Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171116191014/@comment-25396609-20171129220959

Mind control is pretty much a no-go. Too cheap and overpowered.

If you're going to have total mind reading, make it something they acquire through substantial experience. Same with being able to read multiple people at once; have a scale of progression. What level their skill and power with their semblance is at should be dependant on a combination of overall combat experience and how heaviy they use their semblance specifically both in a fight and in day to day life.

Going back to Storm Warning for a moment. the user is constantly using his semblance due to the fact it has minimal aura drain, and has been doing so for most of his life. He's 45 years old and had his aura unlocked when he was 13. He discovered his semblance at 15 after a few accidental activations before he figured out what exactly was causing him to be unnaturally gifted at reading people.

Originally he was able to determine what peoples intentions were while making eye contact, then he could maintain it for a few minutes after breaking eye contact.

After awhile he gained the ability to sense a person's motives just by being within a few feet of them; and now he passively senses the surface thoughts of every person within about 30 feet.

This allows him to detect people who are hidden, determine if they are going to attack, sense if they're lying, etc.

He cannot actually read their minds or know exactly what's going on in their heads, merely determine their intentions and emotional state.