A/N: Special thanks to Nethalar, D48, evowizard25, thewaffler, and ketvirtas in particular for your more in-depth reviews last chapter, but thanks to everyone who let me know how much they enjoyed it! Also to thewaffler for having a fun name! I hope that you continue to do so and let me know what you think about it, as the more you let me know about what you enjoy the more I can make the story fit that!
One day on his way back to the castle he had adopted as his own, Loki found himself looking into a stream that ran smoothly through the woods. In the water he could see a reflection of his scraggly hair, tired eyes and generally unkempt appearance.
This was not news to him. He had little experience with grooming himself as a horse after all, yet he did admit that he was beginning to care less and less as things other than vanity took root in his mind.
It was these same thoughts that kept him from noticing the figure sitting atop his throne until he was mere feet from them.
To his shock and surprise, it was not a pony.
“Not expecting a visitor?”
At least physically. Atop the throne sat a pasty skinned humanoid with long, blue hair of various shades with a familiar dark blue tiara placed on top of it. Familiar green eyes sat upon the feminine face, which itself sat upon a neck with a necklace Loki could have sworn to have seen in his dreams before without lying in the slightest.
That necklace was, however, the only thing other than a pair of shoes to cover the otherwise completely bare woman.
“Luna?” Loki asked, quite confused as to what he was seeing. He found himself averting his gaze after his initial analysis of her form, so as to be respectful. That did not stop him from noticing certain...things, such as how the mark of a night sky and its moon that normally was on her Equine hip was similarly on this form’s hip. Did she believe that to be a normal thing?
The visitor laughed in Luna’s voice and made no effort to cover their bare body, “Surprised? I tried to replicate the female form of your race to the best of my ability. Shapeshifting is quite enjoyable I must say, especially the more you change.”
Luna paused when she noticed that Loki was not indeed looking at her marvelous transformation for some unknown reason. This partially irked the princess, who thought he would at least be impressed with her.
“Whatever is the matter with you?” she questioned, one part confused for every part indignant.
Loki coughed nervously, still averting his eyes from her body, “While it may be custom for equines like yourself to normally walk about without much in the ways of clothing, where I am from it is considered...obscene to do so.”
The former mare’s cheeks flushed red at his revelation that she was doing something very wrong, “Oh, my apologies,” with a quick flash a set of blue robes covered her body from neck to foot, Luna not knowing what exactly was obscene and going with an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach, “Better?”
Glancing up to Luna, Loki felt a smirk grow upon his tired face before he could restrain it as he admired her form. She had a body not unlike the desirable Lady Sif, who was the most athletic and toned woman he had ever met outside of the Valkyries and those men-haters did not count in his eyes. Not after the time they nearly killed him and Thor for merely being male...
Needless to say, Loki found himself quite impressed with the form she had taken and the accuracy of it as far as he could see, and from what he had seen.
Loki looked from abdomen to green eyes, “Much. I must say that in this form you are quite ravishing. You are an impressive shapeshifter.”
Luna bowed partially, the undertones of his words not comprehended, “Thank you. I tried to emulate your mother’s appearance the best I could since she is my only reference-”
Loki retched loudly, abruptly cutting Luna off.
“Luna, please do not equate yourself to my mother right after I say something like that. I may just need to repress this conversation.”
Luna laughed nervously as she put the whole picture together, realizing that she may have just mentally scarred Loki.
Loki shook the damnable memories from his mind and began to focus his energy, “Anyways, now it is my turn to show off.”
In a spark, Loki’s green form found itself replaced with the orange guard with blue hair from his visit to Canterlot. Loki bowed in the alternate form, speaking with a voice that was as mocking as he could manage, “Random annoying guard at your service, my lord.”
Luna made a mental note to herself to make sure that guard was reassigned to the Crystal Empire in the coming months, lest Loki seek him out to harass him more.
This, however, amused her greatly and she laughed heartily in her new form, “Oh Loki, you are terrible.”
Loki laughed too before shifting to another form, this time growing in height significantly instead of shrinking. His new, white fur glistened comically as he stood before Luna as her very sibling.
