One of the Drawback options makes you likely to meet other people chosen by the Spirit! It almost never happens by itself.

When two people chosen by the Spirit meet, the ways their powers apply to each other are mostly dictated by the combination of their narrative preferences. If there's any way they can live a story together that's part of both of their best lives, they do that. Otherwise, things get complicated, but the biggest question governing power interactions is still 'what kind of story does this person want to live?'.

that makes sense. I'll probably not pick the drawback, though, I think I want to be the protagonist of my story

And not have another Mary Sue mind controlling everyone around her ahahahahah.

Reasonable!

Anyway where was he ah yes Love Interest which may soon be modified to be less mind controlling so next is Love Triangle...

Name: Love Triangle - Cost: 2 ☐
(Requires Love Interest)
People you fall for will be open to dating you even if they already have another serious relationship, or other circumstances that would ordinarily interfere, like a demanding career or a vow of chastity. This may cause drama, but it'll blow over quickly and there won't be any serious problems.

...

........

Uh huh. Sure. "Drama". He's onto you. So that's a no from him.

Next...

Name: Love Dodecahedron - Cost: 5 ☐
(Requires Love Triangle)
When you fall for someone who is already seriously dating or even married, your romantic rival will be open to allowing their partner to date you, and may even want to date you themselves.

...solves the drama? Apparently? By? Everyone being poly? Okay that is really tempting and he's sure there's a metanarrative thing that'll be happening here such that he'll only happen to run into people to potentially fall for who are already up for being poly. Really tempting. Except...

...he rereads "Love Triangle"...

..."Love Dodecahedron" solves specifically the romantic drama. He's onto you, again, with your

or other circumstances that would ordinarily interfere, like a demanding career or a vow of chastity

So yeah he does not want people to quit their jobs or break their vows of chastity or whatever for him. That's a hard pass.

Next:

Name: Time Enough For Love - Cost: 5 ☐
No matter how many people you want to date or be close friends with, you will somehow find the time to hang out with all of them and express your love and care. This power can only be used for relationship activities and not for anything else you might want to use the ability to be in two places at once for.

WOW he nearly dug a hole into the page there uh.

sorry about nearly digging a hole into your page there. i got excited.

That's okay, I understand! A lot of people really like that one.

yeah no kidding

Next is...

Name: I Can Fix Them - Cost: 5 ☐
Regardless of how morally despicable someone is, your love can and will reform them into a genuinely good, kind, upstanding person who regrets their evil deeds.

This CYOA is really doing its level best to throw all of his moral intuitions weird places to see where they fall, huh. Goddamnit.

Okay, so, thinking through this one... He still has a strong aversion to mind control, and he's sure that he could ask the notebook for a non-mind control version of this power, but...

That'd make him only ever run into villains who were already, from the start, seducible into being nice people. Right? And so all of the villains who are in fact irredeemable will continue to not be redeemed. So maybe it is worthwhile taking this with fully unadulterated mind control so he can deal with the worst villains around?

...is he seriously considering using his dick as a weapon to make villains less villainous. Well, "love" not "dick", it'd be more of a sweet thing of romancing the villain and making them realise the error of their ways...

Man. Man he really, uh. He really. Should. Not. Do this. He just shouldn't. He has tried it before, and it was even with people who weren't morally despicable, it was just regular people whom he thought he could fix with sufficient applications of loving them and it didn't work and it didn't work in disastrous ways and, and this power guarantees that it'd work actually this time so if he just did it then it'd be fine and.

And.

THIS IS SUCH A BAD IDEA WHY IS HIS PEN HOVERING OVER THAT LITTLE BOX AUGHHHHHH

HE'LL THINK ABOUT IT LATER.

NEXT.

Name: True Love's Kiss - Cost: 1 ☐
By kissing your true love, you can break any curse, heal any injury, and cure any illness. The same works in reverse.

That's very innocuous and strictly positive and an immediate yes.

Next is...

