The Spirit wants you to become beautiful and powerful and special in your own way and live your own best life! If your best life involves being in stories that you don't know you're okay with being in, then maybe Isekai Roulette would send you somewhere that made you forget about the choices you made? But I'm not sure at all about that, I'm just guessing!

...hmm. That... could be acceptable. So long as he eventually recovered his memories that'd be like merging his current self with one that's had a wonderful adventure and that's kind of cool. Sure, he buys it.

Next power!

Name: A Thousand Ships - Cost: 1 ☐
Your face is simply exquisite, an ideal of feminine beauty. There are many possible ideals of feminine beauty, and yours is whichever one speaks most deeply to your soul. Others may match your beauty in their own way, but never exceed it.

Another question:

so, feminine beauty. do I in fact need to trans myself for this stuff or would I just get a bishounen or androgynous look or...

I think that depends on what you want and what works for you! Maybe the vision of feminine beauty that best resonates with you is to be a girl, or to be androgynous, or to be a feminine and beautiful man. Maybe it's all three at different times! A Thousand Ships doesn't usually change its style very often, but if you take a lot of other variable preference-based appearance powers, it might become more flexible that way.

...wait appearance changing is a thing? Oh hell yeah he's much more on board with a lot of bullshit if he can change what he looks like at will.

Alright next...

Name: What's In A Name - Cost: 1 ☐
Magic to divine true names will accept whatever alias you choose to think of as your true name. Magic to use your true name against you will fail.

Name: Angelic Tones - Cost: 2 ☐
Your voice is supernaturally beautiful and you can sing in any vocal range.

Name: Emerald Orbs - Cost: 2 ☐
At all times, your eyes are exactly the right colour. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. Your eyes can be ANY colour this way. Lightless black voids? Brilliant white stars? Limpid pools of endless sapphire? They will look exactly the way you'd want them to look if you were writing a self-insert fanfic about this exact moment of your life.

What's In A Name is a definitely, Angelic Tones excuse you his voice is beautiful already (...but he'll take it if he has leftover points), Emerald Orbs...

...Emerald Orbs.

Oh.

Oh.

This is a Mary Sue story. Marty Stu? ...nah, Mary Sue. Clearly girl Mary Sue. He is gonna be a Mary Sue. He is gonna be a Mary Sue. That is hilarious and furthermore awesome, being a Mary Sue vastly widens his acceptable stories holy shit, sign him the fuck up for this.

    "Mr. Tarleton, I'm sure my lesson is hilarious but could you please hold your excitement for later?" says the teacher, finally taking notice of him.

"Sorry, Mr. Hilbert." He is so incredibly not sorry.

Anyway, the power itself is kind of meh and then after that...

Name: Perfect Hair - Cost: 2 ☐
At all times, you have exactly the right hairstyle. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It is not limited to physically or logistically plausible hairstyles.

Name: Size Difference - Cost: 2 ☐
At all times, you are exactly the right height. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It will usually keep any height changes fairly subtle, but at dramatic moments you might discover yourself able to shrink to the size of a bee or grow to the size of a giant.

Name: Dressing Room - Cost: 3 ☐
No matter how ridiculous your outfit, it will stay pristine and perfect, unless it would be more dramatic for you to be artfully bedraggled. You can use any quiet moment to yourself to quick-change your clothes, shoes, nails, and hairstyle into a completely new look. (You cannot change your hair length or colour this way without Perfect Hair, but you can braid or style it.)

Name: Personal Hygiene - Cost: 1 ☐
You are always clean and fresh, never needing to use a bath or toilet.

...Perfect Hair is kind of meh, Size Difference is a kink thing actually but it seems like a superpower so he might take it, Dressing Room is an emphatic yes and Personal Hygiene is an emphatic yes.

does the Personal Hygiene thing imply my clothes only get dirty from external sources and not my own sweat and things?

Yes! Personal Hygiene means never being dirty enough to get anything else dirty by touching it.

that sounds lovely

hey it occurs to me that you apparently can edit the ink on you, I don't suppose I could start marking tentative powers I want and you show me what they add up to?

Yes, of course! I'll add up the point totals and track them for you as you check the boxes, and you can uncheck boxes by erasing them or scribbling over them!

oh perfect thank you!

Alright back to the top he takes What's In A Name, Angelic Tones, Dressing Room, and Personal Hygiene.

Name: Like Roses - Cost: 1 ☐
(Requires Personal Hygiene)
You smell lovely. Your scent is unique to you, and may involve any combination of warm spices, floral notes, petrichor, or other things you think smell good. You do not need any justification for why you smell like this.

