#Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha ~ Empath

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

So New Rome was never anything more than a lie created by Selene. With her out of the area, her spell is finally starting to wear off, and Empath has been using his power to keep all of these people enthralled because this was the only place where he had felt like her hand a home which... I see where you are coming from kid and I do feel bad which is a wild thing to say about Empath buttttttttttt...

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

My reactions while reading New Mutants #26 (1985)

Emma Frost absolutely wrecking Empath is a peak moment. "Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha" Emma Frost was so pissed off she used his whole ass name cause he was playing around and fucking shit up. Then he got cocky and got his ass handed to him, as one should.

At least Xavier realizes and admits he fucked and abused his position of power with Gabrielle.

"A telepath can play god, you've no idea how tempting that is. I can change thoughts, twist memories, destroy a personality--erase it utterly--and recreate it any way I choose." - Charles Xavier, New Mutants #26 (1985) (this quote goes hard and should be referenced more if it isn't referenced enough already)

Moira and Rahne's relationship is tugging my heartstrings.

Also all these psi-words, we've got

Mindspeak, Psiprobe (Psi Probe), Psi-Talents, Psiwall (Psi-wall), Psilink (okay like half of these words need a hyphen between them- Psi-Link looks so much more pleasing to my eyes)

Skipping ahead to New Mutants #28

Love how everyone except Xavier (the damn telepath) is getting bad vibes from Jack Wayne, like yeah the racist douche who called Dani "Hiawatha" might be bad, and then Rahne is literally like "Mummy, he smells evil" to Moira about Jack Wayne. And the fact that everyone is like "this guy who the Professor's only known for like a day is totally his pal, friend, buddy, pal, chump."

Magneto's getting his heart broken in the Bermuda Triangle, as one does.

Oh my- lmao Douglas Ramsey saved the day by quoting a Star Trek episode, if that isn't the sweetest (and nerdy-ist) thing ever! He's adorable.

"Y'know, there's this classic Star Trek episode, where the captain's been kidnapped and his crew are trying to rescue him, only their weapons have no effect, even at full power. Thing is, the phasers worked all along, it's just that the villains, who were telepaths, wouldn't let the crew see that." - Doug Ramsey, New Mutants (1983) #28

And like sureeee he could had shortened it down and just said the wall is fake / another illusion but cmon this quote rocks.

The issue ends on such a hopeful note that I truly want to believe in Charles' promises and words but they sound almost cruel now knowing how he failed so hard at just being there for David and then later on further mistreatment.

[lotharkarnstein]

Hellions ( 4.0 ) featuring Emma Frost’s problematic faves: Esme Cuckoo, aka ⅕ of the Five-in-One. Julian Keller, aka Hellion. Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha, aka Empath.

[iconuk01]

Given Xavier couldn’t read Illyana’s mind at all, because of the Darkchylde, I’m perhaps more surprised Empath’s power worked at all.

New Mutants v1 #38

[kurtty-drabbles]

Blood Verse(breakaway)

N/A: This is inspired by Ultimate Hellsing where it gives one of the most epic death scenes I ever saw, please, go watch Ultimate Hellsing. Ok, it has Empath here so it will have sensible material here

@djinmer4

In a village near the black forest, Kurt Wagner is moderately happy, finally is the day he waits each year. The day for real sacrificial lambs to arrive, however, tonight, his merry mood is not in its full potential as one problem happened.

"Kurt" the saccharine voice of Kitty Pryde is enough to make Kurt not wanting to do the unthinkable. "I know tonight it was not how you envisioned"

"Da Kannst du Gift drauf nehmen" Kurt murmurs darkly looking at the guard with a discontent in his livid golden eyes.

"However, don´t let one problem ruin your, eh, fun night," the woman smiles as much comforting she can even if the implications of said night can´t be ignored.

"My Katzchen, you do know how 13 is a powerful number...but now I only have 12 sacrificial lambs" Kurt pouts a little and Kitty does not have words to console Kurt, but tries to be sympathetic as much as possible. Then his golden eyes lit as it is focused on her "Katzchen, this is a great exercise to you, bring me the runaway lamb to me"

"Are you sure that I´m ...really ready for this?"

"Of course, Katzchen, after all, this is your life now," there´s a sinister smile on his face "if the lamb turns out to be too headstrong, then just tell me, I´ll take care of it"

Kitty vows to bring the lamb back.

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Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha or as it is known lately the Empath clearly is not having a good day at all. Empath was a wizard blessed with mental manipulation and uses his blessing at seems fit.

Manuel just wanted to have a good life and so far no one was getting hurt, Empath lived comfortably in Spain, with a nice lady by his side.

"I didn´t consent" those words ring in his mind, memories of a trial that honestly came out of nowhere "He raped me"

Manuel at first accusation managed to dodged it claiming the woman wanted that as much as he does. She orgasms it means she likes it and a bit of slut shaming it works, that really didn´t work for the third time.

The council in the EU was having pressure by all the other communities, including South America to punish Empath and that´s why Empath was sentenced to pay a last visit to the blood bender.

"No, I refuse" Empath stated feeling a sense of foreboding as this place that right now serves as a temporary hideout used to be one of the many churches dedicated to the blood bender.

"I won´t die, I won´t die," the man said sweating revenge on the bitches that set him up.

