Sakigami Rin

Rin is a half-youkai telepath, and he does abuse his mind-reading/controlling powers a little when it comes to other people. He’ll read other people’s minds on occasion when he’s curious, but more importantly Rin’ll try to deflect any thoughts about him being unusual/not entirely human/psychic and instead subtly implant the idea that he’s a normal human being. However, unless he’s attacked and in serious danger (in which case we'll be talking OOCly) he won’t escalate to trying to mind-control others.

Rin's strong, but not godly, and his powers can be fought off by extreme exertion of willpower or by stronger magical beings. Besides the above, he’s stronger, quicker, heals faster and needs less sleep than a human.

tl'dr it's not gaslighting, it's gentle telepathic candlelighting.