Psykos

Psykos (サイコス, Saikosu; Viz: Psychos) is an esper, the military advisor of the Monster Association, and a former friend of Fubuki. She is one of the main antagonists of the Monster Association Arc.

Appearance
Psykos has a curvy figure with long aqua-blue wavy hair, emerald-green eyes and typically wears glasses.

Psykos's meat puppet Gyoro Gyoro appears as an obese slug-like monster with a single eye, no visible facial orifice, and eight arms protruding through its head. It has four main arms, two stubby legs, and three toes on each foot.

During high school, Psykos had braces, which made her mouth puckered. She also wore larger and rounder glasses and had freckles.

After merging with Orochi, her appearance changed abnormally. From her legs up, she still retained her human appearance but her body shone brightly and she seemed to be naked. From her legs down, she had Orochi's entire body attached to her.

Personality
Equally as manipulative as she is cunning, Psykos also often schemes and plots around the other members of the Monster Association geared towards experimental needs. She played Rhino Wrestler for a fool by sending the lower-level monster against opponents he had no hope against during the heroes' invasion for scientific curiosity. Psykos is also quite arrogant, sadistic, and volatile.

She is also very mischievous, as she enjoys playing sadistic games with the Hero Association staff. Being very calculating, she takes into consideration the compatibility of each battle.

Although Psykos is highly intelligent, she has a superiority complex. Her confidence on being a powerful esper along with the fact that she is later even granted additional power by the supposed "God", causes her to belittle Tatsumaki and believe herself able to become the "ultimate lifeform." Though she becomes enraged quickly when those such as both Tatsumaki and later, Fubuki, continously oppose and and ignore her strength.

As explained by Fubuki later, after her capture and defeat, something had changed in Psykos that caused her to go mad. This stems from whatever future Psykos saw which drove her into misanthrope with the destruction of mankind, thus the reason she formed the Monster Association.

Before succumbing to madness by the future she had foreseen, she used to be a clumsy person and showed great respect toward her former friend, Fubuki.

She is ambitious, continuously working to expand Fubuki's influence in her youth and the power of the Monster Association in the present day.

However, at the same time, she is merciless to her subordinates who fail to match her expectations with very few to no real exceptions.

She also carries an incredibly dim view of humans, despite being one herself, stating in derogatory terms that they only take up space and accomplish naught but squandering everything they get their hands on. This is where the respect she harbored for Fubuki was shattered after her mentor crippled her powers. Despite this resentment for her former superior, she still withholds some underlying longing for her fellow esper's acknowledgment.

One of her overarching personality traits stems from her all-consuming hatred of humankind and all of their works, which came about when Psykos peered into the future of mankind.

Abilities and Powers
As the second-highest-ranking member of the Monster Association, Psykos has great authority over almost everyone and oversees the organization's operations and activities, and as a Dragon-level threat, she is an extremely powerful being. She is shown to be very powerful as an Esper, but not very skilled. Garou has commented that she cannot perform more than one action at the same time when using telekinesis. After merging with Orochi, her psychic power increases exponentially, allowing her to contend with Tatsumaki and seriously harm the esper, although Tatsumaki reveals she was holding back because Tareo's safety wasn't secured.

Supernatural Abilities
Psychokinesis: Psykos is a powerful esper. She can send out psychic signals to her colleagues from over great distances, as well as remotely control Gyoro Gyoro from 1500 meters underground. When her power is amplified by her Elixir, Psykos can break free of Tatsumaki's restraints and drag her down from a large distance even as she is being dragged herself upwards.

Her psychic output surpasses Fubuki but is inferior to Tatsumaki's. She was also able to immobilize Bang long enough for Homeless Emperor to attack him. Energy Projection: Psykos can shoot powerful energy beams from her eyes.

Gravity Manipulation: While controlling Gyoro Gyoro, Psykos could manipulate gravity and use it to crush her enemies.

Spy Drones: Psykos created and could control several spy drones that are shaped in the image of Gyoro Gyoro and can communicate through them. These spy drones could possess wings to fly a great distance or be planted as stationary viewpoints like security cameras.

Telepathy (テレパシー, Terepashī): Psykos uses telepathy to communicate with others. She uses this, as Gyoro Gyoro, to tell Garou to wait while sorting out disputes among the monsters.

Clairvoyance: Psykos has the ability to see into the future. This ability is called the Third Eye.

Miscellaneous Abilities
Monster Transformation Stimulation: Psykos claims that she can stimulate growth in humans and turn some of them into exceptionally powerful monsters, like in the case of Orochi. Gyoro Gyoro's method is unknown in detail, but it can be assumed to be similar to the phenomenon of abnormal cellular reactions that normally transform some humans into monsters, without the Monster Cell.

Keen Intellect: Psykos is a highly intelligent individual and has great authority over almost everyone and oversees the Monster Association's operations as well as its activities. She is able to analyze any individual's power and is the one responsible for evaluating the disaster level of the Monster Association's members. She was also able to measure Garou's exceptional potential after re-encountering him, unlike previous monsters who underestimated the Hero Hunter despite his feats. Additionally, based on battle compatibility, she was able to accurately predict which monsters that needed to be sent to face the heroes that could give perfect victories for the monster side, as shown when the S-Class heroes had severe trouble dealing with the executive members that they had encountered due to her correctly sending the heroes' worst possible match up to face them.

Fighting Style
Master Psychic Combatant: Psykos is a very powerful esper. However, she still has less experience and expertise than Fubuki and Tatsumaki, which is why she lost to Fubuki even though she had a greater psychic output.


 * Psychic Binding (念動金縛り, Nen-dō Kanashibari): An ability used to immobilize targets.


