A restraining order potion would make a mint!
You mean, instead of an eros potion it’d be a portion of agapa, philia, or xenia?
Most likely because “be nice to strangers” or “don’t defile the dead” can be easily enforced with violence without being rapey.
(And, worth noting, modern anti-depresssnts are kind of a philautía potion already, since they help with “love of self.”)
Like a potion that just charms someone without making them fall in love? I’m pretty sure D&D has a spell that does exactly that, and just about any spell can be made into a potion IIRC.
Like a friendship potion?
Beer? (Not an alcoholic, just an engineering student)
That would be a great item for a DND session. Could be sold by an incompetent or novice potion maker, or at some magic potion equivalent of a scratch and dent store. Or the dollar store version of a love potion.
I mean… romantic love is usually the first type of love that comes to mind when you say the word “love”, but it would be interesting to other types of love represented.
- potion of Broth/sist-erhood
- potion of Filial Love
- potion of Ride or Die
- potion of Make Momma Proud
- potion of Go Get’em, Tiger!
- potion of BFF’s Forever!
- potion of Fanaticism
- potion of Fascination
- potion of Simpage
In Chinese, 父爱 (fatherly love) and 母爱 (motherly love) are like one of the top 5 terms that comes to mind when the term 爱 is mentioned.
My parent’s never say the term 爱, instead, they say 錫/惜 (wikitionary definition: to cherish; to adore; to value greatly; to love dearly), which, in Cantonese at least, is a supposedly endearing way a parent express love for their children (I think?)
Imagine some parent using a potion of “Must be a A+ student to make parents proud” and like you just get mind-controlled into studying all night and skipping video games lmfao.
Or the reverse, a potion of “Mommy pls love me more”, and the parent spoils the child and buys them anything they ask.
That variant is called “date rape drug”.
I didn’t even think of this when I posted this, but I get like 5 of these comments… 💀
Anti love potions exist and have been regularly used since before recorded history. We call the poison.
Romeo and Juliet was too obsessively into love, so they had to take some anti-love potions to calm down a bit.
They seem pretty calm now.
Happily ever after. 🤗
A non-romantic version?
You mean potions that kill you?
There are called poisons.
Or do you mean a potion that just lets you fuck the person?
They are called rufies.
I think they meant a platonic love portion.
Ahhh so a potion that makes someone your friend?
Options
- Alcohol
- Marajuana
- Cocaine
This man is a poet
all of your “alternatives” (here and above) make it sound like any love potion (even the “romantic” ones) are in any form consensual and not abusive by nature…
I am not making any statements about the moral implications of these things. I am just letting the OP that what he is asking for already exists.
than sorry about that, to me it seemed like there being a romantic version implied that it was a morally sound version (which always needs consent just to be sure here)
Beer.
My assumption is that friendship is a lot easier to initiate and maintain. Limmerence, especially, is a lot of anxiety about how the person feels and if I could only make them see the depth of my feelings and am I what they want. The kind of thing that a specific kind of person wishes for magic for.
friendzone potion, you give it to someone crushing on you or hates you to turn them around. Some might argue showing up with beer / weed is a friendzone potion.
Because humans are really, really hung up about sex in general, and we make it complicated. The idea of a potion that cuts right through all the bullshit sounds pretty good to just about everyone at some point in their lives.
They’re called “ruthies”.
No … they’re called “roofies”.
it’s weird how love potions are the fairy tale equivalent of rohypnol.
In Harry Potter, Voldemort’s mother used love potion on Voldemort’s father and he left after the spell wore off
Does the drug the voodoo practitioner gives to their zombies count as a submissive potion?
You mean like the story around its use being non romantic?? There’s tons like that. Otherwise idk what you are asking…
