| Edgar Teglee |
–Edgar
Edgar Teglee is an artist and a former resident of the Asylum.
Appearance[]
Edgar is a very muscular man who enjoys creating art. He has four fingers on each hand, purple skin, violet eyes, black hair with grey stripes running through, and various dragon tattoos on his arms and back. He wears a black vest with animal designs reminiscent of Mexican art culture. The vest has a green snake, a red bull, yellow wings, and rose flowers woven on top. His is shoes have designs similar to his vest. He additionally wears a striped red and white shirt underneath the vest with matching pants supported by a large black belt with a golden buckle. There is a paintbrush etched on top of the belt buckle. His eye bags and nose are a dark pink color and his ears are not visible under his hair.
Background[]
–Character blurb from the original Psychonauts website
In high school, Edgar was the captain of his high school wrestling team. He and his teammates all based their costumes on different animals, with Edgar's being "The Bull". Edgar's talents as a wrestler were able to get his team a chance at the state semi-finals. One day, he spotted a cheerleader named Lana Panzoni struggling to get into her locker. Edgar helped her by ripping the locker's door off its hinges, which impressed Lana so much that they started dating. They were happy for a time, but soon Lana got bored of Edgar's strength, and left him for the male cheerleader on her team, Dean LaGrante.
The devastation Edgar felt broke his fighting spirit. He lost his next wrestling match, particularly because he spotted the two making out in the audience, costing his team a chance at the championship. His teammates all turned their backs on him for it, further compounding his sadness. Edgar spent much of his time painting in the art teacher's room to hide away from his former teammates. Edgar became obsessed with Dean and Lana, blaming them for everything that went wrong in his life, associating Dean with the imagery of a bullfighter, since he was The Bull on the wrestling team. This obsession grew to the point that every painting Edgar tried to make ended up being one of a bull fight, which resulted in fits of rage whenever said paintings were completed. Edgar's obsession eventually resulted in him constructing a false narrative for himself, in which he was once a famous painter and husband to the beautiful Lampita Pasionado, who got seduced by a famous bullfighter Edgar was supposed to paint a portrait of him named Dingo Inflagrante. These fits of rage, and possibly his delusion, eventually resulted in Edgar getting sent to the Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed.
Story[]
Psychonauts[]
–Old Psychopedia description
Raz finds Edgar inside a room full of painting equipment, chained to the ground by his leg. He paints velvet paintings and attempts to paint Dr. Loboto's face, which is required for him to be set free, but every time he tries to finish a painting, he ends up painting a bullfight over it.
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Edgar in the asylum, focusing on a small house of cards.
Raz helps him by entering his mind. Here, in the mental world of Black Velvetopia, he finds Edgar attempting to build a house of cards to reach the sun. In the sun is a woman crying rose petal tears. Edgar explains that he is trying to build the house of cards to reach her, but two things have gotten in the way of that. First, Edgar doesn't seem to have a full deck, meaning that he doesn't have enough cards to reach the woman. Second, Edgar reveals that his tower keeps getting knocked down by a large pink charging bull known as El Odio.
Raz points out that Edgar is missing his Queens, and offers to go find them. Raz is then swept into the streets of Edgar's mind by El Odio. After finding the cards, Raz gives them to Edgar, who uses them to finish the house of cards and reach the sun. Raz follows Edgar up the house of cards, and then finds himself in a bullfighting ring with El Odio, who is revealed to be Edgar himself. Raz fights against Edgar and defeats him, whereupon Dingo shows up to finish Edgar off. Raz tries to reveal that everything in Edgar's mind wasn't real, that Edgar made up El Odio, Dingo, and Lampita, the last two being romanticized versions of Dean and Lana. However, Edgar is too angry to listen, and turns back into El Odio, charging at Dean/Dingo, who simply parries him. Raz takes Dean/Dingo on himself, and defeats him, causing Lana/Lampita to run to Dean/Dingo crying. Seeing this, Raz's sorrow turns to disgust as he instantly says they are pathetic.
