Talk:Jinn/@comment-27144409-20191206030953/@comment-24018437-20200108122313

While I do think that is an interesting line of thought, I probably don’t think it would. I imagine she’s probably in a state of dormancy of some sort in between questions. If the limit has been reached, I think she’ll stay that way, untill its been reset. No way of knowing that for sure of course, but I imagine something like that would be most likely.

Then again, in various Middle-Eastern tales that feature wish-granting genies, they are often exactly that: Macguffins with a hint of an interesting occasional personality, but they’re as far as I’m aware of either cunning tricksters or subservient to the point they didn’t care that much aside from granting wishes. The genies I’m the original tale of Aladin (the original tale featured two genies) also barely had a personality if I remember correctly.

So while Jin’s lack of indepedent personality and being more along the lines of a sapient Macguffin may seem frustrating, it does follow the lines of various traditonal genie folktales. Of course, wether that’s a good thing is entirely up for debate.