A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
Control Dark Virtue Open: Target your unbowed Samurai: While he remains unbowed and in play, negate all straightening of a target Personality.
Player X bows personality A which "controls" personality B, does this break the effect of Control permanently?
Player X bows personality A which "controls" personality B, does this break the effect of Control permanently?
Yes. http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_R#Remain: "A duration that lasts while something 'remains' in a given state ends whenever the thing is no longer in that state."
Follow up to this: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=77494
The OP asked if the bowing of the controlling samurai would break the effect of Control permanently. Wouldn't the effect still remain once the controlling samurai straightens?
Edit: My bad, I didn't even read the definition. I just responded to the yes.
Wouldn't the effect still remain once the controlling samurai straightens?
No. Have a look at the definition of "remain" again.