Eric Cooper

Eric Cooper is a member of the Assassin Order and navigator aboard the Altair II.

Early life
Hailing from Scotland, Cooper was in a relationship with a woman who was murdered during a racist attack. After systematically hunting down the hate group responsible in, Cooper considered ending his life, but he was recruited by the Assassins, who gave him a new purpose.

While serving aboard the Altair II, Cooper became close friends with Stephanie Chiu, due to several health issues, and Emmett Leary, whom he closely supervised because of his laidback nature. Cooper was hoping to one day resume a normal life in Scotland, and Leary often kept track of events back home for him.

With the Assassins
On 11 September 2013, during a meeting with the Assassin leader Gavin Banks and captain Susan Drayton, while sailing to Japan, Gavin declared that his contact in Osaka was not responding. Eric reminded Gavin that their communications had been disrupted since the solar flares in December, but Gavin informed him that he and his contact had their own way to communicate. He then directed Eric to sail to the Philippines, where they bought several weapons for Philippine gun makers in preparation for a possible fight with Abstergo agents.

In December, the Altair II arrived in Osaka and discovered the Assassin safehouse had been attacked by the yakuza. After determining the Onmoraki-Gumi were likely responsible, Eric and the other Assassins began investigating the identity of the group's leader. Eric heard that the leader was a 64-year old woman who had killed her own family, and entered into a bet with the other Assassins in which the one who guessed closest to the leaders identity would win the right to shower first in the morning for a month.

The leader of the Onmoraki-Gumi turned out to be Saeko Mochizuki, the local Mentor of the Osaka Brotherhood who had taken over the organization after it attacked the Assassins. Eric declared himself the winner of the team's bet, and began using up all the hot water in the morning. Eric invited Saeko aboard the Altair II for a tour while the team stopped in Tokyo to gather supplies on 31 December, and assisted her, Susan, and the Initiate spy in cleaning up the ship before having homemade toshikoshi soba prepared by Saeko.

In 2014, when William Miles' team came aboard the ship, they discovered a spy among the crew transmitting reports to a group called the Initiates. William personally interrogated each of Gavin's crew; during his interrogation, Cooper was stunned by the possibility that one of his crewmates could be a spy.

Reference

 * Assassin's Creed: Initiates