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m (CzechOut moved page Empathetic psychic to Empathic psychic without leaving a redirect: Moving to precise name used in Hide (TV story); deleting original as mistake.)
(returning, more or less, to the original edit. this isn't about empaths. this is about empathic psychics. so far, Hide (TV story) is the originator of the term, and so a listing of other empathic species is inappropriate to this article.)
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'''Empathetic psychics''', or '''empaths''', were [[psychic]]s who were able to sense emotion.  
'''Empathic psychics''' were, according [[Emma Grayling]], [[psychic]]s who sensed feelings like [[telepath]]s read thoughts. She described her own powers, however, as intermittent, indicating to [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] that she could only do it "sometimes".  The [[Eleventh Doctor]] offered the alternate word '''empathics''', and called them "the most compassionate people" and "the loneliest", due to the fact that they opened themselves up to "all those hidden feelings, all that guilt, pain and sorrow". ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
 
They were, according to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the most compassionate people you will ever meet, as well as the loneliest "they've been exposing themselves to all those hidden feelings, all that guilt, pain and sorrow." [[Emma Grayling]], one such empathetic psychic, described that she sensed feelings "the way a [[telepath]] can sense thoughts." ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
 
Innately empathic species included the [[Isolus]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Fear Her (TV story)|Fear Her]]''), the [[Ood]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'') and the [[Toy]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bad Therapy (novel)|Bad Therapy]]'').
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Revision as of 13:06, 22 April 2013

Empathic psychics were, according Emma Grayling, psychics who sensed feelings like telepaths read thoughts. She described her own powers, however, as intermittent, indicating to Clara that she could only do it "sometimes". The Eleventh Doctor offered the alternate word empathics, and called them "the most compassionate people" and "the loneliest", due to the fact that they opened themselves up to "all those hidden feelings, all that guilt, pain and sorrow". (TV: Hide)