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[shes_intense]

Power - Psionic Brain Drain

When Brenda punches someone with the deliberate intent to hurt them (even if it's an 'I'm sorry I have to do this' intent) she drains part of their intelligence and takes it on for herself.

For example she could punch Tony Stark and he would lose a random chunk of what his brain considers standard information and Brenda would gain it (say, his understanding of nuclear physics, or bookkeeping). She doesn't gain his MEMORIES directly, but long-term stored information like how to work on different kinds of computers, how to operate the Iron Man armour or drive a car, knowledge of spelling and reading - anything he has accumulated that he now draws on as stuff he just KNOWS as second nature and doesn't have to think about much or at all.

If she kept punching him enough times he would be temporarily rendered functionally retarded and she would temporarily be a genius. This transfer of mental fortitude lasts about five minutes per punch - so if she hit him five times she would have his intelligence for twenty five minutes, with her steadily losing information and him steadily gaining it back over that time until they were back to normal. If the person loses consciousness from any hit she takes there is an automatic 'full drain that will fade in half an hour at the most and sooner if they wake back up.

For a normal person of about the same intelligence as herself Brenda could use this power to, for example punch someone unconscious and absorb their knowledge of how to operate a vehicle or weapon, or just to incapacitate them so much that they can't even tie their own shoes.

It has to be a bare handed closed-fist punch, with some decent force. She can't just tap you with her knuckles so you barely feel it, she's gotta leave a bit of a bruise.

Also, just knowing how to do something is not the same as experience - although she might understand the controls of a machine or a weapon, having the physical capacity to operate it isn't the same. She might instantenously learn how to, for example, do a handstand kick, but that doesn't mean that she is necessarily strong or flexible enough to execute it well. And she doesn't get to REQUEST what knowledge she gets from someone. Hitting an EMT to learn first aid may get her said person's intimate knowledge of model planes instead for example.

This is really the sort of power that will need to be plotted out on a use by use basis in most cases, however this is for anyone who's character has a mental shielding ability, or who is a telepath or something who could block this mind drain power either as a matter of course, or who would figure out how to stop or reduce it after an initial hit.

Let me know here people! Thank you! <3

Comments

[mobius-bound.livejournal.com]

ideas on how this would work on people whose brains still function and process like computers?

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

Good question!

I think it would still work but it may function as, like, temporarily yanking out a chunk of their 'programming'? So what Brenda GETS might be un-processable by her human brain and not really useful to her (might give her a headache and just make no sense) but it may still impair whoever she's hitting for a short period of time.

Would that work/make sense?

[mobius-bound.livejournal.com]

That's fine! Hopefully it never happens (but I will lol the first time Cameron gets into an actual fight here) since she's also got pain suppression and poor Brenda would probably end up with some bizarre code to override satellites or something.