 * Super Gravity Waves (重力超激浪, Jūryoku Chōgekirō): Psykos multiplies the gravity around a certain area to crush her opponent. After merging with Orochi, her ability to multiply gravity increases to the point that even Tatsumaki struggles with the increased gravity.
 * Gravity Times 300 (重力３００倍, Jūryoku 300-bai): Psykos increases the gravity of an area by 300 times.

Equipment

 * Elixir: Psykos managed to create an elixir that increases her psychic power, which she consumes to fight against Tatsumaki.

Fusion with Orochi
After barely surviving his battle with Saitama, Orochi uses his absorption ability to regenerate his body. He absorbs his master Psykos; however, Psykos resists complete assimilation and the two merge into one huge red monster with many tentacles. During the fusion, they met and received additional power from a being they refer to as God. They are strong enough to injure Tatsumaki and force her to get serious. In this state, Psykos claims that in terms of power, she is already above Tatsumaki. Their attacks also increase to devastating levels, creating tsunamis over a portion of the planet's hemisphere.

Power Incorporation: Orochi can incorporate other's powers with his assimilation ability. These powers are then increased according to Orochi's own strength. The fusion continuously grows stronger by absorbing the energy from others and the planet through tendrils rooted in the ground; Psykos believes they can become one with the Earth itself as a perfect celestial life form.

Psychokinesis: Psykos' psychokinesis is greatly amplified by Orochi's power. When their barrier clashes with Tatsumaki's, Tatsumaki is genuinely surprised at how hard it is. They can even usurp Tatsumaki's control of her barrier and turn it inside out, causing Tatsumaki's power to work against her. Due to Psykos being fused to the Earth through her roots, her barrier only covers the "main body".
 * Gravity Manipulation: This fusion can manipulate gravity.
 * Psychic Decoys: After witnessing Tatsumaki create a decoy body from rocks shrouded with psychic energy, the fusion is able to replicate this technique on a larger scale by creating multiple decoys flying in different directions in an attempt to fool her opponent.

Shapeshifting: This fusion can shapeshift its horns into an enormous avatar of Psykos. The avatar appears to lack an internal structure, and Tatsumaki refers to it as "unexpectedly hollow", mocking Psykos with the term "Miss Papier-mâché". Despite this, the avatar can split in half and reveal other types of shapes, such as a gigantic face of Psykos or a three-pronged "beak" that can unleash laser beams.
 * Tendril Generation: This fusion is able to extend its fingers into large spears as long as the main body.
 * Metamorphosis: The dragons which could be created before by Orochi can be created again in greater size and power.

Energy Projection: This fusion can unleash a widespread energy attack so powerful it can easily cut through the Earth's surface as it passes through, lifting a severed disk of oceanic crust, seawater and the sky above it into the air before it crashes back down. The energy attacks are so powerful that they can easily overwhelm Genos' Thunder Drill Cannon, stated to be capable of destroying a huge meteor in one shot.

Electricity Manipulation: Through its spears, this fusion can discharge electric shocks powerful enough to temporarily stun Tatsumaki and make her lose control of her powers.

Regeneration: The fusion retains Orochi's ability to regenerate; after their body was mangled by Tatsumaki, the fusion quickly regenerated from the damage.

Smoke Manipulation: The fusion is capable of expelling huge quantities of heavy smoke to create a cover for itself and hamper the senses of their opponent.

Flight: The fusion is capable of flying at high speeds by shapeshifting itself into a jet. Planetary Fusion: Through their union and subsequent powerup by "God", Orochi in his fused form has the potential to corrupt, supplant and assimilate living & non-biological matter through his cellular mass-based biology. This can enable the amalgam to spread out and consume the world, becoming a mind capable of giving automation to the whole of the Earth, essentially becoming a living planet.

Quotes

 * "Bear witness to the one whom Gyoro Gyoro can’t begin to compare with, Lord Psykos and her terrifying psychokinesis!"
 * (To Orochi) "You are nothing more than a vessel to amplify my powers... I am the Master!!"
 * (To Tatsumaki) "You lost your chance at winning. I was chosen as a superior entity. And I was bestowed more power than you possess."
 * (Psykos referring to something like God) "Brain cells... The structural diagram of the universe... It looked like Jupiter's surface. Something like God... Time was stopped... It looked into me. I felt fear. At the same time, a mysterious power was flowing into me. In that instant, I was enlightened about my destiny."
 * "It's pointless! World domination is pointless! All these Homo sapiens know to do is eat, defecate, mate and proliferate with no sense of balance! They are like a plague of insects devouring everything or even worse! There's no honor in ruling over the human race. They'd be better off reduced to zero! We must destroy them! This is my mission! It is time the chosen ones eradicate these Homo sapiens!"

Trivia

 * In all of her appearances, Psykos is seen wearing her glasses, and as even her psychic avatars wear them. It is unknown whether the glasses are of any use to her in that form.
 * The design of Psykos' fused form is based on a neuron.
 * There are similarities between Psykos fusion with Orochi and the Whore of Babylon. In scripture and according to many interpretations, the Whore of Babylon represents a seductive figure leading and manipulating people astray against God and the forces of light. The Whore of Babylon is depicted as riding a many headed beast and causing the ruination of countries while also being a sign of the end of the world. Psykos wants to destroy all of humanity and through monstrous experimentation, coercion, and deception created an army of beasts to follow her. Later, she takes a very seductive form while appearing to ride upon a dragon with many heads. She places herself above all others and proclaims herself to the most powerful while also serving and empowered by "God" who in the story is shown to be a malevolent force corrupting humans by making deals with them similarly to the Anti-Christ or Devil in Judaeo-Christian religion.
 * Psykos' appearance is adorned with snake symbols. Her earrings and pin are in the form of a serpent eating its own tail, the ouroboros, which is a symbol of cycle and rebirth, possibly referencing to her fusion with Orochi.

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