Jeanie Bottle 375
Jun07
on June 7, 2016
at 12:00 am
and modified on November 26, 2022. at 10:59 pm
Chapter: Story 09: I Dream of Technicolor
We’re getting to know more about Rouyaa’s personality here. I wonder what this portends…
Roughly 5 seasons and a couple movies, probably.
Not very long, since some people make wishes in their sleep without even realizing it. ^_^ I give them about a week or so before they slip up….
I wonder if she realized that she just proved them right to be cautious.
Did she? It seemed to me that she just made it clear that she doesn’t intent to twist Andy’s wishes, so their caution merely insulted her.
I’m pretty sure that’s not how we both read it.
“I’m 302 years old. I’ve had many masters. I’ve fulfilled wishes for every one [no comment on how the wishes turned out]. But I’m patient. (Glare) I will hear you say I wish, and I’ll be ready.”
She just said that she never failed in her duty to grant wishes to her master…not that she had always granted the wishes in the way that her master had intended.
Moreover, a genie who intends to grant wishes they way they were intended would not say “how long do you think you can go without saying the words, ‘I wish’?”.
It seems more like a threat to me. Paraphrased: “If you don’t make your wishes now, I’ll be patient and keep listening, and the moment you say ‘I wish’ without thinking, I’ll be there.”
The nature of wishing is always cautious, especially when it involves at least a pair of different mindsets. Like the saying, “Too many chefs spoils the soup,” collaborations sometimes leads to alternative outcomes than the individuals’ intentions.
From what we’ve already seen from Jean when “she” just copied everything of that Korean spy or how “she” made the “General Lee” disappeared without knowing it was a car and got “her” own body hijacked from “her” own magic while not knowing the taboo of it, she didn’t have to know everything or next to nil about the contents “her” magic can affect. Sometimes the magic just wills things by itself, even with the source genie guiding it. Like our own organs, they’re a part of us but we can’t fully control what they do.
To be fair, people tend to say that word combo very much without a lot of thought into it. Andy might end up “wishing” something without meaning to use his wishes.
“I wish I knew?”
“About six seconds it seems master, that’s one down, now what is your next wish?”
I really hope this is one of there wishes. That would be golden.
The wisest wish would be to wish for wisdom…
I wish I knew what she was thinking and could walk a mile in her shoe’s.
Whoops!
Hah, I’m down for this one! Accidental self-TG is a great trope.
Careful with that apostrophe. In her shoe’s [what]. Grammatical Genie is literally going to have a field day with that. :p
Well, if it’s during the Depression, it’s even earlier than the forties. How about “I wish you were just an ordinary girl I could date.” Sure explains how the bottle got vacated, doesn’t it?
Lucky these guys didn’t get Rayah’s bottle!
If the test patterns in the background are any clue, it’s probably sometime in th early 1950s.
(The first TV network – Dumont, i think – went on the air in 1948, but i don’t know whether they had test patterns.)
If that is Sidney Sheldon, then this would be in the mid to late 1930s. Which would be in the middle of the Great Depression. He was born in 1917.
Still not sure who Andy would be…
Best bet when it comes to wishes is to pull a Keiichi Morisato! And wish for a girl like her to stay with him forever.
Andy would Sidney Sheldon’s friend and writing partner, F. Andrew Leslie. They collaborated on several of their big hits.
But remember, Keiichi basically wished for “A woman like you to always be with me” it just happened to be that Belldandy was the closest example; if it had been say, Urd, the story would have been quite different.
Sid is inspired by a real person, but CD assures me that Andy is not. He’s an original creation for Jeanie Bottle.
@Robert: Fascinating… if that’s correct, that was one hell of a coincidence to pick the name Andy out of all the other possibilities.
Or were you just referring to the characters’ appearances? Because Sid does look a lot like Sidney Sheldon, but I haven’t found a pic of Andy Leslie.
Nope, Andy the character is an original creation, and is not based on a real person. Coincidences do happen, you know. 🙂
@Ghostforge. Urd wouldn’t be bad either! A smokin hot Goddess with a wild side who likes to drink and party? Suits me just fine!
