ability rundown & opt-out

GENERAL INFO

Sophie is a clone of Emma Frost, therefore, she shares the same powers as the White Queen, which includes telepathy. As her powers have taken a little hit in canon and they're glitchy, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, or sometimes it takes her an incredible amount of will to go through them.

She's baseline not snooping around. Any use of invasive telepathy from her will be discussed with the players or characters beforehand and agreed upon.

TELEPATHY RUNDOWN

🌺 "Telepathy is the psionic ability to read and control the minds and thoughts of humans, animals, and other sentient beings, and to transfer information from one mind to another without the aid of physical communication (noise or movement). A person with this ability is called a telepath."

🌺 Sophie has a linked hive mind with her sisters. It allows her to share thoughts and maintain a continuous telepathic connection with them. The link is strongest when the girls are in close physical proximity. Their collective mind also allows for increased telepathic strength, and their powers are greater when they are together. Sophie usually leads of the hive mind, but the girls still maintain their independence, even if they do generally act as a singular entity.

🌺 Like Quentin, she can do the whole mind-reading, memory-scanning, and telepathic communication she-bang, although anything related to memory and thoughts don't translate to her experience or knowledge. What she reads is what she has. That also includes feelings; she will sense whatever the character senses, so there is a certain level of empathy there as well.

🌺 She can implant illusions in a person's brain that will make them think and experience something like it is happening, when it very much is not. A good example of this is in the Days of Future Past movie, in which Emma makes a man think they're hooking up, but really she's just sitting on the couch like a queen. Likewise, the Cuckoos are able to alter the minds of others, which can be by restoring memories or transferring knowledge.

🌺 The Cuckoos' psionic senses enable them to detect and track other sentient beings by their unique psionic emanations or thought patterns.

🌺 Fully capable of sending astral projections, astral travel, and communicating with others astrally.

🌺 As for the bad stuff, well. The Cuckoos are able to effect certain areas of the brain to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis, cause partial or total amnesia, induce mental pain inside people’s minds, and influence the minds of others to produce a series of illusory psychosomatic actions, that cause the body to react as if it were truly and physically experiencing it.

HOW TO NERF A TELEPATH

Starting out with how to call out mind-control, she can do it in a few ways that get less and less obvious that she did it. She can puppeteer a person pretty easily, using their brain to do have their body move as she so decides, but that is very obvious and it can be traced back to her very easily.

She can also implant the idea of someone wanting to do something, but if you stop to think about it, wait, why do I want to do that again? Busted. Thirdly, she can actually implant reasonings to take an action, and wait for the person to decide that out of their own free will. That one is harder to catch.

That said, one can kick out a telepath out of their brains with enough will-power (TBA).

Telekinesis

🌺 Her's super basic. This is pretty much it, and she can't really make things out of it. Just move what's already there.

DIAMOND FORM

🌺 Like their biological mother, the Cuckoos can transform themselves into a flexible, translucent, organic diamond-like substance while retaining mobility. In this form, their skin is as hard as real diamond. In this state, food and water are not needed for a undetermined amount of time. Their diamond form does not require a conscious hold and thus will remain until it is voluntarily triggered back. However, maintaining this form for extended period of time reduces their emotional capabilities.

🌺 In this form, they are immune to psychic powers, buuuuut they can not use their own.

🌺 It enhances their durability, strength, and stamina. Also, they're diamond, with all its physical characteristics.

🌺 But unfortunately, yep, they lose their empathy for others.

CODING

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