If you could be transported to any universe of your choosing, which would you pick and what would you do there?
It seems like such a simple answer but honestly? Pokémon.
Outside of being able to pick a magical partner creature to spend my life with (or several if going down the trainer route) the world seems fairly idyllic and a genuinely nice place to live. Technology is reliable, people are mostly friendly, and on the odd occasion where major cataclysms occur, they seem to be very localised and easily solved by some random 10 year old anyway.
I don't think I would even become a trainer. I would just live ab ordinary, happy life with my partner Pokémon. Perhaps I would work at a Pokémon daycare or something.
for some reason i always think about kingdom hearts whenever i get asked this question. what an absolutely absurd and wonderful universe you'd step into if that were real
Honestly I'm never much for the going to another world, I think our world is fine and has a lot of potential. I do would love a world with magic tho. Ideally also vampires but if I have magic I probably can cook up my own vamps. To that end would then be the question what world/magic system and there I must probably exclude my own book because of course, I love my own magic system the most (it lowkey has vampires too). I think I wouldn't go for one of the videogame-y worlds that anime likes a lot, leveling up skill trees feels very limited. I want something with more wild magic, where the world feels like magic is just another force of nature that could occasionally fuck up your town. Thinking about it the probably best fit would mayhaps be the Winx universe. There the world really is infused with magic and magic operates on magical girl rules of "the more you want it and the more friends you have the more powerful you can be" and I'm a popular extrovert with a stupidly thick head, I could probably be a protagonist over there.
And I can arrange myself with being a fairy, not the worst type of flight magic for sure. So I arrive at "Winx Club" universe.
the very question has me fighting against my instincts since any universe id think of initially (middle earth, star wars) are in states of conflict where im unlikely to survive for long.
my cheeky answer therefore is to be transported into Elder Tales (Log Horizon)as a player, like the humans are, rendering my an undying video game character. that way i could explore, make friends and play a game with less consequences of dystopia
ANY universe? Oh my gosh just plonk me in the middle of the candy store why don't ya...
I'd love to go on a Citadel shopping date with Lily (and pobsibly Tali'Zorah too...) (Mass Effect)
Or do the Whole New World magic carpet sequence with Lily
Or travel with Odile and just explore and learn junk (In Stars in Time)
Or unlock my Bankai (Bleach)
Or learn the Oshi No Ko eye
Or learn extra dashes with Madeline (Celeste)
Or learn explosion magic from Megumin (Konosuba)
Or have a big pancake breakfast with Niko and gang (OneShot)
Or learn all the bending styles (Avatar)
Or go to Eorzea and pat loporrits... after downing twelve fantasias (Final Fantasy XIV)
Or get a chance to pilot literally any super cool agile mecha
Or talk about art with Josee (Josee and the Tiger and the Fish)
Or help Yato, delivery god, get a job (Noragami)
Or work on gadgets with Lucca (Chrono Trigger)
Or learn witchcraft from Elaina and/or Luna Nova Academy
Or try on Samus' power armor (Metroid)
Or be there to help Susie, Ralsei, Noelle and Kris (Deltarune)
Or go hug Felicia (Mice Tea)... and have some tea
Or go hug Sucrose (Genshin)
Or go hug Emilia, Ram, and/or Rem (Re:Zero)
Or go hug Ajisae (Watanare)
Or go hug March 7th, or Yukine Chris, or Chisato, or Takina, or Aya Fuwa, or Marika Sakakibara, or Heath, or Lily Blind, or Sora Honda, or Ayaka Sakurai, or Ritsuka Hara, or Kanade Kurokawa, or Elsa Dorothy, or Yvonne Smollett, or Hinako Yaotose, or Nagisa Ootsuki, or Mashiro Komiyama, or Mulan, or...
I guess for now I'd settle on Kingdom Hearts, and learn the secrets of my own heart! Learn to wield both the dark and the light for what I think is right! :D
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