Loki changed his voice to mimic Celestia’s as well, Luna already pounding her fist down as tears of laughter streamed down her face, “How about this? Am I doing this correctly, sister? Are my hindquarters too large, just like my big head?”
“Tia would have a fit,” Luna managed to cough out during her laughing fit, her hands wiping the tears from her eyes.
Loki shifted again quickly, this time to an even bigger pain in Luna’s eyes: that being a pink monstrosity they both agreed they disliked, “Of laughter I hope!”
Luna rolled her eyes as she calmed down, “I have seen better.”
The other shapeshifter returned to his regular equine form and let out a breath to demonstrate the tired feeling he now had after that brief exercise, “I will admit it is quite tiring to cast such magic while I am still unaccustomed to this form. Nothing some practice will not fix though.”
“Have you tried to resume your normal form? We have not worked on it, but I am curious if you have done so on your own.”
Despite all of their practice the past few weeks, Loki had not actually tried to accomplish that feat. He had worked on smaller, less difficult forms as well as non-complex ones, but he was worried about possibly messing up his own true form, “Not yet. Care to watch?”
Luna nodded and Loki started to focus, energy gathering at his horn, “Note that I will be wearing clothes after this,” after a moment’s contemplation and no spellcasting, Loki added, “Hopefully.”
Luna lifted her brows, not to mention the corners of her mouth, in an amused fashion as she spoke bemusedly, “It would not be the most terrible tragedy to befall us.”
He rolled his eyes and promptly ignored her as he continued to focus his energy. In her own transformed state Luna happily watched Loki’s equine form disappear in a flash, only for the form from his dreams to replace it.
The green eyes and long black hair remained the same on him, but Luna found herself inspecting the rest of him. Now his pale body was clothed in green, black and brown leather of what appeared to be a fine quality. On top of his head rest a golden helmet with two ram-like horns that made Luna want to laugh, Loki’s sense of fashion obviously...different.
“This is…” Loki could not finish his own words as he observed each of his arms, glad that they were not hooves for once.
Luna lifted a foot out to touch his chest and get his attention. As Loki looked up to her she smiled, green eyes meeting green eyes, “Good to be in your own skin, is it not?”
He returned the warm look with one of his own, feeling genuinely happy unlike most of the despair he had been facing in recent times. He had managed to overcome something with the help of this newfound ally, and that instantly set aside that moment from many in his then recent memory.
That feeling, however, was fleeting, as a realization dawned upon him.
Loki sighed, “Yes, I will admit it is. But this is a trick. A spell. I am unsure why my natural state of being has changed, but that is another issue altogether. Thank you for your assistance these past few weeks.”
Luna nodded to his thanks and kept smiling at him even after his face had fallen, still glad to see that her ‘friend’ could now feel more comfortable.
Comfortable...that word brought another idea to Luna’s brain.
Nodding at Loki’s very odd garb, Luna spoke her mind, “You know, you need not be so naked in your pony form if you please. I could have clothes made for your specific desires should you wish it.”
Loki looked to his own clothes as well and grinned, finding the idea of an equine version of them to be quite amusing. Whatever would the others back home think to seeing a horse version of his clothing? They made fun of it as it was. For that matter, what would they think of seeing a Loki-equine? That would surely be an interesting laugh.
“That would be most gracious of you. I could always conjure up clothing to be honest, with the right practice, but real garbs always feel the best.”
Luna chuckled at his honesty, “And they do not tend to disappear when you run out of energy, as little as it takes to maintain them. So, would you care for some ostentatious dress akin to what you are wearing?”
“Well excuse me princess, here I thought that my clothes were quite dashing,” Loki jested, not actually feeling offended. It was not as bad as being called a cow, per say, like his brother was fond of doing.
Luna stuck her tongue out partially at him, “I find it quite adorable to be honest.”
That made the prideful prince of Asgard scoff, “Adorable? Am I some rabbit?”
Luna lifted her foot up high to touch Loki’s forehead instead of his chest, “Yes. With the two long ears protruding from your helmet, you are my dear bunny rabbit.”
Loki realized this was going to go nowhere and remembered he actually had things planned for the day ahead of him, so he took a hand to her foot and removed it from his head, “As amusing as this is, I was just preparing to leave and attend to something when you arrived. Would you mind visiting back tomorrow?”
