Edaurent

Edaurent is the slash ship between Makoto Edamura and Laurent Thrierry from the Great Pretender fandom.

Canon
Both are close business partners who don't agree very much when it comes to plans, although they can get along well sometimes. For Laurent, Edamura's name is difficult for him to pronounce, since his French accent makes it difficult to pronounce Japanese names. He uses to call him "Edamame" instead of Edamura, as well as "soybean" and "cute".

Case 1.1
Makoto was in his normal journal for deceiving people alongside with his partner, then he found Laurent drinking in a stall and started doing his plan for deceive him; pretending that Laurent's wallet had fell from his pocket, which this one had a lot of money. Then it looked like Laurent already knew Makoto's plan, and once Makoto gave him "Laurent's wallet", Thierry "hugged" Makoto in signal of a "thank you" from his part. Makoto thought that his plan worked, but once he looked the wallet throughtly later, he noticed that Laurent had fooled him, giving him a wallet that had newspaper instead of money. Makoto was shocked at this, but then the police arrived to his basement, he didn't know how they did found out the place, so he left it and got inside a taxi for escaping, without noticing that the guy he deceived before was there. As they were traveling, Makoto noticed that Laurent was a swindler too, and asked him where he was heading, Laurent told him that he was going to Haneda's airport for heading to Los Angeles. Makoto then decided to come alongside with him since it was a good idea skipping a town, because they were following him.

After arriving, Laurent was going to plan going on alone, but Edamura decided on going with him, since he was the man who he deceived and got deceived by him, and he wasn't going to wait until he gave him back the money he "robbed" from him. While that, Laurent points out that Makoto's accent wasn't "really japanese", and that it was a mix of dialects, so he asks him where did he learned to talk like that. Edamura got offended at the comment and he attacks Laurent by grabbing him by the shirt's neck, while Laurent says that his action was "cute", while laughing. After hearing news about Cassano, a film producer, Makoto asks him about his next deceivement, Laurent tells him that he was going to look for an "acquaintance" that would watch for a haul he got from Japan earlier, Makoto then proposes on working with him by selling the haul at a high price in exchange if Laurent becomes his henchman, Laurent conditions him that if he won instead, Edamura would be his assistant, Makoto agrees with the deal, but then Laurent told him that he would have to get suited first before coming with the plan.

As they headed to the place (which was a mansion), Laurent introduces Makoto to the "guard" that actually was a gang member, saying that he was a friend from Japan and he liked to play with a "big guy" like the guard. They got in successfully, and they were straight to the plan; selling japanese merchandise to Cassano by a high price saying that it was a "synthetic drug", that was magic, called "Sakura Trick", which would fool him and Laurent would get money in the deceivement, but for this, he had to use Edamura for the plan, with introducing him as a young expert of the Chemical Research Institute of Japan, and making him to escape the place. The plan had succeded very well, but Makoto was the one of suffering consequences, since he attacked Laurent but failed at the attempt and he was the one who got hurt by Abby, who joined them. The case ends with Edamura being roped up from the legs in a long distance from the floor, asking who were Laurent and Abby, which Laurent only says that they were confidence artists.

Case 1.2
With Edamura being roped up, Laurent proposes him that he would free him if he just don't run away, calling him by his wrong name "Edamame", in response, Edamura corrects him and promised not running away, and then he got freed but fell down after that. They then head to a place for eating, and Makoto hits a glass with vine on to a man and he apologizes for this, it's seen Laurent smiling at the action. As they were eating, Edamura implies that he never wanted to touch drugs again and he blamed Laurent for that, and before he could say anything more, Laurent throws him a Sakura Trick candy to his mouth explaining that everything was just an act; the rumors of Sakura Trick, Abby's act, etc. He then gets hungry and gets some food for eating, while Abby explains that she thought that Makoto was acting too, and then Laurent points Makoto as "a cute swandler". Edamura asks him why did he use him, Laurent explains that Cassano insisted on getting the fabricant of the drug but he couldn't find a good swindler in Japan and that he was the best swindler the Laurent's scout found. Thierry explains throughtly about what Makoto experienced before; the police (who actually were detectives) were working with Laurent, alongside with Edamura's partnet, and the person that he fooled firstly. Makoto was a bit confused on why didn't he asked him for his help, which Laurent says that it was easier dragging him than doing that, since it's hard to resist training an innocent boy who pretends being a bad one like Makoto, and adds that he knows everything about Makoto and the reason why did he became a swindler. When the Mafia found them, Edamura was the one who payed the account of the food while he whispered to Laurent's ear that he wouldn't owe him any favors, Laurent smiles at the comment.

