"Cuddles are part of this balanced breakfast!"

"It just feels a little... Undignified, I suppose? If I'm going to be a witch, I want to be cool, not cute, says something deep in my edgy brain? And luxal is really freakin' cool, and I also want the animal factor, but mimi is... Mimi."

"Well, if you ask me oreads are cool. Might be luxal-oread is just right for you. You can buy hybrid twice, if you want to be a third thing also."

"Ehhhh. Pharon would kind of appeal, the fame aspect, except for all the reasons it doesn't. Same with nymph. My big objection to Mimi and Wulong isn't that, it's just... Aesthetics. Aside from the Chinese wulong sects, how much magic racism is there?"

"Some, but there are plenty of people who do not get to choose a thing, awaken naturally, and have a surprise, so people try to be okay about this, mostly. And much of it is things like - people who do not like elves even though it is a nice thing to be, because elves had an empire many years ago that was not always nice."

"...Elf Hitler is such a mental image."

"They did not have a specific Hitler so much."

"Eh... Hmm. Right, so I am still tempted by wulong and mimi's non-body-dependent rez... It's honestly probably a more important long term consideration than anything else and I'm probably being stupid about this..."

"There are ways and ways. You can get in people's Witch Decks, they let you summon duplicates of whoever is on the card for help in tricky situations and if you die then the next deck summons is really you."

"...Honestly good incentive to be collected, that. Four, five different methods would be nice."

"Hard to come by. Lots of ways to stop aging, several ways to resurrect a corpse, few and far between options for if you are kaput entire."

"Makes mimi-wulonging a lot more appealing honestly... What's their special shiny powers again?"

"Mimis can pick up traits from their animal - it can be mythological kinds of traits, like you are a fox so you can be smarter this way even though real foxes are not that amazing smartnesswise. Wulongs can fly without wings or brooms or anything, and there is a bonus perk they can have to go inside art sort of like digicasting."

"Being 'smarter' does also sound irreplacable. Just like shiny rez methods. Okay... What all changes points-wise if I'm a wulomimi with that?"

"Using wulong affinity makes your rank five alchemy much spendier, but Mimi affinities leave things almost as you had them before with the things you already bought, would mostly just nix your unused double discount in Metallurgy that you had as a luxal and the one in Runes."

"Oh, metal! I should switch from fire to metal for my rank three elementalism. I was too stuck on Avatar brain. Uh... How about luxal-mimi? With metallurgy."

"You do not get second type affinity. Second type only matters for immortality, perk, and what you look like. So if luxal is your first type it is as before, and metallurgy is two points at rank three, unlike firecalling which is four at three."

"-Hrm. And changing to mimi-base affinities does not help?"

"With what you currently have bought, it helps by two points, because Hybridize, itself, is beast affinity, and so is Hexes, and it mostly comes out in the wash with the other things you wanted to buy, but would affect buying more metallurgy for example."

"Lemme go back and pick up prestidigitation and go with mimi base for this alternate plan... Does that leave any spare points?"

"Three to spare, but note you now have no double discount elementalism. Which is fine, if you wish to focus on alchemizing and hexing and such."

"Yeah, I don't want to become a fighter. That sounds liable to get me killed much more than broom accidents, monsters invading Arcadia, or especially vicious academic politics. I... Have sort of forgotten what there even is to buy worth three points..."

"Three ranks of Familiarity, two of Divination and one of Portals or vice versa, a fourth rank of Hexes with one point left over, a third rank of Earthmoving..."

"Familiarity is what? Is divination more useful than it sounds?"

"Is having a familiarity! I basketed one rank of it for you because of it being sorcerous, but you actually do not need any ranks to have a familiar, the ranks are for talking to animals, doing magic by proxy, and - like the mimi thing - picking up animal traits from whatever you pick. Rank five also has a quite good immortality, for your desired several methods - save cats, acquire extra lives like you are a video game."