Mutant and proud

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Katie
AGE: 18+
JOURNAL: none
IM / EMAIL: siriuslydementd#7080 on Discord
PLURK: siriuslydementd
RETURNING: no

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto
CHARACTER AGE: 53
SERIES: X-men cinematic (Marvel)
CHRONOLOGY: X-Men Apocalypse
CLASS: villain
HOUSING: He would prefer to live alone.

BACKGROUND: History is here.

PERSONALITY: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -James A. Baldwin

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster, for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzche

He's been painted as a villain, and he is one – but he doesn't have to be. From the day he met Charles, Charles had always known that he had the capacity for good. It just took Erik twenty years to realize it too.

Anger and pain are what defines Erik Lensherr: anger that his people were slaughtered, that his mother was callously murdered in front of him simply to get his powers to manifest, that his people have been targets just because they are different, and those with the authority fear that which is different. Anger that once again his family has been taken from him. That anger leads to pain, and it is the anger and the pain combined that he taps into to fuel his abilities. He doesn't know any better; this is how he learned to do it while being subjected to Shaw's experiments. In his own words, he is “Frankenstein's monster,” and Sebastian Shaw is his creator. It's Charles who helps him find another way to control his power – finding a point between rage and serenity – but in the end, it doesn't seem that this changes much. It just helps him to control his powers better, and to be able to do more with them.

Along with all of the anger and pain is a perpetual feeling of being alone. In the almost twenty years between his powers awakening for the first time and meeting Charles, he did not know that there were others like him out there. It almost overwhelms him to find people who care about him, and he doesn't know what to do about it. He's been on his own since he was a teenager; he's so used to being on his own that he hasn't figured out how to be part of anything bigger. While there's not much known about what his life was like in the years between the end of the war and when he first met Charles, it seems to have been a life of wandering, never feeling like he belonged anywhere. It's established later in canon that he has a son whose mother he left before he was born, and presumably before he even knew about the pregnancy. This would indicate that he doesn't stay in one place long enough to put down roots. He hasn't had a home in decades, and he won't until he realizes that people can be a home just as much as a place can.

He's good at hiding his pain, at pretending it's not there, but every so often it makes its way to the surface, such as when he catches himself staring at a photo of his former tormentor. He doesn't react well to anyone attempting to minimize his pain (such as when Charles compares his own pain to Erik's, implying that his pain is somehow worse). It doesn't have to define him as much as it does, though. When he has time to get over his anger and pain, or something forces him to, it's like he's come to his senses again. After the events in D.C., when he threatened the President and his entire Cabinet, he saw his helmet on the ground and left it behind, as if he knew that he couldn't be trusted with it. Raven manages to get through to him when he's trying to destroy the world and he realizes that he doesn't want to destroy it after all. It's as though he's in a fugue state when his anger is piqued, and someone or something has to come along and snap him out of it.

He doesn't think he can be more than he is – he tried to do things Charles' way, and when lost his family, he screamed at the sky "Is this what I am? Is this what you want of me?" He had lost his faith as a child, when he lost his family and his innocence, and he never found something to fill the gap left by it. He never found anything else to have faith in, until one day he found his faith in himself, faith that he could be more than Shaw ever taught him he could.

It's one of Charles's tenets that "just because someone stumbles, loses their way doesn't mean they're lost forever" and this applies to Erik as much as anything does. He lost his way for awhile in the middle, but with the help of those who care about him, he was able to find his way again. When Apocalypse came to recruit him, he was at his most vulnerable point. All of the anger and pain had been brought to the surface again, and Apocalypse was able to feed off of that by telling him exactly what he wanted to hear: that it was okay for him to feel this way, and that he had a place to belong. He had just lost his family; Apocalypse was offering him something to replace it. It wasn't until later, when he was reminded of everyone who still cared about him, that he realized that it was him who had betrayed them, and that as long as they wanted him around, he wanted to be there. He does have family, it just took him a long time to realize it.

He distrusts humans in general, but is capable of trusting them on a personal basis, and he is unyielding in this view. He doesn't trust the usefulness of diplomacy when dealing with a threat, either. He will accept nothing less than the annihilation of his perceived tormentors, whether they're human or mutant. He is not a believer in second chances, nor does he wait for explanations (or readily accept them when they're given). His only concern is fighting for mutants, and he won't just sit around and hope that humans won't come for them. In his view, mutants are more than just evolved from humans, they're superior to them, meant to rule over them. He doesn't see why mutants should have to hide what they are from humans, or try and deny it. "Mutant and proud" is his rallying cry, and he's disgusted with Charles when he discovers that Charles has willingly given up the powers that make him a mutant.

