Editing Gallant (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Dean was an empath capable of generating concussive blasts of energy that could alter emotions in addition to packing a punch.<ref name="Cast2"/> He was somewhat versatile in how he used this energy being able to lob cannonball sized orbs or shoot them from his fingertips in tight beams.<ref name="SB1"/>

He was capable of inflicting specific emotions on his opponents with these blasts. The effect was unreliable when used on individuals like [[Hellhound]], who were not neurotypical.<ref name="3.10">Bitch got to her feet before Judas did, but only managed to take a single step before one of Gallant’s blasts clipped her.  I winced.  His light blasts were charged with energy that made the people struck feel a particular emotion.  Gallant could blast you with one that made you hopeless, scared, sad, ashamed…<br><br>Bitch screamed, and it was a long and primal noise, filled with rage.  I was still inside the bank, watching things unfold through the window, barely able to hear it, and it still made my skin crawl.  So he’d shot the [[Bitch|dangerous psychopath]] with a blast that made her ''angry''. Someone would have to explain that one to me at a later date. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/agitation-3-10/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.10]]</ref><ref name="SB1"/> [[Tattletale]] pointed out that being hit multiple times could be debilitating from the constant emotional switches.<ref name="3.3">His thing is these blasts of light. Getting hit by one feels like a punch in the gut, but the blasts also mess with your feelings. Make you sad, make you scared, ashamed, giddy, whatever. Not that bad unless you get hit by a bunch in a row. Don’t.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/agitation-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.3]]</ref>

Dean was also capable of sensing the emotions of those around him,<ref name="I3 e1">The pair went to Gallant’s alcove, and she sat him down on the bed before laying a hand on his shoulder.  She pulled her hood back and furrowed her brow.<br><br>“You don’t have a punctured lung.  You’ve got one fractured rib, but you’re not even in that much pain.  Why-”<br><br>“I lied.  I wanted to talk to you, alone,” he took her hand.<br><br>She scowled and pulled her hand back like he’d bitten her.  As if to make doubly sure he wouldn’t grab her hand again, she folded her arms.<br><br>“You know I can sense emotions,” he said, “Everyone’s emotions, like a cloud of colors around them.  Can’t turn it off.  It’s just how I see the world.”<br><br>“Victoria mentioned that.”<br><br>“So you’re an open book to me.  I know you’re scared.  No… you’re terrified, and that’s why you’re not talking.” <br><br>She sighed and sat on the bed, as far from Gallant as she could.<br><br>“I never wanted these powers.  I never wanted powers, period.”<br><br>He nodded. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/interlude-3-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3]]</ref> though he seems to have issues distinguishing between them. Glory girl's aura potentially made her unreadable by Gallant's aura vision.<ref>Maybe he's interested in her because he can't get a perfect read on her - comment on the IRC [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17029118/ Archived on Spacebattles]</ref> 

As an emotion manipulator he would be resistant to, and interfere with, other emotion manipulators. His presence would confuse the emotional topology that [[Cherish]] senses as well as being able to harm her with the concussive aspect of his blasts, though not the concomitant emotional manipulation. Further he could target those who were affected by Cherish's emotional manipulation, either dismissing the effect or leaving people debilitated like he can do when blasting people with multiple emotions at once.<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>