Persuasion

Power/Ability
to:

Control people with power of the voice

The power to control people with your voice.

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Also Called

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

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

Applications

Human Manipulation

Techniques

Truth Inducement: to force veracity by vocal questions and prevent them to come up
with a lie, similar to Lie Detection.

Variations
Belief Inducement

The power to greatly pressure the gullibility of others with ones spoken statements.
Can cause others to trust ones spoken words. Can cause people to vaguely consider
realistic statements, like tricking a person to save an unreal person or trick someone
into believing that the user is authoritative. Can even make others believe absurd
notions (deception).

Hypnosis

Also called Hypnosis is the psychic ability to put one into a trance-like state of
extreme suggestibility. A common way of employing this ability is the use of a
hypnotic voice (this is the normal), or the use of a hypnotic medium, which lulls the
subject into a drowsy or sleep-like trance accompanied by extreme suggestibility.
However, hypnosis (or a similar hypnotic effect) can be achieved one of numerous
other ways as well:
Autohypnosis, also called Autohypnotism, Autosuggestion, Hypnotic Self-Control or
Hypnotic Autosuggestion is the psychic ability to place oneself under hypnotic control.
The user has their mind working as though the two subsections (the conscious mind
and the subconscious mind) were two separate minds. The subconscious mind
dominates the conscious mind, thus allowing one to hypnotize oneself into doing
anything within physical and mental capability (even controlling ones own memory
and autonomic functions, or the like).
Hypnotic Beauty also known as Blinding Beauty is the ability to stun subjects with
unnaturally good looks (trapping them in the thought of ones beauty like a deer in
headlights, similar to Memorization or Stupefaction). The user also tends to use their
good looks for seductive purposes (often by somehow subliminally bringing attention
to their aesthetically-pleasing features), to reach their goals. Not to mention,
subliminal power allows them to be perceived as beautiful/handsome by all who look
at them (even some perspicuous minds).
Hypnotic Call, also known as Hypnotic Lure is the ability to draw subjects to the user
without the use of music or otherwise lyrical undertones. First, the user subliminally
sends out psychic energy that amplifies the hearing of subjects within a certain radius
(while also catching their attention), then he calls out to them. That draws subjects to
come to him (and to reach his destination by any means necessary, even if dangerous
obstacles are in the way of the path which leads to the user). It can be used on multiple
subjects at a time.
Hypnotic Charm, also known as Charisma or Animal Magnetism is the ability to
hypnotically cause subjects to like the user, trust him, respect him and become doting
sycophants that will do anything to please him. This can inspire either like of an
innocent sort (to make befriending people easier) or sexual desire, depending on the
users age and will (and gender). Sometimes the user also exerts subliminal power by
saying certain words (like, love, want, desire, please, pleasure, happy,
more sexual terms and the like).
Hypnotic Medium is the ability to channel ones 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). The gem channeling the users
subliminal power, combined with the swinging of the pendulum (or whatever other
medium), work together to induce a hypnotic trance of extreme suggestibility. This
ability is often accompanied by the ability Hypnotic Stare and/or the ability Hypnotic
Voice, for added trance-inducing effect.

Hypnotic Music, also called Hypnotizing Music or Hypnotic Composition is a

variation of Hypnotism (namely, Hypnotic Song) in which the user channels his or her
subliminal powers of hypnotic control (only the trance-inducing, not the commanding)
through ones 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.
If no hypnotic geass or post-hypnotic suggestion is issued, will instead just cause the
subject to dance mindlessly (un-distracted until, of course, the subject is incapacitated
or the user finally gives a command).
Hypnotic Song is the ability to vocally 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). And if the ability belongs to a female user, it is not uncommon
that the power will only work on males; if so, females will not even hear it, let alone
fall prey to it (this faculty is called Siren Song).
Hypnotic Stare or Hypnotic Gaze is the ability to place subjects into a hypnotic trance
by looking them in the eyes. This seemingly-simple locking of gazes deactivates the
inhibitions of subjects (thus placing them into a state of extreme suggestibility, while
sometimes also producing mindless effects within the subjects mind similar to the
ability Mesmerization or Stupefaction) so the user can more easily command or
compel them; this superhuman ability is often accompanied by Hypnotic Voice, to
make the users hypnotism a bit more effective.
Hypnotic Touch or Tactile Hypnosis is the ability to place subjects into a hypnotic
trance by touching them. Through the same touch, the user delivers the geass for the
subject to carry out; this method requires no overt vocalization (no message needs to
be given out loud) and the geass lasts until the deed is carried out or until they are told
to stop (or that theyve completed the task). This type of hypnosis often allows one to
bypass abilities and the like (because the compulsion bypasses the brain and goes
straight to the nerves to be carried out; when the subject feels the users touch, they
also receive the compulsion).
Hypnotic Voice is the ability to speak with a calm and soothing voice which places
subjects into a state of extreme suggestibility; this is considered the normal hypnotism
(as it is the most common) and it has effects which are capable of being mimicked or
being learned by non-superhumans (although superhumans with this ability can
perform it with far more ease, or they may have a permanently-hypnotic voice, so
anything that they say can catch the attention of those within the users proximity and
sound agreeable to those who hear him). One under the control of this ability could
only perform the mental and physical faculties that he is able to do already, such as
acting like a chicken or reliving old memories (no dying of one's own accord,
controlling involuntary functions or holding one's breath for hours). However, this
ability could be used for Post-Hypnotic Suggestion, so that the suggestion made during
the hypnotism works even after the trance is broken.

Psychic Seduction

The ability to psychically project thoughts into the minds of others, and otherwise
seduce subjects. Also called Subliminal Seduction, Psychic Seduction or just
Seduction One with this ability can project sexual thoughts to the minds of others, can
speak with subliminal seductive power behind each word, and stimulate the brain's
pleasure centers by touch, voice or thought. This can be used to attract and seduce any

subject one desires, because the subject receiving the thoughts would believe they
were the ones thinking them.
Sleep Manipulation

Ability to manipulate sleep patterns. This can be used to induce instantaneous sleep on
biotic subjects, or to induce perpetual insomnia (which is bad for your health). One
with this ability can even remove the need to sleep from any biotic subject, or make
them dreadfully tired all the time. One can also cause the subject to sleep forever in a
comatose like state. One can even determine how deep a sleep or how long a sleep a
person or people has.

Trance Inducing

Ability to induce an altered state of consciousness in subjects minds. This ability

makes the subjects minds significantly weaker, making Hypnotism, Psychic
Persuasion and other types of mental compulsion significantly easier. This ability
could make foes more susceptible to mental domination or influence, or make allies
more receptive to any mental abilities they might have (if used on a precog it makes a
vision more likely to occur; if used on a superhuman with Feral Mind, it makes them
more likely to rage, etc.). However, it also makes subjects more likely to become
possessed. For theistic subjects (regardless of whether they have true superpowers), it
also makes any spiritual gifts they possess (like speaking in tongues , seeing in the
supernatural, receiving prophetic visions, etc.) much more likely to manifest. This
ability may be induced by touch, voice, a wave of the hand or close physical proximity
to the user (depending on the user).

Associations

Command Inducement
Hypnosis
Mental Manipulation
Mind Control
Motor-Skill Manipulation
Sound Manipulation
Supreme Voice

Limitations

The user must be able to speak to control people, and subjects must be able to
understand and hear the commands.
Someone with high intelligence or super intelligence can be resistant to it.
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.
o Complex command ex. - Telling your victim to bake a cake by reciting the
recipe and instructions.
o Simple command ex. - Telling your victim pick something up.

Anything that prevents the user from speaking or target from hearing blocks this
power.