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Secret group of super powered freedom fighters recruits me to their cause on the basis that I’ve got some kind of special sauce inherent to my being. Hot chicks who’ve admired me from the shadows hand me weapons that I somehow already know how to use, and only their utter devotion to our world-saving cause keeps them from ripping my clothes off and covering me in kisses. All the horror and suffering of my life finds meaning in a mission the fulfills my need for purpose.

I'd like to be a peregrine falcon. No natural predator, able to soar above it all.

I'd also like to be wealthy enough, not in any unethical or greedy way, to have my own home by myself and not have to work, simply so I could enjoy the rest of my life in peace. No need for golden toilets and limousines, just the ability to get up in the morning and have peace and be free of fear of what is happening to me right now.

A harem of goblin chicks. Simple as.

Acquire all Investiture.

The powers of a dead god.

I'd like minimum wage to be able to support my family, so that a job flipping burgers could actually feed us

Failing that, to live as a bunny in a cottagecore tree stump, spending my days slicing up strawberries like they're roasts, and baking pies with my neighbours

I'd like to live in a world where people come together to save it instead of splitting apart.

The fantasy: i gain time stopping powers with little to no side effects on using it

The result: "Billionaire suicides skyrocket across the globe"

I just want magic but magic based on understanding and manipulating matter. Like magic based on real life physics

Kinda like the sorcerer's apprentice where they can make fire by vibrating the molecules in the air until they get hot enough to combust.

Two chicks at one time. Fuckin A.

As someone with a progressive disease: healing magic. I would pay all the bullion and cattle and sacks of wheat necessary to heal, or at least regress this stupid thing.

Star Trek's 24th century Earth sounds like a reasonably nice place. I doubt I'd qualify for Starfleet, and wouldn't try.

I just want to see what life is like for the average broken neurodivergent in that reality. Also, what's at the location of my current house in that reality? Same construction? Did a version of me live there? Was it there but replaced in the intervening 350 years? etc.

Owning my own home.

It that doesn’t count as fantasy, I really want there to be an underworld with strange creatures. I just think it would be so interesting.

Be able to shapeshift so my body can finally match my identity

I’d love to retire to a cozy inn with an endless pot of stew

The good guys winning.

One where there were multiple sentient species in addition to humans.

I would like to choose how I live in the world outside of the control of capitalism, the nation state, and boarders.

I'd love to be teleported into the world of Breath of the Wild/Tears of The Kingdom, minus the apocalyptic elements. I'd choose to either live in Tabantha or Akkala. I've always preferred semi rural environments, so the desolate, relaxed atmosphere would be appealing to me. I'd love to be a Rito so that I could soar wherever I wanted to go!

Wish granted ! Stand right there I’ll be back in a sec !

I want to know how to cast magic spells.

Brain preserved, revived (not "uploaded"/copied!) by someone competent and caring (a science organization perhaps) in hundreds of years, somewhere that's not complete shit assuming there is such a place still. I wouldn't mind staying in the VR-jar for a while for a slow assessment, training, and introduction to the future world and brain fixing etc while building connections.

A new form of life. A deeper connection to technology does not mean I want to abandon nature. If anything I want more robust microbiomes than humans have and whatever techniques can be borrowed from nature (photosynthesis or creation of other organic molecules, connect to mycelium network etc) for homeostasis or environmental management/living conditions. Which would allow me to focus on hobbies while my body mostly maintains itself.

Ideally I could exist as something comparable to the size of a microwave but could connect to larger bodies if needed. Or as an extra observer/backup shift/co-pilot etc.

In case you're not aware, there's a whole genre of media like that called isekai.

Being able to actually do anything you understand well enough, the way that magic works in many settings. A brilliant engineer can design an airplane, but he still needs lots of workers and machines and materials to actually build one. A wizard who knows how to cast "fly" can just go ahead and cast it and fly around. If he has the right books, he doesn't need other people for anything at all.

The sort of mystery only possible in a story where the author himself doesn't have to know what the secret is. I love science but I was very disappointed when I was a kid and I realized that science meant that everything ultimately had a mundane explanation. A mysterious structure? Built by some Bronze Age dudes. Dinosaurs? Unusually large animals. Legendary heroes? Made-up stories. Even if elves or unicorns turned out to be real, they would have a mundane explanation too because the whole universe follows rules.

Holding out for a vampire prince. So far, the prospects have been enthusiastic but anatomically illiterate.

Two extra inches. Either height or... Y'know. Ideally both.

I want to be able to remove my body parts and put them back without harming myself. That's old school sorcery skills.

Being loved I guess.

Having read a few "retired hero" things recently, home ownership and retirement would be nice.

Night of the Comet

Pull sword from stone, become (nearly) unquestioned ruler.

Same, there are parks in my area that I sorta live the fantasy out in

As fucked as it would be, I would like to experience Poppy Playtime in real life 🤣🤣🤣

Being a happy hero