Fun SP3 Fact · 5:01pm Nov 10th, 2012
King Sombra fits perfectly into Silent Ponyville 3.
Like... ridiculously perfect.
Like you had a puzzle with just enough pieces to get the 'big picture' but couldn't make out the smaller details. Then you find a new piece and it fits perfectly into what you had before and suddenly something you never noticed about it before pops out.
While I'm the kind of person who usually hates it when fanfics try to change or add to themselves when Canon episodes come out (because that fanfic was written before canon and obviously should be running a different canon from the show at that point) I might just have to add him in at some point. Like it feels inevitable at this point.
I mean hey, when I first got into ponies I said I wasn't going to draw fanart, write fanfics, join tumblr, and many other things. I've broken ALL OF THOSE PROMISES I set up for myself already, might as well add another to the growing pile of broken promises =w=
I honestly thought of Silent Ponyville with that door.
Why not, as long as it makes sense and its not being forced go for it!
at least he'd be useful for something because to me king sombra was the worst villain of the series.
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Of the villains, he's probably actually accomplished the second most (the first obviously being Discord). The only reason he's 'bad' is because he has no characterization. He's basically just a wall of evil clouds lol.
I don't have cable. I'm so jellin' right now. What the hell happened!
489815 it's just they could have done so more more with him
oh well he did explode at the end of the episode
hey if it fits GO FOR IT! :D
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You'd have to be really careful about making it seem natural, I reckon. It's the sort of thing that stands out and like you said it seems like trying to change something. You don't want it to look forced (SP4 Ideas maybe?
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As for him having no characterisation, that was sort of the point, I thought. The idea was that he was an evil presence that hadn't really fully reformed, as such. He needed to be stopped before he could get going, meaning he was never really going to be the focus of the episode as an actual character anyway. As a looming threat, I think he was actually pretty effective and people don't like that the plot didn't revolve around him more.
I shall voice my opinion that I think the great evil of SP should be the unknown and unfeeling face. Cause honestly Sombra was useless. That cloud would have been more intimidating if he didn't have a face and it was this alien thing trying to steal the ponies souls (much like the forces of the Silent Hill series.) I mean once I can look the big bad in the eye I'm not as scared of it.
At best I'd see Sombra as a piece of whatever the darkness is that got out and became physical. Or a survivor of SP from the past that brought a piece of that evil with him to the real world because magic works different for crystal ponies and plot device and such.
I mean hell, Celestia was THERE and her and Luna didn't remember jack shit about the guy. He was like the stopping point that they showed up to clean up right before Luna went all Nightmare Moon and threatened to do the whole thing to the entire planet in less than twelve hours.
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Oh, you misunderstand me. Sombra fits as a CHARACTER into the story.
The 'evil looming face' of the town is still the same. He's just a character that I could very easily fit into the storyline without changing it at all. It wouldn't effect the outcome, the progression, or the ideas behind the story at all. I just can fit him in and it'd feel natural, and then he'd have a decently minimal impact on the story, in such a way that if I replaced him with OC 'x' he'd have the same effect.
490203 What he said
491085 Well it can't hurt him any. He's in desperate need for something to make him more interesting.
I think I understand where you're coming from. But when you have an idea, you should write it. For instance, I started publishing My Little Destiny not long after the Return of Harmony. But I ended up including Shining Armor and Cadance in the story (since it took me so long to get to chapter six) because I had such a great idea. It resulted in a slight continuity error, but one can lawyer it out.
I didn't want to include Shining and Cadance, but my damn brain came up with a good use for them, and I really wanted to roll with it. Is that such a bad thing?
Now with the appearance of the Crystal Empire and the Crystal Heart I have another great idea, and I will integrate it, because I really like the idea. Is that such a bad thing?
I know the Empty Room by Wanderer D had a major continuity error involving the Elements of Harmony, because I guess the two appearances of the artifacts were written before and after the Return of Harmony. So you're right in one respect. It shouldn't be forced.