The power to perceive the residual information of an object and/or person. Sub-power of Detection. Variation of Extrasensory Perception.
Also Called[]
- Clairtangency/Clairtangent
- Clear Touch/Touching
- Object Reading
- Psychic Touch
- Psychometric Reading
- Psychometrics
- Trace Scrying
Capabilities[]
The user of psychometry obtains historical memories or sensations concerning beings and objects they observe. With objects, they gain knowledge including the makers, users, and even those who have on passing used the object, and what has been done with it. With living beings or parts of the body, the user learns their general life-history but doesn't gain anything of what they were thinking or feeling.
Applications[]
- Aura Detection: Pick up residual mental or psychic engrams remotely to get readouts.
- Gnostic Touch: Glean and share insights of knowledge via touch.
- Knowledge Projection: Display whatever insights are picked up by the read to others.
- Mediumship: Psychometrically tap the spiritual quintessence of the departed.
- Psychocompetence: To gain skills from the information discerned.
- Retrocognition/Precognition: To discern events of the target's past and possible future.
- Tactile Telepathy: Purview psychic reads/scans via touch.
Techniques[]
- Ability Learning: To learn skills and abilities from objects or people either temporarily or permanently.
- Intuitive Aptitude: Instantly learn and understand the workings and mechanics of anything.
- Enhanced Weapon Proficiency: To have full mastery and knowledge on any weapon.
- Knowledge Replication: To replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
- Marking: To voluntarily leave an imprint.
- Necropsy Mastery: To discern the death cause.
- Omnilingualism: Ascertaining the languages of other ethnicities.
- Photographic Deduction: To figure out connections in whatever the user is investigating and process them extraordinarily fast.
- Remote Telepathy: Affect ranged mental probing through scanned items.
- Talent Theft: To perfectly replicate all the physical and mental capabilities and special skills of another being.
- Visual Telepathy: To share psychic readouts.
- Morality Viewing: Peer into a person's inner self to determine character.
Variations[]
- Aura Reading (Kirlian Scanning): Learn and understand everything about a person, place or thing by remotely studying the aura said individual or multitudinous abstracts may possess.
- Biographic Aptitude (Existence Osmosis): Learn and understand everything about a person by touching them without the need of special education or long-term relationship. The user’s power works as if they have been with their touched subject all their life. Doesn’t understand thoughts or minds.
- Cibopathy: Learn and understand the history of whatever user consumes.
- Neuro-Residual Recollection (Psychic Navigation): Learn and understand everything or the last moments of a dead person through touch. This allows the user to see the cause of death of the person they are touching and/or sometimes retrace the path they took. One may also retrace the residual path taken by a murderer if they were the cause of death of the person.
- Psychometric Ability Replication: Learn and understand abilities by reading and intuitively mapping out superhuman powers and abilities through clairsentient contact.
- Psychometric Telepathy: To create a telepathic link with anyone by holding an object that's connected to them.
- Sonic Psychometry: Learn the history of an object by listening to the sound it makes.
Associations[]
Limitations[]
- Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
- Can be overcome by Mental Shield Penetration and Immunity Bypassing.
- May be based on physical senses.
- May be limited to certain senses, like touch or sight only.
Known Users[]
See Also: Psychometry.
- Judge Anderson (2000 AD)
- Valeria (Ángel o Demonio)
- Cisco Ramon/Vibe (Arrowverse)
- Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- Toa Helryx (Bionicle); via Mask of Psychometry
- Shukuro Tsukishima (Bleach)
- Sakaguchi Ango (Bungou Stray Dogs)
- Gabriel Silk (Charlie Bone)
- Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed); via Precognition
- Theresa (Class of the Titans)
- The Crow (The Crow)
- Eric Draven
- Ashe Corven
- Alex Corvis
- James "Jimmy" Cuervo
- John R Smith (The Dead Zone)
- Users of Memory Reading Quanx ability (Denma)
- Korah
- White hair
- Investigator of the Command Center
- Jiro
- Lilia Vanrouge (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via Far Cry Cradle
- Bun Waverly (Eastwick)
- Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
- Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII)
- Melinda Gordon (Ghost Whisperer)
- Namtarn (The Gifted นักเรียนพลังกิฟต์)
- Kim Joon (The Gifted Hands)
- Theo Crain (The Haunting of Hill House)
- Abe Sapien (Hellboy)
- Gabriel Grey/Sylar (Heroes)
- Bridget Bailey (Heroes)
- Ignatius Perrish (Horns)
- Spawn (Image Comics)
- Ruth Aldine/Blindfold (Marvel Comics)
- Adrienne Frost (Marvel Comics)
- Nate Grey/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
- Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
- Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
- Longshot (Marvel Comics)
- Pip The Troll (Marvel Comics)
- Protheans (Mass Effect)
- Nudge (Maximum Ride)
- Jefferson Reed (The Meteor Man)
- Ethan Morgan (My Babysitters A Vampire)
- Riru Rokakuji ("Needless")
- Yukina Sonogi (Night Raid 1931)
- Jessie (The Irregulars)
- Asuna Kisaki (Occultic;Nine)
- Bridge Carson (Power Rangers SPD)
- Sniffers (Push)
- Calla Lily Johnson (The Raven Cycle)
- Millie (Renegades)
- Kobe Shakur (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
- Pam Asbury (Rose Red)
- Sabrina Spellman (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
- Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan)
- Mamoru Chiba/Darien Shields/Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon)
- SCP-662 - Butler's Hand Bell (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2003 - Preferred Option (SCP Foundation)
- Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls); in her sleep
- Cloud Breather Dragon (Skylanders)
- Maya (Spirits)
- Force Users (Star Wars)
- Quinlan Vos
- Boc Aseca
- Luke Skywalker
- Cal Kestis
- Karr Nuq Sin
- Ahsoka Tano
- Jane Ives/Eleven (Stranger Things)
- Mimori Akatsuki (Strike the Blood)
- Nagisa Akatsuki (Strike the Blood)
- Missouri Moseley (Supernatural)
- Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)
- Marika "Jasmine" Reimon (Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger)
- Murasaki Edoyama (Tokyo ESP)
- Aro (The Twilight Saga); via Tactile Telepathy
- David Dunn (Unbreakable)
- Counters (Uncanny Counter)
Cate Dunlap (The Boys: Gen V)
- Left Hand (Vampire Hunter D Series)
- Miho Karasuma (Witch Hunter Robin)
- Jana Vilkas (Wolfblood)
- Wuya (Xiaolin Showdown)
- Tsubomi Fujiko (Zettai Karen Children)
- Shuji Sakaki (Zettai Karen Children)
- Shiho Sannomiya (Zettai Karen Children)
- Hyoubu Kyousuke (Zettai Karen Children/The Unlimited)
- Leo (Sound Bender)
- Alex Chen (Life is Strange: True Colors)
- Millie (Renegades)