You Inherited What !?! Part 2
People do not just inherit powers in stories. Another thing they seem to inherit are magical objects.
This takes two different forms...
1. The object changes their lives for the better.In these stories not only does the hero manage to figure out how the object works, they also manage to improve their lives. This can be seen in the disney form of Aladdin. He finds the lanp, rubs it, and fortunately the genie decides not to be a complete pain. Somehow this seems a little unlikely.
2. The object changes their lives for the worse.This seems the most probable outcome. They could obsses for years over how to make it work. They could never know it is magical at all... Or maybe the intelligence that controls it is malign. If the last case happens to be true it is entirely likely that there is no way any wish can go right. The best known case of this is the monkey paw. No wishes it would grant would happen without some negative effect.
-Bill
This takes two different forms...
1. The object changes their lives for the better.In these stories not only does the hero manage to figure out how the object works, they also manage to improve their lives. This can be seen in the disney form of Aladdin. He finds the lanp, rubs it, and fortunately the genie decides not to be a complete pain. Somehow this seems a little unlikely.
2. The object changes their lives for the worse.This seems the most probable outcome. They could obsses for years over how to make it work. They could never know it is magical at all... Or maybe the intelligence that controls it is malign. If the last case happens to be true it is entirely likely that there is no way any wish can go right. The best known case of this is the monkey paw. No wishes it would grant would happen without some negative effect.
-Bill
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