so, since I'm on a bit of an empathy power thing i want to talk about some powers related to empathy or that use empathy/emotions that I've seen before and put on that one giant mega post i did about empaths. and we start where else... but with miraculous
specifically, I'm talking about the butterfly miraculous and the peacock miraculous
now I'll explain briefly what a miraculous is. its a magical accessory that houses a kwami(an abstract concept given a sentient form) and can be used to make a person a hero or villain. giving them a suit,a power to use based on their concept, and a tool
and were going to start with arguably the most important miraculous of them all. the butterfly miraculous
now if you know miraculous ladybug it might be weird to call the butterfly the most important miraculous. but if it wasn't in the hands of a villain wed have no show.
the butterfly miraculous is a locked broach that the kwami of transmission named nooroo inhabits. turning its holder into a butterfly themed hero or villain with the power of transmission.
it gives the holder a cane with a hidden sword as their tool.
now why is it here? well, this miraculous cares allot about the emotions of others. it gives the holder the power to transform people into either heroes or villains via a magic butterfly called a kamiko/akuma(depending on which side is using it) but only if they are feeling an extreme emotion. this miraculous also grants its wearer the ability to sense emotions so they can use them.) this magical brooch quite literally allows you to not only sense people's emotions but empower them when they feel extreme emotion. this power also gives you a telepathic bond with the one the butterfly is possessing/giving power to.
an unpurified akuma/kamiko can even multiply into a bigger threat.
i find it to be an interesting ability set up and I'd say it screams empath of some kind (after all passively you can sense people's emotions and then power those people up when they have extreme emotions.)
but i mean it's not like this is the miraculous of emotion or anything... that would be our next miraculous the peacock miraculous
okay so we have the miraculous for the concept of emotions itself... what does it do? well it might sound a bit familiar.
now the peacock miraculous is a brooch that the holds the kwami of emotion duusu. and makes the user a peacock themed hero/villain
the holder of the peacock uses a feather called an amok, and with this amok and strong emotions can make a sentimonster(a being that is composed of the emotions of someone else. could be holder if they have the object the feather possessed or could be from someone else's emotions)
so, by using something the miraculous provides you and emotions you make something... welp, we got the butterfly miraculous dlc. they're even both brooches so maybe that's why they have such similar powers?
the peacock miraculous is one that gets allot of flak for basically being a reskin of the butterfly. and while i somewhat agree with the consensus i do find it relatively okay as a miraculous... but it did get downgraded. in the original concepts for the peacock holder, we see her wielding what looks like knives and or daggers rather than a simple but feathery hand fan
honestly this post might be a little boring. just testing the waters with that posts honorable mentions. so maybe next time ill cover some others that maybe could be more exciting? idk we shall see.
i think this post series was more or less made so i could talk more about some of the powers i think an empath could wield and or people who are empaths with crazy powers.
i didn't bring the craziest things but id say i think i could see an empath having powers like these. making creatures or physical manifestations of emotions or empowering themselves or other by using strong emotions as the catalyst. but what about you guys? could you see that yourselves or am i somewhat off my rocker?
And we’re back! New piece for TJ and Danny’s series. It’s been a while, so for a refresher: Carrying on directly from previous piece here. Masterpost is here. The Pathverse is a creation of @wildfaewhump!
TJ jerked back, hands pressing themselves into his armpits, cringing. Voices hammered at his ears – at least two voices? Had somebody else approached, too?
The man was swearing, yelling – of course he was, it was bad and wrong for TJ to be here, he knew that, this person had every right to be upset. But TJ hadn’t gotten close, hadn’t looked at him, hadn’t – if only he would listen, but he wouldn’t. TJ wondered, panicked, if he ought to just sit down, fold his arms over his head, and wait for the Agency people.
The new person had a loud voice too, but not as angry – and also getting closer. Almost in his space – and then TJ stiffened, his mouth opening to cry a warning, because the new person had walked right up to him and wrapped an arm around his shoulders.
No, you can’t touch me, he tried to say – but before he could get the words out, her bare fingers had found his and closed around them.
And then everything was fine! TJ hadn’t needed to worry about it at all. He closed his mouth, feeling a little silly he’d been so panicked. Relief washed over him like an ocean wave, inexorable, dizzying. The fingers squeezed his and he found himself grinning. Everything was going to be okay.
