Neil Josten is a bad liar.
Neil has had to lie to stay alive. He is good at reading people, he is good at faking and masking and tricking and manipulating when he is in need. But he is not in need any more.
Neil Josten is the real person who blossomed from a lie when he was given a safe space and people that cared. #10 Fox from PSU is the most real he has ever been able to be. And he knows it.
Neil Josten is a horrible liar because he loves not needing to lie. He is able to lie. He will if needed without missing a beat. But when there's no need? He is deliberately bad at it.
He doesn't try being good at playing amongst us, or werewolf (mafia? How is this game called in English speaking countries??)
He comes up with extremely obnoxious lies that are imposible to mistake with the truth when he doesn't want to answer a question:
Neil breaking into Wymack apartment because he is having a bad night and he is paranoid:
Wymack, still half asleep: Neil? What are you doing here?
Neil: I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm actually a werewolf and there's full moon outside so I can't go back to campus until it's daytime.
Wymack, sighs: does your werewolf form need to talk it out or just being away from moonlight?
Neil: no moonlight is enough...?
Wymack: ... I'm making us coffee.
With the variation of gaslighting media:
Intervier: Neil, what are your thoughts on your teammate Kevin Day and Thea Muldani being named couple of the year?
Neil (who knows it's a fake relationship), looking straight into the camera, the most confused he's ever been: who?
Interviewer: eh... Thea Muldani?
Neil: nono, I know who Thea Muldani is. Who the fuck is Kevin Day?
Interviewer, pointing at the poster behind Neil where Kevin and him are possing together: him.
Neil, stares at it for a good 30seconds before looking back into the camera and whispering: I've never seen him before in my life. Pretty sure that's photoshopped.
In my hc about Neil making up reasons why the character he randomly selects is the murderer in the book Andrew's reading, Neil is wrong in his guesses. If he wanted, he could know the killer without missing a beat, but he doesn't want to. He selects his suspect completely randomly when he doesn't have enough information. It's not about being able to read people or being right. It's precisely the contrary. He likes being wrong. He likes making up shit that he knows makes no sense. He likes not needing to recognise threats correctly because it reminds him his life doesn't depend on it anymore.
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