“Of course. It is not as if we do not have any better things to be doing, our fluffy rabbit.”
Loki groaned as she burst out into a fit of laughter.
“How high did she jump?”
“I’m surprised she didn’t land on the moon! She actually hit the ceiling she went so high!”
Loki had been...busy when his enchanted snakes revealed they had scared a certain pink pony witless, and so he had set aside time to look more into the matter.
He found himself quite pleased with the blue Pegasus he found himself talking to, the mare none-the-wiser of his transformed state. His wings were completely hidden so as to not arouse suspicion, and as such other ponies were just passing him off as an absurdly tall unicorn.
Loki smiled down to the blue mare, glad that not every equine he ran into was insane or extremely quirky, “Now that you have accomplished my task, I propose that we properly introduce ourselves. I am Loki Odinson, known from where I come for my trickery.”
He quickly noted the pride in her voice, “I’m Rainbow Dash, Equestria’s number one flier and always up for a good prank. You got any other ideas?”
Something about her name rang a bell in Loki’s mind, but he ignored it as his thoughts began to formulate a plan, “Your friend’s name is Pinkie Pie, correct? How heavy a sleeper is she?”
“I’m not kidding when I say she can sleep through a hurricane. Why?” Rainbow questioned.
With a quick flash, Loki summoned a bottle he had been working on the past few days. Seeing the Witch-Doctor’s house had gotten him to think about brewing potions and this was one such experiment of his that he was eager to try out.
“I have some tricks unusable to one without magic, but there are many other ways to have a good time,” he floated the small bottle over to Rainbow Dash, “Take this dye. Sprinkle some on her while she rests and she will awake to find herself no longer able to live up to her name for a day or so.”
Realizing what the clear bottle of purple fluid might do, Rainbow snickered, “What color will she be? I got to think of some jokes before.”
He shrugged nonchalantly, “It can be whatever color you wish, as you only need shake the bottle vigorously to change it, but I suggest something darker as it will be more of a contrast to her regular coat.”
Rainbow Dash tucked the brewed substance away into her satchel bag when an idea struck her mind, “Would you mind pulling off a prank yourself? I’d love to see you in action with your magic!”
Deciding that he had some free time, Loki decided he may just as well, “I may just do that. Do you have any friends in particular who you care to have some fun with?”
“Well, the only one who is around right now is Twilight, I think.”
Loki remembered the bookworm who had keyed him in on a good deal of information he needed and who lent him the map he desired, “I know where she resides. Care to follow?”
“You bet!”
Twilight Sparkle was lazily reading a book in her home when something brushed up against her tail. At first thinking it to be Spike inconsiderately brushing against her, she ignored it.
Then she felt the same thing brush against where her Cutie Mark lay. Her eyes shot open at the feeling of scales, and her ears quivered at the sound of a hiss.
“Snake!” she yelled as she shot to her feet and dashed across the round room at full galloping speed.
After she got as far away from the place she had been reading as possible, Twilight let out a breath and looked back to where she had been before. No snake was in sight, and neither was her assistant.
Twilight called out to her aide, “Spike, what’s with all the snakes around Ponyville? Take a letter! We need to have this fixed-”
Something behind her tapped her on the head, making Twilight twist around to see that a black snake was hanging out of her bookshelf and looking at her.
“How did it even get up there!?” she squealed as her whole body began to shake.
“Boo,” the snake whispered to her softly.
Having had enough of this bad dream, Twilight ran around to her staircase while yelling, “Talking snake, talking snake!”
Only, the snake reappeared on top of the staircase.
The snake snickered sinisterly, “Our hero, folks. Can defeat monsters, but quivers at the sight of a harmless reptile.”
“Getoutgetoutgetout!” Twilight leapt over the snake and dashed right to her bed, pulling her blankets over her as fast as she could to try and hide from the monstrosity.
“Hi.”
The snake was in the bed.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-”
Rainbow Dash had been observing her friend through the windows of the treehouse, so Loki took it as his cue to end the prank when she fell down out of the sky laughing her hindquarters off. He was surprised she was still able to breathe with all of her laughter, but was at least pleased that the creature he had conjured did its duty.
