Blocking Lifesense with Aluminum

[Koloss17 She/They]

Very simple question here. It’s been confirmed that copperclouds can block life sense. However, can it be blocked with aluminum?

Obviously having an aluminum wall between you and someone else is going to block the life sense, but is there an easy wearable fix?

Obviously with blocking emotional allomancy, blocking the head seems to block interference. Would something similar block life sense?

I’m not sure it does, as with emotional allomancy, it is directly targeting the mind in a way that life sense just doesn’t.

To push that further, if some aluminum-lined fashion choice could block life sense, would it also block A-bronze? Those seem like the most similar powers to me.

And and, if the wearable option blocks opposing lifesense, would it block your own if you had it?

[alder24]

1 hour ago, Koloss17 said:

Obviously having an aluminum wall between you and someone else is going to block the life sense, but is there an easy wearable fix?

Obviously with blocking emotional allomancy, blocking the head seems to block interference. Would something similar block life sense?

Probably not - Nightblood is mostly blocked by an aluminum sheath but his life sense works perfectly fine. 

1 hour ago, Koloss17 said:

And and, if the wearable option blocks opposing lifesense, would it block your own if you had it?

Probably, just like a Coppercloud.

[Steel Speedster ♂]

At the very least, I would imagine that wearing a suit made purely out of aluminum would block life sense, but we also know that aluminum hats block emotional Allomancy without covering the entire head, so I could easily see aluminum lining doing the trick.

11 hours ago, Koloss17 said:

To push that further, if some aluminum-lined fashion choice could block life sense, would it also block A-bronze? Those seem like the most similar powers to me.

It seems like it probably would, but aluminum suits would not be practical for most Allomancers, because it blocks all external powers. You can't Push or Pull through aluminum, you can't soothe or riot, you pop your time bubbles immediately, you probably can't leech or nicroburst (is that the verb for using A-nicrosil on someone?) It would also block your own bronze sense obviously, and maybe even a coppercloud, although that's an interesting question.

Scadrians haven't invented such a suit, but that is quite possibly just because of how expensive aluminum is. If it does work, though, we might see Thugs and Tineyes wearing anti-bronze stealth suits.

However, I also think that it's possible that aluminum might fail to prevent you from emitting Allomantic pulses. While life sense and bronze sense do seem similar, there could very well be a difference between their separate targets that makes an aluminum suit work against one but not the other.

10 hours ago, alder24 said:

Probably not - Nightblood is mostly blocked by an aluminum sheath but his life sense works perfectly fine. 

The hilt would probably still be enough for his life sense to function, though maybe not as well as without the sheath. Come to think of it, doesn't Nightblood even claim to be able to see better when unsheathed?

[alder24]

8 hours ago, Speeding Steelrunner said:

The hilt would probably still be enough for his life sense to function, though maybe not as well as without the sheath. Come to think of it, doesn't Nightblood even claim to be able to see better when unsheathed?

Nightblood doesn't remember anything that happens when he's unsheathed, he's not himself anymore. 

[Trusk'our he/him]

1 hour ago, alder24 said:

Nightblood doesn't remember anything that happens when he's unsheathed, he's not himself anymore. 

Of course he isn't, he hasn't had his Invested-Snickers bar yet.