"Marcus I have no idea what you always have."

"Ughhh. Strawberries and marshmallows and melted chocolate."

"...okay no actually I just remembered that most of the fattening stuff tastes awful. Just do strabwerries, cherries, kiwi, and sure let's go with chocolate. White chocolate."

"I'll try to remember that."

"I'm writing it down," says Felicia tapping away at her phone.

"Oh of course you picked Mysterious Allure," Marcus says, after they're gone.

"I honestly didn't want to, it's just that it's a prereq for Love Interest."

"Uh huh. Sure."

"Oh, shut up."

"Captive Audience sounds right up your alley, though, and you didn't grab it?"

"Yeah. Bit too much mind control for my tastes, and even with the notebook's revised no-mind-control versions of things I just want to kind of figure out how to be that captivating the hard way, you know?"

"Meh." Read read read. "...surprised again, you didn't take Love Triangle?"

"Clearly someone here hasn't been reading any Mary Sue fics."

"No. I haven't. Enlighten me."

"In Mary Sue fics, when a love triangle happens, at least a competitive one, the love interest just abandons their previous partner or their job or whatever to be with the Mary Sue. The 'drama' that the power talks about is the kind of drama where people abandon things that are important to them to be with me. I do not want that."

"I'll bet you'll find a lot more people who are open to a poorly-defined poly thing with a world-hopping supertwink than would be under normal circumstances, anyway."

"I do have Time Enough For Love which gives me, well, time to spend with people like that, so it probably doesn't even need to be that poorly-defined."

Marcus reads on to find that power. "Goddamn, dude, you're never going to get any sleep."

"It's explicitly extra time on top of the regular time! - separately you should ask the friendbook if you can get the Mary Sue thing of oh I only need four hours of sleep, it's genetic, teehee. It's within actual human variance, it can't be that expensive."

"Oh hell yes, I want that. Although maybe I can get that for free with Dragon Elf Fairy Witch? I'm sure there's some magical heritage that needs a lot less sleep, or none. Toril elves only need a four-hour trance, and even though half-elves need regular sleep it would be very Mary Sueish to be a half-elf that somehow inherited the elf trance."

"Sense," Vivian says. "Or a golem, or something - oooooh scratch that, vampire. Find a really cool kind of vampire to appropriate. I'm assigning this as homework."

"...Twilight vampire. I'm gonna be a dh—no, Twilight vampire dhampyrs have forced sleep schedules. ...hmm. Mary Sue dhampyr who inherits the no-sleep and doesn't inherit the constant thirst."

"Are you going to sparkle. Are you going to be a shiny femboy, one in four thousand, alternate color palate, show it off to your friends at recess, this got away from me bad."

He grins. "Gotta catch 'em all. Be caught by 'em all. One of those."

"A key that opens every lock, a lock that opens to any key..." Vivian pauses. "I was trying to evoke shitty misogynistic cultural memes but it came out sounding weirdly arcane and kind of badass. Nice."