Erwin Hollenfeuer

* Main
* Weak
* Masked
* Revealed

### Moral status

Morally Challenged (Pre-War),Moral (20-21), Morally Compromised (22), Wise (23 onwards)

### Confidence Level

Mildly Demotivated (Until 23),Reasonably Confident (23 onwards)

## Social life

### Hobby

Making people laugh, Working on his philosophy, Surpassing Zeke, Exploring romance, Helping others, Courting Frieda, Fighting

### Family

Ezekiel Hollenfeuer (Older Brother), Zacharias Klinge, Nikolas Klinge (Cousins), Otto Hollenfeuer (Father), Frieda Muller (Love Interest/Wife)

## Miscellaneous

### Goals

To surpass Panzer, to avenge Zeke, to marry Frieda, To protect NIkolas, To reunite the Hietlenfords, To live a peaceful life (All succeeded). To prevent the death of Zeke, To avoid killing and hurting others (Both failed)

### Interests

Socializing, Philosophy, Romance, Fighting

> *For an extended analysis on his 1943 period, see Lombardi (Persona)*
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**Erwin Liam Cornwell Hollenfeuer** is the main protagonist of **Descendants of Calamity.** He is the son of **Otto Hollenfeuer** and a Mercenary working for the Federalists during his service in the **Civil War.** After the war he would become an actor and band singer for the **Hietlenfords.** During his service as a Mercenary, he had gathered moral lessons and developed a philosophy, which would be inspired by romance and motives. Before the war, Erwin worked as a lab assistant for **Nikolas Klinge.** He also had a side hustle as a thief, he was basically a noone despite being a son of a former world leader. By the end, Erwin would become a wise and strong person. He will carry on Ezekiel's will and fully exterminate toxicity in his family.

Erwin is an extroverted and humorous pessimist who is constantly demotivated if he sees things as foggy, weirdly enough he's optimistic towards others. He puts a lot of time to things he sees as valuable and would expect himself to succeed if the circumstances are good. He is also the young brother of Ezekiel Hollenfeuer, whom he heavily envies.

* History
* Appearance
* Personality
* Abilities and Kinetic Arts

## **Origin**

Erwin comes from the Hollenfeuer dynasty, a heavily political family line. At a very young age, he would follow in the footsteps of his older brother. At a very young age, Erwin was fully exposed to Authoritarianism in the family. He was constantly seen by his mother and father as a clumsy and unreliable person, because Erwin lacked initiative and was a little too unfocused at some times. While in reality, Erwin was carefully listening to himself and trying to explore his inner mind. At the age of 5, once he overhears his mother and father talking about their 4 children, they openly admit that Ezekiel is their favorite. Despite Ezekiel almost being exactly the same as Erwin, he was still favored, mainly because Ezekiel was a little more motivated than him and was more creative. To this, Erwin held a grudge but Ezekiel tried to show his incompetence so Erwin will be the new favorite. They undergo gaslighting from their parents in order for them to do what they are told to do, these forms of gaslighting include the use of their empathy, especially considering that both brothers are empaths.

At adolescence, Erwin explored comedy. He would gain reputation and confidence from others because of his humor and outgoingness, this turned him into an extrovert. However, he still envied Ezekiel because of Ezekiel's better philosophy and knowledge of human interaction alongside his Kinetic art skills. At the age of 13, he enters the world of romance and falls for someone. But because he had observed Ezekiel's **6 different rejections,** he reconsidered. At this time, he was forced to go to voice lessons. He shortly fell in love with music, he would gather all his friends to start a band with him, which he would name **The Hietlenfords**, a soft rock band. Their songs would point out world problems and political instability, poverty, lack of charitability and other problems.