Charles believes that there is good in Erik; he has believed that from the day they met. Erik has a harder time believing this, and perhaps that is Shaw's true legacy when it comes to Erik. Shaw didn't just find a way to awaken Erik's mutant powers, he taught him a use for them. Erik associates his powers with his anger. He even says so right before he kills Shaw – Shaw weaponized him. He reference to himself as "Frankenstein's monster" isn't just metaphorical. He sees himself as a monster created by Shaw, though he seems unaware of the irony of the fact that in searching out a monster from his past, he has become the very thing he fights against. It's possible for him to change that view of himself – but it takes twenty years and a few very patient (and forgiving) people.

POWER: Erik is one of the most powerful mutants in the world (so far, only two others have been shown to be stronger). His powers are related to magnetokinesis, that is, generating and manipulating all forms of magnetism. Specific uses of his power include: ferrokinesis, launching metal like bullets, altering the path of projectiles, manipulating the properties of tools, and lifting, immobilizing, and crumbling giant structures like stadiums; creating magnetic fields and using them to fly, or having metal on him and moving with it, or drawing himself to metal; sensing the presence of metals; creating an impenetrable shield of magnetic energy; and implanting metal in objects or people to let him control them later.

There is no known limit to these powers, although any of them could have limits put on them.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [There's a tightness to his tone when he speaks, that of anger held back with difficulty. A fuse that might be lit at any moment.]

Who do I have to thank for taking me from my home and my important business and bringing me here instead?

[Thank. Scold. Whichever. They're the same thing, right?]

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Here

FINAL NOTES:

Player's Name:

Katie

Characters Played Here:

None

Character:

Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto)

Series/Canon:

X-men cinematic

From When?

The end of Days of Future Past

Previous Game(s):

N/A

World Description: (Original Characters Only)

N/A

History:

Here. The Revised Timeline.

Does your character have any close ties to existing canon characters? (Canon OCs and AUs only.)

N/A

Why do you think your character would work in this setting?

He accepted Eli's offer because he needs a place to lie low for awhile, at least until he puts a plan in place for going into hiding in the world he comes from. He doesn't want to call attention to himself from places other than New Dodge, or be asked to leave New Dodge, so he won't cause trouble. Since he won't lose his powers, and the technology is similar to that from his world but more advanced, he won't have a hard time adjusting to the setting. It should be good for him to have his freedom back and also the chance to create a normal life for himself. (Maybe he'll see that humans aren't so bad after all?)


How do you plan to expand their CR?

While he's not the life-of-the-party type, and in fact prefers to stay home rather than go to a large social gathering, he also has some very specific views, which he has never been shy about making known. Given the chance, he'd do the same thing here (though he'd likely have several people trying to discourage him from doing so). He also sees no reason to hide what he is, and has no qualms about using any of his powers where anyone can see him doing it, which is the sort of thing that tends to attract questions. He also will frequent businesses in town that sell food and/or alcohol, which tends to be a good way to meet people.


What will your character do for work?

Money conversion specialist at C & P

Inventory:

The clothes he's wearing, a few changes of clothes (pants, button shirts, a jacket), the jacket he was wearing in Paris, the locket with his parents' pictures, a fedora, a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo in the original French.

Samples:

Third-Person Sample:

Third-person

First-Person Sample:

First-person

Player Information
Name: Katie
Age: 30+
Contact: siriuslydementd
Characters already in Medietas: Emma Swan, Poe Dameron, Petyr Baelish
Reserve Link: Here

Character Basics
Character name: Erik Lensherr aka Magneto
Character Journal: frankensteinian
Canon: X-men cinematic reboot
Canon Point: early in X-men: Apocalypse
Age: 53 (so uh, older than he looks)
Icon: http://v.dreamwidth.org/10704167/2556666

Canon Character Information
Appearance: Tall and lanky, with brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He's usually clean shaven, but when he's having a (really really) bad day he may let that go. Upon his first arrival to Medietas, he will have a few days' worth of beard, but he will soon shave that off. In terms of clothing, he keeps up with the fashion of the era, tending to wear clothes best described as business casual (button shirts or turtlenecks, knit pants, sometimes with a jacket over the top), in muted colors. Sometimes he wears a hat. (Examples here: 1 2 3 4)
He also has a tattoo inside his left forearm: a series of six numbers, in actuality a prisoner number from his time at Auschwitz. It is very unlikely that anyone will see this tattoo, and if he shows it off on purpose, you should probably start running and hope that you're fast enough.
History: Here. The Revised Timeline.

