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{{quote|''Crebain from Dunland!''|'''Legolas''', ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]''}}
This character doesn't just [[Speaks Fluent Animal|talk to animals]] and [[The Beast Master|order them about]]; he or she can see through their eyes and experience the world through their senses. The range of this power goes from [[Being Watched|paranoia inducing]] to [[Superpower Lottery]] winner. On the low end, the character can see through one animal, usually a [[Familiar]] he or she is [[Bond Creature|emotionally and spiritually tied to.]] On the high end, she can do this through more than one type of animal, or even [[Mind Hive|several at once]], making them close to [[The Omniscient]]. Depending on the level of control, she may only be able to go beyond seeing through their eyes and create [[The Swarm]] out of local fauna.
Typically the animals are vermin or smaller, since their "small minds" are easier to control though bigger types aren't unheard of... but the tradeoff is they're harder to control. Depending on the type of bond, having one of these living listening devices [[Poke in the Third Eye|killed]] may cause the character to [[Fainting Seer|faint from the feedback]].
Compare [[Eye Spy]]. Contrast [[Surveillance Drone]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The witch Arachne from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' can see though the eyes of her spiders. Medusa is apparently able to do the same thing with her snakes (or anyone she's [[Body Horror|implanted]] [[Explosive Leash|with them]]).
* Tanya, a Contractor in the second season of ''[[Darker
** Mao gets a more in-depth version wherein he possesses the animal and can speak through it. Unfortunately, his human body got killed when he was out spying, so now he's trapped in the form of a cat.
* A story from Rumiko Takahashi's ''[[Rumic World]]'' series called "When My Eyes Got Wings" involved an [[Ill Boy]] who could see the world through the eyes of a little bird.
* Sei Arisaka from ''[[Hime-chan no Ribon|Himechan no Ribon]]'' can do this along with being [[The Beast Master]]. For example, he can tell his cat to spy on somebody and be able to look through their eyes without being in direct control.
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** And if they're not skilled enough, the possessor runs a severe risk of having their mind almost [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body|inseparably entangled]] with that of the creature they're possessing. Also, the possessor had better make sure they aren't mistaken for dead while they're off gallivanting around in some animal's body.
** In ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'' Count de Mapyre uses his vampiric abilities to see though the eyes of hundreds of magpies.
* In ''The Bad Place'' by [[Dean Koontz]], [[Creepy Twins|creepy twin sisters]] Violet and Verbina have this ability. They share a constant mind link with each other and the dozens of cats occupying their home. Craving wild and evocative sensation, they often drift outward to possess the bodies of hunting animals and their prey to feel both the thrill of the hunt and the pain of death. They cannot do this to humans however.
* In ''[[Desperation]]'' by [[Stephen King]], the body-snatching [[Eldritch Abomination]] Tak can enter and control animals, seeing through their eyes and feeling their thoughts, but only for short periods. Its presence inside living things causes them to wither and die and it has to hop from one to the other fairly quickly. It prefers humans because they last the longest.
* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''The Immortals'' quartet, Daine talks to animals, sees through their eyes, and even had them sabotage an army for her.
* [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensman]]'' novel ''Gray Lensman''. Kimball Kinnison makes mental contact with a spider and sees through its eyes as he uses it to turn off a Boskonian's thought-screen. He can do this with higher level animals as well.
* In the latest ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' book, "Towers of Midnight", Graendal does this to a dove in order to remotely see what her enemy Rand Al'thor is up to.
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** Magic-users/wizards could do this with their [[Familiar|familiars]] and [[Our Homunculi Are Different|homunculi]].
** There were a surprisingly large number of spells that allow to use other beings' senses, and not only the sight. Some work only on a limited group of creatures, such as the undead. Also, [[Psychic Powers|psionic powers]].
*** By fourth edition the 'scry on familiar ability' has gone missing. Arcane users can see though the eyes of a owl familiar and several others allow you to determine line of sight from their point of view.
* The Animalism discipline in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Vampire: The Requiem|Requiem]]'' allows kindred to do this with one animal.
* In the ''[[DC Heroes]]'' roleplaying game, this was an available superpower called 'Eye of the Cat'.
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== Web Comics ==
* Master Seer possesses a cat in ''[[
** He later possesses a horse. Its rider is suitably wielded out.
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