### Martial Law Period

During Martial Law, Erwin continued to make songs pointing out societal issues and problems, he would eventually peak and be seen as **"The one against his own father's oppression."** In one incident, one of his friends get tortured, eventually, killed because of his family's anti-governmental urges. This enraged Erwin, as he now also hates his **Father** more. To add fuel to the fire, his father also forces him to disband Hietlenfords after it made a song criticizing the government. And from here, Erwin lives in hatred and envy which will plague his future as he begrudges Ezekiel and his Father. During this period was when they started training under Kristoff as well. Erwin and Ezekiel were working on their Kinetic Arts to further improve their health and uphold protection and honor within the family name. This only made Erwin envy Ezekiel even more and lead to further mutiny. A significant scene is set here where both currently training their respective kinetic arts under the supervision of Kristoff Hollenfeuer and Grimm Klinge, their grandfather and uncle. Zeke would then defeat Erwin in a spar. Zeke, who would call it a good fight and give Erwin advice while offering a helping hand would be wished death upon by Erwin. Kristoff would overhear it and ask Zeke to come closer to Kristoff, to which Kristoff would bind his heart with a red fire ring which stops circulation. Much to Erwin's sort of dismay, he sees it and hesitates to intervene, while Kristoff reassures Erwin that "this is what he wanted". Eventually after Erwin feels empathy, he takes action by burning the ring of fire as he hits Kristoff. The charismatic Kristoff then tells them "Family is Everything".

### Post-Otto Period

After the death of Otto and their return to Germany, they further strengthen themselves. Erwin couldn't get proper education which led to him being jobless after finishing his course in Kinetic Art mastery, not to mention, he also finished a little later than Ezekiel did. From here on out, Erwin would reach out to **Nikolas Klinge** and ask to live with him in return for beneficial services. But only then he worked as a thief for a side hustle as he needed to provide more for Nikolas in order to raise his reputation. He was eventually caught, where he was given a Military Service sentence and was drafted alongside Nikolas which starts DoC.

## **Appearance**

Erwin wears an **M40 Feldbluse** with a red and dark red jacket as an overcoat. On the jacket's shoulder, it has a pocket which has patch signifying his Kinetic Art. He has Trouser pants which correlates with his **M40 Feldbluse.** He has circle and triangle pins on his collar, signifying Erwin and Ezekiel. Erwin being a rather blunt, one-sided and basic person while Ezekiel being sharp, triple sided and a little special person. His hair seems to be a mullet, but then also reminiscent of **Keanu Reeves and Markiplier.** His body build varies between the time periods, but mainly, he is slim and athletic. His eyes are colored reddish brown and his hair color is brown. Not much else can be described other than Erwin's simplicity.

## **Personality**

Erwin is a laid-back, humorous and serious person. He has genuine traits such as care and appreciation for his friends and family. However he envies his older brother and has a small resentment toward him. Erwin also has desires like power, physique and a decent reputation and would almost do anything to achieve them. However, because of his moral values and compass he tries to limit his actions in order to keep his good and genuine side within him to prevent himself from going downhill. Despite these, Erwin stays as a genuine person caring for his family and friends who attempts to follow the law and stay as a good person.

## **Psychological Evolution**

### **Before the War**

His main traits during these times were:

**Morally Challenged, Hustling for family, Honest, Sympathetic, Weak, Highly Competitive, Sane**

During this time, Erwin is struggling to comprehend his morals. He was stealing from others and pawning a few of them to make money for Nikolas' food and to help pay his bills because he never provided money to them. Although he's doing a bad thing for a good thing, it's still immoral. Erwin at this time doesn't want to lie, as he knows it will only make things worse as he's incredibly bad at lying. He regards human lives considering he also has a similar philosophy to Nikolas' and sees him equal to others. "*One can steal, but not kill."* At this time, he was weak and would submit to those who have authority over him, but he doesn't go down with a fight. He competes with those he thinks are not right, and only competes if so. At this stage, Erwin is still a normal human being, living a low life due to unforeseen and unwanted circumstances. That changes until he is drafted to war. During the war, he would be forced to kill a person in the most brutal way possible after running out of bullets, he repeatedly apologizes and such, showing his humanity.

