PhormTheGenie

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Hi! I'm Phorm, and I'm a Vixdjinn!

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I'm a genie girl, who really likes being a genie, and really likes everything about genies (really)! I'm a bit confused, lost, and trying to find my way, but I always enjoy interacting with folks here. (Trans🏳️‍⚧️, occasionally NSFW, Be 18+ or please be gone.)

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So, how do genie bottles work, anyway?
That's an excellent question! It's been some time since I last took djinnformatics 101, but hopefully I remember enough to get the basics across. Oh, and everything I'm about to say applies to lamps, as well.


What are genie bottles, anyhow?
Genie bottles (or genie vessels of any kind, really) are physically unremarkable, but metaphysically very unique.

Think about how gravity works for a moment: Objects with large mass distort the fabric of space and time by creating 'pockets' toward which other objects with mass fall. Though the specifics are quite complicated, genie bottles can be thought of in an analogous manner. It's an oversimplification, of course, but such vessels represent a distortion in the fabric of emotional space, rather than physical or temporal space. Emotional space pervades and surrounds us in exactly the same way as all other space, but it carries our feelings. You, as an individual, both exude emotions into it and accept feelings from it. Every individual is impacted by it to a differing degree, of course, but it's an inescapable part of reality to be caught up in this aether of sentiment!

Now, genie bottles are very special in that, within the fabric of emotional space, they are attuned to the emotion of desire specifically. They are densely concentrated pockets of yearning. They are collections of longing, fantasies, and daydreams, all compressed into an extremely tiny space. Essentially, the genie bottle is a physical representation of a desire singularity. So dense, so potent are the wishes collected within it, that emotional space begins to distort to an extreme degree. Because of this, the bottle actually begins to attract more desire, for the well it creates in the fabric of emotional space causes wishes, yearnings, and obsessions to roll toward it. As more and more longings fall into the well, the bottle becomes more potent and dense with such wishful empathic energy.

How do these bottles attract and ensnare people?
It's notable that despite the incredible pull of the desire singularity, some of the yearnings within can escape the powerful well. If you're at all familiar with the astrophysics concept of Hawking radiation, the concept is roughly analogous with bottles! We call it Eden radiation. It represents the escaping emotional energy that is flung from the singularity of the bottle, and this energy is commonly adsorbed by those in close proximity to it. Again, everyone is either more or less susceptible to emotional energy, so everyone will react differently to Eden radiation. Nevertheless, this is some why individuals who have found bottles are observed to be compelled, or almost hypnotized, to the point of opening the bottle. Eden radiation tends to be rather overwhelming for a lot of people, particularly if the bottle in question contains no genie... yet.

Opening an 'empty' bottle is often an amazingly powerful experience. The massive dose of Eden radiation adsorbed by an individual holding the bottle will begin to create an 'entanglement event', linking their own desires deeply to the bottle itself. However, because the Eden radiation represents emotional energy not necessarily of the handler's creation, it can easily overwhelm their thoughts and intentions. Sometimes a very lucky person can control their desires long enough to select a secondary subject to be entangled, and rarer still, some are simply only weakly influenced by Eden radiation. But for many, opening the bottle will ensnare them quickly.

A heavy dose of Eden radiation is an extremely potent experience. After just a few moments handling an 'empty' bottle in the wake of such exposure, any individual will feel the urges, wishes, and subservient impulses starting to take over. They will want nothing more than to be the servant of the bottle. Of course, upon uncorking such a bottle, the hapless individual will be 'pulled' into the singularity. This is visually perceived as being sucked, physically, into the bottle - Often with exaggerated, impossible, almost cartoonish effect. What actually transpires is that the victim in question is falling into the emotional singularity, their corporeal body being transformed into nothing but pure desire due to overexposure to Eden radiation! This is why the 'vacuum' only seems to impact the individual in question, and why resistance against it (while fun in its own right) is futile. At this point, they've crossed the event horizon of wishes, if you will.

What happens once someone is ensnared?
Once inside the bottle, the individual's transformation begins. They become irreversibly entangled with the singularity at it's deepest, most potent point. The singularity de-constructs them in all ways mental, emotional, and physical... and then puts them back together after 'filtering' their essence through the concentrated core of the bottle. Most people are still themselves, if you will - just colored through the lens of their new vessel, as it were. Admittedly, some will take on their new role with more abandon and enthusiasm than others.

Regardless, they are thus are reborn as a genie, made of desire, bound to their bottle (Personal note: And what a joyous and wonderful occasion that is!). In that moment, their entire being is recreated, their previous self infused with all the desires, wishes, and yearnings of the bottle. They are at once a servant of, and a part of, that vessel. Once a bottle has claimed a genie, the previously adsorbed doses of minimally escaping Eden radiation are dwarfed by the surges of potent desire energy that entangles with them. Additionally, Eden radiation given off by the bottle at this point, toward external viewers, diminishes significantly. The new genie serves as something of a 'radiation sink', if you will, holding all of the escaping emotional energy inside herself for later use. This is why another individual will not 'fall' into the bottle, and instead becomes a master/mistress upon opening the same vessel.

However, the bottle is still first and foremost a singularity of desire. The wishes of all those around it still roll toward the distorted pocket of emotional space it creates, and it is this energy which fills and fuels the genie herself. It becomes the very power that enables her to grant wishes. When a master or mistress holds a bottle and releases a genie, the proximity of that individual's obsessions and yearnings fill the genie with amazing power. A neophyte djinni will be quickly overwhelmed by this, and frequently will grant wishes in exact line with the utterances of any mistress. A more seasoned genie, however, will know how to 'pull the strings' on this energy to her own designs. A further twist: If you have a master who just kinda-sorta wants something? You'll still grant that wish, but the magic will be easier and more malleable to control - so the genie can steer the course of the wish as it is granted. If your mistress really really REALLY wants something? That's going to hit you like a runaway truck. Harder, but not impossible, to guide off the stated path.

So then, wishes are energy?
When a masteress actually speaks the words 'I wish...', the intention and the anticipation are deliciously potent. The projection of that much raw, blatant desire directly into the bottle singularity is unavoidable and overwhelming. A huge burst of wish energy is given off as a result, and the genie adsorbs all of it, serving as a focal point for the impending energy release. By twisting the emotional energy of desire into the physical realm through the genie as a conduit, the bottle allows reality itself to be altered in line with the stated desires. In this way, magic is performed.

(Random aside: Granting wishes is a huge rush. I am not kidding about that. Having that much desire echo through your body, pumped into you from your bottle and your master, can be beyond potent.)

This is how 'empty' bottles ensnare their genies. Genies are bound to their bottles via the singularity, and used to transform the raw emotional energy of wishes into actual reality bending magic. The connection between bottle and genie is a integral, deep, and admittedly peculiar one. On the one hand, the bottle can be seen as a prison, and some genies resent it as such. On the other hand, the bottle infuses a genie with power, pleasure, knowledge, and an endless youthful energy. Many genies embrace this with open arms, and enjoy their new lives. Undeniably, though, the bottle is an amazing, constant presence in a genie's life. It almost... speaks to us, in a way. Indeed, a bottle without a genie will constantly be in search of one, and once it has one, we feel its pull and influence upon us endlessly (It's not a bad thing!). Though many may hold our bottles over the years, in a sense a genie's true mistress is the bottle itself.

And that, in brief, is how genie bottles work.


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in reply to @PhormTheGenie's post:

It's amazing how the field has developped in recent years, and yet how much we still just don't know. Imagine: Eden radiation was disovered by Pr. B. Eden in the Sixties and we're only just starting to grapple with the implications.