"I mean I am getting magic that also lets me be the hoe of my dreams..."

"'For some reason this applies especially well to boys kissing each other.' This was made with a really specific target audience in mind, hmm?"

"Hmm?" Lean. "Oh, Before Your Eyes. Yeah, fujoshi galore."

"How do you want me to not make fun of the way you speak when the way you speak is that."

He rolls his eyes and holds out his hand. "Give me the notebook, I want to ask her about Dragon Fairy Elf Witch and sleeping."

"Yeah fine." Notebook.

hello i have returned with questions

first question is, can you tell me more about Dragon Fairy Elf Witch? in particular I was thinking about what the circumstances for it to be activated were, like could I just declare that I am now a specific type of dhampyr with specific traits that don't normally occur in that type of dhampyr even if i'm not currently in a world that contains that kind? and from the other side, would that turn my world into a world that contains that kind of dhampyr?

In order to activate Dragon Fairy Elf Witch you have to have actually encountered an example of the specific type of being you want to incorporate. Just passing them on the street or seeing them from across a room or having a brief clash with them in battle is enough, as long as they're distinctive enough for you to notice that they're an example of a type of heritage that you want, so that you have the example in mind when you use the power. I don't think any combination of powers could retroactively give your world magic it didn't previously have.

I'm also not sure what you mean about specific traits that don't normally occur? Dragon Fairy Elf Witch can only give you aspects of a being's heritage that the source example or their ancestors actually have or had, but it can definitely hybridize different heritages to produce results that neither one could have offered alone, and it doesn't have to do that in ways that make sense or could happen naturally; what matters is mostly whether it feels right to you to be that way.

the thing I had in mind was, I'm not sure if you know about the Twilight book series? it has vampires who sparkle in the sun, don't need sleep, have a whole host of powers et cetera, and they can have children with humans - well, male vampires can impregnate human females - and then their half-vampire children don't sparkle in the sun as much and aren't constantly in horrible throat pain due to thirst and can eat normal food but on the other hand they have supernaturally enforced sleep schedules

and what i would like is to be a version of that kind of dhampyr that doesn't sparkle, isn't constantly thirsty, isn't always in pain, but does have the superpowers and the supernatural beauty and so on, and conversely doesn't need to sleep ever, like their parent

and now that i think about it i'm also wondering about whether, like, this would cause one of my parents to be a vampire or something? i suppose that depends on the relevant ise mechanics of the isekai method...

Dragon Fairy Elf Witch just changes your heritage as it affects your own mind and body and so on, not as it affects other people or as it affects the past. There are some really unusual situations where it's more complicated than that, but they usually involve other powers and someone deliberately trying to become a specific person's long-lost daughter or something like that.

I've heard about Twilight before! I think if you met a vampire from those books, or maybe even if you just met a half-vampire, you could use Dragon Fairy Elf Witch to be like you describe - after all, having a supernaturally enforced sleep schedule sure sounds like a drawback to me, and so does being constantly in horrible pain!

Going to another world just transports you there, and doesn't change anything about your history or the history of the world to give you a backstory there, unless the world is one that does that automatically for new arrivals.

oh so it's not the kind of isekai where i wake up in the body of an existing person, or i'm born to parents there, or anything like that? alright, that does make sense and change things

Yes, exactly. You just appear in the target world in some narratively appropriate place, exactly as you are when you finish getting your powers, with no other changes.

oh, do I bring things with me? should i pack? although I guess if i go for isekai roulette I won't know what to pack exactly

You can bring anything you're wearing or carrying, though of course with Dressing Room you can also change what you're wearing or carrying very easily. Packing things can definitely be useful but I think mostly only if you're the sort of person who'd pack things, if that makes sense.

oh, so dressing room can be used to carry other things? what are the limits, there, could i have, i don't know, a laptop inside the pocket of a very roomy hoodie?

Dressing Room can summon any item you've worn before as long as you truly wish to wear it again, and summon any sentimentally valuable item you've carried in your pockets or backpack or other storage accessory (roomy hoodies included) by summoning that storage accessory again while focusing on what should be in it. Are those the kind of limits you mean?

yeah. do i need to have worn them after acquiring the power, or is it sufficient that i have ever worn it? could theoretical-but-not-actual combinations work, like if i have a laptop and a roomy hoodie and i've never actually held the laptop in the hoodie's pockets but i could have, would that be enough to swap into the hoodie with the laptop in it?

You can have worn them at any time but you do have to have worn them, and you do have to have carried something in your pocket to summon it, and you do have to summon it by summoning the same pocket you carried it in and not a different one.

i see

and you mentioned backpacks too, so it's anything that i could carry even if it's not just clothes? or, what's the category-boundary?

It has to be a storage accessory you wear, not a piece of luggage you carry. It's a fuzzy boundary but that's the shape of it.

makes sense! I might want to ask a ton of clarifying questions later about various powers once I'm nitpicking my choices but this is good enough for now

a separate question: is there any power or potential power related to sleep? in particular it seems I'd be able to be a lot more powerful and special if I had more awake time to do it in

I think the usual recommendation for that is Dragon Fairy Elf Witch and then finding someone who doesn't have to sleep by nature. And Just A Little Longer, of course, but that's hardly a full solution.

yeah DFEW is the solution I had thought of but we wondered originally about the sleep thing since in some in-genre stories you have people who only need to sleep four hours a day or similar due to "normal variation" that ends up always benefiting the protagonist

That makes sense, and I might be able to put something together for it but I think it's mostly too specific for the Spirit, if you see what I mean?

yeah I get you, and probably wouldn't be worth the point anyway, DFEW is just overkill on that and many related departments