The first example is very easy for Perfect Hair; the second example would probably need Perfect Hair plus another power, but if you felt strongly enough about it Perfect Hair might be able to manage something.

Okay that's helpful, is the other power I would need already in the list or would I need a custom one? Also could you try to help me understand why the first one works but not the second? Is it about the hair not looking like hair or being too much unlike what hair is like?

You could probably get somewhere with Dressing Room but if you wanted your clothes to definitely be the same thing as your hair and definitely be visible to only some observers then I think I'd have to build you a custom power for it.

A set of clothes isn't a hairstyle. A hairstyle that looks a lot like a set of clothes is possible with Perfect Hair, but not a hairstyle that is a set of non-hair clothes, so observers who saw clothes-like hair would be able to tell it wasn't really clothes if they tried.

That makes sense, I don't really care about whether my clothes are also my hair but the idea of some people seeing me without clothes while other people see me as wearing them might be something I want. I think it depends on whether there's other powers that address the underlying desires better.

I have a lot of feelings around modesty and nudity that mostly amount to wishing that nudity wasn't so closely associated with sex and also relatedly that sex wasn't seen as something shameful that people have to hide or be embarrassed about.

Thank you for the explanation regarding why the second option idea doesn't work. That makes a lot of sense. I'll definitely have to come back to this but it seems like a really cool power.

She puts a check on Perfect Hair.

I'll think about what a power for appearing clothed to some people and naked to others might look like. I'm glad I can help!

Thank you.

She takes some time to read and think about the next power. "So... this is just Ant Man's power without super-strength."

"After a suitably dramatic moment."

"I don't think I really want that, maybe I'm thinking about it wrong though. What would I want to do that this power could do?"

"That sounds like a good way to frame things yeah."

She takes a bit to think about this.

So I'm thinking about what I might want to use Size Difference for. The obvious one is to get my height to line up right for kisses and other bits of intimacy. That seems like it wouldn't need a dramatic moment. The more striking one that I would like to be able to do is shrink down and play with kids at their level instead of as an adult trying to squeeze into kid sized spaces. I don't know what sort of Dramatic Moment I would need to unlock that though.

"Aww, that's adorable. You're adorable." He reaches down and squeezes her shoulders.

The dramatic moment isn't strictly necessary; it's just that Size Difference starts out in a mode where it's trying to adjust your height in a subtle, plausibly deniable way, for situations like kisses and intimacy and reaching things on high shelves and not bumping your head on doorways, where you don't need your height to change by very much and it doesn't need to be obvious that you're doing it. When you encounter a situation where you need a more obvious height shift to do what you're trying to do, Size Difference will accommodate that, but by default it will do it in a way where it seems like you're gaining the ability to change your height for the first time in response to that situation. If you just aren't at all interested in hiding Size Difference, though, it can have its full range unlocked from the beginning.

Alright, I can see how that makes sense. Also, I guess I should ask: can Size Difference make me look like a kid or does it make me look like an adult hit with a shrink ray?

The colon is also added after the fact.

Size Difference by itself can't make you look like a kid, but it could do that in conjunction with other appearance powers—Hollow Leg and one of the Ships powers should cover it.

Alright thank you.

She checks Size Difference and jots down a note that says Kid Mode next to A Hundred Ships

She frowns at dressing room.

Would dressing room alone be enough to emulate having pockets when I'm not wearing anything? Or would I need some custom power for that? Also, does Dressing Room include purses and backpacks?

Dressing Room won't let you have pockets without clothing by itself, but the power I'm working on for being selectively clothed should cover that. Dressing Room does include purses and backpacks and other accessories.

Yeah it seemed like that would be a stretch. What about things inside purses and backpacks that also seems like a stretch but it would be really cool if it worked?

You can summon the contents of pockets, purses, or backpacks by summoning the specific pocket, purse or backpack that you carried a specific thing in, if the contents are sentimentally valuable to you or if they're what you habitually carry in that pocket, purse, or backpack. Summoning sentimentally valuable items this way is guaranteed; summoning things you habitually carry is usually possible but might fail; summoning things you've only carried once or twice and aren't attached to is much harder.

That sounds really useful. And the limitations make sense since otherwise you could just get anything with this one small power.

She checks it and moves on.

Hmm, how does always being clean and fresh interact with sex? Lube is pretty important there and also even though I've never understood it some guys really like to see their cum on your body. Same question for like massages that use oil or things like that.

I don't really have experience with that sort of thing, because I am a notebook, but my understanding is that various oils and other substances can count as clean if they are on your body because you want them to be there and they don't contain anything you find gross or unpleasant. Someone who wanted to have substances on their body but experienced those substances as yucky and unpleasant-feeling would probably find that Personal Hygiene got in their way by prioritising the desire to feel clean and nice over the desire to have stuff on them, but as long as those desires aren't in conflict there shouldn't be a problem. And besides just removing things, Personal Hygiene can also keep them clean as an extension of keeping you clean - so a piece of candy held in someone's hand wouldn't get unpleasantly sticky or melty and wouldn't pick up dirt or lint from the environment, for example.

Oh wow, that's really convenient. I think that would probably close off some options for me but I think it sounds worth it.

She checks the box.

For Like Roses is my scent always exactly the same or can it have like layers. Like just normally, I smell a little different when I'm aroused and a lot different if I've just had a bunch of sex though maybe Personal Hygiene would already reduce that. Would those kind of changes still happen?

... Also I'm just realizing some people are uncomfortable talking about sex. It doesn't seem like you're one of them but I can be more circumspect if you would prefer that.

Tom laughs. "I guess I'm too used to you because it didn't occur to me either."

Like Roses definitely allows your signature scent to encompass subtle changes for different circumstances, like mood or recent activity, though the base scent will be very stable.

I don't mind the way you talk about sex; I'm only as hesitant about it as I am about any other experience that I can't really relate to, like eating. Well, maybe a bit extra hesitant because I know it's a delicate subject for a lot of people and I don't feel confident navigating that.

"What are you thinking here? You don't wear perfume."

"I'm thinking about the research about how scent has an especially strong link in memory and so maybe if I have a unique scent like this it'll make me have more of a presence and stick in people's minds better."