I had a couple of questions and concerns directed in my way lately regarding Natasha's empathy ability. I hope this post will clear up some confusion.<br/><br/>The way Natasha's empathy works is that she can feel emotions of others (I base this on posts written earlier, or if it involves a future post then I ask through pm first how the other person's character will feel) and she can send emotions of herself to others. The way this last thing works is that she'll send her emotions, for example happiness to somebody who feels angry at that moment, but she doesn't replace the existing emotion a character feels.<br/><br/>In the example of sending happiness to an angry person it remains up to the character she sends it to what he/ she does with that emotion. Receptive characters will likely feel less angry afterward, but psychopaths would likely not be affected at all. I'm guessing that Magneto will be immune too as long as he wears his helm. In either case it remains up to yourself what you do with the emotions you receive. Logically seen, most characters would probably feel a (slight) confusion or conflict with the different things they're feeling and this gives you the opportunity to write some inner conflict. ^_^<br/><br/>At no point will my character be able to control what somebody else feels, at best she'll be able to influence somebody, but I'll leave it at your own discretion as to how far that influence goes. If it involves an important scene I could imagine that we'd be in pm contact about it anyway. ;D<br/><br/>In combat the ability is more meant as a distraction for her enemies or to bolster the confidence of her allies, than anything else. I don't really expect to have a big affect on the outcome of a fight with this ability, at least not in the way that super strength and hurling cars can have. ;)<br/><br/><br/>If anybody has questions about this ability or if something is unclear, then please either contact me through pm or leave a reply behind in this topic.