"It'd have to be pretty dang nice. The rich and powerful get more rich and more powerful, so I'm already suspicious."

"Valid to skip them. So between Academic and Sorceress then?"

"In what way is academic strongest in the long term?"

"Everyone has power points! They really do come in points, it's funny that way. You have some to spend at this start, and you get more by taking on various troubles and tribulations that seem worth such things to you here today, and you have a number that is how many points you can fit in your you, ever, which can also go up with the tribulations. But Academics can also learn a couple schools of magic, all the way up as high as they can go - you are very strong, you can go all the way up, rank five magic for you - and not spend any points, only lots of time studying, the same time that it would take to study for the points but not going through the system of having points the same way."

"And the sorceress benefit is having more flexible Avatar-ing? I don't think I'm gonna choose right now, too much devil in the details."

"Does affect how costly things are also. So, I can tell you how expensive a thing is for if you have nothing to cheapen it, but then it might be cheaper when you have a thing, you see. But there is lots to see even if not choosing a class now. Want to look at specieses?"

"Sure. How common are - uh - kemimi girls in witchland?"

"I do not know the word kemimi?"

"Animal ears. It's an internet thing, that word. I forgot the other word, it started with an O?"

"Oread! Also mimi, no ke, is a different one, you can be that also. Or... luxal, pharon, hannya... wulong, surprising as you are ginger... dravir, daeva, nymph... my girlfriend is a nymph!... orc, gnome, neutral. Neutral is basically human but neutral is specific-like the witch kind of human."

"That's... Kind of a lot. But we're all descended from everybody, or something, in the fullness of time. Uh... These more rubber forehead alien or weird starfish alien? Oh, wait, more rubber forehead, since you're one. I do... Kind of like the idea of fox ears?"

"Pharons have animal heads, ears included gratis; mimis have pick-and-mix animal traits all the time; oreads can slide from all animal to all neutral-looking at will. Other options do not have fox ears naturalistically but you can hybridify yourself, or just do cosmetics with hexes if the ears are mainly drawing."

"Oh, no, I wanna be able to feel 'em and move 'em around. I guess I don't know what the state of the art on cosmetic hexes is like."

"Feelable! Moveable around! But not part of your True Form trademark symbol."

"So noted. Time to indulge the munchkin instincts instead! What's there to munchkin about? Uh. Means optimizing if you're not familiar."

"Mana charge! Different species charge all kindsa which ways, different speeds, different amounts of mana to hold. Mimis charge fastest of anybody, off being petted or patted or scritched or whatnot, but cannot hold much at once. And affinities, every species has different ones, make different magics cheaper, makes it possible to pick up more elementalisms while not a sorceress if you have affinity for them."

She makes a face.

"...Whole bunch of complicated feelings about mimis there. Maybe it sounds nice but also it sounds... Dependent?"

"Common reason to choose against, yes. Possible to go to mimi social associations and pat each other, quid pro quo, but still. Oh, also, different species, different ways of not being dead. Mimis have a pretty good one but also, yes, dependent, someone alive must make you a shrine and cry on it."

"Different ways of what no wait, no, that is now the most important criteria."

"Most species have ways to be back from the grave, but even if you go neutral and cannot do this your own self other magic can! Which features of this property to narrow down on, or shall I list all dozen?"

"How redundant can I get it? Are there people needing this done for them??? Like, recoverable but not recovered??"

"Most methods want some remains, and no one is systematizing the doing it to humans, so yes, even if every witch is so super responsible with her safety some recoverables are not recovered. Afterlives are real though."

"Okay, Jesus Christ, another thing for The List- Uh. Uh, is Jesus Christ walking around anywhere?"

"If he is the Watchers have hidden him very away and not told me. - Watchers is pan-Abrahamic witches faction."

"...This is sidetracking again. Uh, mana gathering method, and capacity? And immortality? Are those the relevant traits?"