Superpsion

Peter Minella, also known as Super-Psion, Superpsion, or simply Psion, is the titular deuteragonist of the Action-Comedy webcomic series Team Season with Superpsion. He is a male esper with extremely powerful psychic powers, who uses said powers to fight various threats as a vigilante. He was orphaned at the age of ten in 1984 supposedly when a rogue Meta-Villain killed his parents. Peter is originally from Malibu, California, but fled to Vertvale City in England in 1989 to escape the U.S. military's Esper Weaponization Program (EWP). Introduced in the first comic in the series, Peter is the first major character to meet Team Season and become a significant part of their lives following their transformations into humans and banishment from their home planet of Spheron. As Peter has nowhere else to go, Team Season's captain Eclipse, who is afflicted with Wrath, invites him to move into their apartment as their roommate. He becomes Eclipse's love interest at a later point in the series. Eclipse's twin sister Equinox, who is afflicted with Lust, becomes significantly interested in him for a short time at the beginning of the series, but later enters a relationship with Noah, brother of the Team's across-the-hall neighbor Valentine Masterson. Through much of the series, Peter befriends Autumn and Summer, quickly developing a mutual interest in their favorite things, such as comics, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and other nerdvana-type topics. For the first season of the series, Peter occupies the spare broom-closet-turned-bedroom at the end of the hallway in the north end of the apartment, until the second-to-last comic in the season, when it is revealed that he and Eclipse will sleep in the same room. He is the same age as Eclipse and Equinox, and is normally seen wearing a blue jacket and hat, with brown boots and orange pants. He was born with blue-colored hair, and violet-colored eyes as a side-effect of his intense psionic strength. He is known to have a piercing gaze that can mesmerize people without actually using any of his powers. Peter is one of the three primary adversaries of Lord Lochindorb, the others being Team Season and Team Holliday.

At the end of the second season of the series, Peter, along with the members of Team Season, boards Lord Lochindorb's mobile fortress, Rolling Vengeance, in order to defeat him once and for all. They find that Lochindorb is planning to move Rolling Vengeance to the outer city limit, then use the Evilization Engine within the fortress to turn two-thirds of the city's population into Meta-Villains all at once. They realize that if he succeeds, Lochindorb will create a force of Meta-Villains so large that nothing will be able to stop it, spelling certain doom for Vertvale City. Peter, the Season Siblings and their cousin Patrick Holliday confront Lochindorb with the intention of destroying the Engine and thwarting his plan. When it is revealed that destroying the Engine will destroy the entire fortress as well, killing everyone inside, they decide to incapacitate Lochindorb, then safely dismantle the Engine to prevent him from using it against the city. However, Lochindorb says that he will not allow his plan to be foiled without a fight, then summons his four demon lieutenants, converts them into Demon Soul Weapons, and finally grows an extra set of arms to wield them. When Peter points out that he is still outnumbered nine to one, Lochindorb uses a charged sword attack to evilize him, turning him into a Meta-Villain known as Psychic Fox, who has similar abilities to Peter in his natural state, but has a more purple color scheme, fox ears and a fox tail. This is a direct reference to the first Psychic Fox, the main antagonist of Team Season With Superpsion's precursor serial, Peter and Ellie VS the World, on whom Peter's psychic abilities are based, and who wore an anime-style fox mask painted white with red eyes when acting out. Working together, Lord Lochindorb and Psychic Fox quickly take down Team Season, but Eclipse reawakens and shoots Psychic Fox in the back, killing him and restoring Peter. After he and Team Season are rescued from the exploding fortress by the Angel Michael Clearwater, Peter is overcome with remorse at Psychic Fox's actions, wondering if Team Season can ever forgive him. Eclipse Season tells Peter that his actions as Psychic Fox are not his fault, that he has in fact confirmed something she had been considering for a while, and then asks him to marry her, causing him to pass out from shock. Later, after Peter wakes up at the apartment, he accepts Eclipse's proposal to get married, deciding that he wants to spend his life with Eclipse and that there is nothing left for him on Earth. She tells him that since Lochindorb is dead and they have nothing left to fear, he can now receive her wedding present, which is revealed to be herself. Eclipse reveals to Peter that she has been waiting to "unleash her wild side" ever since she decided he was "the one". Peter, deciding he has no reasons to decline, accepts, and the two consummate their relationship, having sex off-panel.

