"What is an otome," says Bella, who, last thing she remembers, was getting hit by a van.

The angel blinks at her. 

"An otome is a genre of game from your and similar universes. It's a kind of visual novel where, possibly in addition to some more momentous main plot, the female protagonist's goal is to romance one--or more, depending on the game--male characters."

"And you are proposing to, prompted by my - death - create an entire universe and slot me in as the villain of a plot that does not in fact otherwise already exist, which you expect to work - how?"

"Well, I'm not on the universe creation team, I'm in customer service," she chirps. "Creating the plot of the game is what we're here for! Or you could just abdicate all the choices, but that seems strictly worse."

"No, no, I'm not abdicating anything, just - asking on - backround - I was recently killed, you see, I would like to get oriented to, uh, this. Do you do this a lot?"

"Well, the otome thing specifically is new."

"But creating entire universes, that you do all the time. Are many people in these universes pulled from deaths in others?"

"Well, in a general reincarnation sense, yes, but most of them aren't offered their memories back."

"Why do I get my memories?"

"The Will finds it entertaining to design universes around a central, well, plotline. And for the plotline to be interesting compared to just reading a book, there has to be someone who knows what's going on and can try to avoid or embrace their fate on purpose."

"Yeah, but am I special, or is this random? After it's all over do I get reincarnated again? Have I been reincarnated before?"

"You in particular..." she turns her head as though to examine something Bella can't see. "Have not been reincarnated before. You're special in the sense that you have certain meta-metaphysical qualities that suggest you would make a particularly entertaining protagonist. After you die you will obey whatever rules apply to dead people in the universe in question, which if the answer is 'none' may result in your being scooped up again for reincarnation although it's highly unlikely you'll be offered your memories back a second time in a row."

"- is what happens to dead people in the universe in question a choice I get to make?"

"Well, it's not one of the core options to choose between, but each option has a certain amount of freeform customization potential beyond simply the discrete choices. In order to get any kind of afterlife you're definitely going to have to choose a magic level of low, medium, or high." 

"That's not a lot of - granularity, are all the choices like that? What process fills in the details?"

"Any details you don't choose to fill in will be handled by the universe design team."

"But I can choose however much? - am I working with a time limit here?"

"Oh, no, we're in dilated time here, and I'm psychologically incapable of getting bored!" the angel assures her brightly. "There are some things you could try to decide where I would have to tell you 'no, that's not allowed' or 'that's only allowed if you make thus and such a choice among the discrete options,' but yes, arbitrary levels of detail!"

"...with that much control over the situation how am I going to be induced to serve a villain role?"

"Well, you can't choose options that completely preclude it, but you can in fact choose not to behave villainously, that's a feature, not a bug."

"So it's not going to be, like, a situation where the society is guaranteed to be so fucked up that they only think people are heroes if they commit genocide, or something?"

"No, no. That wouldn't be a good otome game at all."

"What kind of conversation would we be having if I were a lesbian and strenuously objected to having that changed?"

"Well...you'd be less likely to have been chosen if you were a lesbian who would object strenuously, but...the Will's decisions are final."

"Can I decide that what happens to dead people in my universe is that they get to go give the Will a swift kick?"