User blog comment:Anexas98/Edward's personality and social status/@comment-10430855-20130403151749/@comment-3046679-20130403152120

I think it's also because there's just too much contrast between him and the time we play as Haytham, who's all clever, calm and organized in what he does. Then we have a character who's thick for the sake of being thick and plot convenience, else he'd start to question village fire and Lee's involvement ages ago.