Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
A junior engineer working for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.
Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
Brackenn (December 31, 2014 at 3:41 pm): “Yea, but was that Jeans Idea? What I wanna know is If Neil wishes for a puppy, Jean just responds with ‘No, you can’t have a puppy’.”
That’s a really good question. I’m gonna guess that yeah, Jeanie can do that, but not until she’s granted the first three wishes. And again, she has huge leeway in granting even those three.
The fishing boat incident is instructive.
She grants the sailor one wish by making him captain, but note that the wish was for a nicer captain. That neatly avoids changing the captain’s personality. Then she pops herself back to the apartment.
On her return home, she hugs Neil in gratitude (BTW, not a guy thing to do), then slaps him for slapping her–but note that she doesn’t exact a magical punishment for that.
Later, we see that the new Lady Captain doesn’t make a very dutiful wife, although she seems kinda ambivalent about the “hot…um…guy”. The little girl seems happy enough.
All of this points to the extreme latitude that genies have in granting the first three wishes, and clarifies that the wish granting compulsion applies only to those three. A genie may use magic in self-defense–but note that Jeanie didn’t kill her attacker.
I also think there’s some evidence that some, but not all, of the people who are changed by Jeanie adapt emotionally to their new persona, at least a bit.
I agree with pretty much everything you said. Note that genies can choose to stay with their master after the 3 wishes and they still have powers, thought somewhat reduced. Jeanie has already expressed the desire to remain with her “master” Neil, so I suspect she still has to comply with his expressed wishes (certainly with leeway) and in this strip Neil asked her to return him to normal. Since Jeanie is thinking about finding out how Neil was better in bed than Jean, she didn’t bother to think of a “creative” fulfilment of that wish and it suited her agenda of the moment to make Neil male again.
Maybe retained genies don’t have the obligation to grant their masters wishes, but it seems likely to me that they do.
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I missed two points about the fishing trip (in the moderated post you can’t see yet):
1. Jeanie speaks Greek as long as she has a new master. When she has discharged her obligations to him, and returns to Neil, she speaks English again. Nice little detail, Rudd.
2. Aracelli’s bottle, with Aracelli in it, gets mailed back to Cocoa Beach. I think this was one of Jeanie’s instructions to the crew before she returned.
And that just gob smacks me. She was talking about wanting to kill Aracelli, but in the end, she makes sure that Aracelli isn’t thrown back in the ocean, but is instead returned to Neil.
I am seriously touched by this. Deep down, for all her selfishness, all her impetuosity, she is a good, decent person. This act of mercy, of kindness, towards someone she might well regard as an enemy, raises her high in my esteem.
Of course, this also establishes that she is Boss Genie; Aracelli is gonna owe her, big time. That’s gonna be an interesting scene, having that explained to her.
Sadly I think Araceli knows and this is why I dislike her. She spent 500 years at the bottom of the sea within a few days of job swapping with Jeanie (in a way that revealed Jeanie obviously doesn’t know much about being a genie) Jeanie’s not only gotten her out of the water but sent her back to where Jeanie thinks of as home. After that Guano comes to her for help in dealing with the new Genie who saved her and her approach is to torment her (in a way Araceli would have a very deep understanding of how painful what she did is) and then tell her she’s going to steal the master she chose to stay with out of love and see she’s sealed up.
Don’t forget that Araceli and Jeanie traded bottle that they were the Genie of. Araceli trick Jeanie into changing places with each other, with Araceli bottle being at the bottom of the sea. When Jeanie had the other bottle mailed back to the United State or promise to have that bottle mailed back to the United State. Jeanie was still the occupant of that bottle. If Jeanie would have known that she was going to be trading place with the other Genie before it got mailed to the United States, then she would not have had it mailed to the United States. Jeanie did help that other Genie, but it was a side effect of Jeanie helping herself and trading place with the other Genie and the other Genie getting the benefit of what Jeanie did.
I’m not saying there wasn’t self interest involved I’m just saying that Araceli is trying to screw over and get the new, inexperienced genie who was directly responsible for freeing her from being imprisoned under the sea sealed away so she can steal her master. That’s a level of cruelty I don’t think Jeanie’s capable of.
The interesting part that I don’t think Jeanie is considering is that she has no real frame of reference to compare sex with Neil as a girl to in the first place. I doubt this would lead to ‘Dammit now i have to sleep with a bunch of other guys to compare’. Even that wouldn’t give the vital clues, because it’s really a sex with Jean vs sex with Neil comparison. To do that, Jeanie would have to try and time travel back to before the change and randomly sleep with herself to compare. Hmmm…that certainly would be a scheme worthy of Jeanie.
