Lehnsherr, Erik
May 25, 2013 18:06:09 GMT -5
Post by Erik "Magneto" Lehnsherr on May 25, 2013 18:06:09 GMT -5
Erik Magnus Lehnsherr
[/font][/size][/color]To sing a song to me at my worst.
I'll play here in the garden to see all your blood over me.
I want you, dead. I need you, dead
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Full Name: Max Eisenhardt
Code Name:Erik "Magnus" Lehnsherr, Magneto
Age: Late 70's (appears late 40's due to Longevity)
Date of Birth: November 22
Sexual Orientation: hetero
Species: Mutant
Alliance: Brotherhood
Citizenship: Marvel
Canon or Original?: Marvel canon
"Victory is MINE Baldy!
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
Hair:Black, slivering out
Eyes: Gray ish
Height:6'2''
Weight: 190lbs
Distinguishing Marks: Just one tattoo on the inside of his left forearm "214782" Various scars from over the many years of fighting.
Appearance: Erik is tall and powerful, he holds himself with a touch of arrogance, encased in charisma. His style of dress reflects such, wearing only well tailored suits. His more known apparel reflects royalty, hues of red and dark gray.
Face Claim: Mads Mikkelsen
"I’m not interested in making new friends,
I don’t even like the ones I have”
I don’t even like the ones I have”
Likes:
-Control
-Power
-Accomplishment
-Revenge
-Mutant superiority
Dislikes:
-Humans
-Plastics
-Belligerence
-Disrespect
-Being Proven Wrong
Personality:
Having been so deeply impacted by the atrocities of the holocaust, Erik naturally seeks to understand this brutal nature. His intelligent mind allows him to study, observe, and document the nature of human conflict. However, the scars of the holocaust and the anger he feels for what was done to his family leads him to see all human conflict as a sign that humans are flawed. This is also where the nature of power comes into play. He has power that many others don't. So while Erik sees humans flawed, he starts seeing his kind as something else. This helps instill an us-vs-them mentality, one that constantly shapes and guides his action. This along with his fighter's instinct leads him to place the responsibility of confronting human conflict on himself. Thus, the messiah complex is the very core of who Erik Lensherr is.
It is because of this messiah complex in addition to his intelligence that he is able to become such a powerful leader for mutants. He not only has the abilities to carry him through the conflict, he has the charisma to rally others to his cause. In a ways his cause is a natural response to what he experienced in the holocaust. He is strongly motivated to prevent another such atrocity from happening to the mutant race. As someone who studied mutation so thoroughly, he reasons that mutants are a natural evolution of man and are meant to be an improvement on the levels where mankind fell short. To him it is only a matter of time before all humanity dies out. Any effort to prevent this is only slowing down the evolutionary process and leaving the door open to more human hatred like that of the holocaust. That is simply something Erik will not allow. That is why he takes a title like Magneto, to distance himself from humanity and set himself apart.
This distance allows him to see other humans like insects. He has no qualms about hurting them in the same way people have no qualms about hurting bugs. This is supplemented by a deep anger he feels for humanity. He blames them for all his suffering and because of this anger, he doesn't think rationally despite his intelligence. Only his rage is never blind. It's focused and channeled towards the human race and that anger will persist so long as he sees human flaws as being responsible for their atrocities. Combine this with his mutant powers and he is a force that is difficult to oppose.
"With great power comes great responsibility"
Powers: Magneto displays control over powers of hyper advanced forms of magnetic manipulation on such scales as manipulating the entire planets magnetic fields (a grand display of power and effort on his part). He has used it on such a scale to stop entire armies, raise islands and cause earth quakes. His mutation is so far advanced Erik can effectively use multiple powers from his mutation at once.
Which entails: force fields powerful enough to trap enemies and stop attacks from even the mightiest of foes. Electromagnetic pulses which can destroy objects and severely injure any one in its path. Repulsive force based flight. metal manipulation on a sub atomic level allowing him to change the size and shape of the metal to his will.
Though his primary mutation is highly advanced magnetodynamics, Erik can manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum to his will. However it is far more taxing physically then Magnetics. He can absorb and manipulate the spectrum from electricity, to radiation. Create enough infrared energy to level a city as well as bend the visible light around his body to create temporary invisibility. Though he can use such talents it is ever hardly displayed and is quite frankly a last resort.
Weapons
Strengths/Abilities:
Fluent in: English, German, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Arabic. Former scholar, esteemed lecturer, and mutant researcher with a background in biology and engineering. Erik has as well trained himself to resist telepathic attacks though it is an extension of his ability to control the electromagnetic spectrum. It is only augmented by his helmet. As well as a tactical genius.
