Erik Lehnsherr || Magneto || looks 20 || Mutant || Rank 2 || Douglas Booth
✘ Magneto is OPEN.
“You want society to accept you, but you can’t even accept yourself.”
BIOGRAPHY:
The man now known as Erik Lehnsherr was born Max Eisenhardt, the son of a middle-class German Jewish family in a secluded area of Germany left behind by the time. Here the family struggled his whole life with discrimination and hardship against a powerful group of Neo-Nazis, hell-bent against the people of the area, even going so far as opening back up the old holocaust concentration camps and taking prisoners. At the young age of only 13, his town was attacked and burned while his family was captured and executed, but Max survived, potentially thanks to the early manifestation of his amazing ability. He was sent to an old Nazi concentration camp where he was forced to do the unthinkable. He was made to torture and murder his own innocent people for his captors as a Sonderkommando. After years of this task, all Max allowed himself to feel was emptiness for the sake of what was left of his frail sanity.
His ability, though manifested, was weak and hardly detectable due to the weakened state the camp kept him in. Even Max only noticed minor strange anomalies and discarded them, thinking they were only tricks of the mind, but one day when one of his captors attempted to force him to harm a small child. This pushed Max overboard and thus his full ability was shown. He reached his arm out to the child through a metal fence. The gate began to twist and bend to nearly an unrecognizable state, along with other metallic objects in the camp. Soon the base was flattened, his captors all dead and the other prisoners freed, though they didn’t run. They just looked at him, terrified of the man’s strange ability. They all escaped together, leaving the boy who saved them alone.
This huge magnetic anomaly attracted the attention of the government agency, S.H.I.E.L.D., who offered him shelter, training and people like him all in a place called Novus Academy. The man had his reservations about this place and these people, he wasn’t sure how well he could trust them, but like before, he was sure he could escape if he needed to now that he knew of his abilities full potential. He agreed to go with them under the parameters that he would receive a new identity. Now known as the man named ‘Erik Lenhnsherr’. Erik joined the roster of the school.
SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies
CHARACTER TRAITS: Motivated, pained, angry, secretive, powerful