Strength Level Zero / Strength Level One
The psionic ability to read or sense the emotions or feelings of other sentient life forms. Initially, the power is activated through direct skin to skin contact; causing the user to feel the emotions of those that they physically touch for several minutes (five consecutive in-character posts). Once the user has created an empathic connection with another character, they cannot make a second empathic connection with a second character until the first empathic connection has ended. The power is automatically activated whenever the user experiences skin to skin contact with another character.
Duration Period: Five consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: N/A.
Strength Level Two
The strength of the power has increased to the point where it can be consciously controlled, allowing the user to have physical contact with others without having their power automatically activated. Same limitations apply; the user feels the emotions of those that they physically touch for several minutes (five consecutive in-character posts). Once the user has created an empathic connection with another character, they cannot make a second empathic connection with a second character until the first empathic connection has ended.
Duration Period: Five consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: N/A.
Strength Level Three
Advancements give the user the power and option to force outside emotions through their empathic connection, consciously or otherwise. The outside emotions the user can project are limited to forcing the target character to feel only one of the eight basic emotions at a time: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. These forced emotions dominate any existing emotion of the character connected to the user; however, characters with strength levels above the users own can resist the projected emotion.
Duration Period: Eight consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: N/A.
Strength Level Four
The strength of the power now enables the user with the option to absorb the pain of injured people to ease their suffering, and induce rapid healing. Through their empathic connection, the user is able to heal another character by taking on their emotional and physical pain - leaving the character fully relieved of their physical and emotional wounds. The user will then experience the acquired emotional pains of the injuries for the standard duration of the empathic connection. Once the connection has ended their body will regenerate itself to a completely healthy state after a couple of minutues (two consecutive in-character posts). These minor regenerative powers do not allow the user to heal themselves of their own physical or emotional wounds. This empathic healing cannot resurrect the dead.
Duration Period: Eight consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: Two consecutive in-character posts.
Strength Level Five
The power is no longer triggered via skin to skin contact, allowing the user to make an empathic connection with another character through mental thought alone. As before, the empathic connection will last for several minutes (ten consecutive in-character posts). Once the user has created an empathic connection with another character, they cannot make a second empathic connection with another character until the first empathic connection has ended. The user can also induce rapid self-healing of any personal physical injury by absorbing the emotions of one other character. Using empathy for self-healing grants an alternate duration period to the standard duration period. The interval period remains the same. The alternate duration period for self-healing is as follows; the user's injuries rapidly self-heal (within one in-character post), but leaves the targeted character emotionally numb and zombie-like for several minutes (five consecutive in-character posts).
Duration Period: Ten consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: Two consecutive in-character posts.
Strength Level Six
Advancements allow the empathy to be used as an one-on-multiple connection with up to five individuals simultaneously. The outside emotions the user can project are also expanded to include the eight advanced emotions created by combining two or more of the eight basic emotions: optimism (anticipation + joy), love (joy + trust), submission (trust + fear), awe (fear + surprise), disappointment (surprise + sadness), remorse (sadness + disgust), contempt (disgust + anger), and aggressiveness (anger + anticipation).
Duration Period: Ten consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: Two consecutive in-character posts.
Strength Unlimited
In addition to all of the base level aspects of this power, the user can affect a small group of individuals at one time (as an one-on-ten connection with up to ten individuals simultaneously), and can exert varying levels of empathic control over them, ranging from subtle manipulations that others are generally unaware of to a complete negation of emotion that reduces others to a zombie-like state in which the user can command them with little effort.
Duration Period: Fifteen consecutive in-character posts.
Interval Period: One in-character post.