Name: Just A Little Longer - Cost: 1 ☐
If you push yourself, you can keep doing any task or working on any project indefinitely, visibly strained but never impaired by injury or fatigue. As soon as you stop, you'll collapse with exhaustion and sleep for up to a full day to regain your strength. This only works when what you're doing is personally important to you.

Name: Immunity System - Cost: 3 ☐
You can't get sick or poisoned. You can still use recreational drugs and alcohol normally, but can't overdose.

Name: My Ears Are Burning - Cost: 6 ☐
You always know exactly what people are thinking, as long as it's about you. This effect is not telepathy and is not blocked by effects that block telepathy. It applies even to people you can't perceive normally. You are never impaired by the flood of information.

Like Roses sure is a Mary Sueish thing and he does not particularly care for it, Just A Little Longer sounds useful as heck and goes on the yes column, Immunity System is a yes, My Ears Are Burning is no absolutely not what kind of privacy-invading anyway.

Name: Well Endowed - Cost: 1 ☐
You have a generous figure, whether that's a classic hourglass or more of a well-rounded look; you can choose the details. Your endowments maintain a state of perfect grace and beauty at all times, never troubling you with uncomfortable bounces or uninvited jiggles.

Well Endowed. The immediate place his mind goes to upon reading the title is that he'd have a huge dick and he has multiple thoughts about Astolfo before he reads the description and is sadly disappointed.

what would Well Endowed entail exactly if I'm keeping a mostly masc body plan?

Well, I'm not sure exactly because I'm not used to offering the Spirit's power to boys, but if you preferred a mostly masc body plan then it definitely wouldn't give you an hourglass figure. It would depend on what you wanted and what felt best and most natural to you!

I have remembered that there is a different thing that phrase means when talking about boys. Yes, it could do that sort of thing too!

Oh hell yes he'll rock the Astolfo aesthetic.

...

.........

Okay maybe this Spirit is onto something here. Maybe he's not the most straightforwardly guyish of guys.

Anyway he's checkmarking that one because, look, Astolfo or not he'd be lying if he said he didn't want a bigger dick even though his dick is already pretty big. He's got kinks okay sue him.

...heh. Geddit? "Sue" him?

Is he having thoughts that are explicitly for the sake of his audience now. He guesses he is.

Also is his audience now privy to thoughts of his like those relating to Astolfo.

Well it is entirely their fault for opening this book or watching this show or whatever, he's very certain that it'll have any necessary content warnings for Astolfo.

Name: Hollow Leg - Cost: 1 ☐
(Requires Well Endowed.)
Regardless of your diet and exercise habits, your body maintains the physique and silhouette you prefer. Lack of visible muscle never impairs your strength or endurance. As your preferences change, so will your body; you are no longer bound to the generous figure stipulated by Well Endowed.

Name: Inner Strength - Cost: 3 ☐
(Requires Hollow Leg.)
You are implausibly, superhumanly strong, with endurance and toughness to match. You might have to strain a little to lift and carry at the same level as construction equipment, or deal with lightly scraped knuckles if you punch as hard as a battering ram.

Hollow Leg is an IMMEDIATE YES and then Inner Strength is... maybe? He'll mark it for now and get rid of it later if he's hurting for points, it's not really something he cares about much. For now he's only spent 16 points so he's fine.

Name: Battle Angel - Cost: 1 ☐
Somehow, you never get significantly injured in a fight, unless it's a very dramatic and plot-relevant fight in which case you might be glamorously wounded and pick up a cool new scar.

...hmm... he's a Mary Sue so he's not gonna die of injuries and he's actually okay with having significant injuries for plot? He's got high pain tolerance anyway. Not that one.

Name: Battle Demon - Cost: 1 ☐
You have an unerring intuition for gaps in an opponent's defenses, though it may be beyond your power to exploit them.

...hmmmmm... He'll take it, why not, it's not too OP. ("It's not too OP"? What kind of Mary Sue even is he?)

Name: Battle Maiden - Cost: 3 ☐
(Requires Battle Angel and Battle Demon)
No matter what kind of fight you're getting in, you're always a match for even the most skilled opponent.

This one is a no, he also wants to be able to be outmatched.

Name: Making Ends Meet - Cost: 1 ☐
You have enough money to sustain a comfortable lifestyle. It comes from a source you don't have to pay much attention to, like a job with almost no responsibilities, a large inheritance, or a noble title.