Yeah, that’s a huge flaw in her plan, and suggests to me that not only is she not thinking clearly, due to a powerful mix of jealousy and fatigue, but there may be other forces at work she is not consciously aware of.
Peeing on my tree here: I predict Jeanie and Neil will not consummate their affair right away. Jeanie’s too tired, and Neil’s too suspicious. There are ways CD can prove me wrong, without breaking either character, but that’s the way I’m going right now.
Hehe, yeah, I agree…though the time travel has amusing possibilities. Jeanie suddenly has a flashback to college where ‘he’ remembers meeting a hot blonde for a one night stand and starts to panic wondering if it was really ‘her’ going back in time (whether it was or not) and does she need to do it now just to fulfil the temporal paradox. Everyone needs a wacky time travel predestination paradox in their life.
Of course… Jeannie doesn’t know HOW to time-travel – her only familiarity with that subject would undoubtedly come from watching old TV reruns. So now… where could she possibly get a starship capable of doing a slingshot maneuver around the sun at Warp 8?
I remember that film Bob-Aw very strange plot. Company uses time travel to prevent major disasters using Agents who are their own parents. Hermaphrodites who grow up, get pregnant, get sex change operation, go back in time, get themselves pregnant, then their trainer goes back in time and takes the baby back in time to grow up to be their female self.
Unfortunately for time travel fans, back in 2009 in one of the earliest strips, the note that appears in Jean’s bottle pretty much establishes the immutability of past events in this story, unless CD decides to bring over the parallel timelines so prevalent in Sailorsun.org.
The only problem with time travel established is the potential paradoxes of doing so. If Jean were to realize that a hot blonde he slept with in college was actually him, he’d have to go back in order to prevent established events from being changed.
1) Speaking of time travel.. (were we?) there’s an episode of ‘My Little Pony’ where Twilight is visited by her future self then ties off the time loop by visiting her past self.
2) I bet Jeanie sets up the bedroom and falls asleep before Neil does anything they’ll both regret.
Isn’t obvious? Jeanie like to be the center on everything and she doesn’t like to be left out of anything. Jeanie in a peculiar position of being where she doesn’t want to be, but doesn’t want to be left out. She still has needs for affection, but, she doesn’t want to admit it. So she runs around like a woman that has a bee in her bonnet. So act so strange and will act strange until she accept her gender and chooses to act with those new boundaries.
Neil: (being Mr. Consideration) I need to go to work. If you still feel that way when I get back, we’ll talk.
Jean(nie): (In the time while he’s gone, she has the opportunity to consider what she was about to do and realizes that Neil saved her from herself and … starts to develop a bit of a crush on him for that.)
Not just that, but it drives pretty girls nuts when men walk away from them. That’s not how it’s supposed to work, see. They’ve got the hair, and the face, and the boobs, and the…and what guys usually pester them for, and a guy who walks away?
Jean probably thinks they have more than enough time before she poofs Neil to his job–which goes a long way to explain why Neil gave Belle the best sex ever.
Brackenn (December 31, 2014 at 3:41 pm): “Yea, but was that Jeans Idea? What I wanna know is If Neil wishes for a puppy, Jean just responds with ‘No, you can’t have a puppy’.”
That’s a really good question. I’m gonna guess that yeah, Jeanie can do that, but not until she’s granted the first three wishes. And again, she has huge leeway in granting even those three.
The fishing boat incident is instructive.
She grants the sailor one wish by making him captain, but note that the wish was for a nicer captain. That neatly avoids changing the captain’s personality. Then she pops herself back to the apartment.
There she sees Aracelli, starts ranting in Greek, and Neil slaps her to get her attention. At that moment, a sailor summons her back to the ship, to get his last two wishes. One is to be rich.
But then he asks her to “Make a dutiful wife and bare me sons!” Instead, she turns him into a “dutiful wife”.
Next she turns another sailor into a little girl–but that’s an unwished-for self-defense move to keep him from throwing the bottle back into the ocean.
On her return home, she hugs Neil in gratitude (BTW, not a guy thing to do), then slaps him for slapping her–but note that she doesn’t exact a magical punishment for that.
