Persuasion

Also Called

• Charmspeaking
• Command Inducement
• Compelling Voice
• Hypersuasion
• Influencing
• Mind-Tricking
• Obedience Inducement
• Psychic Suggestion
• Suggestion
• Vocal Charisma
• Vocal Mind Control
• Vocal-Induced Manipulation

Capabilities

The user can compel people by speaking, the victims are unable to disobey; the seemingly cogent commandment is far too compelling. At a high level, users can persuade people into hurting/killing themselves or even flip around sense of logic, but can never cause victims to achieve what they are not capable of (ex. Flight).

Applications

• Command Inducement
• Convinced Inevitability
• Empathic Conversion
• Mental Inducement

Techniques

• Confession Inducement: Implore others nesting bile and secrecy holstered beneath their false appeal to come clean, and even act on their most selfish impulses.
• Inhibition Release Compel people to admit to and act upon repressed mandates to slake their personal selfish desires.
• Truth Inducement: to force veracity by vocal questions and prevent them to come up with a lie, similar to Lie Detection.

Variations

Hypnosis

• The psychic ability to put one into a trance-like state of extreme suggestibility.
• Autohypnosis also called Autohypnotism, Autosuggestion, Hypnotic Self-Control or Hypnotic Autosuggestion is the psychic ability to place oneself under hypnotic control.
• Hypnotic Beauty also called Blinding Beauty is the ability to stun subjects with unnaturally good looks (trapping them in the thought of one’s beauty like a deer in headlights, similar to Mesmorization or Stupefaction).
• Hypnotic Breasts also called Bust Hypnosis is the ability to emit a powerful hypnotic trance upon visual contact with the user's breasts, while under the trance subjects are under the user's control over any suggestions the user desire (this effect may take a few minutes to work or can happen instantly depending on the subject).
• Hypnotic Call, also called Hypnotic Lure is the ability to draw subjects to the user without the use of music or otherwise lyrical undertones.
• Hypnotic Charm, also called Charisma or Animal Magnetism is the ability to hypnotically cause subjects to like the user, trust, respect, and become doting sycophants that will do anything to please them.
• Hypnotic Medium is the ability to channel one’s hypnotic powers through an object. The most common object to use is a pendulum with a jewel or gem on it (though other media can be used, even a pinwheel or the like).
• Hypnotic Music also called Hypnotizing Music or Hypnotic Composition is a variation of Hypnotism in which the user channels their subliminal powers of hypnotic control (only the trance-inducing, not the commanding) through one’s music. This can be channeled through any instrument one plays (if one uses the voice, it is instead Hypnotic Song), as long as the music is played accurately.
• Hypnotic Song is the ability to emit a beautiful song that entrances people and subliminally compels them to either follow any predetermined orders given by the user in the song or to try to reach the source of the song, no matter what dangerous obstacles are in the way of the path (it may even just mesmerize a subject or make them want to dance).
• Hypnotic Stare or Hypnotic Gaze is the ability to place subjects into a hypnotic trance by looking them in the eyes.
• Hypnotic Touch or Tactile Hypnosis is the ability to place subjects into a hypnotic trance by touching them.
• Hypnotic Voice is the ability to speak with a calm and soothing voice which places subjects into a state of extreme suggestibility.

Subliminal Messaging

• The ability to implant thoughts or ideas into the minds of others.
• Pushing is the ability to implant memories, thoughts and emotions into the minds of others.
• Subliminal Seduction is the ability to project seductive thoughts to the minds of others.

Psychological Intuition

• A true manipulator's best quality is the capacity to see and understanding, predicting, and manipulating personal behavior. A skilled user can spot another's deepest secrets or inherent flaws with but a short conversation, turning ones very Words into deadly weapons able to apply subtle mental pressure enabling the easy manipulation of individuals. 
• Able to manipulate people by making them hear what they need to follow your intentions 

Associations

• Charm Mode
• Mental Manipulation
• Mind Control
• Motor-Skill Manipulation
• Overwhelming Influence
• Sound Manipulation
• Speech Manipulation
• Supreme Voice
• Voice Manipulation

Limitations

• Muting
• Users of Control Immunity are immune.
• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• Users must be able to speak to control people, and subjects must be able to understand and hear the commands.
• Someone with high or super intelligence may be resistant/immune to persuasion.
• The same fault applies to those of low intellect, being too stupid to grasp the user's meaning.
• Anything that prevents the user from speaking or target from hearing blocks this power.
• If wanting someone to forget something, sometimes they will make them stop thinking it but the thought would still linger in the back of their brain, and they may try to ask it again if it is a question.
• Complex commands may be less effective than simple commands.
  • Complex command ex. - Telling your victim to bake a cake by reciting the recipe and instructions.
  • Simple command ex. - Telling your victim to pick something up.

Known Users

Comics

Literature

Known Objects

• The Boxes of Orden (Legend of the Seeker)

Gallery

Nina Theroux (Alphas) is an Influencer, capable of using her voice to "push" others into doing what she wills them to.

Piper McLean (The Heroes of Olympus) has this powerful ability.

Eden McCain (Heroes) utters an overwhelming command.

Lorne (Angel) develops this ability whenever he goes too long without sleep.

Angel (Maximum Ride) is a manipulative young mutant. She uses the power of persuasion to get whatever she wants (including the bear she's holding)

The Boxes of Orden (Legend of the Seeker) grants the person who puts the 3 boxes together, the power to control people by spoken commands.

Rachel Leyton (Misfits) :"You don't need to behave like this; you can be so much better".

Daphne (No Ordinary Family) needs to speak the commands in order to make her "Telepathic Push" work.

Gene (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops) can use this ability to either win people over or induce suicidal paranoia.

Johan Liebert (Monster) is so good at persuasion that he managed to get 50 people to kill each other and burn down an orphanage when he was only 10 years old.

Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Academy) can compel others better than most vampires.

Tao (Image Comics) is a tactically augmented organic super-genius who can twist around a person's very perceptions of life, happenstance, and reality with but a slip of the tongue. Taken to its logic bending extremes when strengthened by Providence's Orb of Power or the Creation Equation.

A shrewd manipulator and master strategist of the Cul Obsidian, Ebony Maw (Marvel Comics) while having no powers of his own can easily wrap a persons mind around his withered fingers.

Gambit's (Marvel Comics) hypnotic charm allows him to channel a subtle influence over any sentient mind through his voice. This power allows Gambit to compel others to believe what he says and agree with anything he suggests.

Merchant (Valkyrie Crusade) is so good at persuasion that she can make anyone sell anything she wants, even their own souls.

A heartless mamodo, Eshros (Zatch Bell!) twisted the advice of his bookkeeper Shin's late mother to persuade him into reading his spells. As mamodo get stronger by reciting their spells, Eshros convinced Shin to destroy buildings to become stronger and closer to winning the mamodo kingship.

Cunningly using her beauty, Diana (Marchen Awakens Romance) can easily persuade others into doing what she wants.

Adam Rodrick (Marvel Comics) was such a powerful user of this ability. He could make anything or anyone become whatever he/they believed themselves to be. Even convincing reality itself to twist through his words and his faith in them alone.

Oliver Knox (The 4400) used his ability to "persuade" other people to kill people for him and confess to the murders when captured by talking to them.

Maxwell Lord (DC Comics)

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