Because not everything involves a crossover.
Quit it with the rules lawyering.
So, stories about people getting items or entities or whatever that grant wishes, and either accidentally wishing for something totally stupid (happens in Disney Fairies of all places), or being something that satisfies the letter of what the wish, but is totally horrible... a dime a dozen. It's boring.
So. Enough with the rules lawyering. Let's have a malevolent genie who doesn't want to grant any wishes that the protagonist will like. But it has limited options. It can choose to grant a wish or not grant a wish... but a wish that is granted has to do not just what was *asked*, but what was wanted, and if the wish is rejected, it's not used up. And just to keep the pressure on, there's one wish the genie has no choice but to grant - to destroy itself.
So, how little can the genie get away with providing before the wish-maker gets fed up and decides the world doesn't need it? Or (if it's someone like Flonne) drives it insane? Of course, the person making the wishes can still screw up and get something bad, but it has to be what they actually wanted when they made the wish.
It's fine to have a good genie and an evil wisher too. Or anything else really, as long as the two are antagonistic. Inanimate wish-granters are theoretically fine, but offer less opportunity for mutual aggravation.
-Morgan.
Quit it with the rules lawyering.
So, stories about people getting items or entities or whatever that grant wishes, and either accidentally wishing for something totally stupid (happens in Disney Fairies of all places), or being something that satisfies the letter of what the wish, but is totally horrible... a dime a dozen. It's boring.
So. Enough with the rules lawyering. Let's have a malevolent genie who doesn't want to grant any wishes that the protagonist will like. But it has limited options. It can choose to grant a wish or not grant a wish... but a wish that is granted has to do not just what was *asked*, but what was wanted, and if the wish is rejected, it's not used up. And just to keep the pressure on, there's one wish the genie has no choice but to grant - to destroy itself.
So, how little can the genie get away with providing before the wish-maker gets fed up and decides the world doesn't need it? Or (if it's someone like Flonne) drives it insane? Of course, the person making the wishes can still screw up and get something bad, but it has to be what they actually wanted when they made the wish.
It's fine to have a good genie and an evil wisher too. Or anything else really, as long as the two are antagonistic. Inanimate wish-granters are theoretically fine, but offer less opportunity for mutual aggravation.
-Morgan.