Editing Cherish (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Cherish has the ability to both detect and control emotions.

===Emotion Detection===
She interprets emotions as a form of "music" that comes from the mind and body of her target with each different emotion having a different "sound",<ref name="I11g e1">He went for his gun, but he didn’t get that far. She closed her eyes for a moment, listened for the music that came from his mind and body. The jangling, dissonant noise of alarm, the throbbing percussion of mortal fear, every part of his body shifting into fight or flight mode. The underlying notes spoke to his personality. His love of his family, his fear that he was about to leave them behind, anger towards her, a momentary anxiety that he was overreacting. She grasped this in the fraction of a second.<br/><br/>Reaching for that mortal fear, she wrenched it. When that wasn’t quite enough, she pulled at it and twisted it until everything else was squeezed into the far edges.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Not much time to do it.  She searched through the feelings of her passenger, found the networks of brotherly love, trust, camaraderie, and adjusted each until the music was one of tension, suspicion, paranoia.  Then she set his fight or flight reflexes into high gear.<br/><br/>“Get the gun.”<br/><br/>He fished for it between the seats, picked it up.<br/><br/>Then he pointed the gun at her.<br/><br/>“No, stop,” she said.  Too unspecific.  Fuck.  Still need to work on that.  She hit him with as much doubt and indecision as she could manage to keep him from shooting her.  Then she stalled all of the ‘music’ that flowed to and from that one point in the very front of his brain.  She knew the music was her way of understanding and interpreting the biological processes that drove people’s emotions.  By listening for it, she knew what they felt, knew what the emotions were tied to, vaguely. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> making it easy for her to track her targets.<ref name="Cast2"/> Cherish has displayed the ability to detect people's emotions from across the entire city, both allowing her to track them and allowing her to detect their relationships with each other. She can also deduce capes based on their greater emotional volatility. She is able to tell who people are based on the emotional signature she gets from her powers.<ref name="I11g e2">He nodded dumbly and climbed out of the jeep.  She made her way over to the driver’s seat, then waited for him to climb in before she peeled out.<br /><br />The jeep cut through the shallow water that covered the roads.  Others had noticed her leaving, she knew, and were following in their own vehicle.  She could sense them, each a  fingerprint of emotions in deeply individual configurations.  The mix of personal pride and confidence that she sensed in them suggested they were military.  The soldiers that had been taking over for this guy?<br />[...]<br />She reached out and started feeling for the outliers.  The emotional fingerprints that stood out from the rest.<br /><br />The other seven members of the Nine were out there.  Not hard to find.  One or two were interacting with some other outliers.  The most fucked up people in this fucked up city.  She’d studied each of these unknown outliers over the course of a week, watching their emotions shift as they went out about their lives, sometimes visiting the areas they tended to hang around, to get a sense of their environments.  Slowly, she’d pieced them together, created profiles, discerned which ones had powers and described them to the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine.  Each had made their picks:<br /><br />[[Noelle|The buried girl]].  [[Armsmaster|The arrogant geek]].  [[Bitch|The dog lover]].  [[Labyrinth|The daydreamer]].  [[Hookwolf|The warlord]].  [[Panacea|The scaredy cat]].  [[Oni Lee|The broken assassin]].  [[Purity|The crusader]].<br /><br />And all she wanted was a few minutes to pay a visit to hers.  She didn’t have to name ''that'' one.  He was familiar enough.  She smiled. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> <!--https://redd.it/7coxo3
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Although Cherish could not see or hear [[Imp]], she could still detect Imp via her emotion sense.<ref>“Put the weapon away,” Cherish said, her voice quiet.<br><br>Aisha gulped, realizing the trap she’d just stepped into.  “You can hear me?”<br><br>A second passed, and there was no response.<br><br>“Put it away, or I’m going to leave you quivering in a corner, shitting your pants.”<br><br>“You ''can’t'' hear me.”  Aisha gripped her weapon and stepped closer.<br><br>Cherish whirled around, her eyes flitting right and left, searching for Aisha.  “I’ll scream.  He’ll come in here, and a couple swings of his knife, he can cut you down, invisible or no.”<br><br>“It’s not invisibility,” Imp said, uselessly.<br><br>“Put your weapon away,” Cherish said, her voice quiet and carefully measured, “We only have a few seconds before Jack gets suspicious.  Listen.  I want to strike a deal.” - [[Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)]]</ref><!-- Interestingly her powers make her an effective counter to Stranger-type infiltrators like [[Satyr]], who is able to change his form but not his mind. --> She has a hard time tracking [[Mannequin]].<ref>“Torch the apartment and make a break for it?” Burnscar asked.  “We can meet up as a group later.”<br><br>“No.  Cherish has a hard time tracking Mannequin, and he won’t know how to find us,” Shatterbird said. - [[Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)]]</ref>

