Monday DE

[bjornwilde]

A simple topic for today, is your pup a good liar? Do they need to practice the lie in their head or are they wicked clever and can come up with anything on the fly? Are they so good they can fool themselves? Or are they so bad everyone wants to play poker with them?

Comments

[just_cant_lose]

Lies like breathing. Turned himself and his whole life into a lie, in service to reinforcing another lie. Lies because it's less boring than truth, but he's too smart to fool himself. He keeps track of all of them.

[hecu_marine]

Ellen is an extremely bad liar and generally does not try.

Fawkes could probably lie with ease, as he's not very good at changing his tone of voice or inflection and doesn't have a very expressive face (so everything looks and sounds about the same), but he's spent a lifetime studying philosophies that don't put much stock in falsehoods, so he doesn't do it.

Shephard's pretty good at lying, as one would expect of someone who has a life's experience of fishing, but it's best if he rehearses first.

Santo's not big on lying. Omission and misdirection are as close as he gets.

Quicksilver isn't the greatest at lying, but makes up for that fact with literal fast-talk. If he wants somebody to believe something he says he usually blitzes them into it.

Stacker Pentecost largely sticks to lies of omission. The Drift does not allow for dishonesty.

Varric, now... oh, Maker, Varric. He can see the truth from where he's standing, and hit it with a crossbow bolt if he tries, but it's generally so boring without a few embellishments.

[bringspeopletogether]

Alistair's a terrible liar...but he is quite good at deflection and lying through omission when required. Never maliciously! More like, "I don't wanna talk about this thing, so I will never ever bring it up and start telling jokes if you get too close to figuring it out." Three cheers for the joking-to-cover-your-pain archetype?

[have_no_mercy]

Tess lies as well as she needs to given the circumstances. Sometimes, when she's really thrown, she sucks at it. Mostly she's very good.

[varadia]

Ysalwen is better at deflection than lying, and she's generally better at all of that with strangers rather than people who know her well (particularly friends and loved ones).

X is AWESOME at lying, but usually only does it when she's pretending to be someone else.

Raven misleads with the truth. It's more challenging!

Wonder Woman doesn't lie.

Nynaeve is pretty terrible at it.

Michael is excellent at misleading through very careful word choice.

Galadan is a great liar, but he has more fun playing with shading the truth.

Flemeth is the best at lying. Forever the best.

[likeroaringlions]

Harry Monmouth is a good liar, and enjoys it. In fact, he's crap at being entirely honest. Does he fool himself? Sometimes. He's very controlling of his presentation (even when he's presenting himself as a colossal mess) and his self-justifications, and even though he usually knows he's being disingenuous, there's also enough truth put into it that sometimes he'll get genuinely offended if someone doesn't believe him. He can pick apart all the flaws in his own reasoning, but god forbid someone else should do it.

Most of the rest of my people are pretty honest. Mostly competent enough at social white lies or keeping things secret, or maintaining a lie if it's really necessary, but they're not going out of their way to do it.

[feminine_menace]

Abe no Seimei is very good at lying, and has made an art form out of a very specific kind of lying that involves creating and maintaining a fake persona for a short or long con. The short-con personae he can whip up at a moment's notice and carry off very convincingly: the long-con personae are extremely intricate and obsessively planned out, with full documentation and paper trails to back them up. At Milliways Seimei is mostly just himself, and regards the place as a vacation from the need for lying or concealment.

YT is pretty good at lying or bluffing convincingly on the spot, but she is not as good at long-term concealment as she thinks she is.

[ceitfianna]

Will is a good liar and he tends to be an improvisor as that was what worked in Sherwood. The Merry Men weren't known for long cons, some of them did but Will was always used best as the diversion, or the one on the streeets. There he was known and had others to protect him so didn't need to construct anything elaborate.

Charles is actually a pretty bad liar because he's uses his telepathy to cheat and know what to say to turn the conversation and what to omit. One of my favorite moments in Days of Future Past is when he has to try and get them near Erik and his lie is awful, Logan gives him this look of the hell. At that moment he doesn't have his telepathy and he's never had to actually go, no really, nothing to see here.

Quentin is an incredibly good liar, he has some secrets that he's been hiding from those closest to him since they met him. Also as the Fae live side by side with humans, the art of hiding and lying is key to that. His lies are helped by his illusions and in Milliways he appreciates not having to hide as much of himself.

Sameth is a terrible liar, canon shows this. He can create a good illusion but has no idea how to present himself as anyone other than himself.

William's not a good liar, his feelings are too close to the surface. He'll turn a conversation and bluster but he doesn't tend to outright lie a lot.

Moist adores lying, he's amazing at putting on new identities and taking advantage of what people are expecting to see then using that. Though he does love when he can get away with something by telling the truth, that's just fun.

Jane is adept at the kind of lies that keep society running smoothly, when to agree but also loves turning those lies into biting truths.

Ivan is like Jane, best at societies lies. He couldn't pull off what Miles does with two very different roles, but he knows how to use expectation to hide and gets better at that as he grows older.

Demeter isn't a great liar, she can transform herself and knows how to hide but she's too much herself.

Tumnus is a better liar than he'd like to be, but he had to learn how to be one to survive the Long Winter. He would rather be honest and the lies he's best at are those of silence and omission.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford lies through omission, though he's not above the occasional lie that lets him be somewhere he's not supposed to be.

[death_gone_mad]

Since Amascut's name is taboo, she has a tendency to collect epithets. The Deceiver is a prominent one for a reason. She is like an onion made of lies, hell, reading her mind is likely to only net you more lies in order to keep you reading while she figures out how to eat your brain.

WHAT IF HER FEAR OF CATS IS A LIE? *mindblown*

Fairy Fixit is a blabbermouth. By that I don't mean that she is incapable of lying, but finding out the truth from her can sometimes be like searching for a needle in the wrong haystack, in a semi-organized warehouse full of haystacks. At which point you would wonder why a warehouse full of haystacks even exists.