[quote=@Wick]
I'm thinking that I should be able to get the first post up later today. We shall have quite a good time with this I believe. I'm excited about it.
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By the way, what's the state of the bunker and what killed off the people? Animals? The Air? The flu?

How dire are things? How many supplies are left? How many people, and how desperate do you think they'll be?

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[@alexfangtalon] If the Peter you're talking about is Peter Petrelli, it seems his original ability was empathic mimicry, but at some point he lost that ability.

His current ability is synthetic and it is ability replication.

The Empathic mimicry is definitely different from what I had in mind. And well, as it's name states, it's a mimicry ability. Empathic mimicry apparently requires being near a person to mimic their ability and doesn't seem to have much to do with actual emotions.

The Empath I have in mind is more like Empathy + Empathic Manipulation with the weaknesses of possibly losing your self/identity and believing you are someone else if you become overwhelmed by another person's emotions. Also other problems that would pop up.

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[quote=@Wick]
Phoebe did in Charmed because powers were attached to their emotions. So because of that when she tapped into their emotions she could tap into their powers.

That doesn't surprise me with Sylar.[/quote]
Alright, that makes a lot of sense. If powers are emotion related, then yes, I could absolutely see an Empath (as I understand it) as something very much OP and very much capable of copying powers.

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Anyways, An empath + my telepath could get into serious trouble. An empath that already knows how to shield their mind could lose it if they try to help out, because you'd have to let go of your shields initially (later it's possible to learn to expand shields rather than drop them). That means you're suddenly open and unprotected to whatever someone is feeling.

My telepath is feeling quite a bit crazy, disoriented, and anxious due to his ability. An empath trying to help him would likely get overwhelmed by that and if that empath could project their emotions too, we'd get a never-ending loop of someone hearing everything and going crazy feeding into someone who feels all the emotions and projects it right back.

If that projection awakens my telepath's ability to project thoughts (telepathic communication) then what we'll get is two people locked up in a never-ending feedback loop of negative and overwhelming emotions and thoughts that will just keep building up on each other like waves until they're both pretty much catatonic.