Editing Cherish (section)

===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" />