R + T Powers

SUMMARY: The ability of superhuman strength. 

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Posses strength that exceeds that of any typical human at their strongest. (2) Can be improved with exercise. (3) Most possessing such strength do not appear any different from those who do not.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Limited to only ten times the typical physical strength of the user. (2) Still requires a fair bit of energy to access full strength, as it would with regular strength. (3) Endurance is also needed to make the power as effective as possible.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Low

CHARACTERS:  Richard Amara, Dustin Harris 

SUMMARY: The movement and manipulation of physical matter through thought. 

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) The user can move objects from on place to another, but not through other physical matter. (2) The speed of which they move or fling objects is dependent on their focus and skill. (3) With plenty of concentration and practice, the user can create a telekinetic blast. (4) Skilled users can move their own body and raise themselves off the ground.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Heavier and more complex objects are more difficult to manipulate and displace. (2) The shorter distance, the easier it is to displace an object. (3) Proximity to the manipulated object increases the ease of manipulation. (4) A lot of concentration is required for the power. (5) If the user is distracted or unfocused, their power is greatly reduced. (6) It takes more focus to manipulate multiple objects at once. (7) Too much use with little practice may cause headaches or general weakness.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium

CHARACTERS:  Alexander Fairchild, Jacob Hunter, Stephen Ordeen, Richard Amara 

SUMMARY: The ability to read documents of any sort within seconds while retaining all of the information contained.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) The user must read the material in order to retain it, though their reading speed is wicked fast. (2) They are usually something of a walking encyclopedia. (3) Knowledge gained is stored in most users forever. (4) Knowledge will only be stored if the user is consciously attempting to retain the information. (5) They are able to pronounce any word as long as it is in their own language though they might not always understand the exact meaning. (6) The more recent the knowledge was obtained, the easier and faster it is for them to pull from their knowledge base.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Exercising this power can result in headaches of varying degrees depending on the amount of information retained and length of use. (2) Those without control over their power may not be able to slow down their power in order to read for pleasure. (3) Users do not gain new skills with this power, simply information about skills (i.e. they may know all the history and theories behind math, but not how to do it exactly. Or they know the recipe to make a cake but not the skills to make it). (4) Users, usually less experienced ones, sometimes experience an overload of information and cannot retain anything new for a day or so. (5) It is very difficult, nearly impossible to forget or purge information once retained.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Low

CHARACTERS: James Hargrove, Vera Rosier 

OTHER DETAILS: Users are gifted with incredible analytical skills and are some of the best strategists and code breakers in the world

SUMMARY: The ability to understand and speak any language. 

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) No matter the human language, conventional or otherwise, the user is able to speak. (2) Generally replies to whomever they are speaking with in the other's language. (3) New languages will feel unfamiliar at first and may be a little harder to understand, almost as if listening to your native language in an unfamiliar accent. (4) Has an easier time learning to read and write in other languages than most. (5) They have a deep understanding for the musicality and tone of different languages. (6) Sometimes pick up on the specific accent of whomever they are speaking with.

WEAKNESSES: (1) The user is generally unaware of a change in language. (2) This does not guarantee that they are able to read and write in unknown languages. (3) The user is required full knowledge of their own native language to access power. (4) If a word's meaning is unfamiliar to them in their native language, they will not be able to understand it in any other language. (5) Sometimes they are unaware or simply forget to switch back to their native language.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Low

CHARACTERS: Jennifer Monroe

OTHER DETAILS: All their thoughts will remain in their native language unless they have studied another language well enough that it is familiar to them enough that a person not gifted in this power could speak said language. 

SUMMARY: The ability to change another's thoughts and actions through their mind.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) The user taps into the thoughts of others and bends them to their will. (2) The user essentially erases part of the affected's conscious while taking over them. (3) Most times, the affected person is unaware that the manipulated thought was not their own. (4) More complex tasks and full brainwashing can be accomplished by practice. (5) It is easier to hold control over a single person at a time, but those well versed in their power can manipulate many at once. 

WEAKNESSES: (1) The more complex the thought or action, the harder it is to manipulate. (2) The more complex the action or sequence of actions commanded, the more concentration it takes. (3) It is more difficult to manipulate those who are naturally stubborn or defiant; it requires more focus. (4) The larger the crowd, the more energy it takes to manipulate (5) Inexperienced users may be less subtle with their manipulations and the affected in that case will be more aware that their actions and thoughts were not their own.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium

CHARACTERS: Nolan Brix, Ky Forsythe

OTHER DETAILS: The more deviously minded and manipulative personalities discover their powers earlier on and typically gain control over their powers faster.

