What could have been... · 12:42am Mar 8th, 2015
“Listen, candy mane,” she grinned maliciously. “I'm going to do you a favor, only the one, favor and tell it to you straight: There are no fair fights here. Ever. You shouldn't have brought your fancy tricks unless they included explosions, fireballs or lightning.” Her claws dragged against Sweetie's armor. “If you don't have any of those, you should have brought a gun or something that can blow someone's brains out. Next time, you'll either heed my advice or I'll let these... guys... take care of you.”
A few patrons laughed and other cheered, looking at Sweetie Belle almost hungrily.
“So,” Gilda laughed. “What do you have to say, marshmallow? Do you have any of those?”
“Wait.” Sweetie raised a hoof. “You mean to say I could have blasted someone's brain out with my fireball spell, or electrocuted that guy over there...” she pointed at an ogre. “Until his brains ooze from his ears and I wouldn't get in trouble?”
Sweetie looked around the room.
“So... I could levitate the raccoon, smash him through the table, then use them both to pummel the goblin into a pulp and no-one would say anything? I mean... so, I can split the floor in half and watch everyone without wings or magic fall down the mountain and I would get respect?
Sweetie's eyes went wide. “Hey! So, what happens if I use your shot glass and use it to spear through the Diamond Dog? Or tie everyone's necks together to two ships and make one fall from the sky? What do you use to make it float? Hydrogen? That thing lights up like the sun!”
She was starting to really get into it. “Or-or imagine if I got everyone's guns out, and pointed at each of their owners and shot at the same time?”
The whole room had gone completely quiet, all patrons staring at Sweetie as if she had grown another head.
Gilda slowly closed her slightly open beak. “I think you've had too much to drink, marshmallow.” She pushed Sweetie away from the bar.
“Aww! But I was just starting to get into it!” Sweetie whinnied.
“Yes, and that is the problem,” Gilda muttered, motioning with her head for her crew to follow. “Let's go to my ship, and we can talk there.”
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I still want to see this happen.
I'll have whatever she's having!
End of ponies?
1) Yay! End of Ponies!
But hey, maybe it still can be one day.
2) Holy shit. I knew Sweetie's mindset had changed but jeeezus, hearing all that come out of her is definitely dark and a little disturbing.
3) I still wish this could have been a thing.
Wait... This isn't going to happen? I'm so sad now.
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Well... She is a cutie-mark crusader. Inappropriate enthusiasm is their thing. It's just gotten more inappropriate.
Commence read.
Interesting.
This would be the time for her to go all Riddick Belle on their asses!
What do you mean 'What could have been'? why isn't this going to be a thing?
2858094 Welllllllll.... She is Drunk....
Although, the idea that she is old enough to drink now... or considers drinking like a good way to deal with... Something.... Is almost worse to think about.
It totally looks like it, but there's no way that's End of Ponies.
It would completely break the story! Plus I'm not sure if SS&E would be down for it unless the story got all philosophical... and sweetie... went... crazy... ... okay now I can see it happening.
And it's glorious!
I hope it gets to be a thing in the future. I really hope.
2858234 *puts a paper clip on the table*
for serious though i had the same thought XD what universe was this supposed to be from or did i miss an update notification or something CONTEXT PLEASE.
Alcohol + imagination + magical skill + post-apocalyptic setting = that one scene from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Next, she'll sharpen the bones of every badger in the room to make spears.
2859143 And sell their organs to hire assassins to go after the survivors.
2859118 you never saw The Chronicles of Riddick? It was a reference to that movie's main character, who was a badass killer with a snarky attitude lol
Sweetie is now too scary for even these guys.
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End of Ponies has a tendency to cause the End of Writers/Updates.
If this is from End of Ponies, I may need to hop over to SS&E's page to take a look.
This excerpt is amazing, but it just makes me sad.
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Debatable. I don't see enough in the text to prove that she is in a state of drunkenness, only that she's in a bar, and the existing fact that she's had alcohol before and has no qualms about the idea of drinking it again no matter what universe she's in. Also, "you've had enough to drink" is sometimes used as an expression.
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This.
2860633 Oh? I don't recall her drinking Alchohol before. Most likely case where she might have from my memory is during the Best Night Ever, when, I think, she was magicically aged up.. Can't recall exact reason.
And yea, her behavior isn't really indicitive of drunken-ness. Admittedly I only know drunk behavior from reading about it.. So...
Well... ummm back to the wastes? Hoofington Rises
Well, that got my attention. Is this actually a thing, or is it something that everybody wishes was a thing? I'd love to read that story.
2859461 no the referance D's article about i read through comments again it's End Of Ponies I think.
Of course i saw riddick how could i reference the paperclip without knowing.
2858520 EoP WAS slated for TSC...
DOES NO ONE REMEMBER THIS BEING A THING!?
Am I the only EoP hardcore left that remembers the D talking about it?
All you "hardcore" EoP fans... I am a dissapoint."
D, if this is what it looked like, I'm glad you decided that Sweetie wasn't ready for EoP... Pitt must have been shitting himself during this or working out how to turn the new gluestick into silver.