Name: Planned Parenthood - Cost: 1 ☐
You can only have children if you actively and specifically want to. Your partners will understand this and not worry too much about it.

can I get Planned Parenthood without the part where people are automatically okay with it? i don't particularly want anything to replace that with, i'm fine having this be a plot point or a source of conflict or something i have to work through and actually now that i say all of this i confess i'm not entirely sure whether that'd have changed anything about the cost even if it wasn't already just a 1? is having conflict about this the kind of thing that the Spirit disprefers and would thus cost more power or, how exactly does that work?

If you take the Incomplete drawback later on, I can bend it to erase the mind-affecting parts of Planned Parenthood. It might help me with the Agree to Agree problem, too! And the modified Love Interest!

oh excellent I'll watch for it then

Next...

Name: Two Become One - Cost: 1 ☐
(Requires Planned Parenthood)
When you have sex, it is always special and wonderful and beautiful. No one ever elbows anyone in the face or makes undignified noises.

...pass. Sex is messy and that's part of it and it, it's, it feels a bit like it defeats the point to always have it be ~special and wonderful and beautiful~. It... detracts from the humanity of it. He thinks.

Name: Bop It - Cost: 1 ☐
(Requires Two Become One)
The mysteries of another's body are an open book to you, and you always know exactly how to move and touch in order to please someone in bed.

This one on the other hand is a lot more tempting if it weren't for the requirement. Not... he thinks it's not tempting enough that he'd take it, especially because he does sort of pride himself in his ability to figure out how to make someone melt on his fingers the hard way.

Name: The Princess And The Dragon - Cost: 3 ☐
No matter who or what you're trying to sleep with, the logistics will all work out, somehow. Arbitrary differences in size, biology, temperature, substrate, and underlying physics can be gotten around with sufficient creativity and determination.

Oh that is such a yes holy shit wait does that mean he gets to fuck nonhuman species he did not know he had this kink but in retrospect it sure was predictable huh welp.

Name: GGG - Cost: 4 ☐
Your true love will be willing to try just about anything you suggest in bed, and if you really enjoy it, they'll really enjoy it too.

No.

Name: Before Your Eyes - Cost: 4 ☐
In your presence, people become willing to experiment sexually in ways they normally wouldn't. For some reason this applies especially well to boys kissing each other.

This is clearly some fujoshi shit huh. Don't worry he can be one of the boys kissing boys here, there'll be a lot of that happening if it's up to him. Also no.

Name: Fated Lovers - Cost: 3 ☐
You will meet someone who will go on to become your true love. If you enter a specific universe with a specific target in mind, you'll meet that person under favourable circumstances, and if it doesn't work out with them, this power will keep introducing you to new possibilities until you find someone who's right for you. If you're the sort of person who can have multiple true loves, you'll keep meeting new ones until you have enough.

...

...he shouldn't start crying in the middle of AP Calc. He doesn't know why this is making him feel like crying but it is.

You know what this is, this is too many epiphanies or whatever the fuck. He bets his audience is laughing their ass off about just how many times a single notebook can break him. Well, ha ha to all of you, too. He is not going to give you the satisfaction of crying over this, even though he probably will have to actually think about why this made him want to cry so that he can decide whether he'll take it.

Damnation.

Name: Sorry About That - Cost: 3 ☐
Your true love will be extremely forgiving. Even if you make mistakes or act thoughtlessly toward them, a simple apology will mend things between you. They may expect you to try to improve, but they'll be infinitely patient about how fast that improvement takes place.

Name: Excuse Me - Cost: 5 ☐
(Requires Sorry About That)
All your friends will be just as forgiving as your true love.

Name: Tragic Backstory - Cost: 8 ☐
(Requires Excuse Me)
Something terrible happened to you in your past. Anyone who hears about it immediately forgives you for any and all bad behaviour in the present. They will not expect you to grow or change, and will continue sympathetically excusing whatever you do indefinitely.

Jesus H. Christ my guy do people really want to just be able to do awful shit with impunity like this don't answer that. But like. God.

