Merge...

cliques?

Oh hell that's gonna be mathy!

But if that's the case then...

If she can fit at least three three-dot green powers into a blue power...  Or.  Well.  No, what she needs is a full deck of threes through shuffling things around?

...Work backwards...?  No, forwards is probably better...?

Oh, she needs actual tools, probably...

Phone notes app, save her!

A brief eternity of making dots on top of other dots follows.

...Holy shit you can make a 5-spark in four slots.

...The question is, what to put in it?

Lightwork is proving a very useful all-rounder, that's for sure.  But how to put things together...

Gift, if she gives you an order of operations and a general intended outcome, how much 'breaking things down into smaller powers' can she hand off to you?

Um. Some? It has never tried to do that before, and it can definitely create sparks that are designed to work together but it's getting the sense that she's thinking about something really complicated?

It's happy to try, it just doesn't know how well it can manage without more details and maybe actually making the attempt.

...She almost wonders if she could augment herself to just Be Able To Do All That.  But, considering that you can't really write someone smarter than yourself very well unless it is literally "better at arithmetic" sorts of smart, she's pretty sure that that's not really going to go anywhere.

...Okay.  She needs sixteen yellow sparks, overall.  Which must synergize with eachother to a decent extent.

She can sort of make a starting point by considering how she merged the emotions together, at the green level, and then thinking of how she would want to put together a 3(2x2(1,1))-spark to synergize into general emotional channeling.

Hmm.

Maybe she shouldn't just entirely genericize, and include "knowing when to use [X] compared to other Lights"...

...Wait, she needs an eighth Light-related Spark with sufficient synergy!  She needs to learn how to into Lanterns anyway, maybe that could work.  And maybe interactions-sense, too...

Okay.

7x of {[channel X : project X] : [understand-interactions X : prioritize-using-X-appropriately]}?

1x {[understand-emotional-light-?storage/repositories? : understand-emotional-light-?generation/flow/feng-shui?] : [feel-emotions-concurrently : ?divert-unhelpful-emotions?]}

Gift, what do you think about making something like that work?

(And all of this, of course, assuming that she cannot create an external repository to push merging further.)

...Wait, shit, that's not right --

Gift, if she wanted you to optimize merges amongst those yellows such that she could pack three of those yellows into the same green for intermediate steps, and then pack a set of three resulting greens made of two-each of those yellows into one blue, could you do that?

...oh, hell, she was off by an order of magnitude in her planning.

Okay she can cut that back easily enough at least.

1x 5-spark

2x 4-spark

4x 3-spark, dammit,

8x 2-spark,

16[+1?]x 1-spark.

...Yeah, if she cuts the latter half back (for the Emotional Spectrum sparks), and maybe does a three-by-one to fit in "concurrently experience emotions" into the Lantern spark...  Or, actually, she could - well, that's a question of synergies, isn't it.

Probably not going to be worth it to work out which...

No, it might, actually.

Goddammit.  Alright.  She can stick four dedicated special-ability handlers into her lineup.  Probably.  With the single 2[4::1] spark for general lightshaping intuitions, hopefully.

The question is, which ones?

...The ones that can counteract ones that can get out of control.

So.  A Blue-linked power for doing their anti-Rage-plasma thing.

...An Indigo-linked power, for, generally, promoting understanding and consideration of others' needs, as prophylactic against both Orange and (allegedly) Violet failure modes.

A Green-linked power, for overcoming Fear spirals.

And that leaves one open.

She's thinking Violet.

(Not least because she has a bone to pick with how the Star Sapphires have been using it.)

Violet could be an excellent supercharger.

A power for bolstering strength from/with love, something more like Blues' hat but based off of a much different criterion than 'is the target Green'?

Perhaps.  And if that doesn't -- ah, fuck, she forgot Red.  Or, well, she didn't, but, the Blue might not be very useful for stopping herself.

...She'll take the risk.  It's unlikely that she'll suddenly escalate to rampant destruction or anything.  She cares too much about not randomly destroying shit.

Alright.  Gift, how's she doing on the synergy management front?