Darius Baxter (Mystical)

Darius Baxter, better known as Mystical, is a prominent American superhero. A member of the Homelanders, Darius is one of the mightiest metas in the world, gifted with a powerful arsenal of abilities. Eloquent and well spoken, he is highly respected within most circles, and is particularly popular among America's African-American community.

## Powers

* Alchemy Ray: Darius is capable of projecting a pale blue energy ray from the center of his forehead, which is capable of cutting through most solid objects. Rather than generating heat, the energy projected causes any matter it touches to break down into a dry, powdery substance. For this reason, Mystical named the ability his "Alchemy Ray" during his early teens.
* Density Manipulation: Darius is able to psychically alter the density of his own body, enabling him to phase through solid objects, or drastically increase his weight and resilience. He is also capable of extending this ability to anything in physical contact with him, allowing him to phase his clothes or allies.
	+ Durability: Darius is able to increase his density to the points where he is utterly immune to bullets, and can shrug off tank shells and artillery shots with only mild irritation. High levels of firepower are required to do him harm when fully augmented in this manner, such as powerful lasers, airstrikes, and extreme heat.
* Matter Manipulation: Darius is capable of psychically manipulating inorganic matter in solid, liquid, or gaseous form. He is able to alter its shape, and transmute materials from one form to another, allowing him to essentially "conjure" objects. He is also capable of altering the resilience of objects as well. Not being a chemist or physicist, he lacks the knowledge on how to create unfamiliar compounds, though he can replicate ones he has come across. He is completely incapable of affecting forces or energies with this ability, such as lightning, fire, gravity, etc. He also cannot effect organic materials, such as flesh or plant matter. The scale of this power is also not massive, and he has never affected a mass larger than an 18 wheeler.
* Telepathy: Darius is a stupendously powerful telepath, capable of scanning nearly every facet of an individual's mind in mere moments. He has a telepathic range of about fifty two miles, and at his peak, was able to simultaneously link with the minds of 544 people.
	+ Mind Control: Darius is capable of telepathic mind control, though he applies this ability conservatively. He is able to implement powerful, long lasting and complex commands, which can take days to implement. His abilities enable him to alter people's moods, change deep rooted memories, and force them to obey almost any command. However, his Mind Control has extreme difficulty overcoming I-17 based resistance, which drastically reduces the effectiveness of his commands.
* Telekinesis: Darius is an extremely potent telekinetic, and possesses sufficient raw power to pick up a skyscraper, though the effort of doing so is fairly taxing. Elsewise, he can lift almost any object or destroy mundane materials with ease. His level of control is superb, allowing him to accomplish various fine, delicate tasks.
	+ Force Fields: Darius is able to produce force fields, which he can conjure around his body or at any location within his field of perception. Over the years, he has trained himself to produce a constant force field a few millimeters from his body, strong enough to withstand a shot from a tank shell. More powerful fields, however, require more active focus from him to create.
	+ Flight: By using his telekinetic powers, Darius is able to levitate himself for the purposes of flight. Using this method, he is able to achieve speeds of around five hundred miles per hour.

* Omnisense: Darius possesses the sixth sense common to telekinetics, which lets him to sense the flow of kinetic energy around him. This allows him to employ his telekinesis without looking directly at his targets.

## Stats

**Durability:** Class 0-4

**Flight:** Class 3

**Mind Control:** Class 4

**Telekinesis:** Class 5

**Telepathy:** Class 5