SUMMARY: The ability to read other's thoughts. These individuals cannot manipulate anyone's thoughts, they can only listen in.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1)  As thoughts are not always linear, the power partially works to translate thoughts in a way that are generally "listenable". (2) Whichever thoughts are at the forefront of a person's mind are the "loudest" and easiest to read. (3) With control, users can tap into buried thoughts and past memories of others. (4) Contact with another person strengthens the users abilities to read their thoughts and filter through them. (5) Some possess the more rare ability to transfer their own thoughts into the minds of others which functions as a sort of silent communication. (6) Like heard voices, the closer a person is to the user, the easier it is to read their thoughts.

WEAKNESSES: (1) It can be difficult at first to filter voices coming from other minds. (2) Sending thoughts takes complete focus and concentration. (3) Some people's minds race so fast it can be difficult to filter through the stream of consciousness or retain what they are really thinking. (4) Reading the thoughts of someone who is considered mentally ill can be extremely taxing. (5) Digging deeper into memories and buried thoughts can be draining and takes an exceptional level of concentration, focus, and energy.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Low

CHARACTERS: Vera Rosier

OTHER DETAILS: It can be hard to diagnose this power as many with little control over their power are labeled as mad or as schizophrenics at first

SUMMARY: The ability to manipulate earth and earthen and natural forms to the will of the user.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Users are able to coat their body with earth materials such as rock, metal, dirt, and other such elements. (2) Able to cause "earthquakes" by shifting and vibrating the earth below them. (3) Can create sinkholes by displacing earth beneath the surface of the affected. (4) Able to turn sand and dirt into quicksand on contact. (5) Water containing enough traces of iron or other elements can be manipulated as well, though with less control and force as pure earthen materials. 

WEAKNESSES: (1) Takes a lot of energy to keep hold of powers. (2) Can only manipulate earthen material that the user is in contact with at the present time. (3) Only truly natural and earthen materials may be manipulated (as in no alloy metals, etc). (4) Remaining coated in earthen material for too long can be uncomfortable and occasionally even painful. (5) More complicated aspects take more focus and energy. (6) The more pure and solid the earthen material in contact with, the stronger the connecting ability will be as a result.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium

CHARACTERS: Chuck Prescott

OTHER DETAILS: The coating of the body happens nearly instantly as if the material is instnatly poured on the spot that the user concentrates on. Sometimes advanced users can coat internal parts of the body, though it's complicated and risky.

SUMMARY: Those with Angel Physiology are able to transform their body into a form similar to that of an angel. Wings form from their backs and in their angelic state, they are able to tap into peak and super human abilities.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) The user is born with tattoo-like wings on their back. (2) Their wings, white and feathered, may spread from their back at their will and grant them the ability of flight. (3) In their angelic state, users are able to reach a peak human state of super strength and speed as well as peak healing. (4) Even outside of their full angelic state, users have accelerated healing and decelerated aging.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Full transformation into an angel and full use of powers requires a lot of focus and energy. (2) Must keep focus to use their powers and can be thwarted if heavily distracted and mentally unstable. (3) Sprouting the wings from their back is often painful, though they can get used to it with frequent use. (4) Flight can take some practice to get the hang of.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium to simply fly, High for full use.

CHARACTERS: Rhiannon Delacroix

OTHER DETAILS: Many with this power who have been captured have had their wings clipped to keep them from flying. 

SUMMARY: The ability to control the hormone levels of those around them. They can cause a heart to pick up speed by increasing adrenaline or lower tension levels by decreasing testosterone levels. These individuals can also create sexual desire out of seemingly thin air. It is a subtle power in that most being affected don't even realize that they are being controlled. 

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Through the manipulation of hormone production and levels in the body, the individual is able to chemically control their own bodies or another’s. (2) Some of the hormones they can manipulate include melatonin, serotonin, progesterone, oxytocin, and testosterone.

WEAKNESSES: (1) They are only able to manipulate one person’s hormones at a time. (2) Their effect is not constant and it eventually fades naturally. (3) This power requires knowledge or experience with specific hormones to be effective. While they have the power to control all hormones, most are better with controlling some more than others.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium. Experience is key with this power and individuals generally aren’t able to master every single hormone.

CHARACTERS: Vince Hargrove

OTHER DETAILS: This ability is not just limited to sexual arousal.

SUMMARY: The ability to raise the dead and control their actions. 

