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Do ROs care that we read their minds? I can't imagine anyone feeling comfortable with it. Like, we invade their privacy if worst ways. Like reading someone's diary/messages and etc. but worse, because they can't really defend themselves/hide their thoughts. All people need privacy, so I really wonder how they'd feel about being violated like that. It also gives Ortega's romance advantage - they know their privacy is safe
OH THAT WILL BE INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS. It will vary a lot between them, they all care, but in different ways.
Herald knows he doesn’t have good mental shields and blames himself a little for projecting (that’s a bit of an invasion into the mc’s mind as well, like someone talking in your ear). He trusts the mc not to go snooping because he’s convinced they are a good person, and any accidental leakage between them is just another weird couple thing. He’s the least worried about it, and the most likely to learn to have fun with it.
Argent has mental defences now, defences that she trusts, and fond of the mc or not, stick your fingers in that pool and be prepared to have them chewed off. She’s not comfortable with it at all, which is very understandable, but at least she can defend herself.
Steel doesn’t trust telepaths. At all. And he doesn’t trusts the mc’s explanations about how telepathy works, that you have to actively go snooping unless you broadcast. Or maybe he doesn’t trust that the mc wouldn’t snoop. He does have good mental shields and discipline, but he doesn’t trust them, because he wouldn’t KNOW and Steel hates not knowing. In time he could learn to trust. Maybe. But it’s one of the hurdles there.
