Flattery means that your friends will compliment you when you want to be complimented, but Beauty Is A Curse means that everyone will compliment you constantly no matter how you feel about it or what your current emotional state is. 

Do you mind if I put together your selected powers on a page in the back?

Feel free!

It's still kind of tempting, to be frank, I'm just hesitant to have any drawback at all if I don't need to, since the way that this usually works makes them utterly impossible to just grow out of, whereas buying a bunch of powers that let me get more and get more opportunities for better social experiences is still something very possible without signing up for something to indefinitely drag me down. Is there any way to - work around that? 

I like the idea of including I Can Fix Them, but it's really expensive and I'm not sure how much feasibility it actually offers, or how much it makes the process less draining or - painful, even, then it would be otherwise. Redeeming people is something that means a lot to me, but... 

While I'm at it, I might as well ask how much feasibility something like The Princess and the Dragon actually offers.

Does True Love's Kiss restore stamina and alleviate the need for sleep? If so, it's probably a staple just for that. 

I don't think I can make Beauty Is A Curse grow-out-of-able - it's only providing one point already, so weakening it will only make it grant nothing.

Powers like I Can Fix Them work with the narrative, but ultimately will work based on a reasonable and nondamaging effort to you, rather than requiring the kind of input that you'd need mundanely. You'll find openings into people's hearts more easily, find people who are more redeemable in the first place, and so on. 

The Princess And The Dragon will logistically let you sleep with anything. The sun, for instance. Depending on who or what you're attempting to have sex with this may result in all kinds of shenanigans to make it possible, ranging from "the sun is now an anthropomorphic sun-girl" to "you've built a warded spaceship explicitly designed for sun-sex with full-feature feedback." 

Everyday fatigue is not, unfortunately, considered a curse, injury or illness.

I more meant drawbacks in general? I'm not sure what that kind of thing would look like, or where I would even start at customizing a drawback. 

...Okay. That's... workable? Especially if it fits into the rest of the genre in general, and all. 

Could you collate my point totals? I think I'm pretty close to out, and it might be best to fill out the rest with some more little perks that come up when I talk over my feelings a little more. 

We could try it! I don't know how it would work, but it's possible we could customize them a little. 

You're at... carry the one... Sixty-nine points, so far.

Nice ^^
Not much left, then. 

Can I talk about - my goals here a little, now? 

She settles down, a little, combing her hair back. Her hand settles along her cheek, feeling the stubble and the softness alike. It still feels a little - unfair, that she has to think this all through with her body like this. 

Go ahead! ♡

It's... hard to talk, even if the horny ideas are easy. The dommier stuff is easier too, even if the drop is always a little harder too. 

So... 

You said that the story is about me getting everything I ever wanted, yeah? 

I'm trans. My body has never been too kind to me, and... I like settling into the things that help me feel like I'm past that. Being beautiful, being powerful, influential, strong and sleek and making the right sort of impression to get me into people's hearts in a way that they can't deny. I want people to feel taken in, or like they've taken me in because I'm just worth so much, that I ought to be close. Being daring is good, being of service or making people feel the way I feel, when I serve. When I think about my ideal future, I think about... 

Being secure, thoroughly fucking beautiful woman or having them get off on worshipping me and my body, getting to dress up and present myself ready to serve or just demand attention and acknowledgement and gifts and gratitude. An old flame of mine fantasized a lot about being a 'pirate', and even if being a goddess or conqueror is more my aesthetic... 

That calls to me, too, you know? Being something shocking and stirring and endlessly enticing is something I love. 

I like the endless worlds of supers and doctor who, and playing with people I love, which I want to be as innumerable as the stars. 

And I just don't want to have to be scared. 

She tap taps taps against the page. 

...It feels a bit silly to talk more about perk ideas, but I can, I suppose? I'd love to hear your suggestions.

I think you can have all of that. That's exactly the kind of thing that I'm here for!

I could help you not be scared, if you wanted.

Name: Joy Over Fear (Req. Closed Book) - Cost 1

You never feel afraid unless you actively want to in the moment. This never causes you to act recklessly or imprudently.

I chuckle, soft and wistful. 

