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The diagnosis is in: Ed is tim obsessed!
It's no secret that ed has long been suspicious of tim's antics, however his paranoia has kicked into overdrive in recent weeks. Tim's 'manipulation' is all he speaks about. It's all he thinks about. And it's starting to drive his fellow housemates mad.
Ed's convinced that tim's got a target on his head, and his quick rallying of his 'pride' indicates that it's a battle he's unwilling to fight alone. His warnings to them have been loud and clear:
"tim's trying to make me look like a bad person," he cautioned house flame jade on day 60.
"he's trying to make me look like i'm a bad person; i won't stoop to that level, but he will," he warned mikkayla.
"if anyone's going to make me look bad, i will fight that till the end," he vowed to tahan.
"he's trying to point me out and single me out and make me look like an idiot and a bad person," he reminded jade. Again.
Woah, back it up ed. He's trying to make you look like what?
Poor ed never asked for the prince charming title, but it's one that he's determined to uphold - particularly where jade is concerned. His early reluctance to start a romantic relationship in the house was rooted in public perception, and tim's attempts to steal jade from underneath him didn't go unnoticed. Ed was sure that tim was trying to disgrace him by questioning his intentions with the blonde beauty.
The long-seething tension came to a head (or maybe neck) on day 74 when ed called tim to task on making him feel like 'an absolute idiot', but master wordsmith tim managed to run rings around a bumbling ed once again. If anything, it only fuelled ed's fear further.
"it beats ed up more than it beats me up," a flippant tim told madaline the morning after 'the chat'. "he's irrational in his arguments... Whenever we have those moments, it's just all blah blah blah and me trying to find the actual root of the problem and the solution."
tim maintained that he'd never tried to 'back ed into a corner', and that he's certainly not out to get him. "i don't want him gone, i just want him to stop being toxic towards me because i'm not doing that to him," tim explained to madaline. "i would love to get on with him, but he constantly keeps this list in his head of things i've done wrong or how i've been rude to people in here."
tim, you've missed the point entirely: Ed just doesn't want to look like a bad person.
Should ed be more concerned about looking like an obsessed person? Is tim really to blame, or does ed give him far too much credit?