Erik Ferdinand

Mother:

Name: Sofi Ferdinand

Age: 46 - upon death

Race: Human

Father:

Name: Luca Ferdinand

Age: 65 - upon death

Race: Mutant

Other Relatives: Hansel Ferdinand - Brother, Bae "Baby" Kwan - Sister-in-law, Trixie "Trix" Ferdinand - Niece. Pennie Ferdinand - Nephew, Silver and Lara Ferdinand  (other nieces)

Powers:

Telepathy - Erik is able to establish a two-way mental communication with a single mind.  He is able to tell emotions and inflections with this communication better than being in front of them watching their physical responses.

Mind Reading - Within a 100 yard radius, Erik can hear and sift through the surface thoughts of any unshielded mind.  If he is within 50 feet of someone he can prove deeper thoughts.  Touching someone, he can probe deep memories. The longer he keeps contact, the deeper he can go.

Memory blocking - If Erik is within 15 feet of a person, he can make someone forget something that happened the last minute. Touching someone, he can affect memories that happened longer ago. The longer he works on someone, the further back he can make someone forget an event.

Precognition -  Erik gets flashes of events to come. He has no control over this power. It can be something minor, like not touching it doing something that could cause harm to someone around him or himself.  He could have a vision on the distant on near future, but those happen more infrequently.

Shielded mind - Erik is well practiced in shielding his mind to block mental or psychic attacks. The more powerful the attack, the more he has to concentrate on defending his mind.

Power Limitations:

If someone has a shielded mind, Erik would have more of a challenge of using his mind reading or memory blocking ability.

The more he works on shielding his mind, the less he can do offensively. If facing a super powered mind, he could have to stop all other mental abilities and in some cases he may have to limit his physical activity.

He can not use his ability on Artificial Intelligence. If he tries to probe an alien mind, it could cause feedback to his mind. He could fight through the pain, but he'd have to rest after struggling to probe into it.

Hobbies and Interests:

Erik loves to hunt.   He is a pretty good shot, and goes after fowl, small and large game.   He is skilled with Pistol, Rifle, and Crossbow.   He prefers the crossbow.

Erik also loves to camp and mountain climb.   He has survival skills in both and has went out into the Andes and Alps many times.

Relaxing, Erik likes to whittle.   It is pretty good at it and loves to give his wooden figurines to kids.

Background:

Erik was the youngest child of Luca and Sofi Ferdinand.  Luca had mutant abilities, but Sofi was human.   They were a fairly off and came from old German money.   They went to very nice private schools and allowed to study when they wanted.   Erik was fascinated with exploring and learning about different culture.   He was very smart and learned several languages at a young age.

Erik supported his brother, Hansel’s love for music, and they like to sing together at times.  He was both sad and happy to see him leave to become a musician.  He kept up with him as much as they could, as Hansel traveled and had adventures around the world.

Erik seemed to have the best ‘luck’.  He seemed to know avoid touching or going into certain areas.   It started him when he started to hear voices in his head of people around him.   It turned out he had mental abilities, similar to his dad.   His dad worked with him to hone his abilities and made sure he kept his abilities secret, like his father did.

When Erik was 18 he woke up to a realistic dream of some powerful mutant causing such changes in the world.   He told him father, but they did not know what to make of it, but later they pieced this dream to premonition of Apocalypse’s attack on the world. Erik had other ‘dreams’ waking and while he was sleeping that gave him glimpses of the future.  He told his father, and they were able to use a couple of them to avoid the troubles that were happening in Germany as it became more and more anti-mutant.

Erik was able to finish his PhDs and start his travel without being noticed.   His family owned a self-sufficient house in the Alps that was powered by Solar energy and  wells for water.  It was not really known about by the German government, so they were able to use it to travel to when Erik had premonitions of trouble heading their way.

Erik loved it there and he learned to hunt and grow a farm to make their place even more self-sufficient.  He used that has his home, but he loved traveling around learning about  civilization young and ancient. During his travels, he was able to meet up with Handel now and then was happy to see her married a beautiful Korean woman, Baby.  He kept in contact with them as much as he could and met with then now and then.

After Trix ran away,  Hansel and Baby came to Bamberg in searching for family.  Erik came and met them, and trouble arose.   Luca was killed trying to his his kids and grandkids out of town, as they were discovered   Erik was able to get Hansel and his family to his home in the Alps, but the death of their father was a hard blow.

They all lived together for a while, until the Therzo virus reached them   The virus claimed Bae.  Hansel did not take her death well, and he left in grief.   Both Pennie and Silver went to look for him begged Erik to watch over Lara.  Erik never heard from any of them, since them.  He stayed pretty much secluded with Lara and his dog, Krieger.  He care for his young niece and  has started teaching her how to read, write, and speak different languages.

Erik had a premonition of Trixie visiting the old family house. He put a note in her old room, where they house he was living was.   It was in Korean, so no one would understand, but someone who knew the language.  His prediction was correct as Trix found the note and came to where he was living.  He was happy to see her and so was her little sister.   Trix convinced her Uncle to come to Phoenix Cove to be with her and the community of humans and mutants that she helped start.

Personality:

Erik is an outdoorsy person. He does not like to be inside for too long.  He is pretty laid back and is easy to get along with. He often uses his mindreading ability to negotiate and  placate leaders of people he encounters, so he could research and explore.

Played by : Joe Manganiello