Personality: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -James A. Baldwin

He's been painted as a villain, and he is one – but he doesn't have to be. From the day he met Charles, Charles had always known that he the capacity for good. It just took Erik twenty years to realize it too.

Anger and pain are what defines Erik Lensherr: anger that his people were slaughtered, that his mother was callously murdered in front of him simply to get his powers to manifest, that his people have been targets just because they are different, and those with the authority fear that which is different. Anger that once again his family has been taken from him. That anger leads to pain, and it is the anger and the pain combined that he taps into to fuel his abilities. He doesn't know any better; this is how he learned to do it while being subjected to Shaw's experiments. In his own words, he is “Frankenstein's monster,” and Sebastian Shaw is his creator. It's Charles who helps him find another way to control his power – finding a point between rage and serenity – but in the end, it doesn't seem that this changes much. It just helps him to control his powers better, and to be able to do more with them.

Along with all of the anger and pain is an perpetual feeling of being alone. In the almost twenty years between his powers awakening for the first time and meeting Charles, he did not know that there were others like him out there. It almost overwhelms him to find people who care about him, and he doesn't know what to do about it. He's been on his own since he was a teenager; he's so used to being on his own that he hasn't figured out how to be part of anything bigger. While there's not much known about what his life was like in the years between the end of the war and when he first met Charles, it seems to have been a life of wandering, never feeling like he belonged anywhere. It's established later in canon that he has a son whose mother he left before he was born, and presumably before he even knew about the pregnancy. This would indicate that he doesn't stay in one place long enough to put down roots. He hasn't had a home in decades, and he won't until he realizes that people can be a home just as much as a place can.

He's good at hiding his pain, at pretending it's not there, but every so often it makes its way to the surface, such as when he catches himself staring at a photo of his former tormenter. He doesn't react well to anyone attempting to minimize his pain (such as when Charles compares his own pain to Erik's, implying that his pain is somehow worse). It doesn't have to define him as much as it does, though. When he has time to get over his anger and pain, or something forces him to, it's like he's come to his senses again. After the events in DC, when he threatened the President and his entire Cabinet, he saw his helmet on the ground and left it behind, as if he knew that he couldn't be trusted with it. Raven manages to get through to him when he's trying to destroy the world and he realizes that he doesn't want to destroy it after all. It's as though he's in a fugue state when his anger is piqued, and someone or something has to come along and snap him out of it.

Doesn't think he can be more than he is – he tried to do things Charles' way, lost his family, screamed at the sky “is this what I am? Is this what you want of me?” he lost his faith as a child, when he lost his family and his innocence, and he never found something to fill the gap left by it. He never found anything else to have faith in, until one day he found his faith in himself, faith that he could be more than Shaw ever taught him he could.

It's one of Charles's tenets that “just because someone stumbles, loses their way doesn't mean they're lost forever” and this applies to Erik as much as anything does. He lost his way for awhile in the middle, but with the help of those who care about him, he was able to find his way again. When Apocalypse came to recruit him, he was at his most vulnerable point. All of the anger and pain had been brought to the surface again, and Apocalypse was able to feed off of that by telling him exactly what he wanted to hear: that it was okay for him to feel this way, and that he had a place to belong. He had just lost his family; Apocalypse was offering him something to replace it. It wasn't until later, when he was reminded of everyone who still cared about him, that he realized that it was him who had betrayed them, and that as long as they wanted him around, he wanted to be there. He does have family, it just took him a long time to realize it.

