Last night, I was playing a game. My opponent had 2 personalities (Chuda Eichi and Daigotsu Iemitsu) and I had a Saya (non-Exp). I used her action on Iemitsu. He attaches a Spider Heavy on Eichi. He then transfers the Spider Heavy to Iemitsu. Would Saya's ability go off or not?
Saya and Sharing Items
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Political Open: Target a Personality. After the next time this turn his controller assigns him or an action resolves that he performed, his controller loses Honor equal to his Personal Honor, then he is dishonored.
So we're looking to see whether Iemitsu has "performed" the Share action that moves Followers between Personalities.
A Personality or Follower is performing an action if its controller is the player taking the action, and any of these things is true:
* The action comes from an ability on the Personality or Follower. * The action comes from an ability on an Item or Spell in the Personality’s unit. * The Personality or Follower was targeted by targeting in the ability’s constraints block (between the two colons).
Those are the criteria for Performing, as found here.
This is the Share ability being used:
Open: Bow one of your attachments: Transfer it to another of your target Personalities who can legally attach it.
As found here.
The ability does not come from any card, so the first two criteria are right out. The constraints block does not target anything either, so the last option is out. Iemitsu is not Performing any action when he receives the Follower by Sharing.