Mental Manipulation

The psychic power to modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions of others.

Also Called

 * Psychological Manipulation
 * Cerebral Control
 * Legilimency

Abilities and Capabilities
Enables the user to render others unconscious, suppress their memories, and slightly negate the use of abilities. Can increase/decrease mental capacity, modify minds to be agreeable, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow mental disorders or break down mental barriers. The subjects are still aware of their conscious.

Usages

 * Memory Manipulation
 * Power Negation
 * Telepathy
 * Mind Control
 * Perspicuity
 * Pain Inducement
 * Neurocognitive Deficit

Methods

 * Some touch the head to control and manipulation.
 * Some can control the level of consciousness.
 * Most modify from a distance.

Limits
May require physical contact to work.

Techniques
Some can perform:
 * Distraction
 * To nullify the attention span


 * Faculty Diminution
 * To suppress skills


 * Lie Inducing
 * To nullify the utterance of truth


 * Misdirection
 * To disorient others direction


 * Palindromic Action Inducing
 * To make others act backwards


 * Stupefaction
 * To render others into a stupor


 * Motor Continuity
 * To shut down motor function control so that a subject keeps moving


 * Psychic Bestowal
 * To magnify a subject’s knowledge capacity.


 * Bio-acoustic Disruption
 * To cause a subject's brain falter on vocal communication, causing incoherent speech.


 * Psychic Sealing
 * To seal secrets with others.


 * Logorrhea
 * To force others to keep speaking.


 * Memory Projection
 * A visual image of a person's memory to be view as a Holographic Projection, allowing those around the user to view the target's memory


 * Memory Erasure
 * To supress or erase an unwanted memory

Known Users
Movies/TV
 * René/The Haitian (Heroes)Haitian wipes Samedi.jpg
 * Most Jedi and Sith (Star Wars trilogies)
 * Ray (Haven)
 * Ella Mental (Yin Yang Yo!)
 * Daemon (ReBoot)
 * Elders (Charmed)

Anime/Manga
 * Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket)

Books
 * Daine (Wild Magic)
 * Angel (Maximum Ride)
 * Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
 * Salazar Slytherin (Harry Potter)
 * Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
 * Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
 * The Sorting Hat (Harry Potter)

Other

 * Female Skrall (Bionicle)