Laurent tells everything about Cassano, and once he finished, Makoto couldn't believe that only for some ordinary candy like the Sakura Trick, Cassano could be cheated like that, since he was an adult. Laurent explains that sometimes humans can't believe the truth in front of them, and that they only believe about something convenient for them. Then he says that he already sold the candy for the agreed high price and that he won, so Makoto was now his henchman. Before Makoto could leave the place of where he was staying with Abby and Laurent, he got attacked from behind by Abby, and once he could get rid of her, Abby couldn't know how did Laurent pick him for his assistant, Makoto was going to finish talking, but Abby points that his ideas and his lower body control Laurent's actions, and after that Makoto left the place.

Next day, Abby tells Laurent about what happened last night with Makoto, and then points out that he was a virgin too, to which Laurent was a bit surprised, but he says that he expects that Edamura would get back at noon. Minutes past noon, Makoto wasn't back, so Laurent decides on trying again by going to Cassano's place. Cassano says that doctor Edamura was playing with girls at the pool, which this surprises Laurent while Cassano explains that Makoto wanted to double the price of the drug by 10 million. Laurent heads on where Makoto was relaxing, while Laurent praises him by saying that he was a bit mature, then Makoto throws at him a Toyotomi Hideyoshi's statue saying that he was a man that went from being a farmer to a king, which this made Laurent smile. The case ends with Makoto saying that he won the bet and asked Laurent for massaging his feet.

Case 1.3
The next case starts with Makoto telling how he managed to convinced Cassano on doubling the price of Sakura Trick to Laurent, saying that he spend all the night on making a believable recipe of the drug for then selling it for 10 million yet. After telling it the story, Laurent tells Abby that he was just as how he thought before, by complimenting a movie (Razzie Series) that Cassano did which Makoto liked, Edamura didn't like the comment about that and he tells Laurent on how cool the Razzie Series was. After Cassano recognized Makoto as a worker for the Chemical Research Institute of Japan, they invited him along with Laurent and Abby to an elegant dinner with them, Laurent whispers Makoto that he will consider the bet a draw. Cassano told them that they would do the payment on another place, since the Detective Anderson from the LAPD was chasing him for a long time with a surveillance camera. For getting rid of Anderson, Salazar (the guard) had to mislead them while he was driving, and after doing that, they finally made crash Anderson's car with a poster. After getting rid from him successfully, Makoto said that Anderson's crash was pretty impressive, and Laurent compares it with one scene of Razzie Series and Makoto says that it wasn't what he meant. Makoto then finds out that Anderson was part of the plan for helping by getting them to a safe place without Anderson's team noticing.

After getting to a safe place for hiding, Cassano asked Makoto for doing the drug in front of them, and Makoto said that he couldn't do it because the place wasn't hygienic like his "lab", as he was trying to persuade them, Laurent helped him by backing him and adding more credible false information, and managed to convice Cassano and decided to renew the place to an exact replica of his "laboratory". What they didn't know was that the FBI was behind them working on a plan for catching Cassano and Laurent.

Case 1.4
While doing factory renovations to replicate Makoto's lab, Makoto asked Laurent about his new plan, Laurent asked him in response if he could cook well while he blinked his eye to him, Makoto looked at him with a disgusted-like face. At night, Abby showed Makoto a live-stream video with Laurent and someone else that was an expert with drugs, the video was for teaching Makoto the instructions of the Sakura Trick so he could do something similar for fooling Cassano. Next day, the FBI caught Makoto and interrogated them, saying that he would be a spy for catching both Laurent and Cassano, and they already knew about Makoto working for them for making drugs and adding that Laurent was actually using him, and that Laurent was only being nice in the outside, and they gave him glasses saying that he could work with them if he wore them. Later at night, Abby appeared in Makoto's room while she threw him the phone with Laurent giving a video-stream in them. Thierry explained that Makoto didn't have to make the drug perfectly and once they get the money from the drugs, they would escape right away.

In the end of the case, Makoto decides to join the FBI with the condition that they could leave Salazar be while they arrest both Laurent and Cassano.

Case 1.5
At the beginning of the case, Cassano gave them the promised money in exchange for not touching it until they got the Sakura Trick. Laurent patted Makoto's shoulder telling him he needed to be focused. After the process of making the Sakura Trick, Laurent approached Makoto to offer him a friendly coffee for the great work of the plan. Makoto looked somewhat intrigued and Laurent apologized for taking him to such an extent but also told him that he was doing well, hence he thanks him by touching his shoulder again saying that he would be a great man of confidence, that he was diligent, sensitive, and that She had guts as she winked at him, she also said she needed to improve her English accent. After Laurent and Abby retired from the place, Makoto asks the alleged FBI member Dickens how much they would give Laurent and Cassano a sentence, to which she replies that around 20 years of sentence.

