Jeanie Bottle 827
Dec25
on December 25, 2024
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 22, 2024. at 4:21 pm
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
A “sorcerer”, huh?
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So, it’s all from a sorcerer could it be connected to the chest in the ocean? Merry Christmas.
Welllll….
https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-99
Damn, that’s one hell of a callback XD
So it seems everything happening to them is running through Araceli’s subconscious, with that mysterious item using her magic to bring things into reality.
That’s my guess, at least. And a few other commenters and folks on Discord.
Rouyaa said maintaining blanks will drain a genie’s power the longer they’re around. Araceli’s subconscious has created eight of them. The Howells have probably been dispelled to conserve power and will only return when it’s their turn to reappear on the set. But this begs the question, what happens when that amulet runs out of Araceli’s magic?
https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-755
Another point. Jeanie’s blank of Neil didn’t talk and seemed mentally stunted, probably because she used minimal effort to create him. These blanks all talk and have individual personalities which must be sucking up much more power.
Thank you for referencing that. I was wracking my brain to figure out what Gilligan’s Island had to do with anything beyond being another ’60s TV show…
Looks like that love starved Ginger going to cut off the circulation in Dominic’s arm. Surprised Caley hasn’t noticed yet.
Imagine Ginger’s reaction upon learning Dominic’s true age.
Well, she’s desperate for a young man who isn’t Gilligan.
OK, that clears it up. Obviously, this is all a manifestation of Araceli’s dreams, which are centered on the bit where she watched “Gilligan’s Island” on TV, and thought that Neil was an evil sorcerer who had trapped people inside a little box.
However, since then, she has fallen in love with Neil, which explains why Fake-Neil appeared and went into “white-knight” mode to ‘rescue the princess’. So it’s a sort of a combination horror and romance dream.
But it appears that the magical artifact at the bottom of the sea is somehow causing her dreams to become reality. The question is, will that continue if/when she wakes up? It’s possible that all the created people and things will simply go ‘poof’ on their own, and disappear. But it also could be that she will have to deliberately get rid of them, which might present a problem, particularly if Fake-Neil is still around. And Araceli is so soft-hearted, she might not be willing ot get rid of all the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ clones of the actors. That’s going to cause quite a stir in Hollywood.
It’s definitely Araceli’s subconscious, with the “magic box” line. Fully-lucid Araceli, or nearly anyone else, would have said “ television” instead.
Meanwhile, Caley and Dominic are just naive enough to believe this story…
CD: You did a particularly good job on Gilligan. The character really looks recognizably like Bob Denver. Kudos!
An evil sourcerer named “Sherwood Schwartz “
Wait till they realize they’re living the same three TV seasons over and over again…
You assume that they’ve been there since the show’s inception. I believe that they were created the moment Caley and Dominic boarded the dingy and headed ashore.
They were CREATED along with the island when they saw it but they REMEMBER living there long time.
The island was there when Lucky Minnow arrived well before Araceli went comatose. Everything weird started happening after that amulet in the treasure chest swiped her magic.
So they have probably been there since some time last night, when Araceli fell ill.
Oh, dear. What did Neil do now?
Or was it Teri??? 😉
I’ve finished Sailor Sun. Man, that was Bonkers. Good work. Now I want a cat to name Teri. 🙂 [No pancakes!!]
I’m glad you liked SS.org! It was fun to help CD finish that one up.
You should definitely check out the spin-off series, Pixie Rangers. It’s on CD’s DeviantArt and freely available on his Patreon, too. It stars Ethan, David, Honey, and some others in a surprising situation within their favorite fictional universe.
I did, actually, but I need to go through it again knowing what I do now.
I wonder if Neko’s going to be a story in future.
Get back to your family. It’s Christmastime by golly and disaproval would be folly. I hope you’ve decked the halls with holly and when they fill the cup, you don’t say when.
Yeah, I’m with the folks saying that this is likely Araceli. No help here.
OK, two more items from Araceli’s dream to look out for. Lily the man eating plant and the rocket launch. Maybe Lily ate the Howels.
Oh gosh, that’s a dark suggestion! I like it, haha.