Let the tests begin

By the time you reach LePetit Cafè you have already managed to make some tests and have gathered some new traits.

Firstly, and most importantly, you cannot grab at random. This you learned by fake stumbling into a group of five people, and only managing to gather the BUSINESSWOMAN trait from the only one you had been focusing on before the stumble. You also replicated this by closing your eyes until you bumped into someone and didn't manage to get any traits from the corpulent guy that happened to be on your path.

Both BUSINESSWOMAN and WAITRESS, means that whatever you are taking from people has a gendered language. Just to confirm it you touch an older gentleman in suit and tie on the arm and get a BUSINESSMAN trait. What having gendered language meant when giving back traits, that's something you are still not sure you want to test, but you still make a mental note of it for later.

Touching the gentleman also confirms something that you already knew, but was great to have confirmation on. Skin to skin contact is not needed. Whatever power the watch has, it passes through clothes.

You cannot gain traits that aren't true. You try and get GOTH from a college girl handing out pins for a charity event, but when you check the watch you have PREPPY instead, more accurate to her style and attitude. When you hand over a bill to a second girl sitting beside the charity box, you gain a second PREPPY, meaning that you can have multiple copies of the same trait. Could you mix them together?

Now you are finally sitting at a table in the coffee shop, slowly sipping on your latte while gazing at your watch.

Nora, the obnoxious senior manager of the coffee shop, is a lot more quiet than usual. Seems removing the BOSSY trait from her was a good thing. She still looks like a Karen, and has an obvious pissed off look while she tends to the cash register.

You scribble onto your notebook all traits that you have, and start thinking about fun combinations. Both Zaylee the barista and Nora would be great study targets for you. You have an hour to spend, enough to cook a new combination and witness the changes as they happen.

After a couple of minutes you have the more interesting pairs written down:

• PREPPY + PREPPY to see what happens with the doubling. The choice was not negated by the watch and so it was technically possible.
• TOMBOY + HOTTIE seems like the perfect choice for the perfect looks.
• IMMATURE + PREPPY or IMMATURE + TOMBOY could probably bring up a bratty personality in someone.
• HOTTIE + WAITRESS or BUSINESSWOMAN as a nice way of granting someone both a job and looks.
• PARTY ANIMAL + whatever, actually this could be really nice with the alternative style of Zaylee.

Then you have a small list of weird things that could technically be made as tests:

• BUSINESSMAN + BUSINESSWOMAN
• BUSINESSMAN + TOMBOY
• POSSESSIVE + TOMBOY
• WOMANIZER + PARTY ANIMAL

Without forgetting about BOOK-BUFF already ready to be passed onto someone.

That only leaves VIOLENT as the trait you really see no point in using.

Anyway, you have a choice to make.