--- Thermopyle <Thermopyle@tds.net> wrote:

Same thought process that ends up with him

thinking

that Nodoka deserves a
wish, probably.  Or Ranma, or Akane, or any of

the

Nerima crew.

Actually, since the world hasn't been destroyed by
someone making that their wish, the error rate in

wish

approval seems to be zero, or at least so far.

Still,

spamfics are supposed to take the

all-but-impossible

and make it probable or even necessary.

Actually, Hild said she would destroy the earth,
just a pretty hefty
compensation would be required.  I don't remember if
Belldandy said in the
manga that they try not to deal with the people that
would wish for the
destruction of the earth, or if I've just seen it in
a number of fanfics.

Both references are canon. Both the gods and demons
can destroy the world whenever they receive the right
"price". For the gods the price is low, but such
people don't get granted wishes by the gods. For the
demons the price is high (and unspecified), but
presumably anyone who got in contact with them would
have the opportunity to wish for the world to be
destroyed, assuming they could pay the price.

Finally, even though a wish such as "I wish the

world

would be destroyed" is valid, a wish such as "I

wish a

goddess like you would stay with me forever" is
normally not, and such a personally binding (from

the

goddess's point of view) contract can be broken.
Peorth, upon her appearance, makes it clear that

she

thinks Belldandy could wiggle out of Keiichi's

wish

pretty easily. Destroying the world is one thing,
inconveniencing a goddess is apparently another.

^_-

True.  As I said in the author notes, though, this
was more a response to
fics where the wishes were unlikely to begin with,
either because of who
gets them or what is successfully wished for.  It's
hard to really make
any concrete guesses on how wishes work, however,
since the only one we
ever see is Keiichi's.  Peorth's opinion on whether
Belldandy could get
out of the wish is hard to believe, since Belldandy
never actually tried to do so.  

Peorth is very competent and knowledgeable when it
comes to the rules concerning wish granting, perhaps
even more so than Belldandy. She wouldn't think the
contract could be broken if it couldn't. 

The Ultimate Force could very well work
on goddesses just as
much as it does on Keiichi.  Maybe that's even why
Belldandy loves
him--because the Ultimate Force makes her do so, in
order to keep them
together as specified in Keiichi's wish.

This is an interesting idea, but the Ultimate Force
has been down at least twice in the manga, once after
Urd's arrival and again during the entire moonrock
bracelet storyline. Belldandy still loved Keiichi in
both of those. 

Unless, of course, the UF can permanently alter the
emotional makeup of a goddess. But then, we're back
into spamfic territory. Either that or X-files. ^_^;
 
Brian W.

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