Apathy

**Chance/Likelihood** | Rare

## Also Known As

* Apathetic Heart/Apathetic Mind/Apathy Effect

* Belle Indifference/Indifference/Indifference Effect/Indifferent Effect/Indifferent Heart/Indifferent Mind/La Belle Indifference

* Emotion Immunity/Emotional Immunity/Empathic Immunity

* Feeling Immunity/Feelings Immunity

* Heart Immunity

* Uncaring/Uncaring Effect/Uncaring Heart/Uncaring Mind/Unfeeling/Unfeeling Heart/Unfeeling Mind

## Description

This is the ability to withstand emotion and related phenomena.

## Uses/Applications (Pros)

One with this ability can withstand feeling any level of anxiety, sadness, loneliness or guilt. In addition, one can withstand feeling any level of doubt, fear, discomfort or pain. Furthermore, one can withstand feeling any level of disgust, jealousy, anger, or hostility. One can also withstand feeling any level of shame, embarrassment or regret. One can even withstand feeling any level of nostalgia, curiosity, surprise, happiness, attraction or love.

## Weaknesses/Limitations (Cons)

The inability to feel emotion comes with any number of easily recognizable and readily available benefits. The most logical, objectively reasonable decisions can be reached more easily, and without worry of emotional distraction, hesitation, personal bias, peer pressure or coercion. Stress does not arise from making difficult, morally-challenging, unpopular or erroneous decisions. Neither mental illness nor the intake of drugs or alcoholic substances have any chance of causing emotional disturbances. And not only are emotion-manipulating powers rendered powerless, but so are powers which require emotions to function (ie Empathic Vampirism, Empathic Backlash).

However, in some cases, the power is permanently active. In other cases, it may only imply the lack of certain emotions, or certain types of emotions (ie lacking happiness, anger and worry, but still able to experience love, calm, fear and sadness). Whatever the specific case may be, lacking emotion has a very real potential to make healthy, meaningful relationships difficult.

## Similar/Related Abilities

* Aniothability

* Catiothability

* Emotion Negation

* Emotion Suppression

* Empathy

## Confirmed Users

* Ainz Ooal Gown (*Overlord*)
* Angels (*Supernatural*)
* Astaroth (*Valkyrie Crusade*)
* Contractors (*Darker than Black*)
* Cybermen (*Doctor Who*)
* Daleks (*Doctor Who*)
* Dolls (*Darker than Black*)
* Dufort (*Zatch Bell!*)
* Earl Shi (*Kingdom*)
* Elias Ainsworth (*Ancient Magus' Bride*)
* Gowther (*Nanatsu no Taizai*)
* Hou Ken (*Kingdom*)
* Iron Maiden (*Valkyrie Crusade*)
* Jones (*Gunnerkrigg Court*)
* Kanna (*InuYasha*)
* Kazuo Kiriyama (*Battle Royale*)
* Kiyotaka Ayanokouji (*Classroom of the Elite*)
* Kraven the Hunter (*Marvel Comics*)
* Kusuo Saiki (*Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan*)
* Loco (*Marchen Awakens Romance*)
* Marcus Ayers (*Alphas*)
* Midnighter (*DC Comics*)
* Nathaniel Essex/Mister Sinister (*Marvel Comics*)
* Renner Theiere Chardelon Ryle Vaiself (*Overlord*)
* Rimururu Tempest (*That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime*); via Great Sage
* Saitama (*One-Punch Man*)
* Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (*DC Comics*)
* Souless Humans (*Supernatural*)
* Tactically Augmented Organism/TAO (*Image Comics/Wildstorm Comics*)
* Tatsuya Shiba (*The Irregular at Magic High School*)
* Timmy Turner (*Fairly OddParents*); in *Emotion Commotion!*
* Utsuro (*Gintama*)
* Vampires (*The Vampire Diaries*)
* Vinsmoke Ichiji (*One Piece*)
* Vinsmoke Niji (*One Piece*)
* Vinsmoke Yonji (*One Piece*)
* Yuki Nagato (*The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi*)