[tlv] lie detection opt-in

[reflectatine]

SO. In canon, Wade has the ability to discern—apparently with total accuracy—when someone is lying to him. This isn't any kind of magic power or superhuman ability, simply (from what I can tell) the result of lifelong trust issues coupled with obsessive tendencies and observational skills. Even in the context of his canon, there are a lot of limitations: if somebody lies by omission or believes what they're telling him is true, it won't set off any alarm bells. (On the show, a member of the white supremacist organization he's actively investigating successfully takes him on a quasi-date then lures him to her base of operations by sticking to what is technically the truth the entire time.)

I'm making this strictly opt-in, though if you want to opt out and would like to come up with an IC reason for it here, I'm super down! On the other hand, if your character habitually lies about something and you're dying for them to be found out, by all means mention it. (I can't promise Wade'll immediately call them out, but he won't forget it.)

ALSO: as far as the network goes, this definitely won't work on audio or text-based communication. I'm inclined to say he'd be able to do it via video, but there's a lot of wiggle room and I'm happy to go with whatever's most interesting for the thread!


<b>Player name:</b> <b>Character name:</b> <b>Can Wade tell when your character is lying? Any special circumstances that might prevent him from doing so?</b> <b>Are there any Deep Secrets™ your character has that you'd like brought to light? Anything they regularly lie about?</b> <b>Generally speaking, how often does your character lie?</b>

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[ninefox]

Player name: Isabelle
Character name: Jedao

Can Wade tell when your character is lying? Any special circumstances that might prevent him from doing so? I'm going to go with no, unless Jedao is really off his game. He's from a canon where he's 1) trained to be space dystopia super spy 2) has been lying backwards and forwards to everyone else in the space dystopia, including the guy who keeps performing weird soul surgery on him to make him more docile, and getting away with it until he sets off a total revolution against the whole thing, and 3) has done some deeply weird psychological thing to himself to prevent actual dreamwalking psychic interrogators from getting anything out of him, despite otherwise being vanillish human. Jedao knows how to believe in what he's saying at the moment, and he also just....comes from a completely different universe and culture (it's very much not standard western space opera, it's asian-ish but has its own cultures and subcultures) and his nonverbal communication, both in terms of tells and faking it, isn't a language Wade would have any experience with.

Are there any Deep Secrets™ your character has that you'd like brought to light? Anything they regularly lie about? Jedao has been in game over two years now, so most of his deep secrets are out there already. He's got lots of fun stuff that's less buried than it was that can mess with his head, though, so if he's covering his lies less than optimally, I'll definitely let you know in the thread you can pick it up.

CW for sexual assault, highlight to read: One thing that I WOULD like to come up is that Jedao....doesn't lie, but definitely conceals and omits, and even when he does admit it, downplays and speaks tangentially about his history of being sexually assaulted. He still hasn't said the words "rape" or "rapist" out loud, and it would probably be good for him if someone called him out on that, and most of the people who know are erring on the side of being gentle with him. I have NO idea if that's something Wade as a character would push on, or whether you as a player would be up for playing that out, but it's the only hidden thing that I'm actively looking for someone to tug on at the moment.

Generally speaking, how often does your character lie? Actually very rarely! On the barge, he doesn't need to, especially now that he's lost some of his early paranoia and barge events have spilled some of his big secrets already. It happens every once in a while, though. More frequently he just means five different things at once and chooses the one that is most useful to say in that moment.