He distrusts humans in general, but is capable of trusting them on a personal basis, and he is unyielding in this view. He doesn't trust the usefulness of diplomacy when dealing with a threat, either. He will accept nothing less than the annihilation of his perceived tormenters, whether they're human or mutant. He is not a believer in second chances, nor does he wait for explanations (or readily accept them when they're given). His only concern is fighting for mutants, and he won't just sit around and hope that humans won't come for them. In his view, mutants are more than just evolved from humans, they're superior to them, meant to rule over them. He doesn't see why mutants should have to hide what they are from humans, or try and deny it. "Mutant and proud" is his rallying cry, and he's disgusted with Charles when he discovers that Charles has willingly given up the powers that make him a mutant.

Charles believes that there is good in Erik; he has believed that from the day they met. Erik has a harder time believing this, and perhaps that is Shaw's true legacy when it comes to Erik. Shaw didn't just find a way to awaken Erik's mutant powers, he taught him a use for them. Erik associates his powers with his anger. He even says so right before he kills Shaw – Shaw weaponized him. He refers to himself as “Frankenstein's monster,” and it's not just metaphorical. He sees himself as a monster created by Shaw. It's possible for him to change that view of himself – but it takes twenty years and a few very patient (and forgiving) people.

Powers/Abilities/Talents:

Magnetokinesis - Magneto is an immensely powerful mutant, easily one of the greatest on the planet, capable of generating and manipulating all forms of magnetism, though at his canon point, it does have to be done with solid pieces of actual metal, however large or small they may be.

Magnetic Flight - Magneto can fly by gliding on the magnetic fields he creates, or by having metal on him and moving with it. Alternatively, he can also draw himself to metal, as he did board a moving train.
Magnetic Shield - Magneto is able to conjure a vast shield of magnetic energy, which the X-Men were unable to penetrate, forcing Quicksilver and Mystique to instead resort to reasoning with him.

Ferrokinesis - Magneto is able to manipulate metal and achieve a variety of grandiose and devastating effects. Thus, at a low level, Magneto can effortlessly launch small pieces of metal at the speed of bullets, lift and crumple cars, alter the trajectory of bullets, and pull guns from numerous enemies while likewise cocking the guns on said enemies. For more grand feats, he can easily lift and immobilize giant structures like the RFK Stadium and the X-Jet respectively plus carry them great distances, rip up a metal bunker from under the White House, and halt numerous military missiles in mid-air and send them back. His precision with this power also allows him to launch countless projectiles in rapid succession as shown from his tremendous torrents against Apocalypse and maintain the structural integrity of his targets. Likewise, he is able to perform several feats at once, despite the amount of concentration required. He can also forcibly extract the metal within a target, though this kills a living person if they are the target.

Metal Sense - Magneto is able to sense the presence of metals, as they are crucial for the effective use of his powers.

Metallic Bonding - Magneto can implant metal to objects or people in mere seconds as he did to fuse train rails into the Sentinels to let him control them later.

In terms of non-mutant abilities:

Genius Intellect - Magneto is extremely intelligent (on par with Professor X), with him excelling in the construction of machinery. He is generally a very sophisticated man, well-read on many topics. He is also a highly skilled chess player.

Master Strategist - Magneto is an excellent strategist, tactician, and leader, having successfully tracked down and killed multiple former Nazis on his own (even managing to locate Sebastian Shaw), originally helping Professor X lead Division X.

Master Manipulator - Magneto is an expert at bending others to his will through both his persuasive words and affable charm, with him notably swaying Mystique, Emma Frost, and the former Hellfire Club to his cause.

Multilingual - Magneto is fluent in at least six languages - his native German and Hebrew, as well as English, French, Polish, and Spanish. There's no evidence of this is canon, but given his ability with German and Hebrew, it is likely that he can at least understand Yiddish, even if he doesn't speak it himself. (Yiddish is essentially a mixture of German and Hebrew.)

Indomitable Will - Magneto has immense determination and willpower, with him striving to complete his tasks, no matter the cost, regardless of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Skilled Combatant - Magneto was fairly skilled in hand-to-hand combat in his youth, easily stopping a Nazi from stabbing him, gaining the upper hand in a fist fight with Professor X, as well as physically overpowering both an untransformed Beast and Professor X when they attempted to stop him from killing Mystique.
AU/CR AU Addendum: N/A

What 4 items would you like your character to have with them on the island during their stay? A 5 Reichsmark coin; his helmet; Nina's toy doll; the chess set from his last game with Charles

Samples - Can be linked
First Person: TDM
Third Person: TDM

Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun? Sun