Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150501024240/@comment-226878-20151101172646

TheRozenQueen wrote: Mercen-X wrote: Going back to telekinesis, I've thought of something that would be significantly less OP: tactile telekinesis. ....But, that is kind of contradictory. Telekinesis is to move things without touching them. If you needed to touch something to move it, it's not telekinesis. True, the terminology is contradictory, but its not my terminology, it comes from comics to explain why characters with absolutely no muscle strength can lift objects that are larger than they are (and awkwardly shaped). If I had to choose, the terminology would be something like tactokinesis auxiliaris psyche, basically meaning mind-amplified strength... but that still wouldn't be apt terminology. I actually don't believe there really is apt terminology.

TheRozenQueen wrote: Unless you mean like Pyrrha's, in which case it's not significantly less OP. At least she has the limit of being restricted to magnetizable objects. TTK doesn't have such limitation. So just touching someone once you could go slam them around with impunity. Nope. Not what I meant. With tactokinesis, you have full control of whatever is currently making contact with your body.

TheRozenQueen wrote: And no mind manipulation with telekinesis, even TTK. Trying to scramble someone's brain, even if doing it slooowly and liiightly, you're far more likely to leave them catatonic than manipulate their mind even with knowledge of the brain. You can't control someone's mind just by moving their brain, which is why mind control is a completely different power. People on this wiki have zero imagination. Someone with any form of telekinesis wouldn't need knowledge of the human brain to control people, just lots of practice (and a high endurance).

TheRozenQueen wrote: Not to mention, it wouldn't make sense that you could do that, since you can only touch their body, their skin, not the brain (and if you actually could touch their brain they're likely dead anyway). Worst you could do is shake them. Again, no imagination. People have been brainwashed a number of different ways in reality, someone with telekinesis wouldn't near as much difficulty. In case you aren't aware, the brain is hard wired to the rest of the body. That's why when we face high enough degree of pain, we could very well die from shock. It's not direct damage to the brain or heart or other vital organs. Pain stimulates the brain through the nerve endings resulting in defensive reflexes which repeated without rest quickly and unmercifully tax the heart, thus leading to shock and death. Treated more strategically, this system can be manipulated to "change someone's mind" as it were. Another method one could use with enough training is to "reach into" the body and stimulate certain hormonal glands effectively altering one's state of mind to make them more susceptible to suggestion.

Probably true, that someone in RWBY would not be able to switch from standard tactoK to mind manipulation as given their reliance on magic in the form of Dust, they likely have very little knowledge as to the intricate functions of the human brain.