“Any others?” he boredly questioned, having thought this to be quite easy a prank.
“I bet Fluttershy could use a visit at her cottage. She’s probably done tending to her animals by now.”
“What need I do to have my fun there?”
“Well, Fluttershy is really into animals. Almost to a creepy level,” Rainbow grew a thoughtful expression as she considered the idea more, “Haven’t pranked her in forever since Pinkie doesn’t allow it. I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s all just some harmless fun.”
Loki was pleased to see that she was on the same page as him, “You are quite correct. Now, what experience does she have with aquatic beings?”
“I adopted my pet tortoise Tank from her, but she doesn’t really keep much fish-things around. Probably because she feeds them to the other animals.”
The hypocrisy of that action made Loki quite confused, but he decided to ignore it, “Odd. Well then, I know how to handle this.”
Fluttershy was minding her own business and trying to get her rabbit to eat his food when something caught her attention.
It had eight small limbs and a squishy round body on top of them with an eye on either side of the body. And it was crawling across the floor in circles nearby her.
Ignoring the disobedient rabbit she had been trying to feed, Fluttershy turned her full attention to the new creature in her house, “Oh, hello there. What’s your name?”
The creature turned to her and started to move towards her, letting out squishy noises as it crawled across the floor.
“I’m sorry, I’m afraid I didn’t catch that.”
The creature reached where she stood and lifted one of its small limbs to her hoof, revealing that it had some kind of suction cup on the bottom of it that stuck to Fluttershy. Then it stuck another limb to her, and another, and another and it did this until it was fully wrapped around one yellow hoof of the animal caretaker.
“Umm, okay, you sure have a lot of arms mister-”
The odd creature quickly scaled up her hoof and crawled onto her face, its suction cups sticking to her fur and the limbs wrapping partially around her.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t want you on my face mister squish. Please get down?”
Mister squish did not listen as it revealed what it had underneath its tentacles: a beak.
“Biting bad, biting bad!” Fluttershy yelled as she began to run about the room, her nose being softly grabbed between the beak.
With a strong twist of the head Fluttershy managed to dislodge the creature, it bouncing across the floor and making more squish noises, “Bad mister squishy. You don’t crawl on others faces like that-”
From its new position the now angry mister squish shot out a black jet of ink that crashed right into Fluttershy, who squealed as she became drenched in a torrent of icky liquid.
“Eeep!”
Loki deemed that enough pony harassment for the day and turned to his prank partner, “Your turn. I expect to hear good things when I return, and I look forward to hearing what devious color you turn that pink foal.”
“Hehe, you bet!”
Loki yawned on his throne as he went over the events in his sleep the night before. He refused to close his eyes lest he relive what was waiting there, but the general exhaustion he felt made this quite difficult.
He almost missed Luna entered the room completely, jolting himself upright as she approached him with a playful and curious look.
“Loki, wherever did you get that staff?”
Staff?
Loki looked down to his side where a golden scepter with a blue orb towards one end lay. He groggily tried to remember something about it but found himself unable to do so, quite confused as to how it got there. How had he not noticed it, he wondered?
“This…” Loki pushed the spear looking scepter away from him on the throne, memories coming back to him about it, “This is nothing. Just something I found in my travels.”
Luna approached him and kept her gaze on the object Loki certainly did not want her to touch, “May I see it?”
“I’d rather you not. What if it is cursed?” Loki warned as if he had no idea what it was capable of.
“Oh Loki, whatever could it do? After all you seem to be just fine by it,” her horn lit up and the scepter lifted into the air away from Loki and towards her. Inspecting the overall small scepter closer, Luna admired its craftsmanship while again sticking a tongue out at him, “See I’m perfectly fine.”
Loki felt himself grow agitated the more she held it away from him for reasons he could not explain, “May I please have it back?”
Luna laughed at his tone and placed the scepter back down, rolling her eyes at him, “Oh fine, here’s your precious scepter.”
Loki felt his stress leave as she did this, only for it to partially return as she asked, “So, you have been traveling?”
He decided to be snarky to deflect the topic, “I do have a life outside of our meetings, I must admit.”
