Re: Firewalling Mental Attacks
I thought about Indirect, but I wasn't sure if it would accomplish what I was looking at.
Example: Mentalist M attacks Target T through Proxy P with Mind Scan-targeted Ego Blasts. Now even though M and T are the ones fighting, M's attacks hit T but T's attacks at M actually hit P (the firewall) instead.
In a sense, P is being used to block and soak up attacks with his own mind, taking the hit for M. Now a villain could do this with bystander P, using P as an involuntary mental shield.
Hmm, maybe an Ablative form of Mental Defense is one approach to this, requiring another person to act as the source of the Mental Defense, but getting no Mental Defense themself. As attacks roll in and batter poor P's mind into mush, his mind provides less cover.