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) The bodies are reanimated by user and retain nothing of their former selves. (2) The dead have no functioning thoughts and are simply bodies under the control of the user. (3) Bodies are useable until they decay past the point of motion. (4) Bodies are under the complete control of the user and no one else, not even others with the same power (5) Bodies with no specific commands from the user are mindless zombies who will generally remain where they are told to be.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Takes great effort to raise the dead. (2) Once bodies decay to an advanced state, cannot be re-risen. (3) Controlling risen bodies takes less energy than raising the dead, but large quantities of bodies still takes a fair amount of concentration. (4) The older the body or the more decayed, the less powerful it is.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: High

CHARACTERS: Alexandria Fairchild

OTHER DETAILS: This power needs a high degree of practice to control and a lot of energy to use. Bodies are strongest when recently risen, though the user has less energy and strength to control them immediately post brining a body to life 

SUMMARY: The ability to control and change the emotions of those around them. These individuals can calm an angry mob or alternatively, turn perfectly pleasant citizens into such a mob. The user reads the emotions from others like waves to an extent. They possess the ability to either rile them up or calm them down.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) The user can feel emotions of those around them if they are tuned in to do so. (2) The use can manipulate emotions of those they are tuned into. (3) Can be used to either manipulate emotions of a crowd or of a specific person depending on use and control (4) The more complex an emotion, the more difficult it is to control or manifest 

WEAKNESSES: (1) Without control, it is difficult to block or ignore other's emotions (2) Sometimes strong emotions of the user will be transferred to bystanders (3) If guards are down, it's easy for the user to inadvertently pick up the emotions of those around them (4) Too many conflicting emotions in the people around them can feel like screaming and make it hard to concentrate with guards down (5) The more people being affected, the harder it is to control (6) Once the user releases their control, the affected is free to experience their own change in emotions depending on the situtation

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium, depends on use and state of mind of the user

CHARACTERS: Sarah Evans

OTHER DETAILS: In its first stages, this power usually manifests itself by causing any strong emotions felt by the user to transfer to those around them

SUMMARY: The ability to manipulate matter at the atomic level.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Through the manipulation of atoms, the individual is able to change everything from different states and forms. (2) Can be applied to many different actions.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Unable to create new elements or atoms. (2) Is very hard to control leading to accidents surrounding use of the power. (3) Takes an exhausting amount of effort to use leading to the individual using this power sparingly. If possible, they will do everything they can before turning to their power. (4) Is impossible to master so an individual will never be able to really do big things with this power.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Extreme. No one is able to master this power. If one were to try to practice enough to do that, they would end up destroying things around them just practicing doing bigger and bigger things.

CHARACTERS: Jonathan Reyes

OTHER DETAILS: This power is godlike, but comes with such intense weaknesses and is so hard to control that many with this power prefer to simply not use it.

SUMMARY: The ability to manipulate the ones own life-force and those of individuals around them. It can be used in many different capacities making it a lucky ability to have though it is generally very rare.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Individuals are able to ‘refresh’ their appearance and the appearance of others, but keeping them from aging. This takes a lot of effort and wears off though constant use can keep a person from appearing to be aging at a much slower rate. (2) They are able to heal injuries and even bring those back from the brink of death. (3) This power can be used to release tensions and worries. (4) They can take life-force from any living thing around them to power themselves or others. (5) If they have a higher level of life-force than normal, individuals have superhuman abilities in areas such as physical and mental strength.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Any use of their power that forces them to interact with another person’s life-force is much more difficult than when they manipulate their own. (2) Anything involving near death or similarly extreme situations causes the individual to use their own life-force or that of someone near them to be able to revive the other successfully. (3) They run the risk of going too far and using up all of their life-force and killing themselves. (4) More difficult uses of this power require direct contact.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: High. This power requires dedicated practicing for the individual to be able to use it to its full potential.

CHARACTERS: Tybalt Amara

OTHER DETAILS: This power is largely rooted in spirituality as it requires a clear mind usually through meditation to fully activate it.

SUMMARY: The ability to innately have expertise and skill in stealth tactics. These individuals are the closet thing to video games characters and action heroes. Their power makes them the best in covert warfare.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Without having to specifically learn these skills, the individual is able to react to intense situations calmly and strategically. Their actions are close to or are the best course of action for them to take with their given knowledge. (2) They are able to blend into shadows and crowds easily. If they stay quiet and don’t attract attention, they will naturally be ignored. This is not invisibility, but rather the ability to blend and be ignored if there is no immediate reason to be recognized. (3) Users are skilled at thievery, assassination, and tracking. (4) They are incredibly agile and slick; they can maneuver their way through any area with skill and quick reflexes.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Once they have been noticed, they must rely on other skills to survive. (2) Beyond the specified skills, they are not superhumanly fast, smart, or anything else.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Low. This ability seems natural to the individual and happens whether or not they specifically try to activate it.

CHARACTERS: Arthur Phillips

OTHER DETAILS: Individuals with this power are naturally lean and thin, allowing them to hide and slip away easier, while still being strong.

SUMMARY: The ability to reach speeds much faster than the average human being.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) By concentrating their energy, the individual is able to move incredibly fast, breaking all records set by a normal human. (2) The most advanced individual would be able to be as fast as the speed of light, but this is extremely rare. (3) Their enhanced speed can be applied to running, swimming, and other forms of movement. (4) Most can eventually reach a point where they are so fast that they appear as a visible blur. (5) Beyond reaching the speed of light, the most difficult aspect of this power is applying it to individual reflexes. Those with super speed are much more capable of the more explosive and big uses of power such as sprinting, but are frustrated with using their power in a more controlled and minute way. This may be because their power simply gives them physical speed rather than the mental capability to think faster.