### **1941 to Early-Mid 1942**

His main traits during these times were:

**Moral, Hustling for family and survival, Disonest, Empathetic, Beyond average capability, Reasonably Competitive, Traumatized**

After only 2 battles, Erwin already saw the horrors of war. It goes as far as to seeing corpses flying, comrades dying. This certainly gave Erwin a better moral understanding. An understanding which taught him that he should treat people fairly and do good things for them if they're in sorrow, if they're good and if they're sad. It also taught him that he should **ONLY do bad things if it means to save lives.** At this point, all of his remaining family is in the war, therefore is working hard to prevent their deaths and a family collapse. Erwin is a little dishonest in order to hide his feelings and envy as he thinks this method will prevent it from developing further, although it won't. Because of the painful screams of **Friederich Flintlock** and Erwin caused it and had to hear it, he shortly understood Friederich's position and felt it. It never left his mind which made him feel his victim's emotions and feelings. He was also training his body and his agility in order to give himself some therapy and to improve his health. He slowly lowered his ego, or, competitiveness to avoid another situation that's reminiscent of the Friederich Incident. Despite all of this, he would see more. His envy slowly plagues him as his brother showcases his superiority, especially during **"Frighter Train"** and **"Bioaerosol."**

### Mid-Late 1942 and 1943

His main traits during these times were:

**Morally Compromised, Hustling for reputation and power, Deceptive, Sociopathic and Empathetic, Powerful, Emotionally Egotistical, Megalomaniac**

After the events of **What is love?** and **Love is hate,** Erwin's emotions, envy and moral complex collapse in it on themselves. Due to his hatred and envy for Zeke, he immediately listened to these traits, as he did the worst possible way to "solve" them. And this led to his moral downfall. He becomes morally compromised, at this point he's still a little human however he's essentially **buying more power and reputation at the expense of his ethics and morals.** He then sees his life as a competition against Zeke, thinking he must need to gain more power and reputation than him in order to defeat him not only physically, but emotionally and socially. He also deceives people and his own men in order to get what he wants to get the best outcome, similarly to Panzer's methods of assessing people whom are attracted Serene Ziegler. He then also no longer recognizes human emotions, HOWEVER still ends lives in the quickest way, meaning he's still empathetic and a little good. He now upholds power, commanding and handling 200 people. Not only that, he is also incredibly skilled in Sickle Proficiency and Pyrokinesis. Stated before, he listened to his emotions; specifically Hatred and Envy. This turned him egotistical after telling himself that he can surpass anyone and everyone if he puts his time to it, incorrectly using Zeke's teachings. He also enjoys the power he has and also abuses it for things to go his way. It's almost as if Erwin is lost here, however after realization and actualization, he shortly chooses to change himself after realizing Zeke, Frieda, Nikolas, Zacharias and everyone. His deception plays one last time as he successfully denies and escapes his 60 murder cases, after being defended by Ezekiel

### 1944

His main traits during these times were:

**Wisdom, Hustling for redemption and family, Lawfully Deceptive, Empathetic and Emotional, Humbly Powerful, Neutrally Confident, Sane**

After mental rehabilitation, Erwin regains his humanity. At this state, he learned a lot from Zeke and his friends. He would preach to the children, and also to his family, as well as Frieda in order to get her interest lawfully. At this point, Erwin is volunteering in civil engineering in Heilbronn to help repair the damages he has done. Not only that, he explored Philanthropy and charity. At this point, he deceives people so that they do not feel sad or down, easily using his manipulative skills for good. He's also empathizing with people now, making it easier for him to detect problems and such making him a good therapist and a leading figure. His power and authority is now being used to scare off threats and to also provide protection and example to his men and to his family and friends. He's also neutrally confident and observes warrior's honor. This marks the spot of Erwin fully absorbing what seems to be Zeke's false personality, this is the biggest stepping stone for Erwin's life. After Zeke's death he understood to not be sad but understood that he needed to keep going and to carry out his will in order for Zeke's death and sacrifice to not be vain.

