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Hey guys! So, for his last Echo, Neku got back his Player Pin. What does that mean? Three things:

1.) Neku now has privacy breaking mind reading powers. This only works when he's activating the pin. Basically, Neku will be able to read surface thoughts, but only if he wants to do it. This is not something that's constantly on, and for a while it'll probably freak him out too much to use on any regular basis. ~~(i'm debating whether or not to put up a general permissions post on this-- what do you all think?~~ Here's a permission post!)

2.) Neku is now immune to having his thoughts read or influenced by other psychic sources, so long as he is wearing the pin.

3.) Eventually, Neku will figure out how to use the pin to 'imprint' a word or phrase onto other people. Basically, said word or phrase gets shoved into their head as a kind of 'aha!' moment.

It's also for finding Noise, but... those don't exist right now so. This is mostly a 'FYI' post in case anyone else has psychic powers, but any questions? Any plot ideas? COME AT ME BROS.

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i would make a permissions post just to be safe! but i am def okay with mind reading :)

Okie dokie! o>

I don't suppose you could expand a bit on the 'imprinting'? I don't feel like I understand either the purpose or effect thereof.

Also I foresee some interesting interactions with my canonmate once she gets her mind-reading powers back, but I should probably leave those to her mun.

Sure! It's can be a little complicated, sorry I didn't explain it well. XD The purpose in the canon was to sort of allow the people in the Game (aka the people who were dead) to influence the actions of the people outside of it (aka the living). What it does is the person with the Player Pin reads the thoughts of the person they're trying to affect, and 'inserts' a word into their thoughts to lead them in that sort of direction. For example, there's a part in the game where a tech is trying to remember what part he needs, so Neku and his partner shove the word 'fuse' into his head so he goes and gets one. Alternatively, if they shove the word 'ramen' into his head, he stops for lunch. It's basically a really sneaky way of getting people to do things without telling them directly. Hope that makes more sense!

He can mind read?!

Adrian's in trouble :D

:D

It's not a constant thing, but... yup!

Very exciting! You wanna plot anything? These two haven't met yet, have they? Let me know if you want to do something!

Plotting is totally cool! And no, they haven't met... maybe he could be around when Neku's trying to figure out how the pin works and then lol semi accidental mind-reading?

That could be a lot of fun!! :D I like the sound of this already! Tell me more!!

Um! Well, what's probably going to happen after the initial freak out of getting it to work, he's going to try and go somewhere with not many people to see if he can figure out when it works and when it doesn't and stuff like that. It only works to read surface thoughts, though, so if Adrian's in the same general area as Neku, he'll be able to hear whatever he's thinking at the moment.

Okay, cool beans.

Adrian is starting to have more vampire-y thoughts in his head, like a hunger for red meat and a sensitivity to the sun, so if Neku "heard" those sorts of things he'd probably be able to guess that they aren't things people would typically say and then associate those heard things to thoughts, rather than spoken word!

I wonder how these two will be together, Adrian's pretty shy / timid with new people. :D

Oh goodness. XD Yea, that would freak Neku out a little. Prepare for some pretty creeped out staring??

Yea Neku's not the most social himself. Awkward silence/trying to think of conversations not about being a vampire for the win!

Could be fun!

Post something and I'll reply for sure x

Ok! o> Might not be up today, but soon~

awesome! Put it up when you can, I'm excited about it! x