"Maybe a god could do it. It seems like a metamagical thing. But I wouldn't know how, and I don't know another way."

"Hmmm... Well, this is still a strict improvement over the status quo, since spells like that are hard to come by and always have an expiration date anyway, and there aren't any Light mages here—although I've been wondering whether I should grant everyone here your kind of magic, if I can."

"That would be interesting."

"But would it be good, is the question. Magic can be used for good and evil, and while giving everyone it would even the playing field some... hm."

"Maybe we should try giving magic to a lot of people we trust first. And... if absolutely everyone had my kind of magic, I'd be excited for how much good they could do for themselves and each other, but now that I think of it I'd also be worried that a bunch of them would make gods together and it would end badly..."

"...I don't really have a lot of those," she admits. "People I trust, I mean. And yeah, making lots of gods sounds—suboptimal. Unless one of us becomes a god, first."

"You can't, you're Wood," she says. "Well, you could be part of a god with three other people, but I don't know why anyone would do that. Unless you mean a different kind of god from mine?"

"I actually mean 'via some unorthodox process that might involve weird unprecedented magic interactions.'"

"...I'm not sure if that makes sense," she says. "Gods are Earth and Light and Air - what would you do, make yourself into somebody as much Air as Earth and Light? And even just adding an Air person to yourself wouldn't do it, I'm Light and the other one's Water but we're still not a god..."

"I'm not sure it makes sense, either," she concedes. "I'm just saying it's not in principle impossible that I could somehow detangle the magic from the personality and thus separate it like that—unlikely, but not impossible."

"...I feel like... that might end up being a bad idea to try? Like, it just seems so basic... I'd be worried that you'd mess something up if you managed it."

"That's... possible, I suppose. Mind editing is not in my list of hobbies and this might end up being uncomfortably close to that."

"Yeah... I could imagine something like, you use magic to make somebody a Light mage where they used to be Earth, and it turns them into a Light person where they used to be Earth?"

"—that sounds incredibly distressing and horrible."

"Yes it does."

"Okay so not that. It's also still frustrating that only people with the base elements can combine into becoming a god."

"Well, maybe one day we'll find a world where you can become a god by singing a silly song."

"Pfah. Maybe I'll just become the Galatean version of a god."

"Don't those not exist? And isn't the meta one evil?"

"Details," she says, waving a hand. "I'll figure it out as I go along."

Giggle.

"I can just be the only meta who can generate mana, that'll make me a god eventually."

"That works too!"

"I should think of more effects I've used before, see if I can make them permanent..."

Elementalism, each of the four elements? Telekinesis? Invisibility? Insubstantiality?

Well, can she remember how they felt?