There’ve been a LOT of depressions
To put it in perspective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
there have been thirteen ‘recessions/depressions’ since the Great Depression from 1929-1933. All of them ranging from several months to a year. This could be the tail end of the 1949 or the middle of the 1953 recession.
When those older people refer to the Great Depression they are usually talking about a period of between 1929 to 1940. The 1929 is where the stock market crashed and the entire economy fell apart officially. Unofficially the US Economy had already collapsed in the 1920 to 1929 with farm forecloses and such things as that. So for most people in the United States, this Great Depression lasted about 20 years or so and 1929 stock market only made it officially a Great Depression for everyone in this country.
World War II was considered the officially end of the Great Depression as the United States tooled up to fight World War II. After World War II, transferred much of the War manufacturing back to civilian uses again, so that the United States didn’t go back into a Great Depression again.
So she is a walking death trap.
“Do you feel lucky
punkMaster? Well, do you?”Hehe. CD said he was seriously tempted to reference that line in the final panel.
3 Comic strips minimum, 10 strips maximum.
Welp, he’ll have to not use any slang and carefully word his wishes, cause this workaholic genie’s got his number.
To quote the movie “Bernard and the Genie”: Say the words ‘I wish’ with the caution you would normally reserve for ‘Please castrate me’.
https://youtu.be/Q8qwZcycfoI?t=19m43s
Excellent movie, and an example of the unlimited wishes style of genie.
And here I thought the question was about whether or not I felt lucky – silly me
Grammar nitpick:
In panel 5, “Genie’s are extremely patient,” the apostrophe(‘) doesn’t belong.
Whoops! I’ll fix it.
Don’t mean to call you out on it. Editing is a *tough* job and something is always going to slip through the cracks. I’m always terrified that the moment I point out something wrong, I’ll end up making a mistake while doing so (wiki Muphry’s Law (and /that/ is not a typo)).
And don’t forget about Cole’s Law! (Thinly sliced cabbage.) 😉
> Don’t mean to call you out on it.
No no, please: call me out on these! I can’t learn from my mistakes if I’m not informed of them.
Wish her back in the bottle and put the cork back in—let the next guy to open it have the worry…
That’s one way to get around it.
I always felt sorry for the guy who would rub the lamp that Jafar was stuck in at the end of “Aladdin.” (Covered in the sequel, as I recall.)
Another would be to just wish for simple things that are easy to conceal. Like a private refrigerator that’s magically fully stocked with your favourite foods and drinks.
How about “I wish you were you were free ? But then, a certain blue genie tied to a certain thief still had powers after being freed – and that might not be good.
Well, if Andy wishes for Rouyaa’s freedom, you’d think she’s be pretty grateful.
Though now that I think about it, I don’t think there’s an established rule regarding freed genies in the JB continuity. Can such a thing even happen? If Neil had used one of his “official” wishes to free Jeanie, would that have reverted her to Jean, or left her as a female genie with no totem? I’m honestly not sure.
If the totem ‘has to have’ a genie associated with it, and Jean(n)ie became one from holding an open totem, wishing that Rouyaa was free might result in whichever one is holding the bottle becoming the replacement!
In the Dancing Gods series by Chalker, there was a lamp that held a genie and if a person made a second wish (even if accidentally) without giving the lamp away, /they/ became the genie of the lamp instead….
Reminds me of a comic I saw on DeviantArt recently. It involved a cursed genie bottle, where the master’s wishes actually get applied to the genie, and then the master becomes the genie. And the genie is, of course, inherently female. 🙂
She’s got a very VERY good point. They’ll say something that’ll hurt them. Best to get the wishes over with, and maybe find a way to keep her around to get to know her. And you know, find a way to free her from the bottle so Jean can later find it and become Jeanie. Otherwise… You’ve created a Time Paradox!
You can always wish for some opportunities you normally wouldn’t have to come your way. Perhaps wishing to know which stocks would be best for short and long term investment or even which sports teams will win. Little mundane things no one would bat an eye at and think you’re just lucky.
