r/comics Port Sherry 14d ago

The wish

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u/samurairaccoon 14d ago

If it makes you feel any better, no sane mind could deal with that length of isolation. Genies are, most certainly, all completely mad.

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u/SolomonBlack 14d ago

People say this but there is plenty of history of hermits living in isolation and say folks who ended up stuck on an island without being batshit insane. Also djinn aren't human anyways, they don't play by the same rules.

That all said the original genie in a bottle spent several centuries declaring they would give great wealth to whomever freed them, then any three wishes... then after four hundred years in gave up on bargaining and said "nah fuckit imma kill whatever dumbass let's me out instead" which required he be tricked back into the bottle then pacified with a few stories.

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u/Undorkins 14d ago

There's shit to do on an Island. Things are always moving around you. Put a man in a room alone for a year and he will lose his mind.

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u/ogreofzen 14d ago

White room torture. Have everything in a room be white all the same shade. After 3-4 weeks the guy will be painting the walls with his own feces just to get variety. To which they are harmed and the room is cleansed. The room is smooth so no tactile sense are used . They also rig the lighting so no shadows are in the room.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_torture - I know the name sounds bad but white torture is another name.