Mental Manipulation

## General Information

### Effects

To influence the minds of other beings and access their memories of other, as well as to put specific thoughts and ideas into their minds

### Distinction

The ability to enter the minds of others and experience and influence thoughts

**Mental Manipulation** is the ability to access and "influence" their minds of other beings. It is generally a covering "umbrella" term used to refer to any ability pertaining to projecting, reading and/or manipulating the mind.

## Overview

The strength of mental manipulation varies depending on the strength and skill of the users. This ability is channeled through concentration, due to it requiring the user to be focused on their target to go into someone's mind.

As one's power develops, they are then able to use this power intuitively, no longer needing to immensely concentrate in order to go into someone's mind.

Mental Manipulation is an ability directly related to the mind and, allows it's user to access minds. This ability is central to Skylar Bennett, Gabi Lyon and Selena Lyon, and with it they all have the power to enter another person's mind, as well as have access to the astral plane, known as The Oasis.

## Applications of Mental Manipulation

### Astral Projection

The primary aspect of this power is the ability can mentally project their own consciousness and others into a metaphysical astral plane of existence, known as The Oasis, allowing them to project themselves into or out of The Oasis or a mindscape, a small pocket plane, that is connected. Hybrids with this ability are able to take other people who aren't able to do or humans into the Oasis by touching them, mainly shown through holding hands and are projected into the Oasis.

Hybrids with mental manipulation are able to use this as a physical astral projection, as well as being able to communicate with the minds of others spirits of both humans as well as hybrids, although they have shown either impossible or extreme difficulty being able to project the spirits of First Ones.

It is shown that hybrids who take their minds into the Oasis or a mindscape, they leave their bodies behind, but it is demonstrated by Dominic Lyon, that he is able to take his body into the Oasis, although their is a cost, explained to him by his maternal grandmother, Selena Lyon, a powerful hybrid with mental manipulation and expert knowledge on the Oasis, says that if someone takes their body into the Oasis and they die, they die in the real world, the same as if only their mind were taken in, even if they leave their bodies behind and die in the Oasis, they're mind shall die in the physical plane.

### Mind Influence

Mind Influence, sometimes just referred to as just "Influencing" is a collective term, for when a hybrid with this ability enters a person mind, they are able to influence others into doing what they want. This is the primary reason for a mental manipulator to enter a mind, so they can influence someone to do we they choose. This ability isn't mind control, just influence, since most hybrids can't make someone do something that they wouldn't be open to doing anyway.

### Memory Viewing

While in someone's mind, users of this ability are able to make the recipient show the user a specific memory that they want, as well ask making the person whose mind their in, show them the memory they ask for.

### Memory Sharing

Users have the ability to share their memories with another person or various people through them all entering a mindscape in the Oasis and projecting the memories into their minds.

## Branches of Mental Manipulation

### Empathy

*Main Article: Empathy; Emotions*

While in someone's mind, users are able to experience and feel the emotions of the person who's mind they are in, as if the user were them. This is both a strength and a weakness for the user of empathy, because it can enhance their power, with a specific emotion or can weaken and stop them from mind-warping the recipient. This is also both a branch of mental manipulation, because it is an expansion of mental manipulation and is a primary power without being an expansion of the power.

#### Emotional Detection

Users can sometimes sense the inner emotions within the souls of others brought into their presence, or those they concentrate on feeling.

### Psychic Inhibitors

An experienced user is able to place psychic barriers in others' minds, allowing them to block things like unknown abilities or memories. Once the blocks are in place, the victims cannot access these abilities or memories, making them harmless. Powerful enough psychic attacks may be able to break the blocks down. If the victim can mentally draw enough psychic energy, they can completely destroy the psychic inhibitors, unlocking their hidden powers or inhibited memories.

### Subliminal Messaging

This ability is a type of ability that can be considered as mind-control, although it it actually more described as a "telepathic inception", allowing the user to psychically incept their own thoughts into said subject, allowing them to believe the thought is their own. This allows the user to implant thoughts or ideas into the subject's subconscious making the subject think that those are their own thoughts. The user can keep on giving psychic commands to the subject until they eventually obey them.

## Known Users

* Skylar Bennett
* Dominic Lyon
* Gabi Lyon
* Maggie Bennett
* Selena Lyon
* Sophie Lyon