American history is weirdly similar, given that superheros have been a thing for decades. World War II was largely the same, even, although Encarta Populi (The Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit™) attributes the lack of superhero intervention in the war to a mass-scale mind-control artifact called the Spear of Destiny that made it too dangerous for allied superheros to deploy to Germany.

Metahuman businesses seem scarce on the ground, although there are a large number of hypnotists available for hire. There is one guy in Spain who will assist with lead and asbestos removal, apparently by eating it.

The kitchen contains, among other things: bread, cheese, a toaster, mustard, baby spinach leaves, lettuce, peanut butter, normal butter, dried seaweed chips, pickles, pepperoni, mayonnaise, a tomato, two bananas, and an entire cupboard of vacuum-sealed Wayne Enterprises-brand nutritionally complete rectangular food prisms, in a variety of flavors.

What kind of sandwich she wishes to make from these things is entirely up to her.

A peanut butter banana sandwich will do! 

Global warming is probably not the biggest problem and is one that's a little awkward to work on, but is from afar something squeaky clean to do, maybe? She puts a pin on that - that technology? captain cold was using didn't seem like it's the sort of thing that works remotely normally, so there's a possibility that doing something with that could help a lot. Probably worth asking about, though who is a little unclear. 

...Okay they've got to be trolling her. They look exactly the same! There's no way that they actually believe that it's not just some magical trick with illusions or some such? He's even publicly the magic guy, so they don't have the excuse of magic not normally being on the list of options for why things are happening! If anything, in a world with alien technology and metahumans, you'd want to see them in very different places at the same time. 

Oh, and yes! 'Atlantis' and 'Themiscrya' are both things, and both things with magic. That's probably a better direction to look than just trying to poke around online if there's as little public magic knowledge as it looks like there is. She also pokes a bit to see if she can find what happened to Doctor Fate after the war - he seemed Important.  

She sees if she can find some kryptonian music as ambience - maybe that translates better? Though Superman apparently has superhearing, so who knows if it'd make any sense to human ears. 

Having aliens out and about with no readily available FTL is pretty awkward - green lanterns aside. Is there anything public on the rules and regs of their corps? That seems like something worth checking out if she wants to deal with alien things more, and that does seem kind of shiny. A communication system with a 4.5 year ping seems not worth it to her, but what does she know? 

Okay, the power generator seems to like it a bit more when there's free powers so... get rid of the anti-synergy power and the common knowledge power and heck while she's at it get rid of the power intuition power - it seems like the main use of those is to get the basic information imparted rather than being the sort of things that give that much feedback as she goes, so it doesn't seem like it's a huge loss to ditch... 

She tries to feel out the space of communication powers - could she say, make a base power that pairs two objects for basic sound or text transmission without a range limit, or get a power that would let her have a 'call' with a specific person decided at power creation, even if they're far away or she doesn't know where they are? There's probably a lot of uses for something like that, and it's not obvious to her that it would have to be expensive to make. 

Does it have the same problem with vagueness with psychic powers as it does with magic? Probably it does, but there's no harm in seeing if she can at least download non-psychic mindreading resistance 101 into her head, and maybe see if she can get an internal only psychic mental defense constructing power, ideally one that wouldn't rely on her continuing to have 100% psychicness uptime to get some benefit out of the things she'd be able to make? 

She pokes the scheduler, and sees about getting a time a bit after the appointment with Batman to do the check-up with Zatara - probably it's best to have the context of that disseminated before she talks to the magic guy about magic things. 

The justice league seems... solid in some ways? But she gets the impression they're... a little low on a few things - though high on brawlers and fliers, and only a smattering of people who have the ability to do things truly detailed with the more esoteric parts of this world. She'll leave that as something to ponder idly, since there's just a lot going on, there, and probably a lot of it is just who's available - there really don't seem to be that many metahumans out there, given how diverse they are. 

She pokes at the training course thing that batman left her when her brain gets a little mushy and tired - receptively reading things laid out for her always helps a bit when she's a bit tired. 

Kryptonian music sounds a little bit like someone tried to compose an epic rock opera on a techno-harmonium. It sounds pretty strange to someone used to the western music canon, but basic concepts of euphony and rhythm are apparently universal, so it's not bad. If there are any parts that rely on super-hearing, she can't hear them.

Doctor Fate continued operating as a superhero for about a decade after the war, and then vanished in mysterious circumstances.