“I’m so sorry about my brother,” the new person was saying, her voice higher pitched than TJ’s or Danny’s, warm and friendly and with an edge of a laugh on some of the words. “He promised me he wouldn’t make a scene or cause any trouble! Here, let me help you with that…”
The warm arm around TJ’s shoulder disappeared as the woman stepped away, her voice chattering, saying something meaningless and friendly. And after a moment – the man laughed, as well, sounding shaky but relieved.
“It’s only a costume, of course!” the woman said. “I’m working on a film for school!”
“Oh, thanks – really, a film, haha, what sort of…”
“Oh, kind of – a psychological horror, sort of thing, you know.” A self-deprecating chuckle. “It’s probably not going to be very good.”
“Well, I’m sure it… the costuming is pretty, um, pretty realistic…”
“Thanks! I worked really hard on it!”
TJ tipped his head, a slight frown wrinkling his forehead and making the hastily-applied blindfold slip and let in a crack of light. He couldn’t quite get his head around how fast things had changed – now these two strangers were talking and laughing, as if they were old friends? But something wasn’t right. It was a good thing, of course it was a good thing, but why...
The woman was lying to this stranger – or was she dreadfully confused? Was it TJ’s fault? Maybe he ought to say something. Had he somehow managed to convince her, in that one brief hand-touch that shouldn’t have happened, that he was her brother?
Oh, no - he’d touched her, he’d touched a real person and his handler was nowhere near him, no, that was never ever ever supposed to happen…
She draped her arm over TJ’s shoulder again, and for a moment he felt the prickle of her thoughts like he was used to – anxiety, play this just right, waiting for somebody, he’d better get here soon, determination – before they were gently moved out of his reach. Comfort and warmth replaced them, and it seemed like a much better deal, so he let it happen. He didn’t need to worry about reading her – that was such a relief. And she was nice, she was so nice. He couldn’t see her but he bet she was pretty and smiling, he could hear the smile in her voice. And she’d soothed the angry stranger, too, so did it matter how she’d done it?
He grinned, wordlessly, filled with a kind of shy happiness, and leaned into her side. He listened to her talk without really following the words, just enjoying the cadence of her voice. Everything was going to be all right now.
“… yeah, like a third of our grade. My friend said they’d be here with our camera and stuff but they’re running late.”
“And your brother…”
“Oh, no, he’s not in the class. I just promised he could play the monster, but I didn’t think he’d be such a dick about it, he keeps sneaking up on people!”
“Oh, well, you gave me the fright of my life, not gonna lie, kid!”
The arm around TJ’s shoulders tightened. “Oh, um, my brother doesn’t talk much,” the woman said quickly. “Is your food still good to go? Sorry if it got ruined, I can replace it if you want.”
“No, no, that’s fine, no harm done.”
“Great!” A new note appeared in her voice, and if TJ hadn’t been so distracted, he might have wondered if she was nervous. “Oh, look, there’s my friend arriving with all our equipment, we’d better go! See you!”
She took hold of TJ firmly and turned him around, pulling him with her as she strode out into the rest of the concrete-and-fumes wasteland of the carpark.
He went without complaint, reassured by the firm grip on his shoulders. He stumbled once or twice over irregular surfaces she didn’t know to cue him about. But that was okay. He wondered dreamily why she was almost running.
There was the familiar sound of a car door opening, and the woman seemed to want him to get into it, so he did his best. That had to make her happy, right? It was more important than anything that the nervous bright-voiced girl with hurried hands was happy.
She climbed in after TJ, pushing him until he slid along the seat and fetched up against the opposite door. The car jolted into motion without anybody strapping TJ in, which was weird. He found his grip tightening around the woman’s hand, which was somehow in his again. She squeezed back, which was oddly reassuring.
“Thank Christ,” she said, out of breath. “Glen, don’t go home, I think we’re going to need to dump this car.”
“Yes, probably.” The person driving the car sounded distracted. “How bad do you think? Are we going to need to move?”
“No,” she said, after a moment. “No, I don’t think so, it was only a minute of conversation. I spun that guy a story, hopefully he’ll believe it for a while. Had to put the whammy on him pretty hard.”
The car turned, making TJ slide across the seat and knock his shoulder against hers. It sure was a good thing touching her was fine, he thought. Otherwise this would be a disaster.
He didn’t feel the slightest bit afraid of either of them; he could tell they were good people. Everything was going to be just fine now that he’d found them.
The thought of Danny, still probably stuck in the car, gave him pause. He shouldn’t be this happy while he hadn’t gotten Danny out yet, should he?
