Bodyswap is no fun unless it comes with horrible confusion and unsteadiness and emotional revelations and and--oh yeah, superpowers they can't control. That. And hee, of course they do! Erik just needed to develop telepathy so that it would be a FAIR sensible talk.
Re: PART 3. (HA I FOUND A FINISHING POINT. BECAUSE THIS COULD HAVE GOTTEN INCREDIBLY LONG...)