WEAKNESSES: (1) Their physical state affects this ability. If they are aged, tired, drunk, weak, or any other sort of weakened state, they will not be as skilled as normal. (2) They must be able to calculate their route in their head to make sure they will not run into anything. Their speed does not apply to their mental reflexes and so quick changes in the setting can drastically slow them down and/or injury them. (3) Exhaustion is common and individuals are almost always seen drinking so that they can keep themselves hydrated.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Medium. The average use of this power is not too difficult once the individual realizes their power and practices. However, anything above and beyond is incredibly complicated and strenuous.

CHARACTERS: Elle Tomlin

OTHER DETAILS: This power is not innate. They are able to move at normal speeds unless they decided to use their power.

SUMMARY: The ability to inhabit the body of another person or persons. The user can manipulate the host to become a sort of vessel and use it as their own, thus controlling the person's actions. Depending on the mental strength of the possessed, their strengths and powers can be passed on while the body is inhabited. It's possible, if the host fights back, for the amount of time possessed to be very limited. Still, while they are able to utilize the host's strength, they are also given the host's weaknesses. It takes complete mastery to pick and choose which strengths to attain as well as to posses more than one person. However, with age, the possessor becomes weak himself and it is difficult to split and inhabit more than one body. The user is susceptible to some psychological problems.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) Those with the ability are able to take control of or inhabit the body of another person. (2) Users may take the body of another by stealing their motor functions and senses. (3) Users may or may not have to leave their own body for this to take place. (4) Disembodied users may use the body as their own. (5) The practitioner can either control the actions of another while the other is conscious and aware of what they are doing or transfer their own consciousness to the other’s body through meditation, though the person inhabited will have no recollection of the events that took place. 

WEAKNESSES: (1) People who are overtaken are able to fight back for their body. (2) The user needs concentration in order to come back to their original body. (3) Sometimes contact must be made in order for the possession to happen. (4) Usually only one body at a time is possible, but experienced users can go above, but that is very rare and dangerous. (5) If the possessed it's killed, it's possible for the possessor to be killed as well. (6) The longer the user inhabits the body, the less likely the original person can regain consciousness and may end up in a coma. (7) If the user leaves their body, it is completely defenseless and in a sort of comatose state.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: High. The ability is tricky since to begin with the user must go into a meditative state in order to possess the body of another and it takes many years and much practice to do so without transferring their own consciousness onto the person.

CHARACTERS: Tabitha Clark, Faith Hall

OTHER DETAILS: If the user transfers his/her own consciousness into the host then it is possible for the user to retain some of the host's memory and things may become difficulty psychologically for the user.

SUMMARY: The power to have all of the five senses – hearing, smelling, tasting, seeing, and feeling – enhanced to a superhuman degree. They are not only heightened, but are also extremely accurate leading them to be highly conscious of their surroundings.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS: (1) They can hear every single sound and can, if concentrating, decipher between the layers of noise. Sounds are not amplified, they can simply hear more. (2) They can detect specific smells and locate their origins. Through this they can tell if abnormal substances have been added or altered in food, drink, etc. such as poisons. (3) They are able to taste flavors intensely and generally enjoy trying new foods to experience new sensations. (4) Their touch is highly sensitive, allowing them to feel more irregularities than a normal person would; few things feel truly smooth to them. (5) Users can detect earthquakes much easier than the average person as they can feel even the smaller vibrations. (6) Their vision is perfect and able to see into far distances.

WEAKNESSES: (1) As these abilities are innate, they do not have an on and off switch. (2) Their senses are far more sensitive than normal and so large disruptions can be far more painful. Extreme abuse of one sense can lead to the individual being unable to detect things using their other senses. For example, a loud explosion would affect them far more than normal and could daze them enough that their other senses were inhibited. (3) Sensory overload can give them intense headaches and even drive them mad if it happens often enough. (4) Drugs, alcohol, and other altering substances can negate and deafen their enhanced powers. (5) They are not immune to powers that affect the senses. (6) They do not have night vision though their perfect vision allows them to perceive more than the average person would in limited light.

MASTERY DIFFICULTY: Low. The basics of this power are innate and come naturally to the user. However, anything beyond the everyday takes conscious effort and is thus more difficult to master.

CHARACTERS: Heath Randolph

OTHER DETAILS: Because this power is constantly working, the individual does not know what it would be like to experience the world any other way. Incredibly enhanced senses were their norm until it became evident through their actions that it was in fact superhuman.