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.
A player, 8 September 2012
Question: I have two personalities in play, Matsu Tactitian & Matsu Spud. I play Consideration, with Matsu Spud as the target I then declare an attack and assign Matsu Tactitian & Matsu Spud to the same battlefield My opponent plays Hidden Defences, targeting Matsu Tactitian & Matsu Spud
What Happens: A Neither Matsu Tactitian or Matsu Spud bow as the Consideration negates all the card effects after targeting. B Matsu Tactitian bows. Matsu Spud does not bow as the Consideration negates only the card effects targeting the "Considerationed" person.
Does the ruling change if the two personalities are assigned to two different battlefields (Hidden Defences can still target "at any location")
May thanks!
Relevant card text:
Consideration Open: Choose your performing unbowed Tactician and target another of your Personalities: Give the Personality +3F. After the next time this turn another player's action targets him, negate its effects.
Hidden Defenses Battle: If you control no Personalities (in play), target one or two Personalities at any location: Bow them. Negate their straightening.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 September 2012
Question: I have two personalities in play, Matsu Tactitian & Matsu Spud. I play Consideration, with Matsu Spud as the target I then declare an attack and assign Matsu Tactitian & Matsu Spud to the same battlefield My opponent plays Hidden Defences, targeting Matsu Tactitian & Matsu Spud
What Happens: A Neither Matsu Tactitian or Matsu Spud bow as the Consideration negates all the card effects after targeting. B Matsu Tactitian bows. Matsu Spud does not bow as the Consideration negates only the card effects targeting the "Considerationed" person.
Does the ruling change if the two personalities are assigned to two different battlefields (Hidden Defences can still target "at any location")
May thanks!
Relevant card text:
Consideration Open: Choose your performing unbowed Tactician and target another of your Personalities: Give the Personality +3F. After the next time this turn another player's action targets him, negate its effects.
Hidden Defenses Battle: If you control no Personalities (in play), target one or two Personalities at any location: Bow them. Negate their straightening.
What happens is scenario "A".
"Negate its effects" means all of them; otherwise it would say, "negate its effects [upon the target]" or such.