"And does Silk Hiding Steel work on magical fear effects?" 

"It will bolster your resistance to them but not make you immune." 

"I think I'm going to have to go with Drill Hair, then!" 

"Makes sense. The hair color options are Blonde, Redhead, Silver, Brunette, and Rainbow. Blonde is denoted as the 'rich girl' hair color, which, given your role in the narrative, makes it the default and has no particular effects." 

"So I'm going to be rich?" That's not terrible. Money can be used to buy spell components and scribing supplies and spellsilver and all sorts of other useful goodies. 

"Oh, for sure. In the kind of romance this is ostensibly based on, the villainess is always in a superior position to the heroine at the start of the story." 

"Okay, I guess that makes sense." Less so for a romance than for most forms of conflict, but whatever. 

"Red hair--by which I mean both shades of actual red and orange, which tend to get lumped together--is, in the tropesphere we're drawing on, considered more of a 'protagonist' hair color than a 'villain' hair color; you can have it anyway, but the effects will be to amplify your emotions, and to make you a little bit stronger and give you more potential as a warrior."

Why would protagonist-ness have to do with strength and physical fighting--wait, no, actually that might make perfect sense--protagonist is here being contrasted with villain, so it means hero, so these are likely paladin tropes that are being drawn on. Especially if--"Would 'amplified emotions' mean increased Splendor?" 

"It would have that effect, yes." 

Definitely something paladin-related, then. Seshka is pretty sure Iomedae isn't a redhead but the angel did say they're drawing on other worlds, here; presumably there's some deeply famous paladin or paladins somewhere with warm-toned hair that are inspiring this. Checks out. 

"The next hair color is silver, which..." she gestures. "Covers both actual metallic silver, and the white you already have, as well as whatever other variations are closer to white than to a different mechanical color choice. Silver hair will make you a bit weaker and a bit smarter, and boost your magical potential."

"--That one, I want that one obviously. ...I mean, I guess brunette or rainbow could have something even better, but--"

"They don't," the angel assures her. "Brunette--which refers to black hair as well as brown--makes you more relatable, which has various effects when dealing with people below your social stature and makes a redemption arc ever so slightly easier. Rainbow hair--well, mm, it--increases the influence of a certain tropeset, which...isn't particularly related to your world's gnomes but which you would probably associate with them anyway just because of how weird the tropes would be from your perspective. A little bit gnome, a healthy sprinkling of Tian Xia, and an obligatory hot springs episode." 

"...I don't have anything against Tian Xia," and she's just not going to unpack the hot springs episode bit, "but that does in fact sound less interesting than a boost to my magic." 

"I thought so." Silver hair isn't better than rainbow or brunette for everyone, but Seshka did seem like the type to pounce on the magic and intelligence boost. "Okay, so the race option is going to be different from what you're expecting, I think." 

"Is it not just deciding whether I want to stay human, or be an elf or a dwarf or a gnome or whatever?"

"Not as such, no. That is, you can decide to be any of those things if you want to, but that isn't actually what this choice is about. You see, you don't have to be any of the species that exist on Golarion, or even in Pharasma's Creation at all. Being too absurd could make it less likely that you could go back, but something that could exist but just doesn't happen to yet should be just fine. The mechanical choice part is whether you want to be a 'normal' or 'enhanced' race--that is, assuming your destination setting has multiple sapient species like your world of origin, do you want to be one of the really interesting things, or something more normal." 

"...Huh." It's an interesting thought. "I assume there's a reason everybody doesn't just pick Enhanced..."

"You have to take an extra flaw." 

"And is there any particular reason not to just make sure everyone has cool stuff?"

"Well, a dimension where everyone is approximately an Elder Wyrm is a lot less likely to get connected to Pharasma's creation than one that just has a few." 

Seshka shrugs and shifts how she's sitting, crossing her ankles. "I've never really heard of a dragon really accomplishing much, in the long run. Like, of the great and ancient archmages I've heard of, none of them are dragons...actually, they're all human. Why are they all--there've got to be seriously powerful archmages who aren't human. It's probably not a coincidence that I, a human, have only heard of the ones who are--actually, I guess I don't even know for a fact that, like, Old Mage Jatembe or whoever, wasn't secretly a disguised dragon...I take back what I just said and please don't tell any dragons I said it." 

The angel's eyes have crinkled up but she is managing not to actually laugh. "I won't," she assures Seshka. 

"...I don't think I want to be a dragon. Dragons get stronger as they age, and they age slowly; I'm not saying I expect to be able to get home within a hundred years but a hundred-year-old dragon couldn't cast Plane Shift."