Naive
Flaw · 1 pt
You are hopelessly naïve about the nature of reality and see everything through “rose-colored glasses.” You may have been brought up in wealth and privilege or be a survivor of abuse and trauma that you have repressed. You are hesitant to suspect evil or foul play in others, which can be a serious problem. The difficulty for any rolls for you to detect another person’s ill intent, from the Sense Wyrm Gift to Empathy rolls, is raised by 2.
Also in BoS p. 64 — text differs from W20 (50%)
Surely, the world can’t be that dark… can it? (Spoiler: Yes, yes it can.) Oblivious to the depths of misery around you, you retain an intrinsic faith in the best possible outcome. And while this sort of optimism can provide the foundation for literally world-changing beliefs (see the paradigm It’s All Good – Have Faith! in Mage 20, p. 570), it can also blind you to the realities you face. When making a roll that could detect another character’s bad intentions or malignant nature, add +2 to the difficulty of your roll. Story-wise, you have a hard time believing that the terrible things you see around you could really be as bad as they seem, and may perhaps lack empathy for other people’s pain (+2 to the difficulty of Empathy-based rolls, at the Storyteller’s option) because you recognize so little about pain yourself.
See also 2
Abilities & Attributes
- Empathy shared/trait/ability/empathy
Gifts
- Sense Wyrm werewolf/power/gift/sense-wyrm