u/Gotcancelled

It's far from an original take that the OWW is NOT a cursed item. Ian asks for a billion dollars and simply receives it. In a pretty inconvenient format yes, but he is not crushed by gold bars, or gets a billion Zimbabwean dollars, or anything of the sort.

Which makes it weird that Bear's wish *is* incomplete. He wishes for Nikki to love him. We know that he doesn't consider whatever is controlling her body as Nikki. The same semantic games could've gotten Ian useless confederate bucks but it didn't. This implies to me that the OWW is limited in its powers. The client made a demand it simply can't fulfill so like any contractor you find a workaround and present the finished project as exactly what was required.

Even assuming that Bear's wish was correctly interpreted, it's really weird that Nikki still can occasionally break free. It would be like some of Ian's dollars were actually just pieces of paper colored in crayon. This is an actual "bug" in the shipped product, which couldn't happen if the OWW could truly do everything.

The fact that the operator has access to true Nikki means that this must be working through some sort of soul magic. Said soul magic seems to be able to move them around, but cannot control them. Bear asked for soul control, it couldn't be fulfilled but it could be approximated using the power to move souls around.

Putting all this together, I find it extremely unlikely that Nikki does not have access to the OWW. We know it was a different being inside her, we know that there's soul magic involved, and we know the object is not cursed. Thus, it seems to make the most sense that it will recognize a different soul and allow full access to its powers. And we know that Nikki knows the OWW works because she saw herself break it. Now what she could wish for to get herself out of the bring I don't know. If she wishes all her friends came back, I'm going to guess the same limitations will come to play, and she'll get possessed friends and be haunted by ghosts. Probably the best she could do is wish that everyone believed her. I don't know if that's also controlling souls and thus would need a workaround as horrific as Bear got, but at least it's a bit more of a happy ending then I think most think is possible.

P.S. The director said it wasn't *demonic* possession not that it wasn't possession all together. It clearly was given that real Nikki can break free and knows it wasn't her. And I know the director said she's probably going to jail but that's not a canonical ending, he clearly left it open for interpretation, and this is mine.

People who have a top 7 that doesn't isn't some ordering of Ohio State, Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas, Indiana, Miami, and Oregon, who are you leaving out, and who are you putting in instead?

Nikki will still have access to the One Wish Willow, and thus can conceivably get herself out of all the trouble she's in (but she needs to be careful).