The power to perceive the residual information of an object and/or person. Sub-power of Detection and Retrocognition. Variation of Extrasensory Perception and Powerful Touch.

Also Called

• Clairtangency/Clairtangent
• Clear Touch/Touching
• Object Reading
• Psychic Touch
• Psychometric Reading
• Psychometrics
• Trace Scrying

Capabilities

The user of psychometry obtains historical memories or sensations concerning beings and objects they observe. With objects, they gain knowledge including the makers, users, and even those who have on passing used the object, and what has been done with it. With living beings or parts of the body, the user learns their general life-history but doesn't gain anything of what they were thinking or feeling.

Applications

• Aura Detection: Pick up residual mental or psychic engrams remotely to get readouts.
  • Thought Detection
• Clairgustance: Build insights and attain new understanding from gutural intake.
• Gnostic Touch: Glean and share insights of knowledge via touch.
• Knowledge Projection: Display whatever insights are picked up by the read to others.
• Intuitive Arts: Attain greater insights and understanding tactics via repetitive psychoempathetic scans of ambient remnant tracks.
  • Quality Sense
• Mediumship: Psychometrically tap the spiritual quintessence of the departed.
  • Inner Reading
    • Spiritual Adjustment
      • Spiritual Adaptation
  • Supernatural Detection
    • Psychic Perception
      • Psionic Intuition
• Psychocompetence: To gain skills from the information discerned.
• Retrocognition/Syncognition/Precognition: To attain insight into discerning events of the target's immdiate past, present and possible future tense.
  • Clairomancy: Look through the infinite abyss of possible, probable and even plausible events or outcomes through psi-read.
• Selection Manipulation: Choose just what subject of interest you wish to connect with and too for the sake of affecting search trailing and success rates.
• Tactile Telepathy: Purview psychic reads/scans via touch.
  • Tactile Empathy

Techniques

• Ability Learning: To learn skills and abilities from objects or people either temporarily or permanently.
  • Intuitive Aptitude: Instantly learn and understand the workings and mechanics of anything.
    • Enhanced Weapon Proficiency: To have full mastery and knowledge on any weapon.
• Clairtelempathy: Combine psychic empathic faculties to get vastly augmented sifting range from which to pick-up vestigial records.
  • Visual Empathy: Perceive emotional readings of targets using observed and assessed paraphernalia.
    • Sympathetic Teleportation: Establish a powerful enough reading to warp wherever and towards whomever you have a lock on.
      • Visual Teleportation: Physically see the emotional tithe of who or what it is you wish to be moved towards for easier transport.
• Information Analysis: Pull and case study insights and understanding from the very atmosphere of the subject sensory.
• Knowledge Replication: To replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
• Marking: To voluntarily leave an imprint.
• Necropsy Mastery: To discern the death cause.
• Omnilingualism: Ascertaining the languages of other ethnicities.
• Photographic Deduction: To figure out connections in whatever the user is investigating and process them extraordinarily fast.
• Remote Telepathy: Affect ranged mental probing through scanned items.
  • Remote Empathy: Inquire distanced plumbing of deeper emotional triggers one can pick up from prior inspections.
• Visual Mind Reading: To share psychic readouts.
  • Morality Viewing: Peer into a person's inner self to determine character.

Variations

• Aura Reading (Kirlian Scanning): Learn and understand everything about a person, place or thing by remotely studying the aura said individual or multitudinous abstracts may possess.
  • Psychometric Ability Replication: Learn and understand abilities by reading and intuitively mapping out superhuman powers and abilities through clairsentient contact.
• Biographic Aptitude (Existence Osmosis): Learn and understand everything about a person by touching them without the need of special education or long-term relationship. The user’s power works as if they have been with their touched subject all their life. Doesn’t understand thoughts or minds.
• Cibopathy: Learn and understand the history of whatever user consumes.
• Localization: Learn and understand everything or the last moments of a dead person through touch. This allows the user to see the cause of death of the person they are touching and/or sometimes retrace the path they took. One may also retrace the residual path taken by a murderer if they were the cause of death of the person.
• Psychometric Telepathy: To create a telepathic link with anyone by holding an object that's connected to them.
  • Psychometric Precognition: To perceive the future with anything associated with an object or individual through physical contact
• Sonic Psychometry: Learn the history of an object by listening to the sound it makes.

Associations

• Clairvoyance
• Dowsing
• Extrasensory Perception
• Instant Learning
  • Instructive Muscle Memory

Used By

• Esper
• Fortune Teller
  • Prophet
    • Oracle
• Magician
• Medium
• Psychic
  • Clairvoyant
• Psychometrist
• Occultist
• Seer
• Spiritualist

Limitations

• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Immunity (impervious).
  • Can be overcome by Mental Shield Penetration and Immunity Bypassing.
• May be based on physical senses.
  • May be limited to certain senses, like touch or sight only.

Known Users

See Also: Psychometry.

Gallery

Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake) due to his proximity of his rivals, psionically read their whole history, from a different parallel universe, and projected those future alternate memories of Midgar's doomsday onto the landscape of the entire Singularity.

Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII) similar to Sephiroth, also possess the power of touch or proximate closeness of others, to read the future.

Cisco Ramon/Vibe (Arrowverse) could access events from the past, present, and future by touching an individual or one of their personal possessions.

Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)

Pam Asbury (Rose Red) getting a read on a haunted house.

Gabriel Grey/Sylar (Heroes) discovers Nathan Petrelli's secrets by touching his jacket.

Bridget Bailey (Heroes)

Tsukishima (Bleach) can learn about other people's history by cutting them with his Fullbring - Book of the End.

Judge Anderson (Judge Dredd) is obviously capable of psychic abilities.

Shiho Sannomiya (Zettai Karen Children) using Psychometer to aim accurately.

Reading the Chair (The Unlimited: Hyoubu Kyousuke)

Aro (Twilight Series) has the ability of Tactile Telepathy, allowing him to hear every thought a person has ever had by touching them.

Sniffers like Emily Wu (Push) are able to monitor and track someone's movements by "sniffing" objects.

Ignatius Perrish (Horns) can learn a person's identity and their most gruesome actions simply by touch.

Longshot (Marvel Comics)

Abe Sapien (Hellboy: the Movie) is adept at the use of this ability.

Judge Anderson (2000 AD)

Eric Draven (The Crow) using this ability to recall moments of his past life...

…and read Sergeant Albright's memory.

Spawn (Image Comics) using this ability to read a crime scene.

Jefferson Reed (The Meteor Man)

Bridge Carson (Power Rangers SPD)

Theresa (Class of the Titans)

Alex Chen (Life is Strange: True Colors) is able to pick up on people's memories when interacting with the emotion aura left behind on an object or by interacting with the emotion aura on person.

Cal Kestis (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)

Dharma (Milestone Media/DC Comics) is able to see all events in the past and future when he touches a personal object.

Halara Nightmare (Master Detective Archives: Rain Code) has the Forte ability to see how the crime scene was the first time it was discovered.

Johnny Smith (The Dead Zone)

Saiki Kusuo (The Disasterous Life of Saiki K.) using Psychometry on a copy of Shonen Jump.

Videos

The Dead Zone (2-10) Movie CLIP - First Premonition (1983) HD-2

The Dead Zone (3-10) Movie CLIP - The Wolf Is Loose (1983) HD-2

Gazebo - The Dead Zone (5-10) Movie CLIP (1983) HD-2

The Missiles Are Flying - The Dead Zone (9-10) Movie CLIP (1983) HD-2

SCP-662 - Butler's Hand Bell (SCP Animation)-2

Butler's Hand Bell - SCP-662 (SCP Animation)