Mirror-Image Disadvantages

-1 point

While you cannot have two full-sized disadvantages that are
opposites – because one obviates the other – you can take such
a pairing as a single quirk. This doesn’t work like Manic-
Depressive or Split Personality, where serious problems take
turns afflicting you; that’s worth more than a point. In this
case, you normally experience no bad effects . . . but in a situ-
ation where either disadvantage could apply, roll 3d. On 17-18,
one facet gets out of balance (flip a coin or roll a die) and you
suffer its effects, for good or for ill.
Good examples would be “Mercurial ally” (Chummy/Loner)
and “Self-centered and altruistic by turns” (Selfish/Selfless).
Although pairs of -5-point disadvantages such as these work
best, that isn’t a strict requirement.