Empathy

Sense, feel and understand the

Power/Ability
emotions, feelings, hopes, dreams,
to:
desires, and fears of others

Power to fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others.
People with this ability are often called Empaths.

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Also Called

Empathic Perception/Sense

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Capabilities
The user can fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others
without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one
emotion is actually hiding another. They can attack someone in a personal and emotional way
since they know exactly what emotion is flowing through themselves and can use this
knowledge to play against them. Some users may learn to read emotional imprints left into
environment or objects.
Usually over time, an Empath's power grows to the point that they can manipulate emotions
on others, and possibly use them to empower themselves. User may learn to extend their
power over/on vast number of sentients or reach extreme distances, even other levels of
existence but this may be possible only if the user has emotional link to those they search
already in effect.

Applications

Animal Empathy
Combat Perception - Predict foe's movements by reading their emotional pulses.
Ecological Empathy
Emotion Detection
Emotion Manipulation
Emotional Energy Manipulation
Emotion Negation- Make the user or others feel no emotions.
Empathic Conversion
Empathic Creation
Empathic Inundation - Overloading one's foes with vast amounts of emotions.
Plant Empathy

Can sense the presence of others by sensing their emotions (empathic scent).
Create Empathic Links, allowing linked ones to feel the emotions and conditions of
each other.
May be able to turn powers against their users.
May be able to channel vast amounts of various emotions into an enemy, causing
insanity or possible death due to emotional stress on the body.

Variations
Empathy has many branches of power. Ranging from very weak to very advance. As the user
becomes more advanced those branches may grow. Here are some levels that other empaths
have displayed having/may gain:

Clairaudience - Some empaths have displayed the ability to not only feel emotions, but
also "hear" the heightened thoughts associated with that specific emotions. This is
probably do to the fact that both cortex's(emotional,and mental) so closely relate with
one another. An example would be if an empath senses two spouses aiming a lot of
hatred towards one another. The empath might get the echo of thought along with that
emotion e.g "I cant believe hes cheating on me after all these years". However this is
not to be confused with Telepathy. An empath can only get visionary "echoes"
related to certain emotions. They can not read full memories.
Clairempathy - More advanced users of empathy; have shown the ability to sense
emotions over great distances such as cities, countries, continents, and other
dimensions and planes(The Astral Plane AKA The Emotional Plane).
Clairvoyance - If an empath forges an emotional connect with another being. That
connection stays opens, the empath is able to sense when that person is in danger and
is also able to locate them by their "emotional scent". To give you an better
understanding of this,one could consider this the Empath version of "Vampiric
Siring"(see "True Blood", "Buffy", "Moonlight", and "The Vampire Dairies" for an
understanding of supernatural "Siring"). See also Sensory Scrying
Empathic Healing - This is a level that is somewhat rare and not many can master.
Due to the fact that when an empath "heals" wounds that are physical they don't heal
the actual injury. The empath simply takes the pain into themselves so the victim no
longer feels that pain. However empaths do can heal emotional wounds, but healing
physical wounds is somewhat uncommon.
Empathic Mimicry - Higher level empaths tend to have this power to tap into others
abilities. This is done by the empath channeling someone and finding the exact
emotion that triggers their power. The empath so long as they remember that emotion
is able to use/copy that persons power.
Empathic Power Absorption- using an associated emotion, highly advanced empaths
can steal the powers of others for their own, leaving the victim powerless
Empathic Power Randomization- Powerful empaths can gain random powers based on
their mood and emotions (gaining Regenerative Healing Factor or Invulnerability
when scared, or Enhanced Strength when angry)
Empathic Projection
Intuitive Empathy - Unlike Empathic Mimicry where the user simple channels and
copies others powers. Intuitive Empathy gives that user the knowledge to know how to
use the ability intuitively.
Lie Detection - Empath can sense when a person is lying to them. More skilled users
and pick out what that lie is and find the truth.

Psychic Navigation - Empaths can sense an person by the emotional wavelength they
give off or "empathic scent"
Psychometry - There are some places that have constant emotional residue(due to
major events happening in that location war, death, historical moments etc.). Some
empaths are able to tap into those emotional(lower level users that enter these places
are over powered involuntarily) imprints and re-experience those emotions as if they
were happening in that moment. If skilled enough some empaths can also see the
emotional echoes(images/residual ghosts) still there. This would be due to high levels
of concentrated emotional energy.
Telempathy - Is when an Empath can not only sense others emotions, but they can also
send their own emotions to others. Users can communicate with one another
emotionally and if skilled enough send "echoes" (ie: it means a quick glimpse of an
image; i.g sending the emotion of love to another user and the receiver seeing an
image of their loved one like a mother,child or spouse) of images back and fourth.

Associations

Apathy
Emotion Empowerment
Empathic Echoes
Empathic Power Randomization
Empathic Element Manipulation
Empathic Shapeshifting
Empathic Teleportation (only with Teleportation)
Intuitive Aptitude
Intuitive Empathy
Musical Empathic Projection
Panempathy
Pathifery
Sensory Scrying
Tattoo Empathy
Telepathic Communication
Telepathy

Limitations

May only be able to receive emotions

o Might get taken over and act on those emotions.
Inexperienced Empaths may find their powers completely useless in a fight.
May experience headaches.
May not be able handle large amounts of emotions at once.
Defenseless against beings that have no emotions, such as robots or users of Apathy.
May be easily possessed by Spirits and Ghosts, as they are beings bound with
emotions.
This does not have to be an actual power, but can be a skill/ability that can be
developed. Though it can't rarely reach the same level as the actual power.