Later, we see that the new Lady Captain doesn’t make a very dutiful wife, although she seems kinda ambivalent about the “hot…um…guy”. The little girl seems happy enough.
All of this points to the extreme latitude that genies have in granting the first three wishes, and clarifies that the wish granting compulsion applies only to those three. A genie may use magic in self-defense–but note that Jeanie didn’t kill her attacker.
I also think there’s some evidence that some, but not all, of the people who are changed by Jeanie adapt emotionally to their new persona, at least a bit.
I agree with pretty much everything you said. Note that genies can choose to stay with their master after the 3 wishes and they still have powers, thought somewhat reduced. Jeanie has already expressed the desire to remain with her “master” Neil, so I suspect she still has to comply with his expressed wishes (certainly with leeway) and in this strip Neil asked her to return him to normal. Since Jeanie is thinking about finding out how Neil was better in bed than Jean, she didn’t bother to think of a “creative” fulfilment of that wish and it suited her agenda of the moment to make Neil male again.
Maybe retained genies don’t have the obligation to grant their masters wishes, but it seems likely to me that they do.
To be fair we don’t know how dutiful the new captains going to be once she becomes someones wife and bears their sons.
Robert, I tried to make a post that had several HTML links in, and it looks like it might be held in moderation. Could you give it a nudge, please? (There may be two copies–please use the second one with the date of the post I replied to.)
Yup, made two copies. The one here at the bottom is the one to use.
*sigh* This is why I don’t use full links to point to comics.
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I missed two points about the fishing trip (in the moderated post you can’t see yet):
1. Jeanie speaks Greek as long as she has a new master. When she has discharged her obligations to him, and returns to Neil, she speaks English again. Nice little detail, Rudd.
2. Aracelli’s bottle, with Aracelli in it, gets mailed back to Cocoa Beach. I think this was one of Jeanie’s instructions to the crew before she returned.
And that just gob smacks me. She was talking about wanting to kill Aracelli, but in the end, she makes sure that Aracelli isn’t thrown back in the ocean, but is instead returned to Neil.
I am seriously touched by this. Deep down, for all her selfishness, all her impetuosity, she is a good, decent person. This act of mercy, of kindness, towards someone she might well regard as an enemy, raises her high in my esteem.
Of course, this also establishes that she is Boss Genie; Aracelli is gonna owe her, big time. That’s gonna be an interesting scene, having that explained to her.
Sadly I think Araceli knows and this is why I dislike her. She spent 500 years at the bottom of the sea within a few days of job swapping with Jeanie (in a way that revealed Jeanie obviously doesn’t know much about being a genie) Jeanie’s not only gotten her out of the water but sent her back to where Jeanie thinks of as home. After that Guano comes to her for help in dealing with the new Genie who saved her and her approach is to torment her (in a way Araceli would have a very deep understanding of how painful what she did is) and then tell her she’s going to steal the master she chose to stay with out of love and see she’s sealed up.
Don’t forget that Araceli and Jeanie traded bottle that they were the Genie of. Araceli trick Jeanie into changing places with each other, with Araceli bottle being at the bottom of the sea. When Jeanie had the other bottle mailed back to the United State or promise to have that bottle mailed back to the United State. Jeanie was still the occupant of that bottle. If Jeanie would have known that she was going to be trading place with the other Genie before it got mailed to the United States, then she would not have had it mailed to the United States. Jeanie did help that other Genie, but it was a side effect of Jeanie helping herself and trading place with the other Genie and the other Genie getting the benefit of what Jeanie did.
Mehh, gosh darn it, and here I was feeling all warm and snuggly.
Nope, you know what? I’m going to continue to assume Genie’s not a total hard ass bitch. Cause that’s just the way I roll.
At least that’s the way I roll with cute girls who can turn me into a slug.
I’m not saying there wasn’t self interest involved I’m just saying that Araceli is trying to screw over and get the new, inexperienced genie who was directly responsible for freeing her from being imprisoned under the sea sealed away so she can steal her master. That’s a level of cruelty I don’t think Jeanie’s capable of.
Oh my, a new record for comments!! Some of the best analysis I have read to date. Thank you CD for the great story.
Sorry I just had to bring it to 100.
I just have to say, I fucking love this series
I love gender bending fiction fun xD
I’m so glad to hear it. 🙂
Happy New year, everybody, and may the new year be a damn-sight better than the last.
This is the Back to the Future 2 year.