I don't think I want something that extreme. It's more about... feeling the facts that on the ground mean that I'm right and in control and I deserve my joy. 

I feel super silly investing this much in it, but hopefully the metanarrative and setting selection can help justify something like.... 

A perk that makes worshipping my body orgasmic, some more general hentai physics thing, or some sort of... aura of 'alphaness' that broadcasts why I'm a good mate into the subconscious mind, or something like that. Something for the other side of the dynamic might be nice too, but... 

I feel like I can earn that on my own, or reverse a dynamic from there. Being strong and beautiful and attractive from the start feels... more important, somehow?

Okay, let me see what I can do...

Name: Obvious Allure (Replaces Mysterious Allure) - 5 pts 

Rather than people being drawn to you by some unnamable principle or "vibe", people instead instinctively know your virtues as a person and a partner on a subconscious level. People make really accurate guesses about what your good qualities are, and find them intriguing and worth caring about. You meet people who are into people like you extremely commonly and are the natural alpha girl in any room. 

Name: Book Of Erotic Fantasy - 3 pts

Your metanarrative genre is "hentai" or at worst "erotica" regardless of what other considerations may prevail. Fate will nudge you in the direction of hot and erotically charged events by default. 

Name: Sensual Service (Prereq Two Become One) - 1 pt

Worshipping your body can grant direct pleasure to anyone who provides intimate service to you, scaling proportionally to how devoted they are to you and how much you appreciate their actions. 

(I want to note that GGG covers finding partners who are really into worshipping you, as well.)

How are these?

Really really lovely, exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. All of those are things that I really want to include in my build... 

Can you make Sensual Service work when I provide service, too?

It's embarrassingly hard to keep her hand away from her... well. 

Let me see if I can squeeze it in!

A little loading glass appears and rotates a couple times. 

Name: Sensual Service (Prereq Two Become One) - 1 pt

Acts of intimate worship involving you grant direct pleasure to the person doing the worship proportional to their devotion and how much the person or entity being worshipped appreciates their actions. 

The loading glass disappears. 

There! I made it fit!

Good notebook ^^

I pat it gently. 

That puts me at a three point deficit so... 

Honestly, I'm tempted to just take There's Another One to round it out and call it a day? I don't think that there's too too much risk that I'd end up being crippled or killed by them, with all the defensive options I've taken and the genre I've leaned myself towards, and a rival honestly sounds like fun. Heck, there doesn't seem to be much guarentee that I even run into them very quickly or that they stay entangled in my life forever? That fits, I think. Unless there's some gotcha about infectious drawbacks or something, at least. 

The rest... 

I think that's just tweaking and discussing the setting and everything? 

The rest of the drawbacks aren't the most appealing, nor do I think they're really supposed to be. 

Probably you'll encounter another Chosen fairly solidly, otherwise the drawback isn't a drawback! But there is no guarantee that they'll be bad for you.

I'd love to hear what kind of settings you're interested in. <3

It's hard to articulate too precisely? There's a lot of options that I could easily see being just as good, but... 

I don't think this is quite about that? 

I like the idea of a classical cultivation setting - there's a lot of extremely natural ~fun~ ideas about the yin aspected cultivation organizations getting taken over from the inside by a charming woman with a talent for charming the ladies as extreme as her cultivation one. It's a bit hard to tune so that it's not - overall a nasty place, but it's - still okay for there to be a lot to fix and a lot to work on? As long as modern conveniences are fairly emulatable from the start that I'll have, then that's not too much of a problem. 

Selfishly, I think that I'd probably want to have a relatively confined early stage, and not - be put in a position where I'm trying to optimize on a scale that I can't really measure up to properly. 

Fox girls are a must, cat girls are a bonus, a race I can copy to get started properly quickly is probably a must...

I like being able to reach for divinity and such, and I want the stages to be exciting ^^

But even beyond that, I like the whole - angle of getting to be a 'super spy' though, too? There's probably some space setting concessions or odd things that you can do with body duplication techniques and Time Enough For Love. 

- I hope Time Enough For Love does something to make sure my partners in turn have enough time for me? Or at least the genre convention stuff does, given that. 

