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abilities

te·lep·a·thy ;
❝communication between minds by some
means other than sensory perception.❞

     ⇨ mind-reading ; Self-explanatory: He is able to read other people's minds. It should be said he can go pretty far back pretty quickly and memories are there. (He tells Erik that he knows everything about him when they've just barely met.)
     ⇨ thought-projection ; I am not 100% certain on the correct word for this. Charles is able to share his own thoughts with others. (ex: diving into the ocean, he was able to send Erik his thoughts of "Calm your mind, Erik.")
     ⇨ surfacing memory ; he is able to not only pull positive memories to the surface (as seen when training with Erik, he brings a childhood birthday to the front of his mind to calm him)
     ⇨ erasing memory ; is also able to erase memories (as shown by what he did to Moira at the end of canon)
     ⇨ perception alteration ; he is able to make himself unseen or seen differently by others (shown when he travels to Russia with Moria and Erik and makes them unseen in the back of a truck by soldiers). he is also able to create illusions. this applies to the use of the other senses, as well
     ⇨ commands ; he is able to issue commands and people will obey with the use of his skill (ie: go to sleep when they are in Russia has an immediate result of -- well, going to sleep). this extends into full-blown mind control/paralysis (he is able to stop Shaw from moving/an entire building of CIA)
     ⇨ empathy ; he is able to sense mutants, and people, based on their brain wavelengths - it is not gone into full detail to what extent this is, but he can tell who/where people are and Cerebro enhances it

❝You see, one of the many spectacular
things my mutation allows me to do, is
that I can read your mind.❞