Sound absorption

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Sound absorption
An agent seems to be immune against Echo's sonic attacks.
Held by:	Agent
Ability to:	Absorb and nullify sound waves

Sound absorption is the ability to use one's own body to absorb sound waves, nullifying their effects.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Limits 3 Notes 4 See Also

Characters

• A Company agent is the only character known to have this ability. (Going Postal)

Limits

According to the agent, his body absorbs all sound waves, enabling him to be immune to all their effects. While he was immune against Echo's amplified sound waves, he is also permanently deaf, suggesting that he can't completely "turn off" his ability.

It is unknown as to whether the ability affects the agent's ability to speak. The agent communicates to Echo using an interpreter to translate his own sign language. While in the same room as the agent and Echo, the interpreter is able to use his voice to speak to Echo, so the agent's ability may not be able to affect other people's ability to communicate with each other.

Notes

• According to an interview with Yule Caise, sound absorption also allows the agent to move and attack silently.

See Also

• For other uses of sound, please see sound (disambig).
• For the opposite ability to amplify and control sound waves, please see sound manipulation.

Evolved Human Abilities edit
Abilities	Ability absorption • Ability replication • Activation and deactivation • Adoptive muscle memory • Alchemy • Alejandro's ability • Body insertion • Clairsentience • Clairvoyance • Cloaking • Cloning • Disintegration • Dream manipulation • Electric manipulation • Electronic communication • Empathic mimicry • Empathy • Enhanced hearing • Enhanced memory • Enhanced strength • Enhanced synesthesia • Fire breathing • Flight • Freezing • Gravitational manipulation • Healing • Healing touch • Heat generation • Illusion • Impenetrable skin • Induced radioactivity • Intuitive aptitude • Invisibility • Lie detection • Magnetism • Melting • Memory manipulation • Mental manipulation • Metal mimicry • Microwave emission • Mohinder's ability • Persuasion • Phasing • Plant growth • Poison emission • Precognition • Precognitive dreaming • Puppet master • Pyrokinesis • Rapid cell regeneration • Sedation • Seismic burst • Shape shifting • Shattering • Sound manipulation • Space-time manipulation • Spontaneous combustion • Super speed • Supercharging • Technopathy • Telekinesis • Telepathy • Terrakinesis • Underwater breathing • Weather control
Evolutions Abilities	Accelerated probability • Acidic blood • Age transferal • Animal control • Belief induction • Carbon isolation and formation • Constriction • Danger sensing • David's ability • Dimension hopping • Dimensional storage • Empathic manipulation • Enhanced teleporting • Extraskeletal manipulation • Health optimizing • Inflammation • Light absorption • Nerve manipulation • Non-biological duplication • Phoenix mimicry • Primal rage • Shifting • Size alteration • Teleportation • Temporal rewind • Water generation • Water mimicry
Graphic Novel Abilities	Ability augmentation • Acid secretion • Age shifting • Appearance alteration • Aura absorption • Bliss and horror • Bone spike protrusion • Chlorine gas exudation • Crumpling • Dehydration • Disintegration touch • Elasticity • Electrical absorption • Energy absorption, transference, and redirection • Forcefields • Future terrorist's ability • Gold mimicry • Granulation • Green energy blast • Imprinting • Laser emission • Levitation • Luminescence • Lung adaptation • Mass manipulation • Mediumship • Nerve gas emission • Neurocognitive deficit • Oil secretion • Omnilingualism • Plant manipulation • Sound absorption • Spider mimicry • Telescopic vision • Wall crawling
See Also: Ability development • Ability extension • Ability heredity • Ability immunity • Ability loss • Ability theft • Brain examination • Brain penetration • Examples of simultaneous ability use • Eye alteration • List of abilities • List of abilities with multiple users • Paradox • Prophecy • Rift