Ruth Aldine

**Ruth Aldine** (***Blindfold***) is a mutant.

## Relatives

* Irene Adler (possible great-grandmother, deceased)
* Luca Aldine (brother, deceased)

## Powers

**Telepathy:** Ruth is able to read minds and dreams. She can perceive information through mind reading. She can utilize her telepathy is various ways, including:

* ***Astral projection:*** She can project her astral form from her body onto the Astral Plane or the physical plane. In the physical plane, she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own w ill or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
* ***Astral travel:*** She is capable of forging psi-links with herself and her body to travel in astral form. A unique trait of her astral form is the ability to interact with the physical world as if she were tangible.
* ***Psychometry:*** Ruth has the ability to perceive information or history of a person or object through touch that makes her knowledgeable and imune to certain objects that may change the course of events.
* ***Precognition:*** She is able to see events destined to occur and experience precognitive visions. These visions seem to often appear as dreams.
* ***Retrocognition:*** She is able to see events of the past.
* ***Clairvoyance:*** Ruth is able to see far off places or events as well as present events and her surroundings. She possesses the ability to use her sight abilities to its higher potential, the ability to look over somewhere or someone with transportation only by the use of her telepathic abilities.
* ***Psychic possession:*** Ruth can possess others through her telepathic ability.
* ***Mental influence:*** Ruth can manipulate others to believe what she desires.
* ***Telepathic immunity:*** Emma Frost stated that Ruth's mind is in too much flux for her to read. This does not necessarily mean that Ruth would be immune to telepathic assaults or other telepathic abilities that only require the telepath to broadcast their power at the target's mind, only that her mind cannot be read telepathically. However, this ability does not universally shield her from telepathic possession.

**Astral plane tapping:** She can tap into the enormous psychic resources of the astral plane in order to manipulate matter and energy. After her brother died for the final time, Ruth had showcased her power set to match her newfound confidence.

* ***Astral energy solidification:*** Unlike most psychics, Ruth is able to give substance to astral energy to solidify psychic forms.

**Telekinesis:** She can psychokinetically lift and manipulate objects at will.

**Reality warp immunity:** Ruth was immune to Legion's reality warp, retaining her true memories and personality during the Age of X. Ruth also exhibited some immunity to Saturnine's interdimensional fugue.

**Chaos manipulation:** Ruth is able to successfully manipulate events to achieve a certain desired outcome. With her psychometric abilities, she is able to navigate, control, or warn herself or others about the dangers that may impede their paths.