Icewind stood in the dusty antiques store, in front of them sat a strange looking old lamp, straight out of a disney movie. Icewind shrugged and looked it over, brushing a blue claw over its surface to wipe it clean, obviously not expecting anything cliche to happen or anything like that. Poof! In a subversion of expectations, the lamp shone brightly and a genie appeared before them!
"Took you long enough! C'mon I'm watching the big game, lets get these wishes over and done with yeah?"
Icewind spluttered from the dust and shock "wait-what, you're REAL,"they exclaimed, dumbstruck on what actually just happened.
"Yes yes, and you're wasting my valuable time!, what do you want to wish for quickly...," The genie snorted.
Icewind blinked and pondered for a second, it was such a common trope, but in the moment, they froze up, unsure what to ask for...
"I uhh...want to be uhh...a um.. popular... icon... no wait I want to be a... girl... short...no.. no thats stupid, I want a squi...squish...squid.... umm...," Icewind fumbled, blushing.
"What are you babbling about? I can't understand you," The genie frowned down at the flustered dragon.
"Ahh uhh, ahem, okay ah, I want to be a famous icon, a singer! Like uhh, the ones from my favourite game, splatoon! They're sooo cute and I'd love to be just like them," Icewind Said Blushing
The genie looked at them blankly. "I am a 4000 year old demi-goddess deity, I have no concept of a splatoon, could you be more specific?"
Icewind grabbed the phone from their pocket and googled the first picture of splatoon that came up, it was an amiibo of Marina from Splatoon 2.
"This, I want to be like this," Icewind proclaimed proudly.
"Alright, you got it," the genie smirked and snapped her fingers. Suddenly Icewind began to stiffen and creeeak all over, their body forced into a legs crossed, arms up posed, a slight grin plastered on their face, eyes half closed. "Mmmhmmm," Icewind grunted in shock and surprise, trying to say something
But it was too late, the genie's magic too strong, all over Icewind's body turned into stiff glossy plastic, a base forming around their feet as memories of being part of Splatoon's hottest music duo flooded into her mind. She was Marina after all! She was posing for her new gig, she smiled and relaxed as the amiibo fell to the floor, shrinking down to just afew inches high as tentacles finished forming, a box encasing the little toy on the floor of the shop.
The genie shrugged "Well, strange of you to wish for something that renders you inanimate, and forfeits your wishes, but hey its your future. Ah well, I'll rewrite your reality for good measure, give you a fighting chance."
And with that the genie faded away, reality was rewritten, the antiques store became a game shop and the marina amiibo floated up onto the shelf for sale.
An amazing sketch and story from the awesome Redflare500
