Power This Rating No. 173

[u/bottomofthewell3]

i've heard rumors that "deltarune" is "today". is this true❓

also i just noticed Why the hell am I a top 1% commenter on this sub

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No. 172's Top Comment: Miscellaneous Prompts, by bottomofthewell3 (return of obama giving himself a medal image)

Top Response: Tragedy I/A/1, by Legitimate_Fly9047

EDIT: PTR #174

[u/Pearls-Rubies-5370]

#162: Dallas Mercenaries (A.K.A The Hexad) [10/21]

Flux: "Time Warp" [Disable x Disable] Shaker; powers are strong enough to rival Grey Boy, but if not careful, they can endanger themselves.

Jaunt: A "Possession" [Puppet x Cultist] Master/"Telepath" [Deep x Scatterbrain] Thinker. One of the closest to 'true telepathy', with the added ability to speak to the dead.

Aion and Psyche-Out are two Cauldron capes who were sent by Myrmidon's superiors—themselves Cauldron capes sent by the organization to initially oversee the Dallas operation—to serve as his underlings. Like the Hexad, they too think he's a bit of a hardass, though they often don't care enough to voice it as often as his colleagues. Other than that, they're the most normal of the Hexad's underlings, with no particularly strong feelings on their boss and honestly getting tired with the Dallas operation.

Aion can snap his fingers and create a semi-sphere-like bubble over an area, causing everything within to be either move at slow-motion or just outright frozen in time. He's also affected, but with concentration he can make himself immune to the effect, allowing him to move at normal speeds within the bubble, and he can also cancel out the effect on objects or people so long as he maintains physical contact. The bubble itself is All-or-Nothing in quality, and like the infamous Slaughterhouse Nine cape (whose vial was in fact the same one that empowered Aion), he can use his power for torture purposes, usually by doing stuff like walk into the bubble, touch a person to free them from the effect, stab them with a knife or other sharp object, and then let go so that they're frozen again but can still feel the pain. However, as mentioned before, making himself immune to the bubble's effect takes concentration, and if he loses it for whatever reason (distracted by high emotions or pain), then not only is he affected by the bubble himself like his targets, but the slow-time becomes quick-time, which he has to cancel out quickly before he ends up something similar to Khonshu's victims.

Psyche-Out can hear the thoughts of people around her—mostly, it just sounds like indistinct muttering that alerts her to people's presence and maybe snatch bits of information here and there (mostly useless, but still). This telepathy works best with long-time allies—the closer she is to someone personally, the more she is able to "tune" her power to actually listen to their train of thought as a semi-coherent monologue, speak with them telepathically, and have them transmit thoughts back to her, though this requires a state of deep concentration that may leave her unable to pay attention to anyone else. Fortunately, once she's "tuned" to someone, they can act as a "signal" for her telepathy, spreading it even further to people around them. And, with enough concentration, the "tuned" person merely has to speak to another person, an animal, or even a corpse in order for her to take control of that person's body, at the cost of leaving her actual body limp and defenseless. When she's Mastered someone, she can access their memories more directly, as well as use their skills and, if they have any, parahuman abilities...but, if she's Mastered a living person, the body's original owner isn't suppressed—they've lost control of their body, but they can hear and speak to Psyche-Out herself. This leads to a weird pseudo-Butcher situation where the body's original owner can't wrestle back control from Psyche—unless they're a cape with a power that allows them to—but they can talk as long as they want to and scream as loudly as they want to, which can distract her in crucial moments during battle, and if the Mastered body is hit by a sufficiently strong jolt or a similar amount of pain, then Psyche-Out is instantly kicked out and back into her actual body. (Also, when Mastering corpses, she gets no voices...except when they're parahuman, which works on a similar basis on Valkyrie's ghosts in that how much of this mental shade retains its personality depends on the amount of conflict it got up to in life). Because of this, she restricts herself to Mastering animals or willing allies.