“Violet,” the driver said, tense and careful. “Sometimes I really do wish you would hang back for more information.”
“There wasn’t time,” she – Violet? - protested. “If I’d waited, the whole place would have been freaking out calling the Agencies and the cops.”
Glen sighed, heavily.
“Hey,” he said, his voice suddenly different, cheerier. “You all right back there?”
TJ, startled to be addressed, flinched away from them both into the car door. “Um, yes,” he said timidly – then more sure of himself. “Yes, I’m all right. Thank you!” He caught himself wanting to subside back into the seat, smiling and waiting to see what happened next. No, not yet! He pushed forward. “Only, only, I need your help with something!”
“Of course,” Glen said, sounding surprised. “We can – Violet. Are you still doing something?”
The fingers in TJ’s twitched. “Yes. He was pretty panicked when I found him. I needed him not to give the game away.” Something bled around the edges of the warm, happy feeling. Defensiveness? Impatience?
Wait, why did the warm feeling and the defensiveness both seem to come from somewhere…
“I know,” Glen said. “That’s fine. But, you can let him go now.”
“Are you sure? I think he might lose it.”
“Well, why don’t we give him a chance and see.”
The fingers uncurled from TJ’s, reluctantly. He felt, for a bare couple of moments, mostly empty. Then the awareness that he was in a car with two strange people – people who’d been touching him – seeped back in. Didn’t they know how dangerous this was?
When he got back to the Agency, things were going to be… bad. If they hadn’t been going to get rid of him before, they definitely would now.
“Oh,” he said. He pulled his arms and legs in close – hands buried under his elbows. Then he just sat, breathing quietly, head down, feeling the fear rise like dark water around him. He felt sick with dread, and guilt, and fear.
“All right,” the voice from the driver – Glen – still calm and cheery as if everything was fine. “Take it slow, now, I know it’s a lot. What’s your name?”
“Um. TJ,” he whispered. That was… a weird question. Nobody had ever needed to ask his name before. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t – I didn’t mean to do anything, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to! It’s just that Danny’s hurt and, and, I’m not supposed to be out here but I need to do something, I need to find somebody to fix it!”
“OK, OK,” Violet said, soothingly. “TJ. Like tee-jay? OK. I’m Violet. The guy driving is Glen. Everything will be fine, don’t worry. We’re going to take you somewhere safe.”
“No, you don’t understand,” TJ said, urgently. How much time had he already wasted? “Danny’s hurt. I need you to call our Agency, or somebody, to come get him. He’s back there, he’s in the car, he stopped talking….”
Neither of them said anything, and the car didn’t stop or turn around. Neither did anybody seem to be making a phone call. TJ wasn’t explaining it properly, they didn’t understand. TJ should know better than to get the story all jumbled like this.
“There was a car crash,” he said, slowly and carefully. “Danny’s car, it rolled over. I came out here – without him – to find someone who could call our Agency. Danny’s too hurt to do it for himself. So, you need…”
“TJ,” Violet said, speaking over him. “We can’t call an Agency. OK? Agencies aren’t safe for us right now.”
But she was wrong, the Agency was the safest place – the only safe place. But he supposed normal people wouldn’t think that way. “No, it’ll be fine,” TJ said, his voice starting to wobble. “That’s where I’m from – it’ll be safe for you, it’s not – I’m not normally wandering out alone. Agencies are safe. And it’s where Danny and me came from, so we need to go back.”
“We know that’s where you came from,” Violet said. “It’s okay, we’re not scared of you, TJ. We’re like you. Agencies would hurt us.”
“No, they wouldn’t,” TJ said, bewildered. “Maybe not ours, but another one? That’s what Danny wanted. You could find Julie, I think hers is Southwest...”
“No! We’re not calling any agencies.”
“But you have to call them! You have to call somebody!” TJ felt his voice rising, bouncing off the interior of the car back at him, and he was too upset to care right now. He still wasn’t buckled in, and it felt wrong and bad and distracting. He put his hands out, feeling the surfaces around him, soft fabric fuzz and hard plastic, nothing familiar.
“TJ, it’s OK, I - ”
Glen’s voice cut over the top of Violet’s. “Vi, let him be. TJ, who is Danny? Your friend?”
“Nnnno?” TJ gulped in a breath. “My handler Danny. He takes care of me. He was taking me somewhere in his car, but then it crashed - he’s stuck. Somebody needs to go get him out, so we have to call. Or – or, you have a car, he isn’t far, you could go get him?”
