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**Unnamed Mercenary** · **08-07-2014, 12:50 PM**

Hmm...this is an interesting concept. For the Unnamed Mercenary/Franz I think it'd really hinge on if he knew who was most important to him. I think he'd probably take the two wishes in return for the last wish, if he didn't know.

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He thought over the details of the arrangement. He would receive two unlimited wishes, at the cost of having to wish something of equal, but opposite fortune to the person he cared most for. His memory was still fragmented at best. He knew he loved Lydia, his wife, but what if there was someone else more important to him? What if there wasn't?

It was a gamble he'd be willing to take. The wish-making was simple. He had a parchment in front of him, on it was three sections. He'd write in each wish, and then decide whether to have them happen in a particular order, or all at once. He mumbled to himself a phrase he'd come to say a lot. "I'm not a good man, but am I really that bad?"

First Wish: "I wish to regain the memories I've lost."
Second Wish: "I wish to return home, to Garlemald, safely."
Third Wish: "I wish for the equivalent opposite fortune of the other wishes be dealt to the person I care most for."

He left the third one vague on purpose. Not as a loophole, but as a way to protect himself from what may happen. He would decide to have all three granted simultaneously. As instructed, he put the parchment underneath his pillow that night and went to sleep, thinking about the wishes he'd written.

When he woke up the following morning, he was in a distinctlyÂ different, but familiar setting. It wasn't the bed he'd gone to sleep in, he wasn't in the room he'd entered the night before, a quick look out the window immediately confirmed he was not in Eorzea. And that wasn't all. He...he remembered everything. The past he'd lost, the time in Eorzea, and the wishes. Although the inside had changed with the addition of new things, it was his house. The same house in Garlemald he'd lived in, before the experiment. But...where was Lydia? Was this not their room? At that moment, there was a knock on his door. He made sure the glamour he'd previously needed to survive in Erozea was gone.

As the door opened, he recognized exactly who it was. His daughter. But the words that came out after were enough to make him regret everything. She looked right into his eyes. "You're...you're the man who was in all the pictures with mother, even some with me. But...", she paused. "Who are you? And why is mother gone?"

There. At that moment it became clear.Â

His wishes were granted, in the most painful of ways. What he'd traded to remember and return, had been taken from the two people he cared most for. Lydia was gone, as were his own daughter's memories of him. "???", he whispered her name softly, breaking down. "Is it true you cannot remember your own father?" He wouldn't be able to cope with the response if it were "no".

If the Unnamed Mercenary went about using the wishes, I think it'd happen as described in the spoiler block. Would the ends justify the means? It's hard to say. While he'd certainly have gotten what he wanted, maintaining that balance means taking it away from the very reason he wanted it back.

If confronted with the idea that a wish could hold such power, I think he'd turn it down, because at the end of the day, he wants to reclaim those things through his own efforts. Stealing them away would defeat the purpose for him.

Your character is granted three wishes, but the third wish...

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