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[knifedances]

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Izaya just loves humans. Human observation is his 'hobby' and his all-consuming interest, something that's evidenced right down to his career as an information broker (a position he 'fell' into quite naturally because of his in-depth knowledge of people and Tokyo's underworld even from high-school age). He possesses genius-level intellect and is able to determine a wealth of information about a person based entirely on subtle cues such as body-language and tone of voice. In canon he also sits at the center of a complicated web of information, utilising myriad sources within the city of Tokyo who all report back to him. In games he either won't have the use of his extensive information network or it'll take time for him to build one back up (something he'll certainly attempt to do) but he will be able to determine a lot of information simply from observation, holding conversations with people, through stalking the network and reading through other people's conversations, sometimes in-person covert stalking etc. He won't always be doing this with everyone (though he's likely to casually look over all conversations and retain or discard information depending on whether he finds it useful or not) but because the world of RP is a shared hobby and not everyone will be down with this kind of behaviour, consider this an opt-out (or opt-in! whatever you like!) post.

I'll never use information that I haven't been given permission to use before-hand, and there will have to be a discernible way for him to get his hands on it. For example, if you describe your character's emotional state in the action brackets, Izaya could pick it up from subtle cues in tone of voice/facial expression/wording of a sentence etc. He'll never just ~*~magically~*~ pull information from thin air, there has to be a physical source of some kind (if it's extensive information eg. history of a character he's discerning we'd need to plot out before-hand how he gathered the information!).

Also, he's not a nice guy, he may love humans but the situations he most loves to see them in are ones that instigate trauma/emotional disturbance/unsettled dispositions. He'll do things to disconcert and unsettle your characters if he can get away with it/just for fun.

SO I understand completely if you'd rather avoid this kind of interaction. Just give me a heads-up here if you'd rather Izaya didn't do these things with your characters or if you'd rather avoid interaction with him entirely. Alternatively, feel free to tell me here if you'd especially like to have some less-than-pleasant interaction with Izaya!

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[reconciledtwins]

He is free to be unpleasant at Rubedo, but deliberate attempts at instigation are likely to get him threatened and, if he continues, stabbed. Albedo would probably respond in kind to unpleasantness and can be incredibly cruel and vicious and is good at figuring out where to hit.

He can be as much of a jerk as he wants to Ulquiorra, but he's unlikely to get a reaction beyond 'trash' unless he goes all the way to attacking someone important to him. He'll also probably have a hard time reading Ulqui at first because what is body language.

[knifedances]

Izaya's pretty subtle on the whole, not the type to make whatever he's doing too obvious unless he's sure he can get away with it, but that being said I'm not at all opposed to having things backfire on him sometimes! He deserves it after all.

And lmao thanks, I'll bear all this in mind!