The full Green Lantern Operating Code is available on request at the nearest regional office, just over 5,000 lightyears spinward along the galactic arm. The substantially summarized statement on the Justice League website reads:

The Green Lantern Corps is an independent, interstellar police force. Members of the corps are required to comply with local law and work with local law enforcement, except when the local government is engaged in crimes against sentience. The Green Lantern Rings that serve as their badge of office allow all members of the corps to speak any spoken, written, or signed language, to fly faster than light, and to create energy shields. Green Lanterns are directed to hold the protection of innocent lives as their highest priority as they discharge their duties. Most Green Lanterns spend their time on anti-piracy enforcement, disaster relief, and facilitating diplomatic ties between neighboring polities. Earth's space sector is currently home to four active-duty Lanterns, three of whom reside on Earth.

Permanently adding magic properties to objects is not impossible, but it doesn't fit into a lowest-level spark; she'll need to break it down. Making a telepathic connection to a single, designated person does work, though, as long as she can touch them to establish the link and they don't resist. Does she want to be able to do that?

Establishing a connection to a specified person over a distance is harder, and feels like the concept is missing something.

Asking for general 'psychic powers' is too vague, but 'peak human skill at avoiding mind reading' and 'power that makes telepathy targeting her fail' both go through. The former seems like a skill she should be able to learn via practicing with the power active, and then keep going afterward. A bit of prodding eventually produces 'power that helps instill reflexive responses to psychic connections', which seems promising.

Does she want anything like that?

 She'll let the music run, and see about remembering the name of the artist for later to get more of that. Probably if there's any superhearing based element, it wouldn't work on these speakers anyways, but... this alone is nice. 

She clicks the link over 'crimes against sentience'. 

Oh looks like... not quite the same degree of problem? She takes the avoiding mind reading skill power - seems helpful to have, and potentially even more helpful to be able to disseminate. It doesn't sound like getting a proper telepathic power is impossible, but that's probably another thing that would be kind of impractical to do without talking it through with an expert. 

What else would work for that sort of communication power then, besides touch? A name and a face or some sort of sympathetic bond? Some sort of magical or psychic signature? She floats the thought on generating that kind of power to the assistant, then thinks about the - shape of those powers when asking about it for the remote communication connection power. 

Probably the simplest thing to do would be something like... creating the minimum viable magic walkie-talkie and some sort of duration increasing / effect stabilization power specialized as tightly as possible towards the artifacts the first power creates, and then merging the power? It's a bit moot point if she can't get them delivered, though, which would take a conversation with the green lanterns and/or an extensive read of their rules and regs to figure out what they're allowed to do for that sort of thing. Maybe they even already have a solution for this that they're not talking about? It's pretty hard to know if she's barking up the wrong tree, here. 

Oh while she's at it... There's no way rings that give you willpower-based energy manipulation powers aren't magical, right? Even if they aren't magical magical, there's got to be something interesting going on there - does the power creator have any thoughts about infusing magic willpower energy into things or ways to create force fields like they use? That seems like a fairly tangible specific thing that it might have a bit of an easier time with. 

- Objectively, she's probably procrastinating about trying to make bigger merged powers, but she's not... too too sure how to feel about that? It's not like she can't just get rid of it, but some part of her feels like it ought to be a show, you know? Or something that she works up to and busts out at the perfect moment to the lamentations of a big bad supervillain. But really, it's something that she can do at any time, and it seems like the power is pretty convinced that any strain from using the power is if anything good for her, and it's going to be hard to explain what she can do if she doesn't know what she can do herself. 

- She'll figure it out after these experiments. 

Avoiding mind reading: check. With the power in place, she can do it reflexively while working on other things. But it's a purely mundane bundle of mental habits that should be learnable on their own.

Projective telepathy is definitely possible, it's just not what she asked for earlier.

She can make the communication power work with a sympathetic bond, and work with limited range with a name and a face. The range is a bit hard to get an idea of, but it still seems pretty large. A magical signature also works, although she doesn't yet have a way to get someone's magical signature.

Giving the gift that context and then poking it for a communication power results in it offering an infinite-range, multi-target (although not at the same time) rate-limited mental communication power that works with any consenting recipient that she has a magical bond with. It seems almost as though a lot of the energy of the initial 'make contact with someone and then talk to them' power was tied up in connecting to them, not in actually communicating.

Making forcefields: definitely possible, although it's a tradeoff between range and stopping power.

Infusing willpower energy into things is more interesting; the gift thinks about it for much longer than it typically has to, and then offers a power that just boosts her willpower, with the implication that this would be sufficient to infuse magic willpower energy into things.

Oo. 

How would she go about making a magical bond with someone, though? It's hard to get a great sense of options there - but maybe some sort of contract or exchange ritual or? She's not sure what the options are, there. 

Really, she's spoiled for options, here - at least assuming that she can get a decent power for getting someone's magical signature from being near them? 

She plops in the willpower power, watching the clock on the computer as she goes. How long does it take to create and slot in? 

There are lots of ways of making magical bonds; does she want skill with bonding rituals? Or a power to do it directly, maybe? She can also definitely get a power to read someone's magical signature through prolonged proximity, if she wants.