Whoo-Hoo!
still NO HOVERBOARDS(mostly) but someone did make Self-lacing sneakers
And we have 3D cinema. But the shark still looks fake!
It’s got to be. After all, this is the year that the Cubs are due to win the World Series.
The interesting part that I don’t think Jeanie is considering is that she has no real frame of reference to compare sex with Neil as a girl to in the first place. I doubt this would lead to ‘Dammit now i have to sleep with a bunch of other guys to compare’. Even that wouldn’t give the vital clues, because it’s really a sex with Jean vs sex with Neil comparison. To do that, Jeanie would have to try and time travel back to before the change and randomly sleep with herself to compare. Hmmm…that certainly would be a scheme worthy of Jeanie.
Yeah, that’s a huge flaw in her plan, and suggests to me that not only is she not thinking clearly, due to a powerful mix of jealousy and fatigue, but there may be other forces at work she is not consciously aware of.
Peeing on my tree here: I predict Jeanie and Neil will not consummate their affair right away. Jeanie’s too tired, and Neil’s too suspicious. There are ways CD can prove me wrong, without breaking either character, but that’s the way I’m going right now.
Hehe, yeah, I agree…though the time travel has amusing possibilities. Jeanie suddenly has a flashback to college where ‘he’ remembers meeting a hot blonde for a one night stand and starts to panic wondering if it was really ‘her’ going back in time (whether it was or not) and does she need to do it now just to fulfil the temporal paradox. Everyone needs a wacky time travel predestination paradox in their life.
Unless Lord Shithead or Shithead’s Niece arrives and dumps cold water over this situation, I dont see Jeanie giving Neil much choice in the matter XD
Plus lets keep in mind that as a guy, Neil’s massive pushover >.>
True true…his man-‘mones may get the best of him when a cure blonde is trying to get into his pants.
Hah, I love your idea of Jean remembering a hot blonde in college, Bob-AW. That would be so funny.
Of course… Jeannie doesn’t know HOW to time-travel – her only familiarity with that subject would undoubtedly come from watching old TV reruns. So now… where could she possibly get a starship capable of doing a slingshot maneuver around the sun at Warp 8?
URK!
I remember that film Bob-Aw very strange plot. Company uses time travel to prevent major disasters using Agents who are their own parents. Hermaphrodites who grow up, get pregnant, get sex change operation, go back in time, get themselves pregnant, then their trainer goes back in time and takes the baby back in time to grow up to be their female self.
Unfortunately for time travel fans, back in 2009 in one of the earliest strips, the note that appears in Jean’s bottle pretty much establishes the immutability of past events in this story, unless CD decides to bring over the parallel timelines so prevalent in Sailorsun.org.
The only problem with time travel established is the potential paradoxes of doing so. If Jean were to realize that a hot blonde he slept with in college was actually him, he’d have to go back in order to prevent established events from being changed.
1) Speaking of time travel.. (were we?) there’s an episode of ‘My Little Pony’ where Twilight is visited by her future self then ties off the time loop by visiting her past self.
2) I bet Jeanie sets up the bedroom and falls asleep before Neil does anything they’ll both regret.
3) CD…. # 300 coming up soon. Anything planned?
You are aware, aren’t you, that the Devil himself is into My Little Pony?
After a few month maybe Jeanie just wants some affection too. CD still hasn’t cleared up what she is jealous of yet. It could be a few things.
Isn’t obvious? Jeanie like to be the center on everything and she doesn’t like to be left out of anything. Jeanie in a peculiar position of being where she doesn’t want to be, but doesn’t want to be left out. She still has needs for affection, but, she doesn’t want to admit it. So she runs around like a woman that has a bee in her bonnet. So act so strange and will act strange until she accept her gender and chooses to act with those new boundaries.
Trying my hand at prognostication:
Neil: (being Mr. Consideration) I need to go to work. If you still feel that way when I get back, we’ll talk.
Jean(nie): (In the time while he’s gone, she has the opportunity to consider what she was about to do and realizes that Neil saved her from herself and … starts to develop a bit of a crush on him for that.)
“realizes that Neil saved her from herself”
Not just that, but it drives pretty girls nuts when men walk away from them. That’s not how it’s supposed to work, see. They’ve got the hair, and the face, and the boobs, and the…and what guys usually pester them for, and a guy who walks away?
Challenge material.
Jean probably thinks they have more than enough time before she poofs Neil to his job–which goes a long way to explain why Neil gave Belle the best sex ever.
Heh. Could be. Could well be.