What is the least you need to be happy in an isekai universe?

[Wohendum-Bluu]

Things are about to go wrong for you, good sir.

Congratulations! You are born with a body that cannot be hurt, but you have serious birth defects! You are born blind, deaf, and incredibly feeble!


You will be reborn this way, over, and over, and over, and over. Each life you live, you will have horrible birth defects in a variety of new ways, some of them incredibly painful! Did you know, some people are born with skin that just sloughs off? It's true!


Remember those birth defects? You can't feel or hold the weapon, much less wield it! I bet your blade looks really fancy! Shame you're blind, remember? Also, you can never gain any physical muscle or magical ability, so mastering the sword is impossible.


You will never find love, you will always be poor, and you will never be strong. Have a happy life!

So basically, I'm going to tell this magical girl to shove her wish up her #### and go curse someone else IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE. If not, than my wishes stand. Still waiting on @minacia response.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

1. What would you ask for?

A world where it either be a modern or even a fantasy world. I won't ask for much but as long as i have good luck and not suffer like my past life(I.e being bullied, isolated, abused by family, heartbroken or any human that they don't want to endure physically or mentally).

I won't even mind if i live as a farmer or being a servant to a noble's house(Since i live in a far worse circumstances).


Optional, i prefer to be born as a guy.

2. Do you generally require many things to be happy? Or can you be happy with relatively few things?

Nope. If you live in the bottom and scrap up what you've been living in this entire life, you can get used to living even a life as a farm and stay there forever just plowing through the fields. If you either lived a silver or golden spoon, you'll suffer setbacks that can't properly survive the bottom and would take more measures to live a better life. But I'm used to living in the bottom that trying to achieve big is already impossible for me. So i prefer not to dream big but realistic and safe.

3. Could you be happy as a poor peasant? Does this mean that you can't be anything more than an impoverished peasant in your next life?

Yes. Definetly yes. But at least there is a goal for me rather than aiming something impossible.

4. Is there anything that's worth the bad karma? What if you were told that there was a 5X multiplier on bad karma? Specifically, even being a little bit greedy will have a terrible cost (i.e. becoming blind when you're 18 years old?)

Well, i helped people who lost their will to live, respected the elderly, give food to starving children instead of money and basically been doing good things in my life(I've hurt people as well but it was only on a childish accident or a justifiable cause).

Is helping people a bad karma? Then, it might hurt me for a bit but i wanted to protect those whom i deemed more important than those i barely recognize then.

So, if i help people at the cost of blindness, i rather risk it since i want to save those who are deemed too innocent to die rather than having selfish desires.

 

[minacia]

So basically, I'm going to tell this magical girl to shove her wish up her #### and go curse someone else IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE. If not, than my wishes stand. Still waiting on @minacia response.

The magical girl would say that it's impossible to predict what the bad karma would be until you experience it... but it may as well be as bad as what HURGMCGURG said~

 

[Wohendum-Bluu]

The magical girl would say that it's impossible to predict what the bad karma would be until you experience it... but it may as well be as bad as what HURGMCGURG said~

Then my previous comment stands. Tell her to shove it.

 

[Wohendum-Bluu]

Just checking to make sure my banner works. And....awesome. Thanks guys. You may applaud me now.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I realized I forgot to make the scenario mandatory!

...Normally the magical girl kidnaps the respondent and forces them to participate...

And you just contradict yourself of it, yes it (just because it looks like a she doesn't mean she is she), is benevolent.

Ps. Just reread your text and found no evidence that state she is benevolent.

1. What would you ask for?

I come to the simple understanding that I have absolutely no idea what I want. Peace because my current family is a shitty drama show? Wealth because I am perpetually poor? Health because I am dying like a 60yo even though I am 30yo? Sex because the only one that fucks me is my life, my govt and my hands? (Ps my hands are tired, the other two are still ongoing.)

2. Do you generally require many things to be happy? Or can you be happy with relatively few things?

MORE.

3. Could you be happy as a poor peasant? Does this mean that you can't be anything more than an impoverished peasant in your next life?

I am pretty sure I am not happy as one right now. Why would I want to be poor?!?!