At the onset of the fourth season of the series, Peter is kidnapped by the U.S. military, who hope to weaponize his abilities and use him to free Kuwait from the control of Iraq, thereby ending the Persian Gulf War with a United Nations victory. There, he learns that his parents were actually part of the EWP, which was a cover for a totalitarian paramilitary organization known as ARXIS. When ARXIS ordered his parents to use their psionic powers to torture innocent people into subservience, they refused. ARXIS then killed them for rebelling against orders. Peter realizes upon learning this that his memories about his parents' death are false ones planted into his brain by ARXIS, who want to use him and the newly created X-ARC division to take over Earth and force its people to submit to their cruel totalitarian rule. Peter refuses to allow his abilities to be used to take over the world, and when ARXIS tries to kill him for standing up to them, he uses his Mindfray attack on them. He discovers that the leaders of ARXIS were once part of the social elite and lavished their money on fair-weather friends, but were abandoned by these friends once they fell on hard times and were subsequently forced into poverty and homelessness. This turned them bitter and spiteful, causing them to hate and despise the social elite and mankind in general. After they met Lord Lochindorb, who told them that he too had seen the evil and depravity of humanity, they agreed to help him get revenge on mankind if he would give them the means to take revenge as well, manipulating them into joining him using his powers, and subsequently brainwashing them to follow his every order. Peter at this point realizes that Lochindorb is the true cause of his parents' deaths and that ARXIS was merely his pawn, caught up as they were in seeking revenge on humanity for what had been done to them. He also discovers that ARXIS has been manipulated into hating all of mankind and that their plan to take over the world is how they plan to make all of humanity suffer in revenge for what has been done to them. Peter, along with a self-aware android from the future, ARC, escapes from the facility as it explodes. The members of ARXIS escape, but Peter uses a telepathic mind-meld to relay their secret plans to the U.S. military. The American government freezes all of ARXIS' assets, shuts down its funding, and puts its leaders into a mental hospital. With no resources or leaders left, ARXIS is finished, and Peter's revenge for his parents' death is complete.

"The day we deploy X-ARC into the field, freedom dies on Planet Earth."

-*Wilhelm Von Garveton, head of ARXIS*

Peter is shown to be kind, friendly, and helpful. He has a respect for rules, but is not above bending them slightly or even breaking them when the situation is dire, showing that he has a lot more regard for the safety of innocent people than he does for obeying the law. He has an intense hatred of Meta-Villains because of his parents' supposed death at the hands of one, and enjoys defeating them and transforming them back into humans, though he does not enjoy harming the humans that the Metas were converted from. Though Metas have their own powers that make them stronger than humans, Peter's psionic abilities are far superior, enabling him to easily defeat them. Despite his respect for the safety of innocents, Peter has an intense dislike of the Vertvale City Psychics, a group of self-proclaimed psychic superheroes, who actually turn out to be a group of teen-aged nerds with hero complexes. Peter explains that his hostilities towards the Psychics are due to the fact that he is an actual psychic and phony psychics are a psychic's anathema. Though Peter always prevents them from engaging any enemy, they appear as recurring comic-relief characters throughout the series.

Peter has an extensive range of psychic powers, including ESP Lance, Telepathy, Mind Control, Levitation, Pyrokinesis, Telekinesis, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Teleportation, Psystrength, Prophetic Dreams and Visions, Psychic Explosion, Psiblade and more. His control over his powers depends on his level of anger. The more infuriated Peter is, the more powerful he becomes, but the less control he has over his abilities. When he loses his temper, Peter also completely loses control of his powers. He also is shown to lose control of his powers when he is sick or in a panic. Each of Peter's abilities requires a certain amount of power, and this power's regeneration rate can be greatly increased by going into a Psychic Trance, a coma-like state that restores massive amounts of power.

Though he does have the capability to speak, Peter often uses telepathy to communicate directly with sentient entities. He uses a wide range of combat-based psionic abilities to defeat Metas, ghosts, and monsters, but his most powerful attack to date in the series is the Mindfray. The Mindfray is a psychological attack that forces its victims to relive all of their worst memories. Also known as Psychic Nightmare, this highly traumatic attack has an unfortunate chance of killing anyone exposed to it, and often leads to PTSD and other mental disorders. Being a kind-hearted person, Peter prefers not to use the Mindfray, and only turns to it as a last resort when all other options are unavailable. When using his powers, Peter's eyes glow with blue rings.

Eventually, when the Team defeats their nemesis, Lord Lochindorb, Peter leaves Earth and accompanies them aboard the spaceship to Spheron, where he becomes one of Spheron's most powerful and influential political figures.