Tuesday DE

[inlovewithwords]

Piggybacking off Bethan:

How comfortable is your character with lying? How good are they at it?

Comments

[have_no_mercy]

snort Tess is very comfortable with it and is very good at it.

Same for Creed, but he's less so adept at it unless it's something very important.

For Kylo it depends on the situation as to how comfortable he is with it, but he's pretty good at it.

Rose is appalled at the question. She sucks at lying and is mostly uncomfortable with it.

[death_gone_mad]

Amuscut didn't earn the epithet "The Deciever" by being honest. She is good at it, but she does cheat at it via subtle psychic manipulation. Well, she also uses not-so-subtle psychic manipulation when she gets frustrated with the stubborness of certain people, but she's just about past lying about her identity at that point.

She cheats at lying. Huh. That is a thing I typed.

Anyhow, Fairy Fixit is more likely to omit important details than lie. But she is pretty good at lying about what she knows. Plus her constant infodumping makes people either ignore her babbling or trust she knows what she is talking about and isn't hiding anything.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka isn't very comfortable with lying and for the most part she is terrible at it. She does manage to hide her identity after Order 66, so I think she can do it when it's her life.

Sabine I can see being good at it but avoids it because she's trying to be a better person, someone Hera and Kanan would be proud of.

Jessica Drew lies better than rugs and she is comfortable with it when it saves lives. She refuses to lie to her friends or people she loves.

More later maybe.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Poking my head in before I head out again:

Yamato can lie if he absolutely has to, but I don't think anyone would say he's good at it, and he's not very comfortable with it at all. The one place where he actually does excel at deception is misdirecting people in fights or on a larger battlefield, and he's a lot more adept at that than he is a verbal lying.

[skyhigh_seance]

Klaus tries to lie ALL THE TIME. This comes from a lifetime of 'not measuring up to his potential' and not actually being able to de-program enough to tell Reggie to his face exactly where he can stick his 'potential'.

Klaus is not, actually, very good at lying.

[milesy]

Wilford is very good at it, and has no problem doing it. He just prefers not to because it's too easy to get caught up in your own deception if it goes on for too long.

Nichola doesn't lie often, but she can, and has no problem doing it when she needs to. She prefers to lie by omission more than anything.

Celine... I'm not sure. I want to say that it's not in her nature, but that's wrong. She maintained an affair for an unspecified amount of time, so either she's very good at lying, or her husband cared so little about her and their marriage that he didn't even notice.

I think maybe she's not the best at lying and just got lucky for a long time.

[childofrebellion]

A number of mine are good at lying as its part of what keeps them safe, but don't really enjoy it.

Cassian is a good and subtle liar as that's what makes him a good spy, but he doesn't like lying. Its one of the parts of his life that wears him down and I think one reason he keeps making the friends he does is he likes people who are honest and don't hide behind lies.

Charles is actually a very bad liar since he's used to using his telepathy to know what to say to be convincing if not using his telepathy to get around a tricky situation. There's a moment in Days of Future Past where he has to lie and is so bad at it, its one of my favorite moments in that weird movie.

Quentin is another liar who's good at lying because that keeps him safe, but throughout canon, its clear that he doesn't like lying. Its something he does and accepts, he even has a line in Ashes of Honor about the Fae, "we're all good liars."

Moist is not only good at lying, he enjoys it and gets a thrill from it.

Demeter is a good liar but mainly she hides what she is by omission instead of lies.

Will S. is comfortable with lying, its part of what kept him and the other outlaws safe and is pretty good at it.

William isn't the best liar, he tends to not say things.

Sameth isn't a good liar, canon shows how easily he gets caught out.

Ivan's a decent liar, he has a lot of practice covering for Miles, but he tries to keep things simple.

Tumnus is an okay liar, he doesn't like doing it but it kept him safe during the Long Winter.

[sticktothemission]

Gabriel is absolutely comfortable with lying and is usually fairly adept at it. Headcanon is that this is something he eventually does for a living, via Blackwatch.

As for Reaper, man sometimes even I don't know what he's lying about.

[cameoflage]

He has great hair and he loves lying!

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion has no problem with the abstract concept of lying; their opinion is that it's acceptable in some situations and unacceptable in others. However, their only previous social experience interacting directly with other sapient beings is from when they were in the omnic army; they had no motive to lie to their peers and no ability to lie to their superiors. Because of this, it doesn't usually occur to them that lying is an option when people ask them questions with uncomfortable answers. That doesn't mean they'll always give a truthful answer, but they're more likely to refuse to answer the question than respond with a lie or a distortion of the truth.

[wayward_sun]

Lucifer doesn't lie. It's a principle he adheres strictly to and he gets down right pissy when people call him the Father of Lies.

One could argue that he lies to himself a lot though.

Elrond is diplomatic. Which is lying dressed up and using an indoor voice.

Eric lies.