Rasmus Andersen

## **Rasmus**

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**Rasmus Andersen** is the main protagonist of the series ***The Rain***. He’s the brother of Simone Andersen. When Rasmus was ten years old, a deadly virus began spreading through the rain. His father takes their family to an underground bunker to keep them safe. He ends up leaving Rasmus, his sister and their mom in the bunker and going out to stop the virus.

## Season 2

### "Avoid Contact"

Rasmus, infected with the virus but immune, accidentally spread the virus to Apollon soldiers which allowed him to escape with his group. While stopped to gather supplies, Rasmus had an angry outburst about his own father trying to kill him, disagreeing with Simone that their father tried to help them. He didn't care if he died, even though he assuredly would if he didn't go to the location his father sent him to for help.

Later, when Jean discovered an odd tree surrounded by corpses, Rasmus was drawn toward it, but was stopped by Simone. Some scientists eventually arrived to torch the tree, which caused extreme pain in Rasmus, so they took him back to their base for study. Undergoing blood tests, he claimed to have been infected since age 10, and that it felt as if the virus wanted to get "out" — he wished to be free of it. They arranged a spinal procedure, and although he protested that he didn't feel well and wanted to wait, they proceeded anyway. After the first puncture, they pulled away raw virus instead of blood, at which point the virus flooded out from Rasmus in a black cloud.

### "The Truth Hurts"

Rasmus awoke to his sister Simone telling him a lie that the doctors accidentally dropped a sample. Afterward, he felt much better and wished to help Simone hunt down their father's old notes, for Fie to find a vaccine, but Simone was afraid to go near him. Later, Sarah accused him of murdering her brother Jakob, and although he repeated Simone's lie, she had witnessed what happened and told him the truth. She eventually retired, wishing to suicide, and although he warned her to stay away, her entry provoked him into secreting more of the virus. She closed the door at the last moment, and told him that this was how he killed her brother.

### "Stay in Control"

Simone moved Rasmus to a room where he'd be more comfortable, but he used this as an opportunity to break out. He snuck through the base to find Sarah, where he apologized for killing Jakob and begged her help to discover how he did it, that he might avoid doing so in the future. She agreed, and goaded him into anger, which brought out the virus. He couldn't restrain himself until Simone soothed him, at which point he was put back into quarantine. Simone visited him, but she left in fear, hurting him emotionally. Soon after, Sarah arrived and freed him, escaping with him.

### "Save Yourself"

Rasmus went with Sarah, talking with her as they traveled to Bakken, and at some point she even painted his face like a clown as a joke before wiping it off. Before it could go further however, they had to hide from patrols from Apollon. They then escaped and hid in a cabin, but a prank by Sarah startled Rasmus so badly that he had to briefly leave to expel more of the virus. Sarah comforted him, and told him to embrace his power, and afterward they left for Bakken. En route, Rasmus became concerned for her, for her running out of the serum to keep her immune system strong, but she didn't care.

At Bakken, Sarah wanted him to kiss her, but he refused, lest it kill her. In response, Sarah prepared to kill herself, since she couldn't have the one happy day she wanted before dying, but Rasmus convinced her to stay alive if for no other reason than to have as many happy days as possible.

### "Keep It Together"

Rasmus is concerned about Sarah's declining health, but soon has his own problems, when he is plagued by visions of his former self following a flashback to when he was a child and was comforted by Sten. The visions represent the virus, and urge him not to cure himself. They torment him so much that he demands the cure immediately, and after being denied it, steals it later to try and administer it. However, he couldn't administer the full dose due to the terrifying pain and feeling of dying. He then decides he doesn't want the cure, so Simone poisons him to knock him out and tries to administer it anyway. However, he wakes up and summons the virus, forcing Lea to sacrifice herself to save Simone, giving Simone time to administer the cure on Rasmus.

