Eyk Larsen

**Eyk Larsen** is the German ship captain of the Kerberos and an experienced sailor who has been in charge of ships for many years. Eyk remains very strange and mysterious to his crew. Not only is he addicted to alcohol, but Eyk also has a very dark secret that comes to the forefront after he changes his ship's course when he hears the distress signal from the Prometheus.

## Biography

### Finding the Prometheus

After receiving a signal from whom he and his crew suspected to be the Prometheus, which had gone missing four months prior, Eyk changes course in search of the missing ship. Upon learning that Maura is a doctor, he invites her to join him as he and several other crewmen investigated the ship upon their arrival. On the abandoned ship, Eyk finds a white ribbon with blue flowers. He picks it up in disbelief and pockets the ribbon, as if it holds some form of sentimental value. He then makes his way to the bridge, where they discover the telegraph has been destroyed, opening the question of how a signal could've possibly been sent. Upon further search of the Prometheus, they find a mysterious young boy locked inside a cabinet with nothing to his name but a small black pyramid.

Eyk awakens from his sleep to a voice in his head telling him to "wake up" after having dreamt about his wife and daughters dying in a house fire. Clinched in his hand, the white ribbon he found on the Prometheus, which belonged to his daughter who died three years ago. After getting a message from the company to "sink ship," he begins seeing the ghost of his daughter Nina. He follows her into a dark cabin and somehow ends up in his family's living room, where his wife and three children await. Despite being all but certain they weren't real, Eyk is still overwhelmed with emotion, especially after his daughter goes up in flames. When he wakes back up in reality, Eyk spots a green bug, similar to the one on the Prometheus. He follows it into a shaft, which opens up into the floorboards of his own cabin. On the hatch, he notices a triangle, identical to that on the letter he received.

Uncertain of what's happening, Eyk goes after the boy to demand answers, but Maura intervenes. So he makes his way back to his room and down the shaft, but the pathway to the room where he encountered his daughter is no longer there. And after getting word from Olek that they don't have enough coal left, Eyk announces that he will be turning the ship around and towing the Prometheus back to Europe. That same night, he learns that a young girl has died aboard the ship from mysterious circumstances.

### Mutiny on the Kerberos

When the Kerberos is forced to come to a stop due to the fog, Eyk decides to go back over to the Prometheus and search for the log book in hopes of gaining insight to exactly what happened. Maura joins him, and they find another tiled shaft in the captain's cabin, but it leads nowhere. The two of them then head down to the engine room, where they search the furnaces, suspecting that someone may have burned the bodies of the other passengers, but instead of bones, Eyk finds the burned remains of the log book, with the passengers list for the Prometheus still intact. In it, he makes a startling discovery, that Maura is listed as a passenger. However, before he can inquire the reason why, he is captured by Franz, who has staged a mutiny.

With help from Ramiro, Eyk breaks free of his restraints and escapes through a vent, where they are joined by Jérôme and Clémence. The plan is to get to one of the lifeboats and possibly fix the telegraph on the Prometheus to call for help, at which point, they're joined by Maura and the boy, who after they're cornered, turns himself over willingly and is thrown overboard by the mutineers only to somehow teleport into a cabinet in the dining room of the Prometheus.

### Searching for the boy

After Maura mysteriously disappears with the boy, a steady ticking sound begins to ring through the ship and put a large portion of the passengers in some kind of trance that results in them jumping overboard. When Eyk finally reconvenes with Maura, she is forced to reveal her true identity and that her father is the man who bought the ships and that he's likely conducting some kind of experiment. With a green bug she finds roaming around, Maura uses it to open a doorway down Eyk's shaft, which leads them to his home where his wife and children died. Maura comes to the conclusion they are in some kind of dream, which she believes that she found out about before but her father made her forget. Eyk then reveals that his signature is also in the logbook, suggesting that he was the captain of the Prometheus somehow.

### Exiled to the Prometheus

Eyk follows Maura down her tiled shaft, where she saw the boy last. Upon entering the examination room of the Mental Hospital, Eyk opens the curtains to discover not outside, but the hull of the Kerberos on the other side of the window. The same is true for the entire landscape. During their time in the hospital, they notice a black virus growing throughout, which Daniel, who was followed them, warn them not to touch. Suspecting that he's working for Maura's father, Eyk holds him at gunpoint, only for Daniel to disarm him and use some kind of device to send Eyk back to his own memory. Eyk climbs up the shaft back into his cabin. However, he soon realizes that he's not on the Kerberos, but the Prometheus, or at least one of many versions of it, as he looks out the window to discover he's in a graveyard of ships.

Eyk goes out onto the main deck of the Prometheus to see the Kerberos exiting a swirling vortex. He swims over and joins the others, where Maura reveals that Daniel is her husband, the boy is her son, and that they're all inside a simulation. With the rest of the passengers looking for a way off, Eyk and Maura attempt to get back to the hospital by going down Daniel's shaft and traveling through the hidden pathways. They tear the wallpaper off the wall in search of Henry's office, but all they uncover is the ship's hull. That's when Sebastian arrives and uses his device to kill Eyk and take Maura to her father.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* The Ship
* The Boy
* The Fog
* The Fight
* The Calling
* The Pyramid
* The Storm
* The Key

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 1: ***The Ship***
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2: ***The Boy***
3. ↑ Season 1, Episode 3: ***The Fog***
4. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4: ***The Fight***
5. ↑ Season 1, Episode 5: ***The Calling***
6. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: ***The Pyramid***
7. ↑ Season 1, Episode 8: ***The Key***