Fear Projection

## Power information

### Effects

Sense, read or manipulating the fears of other beings while also bringing them to life.

### Category

Offensive Power

**DJ:** *"Who are you?"*
**Barbas:** "*A demon. A demon who has the power to turn the innermost fears of a mortal into reality and there's nothing you can do about it. Want to see?*"
— Barbas shows his power to DJ.
**Fear Projection** is the ability to sense and read the fears of other beings and use it against them. This power is unique to the demon Barbas, and is known as the demon of fear because of it.

## **Overview:**

The first and most basic application of this power is sensing or reading the fears of other beings. An example of this happened in 2032, when Barbas read Stiles' greatest worst fear and then started to make it become reality.

### **Projecting Fear into Reality:**

**Stiles****:** *"Who the HELL are you? Get Out!! Stay away from me!!!"*
**Barbas:** "You're too late!!!"
**Syrus****:** *"Stiles? Where are you?"*
**Barbas (disguised his voice as Stiles' voice):** "*Wonderful! Is it? Care for a deep swim?"*
Syrus gasps!
Pushes Syrus into the deep, deep pool! Syrus starts to drown!
— Barbas attacking Syrus with his greatest worst fear of drowning.
Barbas can read the fears of other beings and then projecting it into reality. Doing so will send their fear into overdrive, as they are forced to experience their greatest fear, paralysising them until they die of a heart attack.

The change in reality can sometime cause injury to the victim, as in the case of Tanjella. However, in Zoe's case, she suffered no other injuries other than a heart attack when he trapped her in a circle of fire.

in 2032, after luring Stiles back to the waterpark that he works at (by disguising his voice as Stiles' boss on the phone) and attacking him with his fear and luring Syrus, by disguising his voice as Stiles on the phone, saying that he needs a little help on a chore that he has to do there, He pushed Syrus into a deep, deep pool while reading his greatest worst fear and brought to reality. Syrus almost died until Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell, his mom, came to him as a spirit, even though she's a Witchlighter, just like Patty Halliwell did for Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell in 1998. Then, she rescued him and helped him rescue Stiles. Then, Syrus defeated Barbas, because of her.

### **Brainwashing:**

**Barbas:** "*The demons are after them. Even as we speak. They have assumed your sisters' identities in order to kill them. But you must kill the impostors first, by midnight.*"
**Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell****:** "*Kill the impostors.*"
**Barbas:** "*Yes.*"
— Barbas succeeds in brainwashing Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell.
On Friday the 13th in 2000, Barbas returned and attacked Prue again. However, this time he used his powers to brainwash her based on her fears; which was "*losing a sister"*, since she had already conquered her fear of drowning. Barbas tells Prue that demons are masquerading as her sisters and she must kill them before they kill her real sisters. Fortunately, Phoebe and Piper were able to break the brainwashing by talking to Prue and getting her to believe that they were in fact her sisters.

### **Creating Illusions based on Fear:**

**Stiles****:** *"Who the HELL are you? Get Out!! Stay away from me!!!"*
**Barbas:** "You're too late!!!"
**Stiles****:** *"Get out and leave me alone!"*
**Barbas:** "*You greatest fear is having your Frontotemporal Dimentia disease make you kill someone that you love! Thank you for making it so easy for me!"*
Stiles Starts to lose it and go insane, scared for his life and just needs someone else.
**Stiles****:** *"HEELLLPPPP!!!!!"*
**Syrus****:** "*STILES???*"
— Barbas attacking Stiles with his greatest fear and Syrus sensing that Stiles is in danger and needs help.
Barbas can also create realistic illusions base on a person's fears. His illusions may be limited to visible manifestations that affect only sight, or affect all the five senses so that they cannot be distinguished from reality.

Barbas usually employ this method when he's attacking people within a group, presumably because he has to attack them individually because each persons fear is different. However, it is just as effective as projecting someone's fear it into reality, because the victim will think the illusions are real.

In 2032, Barbas tried to kill Stiles by using his greatest worst fear of having his Frontotemporal Dimentia disease make him kill someone that he loves, or kill himself, against him. However, Syrus sensed that Stiles was in danger and needed help so he came to help him, but didn't have time to help him overcome his fears. This act still weakened Barbas though, and sent him running and escaping.

### **Subliminal Messaging:**

"*You fear hurting Phoebe for more than your fear remaining forever evil. Protect Phoebe. Strip your powers.*"
—Barbas using subliminal messaging on Cole.

After learning how to astral project onto the astral plane as an invisible spirit in 2002, Barbas began to use subliminal messaging as a form of attack. First, he reads his victims fears, and then project as an inner voice to them, preying on their fears and doubts, and then reinforce that by creating illusions within their mind.

Barbas could also use this form of attack to manipulate his victims into fulfilling his aims. For example, he used subliminal messaging to trick Paige into stripping Cole of his powers so that he could steal them.

This form of attack allowed Barbas to attack and manipulate his victims without them ever being aware of his presence, as well as attack them from a distance.

### **Tracking with Fear:**

"*Well, then, you track him with his orbs. I'm going to, uh…Track him with his fears.*"
—Barbas to Gideon.

In 2004, Barbas revealed to Gideon that he could track people with their fears when suggesting ways of how to track down little Wyatt.

## **Notes:**

* When this power is used on witches, the fear will paralyze their powers, making them unable to defend themselves because of their powers being tied to their emotions. Their hair may turn white in the process. However, if one overcomes his/her fears, they will then be able to use their powers.
* As shown in "Sympathy for the Demon" in season 5 episode 7 of the original Charmed series, Barbas cannot read a witch's fear if they're in astral mode at the time.