I'll probably need some sort of concession for soul analysis or such on the mental defense line in a setting like that - either blocking unwelcome or 'disadvantageous' information gathering, leaning the latter? The actual defenses should have something like that too, all things considered - I want to be able to get fun mind-broken sometimes~😳

There's the tension between relaxed sexual norms and getting to enjoy the taboo... I think I'll just let the genre effects sort that out. 

Soulmate stuff leaves me torn? But it could be a thing, and I definitely want suspiciously ideal partners even before GGG, especially on the more - physical side. 

- I hope just sort of - thinking aloud here is helpful. Feel free to clarify things that I've said here or poke me on different angles that you find especially relevant in a search for a good world? 

Thinking aloud is absolutely helpful. 

I'll try my best to select a world you find good! 

Time Enough For Love does do that!

People have asked before for exceptions on Closed Book and so on, so I can absolutely make them only hedge out unwelcome or disadvantageous influence. 

I don't really know what kinds of worlds are out there, I'm not the Spirit of Femininity Unleashed. But I'm sure she'll try her best! 

 

I'll keep that in mind. 

Mostly the rest is just making sure the rest of the perks fit right - just want to check if what personal hygiene prevents in terms of being fun-unclean, how expansive dressing room is and if it covers things like tattoos, the definition of heritage for dragon elf fairy witch... 

Maybe I'm just worrying about nothing and the metanarrative guarantee is meant to cover this, but I get the impression that I won't be able to renegotiate the perks later, so ^^

She pages through a little to try to find her build in the back, watching the opposite page for her? response.  Checking up on everything to make sure it's right seems wise... 

Dressing room covers temporary tattoos but not permanent ones; permanent ones would come with Hollow Leg if your ideal body has tattoos. 

Any inborn species power not available through training can be grabbed by Dragon Elf Fairy Witch. 

Personal Hygeine means you'll start being clean again immediately the moment you want to be. 

The rest of the build is available but the narrative will decline to list it all at this time.

So... 

Wait can I just like, copy a normal house cat and get anime cat ears ^^?

That'd be adorable and also potentially kind of useful starting out - there's probably a bunch of low hanging fruit available if you just get the ability to fly or breathe underwater early, just to start. I doubt it's literally just 'species', else I'll presumably start getting a bunch of weird chemical secretion powers from my gut bacteria which doesn't seem... necessarily on theme ;)

So it wouldn't work on say, a cultivator's bloodline, but it would work to get the generic cultivator-human heritage... That's workable! Anything You Can Do should cover the gaps well enough to, anyways, even stuff that shouldn't be learnable, I'd think. 

You don't have to claim heritage from any given species. It takes an effort of will to grab it!

And yes, you could copy a normal housecat and get anime ears and other cat abilities. 

It also does work on bloodline powers! There's a little more wiggle room for mystical things; it works better on things you couldn't get in any other way. 

I mean, there's largely no reason not to, given that the build would give me full control of my body's appearance and form - but I suppose it might be difficult to target and would have some diminishing returns and rather... awkward to use abilities, given the givens. 

- Oh. I just reread... this. 

Am I misreading this or does it mandatorily give you drawbacks, if they are 'cool and dramatic'? I hope it's at least possible to detect beforehand the drawbacks of a bloodline. 

You only get the drawbacks if the drawbacks are something you like or that's aesthetically coherent to you. Like how being open to psychic influence is technically a drawback compared to full Closed Book, but you can still have it if you want to be influenced recreationally!

Oh okay ^^

Really... 

I think that's it? If I can just dimensionally travel back here, it's not super like I'm missing out on anything. There's one or two perk ideas that I might want to squeeze in (Something for making people always call me the right name or title or whatever, and maybe a metanarrative immortality thing?) but my build is exceptionally complete as is, I think. 

I'm not sure what the rules are about bringing you along? I'm sure at this point it's ultra-convenient and I don't have to worry about it but carrying around a book all the time might be a little cumbersome starting out. You seem kind of nice and it'd be good to get to talk to a friend of the DM sometimes ^^

You can store me in your Dressing Room if you want to take me along! It acts a little bit like a pocket dimension, keeping any sentimental item you put in it.