There was a long silence in the car, in which he heard somebody hiss in a breath.
“Look, if you go back along the road,” he said, the words falling over each other. If he could just get them to see Danny… “Back where I came from, the road with the grass and the trees, the, the hill – it isn’t that far, if you go back there you’ll find him -”
“Your handler,” Violet repeated carefully.
TJ nodded. “My handler, Danny. Yeah. You’ll help, right?” He’d felt so sure they would, just a few minutes ago when Violet was holding his hand. He shouldn’t be talking to people like this – Paths didn’t talk to people – but Violet had been so nice, and this was so important. Surely people wouldn’t just let somebody die if they could help. Would they?
Another long silence, filled with the little noises of a car on the road, the rush of wind and the small clicks and beeps.
“We can’t, TJ, I’m sorry,” Glen said.
No.
TJ filled his lungs with one huge, horrified breath, like he was drowning. How could this all be going so wrong? “But you have to! He might die!”
“We can’t,” Glen repeated. “I’m sorry, we just can’t. You, me and Violet are going to go somewhere safe. And I’ll try to explain it all later.”
“No! You don’t understand!” TJ’s hands gripped his knees, so hard it hurt. Somewhere safe? Safe wile Danny was maybe dying? “I can’t go with you somewhere without him!”
“It’ll be OK, TJ, I promise. Someone else will get Danny. You won’t -”
“No! No, it won’t!” His eyes stung under the blindfold, the blindfold that was slipping and letting in cracks of light, hot tears seeping through the fabric. “It won’t be OK. He’ll die! He’ll die and it’s my fault! Why won’t you do anything, I- !”
TJ stopped, gasped for breath for a second, and -
And everything went away. Again.
Violet’s fingers nudged him to let go of his knees, and there suddenly wasn’t any reason to be gripping them so hard, so he let the fingers relax – distantly he felt the ache of something that might bruise later.
And then once that wasn’t hurting anymore, there was nothing to do but sit back in the car seat, watch the glittering bits of light in the darkness, and… drift.
His body felt weird. Why was he breathing that hard? He listened to his heartbeart – it was very fast just at the moment, but it was slowing down. The others were talking about something, and they both seemed kind of agitated about something.
“… isn’t fair or right, Vi. You can’t keep - ”
“Glen, he’s fresh out of an agency! He doesn’t even understand what consent is!”
“Maybe not, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to respect it.”
“Like I told you, he is flipping out, he’s fucking traumatised, you can’t expect to talk him down out of this in the course of a fifteen minute drive!”
“And do you really think this is helping that in the long term?”
“Long term, jesus, let’s just get through today, all right?” Violet sighed, a heavy sigh that moved her shoulder where it was brushing against TJ’s. “Look, I’m sorry, we can argue about it later but it’s done now. We need to focus on getting everybody locked down.”
“You’re right. Fine. We’ll talk about it later.”
TJ wondered, for the first time, who these people actually were. Glen and Violet. Afraid of Agencies. Did that make them criminals? Probably. He hadn’t really read anything from Violet, and -
In fact, he still couldn’t. That was… strange. He’d been too afraid and confused before to really think about it.
TJ struggled against the emptiness, the blank lethargy that he seemed to be floating in, to find that thought compelling enough to keep thinking about. It was difficult. It’d be so much easier to just sit here, thinking of whatever crossed his mind, and not needing to go anywhere or say anything or be upset about anything.
But this was important, he reminded himself. Really important. Danny needed these people – he needed TJ.
“I think we call it. If they’ve had a unit go missing, this place is going to be crawling with Agency goons any minute now.”
“Mm.”
Violet. Her fingers were resting lightly on top of his. It was wrong of him, but he quested towards her, like a hand patting around to find something that wasn’t where it should be.
The something pushed back, gentle but impatient, and was back in the drifting impassivity again.
The pieces fell into place, as he drifted, and felt only the vaguest impression of surprise as he realised that these people were other Paths. She’d even said so earlier, she’d said we’re like you.
But they were nothing like TJ. They talked more like… just, well, people. Like anybody, any random person from the borrowed memories TJ plunged into every day.
“Who do you think they are? The uniform doesn’t match any of the locals.”
A hand touched TJ’s shoulder, plucking at the scrub shirt to look at something on it. The pocket?
“Damn, this says Smithfield…. Off their turf. What are they doing all the way out here?”
