Gifts

Several of the characters display particular (and possibly supernatural) gifts:
*Casey Blevins: Mind control of others.
*Lara Hodge: Mind control of others, ability to read the "blank paper", mind reading and distance listening.
*Jade: Mental time travel.
*Hunter : Time travel facilitation.
*Irina: Ability to levitate; mind control including stopping someone from breathing; mental projection (into TV/ Hunter's head){{Ref|19}; teleportation.{{Ref|46}
*Zoe: As a child, ability to speak foreign language and possible telepathy. Telekinesis as a teenager.
*Ike: As a child, precognition.
*Guillaume: Time manipulation.
*Fortunato Medeiros: Mind control? Probability manipulation?.
*Oliver Simon: Sleep induction? (Unless 'Debbie' is not human)
*Ian Simon: ???
At least some of these gifts are inheritable: Lara's time-manipulation and ability to read the blank paper are inherited from her mother..
There is also the implication that the gifts are tied to the physical body: While Jun Fukayama didn't have any gifts, he thinks that once he is the body of his gifted brother Hisao Fukayama, he will be able to tap into Hisao's gifts.
There are also references to the gifts:
*"There are things only we can do...gifts we possess" - Guillaume to Hisao about how they made the faculty disappear.
*"And the things you've done, How did your father explain them to you?" "He... said I was blessed. He said I was given a gift by god." "And he was right. At least--in a sense he was. People like us--The two of us--There are thing we're capable of, things we have a kind of control over-- There's power in our words, that's why we have to choose then carefully".
*"His gifts" "Difficult enough to cope with the manifestations in adult subjects, but in a child his age..." - Clarkson and Oliver Simon about Ian. 
*"I don't have what you have inside you" - Macy to Guillaume (May not actually refer to gifts but to courage or related strength). 
*"What we can do-- there are rules. Limits. Bringing someone back to life, that's not possible" - Guillaume to Jade. 
==References==
Category:Mythology
Category:Recurring Themes
Category:Gifts