## **Abilities and Weaknesses**

**Pyrokinetic and Kinetic art capabilities -** Erwin possesses **Pyrokinesis, later Volcanikinesis,** He is capable of channeling fires and energy through his body and his revolver. He has not much memorable moves and techniques. He mainly uses his **Pyrokinesis** to unleash beams of fire, volleys of fireballs, incendiary bullets and area of effect techniques. **Volcanikinesis** is used for heavy burst attacks, area of effect attacks and crowd control attacks. The fires he produce get hotter, sharper and more effective the more irritated or stressed he is. The requirements also increase based on the order of the list, the first move mentioned **requires less irritability/stess** meanwhile the last one mentioned **requires the most.**

**Positive Charisma -** His overall loyalty and beneficial actions toward his men give him positive, lawful and good charisma, making them loyal to Erwin for his services.

**Immense Durability -** Being a brawler, he can withstand most basic attacks but is still vulnerable to heavier attacks that utilize kinetic arts

**Enhanced Agility and reflexes -** He is averagely agile, however later in the series he would have more flexibility and balance but is still outclassed by Nikolas

**Fire Resistance -** Due to his kinetic art, he is heavily unaffected by fire and can withstand even the hottest pepper. However, he has both types of IBS so he is still vulnerable to Diarrhea.

**Enhanced Strength -** Erwin is able to perform powerful attacks and blows. He is used to punching things because of his trainings, and they grow stronger the more angry he is in accordance to his kinetic arts.

**Deceptive tactics -** He usually uses tactics to deceive his opponents into thinking they are winning, in order to trick them into using full power. An example is where he pretends to be taking immense amounts of damage, and as his opponent charges up, he either counters quickly or dodges, then attacks. He usually repeats these strategies.

### Weaknesses

Psychology-wise, Erwin is immediately demotivated once his personal life is mentioned. If someone mentions his inferiority to Zeke or his lack of progress in romance, he'll lose his advantage and immediately overthink. When enough negative reaffirmations are given to him in battle, he slowly does the same process of overthinking and eventual demotivation. However, if given too much, this will cause Erwin to increase his irritability and such. His empathy also plays a good weakness, as seen from killing Friederich, he felt so sad that he had taken another life. Not only that but if you express enough sadness before he kills you, it's possible for you to get away.

Power-wise he is severely inferior to **Hydrokinesis and Geokinesis.** He physically cannot use his power under the effects of Hydrokinesis because it's literally water. Geokinesis can mainly control his area of effect attacks and can easily contain fires if executed correctly. It also reminds him of **Zeke** which also makes him underestimate himself and such.

## **Kinetic Art Techniques**

#### Pyrokinesis

**Nerve Burning Discharge -** Erwin launches a beam of fire towards a target, aiming to burn their armor or their body, he refuses to use it on non-kinetic wielders and only uses it on brawls. This heavily relies on his stress level as the beam is capable significantly damaging objects or significantly burning people. It can reach up to 12 meters.

**Crossfire Volley -** Erwin unleashes multiple bursts of fireballs that go in unpredictable directions. This represents and uses Erwin's irritability, a really messy and powerful rage coming in different directions and forms.

**Heat seeking Fusillade -** Erwin launches different bursts of indefinitely shaped fire projectiles, which aim to chase their victim down until it burns away. This mainly uses Erwin's irritability for damage but Stress for the tracking and speed.

**Incendiary Gunmanship -** Erwin shoots off a incendiary bullet

#### Volcanikinesis

**Volcanic Rush -** Inspired by Ezekiel's power rush, Erwin lunges forward and slams his axe to shake the ground and spread magma through the cracks. The damage focuses on Erwin's anger, while the distance covered relies on stress.

**Hurling Fury -** Erwin repeatedly rotates himself while holding his axe outward to produce a crowd controlling and area of effect attack to prevent being surrounded, while also being an agile move for a brawl or showdown. This is an agile move, so Erwin's stress causes him to focus on the agility and to also control dizziness by distracting his brain with stress.

**Gates of Hell -** Erwin shakes the ground by hitting it and cracking the surroundings, then covering the whole area through **fire breathing** and turns the battle field into hell on earth. This is a burst attack that specializes in damage, therefore it utilizes Erwin's Irritability.