Finally, Edgar is able to see Dingo and Lampita for whom they really are, and decides not to obsess over what Dean and Lana did to him any longer, removing the thing that caused him to go insane: the trauma stemming from his high school memories. After that, he gives Raz the painting of Dr. Loboto and begins painting a new one.
After the player removes Loboto, Edgar decides to leave and frees himself. When he breaks off the chain, connected to the floor, he accidentally breaks a gas pipe. At first, he's worried, but after sniffing the air, realizes that there is no gas. After spilling all his turpentine and acetone on the ground he leaves his room, Gloria turns on the gas and Fred opens a window leading into the area that has the elevator and Edgar's room. Boyd tosses his lit bottle into the area and the gas ignites, blowing up the Asylum. Like the other asylum inmates, he leaves Thorney Towers and never returns.
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin[]
Edgar is briefly mentioned by Raz in Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin.
Psychonauts 2[]
Edgar appears in the Psychonauts recap animation at the start of Psychonauts 2.
Edgar's Mind[]
- Main article: Black Velvetopia
Relationships[]
Boyd Cooper[]
Edgar is friends with Boyd. They escape with the remaining inmates from Thorney Towers before it's destroyed. The full extent of their relationship is up to speculation.
Gloria Von Gouton[]
Edgar is friends with Gloria. They escape with the remaining inmates from Thorney Towers before it's destroyed. The full extent of their relationship is up to speculation.
Razputin Aquato[]
Edgar is friends with Raz and appreciates his help with assembling the card tower. If clairvoyance is used on Edgar, Raz will appear as a poker card.
Fred Bonaparte[]
Edgar is friends with Fred. They escape with the remaining inmates from Thorney Towers before it's destroyed.
Dog Painters[]
Edgar is good friends with the dog painters and can be found playing poker with them if Raz returns to Black Velvetopia after it is completed.
Dingo Inflagrante[]
Dingo Inflagrante is Edgar's enemy and a primary source of rage and torment inside his mind. He represents the man that stole the love of his life in high school.
Lampita Passionado[]
Lampita was Edgar's love interest in high school. He was heartbroken when she left him for a cheerleader, which subsequently caused him to be admitted to the insane asylum, Thorney Towers. Inside his mind, she is a primary source of yearning, rage, and discomfort.
El Odio[]
Edgar deeply resents the bull that runs rampant in his mind, representing his anger issues. However, Edgar and El Odio are sometimes the same entity which additionally represent Edgar's self loathing.
Crispin Whitehead[]
Crispin is Edgar's fellow asylum inmate. They do not interact directly within the game, therefore their true relationship is up to speculation.
Trivia[]
Using clairvoyance on Edgar.
- Edgar has the largest arms of any character in the real world.
- Edgar seems to be afraid of Fred Bonaparte because he thinks Fred is still head orderly.
- His name comes from Edgar Leeteg, a man known as the father of American velvet painting.
- If the player uses Clairvoyance on Edgar, he sees Raz as a joker card.
- If Raz tries using Telekinesis on Edgar in the real world, he'll say, "Nobody lifts Edgar Teglee!". In his mental world, however, he can be lifted up.
- The Kings in the tower of cards bears Edgar's likeness.
- On a side note, Edgar was shown to be very strong, he developed his strength by wrestling in high school. As he was able to rip his chain from the concrete floor of his room, freeing himself, and, in high school, was able to rip a locker door off its hinges.
- Edgar is mentioned in Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin when Raz sees a bull, he says it reminds him of his old friend, Edgar.
- According to one of his Clairvoyance sprites, Edgar had blue skin when he was younger.
- In the cutscene where Edgar finishes Loboto's painting, his chains can be seen floating in the air and not attached to his leg.
References/Notes[]
- ↑ One of Edgar's mental figures, Dingo Inflagrante, is able to use and teach this ability.