“I’m not sure if that’s better or worse.”
This is really important, he told himself. The blankness pressed back against this thought - no, it wasn’t important – but it was.
When you’re done with this, then you can rest, he told himself – feeling the echo of Danny in his mind again, pushing him onwards, always when he felt like he couldn’t take one more instant in foreign minds. Just a little more. Just a little further. TJ could always go for just a little longer.
He set himself against the blankness, against the source of it. Pulled together all the little scraps of strength he could muster, and tried to throw the smothering nothingness off like a blanket.
It fought back. Slipping under his guard, a slow inexorable pressure that bore him down. He struck out, and a little bit of fear crept in underneath it. Had he felt this before? He had a sudden – fleeting sensation that maybe he had. Not the blankness, exactly, but… pressure. The fuzzy, painful, untouchable edges of a mind, sudden emotions that seemed to come out of nowhere.
He lifted up his hand and pulled it away from Violet’s.
“Hey, uh - ” The hand grabbed his again, before the nothingness could truly lift. She sounded surprised. “TJ, don’t.”
He resisted, trying to hold a space free for himself underneath the blankness. “Stop it,” he managed to whisper. “This is… important. It is.”
“Just chill out, it’ll be okay…”
“No! It won’t!” TJ found the weirdly slippery, elusive boundary that should have been Violet’s mind, and shoved it as hard as he could.
“Ow!”
And just like that, the hand was gone, the mind was gone, and the world came flooding back.
TJ huddled against the car door, panting. Tears were running down his face, the blindfold was wet. “Stop it!” he said, with more force than he’d ever used in his life. Anger. That was a bad, a dangerous feeling, but he didn’t care. “Don’t! I don’t want you in there, you can’t make me forget it! You can’t get me to just sit here and do nothing!”
While he was trying to get his breathing under control, Glen spoke again from the front of the car.
“Well. That’s that.”
“Ow,” Violet mumbled. “I didn’t – ” There was a sigh and a thump. “Fine, we’ll drive all the way to the second safehouse with him in hysterics. Great.”
“You’re wrong,” TJ blurted out. “People aren’t going to be coming to look for us. We’re not supposed to be here.”
“The Agency will still know where you are, TJ,” Glen said gently. “They always do. I know you’re worried about this Danny, but once he doesn’t report in - ”
“The Agency doesn’t know we’re here! Nobody knows, we’re not on a job, I’m not supposed to have left! I’m only here because Danny stole me!”
He could hear surprise in Glen’s voice. “Stole you?”
“That’s why it’s my fault!” TJ hung his head, feeling a drip of moisture fall from his face onto his knee, warmth soaking through the thin scrub fabric. Blood? Tears? He blotted his elbow over his face, speaking muffled through the folds of fabric. “He only came out here to try and, try and get me better, so if it wasn’t for me he wouldn’t be hurt. He’s not supposed to get hurt because of me.”
“He took you from the Agency?” Violet pressed. “Why?”
“He said – he said they were going to kill me,” TJ snuffled. “I don’t – know – why, I guess I’m not good at it anymore, the reading. But he said he wasn’t going to let it happen. S-so he took me here.” The words were coming out all wet and mangled, could they even understand him? “He can’t die. Please. He’s – he’s the only person who’s ever been nice to me – just nice for no reason – ever, that I can remember, ever ever. You have to help him.”
The car was quiet again for a moment, only the sounds of TJ’s difficult breathing.
“You’re not thinking of actually picking this guy up, are you?” Violet demanded.
“Mmm...”
“That’s crazy! You know it’s crazy.”
“Well, it might…”
“You will?” TJ’s head snapped back up. “You’ll go back? Oh, please! I promise I - ”
“Shhh, TJ, just a minute. Look, I think it might be worth it, especially if it means the trail goes cold. No Agency car, no path, no handler…”
“What are we going to do with him?”
“Elise will help. And… depending… if it goes south, we can always call in Peter.”
Violet made a scoffing, incredulous noise. “You’re really serious about this. Damn.”
“Mmm.”
The car suddenly changed its speed and direction – swinging across the road, making TJ gasp and grab at the seat in front of him. We’re turning around?
“Shit. All right,” Violet said. “TJ – I’m gonna touch you, don’t freak out, just strapping you in, okay? No tricks.”
“No tricks,” TJ echoed, sitting back. He felt a smile – the biggest smile he could remember – spreading across his face. “We’re going back? We’re getting Danny?”
