"Not a homebody but also not a speaker of Lunabellan Greek. Tack in shoe would work fine unless something affected your ability to feel sensation and you could not replace it sharpish, but if you wish to have a tack always in your shoe this will get you twelve points."

"I think if someone cuts off my senses that thoroughly I'm likely to already be dead, though I suppose not guaranteed. I'll take it. Where does that leave me, I noticed this whole section had some kind of cap on it..."

Glance.

"What, am I full up already? I didn't even supernumerate my nipples!"

"You can be unblemished by supernumeration if you are happy with this set, but yes, you have plenty as is. Could put back the smell thing and take the nipple, or take the nipple and also animals hating you and lock out a school of magic you do not care for to keep your memories of this and not have to be traumatized awake..."

"...you know, I might addict myself to something innocuous so I only get thirsty for pain rather than suffocating without it? I've realized abruptly that this arrangement might be inconvenient for - hmm. Not necessarily sleeping, I'll bet there's some way to get out of that, but anything where I really need to focus."

"It did seem a curious choice! What will you be addicted to? - I think you may double up on pain, actually, if you wish. Seldom comes up but fits in here."

"Delightful! Let's do it. ...and, hmm, I do feel like it's a bit of a waste to pass up that nipple, but where... oh, the weakness was so modular, what if we take two points out of that one? Make it disrupt my magic halfway instead of nixing it completely?"

(He's been thinking idly of decent places for a nipple. He'll probably have it moved to either the back of his tongue or somewhere along his undercarriage, depending on how external it has to be.)

"Yes, doable!" Kerswap.

"Excellent. Now, shall we move from making my life difficult to making it excellent, I think we shall." Tom relocates to the other half of Perks.

"We shall indeedy! Here we have - oh, most everyone wants this, lets you not sleep or sleep very conveniently when you wish."

"Under the circumstances, fuck yes, I'll be most everyone." Yoink.

"And this one lets you be telekinetic but for blood - creepy waterbender power if it's in somebody, turn it into bullets and swords and such if it's not - and swap blood sacrifice in for mana to do spells with."

"Blood sacrifice... is that what the fish is for? Vegetarian blood sacrifice? That sounds fantastic."

"I think vegetarians do not eat fish? But yes, that will do you for the rank five, and for anything less than that you moonlight as an abortion clinic or something."

"She said the fish doesn't even die! It's not vegan, I'm still oppressing the poor thing, but I think that counts for vegetarian. Pretending to be a political cartoonist's idea of Planned Parenthood does also sound great, though. I'll keep my options open." He nabs it. "-I can let go of these if I find myself too strapped for magic, right?"

"Before you awaken yes, not after."

"Yeah, 'course. Just trying not to lock myself in before I know what's available."

"Yep, no locking anything till you tell me you are absolutely for sure sure."

"Alright. What else have we got in our bag of tricks, I'm excited now."

"Hmm, hmm - oh, this one is sort of mixy, bonus and drawback. No rank 5 magic but you get any perk that always costs the same amount free, and become mega talented at all the mundane skills, always going to Regionals to do your curling or your chess or both."

"Oh, fantastic, I can run very quickly and all it costs me is ultimate cosmic power. Next, please."

"Yeah, I do not remember anyone actually taking this and it is only partly because many witches cannot hit rank five in the first place. Next. Control over poison, covers venom and the animal packages of it too, mushrooms and plants. Makes you immune to diseases and toxins passive-style."

"Mm. Poison's fine to level the playing field but my understanding is that I'm already going to be quite a big fish. I'll take it if I run out of things I like better."

"Here is the one for if you want to be a boy. If you enjoy the boy anatomy recreationally you can magic it on but to be always a boy this is the one."

"I hadn't realized the alternative was on the table, though some things you said make more sense now. I'll be taking that."

(The implication throughout has been that men are a rare and prized commodity, that it's an advantage he can leverage, it's only one point, he'll - have a negligible upper-body-strength advantage - fuck you. He doesn't have to justify himself.)

"A fine choice, my boyfriend is also a boy. Next, we have cartoon style hypnotic suggestion! Gaze into their eyes, tell them to do a thing. Does not give them special abilities to repress memories and gets harder the less they want to do the thing."