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donutguy640 t1_jdrk10q wrote

Reply to comment by cookiesshot in [WP]The Wishmaker's Key. It's like the Monkey's Paw, but instead of just flat out granting your wish (and doing it in the worst way possible), it only opens up the most reasonable opportunity to get what you wished for. by xxDubbz

Did you even read anything after "[WP]The Wishmaker's Key. It's like the Monkey's Paw"?

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cookiesshot t1_jdrnbfz wrote

I said "WishMASTER", not "WishMAKER", so to aptly answer the question you posited...

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donutguy640 t1_jdrr4yn wrote

I wasn't referring to the name of the show your character was watching, but the way the key works, and more to the point, the way it DOESN'T work (creating opportunities)

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cookiesshot t1_jdsrxym wrote

I disagree, on 2 fronts:

  1. It's fiction, much like the idea of immortality or if the Sun is green:

There's 2 ways it can play out, depending on the ascribing of if immortality is REALLY worth it: the TRADITIONAL "I'm gonna live forever!" and the PHILOSOPHICAL "oh no... I'm gonna live forever? What have I done? standpoint.

Neither Claudia nor Louis in Interview With the Vampire were particularly elated to become vampires until AFTER learning of the consequences of their actions, no matter how attractive the idea of immortality was at face value.

  1. Opportunities ARE created, but MC STILL turns them down. It's like the Uncle Ben quote: "With great power comes great responsibility". MC is presented opportunities that SEEM innocent on the surface, but have VERY malicious consequences that aren't disclosed.

Jinns AREN'T all like Will Smith, the late Robin Williams, Shaquille O'Neal, or Barbara Eden.

In fact, think of it like if Jeanie decided to become evil and WILLFULLY malicious and drop a car on Capt. Nelson if he wished a new car would drop out of the sky.

That's the gist of it, along with a jinn (or a djinn, a jinni, or a genie) being a trickster. 500 years of being in a lamp may give them SUCH a pain in the neck, but, in the least, so can they.

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