"Elaborate doesn't actually have a central example I can demonstrate. It's anything where it looks difficult enough to handle that it justifies having a maid just for it, whether that means a complicated set of braids or hair down to your ankles. And it gives a maid minion."

"Hmmmmmm. Okay, I'm leaning Hime Cut but I want to hold off on making this choice until I have a better picture of the aesthetic and practical landscape here. Can I do that?"

"For sure. Nothing is set in stone until you actually leave."

"In that case, what's next after hairstyle?"

"Hair color. The hair colors are Blonde, Redhead, Silver, Brunette, and Rainbow. Redhead means like red red hair, not just orange; Silver means actual silver or white, not just grey; Brunette covers both brown and black, and 'Rainbow' basically means arbitrarily absurd anime hair. These also have mechanical effects. Appropriately, Rainbow's effect is to bring more anime tropes into Villarosa."

"What about the rest of them? Does Blonde do anything fun?"

"Blonde is, uh, the default. Its effect is you don't have any of the effects of the others, if you don't want them. Redhead increases your strength and emotional intensity; Silver increases your intelligence, artisticness, and magical potential. Brunette makes you more, uh, relatable, less haughty disconnected ten-dollar-banana rich bitch."

"I've never seriously considered changing my hair colour before, but I think now might be the time to start. ...how haughty and disconnected am I going to have to be if I don't go brunette?"

"Well, that's really up to you, in terms of your actual behavior; what Brunette does is--well, firstly, reduces that kind of behavior from your canonical counterpart, but also, helps soften people's willingness to buy a more grounded persona from you, despite your wealth and status."

"Innnteresting. Okay, I see it. ...tentatively Silver, but I still want to see the bigger picture before I make any firm commitments."

"Of course. Next is species--the default terms for the options here are 'human' and 'elf,' but what that actually means is, assuming Villarosa has multiple species with distinct tiers of specialness, do you want to have to take a flaw later, in order to be the more special one. Plenty of people just take 'human' and don't include an 'elf' option, but other people think the flaw is worth it. Also, despite the name, you can customize the species approximately arbitrarily, except that if you have both you can't sneakily make the 'human' option actually better." 

"And I suppose if I invent multiple species with different advantages and disadvantages and no clear winner, they all count as 'human'?"

"Yes, but you have to be relatively careful to balance the advantages and disadvantages, and your ability to pull funny business about what counts as an advantage and what counts as a disadvantage is limited."

"Far be it from me to pull any funny business. Though I suppose I don't know what your standards are. I definitely mean to take questions of balance seriously by mine."

She waves a hand airily. "To be clear, that wasn't suspicious; if you did want to pull any funny business, I consider it my job to help you sneak it under the noses of the guys whose job it is to detect it, not to help them. But you should know the parameters." 

"Hmm. Well, I do want to play it straight, regardless. I'll think about questions of species once I have a better idea of what kind of world I'm dreaming up here. What's next?"

"Sure. Next is Tech Level. The options are Faux Medieval--standard fantasy sort of deal, historical vibes with modern conveniences like plumbing and widespread literacy. Can be some other flavor of historical vibes besides 'Medieval,' for that matter, you could go with samurai or gladiators instead of knights. Actual Pre-Modern--some comparable historical setting but with all the inconveniences left in. Not recommended, especially since you have to take a Magic Level of low or none. It'll get you an extra perk but it's not worth it. Then Early Modern, Marvelous, Industrial, Steampunk, Contemporary, Cyberpunk, and Space Opera--Marvelous is a sort of nineteenth century Shelley/Verne kind of science fictional setting."

"Hmmmmm. Definitely something to think about. I could see myself going for a lot of different options there, depending. Next?"

"Oh, for sure," the angel assures her. "They're all deeply solid options, except of course for Actual Pre-Modern. Next is magic level! The magic levels are None, Low, Medium, and High. None is like Actual Pre-Modern in that you'll get a perk and it is not worth it. Medium is about where your world was."

"I find myself intrigued by High, in that case."

"In High, magic is actually public--not that it can't be public, on Medium or lower. And more people can actually do it than not, or at least had the opportunity to learn, depending on the specific details. You get the perk Magic User for free, but every other character can also be assumed to have it."

"I can guess what the perk Magic User does. Okay, probably High. What else?"

"Next is your role. The options there are the Royal Princess, the Duke's Daughter, and the Rich Heiress. The Royal Princess is the most highly-ranked and socially dominant bachelorette in the kingdom, and may or may not be the heir to the throne. The Duke's Daughter is the only daughter of the most powerful non-royal noble in the kingdom, and her engagement plays into her father's political agenda, meaning she has a great degree of ability to draw on her father's pull in order to defend said engagement. And the Rich Heiress is the only non-noble option, but also has more money than many gods."

"Hmm. We shall see. Go on."

"Your Fiance can be either the Prince Charming, the Dark Rival, or the Noble Prodigy. Either or both of the Prince Charming and the Dark Rival can be brothers of the Royal Princess--all three of both the villainess and fiance roles will exist in Villarosa, no matter which one you pick, so that doesn't require incest, although you can also go the incest route if that's your kink. The Dark Rival might alternately be the brother of the Duke's Daughter; the Prince Charming is royalty no matter what, and will tend to be the heir to the throne if the Royal Princess isn't. The Noble Prodigy is the oldest option available, having already graduated from the Royal Academy of Villarosa, where much of the story takes place."