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Thomas has limited telepathy within canon, and in MoM that's getting flushed out to be a regular, all around power, so with the same sort general restrictions typical telepathy would have - talking in another person's mind, reading surface and deeper thoughts + memories, sending images or notions, etc. Last round in MoM, he did a lot of experimenting with trying out mental suggestion as well. So, with things like "my ID totally says I'm 18 and not 16" or "my tattoo totally says I'm Registered and not that I'm Unsettled", he ought to be good, and the more advanced things like actually making other people say and do things, he'll be working on now, and training to e better with.
Another thing that I played with back when he suuuper sucked was Thomas having moments of mental bleed over? Like, when talking to Grey in his head, he wasn't able to totally keep all of himself out of the mental link, and some thoughts and feelings and memories etc would transfer over. Since he no longer TOTALLY SUCKS at this, it doesn't really make a lot of sense for it to be happening a lot, BUT in really intense moments, or times that Thomas is really stressed/upset/freaking out, since his mental stabilty is so tenuous just by virtue of how deeply traumatized he is in general, this is still a possibility, if people want to play with it? Just be forewarned, Thomas's head is a mess of content warnings, so there can be some pretty intense stuff that comes through if Thomas is caught at a serious freak out moment.
FOR OTHER TELEPATHS LOOKING INTO HIS HEAD, Thomas DOES have mental defenses now, taught to him by Emma, and there's more about that in his general permissions that I'll link down before. However, if we do have your dude get into Thomas's head (which I'm up for working out), it's a really dark place with a lot of bad, bad memories, often pretty close to the surface. Suffice to say, there will be super spoilers for The Maze Runner novel series, and warnings for human/child experimentation, scary monsters, torture, death, sad stuff. As for Thomas's own mental informations, please check out his general permissions!
So, yeah, permissions! Please fill this stuff out for me!
If you answered yes, it's cool for Thomas to read your dude's mind, if you guys could do me a solid, and when it comes up in a thread, leave something in the small text/narrative stuff about their thoughts that Thomas is allowed/should be able to pick up on, that would be super fantastic. Just so I don't have to guess or go stalk you down oocly o7
If you guys need to reach me to go over some of this stuff in depth or if you have other questions idk, feel free to hit me up hurr:
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I just saw this post linked on your log that I'm thinking of popping into.
Can Thomas poke around in your character's head? Yep.
To what extent is it cool for Thomas to explore you dude's brainpan? The whole darn thing, all of it.
What kind of stuff would be cool to Thomas to dig up, if he spends more time snooping in your character's head?
Simon is a right mess because he has a somewhat fragmented self. He has some relatively mundane surface thoughts (too mundane for his own tastes, actually), likes to be put-together and well-mannered, friendly, more or less cool under pressure. But he also has a lot of internalized negativity, namely fear and resentment and anger that run very very deep into a part of him that is partially still locked away but on the verge of bursting out. See, that part of him was an angry, possessive, abusive douchenozzle obsessed with his then-girlfriend, his hypnotherapist. And because his abuse was escalating to the point he'd almost killed her, she sealed his abusive super-douche self away by using sustained post-hypnotic suggestion—she made him forget her and forget their relationship, and then programmed him straight back into his gambling addiction (which was the reason he was her client in the first place) and into stealing for her a painting. So he doesn't know any of it, even though he'd recently met her again before being imPorted, and he doesn't know why he hid the painting instead of delivering it to the person who'd cleared all his gambling debt. But since meeting the ex-who-he-doesn't-know-was-his-ex, he's become obsessed with her (again), and there's also a part of him that knows something about her is off. It's a part of Simon that tries to protect him from falling into the same trap. Ok, so that was pretty long, but it's the summarized version of what Thomas could find in Simon's head.
What stuff do you NOT want Thomas digging up in your character's head?
Nah, pretty much all that is up for grabs or I'd never have bothered writing it all out.
Do you want to do any kind of bleed over stuff while Thomas still sucks at using this power? Oh, hell yeah. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Contact?
Anything else?
As it turns out, one of Simon's powers is Extreme Suggestibility—to summarize, he's susceptible to telepathic/psychic/hypnotic/etc suggestions and commands, or basically any type of persuasion or mind control type powers. (More details on that on my powers & permissions post.) So I think it would be greatly horrible (or horribly great) for our characters to mess around.
8D come to me
Still thinking of a prompt. Maybe a convenience store or a cafe or something...
that works!