She understood that sentiment completely and smiled with her eyes closed, “I wish you had been here a millennium ago. It would have been quite nice to have somepony to share with that was not mother.”
Loki’s eyes glossed over the scepter before they made their way to Luna, “I find it hard to remember what I was even doing at that time...I wonder if that was the time period when Thor lost his prized weapon and had to pose as a bride to retrieve it.”
“Your brother pretended to be a girl? Is this the same brother who is the musclebound brute you speak of with such reverence?” Luna could not help the sound of oncoming laughter from her voice, very amused by the very premise Loki brought forth.
“The one and only. There were many frills.”
Luna lost her composure completely and laughed loudly once before responding, “How did this come about?”
Loki sighed as the memory came back to mind, remembering how amusing it had been and how annoying it had been to rectify, “Thor had stupidly lost his weapon, Mjolnir, and we needed to recover it. Do not ask me how he managed to lose something he can summon to him at any time and can solely wield. My brother managed the impossible quite often.”
“Mew-mew?” the world he said sounded quite weird to Luna and she desired explanation.
Loki’s disdain was ever apparent as he repeated the name, “Mjolnir. It is a powerful hammer said to be the weapon of a king because of its power to both create and to destroy. It is for this reason that my brother wields it, the heir to our throne.”
“You have mentioned previously he would utilize the destruction aspect quite often,” Luna spoke sadly, not condoning reckless use of force by any.
“Well, with more realms than he could count and even more wars, my brother rarely found himself without something to fight and slay,” he paused as he glanced down to the scepter again, “Such an innocent realm…”
Luna lifted a brow at his saddened tone, “What are you musing now, Loki?”
He shook his head and sighed, before looking back up to her with a small and fake smile, “Oh, nothing you need worry yourself with.”
“I am pleased to hear this,” Luna gave him a smirk all too similar to his normal ones, “Now, Loki, there was something of great importance I wished to discuss with you.”
“Is that so? Come on now, whatever could be so vital that a princess would consider it important to another royal being?”
“I think we should see other ponies.”
Loki blinked momentarily as he tried to make sense of her statement, “Come again? I was under the impression we were doing just...fine.”
“Loki, do not fret, it is not you. It is me,” Luna reached a hoof out to his shoulder on top of the throne, “I just believe that limiting our social interactions to one another is not very healthy. You really ought to meet other ponies.”
“And however do you suppose I do this?”
Luna smiled at his question, having something in mind just for this reason, “There is a festival of sorts going on in Ponyville in a few days time. I think it would be a good opportunity for you, and you would not even have to do so alone. Many of the competitions will involve partners after all, so I may still accompany you. But I would not be your only company”
Loki thought briefly before he came up with an answer, yawning as he spoke, “I will attempt to attend this event.”
The night princess noted his dead-tired appearance and frowned at it, “You appear exhausted. Have you been resting well?”
“Would you not know already?” Loki joked, knowing her ability to dreamwalk quite well.
To Loki’s relief she shook her head no, “No, I would not. I have been respecting your sleep and leaving it be. Would you care for me to check on you again?”
He sighed and he too shook his head, “I would rather you not.”
“Is something the matter?” his concerned companion asked, now a little worried for his well-being.
“There are just a great many things on my mind. May we leave it at that?”
Luna gave him a reassuring smile, “Of course, but if you ever need my aid just let me know.”
The days passed by and on the morn of the event Luna found herself waiting at the Ponyville festival, ready to celebrate it with Loki as well as bring attention to how she too could form friends.
Despite her long period of waiting, Luna found herself very alone despite the occasional groveling of a subject who passed by.
“Loki?” she spoke out, hoping that maybe he would answer her.
Silence met her.
The feeling of dejection made Luna’s heart feel crushed. Why would Loki not be there? Should she check on him in the forest? Why would he go back on his word?
“We have never been stood up before by anypony…”
With a nose turned up in the air, Luna huffed.
“He better have a good explanation for this.”
She would just have to have fun without him. Show him what happens when he does not hold to his word.
A good distance from Ponyville, a dark lair with a large populace was lazily sitting about. They were all trapped inside of their own fortress of mazes and puzzles and had no way out, so why bother?
At least, that’s what they thought in the time they had been trapped there.
