I think the honest answer is that there's at least two different styles that I use depending on circumstances and probably more than that. Some of that is about conforming to expectations about professionalism, but my more casual choices do feel different from what I wear around the apartment and they might also be different from what I use on my rare visits to naturist spaces. And I do like that flexibility. I guess I'll put this in probably not.

That makes sense. Being confined to a certain clothing style can be a pretty significant constraint, I think.

I don't think There's Another One is quite to the level of something I actively want. I'm a little unsure what it would mean honestly. There's so many powers and you're flexible enough with offering custom powers that I can't really predict much about what it will mean. I still think I'm willing to trust that the Spirit won't set me to encounter someone who has incompatible tastes in stories though.

I think someone who wants to work with other people the way you do could really benefit from There's Another One! There are lots of other vessels of the Spirit out there who want to help people, and while there are also vessels of the Spirit who aren't so nice, I think those ones often choose not to meet other vessels.

Huh, I hadn't thought of that. It makes sense that someone who wanted to mind control everyone probably wouldn't want someone else who might be immune coming in to mess up their plans. And I can see other ways of not being nice having similar sorts of reasoning.

I think you've convinced me that has a good chance to have outcomes I actively want. Incomplete and Nullified are also on that list.

It's not a perfect guarantee, but I do think it's a tendency. The more someone likes to be helpful and work together with others, the more comfortable they are with other people getting to be as special as them.

She nods at that. It makes sense. There's still room in there for conflicts about what constitutes helping people but she has a lot of powers that help her understand and talk to people.

Just for good measure she writes that bit of reasoning down.

Grimm's Fairy Tales is new of course. I think it might hurt less than Down To Earth but it doesn't have anything I want besides the point. And I don't want to undercut Cotton Candy that way

I don't see any appeal in sensory overload either and I'm not taking Like A Mirror.

Without taking Famous it's a bit less absurd to take Great Responsibility and now it has friends but... I still don't have a way to get to someone and help them. I guess that's part of why it's a drawback. I still don't think it would be a good thing to do to myself. I guess if I had powers that meant I could help them better I might change my mind but even if I take all the magic powers that isn't guaranteed.

Yes, I think it's a good idea to be wary about taking Great Responsibility.

I feel pretty conflicted about Mood Ring. I have pieces pulling me in two directions. On the one hand I think it's usually a good thing to be open with emotions but also I've spent a lot of time and effort on learning how to be a therapist and part of that is being able to not react too strongly at least outwardly when people need that calmness.

I think that probably means I shouldn't take this.

Yes, that makes sense. Mood Ring will make it pretty hard to control your outward expression of emotions you're feeling.

I think I won't be taking it then. I can imagine people who it would be really good for and would have a lot of fun with it though.

Very Distinctive feels like an amped up version of what a lot of famous people go through. I'm honestly not sure about it. On one side, it feels like it could almost be free points because I expect to be recognizable anyway but on the other side it might make it harder to spend time as a normal person instead of a public figure.

Approachable will probably help with that as a side effect, by letting people have normal interactions with you even though you're famous, but on the other hand it might also embolden people who want to have abnormal interactions with you because you're famous.

Yeah... I think this is sounding like it's more of a Maybe I can tolerate it than a want or a neutral.

I guess that means flashy goes down too.

I can't take Moodier Ring and Mark of the Witch is the opposite of what I want.

I also don't want to lost my powers if I come home so no to Secret Identity.

A Single Perfect Flaw is... interesting. I'm not sure what the boundaries of it are but I can imagine there being something I'm willing to close of as an option.

I think the idea is supposed to be that I choose something which would be a major imposition on other people but feels to me like a choice that's true to my self and who I want to be?

Yes, that's the idea. If you think of ideas for what your Flaw should be, I can help you figure out how viable they are.

I have a few vague ideas.

1. Something that stops me from acting ashamed of my body.

2. Something about either not being able to fight or since that's probably too broad a narrower restriction in that same vein.

3. Something about always trying to understand people or perhaps about never hating someone or wanting them to be hurt.

Being unable to physically harm other people would definitely count as a Perfect Flaw! I think being unable to act ashamed of your body might not work as well. Being unable to hate people or want them to hurt would work but I'm a little concerned about it, because understanding other people is important to you and I think being able to experience those impulses can be important for understanding where some people are coming from.

That's a good point I hadn't really thought about other so thanks for pointing it out. 

If we're focusing on the idea about hurting people, that wasn't really something I see as part of the life I want to live anyway but I wonder how narrow it would be okay to make it.

A slap hurts someone but being unable to do that seems like it might be a bit broader than I would want. The most narrow version I can think of is being unable to kill anyone. I could also see something in between where I can't injure someone or as an in between injure someone in a way they can't recover from.

What do you think?

I think either being unable to kill anyone or being unable to injure anyone could work.

I think that's probably on the neutral tier. I don't actually ever want to injure or kill someone and I don't think that's the best solution to anything in the world I'm living in but between travelling elsewhere and constrained circumstances I can imagine regretting it a little.

That makes sense! I think it's worth thinking carefully about taking on a restriction like that, but it sounds like it might be worthwhile for you even though it constrains how you can address situations you find yourself in later on.

Agreed. It's not something I think I would do anyway.

I can actually imagine wanting Selective Memory now. I can imagine making myself forget about some of the protections that would be incomplete and also Down To Earth and just living my life without that expectation of assured safety.

I'm not sure I want to do that but I think I'm sure enough that I can find a way it works well to bump it to the highest category. What specifically I pick depends on the powers I choose.

I'm still not going to take The Veil. It's important to me to know that the Dreams in Dream together are real and for Tom to know they're real too.

Yes, I think The Veil would be pretty troublesome in your situation, but using Selective Memory that way has possibilities.

I guess one question is, do you think you'll notice eventually that your life is steering itself toward helping you understand other people better? How do you think you would feel, if you noticed that without remembering why it was happening?

That's another good question. I think, as long as I remembered most of our conversations I would correctly guess that on some level it was my choice. I think... that might hurt a little because it's easier to be able to blame some outside force or attribute things to random chance but I don't think it would be worse than knowing from the start and I think it would feel more focused on me instead of the people I'm coming to understand. And I think that would be better.

Okay! ♡

I'm not sure where to rate Dramatic Damsel. I think... for now I'll put it at neutral because a part of me wants Down to Earth and a part of me doesn't. And I know to think about this more later. I was initially unsure if Dramatic Damsel was specifically about kidnapping plots but it looks like it is from the last line am I understanding that right?