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

So, I decided to write a serious version of the

idea, instead of the

silly one that started the thread.  This was the

result.  A horrible old

woman of Hanzel and Grettle type personality gets

a wish.  ^_^;

I know this was only a spamfic, but I have

questions. Why would the Almighty

approve such a wish? In fact, how could she be

placed in a situation where

the wish might become dangerous?

*shrugs*

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.

And for the death thing... well, it's not permanent.
 Plus, there was one
point in the manga where Belldandy almost 'died',
iirc, and then said
later that she would simply have lost her body for a
while because she was
out of the energy required to maintain it, or
something along those lines.

She said her 3-dimensional form was simply going to
disappear. There was no mention of dying or anything
like that. 

So it's quite possible that they can't die in any
normal way, or can only
be killed by a god or demon or something along those
lines.  It's hard to
say.  Since I specified that she does return every
day, however, it should
be clear that she isn't in any real mortal danger,
although she's
certainly not going to be at all happy with her
situation.

In the chapter where Skuld appeared she and Urd
reacted when transporting through Keiichi's coffee
mug, but when they were at the beach later, Keiichi
noted that the goddesses didn't seem to be bothered by
the cold water or jellyfish. It seems that they can
protect themselves from such minor annoyances as
temperature or poison (assuming poison would even work
on them - unlikely, given their strange reactions to
ordinary substances like alcohol or cola) if they're
expecting it. If you take the mini goddess series as
canon (or at least what it says about the natures of
the goddesses) Mini-Urd takes a bath in a steaming
bowl of miso soup and enjoys herself. Regardless, the
fact that 3D forms are continually regenerated
constructs makes the whole "attacks against the form
you see" question problematic. Sure, Skuld would
initially be in pain but only until she adjusted
herself. However, it would never get that far.

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. ^_-

Brian W.

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