Weaknesses:
Magneto's powers are Dependant on his physical and mental state. When injured he is unable to withstand the strain of manipulating large amounts of energy. It appears as well when his magnetic powers are not at their peak that he has a greater degree of difficulty controlling other forces of the electromagnetic spectrum (visible light, radio waves, ultraviolet light, gamma rays, and x-rays.)
He is adequately susceptible to Physical and mental fatigue and illness. Not to mention a loathsome hate for plastics and non magnetic metals.
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
History:Born into a German Jewish family at a time of widespread anti-semetism, much of Max's early life was surrounded by prejudice and bigotry. It isn't clear where or when he was born, but it is known he spent much of his early life in Germany. Any records of what young Max's life was like and what his family was like were lost when Nazi Germany invaded their own country 1939.
Like so many others, Max and his family were unable to escape. His father, being the fighter he was, attempted to protect his family from the Nazis. He was swiftly slain by German soldiers and for his defiance, they went onto torture and kill Max's mother and older sister right before the young boys eyes. He attempted to fight back, but the Nazis spared him. Instead of killing him with his family, they let him watch as they tossed his family into a mass grave and then shipped him off to a concentration camp.
It was in these bleak, inhumane conditions that Max Eisenhardt spent most of World War II. With no family to protect him, he was forced to rely on the fighting instinct his father instilled in him. It allowed him to survive through the atrocities of the holocaust until the camp was liberated by Allied forces. It was during this raid when his powers first manifested. He had been cornered and was used as a human shield by German soldiers. Yet in his desire to fight, he generated his first magnetic fields that forcibly disarmed the soldier and opened the gate for others to escape.
Now free, Max sought to rebuild his life. It is at this point again where very little is known. He disappears for a time in the Balkans and no records exist of his activities during this time. When he emerges, he is in his twenties, full of renewed energy and most importantly a new Identity of Erik Lehnsherr. Aggressive and ambitious, he takes his family savings that was kept in a Swiss bank account during the war and enrolls in Oxford.
Here he demonstrates an uncanny intelligence, attaining near genius level IQ scores and participating in advanced research in both engineering and biology. During this time he becomes immersed in the study of mutants, namely his own. He also becomes fascinated by war and conflict. He remains isolated from most of his peers and none know of his mutant status since mutants are not well-known at the time. This doesn't stop him from attaining several degrees in record time. With these degrees he begins traveling and lecturing, studying mutation and how it relates to human conflict.
This goes on for years and again his history becomes unclear. Erik eventually emerges from obscurity when his paths cross with Charles Xavier, a graduate student at Princeton who shared his passion for uncovering the mysteries of mutation and human conflict. The two become fast friends and Charles begins traveling with him into areas ravaged by war. They develop reputations as humanitarians and Erik gains a great deal of insight into humanity through Charles.
As Charles helps him break out of his shell, he meets and falls in love with a woman named Magda Maximoff. She begins traveling with him and eventually becomes pregnant with twins. Then one day while traveling in the Balkan, a group of rebels storm a village that Erik and Charles are working in. Many are killed and the destruction is great. While Charles and Erik try to help as many as they can, a group of soldiers eventually find the pregnant Magda.
When Erik finds her they start to beat her. It is at this point Erik erupts in a rage, using his magnetic powers to slaughter the soldiers and end the raid in an overwhelming storm of metal that horrifies both Charles and the surviving villagers. Confused, the villagers chase Erik, Charles, and the wounded Magda out. They managed to get away, but Magda's fate was sealed. By the time Erik got her to a hospital, she was in critical condition. She was able to give birth to the twins, but she did not survive.
The death of Magda wore heavily on Erik. Charles tried to console him, but the damage had been done. Once the twins, Wanda and Pietro, were deemed healthy enough to leave Erik took them and left Charles to his travels. The two men started growing apart from that day forward as Erik's outlook became increasingly grim and dark. He returns to obscurity. All that is known is that a family friend of the Maximoffs helps raise Wanda and Pietro and Erik becomes increasingly disillusioned with humanity. The two men collaborated, agreeing that the mutants of the world needed a safe environment to learn control and be accepted by their peers. Together they founded the Xavier Institute, before Erik dissipated again.
When he emerges years later, he goes by the new title Magneto, the master of magnetism. He begins a crusade of militant mutant supremacy, actively opposing Charles every step of the way and clashing with him on many occasions.
As Charles Xavier re-focused his efforts and formed the X-men, the wedge between the two men became even greater.
Erik quickly became one of the X-men's chief foes, opposing them and everything they stand for. He has long since convinced himself that humanity is sick and the future belongs to the mutant race.
"Next time guys, we should just
rebuild this place outta Lego."
rebuild this place outta Lego."
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