- "It is said that emotions are the language of the soul. But what happens when that expression is muted? What becomes of feelings... that have no voice?"
- ― Awakening Opening Words (The Outer Limits)
The power to suppress or negate emotions. Sub-power of Emotion Manipulation. Opposite to Emotion Augmentation.
Also Called
- Apathy Inducement
- Emotional Negation
- Indifference Inducement
- Listlessness Inducement
Capabilities
Users of this ability can suppress or negate emotions, allowing them to cause others to ignore emotional distractions and/or feeling from affecting their thinking-processes. They can also make others uncaring, detached, indifferent and even catatonic.
Applications
- Apathy
- Grant immunity to emotion based powers.
- Imperceptibility by negating the emotions of presence.
- Power Immunity limited to empathic abilities
- Power Negation limited to empathic abilities
- Negate the abilities of those with Empathic Mimicry.
- Able to slip past Lie Detection due to lack of emotions prevents change in expression or heartbeat.
Variations
Associations
Limitations
- May be harder to suppress strong emotions.
- User may be limited to themselves or other beings.
- May be limited to certain emotions.
- Useless against users of Apathy as they have no emotions to negate.
Known Users
Literature
- Users of Allomantic Brass (Mistborn); temporarily
- Mistborn
- Soothers
- Vampires (The Vampire Diaries); temporarily
Television
- Leo Wyatt (Charmed) via Elder powers
- Queen Regina (Once Upon A Time); via magically ripping the heart out
- Cora (Once Upon A Time); via magically ripping the heart out
- Rumpelstiltskin (Once Upon A Time); via magically ripping the heart out
Comics
- Raven (DC Comics)
- Luna Maximoff (Marvel Comics)
- Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
- Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
Manga/Anime
- All Nous except Falana (Children of the Whales)
- Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
- Wiseman (Zatch Bell!)
- Zofis(Zatch Bell!)
Video Games
- Astaroth (Valkyrie Crusade)
Known Objects
- Soulcutter (Book of Swords)
- Zombie Tattoo (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Cruxis Crystals (Tales of Symphonia); when used without a Key Crest