===Emotion Manipulation===
When close enough, she can induce emotional states in her targets at will.<ref name="I11g"/><ref name="14.3 c1">Cherish pointed out in the Regent/Cherish interlude that her advantage over her dad is a huge detection range and the ability to use her power if she can’t see her target. The drawback being that the effects are short lived (and even shorter lived as her targets build up an immunity).<br><br>Then again, she could be lying about it. 😉 - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/prey-14-1/#comment-3989  Comment by Wildbow] on [[Prey 14.3]]</ref> While her power did not have natural long term effects, she could build up a dependency over time within a target by 'dosing' them repeatedly until their brain conditioned itself.<ref name="I11g e3">What Alec didn’t know was that her power ''did'' have long-term effects. Subtle, but they were there. Emotions were like drugs. People formed dependencies and tendencies. If she hit someone with a minute amount of dopamine every time they saw her, it would condition them until she didn’t even need to use her power to do it.<br /><br />''Just a little while longer,'' she told herself, ''and I’ll have the Nine wrapped around my little finger.'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> Presumably this is how she can get a crowd of boys to act as her personal entourage when she was shopping.<ref name="I26" />

Unlike [[Heartbreaker|her father]], Cherish's power does not require line of sight.<ref name="11.g eRange">See, difference between me and Daddy is that I have ''range''. I can use my power even if I can’t see the person I’m using it on. Through walls, from the building next door. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> Her emotion manipulation range is around 1000 feet: Cherish was able to affect [[Ballistic]] at that distance,<ref>Our setup put Grue, Ballistic and Sirius directly behind the Nine, along with the metal cases of supplies we’d strapped to Sirius’ sides.  Trickster and Regent were mounted on Genesis, who had taken a form not unlike the dogs.  The trio were positioned to the Nine’s left.  By contrast, my group, with Sundancer, Bitch and Bentley, were positioned to their right.<br><br>Each of us were a little over a thousand feet away from the Nine, three city blocks, give or take.  It meant my allies were out of range of my powers.  It was a drawback, but I hoped it would balance out.<br>[...]<br>Part two of the plan, after finding them and getting into our positions, was to remove Cherish as fast as humanly possible.  If we accomplished nothing else, our goal was to do that and then make a run for it.  It would pave the way for future attacks and it would slow them down.<br><br>We’d left that task to Ballistic, with the idea that Trickster would take care of Jack.  Ballistic decided he didn’t have it in him at the worst possible moment, forcing us to shift roles. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref><ref>'''wrathstone:''' Yeah it seems a bit out of character for him to make an example of parian, when he wasn’t willing to kill a member of the nine for moral reasons<br><br>'''wildbow:''' Moral reasons? Oh. You mean when the emotion-manipulator was in play. - Comment by Wildbow on [[Colony 15.5]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/colony-15-5/#comment-75419 --> and on another occasion, she was able to affect people from the building next door.<ref name="11.g eRange" /> However, she has less range than [[Skitter]]<ref>In the meantime, we’d intended to use our ranged abilities to take out Jack, Cherish, Bonesaw and Burnscar. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref><ref>''There''.<br><br>In the midst of a small duplex, there were two young women huddled together on an upper floor.<br>[...]<br>Cherish was acting as the eyes, Screamer as communications.<br>[...]<br>But whoever we were up against, the moment they started losing, the moment we actually pulled an ''offensive'', the line was crossed.  This was an all or nothing.<br><br>Stinging bugs attacked Cherish, going for the eyes, nose and mouth. - [[Sting 26.2]]</ref> and [[Shatterbird]].<ref>There was a clue there, too.  Credit to Regent for getting Jack to let it slip. Shatterbird had more offensive range than Cherish, if she was able to trap the girl and use the shard without getting affected in retaliation.  It wasn’t much, but it was a tidbit of information, a piece for the puzzle. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07 Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.4]]</ref> Cherish's power is also less effective the farther she is from her targets.<ref>Part one of the plan was simple.  Up until the point we engaged, we stayed as far away as we could while maintaining a visual and some ability to act.  We knew Cherish’s power was more effective as she was closer to her targets.  If there was any element of surprise to be had, we’d have it by striking from a distance. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref>

