and that Dean is the man Edward attacked and drank from during Nightshift 46.
DEAN WINCHESTER
Supernatural
It would be easier to maneuver from the front - he could grab both sides of the skull and twist the neck sharply. It would kill him, but there were a few precious moments after death where the heart still beat, unaware.
Meeting Dean was an accident.
On Nightshift 46, Edward was pretty much losing his mind because he was so thirsty - and then he came across Dean, who'd gotten covered in blood and injured earlier that night. So Edward acted the vampire and fed off of him, getting a bowie knife in his ribs for his trouble. The only reason he stopped was because Bella literally knocked him off of Dean in his frenzy.
Since neither of them was really in the right mind, they don't know each other's names or faces. Luckily.
EMMETT CULLEN (dropped)
Twilight
Watch how expertly this vampire could swiftly move away from that particular subject and move on. He wouldn't give his bigger brother the satisfaction of being embarrassed.
Even if he is literally about 50 years younger than Edward, Emmett is, in all the ways that matter, Edward's big brother. A bear of a man himself, he constantly gives Edward crap for being such a chaste virgin with Bella and generally being a grouch. Edward loves Emmett to death. Even if they're not related by blood, they are bound by the time they've spent together as a family. The last time Edward saw his brother was when he was brain-washed into protecting the Recreational Field. He is loathe to tell Bella that his brother is gone - as he found out from Mello on the bulletin board - and he tries to not think about how Landel controlled him like a puppet. If there is any reason for Edward to want to kill Landel, that is it.
SORA
Kingdom Hearts
In a strange way, he appreciated the other patients of Landel's only because they took the edge off of his little handicap. With Sora's short assessment of Venom, the vampire decided he immediately like the boy, especially considering he had been thinking the exact same thing a few hours earlier.
Despite having met Sora only once, the fact that Edward has already taken a liking to him is a strong statement for how optimistic and pure he is. From Sora, Edward began to understand the relationship - albeit vaguely - between the Institute and Doyleton as well as the staff and the monsters. Sora informed him on how the zombies were actually the townspeople who had no recollection of the event and blamed the outstanding destruction as a result of the "outbreak" on a patient rebellion. Edward knows Sora has some sort of relationship with Venom but does not know how or why. All he knows is he wouldn't mind talking to the boy again, as his mind is a very nice place to be.
HARVEY DENT
Batman
"Were your parents Batman fans?" he inquired, musing internally how unfortunate it was to have obtained that injury when combined with the name.
Harvey Dent is... odd. Edward doesn't really know what to make of him; having grown up during the rise of comics, he understandably recognizes the name (and picked up on the fact that Harvey kept thinking of a "bat"), but he only thinks it is a coincidence. Edward doesn't know about the whole fourth-wall thing, probably for the best. From what he can tell, Harvey has a sort of sardonic sense of humor, the kind Edward appreciates.
ROLO LAMPEROUGE (dropped)
Code Geass
"You're not thinking of jetskis, are you?" Leaning closer, he blinked. "No, no you're not. Not jetskis."
Rolo is, for lack of better terms, on Edward's shit list. At first the child's questions were strange, especially the ones concerning Britannica and having no knowledge of what Britannia becomes (England). Otherwise, he didn't have much of an opinion of him... at first. But while under influence of Albedo's Song of Nephilim, Edward begins speaking Rolo's thoughts outloud... one of which he is not happy is being shared. Worried about hte commotion a potentially insane Edward is causing, he assaults him with a baseball bat in a particularly sensitive area.
The next day Edward confronts him along with Venom, only to have the boy pretending he has no idea what they're talking about and insisting his name is "Spike". Edward thinks it's a bunch of bullshit, but he does know something was definitely up, considering his vast mood swing and set of memories from one night to the next day.