Not picking telepathic will is the dumbest shit I've ever seen.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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Different folks, different strokes.
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Would it be possible to have telekinesis, and use the telekinesis to fly, like Mewtwo?
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That's my kind of genie. I wonder if he'd be cool discussing the pros and cons of some of those choices.
To steal an idea I had on something similar once, perhaps on an entirely different site, there's also where the wings come from in the first place, literally and figuratively.
The equivalent structure to a bird's wing in humans is the arm and hand. Does this new wing take the place of the forelimb as it does in birds or does the wisher necessarily become a six-limbed creature?
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Honestly, based genie. Instead of fucking you over by twisting your wish into something negative, he fucks you over by spending time on small details. At least the latter will likely result in something you actually want, whereas the former will probably suck.
After all that I still get brittle bone disease!?!
What? You said you wanted your Bones less dense, do you know how much bone I had to remove to let you fly with hummingbird wings?
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Telpthic?
Telpthic.
I would have just taken telepathic will so that it just ends there.
You mean "telpthic will power".
In order to use telepathy, we'll need to add a new section to your brain. Would you like to shrink the other sections of your brain to make room, or would you like a bigger brain? Oh, you want a bigger brain? Well, now we need to expand your head. Would you prefer an egghead or do you want the whole thing to grow? It will also come at the cost of requiring more energy.
So.. You're saying I can eat more? Say no more!!
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Is that a deliberate conscience telepathic effort, or automatic unconscious reflex? (eg. Perhaps you don't want to accidentally hover or float in public.)
How much energy does telepathy use though?
Sure, but what if telepathic powers somehow affect your brain chemistry or morphology? Aside, Would flying be like manipulating gravity or lifting yourself up with an "invisible hand"?
The gravity manipulation is much better if they are handing out options.
Is it just local to yourself? How do you control what it applies to? You'll have train for weightlessness. Plus what is it against? The earth being a object is not something gravity cares about
Finding out all of the above is part of the fun.
With full, discrete control of gravity, even if it's just localized to your body, you would become the deadliest person on earth. You would be invulnerable to physical impact. Your touch could crush any object. You would be literally unstoppable.
If the power is wider ranging? Well now. Youre a magneto level threat, or more if you want to get into the "can make blackholes" side of things.
How would you harm anything else if it was local to your body? Like you could apply really strong gravity between you and it, but that would kill you too unless it's an ant
Your body would have to be entirely or largely immune to the effects of the gravity power to not be crushed by it in general. You certainly wouldn't be able to fly, the basic "wish," if your body was hammered by G forces every time you lifted off.
Since you need some level of immunity, just applying "gravity" to your body then applying your body to other things would excert that force on them.
You don't have to fly around at 3G. Just set it to 0 and you're floating. 0.1G and you're gently accelerating upwards.
Actually even at 3G you wouldn't be hammered by anything. You're thinking of like cars or whatever that accelerate you and your body's momentum resists. With gravity control, every atom of your body would accelerate. I'm kinda guessing here, but I'm pretty sure you'd feel nothing. In fact the main issue would be adjusting to not feel gravity while flying around, like I said earlier
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What's the Roche limit of the ground you're standing on?
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Yeah why would you take wings over telekinetics that’s wild
I imagine with telekinetics you need to concentrate real hard on not falling.
With wings you can just (heh) wing it much more safely.
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Aesthetics? 🤷🏻♂️
You don't need a genie to get prop wings on your back.
Have fun putting on any sort of shirt.
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He's a smart one. Upselling body-shrinking or reduced bone density and increased metabolism.
That's 3 wishes.
The original terms of the wish requested the ability to fly, not just wings. These are part and parcel to being able to fly with wings. Ergo, only one wish.
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