It is possible for very experienced individuals specifically trained against [[Stranger]] and [[Master]] powers to semi-effectively tough out the effects of her emotion manipulation.<ref name="reddit eToughout" />

===Power Interactions===
Due to being an emotion-manipulating [[Master]], Cherish is unable to effectively manipulate capes that experience significantly dulled emotion, such as [[Regent]].<ref>His emotions were so muted. Dim. How much of that was Jean-Paul or Alec’s personality, and how much was his natural immunity, built up over years of exposure to Daddy? She couldn’t get a sense of what he was feeling, which was disappointing. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> Regent's control over people also kept her from forcing his puppets to hurt themselves, though her ability to emotionally overload people effectively made them useless to him.<ref>She reached for the three people who stood between her and her brother, manipulated their emotions towards Alec.  Filled them with suspicion, paranoia, hate.<br><br>They didn’t budge.<br><br>“Cut it out, Cherie,” Alec said, “I’m controlling them.”<br><br>“If I remember right, you lose control if they’re hit by enough emotion,” she smiled.  She turned up the intensity.<br><br>“If I’m farther away.  Seriously, stop.  It’s irritating.”<br><br>One of the men fell to his knees.  His hands were clenched at his sides.  Beads of sweat rolled down the faces of the other two, tears appearing in their eyes.<br><br>“While I’m doing this, you can’t tell them to attack me.”<br><br>“Unless I’ve gotten stronger over the past few years,” Alec answered.  The man who was still standing reached for a knife and started walking towards Cherish.<br><br>She hit the knife wielder with fear and indecision, saw him stop.<br><br>For nearly a minute, they engaged in a tug of war over the three subjects.<br><br>“Seems we have a stalemate,” she said, finally. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] speculated that because they are family, Regent might have issues controlling her with his power.<ref>“In the euphemistic sense.  Her value as a captive is minimal and we have no way to secure her until Regent can finish using his ability on her.”<br><br>“He’s resistant to her power,” Tattletale said, “But that goes both ways.  Don’t know how well he’d be able to control her.  She might break free.  Benefits of being family, I guess.” - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref>

Emotion-manipulating capes typically have some degree of resistance to her emotion manipulation (e.g., 80-100% depending on how connected they are to their [[passenger]]s at the time), and vice versa.<ref name="R5" /> For example, [[Gallant]] would fuzz her emotion map, and his blasts against her victims could either stop them from acting or dispel the effects of her emotion manipulation.<ref name="R5" /> However, she in turn would not really be affected by the emotional aspects of his blasts, though the concussive aspects would still be effective against her.<ref name="R5">Having emotion manipulation usually appends a degree of emotion manipulation resistance. They'd probably both be pretty darn resistant to one another. That would include Gallant fuzzing Cherish's emotion map. His blast could theoretically knock her on her ass but wouldn't do much more than that (and against those she was controlling, would probably dash whatever effects were present to the winds, or sufficiently confuse/paralyze them to stop whatever Cherish had them doing).<br><br>When I say 'pretty darn resistant', I'd really say that the 80-100% resistance they had would veer one way or the other depending on how in concert they were with their passenger at the time of the encounter. - [https://redd.it/70amzk Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> [[Victoria]], who pinged off Gallant,<ref>'''Darchiasq''':<br/>It's not breaking SoD that Gallant is a bud off Glory Girl, but it seems very unlikely. I think Gallant has been a cape too long for that to be possible. Another big argument for Aegis being a Cauldron cape is that his powers majorly changed his physiology, which is a telltale sign of being one. However, I don't think it's unlikely that he could be an Eden natural trigger, like Leet and String Theory.<br/><br/>'''Andrew Greaves''':<br/>It occurred to me, belatedly, that something like the reverse might be possible.<br/><br/>We know that Glory Girl is a second generation Cape, and the origins of her force field power are rather obvious. But what about her empathic aura? Where did that come from?<br/><br/>It's well known that second Triggers involve polling any other Shards within range and such, but does this also happen with first Triggers? Could Gallant have already been a cape and nearby when she Triggered?