Telepathy Permissions

[wronganswer]

Anderson is psychic, which broadly includes telepathy and empathy, both broadcasting and receiving. She doesn't walk around with it on - it's off by default, and she has to concentrate a little to read minds. She can't control anyone with it or do anything too dramatic.

She primarily sees what people are actively thinking about at a given moment; she doesn't just suddenly pick up on their backstories or secrets. With great concentration or under duress, she can project one of her own emotions into someone else, overwhelming their current feelings with her own. She can try to trick someone into thinking about something with leading questions, but generally to get anything more in-depth or specific, she has to leave her own mind and go into theirs to perform an interrogation. This leaves her completely vulnerable in the physical world while she does so. She's not immune to other psychics, and can be especially vulnerable to them. Though Anderson will eventually become the most powerful psychic in her canon, she's young here and needs a lot more training and experience to get there.

The vast majority of the time, unless she has reason to be suspicious of someone, she won't do more than get locations and general feelings off of people, like vague empathy or particularly loud thoughts. If someone's 'shouting' right next to her, she sort of can't help it, but she's pretty stringent about not riffling through peoples' heads for her own whims.

If you would like to opt out of her having any extrasensory knowledge of your character, that's totally fine! That being said, I will state textually in tags if she is using her abilities, since it isn't constantly "on"; and I will discuss it with you OOCly before doing anything invasive. Unless you just want to give me blanket permission to go hog-wild, I guess!

She also has a minor ability warp of mind-healing, which can be used to soothe mental trauma. At the moment, what it will actually do is make things worse rather than better, but she doesn't know that yet.

P.S. I'm totally cool with other telepaths or those with mental capabilities noticing that she's doing it or poking back. Fair is fair :)


<B>Character Name:</B> <B>Journal:</B> <B>Mind reading:</B> Y/N? Exceptions on what she can find out? <B>Projection:</B> Okay with direct interference and rummaging around, Y/N? <B>Mind-healing:</B> Are you interested in pursuing this, either negatively (backfiring and making it worse before she's able to get a stability gem) or positively, after she has control over it? <B>Other:</B> Any caveats or details?

Comments

[borntolove]

Character Name: 10th Doctor
Journal: borntolove
Mind reading: The Doctor has a stabilizing gem to focus his own telepathic abilities so she will met with resistance
Projection: N
Mind-healing: N
Other: They can however 'feel' each other by them both using their telepathic abilities for a general feeling of the person

[effinphd]

Character Name: Theo Crain
Journal: effinphd
Mind reading: Blanket permission!
Projection: Yesss, though Theo might be aware of it
Mind-healing: VERY yes!
Other: Theo's permissions are here!

[wontgraham]

Character Name: Will Graham
Journal: wontgraham
Mind reading: Yes, absolutely. Will has a convoluted and traumatic past (if you're canonblind, he's a criminal profiler who does his job by being a very empathic person; his skill isn't supernatural in nature, but it takes an enormous emotional toll on Will to think like killers do) and there's plenty of thoughts from him that could seem...suspicious or dangerous. Or particularly vulnerable, depending on the moment. I'm good with anything! Feel free to PM if we ever thread to plot out how to really use her powers to the thread's advantage, if you'd like.
Projection: Yes to everything! IC, Will would be horrified at someone interfering with his thoughts/emotions, and this would result in a good deal of mistrust. (Which I'm happy to explore!)
Mind-healing: Interested in both negative and positive applications of this!
Other: Nah! Although here is Will's own permissions post, just because his canon gets a bit dark, so let me know if there's anything you'd rather avoid!

[wronganswer]

Thanks for letting me know!! I am totally fine with any content (Dredd is pretty dark as well) but I appreciate the head's up. :) Looking forward to threading!

[laminae]

Character Name: Fern
Journal: laminae
Mind reading: Y
Projection: Y
Mind-healing: I'm down for both positive and negative results!
Other: Fern is technically made up of two minds trying to function as one person, a version of AT's protagonist Finn, and the Grass Demon. Finn is a regular human, and Grass Demon is a little Lovecraftian octopus-spider.

[wronganswer]

omg this would get the most severe WTF from her to feel. Thanks for replying!!

[laminae]

I have clips that could work for reference as to what his head is like, if you ever need them!