Eddie Kaspbrak

Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak is a founding member of the Loser's Club and subsequently Shark Puppy. He is recently out as a gay man and openly in a relationship with fellow band member Richie Tozier after his divorce from abusive partner Myra. Much of his songwriting is influenced by these relationships, as well as his struggles with hypochondria due to his relationship with his similarly-abusive mother, Sonia Kaspbrak, and her Munchausen syndrome by proxy, heightened by his upbringing during the AIDS crisis.

Musical Origins
"Eddie's relationship with his mother grows more tumultuous; he's rejected his "medication" but still secretely carries around an inhaler and can't shake the feeling that one day he'll do something wrong and get Dirty and Sick. He rebels loudly, plays Richie's mixtapes in his room on the boombox he pawned off Bill when he got a new one, loud enough so that he can't hear his mother yelling at him from downstairs. Her love is harsher now and she's not coddling him anymore; the delicate little boy she thought she knew is gone, and he's been taken over by an angry teenager who won't listen to her. Her power over him is weakening, but she still holds him close. One weekend, when the rest of the Losers are on a school trip she wouldn't give him permission to go on, Eddie buys an old, second-hand electric guitar, complete with amplifier and even an ovation pedal, for twenty dollars at the pawn shop. It's the only twenty dollars he has, but he buys it anyway, not knowing what he'll do with it other than make his mother mad; that's reason enough for him. He doesn't take it home, though. Instead he goes to the Clubhouse and starts shaping his fingers over the chords on the chart that the shop owner had thrown in for free. He's not good, but he gets better."