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[mightiswright]

In canon, Phoenix has an object called a magatama which lets him see when someone is lying. Because it requires someone with spirit power to recharge it all the time, I've converted it into an actual superpower for him.

Ability to tell when someone is lying... via being able to see a giant lock slam over his view of them. I'm basically adapting his canonical ability to see when someone is hiding something and expose it, via a spiritually charged stone, into an actual innate power. The more severe/complicated the lie, the more locks there'll be. If he can get the person to speak some degree of truth about the topic, then the amount locks will shatter accordingly to let him know they're starting to open up. This is not confined only to someone who is speaking to him, but only if he can hear them.

Of course, just because he sees it doesn't mean he necessarily has to point it out. So feel free to comment here if you'd prefer for him to not bring it up, or if you think your character has reason why it won't work on them!

Comments

[iampretty]

Connors you can totally see when he's lying, but for Hans at least, I'd like the more asshole bits of his secret asshole nature to be under wraps at the moment-so I wouldn't like the fact that he ICly has like a bajillion psyche locks pointed out.

However, feel free to have Phoenix notice it. c:

[mightiswright]

That's fine! Phoenix is like the master of keeping things to himself hahaha.

[abadidea]

I'll let you know when Isaac isn't telling Nick the truth, because he's totally free to know!

[deduce]

SO. SHERLOCK. COMPLICATED GUY. i'm fine with psychlocks showing up (and there would probably be a WHOOOOLE BUNCH too) but I do think that when he's acting as a specific persona, he's not lying so much as... well inhabiting that persona. i definitely think locks would appear when he said his name etc because that definitely is a lie, but i dont think phoenix would see too much into this initial... thing

if that makes sense
cries help

[mightiswright]

I GOTCHU

The thing with Psychelocks is that they canonly could be kind of inconsistent because narrative, so I'm totally okay with bending things around for the sake of rp. For a persona, I'd agree yeah, it's not so much lying as acting, so unless Sherlock outright lies in response to a direct question about it, I don't think any would show up. Does that sound okay?

[deduce]

man i remember playing phoenix
psychelocks are so confusing


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[mightiswright]

added you!

[larker]

Since Gabriel is always lying about himself, Phoenix is more than welcome to see this. Even though the big lock will be shattered next weekend, there's always plenty of other things he's lying about. Mainly his family but still

[databoner]

Down for this with Inumuta, although as said before, gonna be covered in psychelocks.