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Apr. 17th, 2020
Alloran can't read anyone else's mind but has the empathic power of broadcasting images and emotion. Esplin had him singing to the tune of 'fear me, I am powerful and cruel' for over twenty years and initially this hits the series protagonists hard, making them quail in his presence and work past it with an active effort. With repeated exposure it's increasingly easy to ignore the effects until they basically become able to use it as an early warning system that doesn't hamper or influence them.
If you'd like your character to either skip to basically 'hearing' and knowing what's being conveyed without being made to feel it themselves, or outright be immune, you can state as much in the tags or reply here. Or both, I ain't mad.
In-universe computers and robots can pick up on thought-speech, which is thought of as a universal mode of communication. Of course, these machines were designed and made in a setting where thought-speak is a relatively common way to communicate.
If you'd like your robot, or heck anyone else, to not be able to hear Alloran's thought-speak, by all means!
If you'd like your character to either skip to basically 'hearing' and knowing what's being conveyed without being made to feel it themselves, or outright be immune, you can state as much in the tags or reply here. Or both, I ain't mad.
In-universe computers and robots can pick up on thought-speech, which is thought of as a universal mode of communication. Of course, these machines were designed and made in a setting where thought-speak is a relatively common way to communicate.
If you'd like your robot, or heck anyone else, to not be able to hear Alloran's thought-speak, by all means!