"Oh yes it is!  And - has it really been that short since we met - it feels so much longer?  I'm sure we will be there for each other.  And for a better world."

"It does, doesn't it!  I have no idea why; I'm not complaining that we seem to be fast friends, though!"  This situation calls for so many hugs.  The happy kind.  Well, more like bittersweet, but - still.  It is hugging time.

"And pretty soon, you'll be a princess!  There's so much I could tell you, but - do you feel like you're ready?"

Send help she's gay

"Oh gods no, but if I wait til I'm feeling like I'm ready we'll be here til the end of time."

She looks up at the angel.  "Give her good tutors, would you?  Anything else for us to choose?"

"Don't worry; I'll make sure of that.  And she will have several siblings."  Which may be fortunate for Villarosa, she doesn't add.

"And I believe you've chosen just about everything you need to, if you finished choosing all the Perks and Drawbacks you wanted?"

Let her just check that over real quick.

Lila steps out of the hug and stares at her cards again:

Free perks:  Magic User, Silk Hiding Steel
Perks:  Magical Prodigy, Unearthly Insight, Surprisingly Useful Skill, Off The Rails
Drawbacks:  Dark Secret, In Character, Save The World

"I feel like I really shouldn't pick In-Character after what we just said... but I still want to.  My character's going to be a Heroine, so that should work, right?  It's not like she'll hate the Princess going in."

"Presumably, depending on what she's like.  But I'll add those notes for the worldbuilding team."

"Couple of things are still left to figure, actually - do we want to take an Early Start?  ...And actually I may have had an idea...Angel Lila, are the Heroines' backstories done by fiat or merely their canonical starting situation?"

"Canonical... I'm actually not sure.  I know someone tried to keep their rival out of the Academy altogether with an Early Start, and it didn't work.  But that might not mean it's impossible."

"Yes, Early Start!  Even if we can't save my father, there're definitely other good things you could do with another four years."

"Indeed there are.

"...Can the flaws 'Unattractive' and 'Sickly' be remedied through normal means, if the lore permits?  Or are they fiat?"

"It will be difficult - obviously, they can't be something your royal parents would have already remedied.  But yes; I've seen it done."

"I think I can make at least some of that work just by keeping my height intact, given how often that I've heard men don't want tall girlfriends.

"It's bullshit, but their loss is my gain."

Lila nods.  "That works, and you'll still have some flatterers talking up your alleged beauty anyway.  Do be careful about 'sickly' though."

"Yeah I'm not inclined to touch that if I have better options.  The question is which options are better, what'll suffice to see us through."

"...Did you ever come to a firm opinion about whether to use 'Peggy Sue', by the way.  I think if you mentioned it, I forgot."

"I said we were going to get the canonical version anyway, and maybe we could get it with some magical method that feels deeper and more detailed than just hearing a story or seeing a play.  And then we moved on...  What Perks are you going for?"

"I am confused; do you mean that - IC or OOC?

"...Excuse me, jargon.

"Anyway.  I have ideas for how to narrativize it; what I don't have is -

"...Hmm, what if -

"I have a thought.  I have multiple thoughts, actually.

"Firstly, there's an idea about trading the extra anime infodump we two will get, because there's two of us, out, or augmenting it with, a Peggy Sue nightmare that goes digging for interesting lore and objects - which I am insisting be my job, Lila has plenty of her own nightmares and I'm not adding more, so Lila if we're doing this you definitely get an extra Perk - and I would probably take 'Not A Fan'.

"Secondly I have some plot thoughts that I'm considering the interactions of Ghost in the Flesh with.  Which is to say, what if my 'canon' self dies by pulling a heroic sacrifice with her Dark Secret super move to blow up the manifesting Demon Lord, because of...the power of friendship, or something.  Making her less....totally awful of a headmate."

"... OOC?" she asks blankly.

"I'm afraid that if you're taking Ghost in the Flesh, your specifications for your headmate will be subject to what the worldbuilding team deems in-character for her.  You've already said she was helping release the demon, so I wouldn't be optimistic about that.

"... And," she adds after a moment, "I'm sorry; I just got a response from my superiors.  They aren't confident about casting too many new reincarnation spells and memory spells at once; neither of you can actually take Peggy Sue."

"Yeah I'm saying what if we fiddle with that bit of the script a bit such that she was only trying to '''help'''," with some very significant air quotes, "release the Demon Lord, instead of actually ever having had an intention to go do it - but somehow the romance crashes headlong into plans that shouldn't have worked, or the heroine pressures the conspiracy in just the wrong way on this route, or...Something like that."

"OOC - out of character.  IC is in character."

"Maybe... I do like that story..." (and it wouldn't necessarily change her spoiled-ness or romantic jealousy one bit) "... I'd recommend it to the worldbuilding team, but it would be up to them - you'd need to go into it knowing it could be either way."