Just before the money transaction was delivered, the FBI acted on their plan and attacked the place where the money was to be delivered, telling Laurent and Cassano that they were under arrest, then called Edamura to come with them. Edamura slowly approached while Laurent can be seen somewhat surprised as he said that now Makoto had done it. Something that had surprised and that Makoto had not expected, is that his two companions, Laurent and Abby, were shot without any warn, causing Makoto to be perplexed by the situation asking in horror why they had been shot, to which the agent Dickens says it was the right thing to do, to which Makoto stares at "Laurent" and then grabs a nearby pistol in berserk and threatens the agents with holding the agent Dickens as a hostage of the situation. Unfortunately for him, he was captured after Cassano destroyed the factory and was knocked out by him.

After waking up, he realizes that he was tied up, and that the Agent Dickens (which was his hostage before) was free, while she was asking Cassano for a $ 100 million transaction, which he hesitated, but in the end he agreed. Then Makoto was going to ask what the point was for his two companions to sacrifice while Cassano was doing that- but before finishing, he was knocked out. Later, he wakes up on an unknown island and was able to see Laurent and Abbie who were still alive as he looked surprised, in addition to the supposed agent Dickens who is actually named Cynthia and who was participating in the act as an FBI agent. While Makoto was still confused about the case, he was reminded by his companions that it was actually all a farce, and the one who had knocked Makoto out earlier was Abbie herself, while Laurent told him that she was very violent doing that. Cynthia then comments that it was also to gain the trust of Anderson and his team and for entertainment. Laurent then tells him that it was a lot of fun to tease him while Makoto still didn't believe it was all an act and Laurent says that the part where he berserked was not part of it and that he almost killed everyone. After they received $ 120 million as a prize, Laurent gave a part of the money in a large bag to Makoto saying that he would also have his share.

Cynthia asked Makoto if he could go with them, Makoto replied that he was not sure yet and among the people who supported him, Laurent said that he was still working for him as his assistant, to which Makoto smiled and said that he would have to wait, Laurent asked him how much time he needed and Makoto replied that he needed around 3 or 4 years as he had to take responsibility for his rotten life, surprising Laurent and the others. At the end of the case, while Laurent was smiling at him, he said that he would wait for him and that he could still investigate about a Razzie movie and these things, which this comment made Makoto smile back at him.

Case 2.1
While Makoto was fulfilling his sentence in the prison, he receives a message from Laurent from his friend telling him that he had to enlist his equipment as he would be invited to a party once he got out of prison. Once outside, he lived a normal and ordinary life, and then he decided to tell Laurent that he would leave the team since while he was in prison, his way of thinking and living changed a lot. After getting a job and continuing his life normally, he apologized to Laurent to himself saying that he had to forget about him, and that they wouldn't cross paths again, saying goodbye to him and the rest of the team.

But to his surprise some time later, he realized that he and his other companions had met again on the same island while he was explaining the parts of an aircraft prototype, and among the people who had praised his work was Laurent, as he said that Makoto's explanation was impressive. Laurent was glad that Edamura was still alive and with them as he expressed it by welcoming him to their Team Confidence air race team, while Makoto pointed out that it was actually a team of artists and that he needed to stop with his constant "tricks".

Laurent tried to reason with him by showing him some photos of his next targets of plan, but Makoto ignored him as he turned his head to the side, Cynthia then chimed in telling Laurent that he was further disappointing Edamura. After explaining about his two objectives (two princes of a country with fuel), Makoto said that he would not be part of the plan, since he was finally living an honest life and didn't want to get involved in it again, although Cynthia intervened saying again that it was true, since they were no longer comrades, Laurent then asked if he could continue and Makoto nodded. After explaining part of the plan, which was to get $ 200 million from the princes by winning an air race competition, Edamura was surprised about the plan, but still said that he was not going to participate in it, so Laurent proposed to him to be their mechanic, since Makoto was working on airplanes and that he would waste his skills if he did not accept the offer, and then with that they were able to convince Edamura and then they told him that he would have to help Abbie to drive the plane, which Makoto did not want since He did not like heights, but they ignored him and dragged him anyway.

As at the beginning of the case, the two, Abby and Edamura, are seen driving the plane until something goes wrong with the engine, and through a microphone Laurent asked Makoto if he could hear it, while asking him if Edamura really he was sure of his skills as a top-notch engineer, since being a mechanic was not that easy, and he was just a swindler. At the end of the case, Laurent reveals that he had actually capped the engine with a formula in a small capsule.

Moments

 * After dressing up, Laurent adds a tie pin in Makoto's suit's pocket, which makes Makoto blush (image in top).

Fanon
Edaurent was the most popular ship of the Great Pretender fandom when it premiered on Netflix, but gained more fans when Laurent was confirmed to be pan/bi. People believing that he was attracted not only to girls, but also to Makoto. Fans would often compare this ship with Daiharu from the The Millionaire Detective fandom, as both ships have things in common like the "tsundere" and the "flirtatious" one and because both come from Mystery anime. It rivals Mabby.

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