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Character Name: Erik ‘Magneto’ Lehnsherr
Series: X-Men Movieverse (prequel timeline)
Age: 61
From When?: During Dark Phoenix, in 1992, Erik is in a fight on a train with an extremely powerful alien that is unharmed by him firing about a hundred guns at her and flinging metal through her as he tries to stop her from reaching Jean Grey. She then flings him into the steel wall of the train head first. For the purposes of the game, I am going to say that this broke his neck and killed him.

Inmate Justification: Erik is a Holocaust survivor who saw his parents murdered in Auschwitz and was experimented on in the camp because of his mutant power. For the first approximately 20 years after the war, revenge on the man that shot his mother and tortured him was his only mission. When he found out there were others like him, mutants with special abilities, he dedicated his life to protecting them from the same fate as the Jews of Europe, often to the point of pre-emptive violence. While his core values mean he is redeemable, the fact of the matter is that he is quick to jump to violence as a solution and he has also not really processed the trauma of the death of his parents and then, later, the death of his wife and child at the hands of police. Early on, he told Charles Xavier that peace was never an option. Much later in life, he will tell a young mutant he is about to sacrifice to the cause that there is no land of peace, there is no tolerance; not here or anywhere else. Working with a Warden that can handle his occasional explosiveness and has the intellect to meet his arguments could see him come out of this with some peace of mind at last and a chance to live a more fulfilling, less violent life.

Arrival: Erik Lehnsherr is a survivor; he agreed to come.

Abilities/Powers: Erik is a class four mutant with extensive abilities in manipulating metal and magnetic fields. At full strength, he can detect and manipulate - in any way he wants - metal in the environment around him. He is particularly adept with firearms. He can rewire robots. He can lift entire vehicles into the air and squash them or take them apart. I would suggest, as limitations, that he can still manipulate metal in small ways, like picking up a spoon or stopping a weapon coming towards him, disarming opponents by holding them or their weapons still or throwing their weapons away. I would suggest that he can still sense metal and that he can sense the Barge, but he can’t manipulate the Barge at ALL. However, if at some point the Barge gets damaged, he would be able to help repair it if the Admiral grants him the use of his full powers in that period, for example.

Inmate Information: Erik is 61 years old in 1992, though he looks maybe 45. Mutant genes. He was 13 years old when he and his parents arrived at Auschwitz and he was immediately separated from them. Trying to reach them, he bent the camp’s main gate in half, catching the attention of a senior official in the camp. In order to spur Erik to use powers he could not yet willfully access or control, the doctor shot his mother in cold blood in front of him and then repeatedly experimented with using torture to manifest the child’s powers. His father went to the gas chambers. When the camp was liberated, Erik escaped alone. He educated himself in libraries and dedicated his life to hunting down the ‘doctor’ that murdered his mother and tortured him. He spent 20 years on that mission, finally catching up to the man only to be thrown overboard of his ship by the doctor’s mutant associates. It was then that he met Charles Xavier, beginning a decades long friendship that waxed and waned with Erik’s extremeness. Charles wanted to engage humans and live in peace amongst them. Erik did not feel that was an option, as every time information about mutants became public, the rhetoric quickly turned towards a mood he recognized from his time as a Jewish child in 1930’s Germany. He and Charles defeated Erik’s nemesis together, but American and Soviet fleets turned on the group of mutants and shot missiles at them. Erik stopped them using his power, but he and Charles fell out when Charles implored him to spare the sailors on the ships and Erik was determined to teach them a lesson with their own ordinance. A CIA operative they were working with attempted to stop Erik by shooting at him. He deflected the bullets and one accidentally pierced Charles’ spinal cord, paralyzing him from the waist down. Erik and the other mutants who wanted to fight for their own right to exist left and Charles took the others home with him to start his School for the Gifted to help mutants learn to control their powers and give them somewhere safe to exist.

Not much later, Erik was trying to save secret mutant president John F Kennedy from assassination when he was captured by the CIA and framed for that murder. He was imprisoned beneath the Pentagon in a concrete cell underground for ten years, until Wolverine came back from the future to save the world and enlisted Peter Maximoff to help break him out of prison because they needed his help. Once free, Erik again fell out with the other mutants over what he deemed as their too soft approach and he ended up giving a speech on TV putting humans on notice and calling mutants to arms. A wanted man all over the world, he ended up going into hiding in rural Poland, met a human woman, fell in love and had a daughter named Nina who could communicate with animals. However, at the factory where he worked, he used his powers to save a coworker’s life from an industrial accident and someone who saw him do it reported him to police. They came to his house to arrest him and, in the ensuing scuffle, his wife and daughter were killed by police. He used his powers to kill all of the officers. In that state of mind, after burying his family, he was recruited by Apocalypse, who promised him that they could remake the world for mutants and ‘take everything’ from the humans. Charles and Mystique ended up getting through to him before Apocalypse could finish putting his plan into action and Erik turned on Apocalypse, helping his old friends defeat him, then helping them rebuild the school. At this time, Peter revealed to several of the X-Men team members that he is Erik’s son with a woman Erik knew in Washington at one time, but to date nobody has informed Erik.

After the whole Apocalypse incident, Erik was credited for his role in thwarting him and was allowed an island called ‘Genosha’ outside the jurisdiction of any human governments. He built shelter there with shipping containers he pulled out of the ocean and invited mutants there to live in peace, away from humans. He was leading a thriving little community there until Jean Grey showed up, infected with an alien power, looking for somewhere to go. However, when the military showed up looking for her, she emerged from hiding against Erik’s instructions and engaged them with her alien powers, killing some of the soldiers, destroying one of their helicopters and compromising the safety of Genosha. Erik asked her to leave. A couple days later he found out from traditional rival Hank McCoy that she had killed Mystique, a woman both he and Hank had loved deeply. He went with Hank to hunt her down. Charles tried to stop him, but eventually they had to come together against the real threat: the alien that had been seeking to gain control of the power Jean absorbed that was also hunting her. It was during that battle that Erik was brought to the Barge.

Path to Redemption: Erik needs to learn that violence doesn’t actually solve anything, that it will make bad situations worse. He’s known violence against himself and his loved ones all his life. This idea that having more power means he can use greater violence against those who threaten him is his knee-jerk reaction to being threatened. It usually results in escalation. Erik will react fine to being wardened if he is not condescended to. He does value being part of a community. He’s used to leading, but he can walk beside if the person he’s walking beside has a strong vision of where they’re going. His warden will need to be able to deal with his temper, be quick witted enough to match him in verbal arguments and have the strength of their convictions. Wardens who also meet violence with violence won’t be effective with him and wardens who need to swing their metaphorical dicks to prove who’s in charge won’t be effective with him.

History: Magneto’s History - relevant portions are ‘Early Life ‘ and ‘New Timeline’.

Sample Network Entry: Network activity on the TDM

Sample RP: One sample and some more

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