Mitchell Nostrade

Mitchell "Mitch" Nostrade is a New Human and quaternary seatholder in the Council of Supreme Elects. Nostrade grew up a relatively normal life. His parents were not surprised when he revealed himself to be a New Human; they always expected that he was keeping a secret from them, but they were never sure exactly what he was keeping from them. He did not actively pursue a l ife in New Human politics, rather he attended college and received a Master's Degree in psychology. After working with New Humans struggling with coming to terms with their abilities, he gained worldwide renown and was elected as a Supreme Elect.

New Human Ability: Sense Enhancement
Nostrade has the ability to enhance his senses to superhuman levels. The major limitation to this ability is that he is only able to enhance once sense at a time and, while one sense is enhanced, the other four senses are "turned off" and rendered useless.
 * Eyesight: When enhancing his eyesight, Nostrade is able to see much further distances with much greater clarity. He see's in with more vivid colors, with greater detail, and can "zoom" his vision like a telescope or microscope. When enhancing another sense, his eyes become opaque, and he cannot see.
 * Hearing: When enhancing his hearing, he is able to hear with greater clarity and from greater distances. He can hear much quieter sounds, such as hearts beating or bugs crawling. He can focus his hearing on a particular person or use his hearing like a scanning device, listening to multiple people talking for a specific topic. While enhancing another sense, his brain's auditory cortex shuts down, and he is temporarily deafened.
 * Smelling: When enhancing his olfactory sense, he is able to smell things that ordinary humans would never be able to smell. He can detect when a person is lying, tell how they are feeling by the pheromones they release, and track another being by their scent. When enhancing another scent, his brain's olfactory bulb shuts down, and he cannot smell anything.
 * Touching: While enhancing his tactile sense, Nostrade is able to feel things that average people are unable to feel. Most notably, he uses this ability to feel the weak points in matter that he is touching. A major limitation to enhancing his sense of touch is that he is much more vulnerable to physical pain, and since he is temporarily blinded and deafened while enhancing his tactile sense, he is extremely vulnerable to attack in this state.
 * Tasting: While enhancing his gustatory sense, he can taste things, such as each and every ingredient used in a dish, that normal people cannot taste. Nostrade typically only uses this ability when he knows he is in no danger and is eating so as to make his eating experience more pleasureful.