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In which the authors display a gift for fish-out-of-water comedy
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It is a gift! From — to them. They can assign it a designation if they want to, but it doesn't care about that. It isn't really the kind of entity that cares about anything other than providing powers in the way that it was built to.

... Life is too big for it to hold. It can see where Life sits in the shadow it casts over possible designs of powers in this place, but it doesn't have any itself. The white light is Phenomenon. It is The Third Thing That Isn't Mere Atoms And Void.

Does that help?

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...It does, dear Gift.

Albeit she notices that she is slightly confused.

::I did not ask for you to hold it, dear.  If a Lantern or a focal Ring is requisite to handle the White Light, we can construct that separately.  But you have, I believe, answered our question as to the...  Target 'emotional' state, regardless.  (We likely should have figured, being with how Christian the Source gets, that it would be... something similar to the assertion of the Name.)  You were very helpful, and we believe that we can work with this.::

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Anger, Want, Fear, Will, Hope, Compassion, Love, and something like Assertion of Existence, she muses.

She can shuffle off the magesight and bonding and coordination powers...

Gift, dear, can she merge a new - power, spark - directly into another synergistic power without a slot free to hold it in the meantime?

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No. If it is full, then it is full, and there would be no room to put things. She could grow her soul to be bigger, if she wants to hold more?

Also it doesn't understand what about its previous answer was confusing. Which is okay, because it isn't the kind of thing that is bothered by not understanding things, it just doesn't know how to answer in a less confusing way next time.

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How does one do that?  Or, is there a way to - put a spark away for later, somewhere it wouldn't be usable because it's outside the framework, but where you could pick it up and take it back in to yourself?

 

::I was not intending to ask whether you could make a power capable of channeling the White Light directly - merely one that could hone my focus in a direction that is more White-Light-like.  But now that I think on it further I can see how you got the idea that I was.::

 

Oh, hey, is that her sandwich?

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The sparks swirl in thought.

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A waiter sets down sandwiches for each of them.

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Souls expand in a way that is complicated; the gestalt impression that the gift gives off is something about variety, and effort, and success.

When a spark is sent away, the gift doesn't deconstruct it, just ejects it. So if there were something else that caught it and stored it properly, and then a way to let it back in, that could work? Does she want a power that can 'grab' things that are structured like powers and store them in available empty sockets?

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She doesn't want that power right now, but if you could remind her later when she's gotten to the point of actually going full Tinker?

How does the process of ejecting a spark work?  Could it just be done in reverse, or is there some sort of filter thing?

"...I'm probably going to want to talk to an actual wizard about an idea I had, if one has time.  ...Though if it's Constantine, I want advance warning."

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"Zatara is a member of the league and an accomplished wizard," Wonder Woman volunteers. "And I've worked with Dr. Fate in the past; he may be able to help. What is the idea, if you don't mind my curiosity?"

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"Something that ought to help increase my versatility yet further, if it pans out, though I don't want to get into the details in public."

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"Naturally. You can phone the League number I gave you to get in contact with Zatara; Kent Nelson can be found in the Tower of Fate, which appears to worthy seekers in Salem, Massachusetts," she volunteers. "I'm afraid I don't know any other wizards beyond them, but they can probably put you in contact with a specialist, if needed."

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"I don't expect this should be beyond either of them, though knowing how Zatara works I think that if I want to work out the trick for myself then I should likely work with Mr. Nelson.  I don't think I'm going to have that much luck working out how to do magic by speaking backwards."  And also she does want to get to Nabu before Wally West puts him on a trophy shelf.  Nabu may be being kind of a dick at the moment, but letting a Lord of Chaos operate while a Lord of Order is out of play is probably not good even if Nabu does not presently understand the concept of retirement.

Gods, she's probably going to have to explain labor law to him.

Though, Gift, dear, do you think it would be possible to pull a power that could enable her to do magic by gnikaeps skdrawkcab, together?  There was something about a specific gene sequence.

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That one is a puzzler. It spins in thought again.

It could do a power that lets her compress the verbal components of her spells that way, probably? But she doesn't seem to currently have any spells to compress in that way.

Does she want a power to enable selective horizontal gene transfer by absorbing other people's DNA?

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Not at the moment, no.  Though she's definitely thinking about it now that you've mentioned it.

 

...speaking of which, she should actually put together Power Of Gender-Affirming Care (And More Generally Biological Healing), now that she's thinking about it.

[biological manipulation] [understanding a person's ideal form], perhaps?  

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It can do the latter!

The former is too big to fit in a single power the way that they're thinking of it. Would a slow self-only regeneration-specific power work instead?

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Sure.  (In general, if she asks for a power that is Too Big, she would welcome assistance into breaking it down into subpowers that fit in red sparks.)

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Okay! It understands.

A second spark blooms, and she can now both visualize a person's ideal body and slowly regenerate herself toward her ideal.

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And she will merge those together.

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They obediently click together. The change is too slow to feel directly, but she gets a bit of feedback from the regeneration power suggesting that it is more ... aligned, maybe? In any case, she feels certain that it's changing her toward her ideal, and more efficiently than when the powers were separate.

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...Humh.  Does it change when they do -

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This?

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With the right mental motion, yes. The ideal slips, and the regeneration changes slightly to follow it.

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...Really, they probably shouldn't have it on right now, but...

The relief they're feeling at getting this to work is...

Good.

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Her thoughts, however, are not all that visible to Wonder Woman, even as their overall mien suddenly shifts from the prior "distractedly contemplative" (her head tilted just so, the rest of her almost left to fall where it may in between bites of sandwich) to "shaking and physically holding herself together and trying, badly, to not cry, but in a sort of 'punched-out oh of realization and wonder' way".

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