I am getting the vibe that she’s VERY serious about her duties, which is a good sign. And she WAS just insulted,really. i think she might be good
That’s the exact same vibe I got. Other commenters took her tone to be much more sinister than our interpretation, though. It remains to be seen what the “correct” interpretation of this conversation will be…
i am having ninjago flashbacks
It would be funny if they inadvertently wished for the ability to TG anyone….and their wish was granted! Then they would cause havoc themselves even without a genie.
My three wishes:
1. Life-long good health
2. Life-long good luck.
3. Life-long prosperity.
1) turns you into a baby. The time you were the most healthiest and give you longest life
2) you make those around you unlucky… But yeah you get fortune from their misfortune. Again this is for your whole life
3) welcome to dragon kind. You get to have a nice hoard and all the prosperity you could want. You never said you had to be human. Also you’re female now 😉
Also, you never specified how long your life will be. Although genies in this series are not allowed to kill somebody, they can put the person in a highly dangerous situation where death is likely yet not inevitable (e.g. drop them in the middle of Antarctica with no supplies, two hundred miles away from any living thing bigger than bacteria).
There are LOT of universes where becoming dragon would be definitive improvement. Starting with the fact that those dragons CAN transform to human with their own magic.
Wish one: I wish that for 1 month that I would be able to see into the future at will by just concentrating on a particular time and date.
Wish two: I wish for a large bag of seeds that would grow into mighty trees within a month and that any seeds from those trees would grow as normal.
Wish three: I wish that I had the power to control the weather for the next year just by concentrating.
Then I would look forward in time to various lotteries and buy the winning tickets, afterwards I would fly to various deserts plant the seeds, then make it rain so the trees would grow.
1) the future is undecided normally. But by seeing the future you now create destiny. All that you see is destined to happen and for some reason it’s always bad (because destiny wise it’s easier to fulfil the conditions for bad things to happen) congrats you are an evil future camera. Every lottery prediction you make is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and it happens every time.
2) I’m not very imaginative on trees but Triffids are close enough to a tree right? Uh oh..
3) you’ve just destroyed various Eco systems. A desert is filled with life too and you’ve killed thousands of unique species. Earth is at a delicate balance. Bring water to one area you take it away from another. By specifying desire in one area you melt the ice caps.
But that’s okay the triffid plants will take care of it…
Am I the only one who would get really curious at this point about WHY the genies are granting wishes? What sort of duty are they bound to? Can the be freed? Do they have their own will?
I would totally be asking that stuff if I were them.
There could be many reasons but I suspect it’s to gain favour with the genie lords and see even greater realms beyond Earth. Being a genie to them might be seen as an honour. Perhaps some even genuinely want to help mortals but are constrained by the wishes.
I do wonder why they are not taking more care of mortals who end up as genies but I’m sensing a lack of enpathy amongst the long lived ones. They look human but we have to remember they are not. Jean will probably end up the same in a few hundred years.
Marscaleb, We have all said that person is operating according to human nature on many events and think nothing of it. Now Jeanie has a Genie nature to her and yes she does fight against that new nature of hers, because, she doesn’t want to be a Genie. But, over time Jeanie is starting to settle down in her new roll of being a Genie and is at least on some level starting accept that she is in fact a female Genie.
But, within those boundaries, Genie do have there own personalities and self will on some level, but, they are bound by some Genie code that they have to operate under. But, how they grant those wishes, is purely up to them and if you have pissed off Genie, “Look out”.
You know I think the fastest I’ve seen anyone go through three wishes was Flintheart Glomgold in duck tales.
“I wish Scrooge marooned on a desert island!”
“I wish I could see the look on Scrooges face!
“Ah no! I wish we never found this blasted lamp-” poof.
Hehe.
“I wish that you would not grant this wish.”
Damnit, Ibar, don’t break the genie! You think temporal paradoxes are bad? Magical paradoxes eat those for breakfast!
True paradoxes can’t happen. Meaning, something will prevent it from happening and noone, human, genie or god, can prevent that.
… while the idea is scary, I think in this case, Ibar will simply never find a genie.
“Kings and commoners.” I would likely ask her to tell me about all her old masters.