Peter Stanchek

**Peter Stanchek** is one of the most powerful psiots alive, considered the only one whose powers rival Toyo Harada. He is the only psiot with the ability to "activate" latent powers in others, and one of only three known psiots born activated. Having powerful psionic abilities from an early age lead him to a lifetime of homelessness, drug abuse, and misdiagnosed mental illness.

## Background

On Christmas day, eleven-year-old Peter accidentally put his father into a coma trying to activate his latent psionic abilities.

Eventually Harada would attempt to recruit him to his Harbinger Foundation. Realizing Harada was morally corrupt, Stanchek went on the run with a group of other young psiots he activated calling themselves the Renegades. This group includes Charlene Dupre, Faith Herbert, John Torkelson, and the non-psiot Kris Hathaway.

## Powers and Abilities

Peter possesses vast telepathic powers, tremendous telekinetic powers, the ability to fire enormously powerful energy blasts, and the ability to rearrange the molecular structure of matter and energy. His powers are so great that he has been able to create pocket universes, and his abilities have been described as equal to the Celestials.

* **Mentifery**: Peter's ability is the power to warp the fabric of reality with his imagination/thoughts alone. He can bend or alter reality, make any thought or desire come to fruition, even up to a cosmic scale. He can even change aspects of reality, allowing him to achieve nearly anything by simply conceiving it. For example, if he imagines that the bones in someone's arm are made of cookies, this will become true. By imagining that his body is "*more sturdy than the strongest steel,*" he can drastically increase his bodily defense. He can instantly heal any wounds inflicted onto him by imagining them already healed. Even more, using his power, Peter can create elements and substances from his mind, e.g. creating lava, water, or even a gigantic stone platform and steel pillars to use for attack and defense against foes and manipulate them as he sees fit, and he could also restructure the battlefield to his liking, like imagining a big crevice. He can even create entire pocket universes in the palm of his hand and once used his god-like powers to create a reality for himself and even being able to casually create an "omniverse" in a shoe box. Peter's powers possibly have been used subconsciously to cause some of what he imagined or believed to become real enough to affect and interact with the physical world. This allowed him to seamlessly transport himself and others, manipulate objects from vast distances, create drug-producing pig, and manifest multiple versions of himself. Mentifery is both the purest expression and mighty form of reality warping, allowing him to achieve any desired change directly, both rational and irrational, unhindered by the need for any template, material, or proxy to work.
	+ **Particle Energy Manipulation**: Peter has the ability to manipulate and emit dynamic force as well rearrange and manipulate matter on a quantum level. Under the guidance of his older self, he once for example stabilized the sun. Once he even turned the assault of hostile Celestials into harmless flowers.
	+ **Molecular Manipulation**: Peter possesses the ability to mentally control, transform, and manipulate the molecules of all matter and energy. Through concentration, he projects a psionic-manipulative energy, the precise nature of which is unknown, that alters the arrangement of molecules according to any visualized pattern. He can animate inanimate materials by causing constant mass movement of molecules: for example, he can make a brick building walk. He can rearrange molecules so radically, he can use his power to reconfigure all forms of matter and them into different substances and forms (such as, for example, turning air into glass), and can change matter into energy and back again. Additionally, Peter's molecular manipulation ability theoretically would give him potential regenerative healing abilities as well despite his nigh-invulnerability. It has been theorized that the vast majority of his powers are derived from his ability to alter matter and energy and that he could simulate almost any superpower with enough practice and control. He can create force fields and energy blasts, and also open up wormholes through hyperspace and traverse them, thus travelling faster than light. The maximum area he can affect at a single time is not yet known.
* **Telekinesis**: Peter possesses immeasurably potent telekinetic powers. With it, he is able move, levitate, control, and manipulate people, and multiple inanimate objects with mere thought via his hands or eyes alone. He can use this to various effects. He is able to fly, create small bright green-colored telekinetic shields and barriers, unleash incredibly powerful blasts of bright green telekinetic force and, freely control and manipulate several objects from a huge distance. Since his abilities are mind-based, it means that if he's unable to concentrate or form a thought, he's unable to use his powers. This also means that most of his powers are controlled by his emotions and feelings and can often get out of hand if he gets angry enough, causing nearby objects to telekinetically combust (similar to the ability of **molecular combustion**) or random destructive telekinetic bursts to happen, even sending things flying depending on how passionate he's feeling. His telekinetic powers are so strong, that he's able to manipulate the fundamental forces of the universe, manipulate reality, manipulate and distort the space-time continuum, and manipulate matter at the subatomic level
	+ **Bio-Blasts**: Ability to fire enormously powerful energy blasts which he generates from his body's extrasensory potential. These were able to temporarily destroy the demon Mephisto within its own realm.

