The ability to manipulate emotions.
Also Called
- Advanced Empathy
- Emotion Control
- Emotional Manipulation/Control
- Empathic Manipulation/Control
- Induced Empathy
- Pathokinesis
Capabilities
User can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.
Emotions have been described as discrete and consistent responses to internal or external events which have a particular significance for the organism. They are brief in duration and consist of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, physiological, behavioral, and neural mechanisms.
In addition, relationships exist between emotions, such as having positive or negative influences, with direct opposites existing. The contrasting and categorization of emotions describes how emotions are thought to relate to each other.
Applications
- Emotion Absorption
- Emotion Augmentation
- Emotion Aura
- Emotion Empowerment
- Emotion Inducement
- Emotion Negation
- Emotional Energy Manipulation
- Empathic Creation
- Empathy
- Trust Manipulation
Techniques
Variations
- Anger Manipulation
- Compassion Manipulation
- Courage Manipulation
- Desire Manipulation
- Despair Manipulation
- Doubt Manipulation
- Emotion Embodiment
- Envy Manipulation
- Fear Manipulation
- Greed Manipulation
- Hatred Manipulation
- Hope Manipulation
- Love Manipulation
- Lust Manipulation
- Melancholy Manipulation
- Pheromone Manipulation
- Pleasure Manipulation
- Pride Manipulation
- Sloth Manipulation
Associations
- Behavior Manipulation
- Form Manipulation
- Mental Manipulation
- Mind Control
- Nerve Manipulation
- Persuasion
- Sin Manipulation
- Subconscious Manipulation
- Virtue Manipulation
Limitations
- May be limited to certain number of targets at a time.
- May have limited range, or touch the target to manipulate them.
- Some applications may cause emotional backlash.
- May have to absorb the emotion replaced.
- Require training to reduce chances of any side-effects and keep their emotion in check.
- Users of Apathy and Psychic Shield are either immune or highly resistant.
Known Users
- Bliss (Wildstorm Universe)
- Jasper Hale (Twilight)
- Widad the Loving (The 99)
- Psycho Pirate (DC Comics)
- Aphrodite (DC Comics)
- Empath (Marvel Comics)
- Morgan Harvey (Heroes)
- Dracula (Vampire Legends)
- Syn Anders (Heroes)
- Joseph Sullivan (Heroes)
- Raven (DC Comics)
- Aphrodite (Class of the Titans)
- Guillame (Heroes)
- Walter (Johhny and the Bomb)
- Jasmine (Angel)
- Aphrodite (Xenaverse)
- Clyde Langer (Sarah Jane Adventures)
- Parsee Mizuhashi (Touhou Project)
- Brook (One Piece)
- Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed)
- Magus (El Goonish Shive)
- Emma de Lauro (Mutant X)
- Tele-Empaths (Mutant X)
- Stacy-X (Marvel)
- Laurie Collins (Marvel)
- Taryn Varwig (Olympic Dames)
- Puppetman (Wild Cards)
- Nick Lane (Fringe)
- Him (Powerpuff Girls)
- Ms. Sharpe (Curse Workers)
- Danielle Rosen (Alphas)
- C.C.'s (Code Geass); original geas was to make everyone love her.
- Vampires (True Blood)
- Terumi Yuuki/Hazama via his Nox Nyctores: Ouroboros (BlazeBlu)
- Luna Maximoff (Marvel)
- The Dragonborn (Skyrim); via Illusion Magic
- The Mule (Asimov's Foundation series)
- Holiday Brandon (Shadow Falls)
- Derek Lakes (Shadow Falls)
- Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls)
- Faes and fae-chameleons (Shadow Falls)
- Shrade Elan (Aquarion Evol)
- Nyau (Akame Ga Kill); via Scream