#intelligence semblance

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“Therapist” – Phobia

This intelligence-type Semblance allows one to understand another living creature’s worst fear simply by looking at them.

Simple fears can be understood instantly, in flashes of insight. A single glance is all one needs to realize someone's greatest fear is a phobia of spiders. Extended study can dredge up visions of the memories surrounding that fear, and further study can peel back the layers of reinterpretation to arrive at the raw, unfiltered experiences.

More complicated fears, such as a mortal terror of a specific person, demand extended study to grasp all of the relevant details, such as the third person's appearance, voice, name, exact relation to the subject, the abilities which make them a threat, and the experiences which inspired the fear.

A person's other fears can be glimpsed when the subject actively thinks of them, but the Semblance cannot dig up more details after the subject's thoughts have moved on.

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“Experimenter” – Fast-Forward

The Experimenter's intelligence type Semblance allows him to experience all possible futures, with all five senses, in totally accurate fidelity!

It is super-overwhelming. Even in a duel, it is useless, since the Experimenter watches his own point-of-view remain still and split off into dozens of different positions even while he's watching his opponent begin dozens of different movements, and then these futures fracture and branch off further as the different versions of himself and his opponent begin to react to each other's choices.

Fortunately, the Experimenter is not a fighter, and this Semblance proves invaluable for scientific experimentation. Inside controlled environments where human interaction is limited to the press of a button, the physical properties of the world are completely predictable and capable of moving only one way; the path of least resistance. It's nice to know two chemicals will explode in your face before you actually introduce them to each other. The Experimenter saves himself, his colleagues, and so many prototypes and facilities from disastrous tests that would wreck years of work and cause millions of Lien in damage and injuries.

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