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this is only going to get sillier from here
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"Yep. The next flaw is 'Magicless,' which can only be taken with magic level high and can't be taken with Magic-User, for obvious reasons. So it doesn't actually buy you a perk, on net."

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"I'm sure that's someone's idea of a good time, and I can even kind of see the appeal on some levels, but I'm gonna have to pass."

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"I don't usually recommend it, no. The next perk is 'No Compromise,' which I disrecommend for approximately the same reasons as Jealousy. It's not identical in effect--more competitiveness, fewer interpersonal feelings--but it isn't especially compatible with your planned polyparty."

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"Yeah, let's not. Next?"

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"Not A Fan. You don't get the fake meta-knowledge download. Which is pretty much free points if you write a good enough visual novel."

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"I am absolutely going to write the best visual novel I possibly can."

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"The next flaw is Patriarchy. The heroine has metanarrative support in breaking the glass ceiling, but you don't." 

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"I'd really rather not introduce extra avenues for people to have a hard time in this world besides the ones necessary for the plot."

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"I appreciate that. You might also want to avoid Save the World on that front, although that one's easier to do without collateral damage."

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"Oh? —we'll get there, don't skip to it if it's out of order."

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"It's the next-to-next one, this conversational thread should still be fresh-ish when we get there--the next flaw is Peggy Sue. With this flaw, while you're regaining your memories of your original world, the heroine will be regaining her memories of an alternate timeline where the 'canonical' villainess murdered her fiance rather than lose him to the heroine. She'll have plenty of extra skills, useful foreknowledge, and a grudge. It's possible to convince her you're a different person than the one she remembers, but it's an uphill battle."

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"Presumably the hill is even steeper if the person she remembers is living in my head... Does it have to be murder, and of the love interest specifically, or can it be some other suitably villainous event?"

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"Has to be murder of the love interest specifically."

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"It's just so much more thematically appropriate if it's the heroine's bad ending instead! But I probably won't take this one anyway. Go on."

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"I mean, the heroine loved him and she's really fucked up about it, in this scenario. I'd call it a bad ending for her. Anyway, yes, next one is Save The World. It introduces some threat that the world has to be saved from; you can insert yourself into the saving of it, but in 'canon,' it's the heroine and her posse who do it."

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"Definitely an option, but I don't think it's my preferred kind of stakes. Collateral damage is nobody's friend."

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There are dozens of jokes the angel could make in response to that but she has no confidence Rosy would get any of them. "Next is Sickly, which does exactly what it sounds like, giving you a weak constitution and a high vulnerability to disease. You won't catch anything that'll kill you, but you can end up pretty miserable."

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"I'd better steer clear. I'm going to need a lot of energy to manage all my schemes."

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Snort. "I don't doubt it. The next one is Spoiled Rotten. You get expensive tastes, a greatly reduced mental resilience versus being denied things you want, and an increased tendency towards temper tantrums."

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"Hmmmm. Is this a tendency I can apply character development to if I try hard and believe in myself?"

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"Depends what you mean but basically yes? It's not like In Character, where once you demonstrate sufficient external character development the problem goes away, it's something where you can, you know, learn to cope with it and behave well despite continuing to have the impulses."

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