Seems like in spite of what @Havenstone said this Heroes of Myth might not be a game for me then.
Part of why I still like Altair the most in Keepers is exactly that while he is a super-cute demon boy his relationship with the mc is not always the most honest and forthright and in the case of my mc that comes from both sides (though of course Altair has more, juicier and bigger secrets on account of already being rich and powerful while my mc at the moment has only one truly big secret, being the identity of his “dead” magical dad).
Cross posting this in the keeper thread because I love Alty’s little “Garak” moments (and also that just like Garak Alty is funny, witty and for the most part genuinely friendly and helpful) and I have the feeling that excepting perhaps Yakov he probes and “tests” the mc far more than the others. Either that or his answers at the sculpture garden, to name one example, were just so he wouldn’t have to admit to a silly cutesy sculpture being his actual favourite. In any case omissions, strategic “technical” truths and misdirection. I like it and of course my mc does much the same albeit not yet in the same league.
Back to the original point. Even when not playing evil I agree with Mara that the truth is not always a virtue in and of itself and there are good reasons both villainous and not to not always volunteer the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
And with that said the best lies always have a sprinkling of the truth somewhere in them as well but the almost childish insistence that only the unvarnished truth will make you happy or set you free is overblown at best.