Okay, good. 

Grimm's Fairy Tales...isn't that bad, it sounds like it still makes the world in general a better place, but...it's only one point. She gives it a spiral. 

Funhouse, meh. She doesn't have Like A Mirror and it'd still cost another point even if she also took Funhouse. Not that interesting. 

Great Responsibility is HORRIFYING. Maybe if it came with some guarantee that she'd be able to help all such persons. Maybe. As it is, that sounds like hell. Helpline and Divine Mantle only make it worse!!!

Mood Ring...hm. 

If I took Mood Ring, would I still mostly have volitional control over the powers in question, like, as long as the volitional changes I was making don't conflict with my emotions? Or would the powers only work in mood-appropriate ways.

The powers would definitely still follow your preferences and choices; the Mood Ring effects are extra.

HmmMmm. She's not the repressing-things sort, but she is the performative sort, sometimes...

Does Mood Ring always display all my emotions, or do they sometimes display, like, only a narratively relevant subset.

Definitely more the latter.

So if I was about to have, like, a big dramatic confrontation, or a sweeping romantic moment, it would only display the big dramatic or sweeping emotions, and not, like, also my incidental anxiety about an unrelated friend?

Probably, unless the anxiety was distracting you from the rest of it at a dramatic moment, or otherwise taking part in the scene.

Hhhhhhh losing the ability to usefully compartmentalize her life like that sounds. Not ideal. 

She gives it a spiral, because it's not that bad, all things considered. 

Very Distinctive...she doesn't like it. 

Flashy. Well. It's not that bad, in the grand scheme of things, but there are so many cool stories she can't participate in if she categorically can't sneak places. Spiral. --Wait no it requires Very Distinctive, never mind. 

Moodier Ring would require her to take Emerald Orbs and Size difference, and wouldn't pay for them all by itself. Pass. 

Secret Identity is...enh? It'd be fine as long as she never comes home, but she's not sure she wants to rule that out forever...but she really doesn't like the idea of becoming someone flashy-special-amazing and then having to go back to real life. 

A Single Perfect Flaw...

I don't suppose there's any way to know ahead of time what A Single Perfect Flaw would do to me specifically, is there?

You can choose your Perfect Flaw ahead of time and I'll be able to tell whether the suggestion you're making would work.

Oh! Really! Okay, that's neat. 

Hm...a significant drawback, that resonates with her narratively...

She catches her brain trying to munchkin the drawback by coming up with a Flaw that wouldn't be too inconvenient and then trying to justify it narratively, which, no. She needs to come at it from the narrative side first, and if she can't think of a narratively-sourced Flaw that she imagines she'll be able to stand for the long haul, she needs to skip the flaw. 

Her first mental image is that tendon thing you see in CYOAs occasionally, that means you have to wear high heels. But that's a bit of a cheese, really not a significant enough drawback, and also, conversely, she has no idea whether it would interfere with assuming non-human shapes, which she's pretty sure she's going to want to do at some point in the next ever. 

...She's really blanking on this one. 

I assume you don't have specific examples of things people have picked before. 

Not besides the examples listed in the description, no. I can come up with examples that are things people could pick, though, if you want.

That would be helpful!

The examples listed in the description are muteness, blindness, winglessness, clumsiness, and a magical curse that makes frogs fall from your mouth when you speak. Flightlessness is different from winglessness but would still work - a wingless person can fly without wings, and a flightless person can have wings that don't fly. You could also be unable to have arms, or to have legs - but you could have a snake or mermaid tail instead of legs if you wanted, or tentacles instead of arms. There are lots of possible magical curses, so it's hard to think of specific ones, but you could have a compulsion to never enter a house uninvited, or never drink from an artificial vessel, or be unable to wear clothing, or be followed by stormclouds wherever you go.

None of those examples really appeal to me...I'm going to give this drawback a spiral for now, and then upgrade it later if I have a brilliant idea for a flaw and you think it works.

That sounds very reasonable.

Selective Memory...eh, skip it. The Veil--wow that's much worse. Dramatic Damsel--

Oh. 

Oh, do want. 

--Okay, she sort of understands the appeal of Selective Memory now! She'll go back and pick up Selective Memory if she can think of at least two other perks or drawbacks it'd be good to forget--actually Even Worse probably qualifies--oh, and Beauty Is A Curse is a separate drawback--

She checks Dramatic Damsel, then Selective Memory. 

For what I'd like to forget for Selective Memory, so far I have Dramatic Damsel, Beauty is a Curse, and Even Worse. I haven't decided yet if I also want to forget Selective Memory itself.

Okay! What are your thoughts on why you might want to forget or remember Selective Memory?

Well...if I forget Selective Memory, then I'm covering the tracks better of the things it appeals to me to forget. But if I remember Selective Memory, then anytime something happens that seems sort of weird, I can construct fun imaginary scenarios where it's happening because of a power or drawback I forgot. 

I see what you mean! ♡

I wonder if there's some way to get messages back to you and/or the Spirit about fun powers or drawbacks I think of!

I can't receive messages directly, but I bet I can still be inspired by the things you think of even without knowing that's where my ideas are coming from.

And speaking of being inspired, I've figured out a variant of Pacifist! I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I think it's interesting.

Name: A Gentler Way - Cost: 6 ☐
(Replaces Pacifist)
Games, contests, races, dance battles, and so on are likely to be accepted as alternatives to violence, if you propose them when a fight is breaking out. This effect works better the more well-tailored your suggestion is to the specific combatants and their personalities and cultural expectations. Doing this often enough can cause your alternatives to spread, potentially replacing most violence in an area. Powers you have that give you advantages in fights also apply to fight replacements.

Oh, very nice. 

Check. 

She's supposed to be removing powers from the check tier, but oh well. 

Love Is A Battlefield is...better than some of the other options, but it doesn't call out to her the way Distressed Damsel does. Spiral. Seen With The Heart, eeeeenh she's having a distinctly "no" emotional response. Skip it. Keys to Your Heart--oh hell no. Like she can see the appeal? But absolutely not, that's something to write sexy fanfiction with, not something to actually have to deal with in real life. 

Green With Envy, Jilted Lovers, You Ruin Them--uh, yeah, she's going to firmly but gently cross those out. 

The Crazy Train--oh that's actually much less bad than she was bracing herself for based on the name. Also this is the second time a drawback has referenced "Realism," which is presumably a drawback she hasn't seen yet. Anyway, skipping the Crazy Train, much less bad doesn't mean actually something she's willing to subject herself to forever. 

That's How It Goes has two prerequisites she definitely isn't taking, so it's no surprise that, separately, she really isn't interested in taking it!

...Live The Role is actually kind of tempting but she doesn't like the fact that That's How It Goes is a prerequisite. She...hm...okay she's going to spiral it and all the other stuff it requires that she definitely wasn't going to take. 

Man, it's not that I distrust the Spirit, but whoever Live The Role and prerequisites were designed for must have decided to go ALL IN on trusting the Spirit.

Yes, I see what you mean.