...god that reminds me of a talk Jedao One and Quentin had one time where Quentin was like, I love how much you manage my life to make it better, and Jedao's little border collie heart was like I LOVE YOU FOR NOT HATING THAT
and it's weird because he wasn't like...monitoring people for disloyalty but he did very much go through Fives and Quentin's private comms filters on the regular right up through graduation
some things came out weirdly as a wash because it was like "I care what other people think of me" - mostly no because I'm doing My Thing And Will Be Dissuaded By Nothing but also Yes because it's important to manage your image!!
and on the flip side for suspicion, it took Quentin and Fives so much work to get Jedao to ever use a safeword because it's better to do something you hate in bed one time and grin and bear it than to let anyone know there's a thing you hate so they can use it against
(and Fives could very much understand that DON'T LET ANYONE SEE YOUR WEAKNESSES attitude, but also... DON'T EVER MAKE ME HURT YOU JUST B/C YOU WON'T SAY NO!!!)
Jedao definitely did more stuff he was uncomfortable with wtih Quentin early on, partly because he didn't have the weird mobius double reach-around fixation on protecting quentin, partly because quentin was easier to fool
I'd want it to be like. every stat has both positive and negative consequences, you can just give yourself whatever you want in every stat and its still SORT OF balanced
an NPC with a low Sus score is easily persuaded by a PC with a high Man score, but an NPS with a HIGH Sus score can only be persuaded by a PC with a LOW Man score
negative grandiosity