"...I don't mean fun like actually a good thing to have happen, I mean, fun like the Will will eat it up with a spoon."

"Fair. Anyway, the evil demigod can be Neutral or Lawful if that works better, they don't have to be a demon specifically." 

"Oh, sure--Demon Lord is, mm, more or less metonymous, for various trope-related reasons." 

"Fair enough. ...If my team and the heroine's team are going to sort of fuse together into a single adventuring party, especially but not exclusively for saving-the-world purposes, then...I do want more rather than fewer 'named characters.' The There's Two Of Them flaw says I can introduce the third heroine...but I don't really want to kill off the parent of one of my future friends, even if I won't remember having done it when I befriend them. That's--cheating to try to pretend to work with someone in good faith, not really doing so."

"Yes, I see your point...hm." The angel taps her cheek. "This is something we might be able to solve via personality selection...you don't know anything about your father, and that doesn't bother you, right?" 

"Mom says he wasn't worth keeping around. Which is enough information for me. But the Hero's Daughter is, well, the daughter of a hero..."

"You'd be surprised how many deeply Good people are actually really terrible at their own interpersonal relationships. I can put in an order for a set of Hero and Daughter such that the daughter is fine with her other parent and neither of the two of them are deeply harmed by the separation--and you already specified a good afterlife."

"...You'll be exquisitely careful about this?"

"My bosses are not amazing at ethics but the system is actually really, really good at personality selection."

"Alright. I'll take a third heroine, then." 

The obvious next place to get more party members is perks, especially the extra minion perk...hm. 

"Okay, for my four free perks I want Early Start, Magical Prodigy, and...does Good Ending do me any good alongside Unprepared?"

"Yes--it's Not a Fan that it doesn't go well with." 

"Oh, of course, that makes sense. --If I take Unprepared but not Not A Fan, will I believe that Roses of Villarosa really existed in the Golarion I grew up on." 

"Yes." 

"Then I'd better take Not A Fan, too, since I do plan to go home eventually, and the lack of said book when I get back would be...confusing. Okay, Magical Prodigy, Early Start, Unearthly Insight, and...Equal Friend. And I think I'll take the Royal Princess; I don't want to rule anything, but being friends with someone who does could be useful." 

"It often is." Tap tap.

"And with the flaws Unprepared and Not a Fan...hm. What exactly is the difference between Surprisingly Useful Skill and Marvelous Talent, besides that in the former case I already know the thing?"

"Well, firstly, Surprisingly Useful Skill only applies if you would otherwise expect the ability not to be especially relevant--skills from your past life that you would expect to transfer well, just do. But, also, Marvelous Talent makes something a traditional, socially approved of skill, at which you particularly excel; Surprisingly Useful Skill doesn't imply that anyone else will be able to do it at all."

"Fair enough..."

Fundamentally, Seshka is more interested in improving herself than in improving her advantage over other people. She'd rather be capable than special. So, Surprisingly Useful Skill is right out. 

"For Unprepared and Not A Fan, I'll take Marvelous Talent and Extra Minion, and the minion will be a pair of classmates--" very efficient in terms of gaining party members, that "--and as for the Talent--does crafting magic items count?"

"Mmm...it's a little broad. Pick a kind of magic item?"

"Rings." She never got around to learning to make rings the first time around. 

"Okay, can do. ...Did you forget a perk to go with Save the World, or were you planning to do something else with it, or...?" 

"...Slipped my mind for a moment, yeah." 

She is still tempted to take Goddess of Beauty. She is not going to take Goddess of Beauty. She could take Silk Hiding Steel, or another minion or another talent. Any of those three things would be more useful than Goddess of Beauty. It's one thing to be self-indulgent enough to take self-improvement perks instead of maximizing her party membership; she is not going to take an objectively unnecessary perk to make herself prettier. She is already pretty, it's not like she's actually unsatisfied with her looks! This is objectively absurd! And yet!

"...How good is Silk Hiding Steel? Approximately." 

"It is very good. It certainly wouldn't get you from where you are now to standing up against the fear aura of a great wyrm, but it'll hold up against almost anything a caster of the same circle could throw at you."

"...Yeah, I'll take that one, then." Even if she is tempted to take a Marvelous Talent for crafting rods. 

She glances at the list of flaws again. 

Logically, she should take Anything You Can Do. She expects to end up on the same side as the heroine, so it would just mean an upgrade for one of her friends and allies.

But...

It's not that she minds the idea of someone else being overall better than her. But the idea of not having even the littlest niche to distinguish herself...it offends her sense of dignity. Which--dignity is something you discard when it gets in your way, right. 

But she can't bring herself to ask for the flaw. 

...Maybe dignity isn't the word for the part of her that it offends. She'd thought her dignity less firmly attached than that. 

"I feel like I really ought to take Anything You Can Do, but I...don't want to." 

"...Well, it's not popular. Most people don't like being overshadowed like that."