User blog comment:Steel Scarlet Spider/Lineages/@comment-6331988-20150520015628

Distant doesn't necessarily mean indirect. Eddie could just be Eobard's great great great and so on Granfather. And just because Eddie is directly related to Eobard doesn't mean he is significant. When Eobard called Eddie that, he just mean that Eddie didn't really do anything important in his life. On an unrelated note, your post didn't have to be in all caps.