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QotW #9: You are allergic to BoM-style masks, but you can use one to make a golem that will obey you. Assume you are a student at Westside High, and assume further that you occupy more or less the same kind of niche as you did at your old high school. Who do you turn into an obedient golem? (Note that your golem does not have to attend or work at WHS.) [Alternate explanation, leading to the same kind of situation: You have the ability to insert a "blue goo" into any BoM-universe character such that you can order them around but you cannot directly control them. Who do you infect with the blue goo?]

This is such a no-brainer for me: Gary Chen. I'd get the dividends off his drug trade, and I'd use him to keep any and all bullies off my back.

And I'd justify it in my own mind telling myself I would gradually wind down his illegal activities and push him into more constructive pursuits so that when the year was over and I released him, he'd be in a much better and happier position.