Tapping someone else’s AluminumMind

[TacoBellChoutaMeal]

Title. With the way that unsealed metalminds work, I don’t think anyone could ever tap someone else’s Aluminum metal mind. But, if I stored a bunch of Identity in a big piece of aluminum, then you spiked me and took that power, what would happen when you tapped my metal mind? Would you be like me for a bit? Pick up my mannerisms? Or would you BE me? If you are filling a metal mind while tapping the TacoBellChoutaMeal metal mind would you BE me then? (Are there any wobs on this?)

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

4 hours ago, TacoBellChoutaMeal said:

Title. With the way that unsealed metalminds work, I don’t think anyone could ever tap someone else’s Aluminum metal mind. But, if I stored a bunch of Identity in a big piece of aluminum, then you spiked me and took that power, what would happen when you tapped my metal mind? Would you be like me for a bit? Pick up my mannerisms? Or would you BE me? If you are filling a metal mind while tapping the TacoBellChoutaMeal metal mind would you BE me then? (Are there any wobs on this?)

Pretty Sure Unkeyed Aluminumminds dont exist

[Treamayne]

4 hours ago, TacoBellChoutaMeal said:

Title. With the way that unsealed metalminds work, I don’t think anyone could ever tap someone else’s Aluminum metal mind. But, if I stored a bunch of Identity in a big piece of aluminum, then you spiked me and took that power, what would happen when you tapped my metal mind? Would you be like me for a bit? Pick up my mannerisms? Or would you BE me? If you are filling a metal mind while tapping the TacoBellChoutaMeal metal mind would you BE me then? (Are there any wobs on this?)

The only non-RAFO WoB I found is:

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Questioner

In Mistborn, we know if someone puts their Identity into a metalmind, they can create metalminds other people can use. Would other people be able to use that aluminummind to overwrite their own Identity, or is it still tied to the creator because it was still keyed to their Identity when they were filling it?

Brandon Sanderson

So if you have no Identity and you fill a metalmind, that metalmind is full of Identity-less...

Questioner

Yeah, so anyone can use that. But can someone use your aluminummind?

Brandon Sanderson

Ooh wait a minute, so...that you filled with your Identity. So they would have to have your Identity already. 

Questioner

Ok, so you can't have two people fill Identity and effectively swap aluminumminds.

Brandon Sanderson

If you can...there are ways to make this happen but the best way to make what you're talking about happen, is to be filling your own Identity while having a blank metalmind. That is the best way, obviously. But there are other workarounds for both situations, like a blank metalmind is pretty easy to use. It's blank. But if you were blank, and using a blank, it's a little better. 

Questioner

Ok. Because you're both blank.

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, and so I'll give you the mechanics of all this eventually, they're just trying to still figure it all out themselves. Because right now they're just doing things they've been told "do this" but they don't know the why's. But if you are blank and have a metalmind that has an Identity, right, that is not an impossible situation that you're in either.

Arcanum Unbounded Seattle signing (Dec. 1, 2016)

Everything else is "Wait for Era 3, when we start discussing this."

Hope that helps

Edited October 28, 2025 by Treamayne
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[TacoBellChoutaMeal]

2 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Pretty Sure Unkeyed Aluminumminds dont exist

I’m pretty sure you’re right. But I was wondering if there was something I wouldn’t have thought of, a way to get an unkeyed one in a really convoluted way. But I don’t think there is.