Psykos

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Psykos
Characteristics
Alias	Gyoro Gyoro (ギョロギョロ, Gyorogyoro) Third Eye (第3の眼, Daisan no Me)
Race	Human (Esper) Mysterious Being
Gender	Female
Age	~23
Status	Alive
Location	Monster Association Headquarters (Z-City Ghost Town)
Abilities
Abilities	Psychokinesis Telepathy Energy Projection Clairvoyance
Status
Occupation	Monster Association Leader Scientist
Level	Dragon
Affiliation	Monster Association God Invisible Hand
Partner(s)	Orochi
Media
Webcomic Debut	Chapter 55
Manga Debut	Chapter 66 (Gyoro Gyoro) Chapter 94 (Flashback) Chapter 123 (Full Appearance)

This article is about the character. For the chapter, see Chapter 126 (Online).

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 is a young woman with a curvy figure, long aqua-blue wavy hair, emerald-green eyes, and she typically wears glasses.

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

During high school, Psykos wore braces, which caused her mouth to pucker. She also had larger, rounder glasses and 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.

Psykos as a high school girl

Psykos's appearance in the manga

Psykos's manga coloration and her meat puppet, Gyoro Gyoro

Psykos after fusing with Orochi

Personality

Psykos is as manipulative as she is cunning, often scheming and plotting among the other members of the Monster Association to fulfill her experimental ambitions. For her scientific curiosity, she deceives Rhino Wrestler by sending him against opponents he has no chance of defeating during the heroes' invasion. Additionally, Psykos exhibits arrogance, cruelty, sadism, and volatility.

Mischievous by nature, she enjoys playing sadistic games with the Hero Association staff. Highly calculating, she assesses the compatibility of each battle.

Psykos has a superiority complex, bolstered by her confidence as a powerful esper and the additional power granted to her by "God". This leads her to belittle Tatsumaki, believing herself destined to become the "ultimate lifeform." She quickly becomes enraged when opposed by those like Tatsumaki and, later, Fubuki. Her grudge against Fubuki is particularly intense due to their shared past, which hints at Psykos having had deeper feelings for Fubuki in their youth. These feelings morphed into rage when Fubuki refused to join her in eliminating humanity and sealed off her powers for a time.

After her capture and defeat, Fubuki explains that something shifted in Psykos, driving her to madness. This change stems from a future Psykos foresaw, leading her to misanthropy and inspiring her to form the Monster Association. Before succumbing to the madness of her vision, she was a clumsy individual who showed great respect for her former friend, Fubuki.

Nevertheless, she is merciless toward her subordinates who fail to meet her expectations, with very few to no real exceptions.^{[citation needed]}

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

Psykos fires a laser beam from her eyes

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. After having her power 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. However, she was easily defeated when Tatsumaki took her more seriously.

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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 controlled several spy drones shaped in the image of Gyoro Gyoro, and communicated through them. These spy drones could fly great distances with wings, 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 can 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 with great authority within the Monster Association. She oversees the organization's operations and activities, and possesses the ability to analyze the powers of individuals. She is responsible for evaluating the threat level posed by members of the Monster Association, and unlike others who underestimated the Hero Hunter Garou, she recognized his exceptional potential upon encountering him again. Psykos can accurately predict which types of monsters should be sent to fight specific heroes, based on their battle compatibility. This allows her to arrange encounters that heavily favor the monsters, as demonstrated by the high-ranking heroes who struggled greatly against the executive members of the Monster Association due to her strategic arrangements.

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

Psykos uses the Elixir to increase her power

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

Fusion with Orochi

The fusion of Psykos and Orochi traps Tatsumaki

After barely surviving his battle with Saitama, Orochi uses his absorption ability to regenerate his body. He absorbs his master Psykos, but Psykos resists complete assimilation, leading to their merging into a massive entity with numerous tentacles. During this fusion, they encounter "God", from whom they receive additional power. This fusion proves strong enough to battle Tatsumaki, pressuring her into taking the fight seriously. Their attacks escalate to devastating levels, capable of generating tsunamis across a portion of the planet's hemisphere.

Power Incorporation: This fusion can assimilate the powers of others. It continues to grow stronger by drawing energy from both others and the planet through tendrils anchored in the ground; Psykos believes they can ultimately merge with the Earth itself, becoming a perfect celestial life form.

Psychokinesis: Psykos' psychokinesis is significantly amplified by Orochi's power. When their barrier collides with Tatsumaki's, she is genuinely taken aback by its intensity. They can even usurp Tatsumaki's control over her barrier, turning it inside out and causing her power to backfire. Due to Psykos being fused to the Earth through her roots, her barrier only envelops the "main body."

• Gravity Manipulation: This fusion possesses the ability to manipulate gravity.
• Psychic Decoys: After witnessing Tatsumaki create a decoy body from rocks enveloped in psychic energy, the fusion can replicate this technique on a larger scale, generating multiple decoys that fly in various directions to fool the 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 can extend its fingers into large spears that match the length of its main body.
• Metamorphosis: The dragons that Orochi previously created can be summoned again, now larger and more powerful.

• The fusion unleashing an energy attack..
• .. and spreading it
• .. which slices through the Earth

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Energy Projection: This fusion can unleash a widespread energy attack powerful enough to cut through the Earth's surface, lifting a disk of oceanic crust, seawater, and the sky above it before crashing back down. The energy blasts are powerful enough to easily overpower Genos' Thunder Drill Cannon, which is capable of destroying a huge meteor in a single shot.

Electricity Manipulation: Through its spears, this fusion can emit electric shocks strong enough to temporarily stun Tatsumaki and disrupt her control over her powers.

Regeneration: This fusion retains Orochi's regenerative abilities; after their body was severely damaged by Tatsumaki, it quickly healed from the injuries.

Smoke Generation: This fusion can expel large volumes of dense smoke to create cover for itself and hamper its opponent's senses.

Flight: The fusion is capable of flying at high speeds by shapeshifting itself into a jet.

The fusion can potentially become the Earth itself, as noted by Psykos

Planetary Fusion: Through their union and subsequent empowerment by "God", Orochi in his fused form has the potential to corrupt, replace, and assimilate both living and non-biological matter through his cellular mass-based biology. This ability allows the amalgamation to spread out and consume the world, evolving into a mind capable of automating the entirety 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 describing her encounter with "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.