<br/><br/>Of course, she could have also second Triggered with him nearby at some point. Incidentally, as a second gen, I'd surmise that her second Trigger would be psychologically comparable to a first gen's first Trigger.<br/><br/>'''Wildbow''':<br/>You're thinking along the right lines, re: the source of her aura, Andrew. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14795766/ Comment by Wildbow] on Spacebattles</ref> would presumably also resist being read or influenced by Cherish;<ref>As someone with the ability to control emotions, I was supposed to be harder to read and affect. It was why I’d deflected Crystalclear earlier.<br><br>It was why Dean and I had gotten along. Even why we’d been possible. - [[Daybreak 1.5]]</ref><ref>Maybe [[Gallant|he's]] interested in [[Glory Girl|her]] because he can't get a perfect read on her - Comment by Wildbow on IRC, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17029118/ archived on Spacebattles]</ref> Cherish would presumably resist [[Victoria_Dallon#Aura|Victoria's aura]] as well.<!--<ref name="13.7 e1">“You’re not really in a position to be making demands,” Trickster said. “You’re bleeding to death, and we do have the ability to hurry the process along.”<br/><br/>Cherish shrugged. “Bonesaw gave me the works. Mesh sheaths for every major artery and organ, wire reinforcement for my skeleton. It’s not going to kill me anytime soon.”<br/><br/>I made a mental note of that. Chances were good that Jack, Bonesaw and the other more vulnerable members of the Nine had some similar protection. How differently would things have played out if Ballistic had used his power and blown them up?<br/><br/>“I could,” Trickster threatened. “Or we could wait and see which happens first: Either you agree to share the information we want or you slowly bleed out.”<br/><br/>“A game of chicken? I’m down.” Cherish prodded her injury with a fingertip. It was clear it hurt, but she still stuck a finger into the hole and investigated some. “The auto-injection pump is dosing me with painkillers and antibiotics now. First time feeling this stuff work.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/snare-13-7/ Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.7]]</ref> with special attention was paid to the organs and spine to keep them functioning.<ref name="14.10 e1" /> She also rendered her teammates resistant to her pathogens,<ref name="14.10 e1">“A benefit of little Bonesaw’s smoke,” Jack answered. “If I recall correctly, it’s something of a safeguard in case she accidentally deploys a concoction she hasn’t immunized herself or the rest of our team against. The fact that it works against bugs and small rodents is a side benefit, rather than the intent. Bonesaw’s work has made us members of the Nine more or less immune to disease anyways.”<br/><br/>“And the gunshot?”<br/><br/>“Subdermal mesh.  There’s more protection around the spine and organs, and you landed that shot pretty close to my spine.  It hurts quite a bit.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/prey-14-10/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.10]]</ref> and granting them artificial neurons which allowed them to make plans [[Cherish]] could not see, it is unknown if this could be adapted for other [[Master]] powers.<ref name="12.4 e1">Jack paced back and forth, two or three steps at a time, gesticulating with his knife.  “I was looking forward to Cherish’s attempt.  Bonesaw and I even had a plan in mind.  I wanted to see what she did, how she worked around Siberian’s immunity to her power… then the safeguards Bonesaw implanted in us would have kicked in and released us from her thrall, and oh, the look on her face.  To have seen that would have been so very worth all the trouble.  And that girl just spoiled it all.”<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Jack was getting heated, talking mostly to himself.  “That was the whole point!  To see how long we could go without tipping her off.  Bonesaw helped with some surgery, even some artificial neural connections that Cherish wouldn’t be able to see.  So much work and preparation ruined.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/plague-12-4/ Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.4]]</ref>
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===Other Abilities===
A side benefit of her powers was that she could pick up languages easily, since she could already intuit the meaning behind the words.<ref>“Oh, it’s simple. Going by what I’ve been able to observe around the city, there seems to be a major concern. Si Jack effugit civitatem, mundus terminabitur.”[Roughly:If jack escapes the city; the world ends]<br/><br/>“I’m not versed in Latin,” Coil spoke, sounding annoyed.<br/><br/>“For shame, Coil, for shame,” Cherish said. Her voice was too cheerful. “You can’t sell the cultured supervillain image without the ability to make quips in an ancient language. I had the benefit of my power, languages are easier to learn when you can get a sense of what the other person’s feeling.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/02 Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.9]]</ref> She speaks Latin, and presumably speaks French as a native of Quebec.