“Guess so,” Violet muttered. Her hands firmly pulled the seatbelt across with a zzzippp, careful not to touch TJ’s bare hands this time. “But, hey, I’m the one who acts too fast and doesn’t think things through. It’s me. Yup.”
y’all ever feel in love or have some sort of longing feeling for something that doesn’t exist? and when i say this i don’t mean a fictional character.
idk if it’s a medication thing or what, but it’s been going on for a while now. it’s like some sort of queer longing but feels almost like some soulmate or siren is calling me.
if anyone else can relate or if this is a medical problem please let me know.
So i don't confuse everyone else. I tried sending stuff about emotional powers to brightlotusmoon but almost none of the links but one stuck. So driven by my want for a wow factor, my pettyness. And of course my new knowledge... Let's go!
Anyway i started this quest after talking about other topics and wanted a light one. Since brightlotusmoon is one of the pillars of the empath mikey community and I've talked about power's with empathy before i decided to do that. Find powers. So i found some people with empathy powers. 7(used to be 6 but i gotta surprise my friend while i can)
Starting off with the ones i talked about before. I have outburst from mha. Which let's the user cause people to uncontrollably laugh and it's so intense it dulls their motor skills and cognitive abilities. Making it great for capturing people
And telekinetic tickling from the Thundermans. Which in of itself i don't ever see. But people hate live action nick shows so there's no wikis on the character who uses it. So much so i needed a screenshot just so we had a picture of the user. The power is just as it says on the package. Telekinetic tickling
Similarly nana thunderman from the Thundermans can pinch your cheek and make you kind. And unlike Maisie she has a wiki article... In german
Moving on from live action and back to animated we have the girl herself. Raven. One of the ones i had to do a bit of deeper diving(see as:looking for more focused talk of her empath powers) and as such here is the collection of them. The ones i could find at least
Emotion reading: Raven can sense people's emotions and souls
Emotion manipulation: Raven can read, manipulate, and absorb emotions
Emotion negation: Raven can steal emotions from others, making them emotionally numb
Empathic healing: Raven can absorb pain from injured people to ease their suffering and speed up healing
Force emotion: Raven can induce emotions into other people's subconscious to affect their mental state
And now here's blue diamond. Probably one of my favorite power growths.
Aura Projection
Blue Diamond's auraThe Diamonds can project an aura around them that they can control; they can either radiate it from their entire bodies or emit it from specific parts of their bodies (i.e., their hands). Blue's aura is blue and has water-like properties (evident by allowing her to make gems cry). Though intangible, Blue was able to break Lapis' water chains from her hands upon coating her hands with her aura. She can use this as an offensive ability in both the physical and mental plane, as seen when she was able to focus her aura and attack Steven as he was astral projecting.
Sadness inducement
Blue Diamond's powers, activated by a surge of emotion.Blue Diamond can engulf a large area with her aura, causing any Gem or Half-Gem within its reach to be overwhelmed with intense feelings of sadness and cry uncontrollably, even affecting Yellow Diamond to a limited degree. Blue Diamond seems to activate this ability involuntary whenever she is shedding tears in an emotional state (e.g. joy or nostalgia), albeit to a lesser degree since she doesn't radiate her blue aura during these instances. When she weaponized her grief over Pink Diamond's supposed death, she instantly rendered the Crystal Gems unable to fight, also splitting all but the most stable Gem fusions that got caught in her aura apart, as Alexandrite came undone as soon as she was affected, while Garnet remained whole. The level of resistance to the ability varies, specifically regarding non-Gems: after being engulfed by Blue's aura, Connie did kneel in tears with the rest of the Gems, despite her not being affected by it the first time (she's also immune to it in the following episode); Lion was apparently impervious to its effects, but whether this was due to his revival by Rose Quartz is unknown; Lapis Lazuli, having undergone extreme emotional trauma, was seen resisting the aura's effect and barely shed a tear upon being affected.
Cloud Generation: In "Homeworld Bound", Blue Diamond is shown to be able to create clouds from, according to herself, her evaporated tears. Gems are able to ride these clouds.
Joy Inducement: When a Gem touches a cloud, they feel joy, which resembles the opposite of Blue's crying inducement. Blue uses them to try to help Steven feel better, though she is ultimately unsuccessful.
I would have added her laser power cause i thought it involved her emotions but the wiki says her lasers are just so strong and painful they make yellow cry.
