

Genre Savvy characters noticing a lack of mirrors ( or several broken ones) will have this same effect. No reflection (usually reserved for vampires, ghosts and The Soulless).So your mileage may vary depending on the critter: These flaws in their façade are usually mixed and matched.
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More tragically, a hero under the effects of The Virus will usually have the full emotional impact of it sink in when they can't see their reflection. Writers love to work these tells into The Reveal when the creature's victim finally puts two and two together. The Hunter of Monsters and mundane heroes wise to these evil tells will be sure to use them to ferret out the villain from among normal people. They may fool the mundane senses, but not the spiritual ones inanimate objects, animals, children, The Empath or spiritually touched people can sense and see through the deception and cause a Glamour Failure. But their supernatural (and at times inherently evil) nature means that no matter how complete the deception, they can never truly hide what they are. There are many things that go bump in the night, secure in the knowledge that their unholy powers can trick the human eye into blindness, allowing them to live among and prey on humanity with impunity.
