Mass Consciousness

The power to convert countless beings into one’s consciousness. Sub-power of Subordination Manipulation. Superior version of Hive Mind. Not to be confused with Higher Consciousness.

Also Called[]

Collective Consciousness
Overmind
Psionic Virus

Capabilities[]

The user possesses a mass consciousness; an extremely powerful form of consciousness that can connect with the thoughts and feelings of numerous sentient beings. This effectively and immediately capacities them into the user’s very own consciousness, mindset, and drives that mentally and psychically strengthen and empower themselves. In essence, user can make anyone and everyone who comes in contact with this power a part of the collective consciousness. This centralizes the user as the prime host for all of them, the more consciousness is added the stronger users become.

This is accomplished by using a very effective type of neural psychic virus infectiously convert an organism's consciousness into theirs, which automatically converts the conscious and subconscious thoughts towards the wielder's favor. This psychoactive viral mental manipulation spreads from host to host, collecting more & more minds into the link, collecting many consciousnesses into one's own consciousness. With enough practice, users can have full control of the psychic network that interconnects and fabricates the collective consciousness flawlessly.

Users are capable of various psionic and neurological effects such as adding or even remove any mind in the system, transferring various information to others. They can even allow others to have their free will and personal thoughts restored entirely and still be linked to them, with or without them knowing it. They are able to live among free people and manipulate anyone the users wish at will.

Individuals who are added to the collective are see the user as the original host of the collective consciousness who grant users access to endless thoughts, memories, and information that users can use and share with others. They are each assimilated mind in the collective, forever coexisting with the originals as prime beings.

They are capable of having the entire world, galaxies, the universe, or even the entire omniverse under their mercy, capable of doing just about anything; with this power users can do whatever they wish from ruling, destroying, coexisting and so much more.

Applications[]

Techniques[]

Domino Effect: Every single being or entity touched by this power's virulent aspects further spreads its contagious aspects from person to person, further welcoming other people into the network. The Spread of infection can hit anybody from friends, family, associates, pets, anyone in general will succumb to this aspect, and it only grows stronger the more individuals succumb to its spread.
Gestalt Intellect: The number of multitudinous psyches can also serve to greatly enhance cognitive and neural capacitive capabilities to new heights, each and every single solitary intellect can serve to boost one's own mental capacity several thousand-fold. In rare cases they can feed this back onto those who they've linked with boosting their mind scape.
Personalized Sensory Grid: Through collective individual contact, the users of this power gain a near omnipresent senses of their surroundings through the countless minds that they've connected and assimilated with, essentially making other people's senses their own.
Post-Human Jump-Start: The assimilation of normal Homo sapiens bolsters one's power by 5-10 times over. But by absorbing other superhumans into the hive link, not only do they gain a greater power boost by drawing on their naturally supercharged brain activity. They also increase the potency and spread of their mental virus many times over also amping up the number of mental energies one receives from those infected.
Psycho-Physical Manifestation: The number of minds absorbed can also have an effect on physiological aspects as well. With the more conscious thoughts absorbed, the more one's own appearance changes to match their power and state of mind. Appearing as handsome and attractive or dark and insidious based on one's state of mind.

Associations[]

Limitations[]

Dependent upon mass of followers. Loss of supporters will cause one to weaken gradually.
Dependent upon the psychic link one possesses with their followers, if said link is in some way disrupted it can cut off their supply of power.
Any sentient beings the users convert to the net have their fair and respective shares of limitations and weakness.
Higher level mass consciousness related abilities require greater and greater masses of individual conscious thought and emotion to power them.
Users of Higher Consciousness may be too powerful to control, infect or convert.
Transcendent Consciousness are way too powerful to convert at all.
May not be able to affect other users of Mass Consciousness
Users of Telepathic Negation/Control Negation/Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).

Known Users[]

Jason Miller (Alphas); rookie
Jasmine (Angel)
Puck (Captain Earth); via Installing
Brain (DC Comics)
Starro (DC Comics)
Reverend Amos Howell/Unity (DC Animated Universe/Superman: The Animated Series)
Jenova (Final Fantasy VII series)
Yivo (Futurama)
Julie Mao (The Expanse)
Bai Yin (Karakuri Circus); via dissolving himself into Aqua Vitae
Leonardo Da Vinci (Lupin the Third)
Weapon XVI: All-God (Marvel Comics)
Zona Cluster-6 (Marvel Comics)
Katya (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.); highly unstable
Machines (The Matrix)
Reapers (Mass Effect)
Beta-7 (Rick and Morty)
Unity (Rick and Morty)
SCP-3002 (SCP Foundation)
Horde Prime (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power); via Assimilation Technology
Borg (Star Trek)
Amon (StarCraft)
Replicators (Stargate SG-1)
Replicators/Asurans (Stargate Atlantis)
Wraith (Stargate Atlantis)
Skynet (Terminator series); machines
John Clay/Godhead (Wildstorm Comics)