Thread:Byfield/@comment-4890809-20150728001122/@comment-220364-20150728014428

The minute you have a character that can use either ability with out the need to telepathically communicate with the target, the power encompasses something other than telepathy.

The major breaker for both is magic. There is no need for a mage to pick someones mind to craft an illusion or impose it only in the mind(s) of the target. The same holds for mind control, mental rapport need not be.

Then you have characters like Poison Ivy who exercise mind control through pheromones, drugs, and/or toxins. Or Mirror Mater where illusions are created out of light or optics.

This is a bit of an expansion of what I posted to your thread on Midoki24's wall.