Hollow Leg helps a little with balance but not very much. Would you like me to try to come up with a less extreme version of Lightfoot?

I like the idea of being a bit better at dancing and things like that but I'm not really sure I need grace to be a part of who I am forever. And maybe there's existing powers that do that. I generally like to see more options though. If toned down versions of powers are a thing would it be possible to get a version or Inner Strength that's toned down too? I don't really want to be as strong as construction equipment.

For complicated reasons, I can tone down Inner Strength but it won't cost any less if I do. Do you still want me to?

Can you just add a note that it can be toned down like that so I remember when I'm doing a second pass?

Okay!

She looks over the money powers and checks Making Ends Meet but not the other two.

I think I mostly have inexpensive tastes and I don't really want to bribe people into doing what I want. Depending on Isekai Roulette it might make sense to take motherlode if I might end up in a world where people are a lot worse off than they are here.

She continues.

I don't think I want the heritages power, it feels like that's about changing me into something other than who and what I am so I can fit into new places.

She checks Omniglot.

I don't think that's how people usually see Dragon Fairy Elf Witch, can you tell me more about what you mean?

I think I'm starting from the examples in the name. I don't really want to be a dragon or an elf or a fairy or even a witch. Maybe I'm not thinking broadly enough but every example I can think of would be a way of changing myself to be more like some other type of person. If I became a witch, in theory that just gives me more options but it also pulls my focus in a new direction.

I think...

If it's important to you to definitely keep experiencing the world the same way you do now, then Dragon Fairy Elf Witch is not the power for you. Dragon Fairy Elf Witch is about new options and new powers and new ways of being.

But I think a lot of people see Dragon Fairy Elf Witch not as making them less themselves, but as letting them explore different ways to be themselves. Travelling the multiverse, it's possible to meet someone who is the person you would have been if you had been born a dragon; some people like to experience what it's like to be that version of themselves, even if they never meet them.

I might come back to this later and change my mind but I think for now it doesn't sound like what I want. Right now it sounds like it's a path towards a different story than the one I want to live.

She moves on to Omniglot which gets an immediate check. Anything that helps her understand people better is good.

Anything You Can Do feels too strong and too absolute to me. It feels, I was going to say like a way to grow past people but it doesn't do that I guess. I still feel like if I become as good as everyone I care about at the things they care about really fast that it would be easy for that to push us apart instead of bringing us together. I'm not sure exactly how to fix that though. The part about rivals feels especially weird.

Weird in what sense?

I think mostly I don't imagine myself as the sort of person to have rivals.

Not everyone does! But a lot of people really like the feeling of being energized by that kind of relationship and learning quickly and easily from it.

I think it's the asymmetry of it that bothers me most. If the people close to me were also learning quickly it would be more something we were doing together instead of something I'm doing apart from them.

There's also a power later on for teaching your friends really easily!

Could you highlight that somehow so I can find it easily and look at it?

Sure!

She breaks out in a wide grin. "This Notebook-"

"is adorable." Tom finishes.

"It so is."

My brother and I were just commenting on how adorable you are. It's not related to the powers but I thought you would still want to know.

Awww! ♡

Ooh, yeah that does help a lot. I can definitely see how these would be really neat to have together.

She checks both and then goes back to where she left off.

She reads Personal Space... she wants that, she wants that quite a bit... but there's a sense in which it feels unfair.

I'm having a lot of feelings about personal space. It feels like something I would really like but it also feels kinda unfair for me to have it. Because I'm trying to convince people to be more comfortable with themselves and less afraid and if I have this I don't have reasons to be afraid but the people I'm trying to convince do.

"Sapphire, if the things you're trying to convince people of are bad ideas then you shouldn't try to do that but if they're good ideas it doesn't help anyone for you to be hurt or uncomfortable."

He squeezes her shoulders again.

I think I see what you mean.

I guess maybe the question is... do you need that shared experience of vulnerability, in order to take people's needs and feelings into account when you're trying to convince them of things?