I'll also tack on steven but just the power who mentions empathy. But I'll link his wiki page cause basically all his gem powers rely on his emotions.
Empathic Telepathy: In "Horror Club", Steven can sense the Lighthouse Gem Monster's presence as well as its emotional state. In the episode "Chille Tid", it is shown that Steven can communicate with Gems through his dreams. Steven talks to Lapis Lazuli mentally as he was dreaming. He also saw Jasper and Malachite in the same dream at Malachite's Realm and they noticed him as well. Steven was later shown in "Gem Drill" to be able to communicate with a distressed Cluster while it was struggling to form. In "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service", he helps Kiki battle her inner demons in her dreams. This ability has primarily come to light while other beings are under emotional turmoil. "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service" shows with Kiki that Steven can also enter the dreams of other humans, but also that repeated use of this power can physically exhaust him, as sleeping in this state seems to provide no restful benefit that would otherwise be gained from typical sleep. In "Steven's Dream", he shows a strange development of this ability, in being able to subconsciously see through the eyes of Blue Diamond, while crying her tears. This can even happen when he's awake, if in close enough proximity to her, though this may be a result of Blue Diamond's empathetic powers seen in "The Trial". In "Together Alone", Steven dreams that his mother juggles, then coughs up her hair; the nightmare then reveals the likeness of White Diamond. In "Change Your Mind", another nightmare has the Diamonds directly attack Steven, which causes him to change between himself, Rose Quartz, and Pink Diamond.
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And my final surprise is mind fairies from fate the winx saga(another very hated show and i guess ending off with a live action show... Sorry if Thats a wimper for every one)
Fairies with power over mind have access and control over thoughts, memories, dreams, and emotions of other people.
Fairies whose mind magic is attuned to emotions are known as "empaths". They have the power over people's moods temperament and general feelings, including physical pain. An empath can sense what someone is feeling at will, but in some cases this power is always activated causing difficulty controlling it by focusing on one emotion. With power over people's feelings, a practitioner of mind magic, can manipulate and change them. For example, they can control someone's pain, to inflict or ease it or change their current emotional state. However, when one keeps covering negative emotions with positive, the negative emotions may bottle up, and when brought to the surface, they can cause the person to lose control of themselves. For example, constant suppression of anger, can cause the anger to be turned into rage.
Mind magic can also be used to grant contorl over the memories of other beings. A user can probe through memories, erase or activate old forgotten memories, causing an individual to remember things they've experienced, even as a baby.
Some can take control of a mind entirely and control an individual's movements.
Fairies with mind magic are also effective in protecting their own mind or others' from Mind or Blood Witch magic. With enough effort, a fairy can stop the mind magic of another fairy and free someone under their control, or protect their own mind from being invaded.
Other abilities afforded by mind magic include telepathic communication which allows the fairy to exchange information with someone else.
Users: Beatrix, Devin, Duke Hammerström, Farah Dowling, Luna, Musa, Rosalind Hale
I'd like to thank all the wikis that do exist so i could rip and tear pages from them for this info. And I'll link a page on ravens emotional powers specifically as well
Steven Quartz Universe is the titular main protagonist of the Steven Universe franchise. He is the son of Greg Universe and Rose Quartz/Pink
The ability to induce tickling. Sub-power of Sensation Manipulation. Tickling Induction User is able to induce tickling, a sensation that ca
I know that it allows Raven to sense other people's emotions but can she also influence them however she pleases? Like can she make an
Also I'd like to thank @brightlotusmoon for dragging me into the rabbit hole of tmnt and empath and psionic powers. Please enjoy my trainwreck of a mega post.
well i didn't think I'd be making a post such as this one but @brightlotusmoon made me really think on this idea when i first only had a little bit of a niggle in my head about it.
the idea in question is mikeys empathy in Gotham city
buckle up folks cause here we go
now like i said it was just the niggling back of my head. the idea being an empath mikey gets sick in Gotham due to the large amount of negativity that fill the place in every corner. that is until he begins to adapt to the mass number of negative emotions that steeped the city.
but was there anything else? well in a way yes. i think gotham could almost be like a doubled edged sword of a training ground for any empath. once they learn to adapt to the cities emotions i feel like mikey would begin to develop empathic abilities possibly extremely fast (even if he was unaware of his powers i don't think he'd be unaware for long. as he begins to adapt. as his powers begin to grow and evolve at a somewhat quick rate just being there) and those abilities might be more tailored than usual.
