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"In that room, my mother came to me. But it was not her. It was something else."
"Ah. My son, I suspect. We can take many forms. The shapes we embody are merely a reflection of the life force around us."
― Anakin Skywalker and The Father (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
"Above-All-Others is both male and female?"
"So our senses perceive it moment to moment."
"Annoying, is it not?"
"No, truly wondrous"
― Adam Warlock and Thanos after meeting the One-Above-All (Marvel Comics)

The ability to have an appearance that differs to those that look at them. Variation of Perspective Manipulation.

Also Called[]

  • Eyes of the Beholder
  • Perceptive Appearance
  • Selective Appearance
  • Subjective Appearance Shift

Capabilities[]

The user's appearance differs depending on who sees them, on what the user would look like according to sees, tastes, and/or experiences. The perceived appearance varies from person to person and can include changes in race, voice, and mannerisms to present anything from an ideal figurehead to something or someone most hated or feared by a viewer.

Applications (All perceived by Others)[]

Techniques[]

Associations[]

Limitations[]

  • User does not know what they will appear to be by another.
  • Though the user's appearance and mannerisms can be perceived as different, their true mind or identity can be uncovered as inconsistent from their appearance through Telepathy.
  • Users of Reality Perception can perceive the true/original form.

Known Users[]

See Also: A Form You Are Comfortable With.

  • Satan/Lucifer (Abrahamic Religions)
  • The Contemelians (Ben 10)
  • Goddess of Destiny (Brave Story)
  • The Endless (DC Comics/Vertigo); limited to appearing as a member of one's species
  • Buick 8 (From a Buick 8)
  • Weird Sisters (Gargoyles)
  • Tsubasa Kounan (Girls Saurus)
  • Viper Zero (Girly Air Force); via empathic reflector instability
  • Most Deities (Greek Mythology)
  • Mother of Creation (Image Comics)
  • Gaia (In Another World, I'm Called The Black Healer)
  • Xion (Kingdom Hearts)
  • Shirohime (Lance N' Masques)
  • Honest John (Marvel Comics); limited to appearing as one's definition of a great leader
  • Gaea (Marvel Comics); appears in the form of whatever image she was worshiped as by any race on earth, even simultaneously
  • Galactus (Marvel Comics); limited to appearing as a being perceivable to one's species
  • Meggan (Marvel Comics); via empathy
  • Santa Claus (Marvel Comics)
  • Poisons (Marvel Comics); limited to appearing as a single target's loved ones.
  • Dani Moonstar/Mirage (Marvel Comics)
  • The One-Above-All (Marvel Comics)
  • Izanami (Noragami)
  • Aphrodite (Percy Jackson series); limited to appearing as one's personal description of beauty
  • Cupid (Percy Jackson series); limited to appearing as one's personal description of beauty
  • Nemesis (Percy Jackson series); limited to appearing as whoever one wishes to get revenge on the most
  • SCP-870 - The Maybe There Monsters (SCP Foundation)
  • SCP-3591 The Fallen Giant (SCP Foundation)
  • SCP-4999/The Small Death (SCP Foundation)
  • It (Stephen King's It)
  • Yuuko Kanoe (Tasogare Otome × Amnesia); limited to appearing as one's greater fear
  • Chandra (Top Cow); limited to appearing as one's description of the most beautiful women
  • High Succubus (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Vorlons (Babylon 5)
  • Pleasure GELF (Red Dwarf)
  • Wilfred (Wilfred)

Known Locations[]

  • Cynosure/The Meeting Hall (Forgotten Realms)
  • Q Continuum (Star Trek)
  • Heaven's Garden (Supernatural)
  • Death's Realm (The Sandman)

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