Difference between revisions of "Daniel Hartford"

Enigma is an extremely skilled, multi-faceted mentalist. In the simplest of words, he is an open mind – some few who have known him would comment that his ‘skull was cracked wide open from birth’. His skills link through the whole range of parapsychology and beyond. As for what Mr. Hartford is capable of, the list is long, the depth of power of each skill is vastly deep and there are no known limits… not even known to the user himself, causing him to exercise a great deal of caution when he does deem it necessary to make extensive use of his ‘gifts’.

Daniel does not require certain elements such as quiet or music to fully control or focus his powers, though the lack of distraction for most people trying to focus does help. His powers manifest entirely at will, unless something were to occur with his iron-clad barriers and well-built filters.

Extended definition

• 1 - Enigma exhibits excellent grasp and demonstrated usage of transmissible and receivable telepathy – More than just mere thoughts, the user can convey images, scents, feelings (conventionally, these feelings are emotional ones, but more oddly, those of grudges and hints), sounds and any other notion experienced by the bodily senses, as well as receiving such things.

• 2 - Enigma can affect the makeup of another being’s psyche – The user can erect, strengthen, weaken and destroy psychic/mental barriers and strongholds. It is not known whether he is capable of creating barriers stronger than his ability to remove them, as this obviously has not been attempted and there has yet been any reason to do so. The user can also create partitions in another mind.The user can effect such changes on his own psyche, as well. His existing barriers are self-built, adapted and further fortified over the passage of time.

• 3 - Enigma can alter and affect physical and chemical properties of both organics and non-organics from as deep as sub-molecular levels – The user can rewire a mind, for example, though this takes a great deal of effort and intense concentration and is dangerous to the user, should he lose the ability to tell the difference between the subject’s mind and his own. It is much easier to simply ‘fry’ the brain instead or driving a cancer to manifest and slowly kill a victim, instead of reordering sequences and the like. Other less menacing examples include advancing the age of organics or introducing elements (such as water, bacteria or awakening dormant infectious cells) from other local resources to achieve a goal, such as rotting a tree or driving it to brittleness.

• 4 - Enigma is a precognitive – This element is not the be all and end all of the user’s power, but more often a nuisance to the user. Precogs are receptors and simply, that is all the user does with these 'visions' is receive them, speculate, and move on with his life. The user’s self-erected protective stronghold of the psyche is sometimes far too little to prevent the sudden onslaught of precognitive missives. It is rare these missives manifest outside of REM sleep, as the user is far too aware when in waking modes.

• 5 - Enigma is capable of psychokinesis (a synonym of telekinesis), a subject somewhat delved into in point #3 - The user is capable of object deformation, transmutation of matter and telekinesis, as touched on above.

Despite his many years of working alone as an agent and tool of the U.S. Military, Daniel is a decent leader and good businessman, though he prefers to remain out of the spotlight and away from the centre of attention.

He is a keen problem-solver and man with a commanding presence, who just as easily can fade into the background and slip out with the shadows. He is where he wants to be, when he wants to be there and decidedly absent when there is no wish to be around.

Skills

Daniel Hartford is a warrior, a soldier. He is a master marksman, fencer and swordsman, as well as being skilled in unarmed combat. He is trained and excellently proficient in stealth, sans the aid of any mutant abilities and is knowledgeable of the many ways to manipulate, damage, incapacitate or destroy another human being without resorting to psychokinetic ability. Most every skill he has is one he has used, at least once.

Daniel possesses the ability to speak several languages outside of his native English, with more than passable proficiency and a smattering of knowledge in others outside of this. Of the several, he is completely fluent in French, German, Italian and Spanish.