“It took some effort to find you here.”
The group of trapped souls looked up the the exit, once sealed but now opened.
Their leader, a wounded a weakened creature by the name of Queen Chrysalis stood up from where she previously lay and inspected the source of the voice with narrowed eyes.
“And who is this who seeks me out? Friend or foe?”
A bipedal creature with a staff in its hand bowed to her as it stood in the doorway, one arm gesturing towards the offered freedom.
“Friend, your highness. I am Loki, prince of Asgard,” he stood up from his bow and grinned at her, “And I am burdened with glorious purpose.”
A/N: Yes, you will have to live with that cliffhanger.
Anyways, thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed! If you did please let me know what you liked in the comment boxes below! Seriously, every bit I hear from you helps this college student get motivated both in life and in writing!
Aww, so Loki is going for the bad guy bid again. Oh well, old habits die hard and all that. Still, almost guarantied to end the friendship with Luna.. As well as anything else that could have developed.
Oh fuck, here we go!
LOVED IT! The banter is well done once again.
I did really enjoy the prank pulled on Twilight. It was funny and not many people utilize Twilight's fear of snakes.
Though I'm with Pinkie. Pranks on Fluttershy are below the belt and it did leave a bad taste in my mouth. But then again, both Loki and Rainbow Dash are jerks sometimes, so it's in character.
And thus Loki started hanging out with Chrysalis. Nice work with your not-yet-boyfriend Luna.
I don't think that his intentions are bad with the changelings though.
If they are then Luna will stop him.
Well, I'm quite sure that if Thor were there, he would be most helpful in relieving Loki of his burden.
This story is quite the roller coster. I personaly really like Loki so seeing him do his thing is great. Another thing I like is how you worked with Luna's and Celly's characters. To be honest I don't care much for Tia, but I love Luna and seeing what is most likely the relationship they would have is great to read. This over all story is really good, this is going to be a great one I can feel it. Keep up the good work.
The following events that occur in this story are going to be needed to be handled with care. Loki is an unpredicteble character yes, but I think he deserves a break. Just wanted to put my two cents in that's all.
Brony on!!!!!!!!!!!
3527803 Whoever said that?
I think everyone's in for some surprises.
3513688 Well now you can since we have another chapter out!
3527820 Hahaha, I wasn't lying last chapter when I said to be prepared for plot
Then again, things are not going to happen instantly...that wouldn't make sense. Loki is too much of a tactician to do things in a rushed manner when he can help it.
3527830 Why thank you once again. I enjoy writing the banter, so I am glad you are liking it too!
And with the pranks, I merely am trying to do what they would do rather than what I would like to do. Loki and Rainbow just want to have fun with their pranks and do not really consider the other side of the picture. They aren't malicious per say, just inconsiderate.
And Luna's dialogue had nothing to do with Loki visiting Chrysalis That is funny though now that I think about it...
Luna will have to up her game now
3528004 Loki rarely has "bad" intentions...he always considers himself right afterall, so nothing he does is bad.
And yes, Luna would not put up with any shenanigans from him
3528317 Thor isn't there though
3528470 I'm glad I'm not the only one to call it a roller-coaster, as that has been my intention since I started writing! Sad, then happy, then funny...up and down, up and down. That's how Loki's life goes and just about nothing will ever end that cycle.
As for Celestia and Luna, I never for one moment thought they would be on the best of terms the moment Luna was defeated. Some love rekindled, sure, but to end a feud dating back over a thousand years by simply beating her again? Not a chance, and I wanted to explore what that rift would be like.
I am quite glad you are enjoying the overall story and love that you think it'll be great! I wish I could get this on the front page with more people like you, but alas that seems like it won't be happening.
As for the coming events...well, let's just say that I think everything will work out just fine. And in ways no-one will see coming. You'll see
And yes, Loki does need a break
I'm starting to not like this story... It suddenly took a turn for the random. I'm sorely disappointed in him standing up Luna.
3529456 Amazingly selfish character acts selfish, what a shocker
Fun fact: Luna attends a Ponyville festival during the comics ALONE and acts a bit off the wall during her stay. Loki couldn't have actually gone if I wanted him to while maintaining that canon, with his no-show actually serving as a good catalyst for it.