* **Telepathy**: Peter has vast telepathic powers, which grant him numerous different abilities. He is able to detect, manipulate, and enter the minds, thoughts and memories of others, as well as transmit his own thoughts and memories as well as interact with, affect and even manipulate the minds of humans and animals with higher order intelligence (such as dolphins, ravens or dogs). His telepathic abilities are rather powerful, riviling that of Martian Manhunter, one of the most powerful telepaths in the universe. He also seemingly has a very potent telepathic resistance, that enables him to defend against psychic manipulators. His notable abilities include:
	+ **Telepathic Illusion**: Ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
	+ **Telepathic Cloak**: Can mask his presence from being detected by others. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well.
	+ **Mind Link**: Ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.
	+ **Telepathic Camouflage**: Ability to mask himself, and other peoples' presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around him quite different (Changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more detailed disguising.).
	+ **Mind Control**: Ability to control the minds of others just by trying.
	+ **Mind Possession**: Ability to possess the mind of another, and use that being's body as his own.
	+ **Mind Alteration**: Ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
	+ **Pathokinesis**: Peter is capable of controlling and manipulating the emotions of those around him.
	+ **Mental Amnesia**: Ability to cause loss of particular memories, and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people.
	+ **Psionic Shield**: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of himself and of others' minds.
	+ **Psionic Blasts**: Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Ability to Astral Travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, he can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects.
	+ **Mental Detection**: Can sense the presence of other superhuman mutants within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
	+ **Mind Transferral**: Able to transfer both his mind and powers into other host bodies should his own physical body be somehow killed.

* **Precognitive Dreams:** Precognitive abilities, which manifest themselves in his dreams, enabling him to envision possible future events. Although there are countless possible futures, Peter foresees the most probable future path, and therefore his predictions usually come true. Peter seemingly cannot foresee events more than roughly a few days in the future. Peter's precognitive power developed to the point at which he could see images of future events when conscious.
* **Dream-Self Projection:** Ability to place himself in a trance-like state while remaining fully conscious. While he is in this trance, he can project an intangible, ghost like image of himself to another location, through which he can see and hear what goes on at the location. What Peter has called the “dreams” he has while in this state are not truly dreams, but his conscious awareness of the environment into which he has projected his “dream-self.”
* **Fundamental Forces Manipulation:** Peter has displayed the ability to manipulate the four fundamental forces of the universe on a potentially a cosmic scale, reaching nearly any effect he desires. This ability allows him to rearrange matter to create other configurations and can even transmute elements and manipulate space-time to a degree by using gravity to distort them. He can use them to grant himself power that existed on the world to himself including, but not limited to, inertia, friction, acceleration and attraction. Peter can also combine these power to create even more powerful techniques and attacks.
* **Energy Constructs:** The ability to create anything he sees in his mind. Peter uses this ability to make anything he can imagine and manipulate it as he sees fit. Peter can channel this energy offensively to create weapons or blasts of energy or defensively to create force fields to protect those he loves.
* **Duplication:** After being irradiated by a meteor, Peter briefly showed the power to duplicate.
* **Gestalt Merge:** Peter was able to merge with other beings, such as his mother, into a double conscious being.
* **Teleportation**: Peter can travel anywhere in the entire multiverse.