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=== Powers and abilities === | === Powers and abilities === | ||
Eric was particularly skilled at robotics. Despite his scientific leanings, he | Eric was particularly skilled at robotics. Despite his scientific leanings, he wasn't sure he needed Kim's lessons about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule slide rules], finding calculator apps sufficient for his purposes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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Noting that the boy didn't seem to have many friends his age, [[Eric's mother]] and [[David Lowe]] agreed to have David drive Eric to a “dinner thing” at the Emanuel temple on {{w|Sukkot|Sukkot}} week. After the meal, Eric was initially bored, but then ran into [[Herbie Popnecker]] and [[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]], taking a shine to the latter. When he caught up with them to take Eric home, David greeted Herbie casually, having known him for “some time”, but was surprised at Sophie, perceiving that she was someone “special” but never having met the likes of her before. As he and Eric drove home, David told him what little he knew about Herbie, but confessed to her that he was unfamiliar with Sophie, though he seemed optimistic about the young mad scientist's chances of figuring out how to to contact her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How Jenny First Met… (short story)|How Jenny First Met…]]'') | Noting that the boy didn't seem to have many friends his age, [[Eric's mother]] and [[David Lowe]] agreed to have David drive Eric to a “dinner thing” at the Emanuel temple on {{w|Sukkot|Sukkot}} week. After the meal, Eric was initially bored, but then ran into [[Herbie Popnecker]] and [[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]], taking a shine to the latter. When he caught up with them to take Eric home, David greeted Herbie casually, having known him for “some time”, but was surprised at Sophie, perceiving that she was someone “special” but never having met the likes of her before. As he and Eric drove home, David told him what little he knew about Herbie, but confessed to her that he was unfamiliar with Sophie, though he seemed optimistic about the young mad scientist's chances of figuring out how to to contact her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How Jenny First Met… (short story)|How Jenny First Met…]]'') | ||
=== | === The Sophiad === | ||
Some time later he had an accident with an explosive left behind by a [[Octobriana|careless visitor]] during one of Jenny’s adventures. At exactly the right time Sophie reappeared and gave him a magical healing lollipop of the kind Herbie enjoyed, admitting, “You can’t get them around here.” She then told him she didn’t think she should be there yet, gave him a [[Thymon Plushy|strange plush toy]], and [[Shift|shifted]] away. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Preludes and Knick-knacks (short story)|Preludes and Knick-knacks]]'') | Some time later he had an accident with an explosive left behind by a [[Octobriana|careless visitor]] during one of Jenny’s adventures. At exactly the right time Sophie reappeared and gave him a magical healing lollipop of the kind Herbie enjoyed, admitting, “You can’t get them around here.” She then told him she didn’t think she should be there yet, gave him a [[Thymon Plushy|strange plush toy]], and [[Shift|shifted]] away. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Preludes and Knick-knacks (short story)|Preludes and Knick-knacks]]'') | ||
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One day Eric came home to a letter on his door from Sophie, inviting him to meet her elsewhere in the city early in the morning the next day. When he got off the bus she took him to a nearby park where she had concealed a [[Smog Ship|peculiar dimensional transport]], which she explained she couldn’t take home or leave unguarded – so she planned to blow it up! She enlisted his help to rig up a time delay mechanism to make the machine shift to another dimension after they had gotten out and then set off some dynamite. After doing this, they had all day to spend together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Game of Two (short story)|A Game of Two]]'') | One day Eric came home to a letter on his door from Sophie, inviting him to meet her elsewhere in the city early in the morning the next day. When he got off the bus she took him to a nearby park where she had concealed a [[Smog Ship|peculiar dimensional transport]], which she explained she couldn’t take home or leave unguarded – so she planned to blow it up! She enlisted his help to rig up a time delay mechanism to make the machine shift to another dimension after they had gotten out and then set off some dynamite. After doing this, they had all day to spend together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Game of Two (short story)|A Game of Two]]'') | ||
=== An Unwelcome Visitor === | |||
Some time later Eric encountered an [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|unfamiliar woman]] in the hall outside his apartment carrying an odd gadget. The visitor did not at all get along with Kim and in the excitement she left behind a strange electronic device, a pistol, and a motorcycle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Auntie Matters (short story)|Auntie Matters]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||