Syncognition

Syncognition
Merlin (TYPE-MOON) has extraordinarily powerful clairvoyance, but is limited to seeing only present events.
Power/Ability to:	Perceive current/present events.

The power to perceive current/present events. Sub-power of Chrono Vision. Variation of Clairvoyance and Extrasensory Perception. Not to be confused with Event Experiencing. Present counterpart of Retrocognition and Precognition.

Also Called

• Current Knowing
• Nowsight
• Pericognition/Paracognition
• Present Vision/Perceiving

Capabilities

Users can perceive current events and observe what’s happening in the moment, even obscure, intricate events, and down to fine details, despite not being there. The temporal scope of this power is very limited to the currently existing moment, and visions cannot be repeated; once it's happened, it's happened.

Applications

• Detail Intuition
• Detection
• Dowsing
• Extrasensory Perception
  • Clairalience
  • Clairaudience
  • Claircognizance
  • Clairgustance
  • Clairomancy
  • Clairsentience
  • Clairvoyance
  • Cosmic Awareness
    • Cosmic Knowledge
  • Mind Reading
  • Psychic Perception
  • Psychic Scanning
  • Remote Viewing
• Hyper Awareness
• Hyper Experience
• Supernatural Perception
• Supernatural Tracking
• Tactical Analysis

Variations

• Syncognitive Dreaming
• Synscience: To have instinctive knowledge and awareness of the present.

Associations

• Claircognizance
• Clairvoyance
• Extrasensory Perception
• Precognition
• Present Manipulation
• Psychic Navigation
• Retrocognition

Associated Users

• Clairvoyant
• Psychic
• Esper
• Fortune Teller
  • Prophet
    • Oracle
• Magician
• Medium
• Occultst
• remote viewer
• Spiritualist
• Seer

Limitations

• Can cause great strain to the user's mind.
• Can't see what's already happened or going to happen, unless they also possess Retrocognition and/or Precognition.
• Unless they can read a person's thoughts/emotions, the user can misunderstand what they're seeing.
• Visions may be more similar to dreams, difficult to remember, or decipher.
• The user cannot get back a revisit a vision, as once it has happened, it has happened.
• The user may be unable to remember visions, or only parts of visions.
• May require being in a trance, asleep or unconscious to use.
• May be limited by how far much of the present they can perceive at once.
• May be uncontrollable and unpredictable.
• May only be able to ascertain aspects of the present.

Known Users

• The Oracle (Aladdin and the King of Thieves)
• Avatars (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
  • Aang
  • Korra
• Toph (Avatar: The Last Airbender); via spirit tree
• Ma-Ti (Captain Planet); via the power of "Heart"
• Dharma (Dakotaverse)
• Darkest Knight (DC Comics)
• The Presence (DC Comics)
• Death (DC/Vertigo); New Earth
• Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
• The Whispers (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
• The Sorceress (He-Man Franchise)
• Madame Web (Marvel Comics)
• The One Above All (Marvel Comics)
• Enel (One Piece)
• Viola (One Piece)
• Merlin (TYPE-MOON)
• Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)
• Present (Scrooge: A Christmas Carol)
• The Narrator (The Boys: Diabolical)

Known Objects

• Shanhara Armor (Valiant Entertainment)

Gallery

Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) used his spiritual connection to his friends to perceive their present condition of various dangers.

Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII Remake) through her connection to the Lifestream, could perceive of certain present events as they were happening.

The Whispers (Final Fantasy VII Remake) are the spiritual overseers of Destiny (Causality), not only perceiving events of the present, but manipulated them according to their judgement.

Ma-Ti (Captain Planet) using the power of "Heart", uses a form of telepathy to connect to others, and perceive their current condition.