Editing Talk:Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

===Personality Shift (Severe)===

A sanguinary animist who develops this derangement believes he actually becomes one of his victims for a short time after the murder. During this time, the character behaves in a manner consistent with how he perceives the victim, but has no special insight. For instance, a white man who murders a black man and then suffers from this derangement might attempt to speak in African-American vernacular English, but wind up sounding ridiculous. An American who murders a European gains no knowledge of the victim's native language, whatever it happens to be. This derangement's effect lasts for a scene, during which the character often tries to convey messages to the victim's next of kin or otherwise tie up any "loose ends" his death has caused. Again, these desires are filtered through the character's madness, and so they might not bear any resemblance to what the deceased would actually have wanted.

'''Effect:''' When the character commits murder, the player rolls Resolve + Composure. Failure indicates that the character takes on what he thinks of as the victim's identity, as described above.