4. Is there anything that's worth the bad karma? What if you were told that there was a 5X multiplier on bad karma? Specifically, even being a little bit greedy will have a terrible cost (i.e. becoming blind when you're 18 years old?)

SOD OFF!

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I'll take a harem with 2 brothers and 2 non-brothers in a matriarchal society where females are highly valued because only 1 out of 4 births result in females. At least one of my babies should be female, and she should live a long, happy life. Less than half of my total babies should die before I do. My husbands should all stay alive until I'm at least 60. I'd also ask for perfect health until I'm 80. I don't want to have to deal with gestational diabetes every time one of my husbands gets me pregnant.
I'm fine being poor as long as I have loving people in my life.
. . . but I'd like to wait for the reincarnation until I've finished living a full life in this world.

 

[AryaX]

Who decides or how is it decided what is excessive ?

One could conceivably reincarnate as a happy particle of dust... with no will... free or otherwise... and no memories, personality, likes and dislikes, etc, etc, ... unable to do anything, think anything, change in anyway, etc, etc, ... just eternity as particle of dust that experiences nothing except very real but meaningless "happiness" at all times, not even self awareness of the fact that one is in fact feeling that "happiness"...

If one was reincarnated as such a particle of happy dust, one would by definition be genuinely happy at all times... but does that mean, wishing for anything more than that is inherently excessive and results in shit loads of this "negative karma" thing?

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

1-what to ask for.
a) I ask for a companion. It doesn't even need to be a person, so long as we can communicate to an extent, and it can be with me throughout my life. I'd take a chicken with an 80 year lifespan if it can use telepathy to tell me when it's hungry for grubs or seeds and when it gets exited by a shiny rock.
b) I ask to be born in an environment that won't kill me within three hours of being outside; no glaciers, deserts, ravenous stealthy giant tigers, gang wars, or nuclear wastelands.
c) I ask for decent health; an average immune system with no allergies or genetic disorders. I won't be happy if I get cancer when I'm 5, or if I can't eat peanut butter.

2-how much stuff do you need to be happy?
I probably don't need too much. As long as I have a couple friends to talk to, a steady food supply, and a bit of education I'll be okay.

3-are you a peasant?
I'd probably be a subsistence farmer who never sees cash in their life.

4-is anything worth the bad karma?
Love. I don't need to fall in love to be happy, but doing so is worth it even if it curses my luck.

 

[xluferx]

Mandatory? That changes things.

1. I wish to reincarnate into a world as similar to this one as possible. (You say reincarnate in an isekai world, but isekai just means "another world" which is pretty redundant.) I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MODERN CONVENIENCE! Give me middle class parents with stable jobs and pensions, both of whom will love and support me without being overbearing. Ensure their physical and mental health until several years after I've begun living on my own. Make sure we live somewhere cold, and in a stable country with stable neighbors.

I want a healthy body that will survive any diseases, at least until the age of forty, without gaining any disabilities. I want to find love. I want to raise a family and love my children dearly.

2. I'm a greedy son of a bitch. I need a lot of things to be happy, like a stable job, someone to love, and access to good food and internet. Of course, I could live in a box apartment and not have any problems. (I don't need much need for material objects though. They're just things!)

3. No. I like stability, and having a low income does not guarantee stability.

4. I'll take the bad luck. I've chosen everything that truly matters to me.

Why not spice things a bit by adding more races to the world?

 

[NotYourTypicalMan]

1. I would like to retain my memories back.

2. I'm fine by myself and my trusty big rod

3. Poor peasants sound nice, if I Can only take care of my peaceful farm get a wife and have some kids, I would like to do it. But I guess not since this is an Isekai world, some kind of big dik boy called Sword saint/hero/something would ruin it.

4. If karma is real, I would DEFINITELY stay away from karma as possible as I wouldn't want to ruin my second chance in a new world without eyes or even my TRUSTY BIG ROD

 

[HURGMCGURG]

Why not spice things a bit by adding more races to the world?

Because in a world like ours, more races just means more opportunities for genocide.

 

[BenJepheneT]

I want the power of CHIM.