("I didn´t consent" "it was awful" "I cry every day, I can´t trust another human being thanks to him")

"Stupid bitches," Empath said wondering his next step. Can he face down the blood bender? No, but, he can deceive the blood bender to run.

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Kitty wearing an outfit that resembles too much of a bartender of an RPG is tracking the missing lamb. The church abandoned by time and Kurt ("I don´t need this church, I can kill via FedEx") as she feels the lamb there, the woman sighs as she wants to end this as quickly.

Empath heard steps and as he look up he saw a pretty woman with a pointy witch hat and relief invaded his body, it is not the blood bender, just a dumb woman. He can trick this woman. Maybe even have fun.

Casting the spell the church morphs into a high school located in Salem.  Groups of distinct pure families are talking while one girl is left alone. A girl with chestnut and curly hair as well as doe eyes

"Gross, they let her in?"

" Ignore the impure, she will leave soon enough"

" Her place is not here"

Kitty looks at the scene. Oh, it is something impossible to forget.

"What was your plan? Making me cry?" Kitty said feeling a bit peeved that this lamb is toying with her emotions.

The scene changes to one where the pure kids start throwing things at the impure children. Then to Kitty assuring her father that she is having a great time, only to ending up crying for the second time.

"You are supposed to be the first witch of your family," Empath said amused "the chosen one, then you realize there´s no chosen one, you are not special or worth magic...nor even worth to be here, alive" Empath smiles cruelly.

Then the scene changes to a very familiar one, Dr Stranger and Kitty, however, the scene is different this time.

"Maybe your place is under pure people after all" the fake Kitty stated "it would have been easier, just lay down and let him have you, you would even enjoy it"

Empath clearly loves how shaking she is.

"That is much better than being set on concentration camps," the fake kitty said and nothing else is spoken by the faux Kitty ever again as the Empath is now trapped by a dark shadow.

The real Kitty now look at the ceiling where the man was the entire time. There´s a feral grin on her sweet face and the man lost his bravado immediately.

"That´s your tactic toying with people´s mind? Pathetic" Then Kitty controlling the shadow around Empath bring the man to the ground without any grace.

Then grabbing his head by his head the man looks at the woman´s eyes. Dread reaches his body, is this the blood bender? No, no is not, but the eyes...are so similar.

"I´m so sorry, please don´t send me to him, that monster will kill me," Empath says in a panic.

"Sure," Kitty said in a sickly sweet tone "I´ll kill you myself," Kitty said as she runs to the church´s hall used Empath as a piece of clothing ready to clean the walls with his own existence.

"How is it feels to have someone´s fucking your head?" Kitty asked after literally painting the walls with his own blood. The man won´t answer ever again.

"Aww, Katzchen, it was for you to bring him to me," Kurt said a bit childish while a bit of the effect is lost by the litters of blood on his pants. "But I forgive you because you look really hot right now"

"Thanks, you know how to make a woman feel special" Kitty said taking deep breathes as the shadow spell disappears. It is too bad that Kitty can only conjure such spell for 2 minutes.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

As we get down to Nova Roma is it pretty much instantly obvious that Empath is up to his bullshit again...

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

In a pretty exciting “the shit hits the fan” moment... Pierce uses Gateway to “bring him to the one responsible” which brings him to Fitzroy, though he mistakes it as Emma’s doing... not that it matters as the Sentinels bust in, and fry both Donald and Emma’s brains...

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

This is incredibly interesting if you think about it... Empath is a Christian, and he mocks Amara because her religion is is not the correct one in his eyes... but Amara’s people worship the gods of Olympus who we KNOW are real, there is emphatic proof, they have walked the Earth, but Empath has never seen his god face to face...

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Watching Illyana threaten Empath is just... just great...

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Pretty much in this book the New Mutants kidnap Empath and just straight up fuck with him, and in the end, the Hellions come to save him but they are seriously sick of his shit as well, and it is actually Thunderbird who puts fist on flesh, and it still feels cathartic as hell, not gonna lie.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

H.E.’s men come for Amara this time, and the name here is “the Evolutionary Stormtroopers.” Anyway, Empath almost overpowers them, but the troopers are ever fight his power off and abscond with Magma.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Chunk of stuff going on all on one page here... the MOST important is that Amara is going home to her father, and Empath is going with her, mainly as a means to convince her father that she should stick with the Hellions... Also Emma makes some serious insinuations here that Empath has been subtly influencing Amara pretty much the whole time, which would explain why she was suddenly just so about him, though Empath doesn’t think he has been (or he is unaware that he has.)

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Empath mind fucks Amara, who still is all about Empath... and when he sees that it isn’t working as well as he thought, he mind fucks James using his feelings to Dani as a means to prevent Amara from just melting all of them in her confusion... bleh like I said this character is pretty irredeemable to me.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Boo-Hoo, my names Empath and I fuck with people’s minds, make them do things they don’t want to, and for some reason they hate me for it?!

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In the chaos, Amara kisses Empath, which causes him to freak out cause he isn’t sure if it was him or her that made it happen (though he figures it was him.) They are trying so hard to make me feel sympathy for this dude but like, I’m sorry, it is never going to happen....

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Another Empath heavy issue, so you already know how I feel about this one...