### "Survival of the Fittest"

After learning that he killed Lea, Rasmus is wracked with guilt and goes to apologize to Jean. Sarah comforts him, and later Rasmus goes on the other side of glass from Sarah so that they can "touch" safely without spreading the virus. However, bounty hunters from Apollon capture him and Sarah, escorting them to the exit. There, Rasmus fakes an illness that Sarah hypes up to frighten the bounty hunters away, allowing them both to escape. When Rasmus learns that he is apparently cured, he and Sarah nearly share an intimate moment, but they are interrupted by the arrival of more bounty hunters, forcing them to flee again. Near the secret exit, some bounty hunters catch up and start shooting at them, hitting Sarah.

Alarmed, Rasmus tends to Sarah, who kisses him and dies in his arms. A blood rage comes upon Rasmus, and he kills the other bounty hunters who come near. The virus is alive about him, spreading in a writhing cloud that kills anyone who comes near, until every single one is dead. However, Simone follows him and demands he stand down, but he refuses and wants to leave. Simone pulls a gun on him to keep him in place, and although Rasmus prepares to defend himself, Martin taunts him to redirect the virus at him, allowing Simone to shoot Rasmus in the back (saving Martin in the process). Miraculously, Rasmus heals the wound, and simply leaves for Apollon.

## Season 3

### "Don't Give Up"

After three months of slow progress working with Apollon, Rasmus is restless with visions he is sent by Sarah, and he wishes his sister to be with him. He demands that Sten bring Simone to him, and Sten agrees. Sten often comforts Rasmus, trying to empathize with him. When Sten brings Simone before Rasmus, Rasmus is in the middle of meditating, viewing Sarah's experiences with the virus. When he comes out of it, Rasmus tries to convince Simone of the necessity of adapting to the virus to survive, but Simone is revolted by the concept on an emotional level and cannot address it rationally, so Rasmus sends her away. She comes back with someone he is intended to save, harasses him until his virus emerges, and then leaves in disgust, fleeing the area despite his cries that she not abandon him again. She makes it to a bridge, where Rasmus once again pleads with his sister to see reason & join him, but she jumps off a bridge to kill herself rather than accept her brother.

### "Never Let Go"

Sarah comes to Rasmus in the flesh, they have sex, and dedicate themselves to each other. Rasmus brings her before Sten for study, and although she doesn't like being prodded, he convinces her to help. Rasmus later confronts Martin and "proves" to him that Simone is dead. Afterward he visits the sick they intend to save with Sarah, only to find corpses. Enraged, Rasmus confronts Sten over experimenting on patients who were terminally ill anyway, but Sten stares him down and intimidates him into leaving. Finally, Rasmus manages to convince Martin to receive the virus next.

### "Stay Strong"

Rasmus has willing, terminally ill subjects such as Olivia who want to risk getting the disease, but he still has doubts. He has a flashback to Simone promising to always love him as her brother, before moving on. Rasmus wants Martin to get the virus, not Sten, but is afraid of Sten, so Sarah urges him to threaten Sten into complying. When he does so however, Sten already knows of his plan, and has Sarah hostage. He forces Rasmus to comply with his plan to infect Olivia, which succeeds. Changing tact, Rasmus fakes illness to leave the room and send Martin to free Sarah. When he is then taken to infect Sten, he reveals that Sarah is free, and infects him with the virus before his immune system is suppressed enough to survive it — this kills Sten. After this, Rasmus infects Martin.

### "Be the Change You Want in the World"

Rasmus over Apollon, killing a scientist who questions him, ensuring compliance. Sarah comforts him, but also notices a new laceration on his neck, which Rasmus plays down. Later, when Martin reveals that Simone is alive, Rasmus wants to go after her, but stays at Sarah's insistence and allows Martin to go instead. He does continue to eavesdrop through Martin's eyes however, while he works to infect more people with the virus. His health begins to fail when he infects too many people, but he continues trying to downplay and hide it. Fie wants to help, but Rasmus becomes defensive, and instead demands that Fie receive the virus next. At the end, Rasmus sees, through Martin's eyes, when Simone is located.

