Eric Coulter

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✷INFORMATION FULL NAME: Eric Coulter ALIAS: None ORIGIN: Divergent OCCUPATION: Fearless Leader POWERS/ABILITIES: Fighting skills, leadership, gunner. HOBBY: Testing his students' fears. OBJECTIVES: Help Jeanine Matthews eradicate Divergents and Abnegation. CRIMES: Treason, conspiracy, attempted genocide, mass murder. VILLAIN TYPE: Sadistic leader Eric Coulter is a major antagonist in the Divergent trilogy, serving as a secondary antagonist to both Divergent and Insurgent.

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✷HISTORY Early life in scholarship Eric transferred from Erudite at age 16 and quickly became an enemy of Four after placing second in the final standings. Eric became leader at 17, which is not unusual for Dauntless leaders, but he is very young compared to the leaders of most other factions. ⼀Divergent: He is shown to be extremely competitive during the game of Capture the Flag, choosing a team built for power, but loses when he wins Team Four. While he is not training the initiates, he has ordered a person to guard the control room that Four controls when he enjoys training the rookies in Dauntless.

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He attempted to kill Four by pointing his gun at his head when he was supposed to be under the simulation, but Tris quickly pulled out her gun and threatened to shoot him before he could touch Four. Instead, she ended up shooting him in the foot, because she knew he didn't have the strength to kill him. ⼀Insurgent: Eric commands a group of Dauntless under the influence of the simulation serum to attack the Candor headquarters, where Dauntless loyalists congregate, and gas others so they can be controlled by a simulation. They shoot stud-like things that inject a serum-like fluid into loyal Dauntless and Candor members so they can be controlled later in the simulations. They also gas everyone, making them under the effect of a dream simulation, so that they can find and capture the Divergents, two of whom will be brought back to the Erudite headquarters, while the rest will be killed. Eric shoots a young Divergent named Bobby in the head, then is stabbed by Tris and captured.

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When the Dauntless loyalists learn that one of the Erudite's "peace" conditions for Candor's safety is to deliver Eric safely to the Erudite, the Dauntless rush to the room where he is being held and Newly elected Dauntless leaders, Tori Wu, Four, and Harrison, sentence him to death according to Dauntless rules. He asks Four to be his executioner and asks Tris to list his crimes. ✷PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: In the books, Eric is eighteen years old and is described as having long dark hair and countless piercings. He was also described as having cold eyes which made him even more menacing, scabby knuckles and an evil smile. In the film adaptations he has short blonde hair, a couple of piercings, and bold tattoos on his neck and arms.

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✷PERSONALITY: Eric is very intelligent, but he is so malicious that everyone tends to forget how intelligent he is. Tris describes him as a scholar in Dauntless clothing. He is also described as a nursemaid who sharpens knives. He is somewhat sadistic and cold towards other people, as shown in Insurgente, mocking Four for his decision to kill him, even though Eric was being held at gunpoint. Tobias describes his method of overcoming fear simulations using reason and rationality, implying that he is sensible under stress. Another hint is that he does not seem to show fear before executing him and he is more concerned with trying to convince the executioners of him that they are as bad as Eric himself. Eric appears to have a mutual rivalry with Four, given that they were rival initiates.

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✷What are the Divergent factions? In a futuristic and dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions: SELF-DENIAL (the altruistic), CORDIALITY (the peaceful), TRUTH (the sincere), BOLDNESS (the brave) and ERUDITION (the intelligent).

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✷Abnegation ⼀“I choose to distance myself from my reflection, to lean on myself and not on my brothers and sisters, to always protect the outside until it disappears.”⼀ It is the faction that values ​​selflessness to serve others. They are the ones who do community services. The dystopian society of Chicago is run by a fifty-person council, made up entirely of Abnegation representatives because their faction is incorruptible, due to their commitment to selflessness. The members of this faction dress in gray colors so as not to stand out and the area where they live is in ruins. They can only look in the mirror once every 3 months, which is the same day they get their hair cut. They help the abandoned. Their initiation consists of spending 30 days doing community service before they can become full members. They sit side by side on a bench, read their manifestos, and serve food to the person on their left after the elders wash the feet of the initiated.

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✷Erudition ⼀“Every question that can be answered must be answered or, at least, analyzed. It is necessary to confront illogical mental processes when they arise. Incorrect answers must be corrected. The correct answers must be affirmed.”⼀ Ability to face difficult, unusual or dangerous situations without fear and fortitude. The Erudite faction values ​​intelligence above all else. In this faction's complex, all the walls are lined with shelves full of books, although according to the narrative they are mere decoration, since all the scholars seem to have their eyes glued to the computer screens. Members of this faction must wear at least one piece of blue clothing, because blue relaxes the mind, which is related to their saying "a relaxed mind is a clear mind."

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✷Audacity ⼀“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to defend another.”⼀ The Dauntless faction is a faction that tests bravery by performing death-defying feats. They wear earrings and tattoos, they are reckless and they dress in black. Their role is to protect the people and guard the city border. This faction's complex is underground. The people of this faction dress in black and are very loud. His initiation consists of jumping from trains, buildings, fighting against other initiates and demonstrating his own bravery, both physically and mentally, divided into three stages: the first demonstrates exclusive physical preparation, the second mental preparation through simulations facing his fears and the third. and lastly, in the Landscape of Fear room.

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✷Cordiality ⼀“Give freely, trusting that what you need will be given to you... Don't get angry. The opinions of others cannot harm you... Don't get angry. The mistake is past. You must leave her in her place... You must stop having cruel thoughts. Cruel thoughts lead to cruel words, and they hurt you as much as their target.”⼀ The Cordials value peace above all else. They are the ones who try to make everything peaceful. Faction members wear red or yellow. They are known for their friendliness and seem to always be playing. In general they are artists, advisors and caregivers. The goal in life of the people of this faction is to be happy.

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✷Truth “The truth is as powerful as a wild animal and, like it, it cannot remain caged” The members of this faction express everything that goes through their minds without caring about the consequences. The most important thing for them is honesty, and their initiation test consists of revealing each of their secrets to others, in order to be completely honest. They dress in black and white. Your initiation consists of going through a lie detector every day until the day of the final test in which you are given a truth serum and in front of everyone you must answer personal questions. The point is that if you spill all your secrets, you would have no desire to lie about anything ever again.

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✷Abandoned There is another group that is not part of any faction or social class. They are the abandoned, people who have failed to complete the initiation or, in the case of those of Dauntless, are too old to belong to said faction. They live on the streets doing the work that no one else wants to do.

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