Spade's Workings of the Mind and Lightning WIP

NAME:
→ Clairvoyance
→ Memory breaking
→ Memory Inception
→ Brain Aneurysm
→ Bullet Lightning

TYPE:
→ Alkahestry
→ Elemental Alchemy

LEVEL:
→ Four

FORM:
→ It is a tattoo of the transmutation circle located around Spade's belly button. He also has two Xingese pentagrams tattooed to both his wrists in black. When Spade is within reach however, he is skilled in various forms of martial arts, and can kick your ass or use his steel wire to strangle you.
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→ It is a tattoo of a transmutation circle that is found on Spade's right shoulder.



BRIEFING:
→ The transmutation circle is an array of broken circles, swirling about each other in hopes of becoming one. In the middle, is an oval in which a line attempts to break it in half and fails. Just like the tenacious human mind that cannot ever be completely broken. This circle works against all elements, and everything else; there is no weakness to an attack on the human mind. This is both defensive and offensive. Spade must know every detail of the brain and everything it is made up of. He must be able to discern certain chemicals and nerves from each other in order for his technique to work.
→ He needs to be able to discern hateful memories from cherished memories due to the reaction of chemicals on certain lobes.
→ Spade must be able to envision exactly what he wants to implant into the person's head in order for inception to work.
→ He has to know the exact location of a specific blood vessel in order for him to be able to put pressure on it to explode.
→ Spade had to be knowledgeable in the presence of enough charged protons and electrons to create enough static from his gun to produce the electrical circuit needed to mimic the cumulonimbus cloud.

PICTURE:
→ Brain circle (on his abdomen):

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→ Lightning circle (on his right shoulder):

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SPECIAL ABILITIES:
→ Clairvoyance: The brain is made up of an array of chemicals that cannot be easily manipulated with alkahestry. Though no alchemist before has dared delve into this complex and dangerous world, Spade has apparently found a way. He spent approximately seventeen minutes conjuring the genius work of art that is his transmutation circle. The strange-looking drawing can hardly be called alchemy or alkahestry for that matter, but to the world’s surprise, it has proven to work. Spade focuses solely on the neocortex section of the brain that controls sensory perception, higher-order thinking, learning, and memory. Many alchemists and alkahestrists before have attempted to piece together the confusion of the human brain, but they have always failed. What Spade does is he taps into the chemical balance of a certain enemy’s mind and changes it. In order to do this, he must be within fifty feet of them and in deep concentration. But once he is, their perception is disrupted. Once light hits the retina, normally it takes one-tenth of a second for it to translate into an image, which then creates a neural delay to the brain. But it is said that the human visual system has evolved to compensate for those neural delays by generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future. This foresight enables humans to react normally to events happening in the present time, by typically seeing the future. Now, what Spade does is he rids the brain temporarily of this foresight. The result is that they would be thrown one-tenth of a second into the past, allowing Spade to dance at least one full circle around them before they register the fact that he is even moving. But now, Spade can tweak his alkahestry to the point where he has an entire seven minutes to do whatever he desires before their perception returns. To others, it appears as if Spade freezes time only for that person or people, thus, his title Clairvoyance: one who sees into the future--seven minutes ahead of the opponent. To the person under Spade's alkahestry, everything around them (including themselves) seems to move in slow motion except their thoughts.

→ Memory Breaking: Memories themselves are impermanent essences recorded in the mind. Spade knows this fact extremely well due to the loss of his brother's memories. Through a thick cloud of depression, he began studying the workings of the mind. By memorizing each lobe and nerve swirling in complex webs within the skull, he began to slowly discover how specific memories--long-term and short-term--sink into the file cabinets of cells. Knowing how something becomes stained is also a way in which to begin finding a way to unstain it. Spade then dove into his family's alkahestric books that taught him secret Xingese methods of tapping into the Dragon's pulse and reading the Earth's chi. This was the key to the magic of the body. Spade's growing ability was not something that he could easily practice or test on anyone, and thus he opened a clinic in Central for the severely depressed. At first... no one came, but then slowly war veterans and the brokenhearted began to trickle in. He slowly began to learn which nerves in what areas of the brain contained the strongest, most important memories. And from there, he could depict what kind of emotion they embodied to that person. Spade then could choose to erase their most precious memories or their most hated memories. By doing this, he could either ruin someone's life or correct it. After perfecting his memory alkahestry, he tattooed the Xingese pentagram to both his wrists (in black) and by just touching someone's head, he could activate it at any time he desired using the power of his own mind. The range of this is up to half a mile.

→ Memory Inception with Sound: After no practice, Spade soon gained the ability of implanting simple concepts into people's minds. He cannot change a way someone thinks and he cannot change their natural personality; the only thing he can do is implant a simple idea or memory and hope that they change in the way that he wishes. An example of this is that he could make someone believe that he is their brother by tweaking their memories slightly. What he couldn't do would be to make them believe that he is their sister. He cannot mess with common sense or the obvious or he risks getting found out. The unique factor in this ability is that Spade does not need to touch the person in order to corrupt their brain cells with his wishes; he merely needs to flick his lighter so that they hear. If they do not hear it, then it will not work. This sound that allows the right fluctuation of sound waves is the trigger to his Inception. And Spade will do everything he can in order for the sound of his lighter lighting to seep into the ears of his prey. He can only effect five people at a time.

→ Brain Aneurysm: Spade again uses the sound his lighter makes as a focal point. But this time, he focuses it on a central point in his enemy's brain. Once he does this, he can cause the blood vessel in their brain to pop. The range of this is up a mile.

→ Lightning Bullet: This is a complicated process that Spade discovered on a whim during RIOTE's takeover of Drachma. What he does is use the friction from his gun to transfer the loose electrons into any conductors--a conductor being the metal of the gun itself. The negative charge from his gun combined with the positive charge coming off his own hand connect by simply the fact that they are touching and form an electrical circuit. This all happens within, at the most, a millisecond. He must activate the transmutation circle as the precise moment that he pulls the trigger. Because of this control of time, he is able to manipulate the electric circuit and discharge the built up electricity as lightning to be directed at his opponent through the bullet. Since the bullet too is a conductor, the lightning stick to it, following the bullet and stemming out around the enemy as it is pushed down by gravity. Lightning does not strike horizontally so when it is fired, it naturally spikes downward from the bullet, turning into something akin to roots as it spreads outward into smaller bolts like a net around the enemy.

When lightning is created in general, it is common knowledge that thunder must follow. When lightning shoots through the air, it causes it to heat up five times hotter than the surface of the sun. This heat then causes the air to expand and contract, making thunder. In order to avoid blowing out his ear drums each time, Spade wears specifically made ear plugs that are barely visible and filter out sounds that are above a certain frequency (100 Hz). Sometimes he wears other visible earphones and such. Without them, a human would be sure to go deaf temporarily.

PERFECT~