Title: It's All Chemical
Summary: Gabriel explains how his power works.
--Sorry, it's almost all dialogue.--
3rd Person POV
"Okay so how exactly did you get Intuitive Apptitude and Empathetic Mimicy?"
Gabriel sighed and pushed his glasses further up his nose.
"The Empathetic Mimicry is a subset of my Ituitive Apptitude. It's like love. In it's most basic form it's two brains processing pheremones and adrenaline that the two people give off naturally. Love occurs when two sets of uniqe chemical set ups 'like' eachother. With me so far?"
"Yeah..."
"From there the brain will eventually form new synaptic pathways. These new pathways wire the brain to crave the pheremone cocktail given off by the other person. It works the same way as a drug addiction, if that person isn't close your dopamine levels go down and you feel sad or lonely."
"Alright..."
"My Empathy works the same way. My Intuitive Apptitude recognises the chemical signatures given off by other evolved humans and, circumstances permitting, my brain will wire up new synaptic pathways. From there it will begin producing new chemicals to match the ones it likes."
"Circumstances permitting?"
Gabriel smiled and put his cheek in his hand, his elbow propted against the table.
"Every brain and chemical set up is different. Some are more compatable than others. Given enough time and effort I could gain everyone's ability."
"Then how come I gain abilities instantly?"
"Your chemical makeup is very pliable."
"Pliable?"
"Hm, like chocolate. It goes with every other sweet out there."
Peter couldn't remember laughing harder at any other biology lecture.
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Okay so the love thing is 100% accurate. At first it's just your brian going 'whoa! The is some Fine ass chemical makeup.' Then it evolves into an addiction. But people are different and some pathways aren't as strong as others or they get replaced.
The ability explination is all me. This is seriously how I think it works. I know...I have no life.