Erica Lowry

==Summary==
Erica Lowry is a supporting character in Unsong. She lives at Ithaca with Aaron, Ana, and others.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Erica Lowry
Origin: Unsong
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Classification: Human
Powers and Abilities: Immortality (Limited Type 6) and Telepathy (With Sacred Kabbalistic Marriage of Minds), Invisibility (With the Spectral Name), Animal Manipulation (With the Beast-Tamer's Name), Water Manipulation (With the Fluvial Name), Fate Manipulation, likely Clairvoyance, Weather Manipulation, Air Manipulation, Summoning, and Resistance to Mind Manipulation with Preparation (Via Placebomancy), possibly every Name Aaron, Uriel, Sohu, Dylan, Ana, Sarah, and THARMAS know (Sacred Kabbalistic Marriage of Minds can unconsciously pass knowledge of Names between people, with the recipient often not knowing they know the Names or can use them. Near the end of the series, Erica becomes part of a telepathic network including all those people listed)
Attack Potency: Human level
Speed: Average Human
Lifting Strength: Average Human
Striking Strength: Human level
Durability: Human level
Stamina: Average
Range: Standard Melee Range normally, likely Several meters with most Hidden Transcendent Names of God (No exact range or comparison is given for the Names of God, but many are at the bare minimum capable of reaching across rooms)
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Likely Gifted
Weaknesses: None Notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Hidden Transcendent Names of God: Erica is aware of some Hidden Transcendent Names of God. These are close-to-random assortments of syllables that when spoken create supernatural effects. However, since most people can only speak around eight or ten letters per second, most of these, particularly the more powerful ones, take many seconds to speak.
* Sacred Kabbalistic Marriage of Minds: Sacred Kabbalistic Marriage of Minds is a ritual fueled by a Name of God which allows two minds to connect across distance and death.Chapter 70: Nor For Itself Hath Any Care This grants those linked telepathy with each other, and makes it so that if one of them dies their mind is transferred to the other's, allowing some persistence after death.Chapter 70: Nor For Itself Hath Any Care To the point that control of the alive person's body can be passed to the dead person.Chapter 70: Nor For Itself Hath Any Care SCABMOM also has the side-effect of passing knowledge of Names through these telepathic links, seemingly unconsciously.Chapter 19: The Form Of The Angelic LandChapter 59: Clothe Yourself In Golden Arms But as this is an unconscious process they're not consciously aware of these Names they learn this way unless they're explicitly consciously shared.Chapter 25: Lie Down Before My Feet, O Dragon
* The Spectral Name: The Spectral Name turns the speaker invisible, but wears off as soon as they speak another word.Chapter 11: Drive The Just Man Into Barren Climes
* The Beast-Tamer's Name: While training for an assassination mission, Erica pretended to speak the Beast-Tamer's Name, causing a fake dog to retreat quietly.Chapter 59: Clothe Yourself In Golden Arms Presumably, this Name would have that sort of effect, of taming beasts and being able to direct their movements because of that, when actually used on real animals.
* The Fluvial Name: The Fluvial Name was used by Erica to deflect a swarm of angry bees.Chapter 59: Clothe Yourself In Golden Arms The word "fluvial" is defined as relating to rivers/streams and their actions, so presumably this Name has something to do with manipulating water.
Placebomancy: Placebomancy is a technique where one convinces the universe that something that is possible within coincidence should happen, and the universe makes it happen, akin to the placebo effect in humans.Chapter 8: Laughing To Scorn Thy Laws And Terrors It was originally performed by magicians, but soon other characters realized that magical ambience and rituals are simply a subset of the stronger power of narrative and literary tropes.Chapter 8: Laughing To Scorn Thy Laws And Terrors It has been used to make attacks inexplicably miss,Chapter 8: Laughing To Scorn Thy Laws And TerrorsChapter 65: The Fruit Of My Mysterious TreeChapter 65: The Fruit Of My Mysterious TreeChapter 72: And Builds A Heaven In Hell's Despair ensure victory under specific conditions,Chapter 29: He Who Respects The Infants FaithChapter 70: Nor For Itself Hath Any CareChapter 65: The Fruit Of My Mysterious Tree locate people,Chapter 8: Laughing To Scorn Thy Laws And Terrors create rainfall,Chapter 8: Laughing To Scorn Thy Laws And Terrors feed wind to a sail,Chapter 27: The Starry Floor The Watery Shore provide resistance to mental abilities with preparation,Chapter 59: Clothe Yourself In Golden Arms and even summon the devilChapter 60: O Rose, Thou Art Sick or the voice of God.Chapter 71: But For Another Gives Its Ease Erica inadvertently ended up using placebomancy when fighting Malia Ngo, letting her hit and kill Malia whose own placebomancy ended up causing other people's attacks to inexplicably miss. Erica's use of placebomancy here is explained and foreshadowed by Dylan earlier on.Chapter 42: Whose Whole Delight Is In Destroying
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
Category:Unsong
Category:Characters
Category:Female Characters
Category:Internet Characters
Category:Immortals
Category:Telepaths
Category:Invisibility Users
Category:Animal Users
Category:Water Users
Category:Fate Users
Category:Clairvoyance Users
Category:Weather Users
Category:Air Users
Category:Summoners
Category:Preparation Users