Name: Motherlode - Cost: 2 ☐
(Requires Making Ends Meet.)
You have enough money to sustain a fairly extravagant lifestyle. It doesn't come from anywhere, you just have it.

Name: Four Star Daydream - Cost: 4 ☐
(Requires Motherlode.)
The answer to "can I afford that" is "yes".

All three of the money ones are an immediate yes holy shit he does not want to ever think about money in his life again money fucking sucks.

Name: Dragon Fairy Elf Witch - Cost: 5 ☐
You can at any time discover previously unknown heritage from any type of being you encounter, even if this makes no sense or contradicts previously established descriptions of your family tree. You always get their powers without their drawbacks, unless the drawbacks are cool and dramatic. Any visible features of this heritage will appear at narratively appropriate moments and be cute, pretty, beautiful, or striking rather than awkward, weird, gross, or scary. This ability works even if the beings in question cannot reproduce with humans, or at all.

That's a hilarious name and furthermore yes, he absolutely wants magical heritage. He'd... rather his heritage be self-consistent because that's apparently the kind of Mary Sue he is, but otherwise yes he is totally a Dragon Fairy Elf Witch.

Name: Omniglot - Cost: 3 ☐
You learn languages insanely, ludicrously fast. You know exactly what any word said to you means, and you make strangely accurate guesses about how to phrase things you're trying to say. You never forget any grammar or vocabulary you learn.

Name: Anything You Can Do - Cost: 6 ☐
You learn implausibly quickly from friends, rivals, and love interests. If you have a personal connection to someone with a certain skill, talent, or expertise, you'll learn it five times faster than they did, or twenty times faster if they're actively trying to teach you. This applies even to forms of magic that you ordinarily shouldn't be able to learn.

Omniglot: yes. No question about it. He likes learning languages but not that much and apparently his life is about to get pretty busy.

Anything You Can Do: no. But why not? If he's fine with it for Omniglot why not for general skills? And the answer is immediate: he doesn't really... want... that kind of relationship with others? Being competent is fun but being so competent that you outshine everyone around you... is not the kind of Mary Sue he wants to be.

Name: Closed Book - Cost: 1 ☐
You're immune to any supernatural, pharmaceutical, or other effect that would let people directly read your thoughts or feelings.

Name: Indelible - Cost: 1 ☐
You're immune to any supernatural, pharmaceutical, or other effect that would let people directly alter your thoughts or feelings.

Name: Iron Will - Cost: 2 ☐
(Requires Closed Book and Indelible.)
You are immune to all forms of mental illusion, alteration, interference, or control. Even extreme torture, extended solitary confinement, advanced brainwashing techniques, and so on cannot touch you. You can be lonely but not cripplingly lonely. You can be upset but not traumatized.

Closed Book yes Indelible yes Iron Will yes every time this notebook reminds him that his genre can have shit like mind control he wants absolutely none of it.

And that's... the end of the "Yourself" section.

so a while back you mentioned that variable preference-based powers could make me look different at different times, if I just pick all of those do I become the shapechanging genderfluid bishounen of my dreams or is that a separate power?

That. Is a sentence he just wrote. How did he ever think he was cisgender holy crap.

If you pick all of those, and your heart desires to be a shapechanging genderfluid bishounen, then that's what you'll get! Especially with Dragon Fairy Elf Witch in the mix to let you pick up shapeshifting powers from beings you encounter.

Oh he's in so much trouble okay he goes back and picks A Thousand Ships and Emerald Orbs and Perfect Hair and Size Difference and

does Like Roses count as part of that list or is it separate?

Because he's at 43 points now and starting to worry about how there are still rather a lot of pages he hasn't looked at yet so he maybe should start thinking about point economy.

If you want to be really really sure about the shapeshifting right from the start, you should definitely have Like Roses, and you might even want to be sure you keep Dressing Room, though that one's less important. If you're okay waiting for Dragon Fairy Elf Witch to provide, then you can skip Like Roses.

...hmm.

He's—not sure.

Which probably means he should take it. Check goes the scent thing.

Now where did his brain just hit a snag, there? It had kinda been rolling along mostly okay and that last thing suddenly stopped it short and he doesn't quite understand why. It's not like he was actively relying on the possibility of changing his appearance on the fly before, he thinks, he's been building a stable thing in his mind and then the shapeshifting would be a bonus—

The bell rings. Oh he actually spent the whole class on this. In retrospect he's kind of surprised he's had this much crammed into a single class? Maybe the narrative didn't want to pay attention to the time until it started to strain credibility for it to still be Geom time.

I'll be right back, class is over