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Full Name: Eric Georg Vandenburgh
Other Names: Savannah Grace Memminger
Code Name: Echo
Gender: Male
Species: Mutant
PB: Varies, mainly Jason Statham and Kat VonD
Character Age and DOB: 30, April 20th
Complete Character Description:
Eric-
     Height: 6'0"
     Weight: 170
     Hair: Brown
     Eyes: Hazel
     Appearance: Eric's tall form can usually be seen in suits. Sometimes t-shirts and jeans, but not often. He keeps his hair shorn, along with his face though he tends to have a perpetual five o'clock shadow. He has serious eyes and a stern look to his face. He is well muscled, keeping himself in shape. His skin is lightly brown from time in the sun, and prevents him from burning.

Savannah-
     Height: 5'9"
     Weight: 145
     Hair: Black
     Eyes: Brown
     Appearance: Savannah's curvy form has a style all her own. She dresses in whatever is comfortable, mostly jeans. She has tattooing on most of her body, most noticeable are the stars on her temple and forhead. She often has streaks of color in her dark hair, blond or other colors. She most often wears dark makeup. Her hair is worn down most of the time, but can sometimes be seen in various forms of updos.

Personality: Eric is a calm personality. He keeps his cool, even under pressure. He is a charmer. He flatters and can easily bring a smile to most people's faces. He keeps to himself, and does not share much of himself. He is a smoothe talker and can calm nerves with low intones of his voice. He is calculating, doing nothing rash or spontaneous. He thinks everything through. He can be manipulative and deceiving when it suits his purposes.

Background: Georg Vandenburgh and Amelia Himmel bore their first and only child, Eric, during a time of turmoil. Amelia Himmel was human, and knowingly married Georg Vandenburgh, even though he was a mutant. She loved him and accepted him for who he was. Although, her parents did not. When they discovered that their daughter had not only married a mutant, but concieved a child with one, they were shocked and hurt. They had assumed that Amelia would understand their wishes that she marry a human. They saw it as a direct insult and disobediance to their wishes.

It was during this time of banishment from his maternal grandparents, that Eric was born. His parents loved and doted on him. Life was peaceful and quiet for them for several years, but life as they knew it was shattered beyond repair one fateful night. His maternal grandparents had disowned their daughter, but they had not forgotten about her, or their only grandson. Instead, they had gone about trying to find a way to get Georg out of their lives.

It took many years, and many lies, but eventually the government stepped in. The encouragement from Amelia's parents was the only excuse they needed to determine that Georg was abusive to his wife and child. The HILE took Georg away and locked him in a cell until he could stand trial. Amelia didn't know what had happened to him, and even though she was the supposed victim, she was not asked to testify at his trial.

Amelia's health took a turn a few months later. Her parents stepped back into the picture, offering their help and their facade of sympathy. When Eric was 7, he and his mother moved in with them. And it was from this point on that Eric's mind would be poisoned with the lies about mutants that had gotten his father arrested, detained, and thrown in jail without a proper trial. As his mother's health progressively declined, Eric spent more and more time with his doting grandparents. They managed to convince him that his father really had been a horrible person who deserved to be in jail.

And Eric came to hate his father. He hated him for what he was, and what he had supposedly done. He hated him for abandoning them, and he hated them for the way his mother had begun to deteriorate. Soon, his father was being blamed for everything that ever went wrong in the young man's life. And when Eric was 11 years old, he discovered another thing he could blame on his father.

He had been walking through the mall with his grandfather when he first noticed the change. He didn't know how it had happened, or why. And it scared him too much to say anything to anyone. But as he passed a man in the mall, he felt a power surge through him, like he had been electrocuted. And then he found that he could look through things. Solid things. Like walls, statues and people. In time, he found that he could absorb the powers of other mutants and keep them. He never depleted anyone's power, he just took it on himself. Mimicking it, echoing it. And he found that he could hold many powers at a time. But when he got too greedy, he discovered that some of the powers were gone.

When Eric was 15, his mother passed away. She had just grown progressively more ill over the years. There was no explanation. The doctor's said she just didn't have the will to live. Embittered even further against his father, the boy determined that he would find him and kill him if he wasn't dead already. He learned to control his power, to hone and fine tune it. He learned his range, and his limitiations. He also hid it from his grandparents. Knowing how they felt about mutants, he knew it was best to just keep it to himself.

He saw his powers as a means to an end. He never saw himself as one of the filthy mutants he and his grandparents hated so much. When he graduated from college, he went to work for the HILE. He showed amazing aptitude for finding mutants. He was put to work as a spy after he foiled every mutant detector test known to the HILE. Believing he was human, the HILE dispatched him on their most important cases, and he never failed them. He always found who he was looking for.

Now, 8 years later, he has been assigned to find the King's Ransom and destroy it.

Weaknesses: Whenever he picks up too many powers, he has to drop one or two. He has a difficult time being around large crowds. He gets angry when he is not taken seriously. He hates mutants.
Strengths: Natural leader. Ability to take on the abilities of others without draining their own powers. Good spy.
Likes: Deviled Eggs, Wolfhounds, Oxfords, Jade, Evian, Music, Dancing, Baseball, Tattoos
Dislikes: Sharks, TV, Tomatoes, Snakes, Coffee, Crowds, Mutants
Mutant Abilities: Echo has the ability to mimic the mutant powers of other mutants within a ten foot radius. He can also absorb these powers for later use. He doesn't deplete the other mutant's power, and in fact they never know he has copied their power. He can use the powers as long as he likes, although if he absorbs too many he has to drop others. He can choose which ones to keep and which ones to drop. One of the powers he has held on to for a long time is shapeshifting. He uses this ability to take on the appearance of others. It is this ability that has given him the skills to be a successful spy. He uses this power most often in two forms, his male form and his female form which he uses when he needs to.
Talents and Hobbies: Computers, Tracking, Concerts, Cooking, Reading
Family and Friends: Georg Vandenburgh (father- alive), Amelia Himmel Vandenburgh (mother- deceased), Susana Himmel (grandmother- alive), Spencer Himmel (grandfather- alive)
Location of Character: On the trail of the King's Ransom
Job/Duty/Position: International Spy for the HILE