Mr Mind

Mr Mind

## **History**

### **Origin**

The hero known as Mr Mind, born John Smith, is one of the longest serving Heroes of Hero City, Australia. He is a known Mutant and wielder of Psionic capabilities, known as a powerful telekinetic who can also read minds. Given that he never bothered to dress up in special attire and his powers were not as noticable as others, he was often overlooked as not being a hero at all, and was often mistakenly assumed to be a civilian.
John's upbringing was rather normal. He had middle class parents and went through the regular Australian public school system with little exception. It was in his early teenage years that he started to notice he was not an ordinary child. He found that, if he focused hard on an object, he was able to move it completely without touching it. This power was weak at first and his control was unrefined, rolling pencils and launching tennis balls as if they were punted with a hammer. In secret, after school hours, John began to practise these abilities. By the time he was sixteen, John had decent control of his telekinetic powers and his mental strength had multiplied many times over; he progressed from only being able to lift small objects, to being able to lift himself and others of regular human weight, to being capable of lifting cars with only his mind.
While John was increasing his innate power he was also progressing in his schooling, and while he was not of genius intellect neither was he dumb; with a token effort, he managed mostly B's in his classes and passed with decent, if unimpressive grades. He chose to go to university and study Business and Economics. As he aged in these years, he realised his psychic powers were not limited to mere telekinetics. At first, he thought he was halucinating as he heard people seemingly talking to themselves. He realised he was accidentally touchings peoples minds and tapping their streams of conciousness. Now aware of the power, he made a focused attempt to practise it and found he could extend his own  conciousness into the minds of others. At first he was only able to skim the surface thoughts of others, a power that he found extremely useful in social situations. As he trained this new power he found he was able to exert a small amount of influence over his targets mind; with effort he could plant thoughts and control the bodies of other people. Once he understood them John opted to not exercise those particular powers, finding the ability to completely override a persons free will to be rather immoral.
His university years passed with him again achieving good but not spectacular grades, but achieving a degree in his field nonetheless. This permitted him to start a relatively normal career at a financial corporation. As is typical, the lower rungs of the corporate ladder are filled with unfilling jobs, mind numbingly repetitive tasks and thankless hours of work. But when you can read minds, progressing through the corporate world becomes rather effortless. Some might say this was an unfair exploitation of his psychic powers for personal gain. Seeing as nobody was directly harmed, John saw it as fair game.
One day, while shopping for groceries like a regular human, John found himself on the scene with an armed gunman entered and, using a shotgun, tried to hold up the clerk. It was a simple trick for John to yank the gun from the criminal and pin it to the floor under thousands pounds of force. The criminal was unable to retrieve his weapon and, in a panic at having his genius plot foiled, quickly fled. CCTV footage of the crime scene revealed John present, hiding behind a rack of shelves, but nobody could link him to the strange occurence that prevented the violent crime.

Years pass with John had earning swift promotions, shifting departments and even jumping to other, more successful companies with better contracts, eventually taking his talents into the world of trading markets. He was able to use information glimpsed from not only the minds of other traders, but also CEOs and board members, to make seemingly prescient judgement calls about a companies future and make incredible market gains from his trading an investing. It was during this time that John again found himself the bystander of a serious crime. While performing a regular financial exchange at a local bank, armed criminals stormed the area, took the crowd hostages and proceeded to start working on cracking their vault. While kneeling among the captured crowd, John was able to use his telepathic powers to call for local police, inform them of the situation with exact numbers, locations and armaments of the criminals. A tense  hostage situation followed, but with John on scene and the extremely fast response by the police, the criminals eventually surrendered. Again, the banks CCTV footage showed John was present, but had no visual record of him doing anything about the situation; the only people who knew something was amiss were the officers he contacted directly, and even then he never revealed himself to them.
It was about this time that John decided he could use his powers for good rather than self interest, protecting people from violence and bringing criminals to justice. He focused on developing new uses for his powers, such as forming a telekinetic barrier strong enough to protect him from bullets. Given his extremely subtle powerset he opted not to dress up, feeling that would actually draw more attention to himself than otherwise. So for years he walked into crime scenes dressed in just his work shirt and slacks, reading thoughts, snatching weapons and tossing criminals around with his mind. Eventually this vigilante interference brought him into the company of other local Heroes and, after explaining and demonstrating his powers, they formed an alliance of Supers in order to better fight criminals. He chose the name Mr Mind to be his alias, even though he was completely unmasked.

## Abilities

### Wealth

Years of prescient stock trading and later company ownership have lead to Mr Mind amassing an incredible amount of personal wealth which he uses to fund various hero related activities, such as Hero Tower and The Smith Prison for Meta-Criminals.
### Telekinesis

Mr Mind is capable of projecting a tremendous amount of telekinetic force, using only his mind. It takes concentration for him to perform, but can be applied precisely with a varying amount of force. He can lift eggs without breaking them, but also crush cars.
### Telekinetic Propulsion

Mr Mind can propel himself through the air with a precise, careful application of telekinetic force. He can levitate in place, or propel himself at high speeds.
### Telekinetic Adept

Mr Minds personal training with his powers grants him accuracy and control with them, but this training does not apply to any other form of ranged combat.
### Mind Reading

By careful probing a targets mind, Mr Mind is capable of reading a persons thoughts. This can range from surface thoughts, to fully exploring memories and extracting deep, dark secrets
### Telepathic Communication

Mr Mind can open a telepathic channel of communication between himself and others, even over large distances. This is a noninvasive application of telepathy; no thoughts are collected other than those the other participants choose to commit as communication. It takes focus to communicate this way, but only a minor amount.
### Psychic Awareness

Mr Mind has the ability to sense things around him, that he cannot see. He can tell you what objects populate an isolated room, or how many people are hiding around a corner he cannot see around. He can use this awareness to target his other powers, his as telepathy and telekinesis.
### Precognitive Defense

Mr Mind has an extrasensory perception of very short term dangers to himself, and can use this brief future awareness to better evade attacks.
### Psionic Being

Eventually, Mr Mind transcended his mortal form and became a being of pure Psionic Energy. Given that he no longer has ordinary human biology, he is immune to many effects that would rely on exploiting human vulnerabilities; he does not sleep, does not breathe, cannot be poisoned or diseased, does not starve or thirst and does not age. He is Very Blue