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The list shifts again.

Name: Where The Heart Is - Cost: 1 ☐
(Requires Disney Princess)
When you make a place your home for long enough, it will begin to respond by animating itself, including furniture and loose articles, for your convenience. Over time it may develop a personality; if so, that personality will be tailored to complement yours.


Name: Cotton Candy - Cost: 3 ☐
(Requires Disney Princess)
The sharp edges of the world are blunted around you. That's not to say that nothing bad can happen, but that the worst things happen a lot less often, and happy endings large and small are much easier to come by. This effect can ripple outward to improve the lives of people you've never met.


Name: Musical Number - Cost: 5 ☐
(Requires Disney Princess)
At dramatic moments, you and those around you may spontaneously burst into song. The lyrics and choreography will be flawlessly coordinated.


Name: Grimm's Fairy Tales - Grants: +1 ☐
(Requires Cotton Candy)
Bad things can and will still happen to you in particular.
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Has anyone ever told you you're really good at this?
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Well. Yes. But it's still nice to hear it again. ♡
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I hope you don't mind if I skip Musical Number. It's charming and it's exactly what I asked for but I just don't feel right inflicting it on other people, you know?


But she heart-tiers all the rest. 141/150, a pretty respectable showing on heart tier.

Okay. One final pass through the list, from the top.

What's In A Name, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference: promoted from heart to checkmark.

Like Roses, Breathe Easy: likewise.

Inner Strength: blanked.

Battle Angel, Demon, Maiden: promoted.

Closed Book, Indelible, Iron Will: blanked.

Disney Princess, Where The Heart Is, Cotton Candy: promoted.

The Rescuer: blanked.

Bop It, Opening Up: promoted.

Like a Mirror: blanked.

Popular, Friends In Places: promoted.

Grimm's Fairy Tales: promoted.

Funhouse: blanked.

Very Distinctive: promoted.

And that's it, her carefully constructed tiered list has been collapsed into a unified binary of checkmark or no checkmark. She scans through it again, reacquainting herself with her choices. Isekai Roulette, Hundred Ships and all the appearance powers after it, Dressing Room and Pocket Dimension, Personal Hygiene, Like Roses, Just A Little Longer, Immunity System, Breathe Easy. Well Endowed, Hollow Leg, Lightfoot. The Battle powers, the money powers. Omniglot and Anything You Can Do. Dragon Fairy Elf Witch, Snowglobe, Unleash The Magic. Soulbound. It Gets Better. Disney Princess, Where The Heart Is, Cotton Candy. Backchannel. You Can Teach Better. Time Enough For Love. Opting In. I Can Help Them. True Love's Kiss, Eternal Love. Providential Parenthood, Laugh Together, Bop It, The Princess And The Dragon. Opening Up. Fated Lovers. Self-Reflection and Chaser Six When. Popular and Friends In Places.

And the drawbacks: Decorative, Style of Sisyphus, There's Another One. Incomplete, Nullified. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Mood Ring, Very Distinctive, Moodier Ring. Secret Identity, Selective Memory, The Veil. Dramatic Damsel, Love Is A Battlefield, Seen With The Heart. The Crazy Train, That's How It Goes, Live The Role. Informed Consent. Marionette. They'll Know.

There it all is.

Is she missing anything? Has she made a mistake? How can this be over this quickly? Shouldn't she spend a whole year of her life carefully writing down every consideration and contingency?



Can you look over my choices and tell me if you think I'm missing anything?
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I don't think you're missing anything.

I think you're making some pretty alarming choices, but you're making them on purpose because they're what you want. Ultimately, all the powers the Spirit gives you are... for you. They work in more or less the ways you want them to work, within the constraints and boundaries of what each power is for. And since you took a lot of meta-drawbacks, those boundaries are more flexible for you than for most people. Your specific choices definitely influence the ways that your story will unfold, but I think, with what you've done here, you've... gotten right to the heart of what the Spirit's power is about in a way that few people ever do. I think...

There's a sense in which what you've asked for here is... for all the power the Spirit can give you, and everything it can get from giving you drawbacks you endorse, to pour itself into doing the things you would want it to do if you knew enough to ask for them. And that's kind of like just asking the Spirit to, well. To be your friend?
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Yeah. Yeah, I see what you mean.

I don't really know very much about the Spirit. Everything you've said about them sounds nice, and I think it would be pretty hard for someone with totally horrible intentions to create someone as sweet and thoughtful as you. People's worldviews are reflected in how they interact with the world, and you're a pretty promising interaction, on that front. But I'm flying pretty blind here, and I am not used to that at all.

If you're telling the truth, though, then you saved me from the total disintegration of my existence just so you could give me cool powers. And if you're not telling the truth, then I don't know that I have any hope of figuring out what the rules of this interaction are or how to win at them. So here goes, I guess.
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Finalize me.
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