It takes the gift exactly 36 seconds to grow the new spark, counting from when she confirms that she wants it to when it comes online.

Huh! A bit slower then she was expecting, honestly, but still enough to be super useful even in a decent frantic situation. 

No no, just knowing that she has the option for a foundational magic power is enough to make her grin! For now, though... 

Let's see what she can really do. 

She was thinking... Some sort of aura of vitality? Not healing or regeneration, persay, but vigor and endurance and maybe a bit of durability to fortify the body. 

And alongside that... Some sort of biological restoration power? Something that helps with aging on its own is arguably justifiable just on its own, but if she can squeeze some sort of general healing and/or patching up ability in too that would be good.

It could do an aura of vitality! To cover vigor and endurance and durability, it would be fairly weak and have a range of six feet.

The idea of biological restoration makes it ponder for a moment. She already has a regeneration power slotted. Does she want a kind of sensory power that lets her get detailed mental images of healthier versions of organisms she touches? Or maybe of what they looked like prior to obtaining an injury?

She hums a bit. 

Let's just keep the first power to vitality, then, and then make a complementary aura of endurance, let's say? If it helps, match the range and general design with the other one? 

Oh and what does the willpower thing feel like? Is there an obvious way to do magic willpower energy things? 

She'll have to get rid of a power or merge her willpower boost with her anti-mind-reading skill to make room for two aura-powers. She only has one slot left.

Having boosted willpower feels sort of like the opposite of choice paralysis. It is easier for her to decide to do something and then do it, easier to tune out distractions, and so on.

There's no feedback or sensation to suggest one approach or another — but it seems plausible that she should try willing it to happen, really hard?

...Okay, let's! 

Merge the willpower and mental defense one, and put in the auras. 

Done!

The little boost to vitality and endurance is definitely noticeable.

If she focuses with single-minded intensity on imbuing an object with will, she can get a small flurry of green sparks to surround it, one or two of which will sink into the object and apparently remain there.

For that, she just played around with a knife lying around in the kitchen. Just... focusing totally on it, concentrating on the weight and shape and undeniable physicality of it and bonding it with the firmness of her will until it feels certain that they are on and the same... It's both intense, hard work, and almost... relaxing? 

Interesting! She'll play around with it more later. 

She merges up the auras, then the auras in with her body changing power (if she can), watching the clock as she goes. 

Merging the two 1st-level powers takes 6 seconds. The resulting merged power takes a moment before it slips into an orbit with the regeneration power and becomes mergeable. Once it does, merging them takes 18 seconds.

She tries to feel out the power - what does it do, exactly? 

It provides an aura, extending ten feet, within which people slowly change toward a healthy, non-tired version of their current self-image. The changes prioritize tiredness, followed by contagious sickness, followed by features that affect a person's gender presentation, followed by non-contagious sickness, followed by surface-level features, followed by organs and bones. The regeneration is slow enough that it wouldn't do much (on its own) for battlefield trauma, but fast enough to keep up with the tiredness and muscle strain from moderate exercise.

Oo that is solid. 

Is the geometry and prioritization list fixed? Tiredness as a primary priority is a little awkward, but she can definitely work with that. 

Really, the biggest thing that would probably help is something to help the speed and size of the aura. 

Ideally, she'd have... what, the ability to enhance magical healing auras within an aura range depending on the determination to live and prosper, to make the whole thing merge up as she goes? Working backwards a bit... An anti-mental fatigue aura is probably a pretty natural thing to include? Really the question is what meta-aura things she can do - just a raw range and/or power increase could be good, or some sort of lingering effect or ability to 'store' the effects of the aura for a while in an object - ideally she can get a bunch of uptime out of something like this without having to dedicate her time to sitting around durdling in a hospital 24/7.

She pokes towards doing the anti-mental fatigue one, trying to lean it towards being kind of willpowery, as she contemplates the rest of her options and tries to feel out how practical they'd be. 

Does she want a compatible aura power that lets people gradually reduce mental exhaustion through force of will?

The geometry and prioritization of her current aura power is fixed — but that feels like a fact about this specific power, not about aura powers in general. Maybe if she took it apart and rebuilt it she could get something more flexible?

...Sure! Hopefully it gets a bit easier to use as it merges up. 

Oh, another idea... can she make a power that makes her able to manipulate the fine details of these kinds of magical auras instead, make tradeoffs and add some wiggle room to the details of the mechanics and the like? 

Yes! Does she want a power that will let her trade off between range and efficacy of any auras she generates, with the changes taking about a minute?

If so, what does she want to merge or get rid of to make room?

(The gift is starting to feel tired — it feels like it can grow maybe three or four more sparks before it has to rest.)