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Anyone who's had a player who's "an [X] trying to convince the party they're a [Y]" is probably having PTSD flashbacks now.
It sounds funny to read about but in my experience players who commit to constantly gaslighting fictional characters are not team players and always willing to spoil the fun of others.
Hear me out: I played with an orc fighter who was convinced he was a mage, and tried to convince the rest of the party of the same thing. He carried a cast iron pan as his weapon, and his spells were "pan toss" and "pan smack". There were a lot of laughs when NPC's would be like "you're clearly a fighter, you're wearing plate armor" and he'd say it was his spell casting focus.
I need a new pondering orb