if i had to make an idea i would use something from my very old files where i gave mikey an ability to make items of comfort seemingly out of light itself (i called them light of caring and shine of caregiving) another idea i had for a power was mikey being able to sort of connect to someone and help them fight their nightmares inside their dreams
mikey would probably get more of an ability to filter negative emotions and not just possibly passively absorb them (which was a neat theory for why 2012 mikey had a giant angry mikey in his head)
mikey probably might even discover the empathic healing ability for better or for worse (which is an empath taking pain into themselves from an injured party to accelerate there healing) and possibly could be where that creepy draining power inspired by tangled @catbowserauthor talked about
you know im not even sure if im making any sense or doing this right.
but i gess i think mikeys emppathy in gotham city might grow and evolve at a fast rate(probably out of nessesity)and that it could lead to some interesting abilities(maybe i made them too fantastical. maybe i could have added something more to do with dreams or memories.)
what's the best way to warm yourself up for a big post? making another type of post you want to do. in this case im doing a 3 for 1 special. you get 3 kinds of powers for the price of one post... and that all 3 of them are from live action shows/sitcoms. we're going to be talking about 3 kinds of powers wielded by a kid in superhero juvie,a retired superhero, and a race of fairies.
before i begin i will say i 100% hate that 2 out of 3 of these have no wikis to help me. i have to do some trickery to get what i want but i guess that's what happens when said characters with these powers just don't pop up more than once.
whatever the case is. today i have 3 characters from a total of 2 shows. the nick sitcom show called the thundermans and the netflix live action show fate the winx saga(and boy is that a bite to the neck cause not allot of people like live action shows)
well start with the youngest person from this list. maisie from the thundermans
one of 3 kids in a superhero juvie situation,villains in the making? i can't remember the context for this episode. but i do remember her power. what little wiki i can scrape up for her called telekinetic tickling but i remember the show one of the characters called it hyperkinetic tickle powers.
the power is pretty self explanatory. maisie can telekinetically tickle individuals in the show we got sparkly indicators, and she moved her fingers) and its very debilitating when used on people(she was also shown to be rather unnerving to my memory)
i do think an empath could possibly have something similar to this due to the fact that sometimes ill see an empath with the power to either inflict or take away the pain of another. if they can affect feelings of pain then maybe they can do something more mischievous and equally as disruptive as inflicting pain. maybe even more so but we will cover laugh-based abilities in another one of these.
from the youngest character of this trio i now move onto the oldest with nana thunderman from... well its still the thundermans
i remember being so mad the only wiki article i could find on her was in German. but it is what it is.
now she's also a one-off character but her power is a bit more related to emotions then the last one. if nana thunderman pinches your cheek (you know like the stereotype grandma response) you will be filled with nothing but kindness and sweetness. and when she did it with a very rude restaurant owner, she did a complete 180 and was literally giving things away. and to shut it off she has to pinch your check again.
i don't think i need to explain too much on why an empath could do this. its literally enforcing and changing someone's emotions. a power you could call force emotion(it almost boarders on mind control because mrs wong would never give away free food but she was literally giving food and her money away with reckless abandon. full of nothing but kindness,sweetness and generosity) so glad this old woman was a hero and not a villain also goes to show just how dangerous positive emotion can be and not just messing with people negatively
our last selection is not a character but a group. the mind fairies of fate the winx saga
now most people really don't like fate, i didn't hate it. but were here for the powers
mind fairies are basically your standard issue psychic of the power system. minus the telekinesis that is(they get pathokinesis), mind fairies have power of the thoughts,memory,emotions,and dreams. and seeing as one of the shows main characters is a mind fairy we got to see some of these powers. particularly empath related powers(thats right actually calling them empaths)
this kind of power lets a mind fairy control the emotions of others, such as calming them down (they can even cause or alleviate pain in others) and we get to see a consequence of constantly smothering a negative emotion with positive ones (bottling the emotion up and making it more volatile)
mind fairies also can use those memory based powers for revealing,probing,awakening,and erasing memories so thats great)
i really don't think i need to cover why i think empaths could do this. am i slightly biased as seeing empathic/empathy powers as more of a psionic and spirit powered ordeal... yes. will i stop that bias? yeah when i stop finding it being shown as being the main stay.
for now, that's all. next time i think ill cover some actual heroes that are in action during their stories.
i do hope you enjoyed this part 2. it was kinda fun. and now i wanna see an empath with telekinetic tickle powers
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