Name: Sense of Style - Cost: 4 ☐
People who are romantically interested in you will start dressing more to your taste. The more romantically compatible they are, the better they'll be able to guess exactly what to wear to catch your eye.

Will that get people naked. He's not sure there's any clothes that he likes more than naked. Maybe if it's very sexy. Actually there are kinds of sexy that he'd buy over naked (Astolfo) but he's really not sure this power is trying to cater to this particular kink of his.

...hmm.

Anyway what's next

Name: Bonus Style Points - Cost: 3 ☐
(Requires Sense of Style)
Luck will shine on anyone trying to dress up for you. They'll get their hands on outfits they couldn't normally afford, their clothes will fit better, and in extreme cases they might even find themselves able to change shape, sex, or species—though only in ways that make them more, not less, comfortable in their own skin.

holy shit he can get other people to shapeshift too?????? Okay those two are a yes then hoooly wow.

Name: Popular - Cost: 3 ☐
Wherever you go, you develop a reputation fast. The sort of people who you'd like to have as fans tend to hear about you and be impressed. You may not make an impression on mainstream society at large, but you'll develop a following among the people who best resonate with your style.

Enh.

Name: Famous - Cost: 3 ☐
(Requires Popular.)
Wherever you go, people really take to you. You're the subject of constant gossip and most people have heard of you before you meet them. People you've never met will get crushes on you.

Enhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Name: Undiplomatic Immunity - Cost: 6 ☐
You are above the law. Any crimes you commit will be overlooked by the authorities. Note that, if you do enough crime that you start looking more like an invading army, local governments will still feel free to declare war.

No. Why.

Name: Friends In Low Places - Cost: 3 ☐
You make friends easily among the lowest echelons of society, the underdogs and underworlders. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.

Name: Friends In High Places - Cost: 3 ☐
You make friends easily at the highest echelons of society, among the rich and powerful. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.

Name: Friends in Strange Places - Cost: 3 ☐
You make friends easily in small isolated communities, among those who may be scorned by mainstream society for their differences or may just be so obscure that mainstream society mostly hasn't heard of them. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.

...okay he. He does like these. These are cool. He'll take them.

Aaaand we're at the Drawbacks part! His points total is 71 but that's not counting whatever the modified version of Love Interest will cost plus the Mysterious Allure requirement and the Agree to Agree thing aaaand whatever the fuck just happened in his brain when he read over Fated Lovers.

okay so I'm at Drawbacks, pulse check on modified Love Interest?

I think I can get it to fit together with the modified Planned Parenthood using Incomplete to nudge them both. I'm still working on the changes you asked for to Agree to Agree; I think I'm going to end up needing to construct a whole new option and that's always tricky... I'm pretty sure I can get it to work, though!

Name: Backchannel - Cost: 4 ☐
When you're talking to someone and you think you might not be getting through to each other, you can take a step back, look deep into your heart, and really try to understand where they're coming from, and it will just work and you'll know what they're trying to say and how sincere they are about it and have a good idea of what you should say if you want them to understand you right back.

(I was trying to do something much more ambitious, that made you just be able to communicate with people that easily all the time instead of when you take a moment to try it, but this one is much easier to put together and it also doesn't cost as many points!)

oh but that's wonderful, that's better than what I had thought before any of the vague thoughts I had about it

he writes, then immediately checks that checkbox. 75 points now.

why the name "Backchannel"?

I don't know, it just felt right! Inventing options is very mysterious that way.

huh, interesting

He wonders if there's some reference he's meant to be getting here like "Emerald Orbs" and "Dragon Fairy Elf Witch"? Meh, whatever. On to drawbacks.

Name: Decorative - Grants: +1 ☐
You are unfailingly cute and pretty and feminine at all times, in all circumstances. You cannot wear insufficiently pretty clothes. You cannot make insufficiently pretty noises. You cannot ugly cry.

...oh, oof. He was a little bit confused about what exactly the drawback was until the last sentence and... yeah. Yeah.

Kind of surprising that it's only one point.