### "Love Yourself"

Rasmus' health continues to deteriorate, but he refuses to confide in Sarah. Olivia experiences a similar disturbance in the virus, and pins Rasmus down with questions and cuts through his lies, but he refuses to be honest with her. He retires to his quarters, gravely ill, with Sarah taking care of him. Eventually he relents and asks Fie to take a blood sample to figure out what is wrong, and she hypothesizes that infecting more people is weakening him. Sarah then confronts Rasmus and stops him infecting more people, for his own health, so he leaves. However, when he learns that two people who he would've infected ended up dying, he forces Fie to prep for the virus and traps Sarah in a secure room. When Martin dies, Rasmus feels this, and unleashes a titanic blast of virus in rage. He then prepares the afflicted to kill Simone, avenge Martin, and assure their safety.

### "And This Too Shall Pass"

   Rasmus is prepared to kill Simone, and although Sarah doesn't want to participate, he convinces her to come along. He drives to Simone's group, walking the rest of the way when they reach a destroyed bridge. He admits to being unwell, but blames Simone for his deteriorating health. As he nears Simone, Sarah implores him for the last time to turn aside, but he discards her instead. He continues after Simone, spots a trap, and so sends a subordinate into the flower compound. The subordinate is shot and killed, hurting Rasmus through the link, so he sends the rest of his subordinates to hunt down Simone's group while he deals with Simone himself. Rather than kill her though, he admits that all he wanted was for them to be together. When Sarah comes to him, they both comfort each other and then send their virus into the flower, which explodes and banishes the virus from them both, killing them.

## Personality

Rasmus was like a child, probably stemming from his isolation in the bunker.

## Powers

### Gaseous Virus

When Rasmus gets angry they find out that the virus has mutated inside of him, and now leaks from him in a gaseous state. Black lines appear all over his body and then the dark gas seeps out of him attracted to nearby people. When others touch the black gas seeping out of his pores, they immediately fall ill and die from the virus, as if they were caught in the rain. Initially this scares everyone, including Rasmus, because he can't control it or it's lethal effects. He struggles to keep from killing everyone when he gets upset, and only embraces the power when he believes that Sarah has died.

After Sarah is shot he kills every Apollon fighter one after another with this gaseous form of the virus, allowing it to take control and attack everyone near him. Simone attempts to stop him and he send the virus directly at Martin, showing some control now that he has accepted it. The only reason that he doesn't kill Martin is because Simone shoots him, which makes the virus retract back into his body, presumably to help the healing process.

When he begins to work for Apollon he practises more and more in his glass cage, where no one can be hurt. He creates spheres of gas in his palm, starting to control when it dissipates and the amount of gas that he lets out. Rasmus still has trouble controlling it when he gets angry, often it becomes too strong so he stays in his in his glass room in Apollon. He tries to keep it at bay by concentrating on calming down, and while the dark lines on his skin still appear, he is usually able to stop the gaseous virus from leaving his body.

### Infecting Plants

Using his gaseous form, Rasmus could infect plants with the virus.

### Turning People

Rasmus has the ability to give people the virus, as was the case with Olivia. This works by neutralizing the immune system and then, using his gaseous form, infuses them with the virus. This is not always successful though, as two patients died after Rasmus gave them. Another example of failure is giving too much of the virus to someone will end up killing them, as Sten died from it.

### Healing

In Survival of the Fittest, Simone shoots Rasmus but fails to kill him as his healing abilities neutralized the effects of the bullet. This implies that the virus is bulletproof, but an exception is shown in And This Too Shall Pass, when Kira kills the wrong person.

### Telepathic Abilities

Rasmus was able to see through the eyes of Sarah, as she wandered alone through forest. The same goes with Martin.

## Gallery

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3

* Rasmus in Stay Inside
* Rasmus in Stay Together
* Rasmus in Avoid The City
* Rasmus in Have Faith
1/5

* Rasmus in Avoid Contact
* Rasmus in Keep It Together
1/2

* Rasmus in Never Let Go
1/1

## Appearances

2. Stay Together
3. Avoid The City
4. Trust No One
5. Have Faith
6. Keep Your Friends Close
7. Don't Talk To Strangers
8. Trust Your Instincts
2. "The Truth Hurts"
3. "Stay in Control"
4. "Save Yourself"
5. "Keep It Together"
6. "Survival of the Fittest"
2. "Never Let Go"
3. "Stay Strong"
4. "Be the Change You Want in the World"
5. "Love Yourself"
6. "And This Too Shall Pass"