Nightmare

Among the powers catalogued in unOrdinary, Nightmare is one that works on the mind rather than the body. Its user pushes fear into an opponent, and the aura it produces breaks the usual pattern for abilities: instead of a single signature color, it manifests as pitch black with red eyes flickering through it. People caught in its effect grow frightened quickly, and some begin to shiver uncontrollably. With enough power behind it, the ability produces full hallucinations, showing targets bleeding walls, dying comrades, and other horrors, and convincing them that what they see is real. Those visions cannot injure anyone on their own, so a user who wants to do physical damage has to manage that by other means, and the fear fades quickly once the ability is switched off.