Mind Manipulation

## Summary

**Mind Manipulation** is the ability to control and overall affect the minds of people, whether that be through the manipulation of their physical brain or non-physical consciousness.

## Utilities

Mind Manipulation is one of the most diverse in fiction, having countless ways on how it can be used. Whether that be controlling people like puppets, shutting minds down, tinkering with the mental states of others, etc. Mind Manipulation might also be the ability with the most sub-powers, including but not limited to; Being able to read minds, telepathically communicate, induce madness, plague others with illusions or hallucinations, change their emotional state or moral code, and even Biological Manipulation in cases with the brain. Offensive uses of this power, for the most part, negates conventional durability as it directly affects a more fundamental aspect of their being, beyond their physical body.

## Variations

As said above, Mind Manipulation comes in a variety of forms, and they can overlap, but they be labelled underneath one or more of these three categories;

* **Type 1. Mind Interaction**: The weakest form of Mind Manipulation, and is usually paired with Non-Physical Interaction. This type of Mind Manipulation is the ability to directly interact with and/or harm the consciousness of other beings as if they were physical things.

* **Type 2. Mind Control**: The most common form of Mind Manipulation, with the most kinds of this power falling underneath this category. Whether that be controlling minds as if they were puppets, stealing/draining/absorbing minds away, manipulate the thoughts, intelligence, morality, emotions and mental state of a target, grant mental protection, shut down minds, etc.

* **Type 3. Mind Destruction**: The most outright destructive form of Mind Manipulation. Users with this type of Mind Manipulation can obliterate/destroy, erase or deconstruct minds. Whether that be through physical force or a special power.

## Potency

Generally speaking, there are two solid ways on determining the potency of a character's mind powers are;

**Numbers**: The amount of minds that the character can control at once. If a person is able to control two people simultaneously, their mind hax would be superior than a person who has only shown to be capable of controlling one person.

**Layers**: The amount of resistances to mind powers the character's mind hax can overcome. If Character A is able to mind control Character B, who beforehand resisted mind powers, they would have one layer of Mind Manipulation. If Character C was able to mind control Character D, who was able to resist Character A's mind powers, they would have two layers of Mind Manipulation. Same logic would apply to higher amounts of layers.

**Note**: If a character's Mind Manipulation have either of these factors, it would be preferred if they specify how many minds or layers the character would scale to.

## Limitations

* Characters that lack a mind, like robots, would obviously be immune to most conventional forms of Mind Manipulation.
* Supernatural Willpower could be enough to resist this ability.
* Characters that are part of a Hive Mind can prove to be difficult to affect (Depending on how many minds the user can control or destroy).
* Potent enough Immortality and Regeneration can render some forms of this power ineffective.