Also, there is a difference between random and foreshadowed. Tell me, have you missed the parts about Loki being interested in a map, the fact that he had a still-unknown visitor, is losing sleep over something and looks like a wreck? If yes, look back. If no, then those were no coincidence.
I honesty don't know what to expect from Loki, he could betray Equestria to the changelings, but he could just as easily betray the changelings to Equestria.
I will say this as a fellow fan fiction writer, this has inspired me to write my own fic about a super villain in the FiM universe.
Razor Fist or as I like to call him one of the crappiest villains of all time with one of the worst gimmicks of all time. A double amputee (by choice) villain who needs henchmen to do "everything" for him.
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3532955 Woohoo, someone who hasn't completely lost hope in Loki instantly! I like you a lot! Seriously, it seems other people aren't giving him any credit whatsoever...not saying whether he's good or not, but he's never truly been one or the other to begin with so I'm surprised in people's reactions.
Also, I am so very that you've been inspired. This is my second story about writing a villain in the MLP universe, and this is the serious one of the two, so maybe you could get some other inspiration from the other too? It's titled "Unmasked" and it is about Cobra Commander, and the more comedic side to it sounds kind of like something that would be befitting of a terrible villain like Razor Fist.
Anyways, glad I've inspired, and thank you again for commenting!
Well, the last couple days were a pain, but today I have finally had time to watch the new episode and start catching up on my reading here so it is all good now.
As for the chapter, the banter was great as usual, and the pranks were a lot of fun. Twilight's fear of snakes is always fun to play with, and I am very glad you went ahead and nailed Fluttershy good there. I have always felt like she gets way too much leeway from the fandom and Pinkie, so I am usually happy to see her get smacked around a bit.
The one thing that did drive me up the wall is that cliffhanger. I really want to see what you do with Chrysalis, but I am getting the distinct impression that you are teasing about her while planning on keeping her in the wings for a few more chapters.
3529942 Honestly, I saw that one coming a mile away. Loki's line was “I will attempt to attend this event.” which is hardly a solid promise that he will make it so I assumed he was not actually going to show up the instant he said that.
That said, some of the indicators you list are more about his mental state than anything else so I do not really think his lack of sleep is a sign of anything besides him trying to avoid his troubled dreams and that has directly led to him looking like a mess.
Also, on a semi-unrelated note, do you know of somewhere I can read part two of the Big Mac/Luna comic? I found the first one online a while back, but that site is not updating with anything newer and the wait is driving me up the wall while I am locking down my expenses between jobs.
3538648 Glad to hear things are shaping up for you
And thank you for also not believing Fluttershy gets full immunity. I don't think really sensitive people should be targeted cruelly, but I also think Fluttershy is a bit overprotected. She reacts terribly to EVERYTHING and seriously needs to get a check up on her head.
As for the cliffhanger, . Yes, you will have to wait a bit. Sorry, but that was the desired effect.
I am pleased you saw Loki's no-show coming from a mile away. I was hoping no-one was actually expecting Loki to show up.
Also, no I do not know where to get them if you aren't going to use official sources. I collect the comics from my local comic book store back home and know a way to buy them online, but that's it. I actually don't have the comics in question, which is why I am not going too in-depth on the festival/event. The preview given online would give me the info I want, but I actually didn't like it too much from what I saw...anyways, my apologies.
3538806 Thanks for that, and I am slightly disappointed you do not have an easy source for it right now. The first comic was hilarious and things looked like they were just spiraling more and more out of control at the end, so I was really looking forwards to the next one. Oh well, I will get income again sooner or later so I can buy it.
damn it loki... anyway sleepy time for me...
oh he found Chrysalis....
shit.
OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMIGOD! First of all, THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS ITS FREAKING AMAZING. And-but-he-Luna-Chrysalis-and-wait-no-what.
GODANGIT LOKI.
That's probably also because Fish is generally referred to as sea-food, same as in out society. I knew a friend who was a vegetarian back in school, who of course waved of any supply of pork/chicken/beef, but went and ate pizza baguettes with tuna on them. I asked him about it and he told me: "It's not meat from a more sentient being, but sea-food for me, which is o.k".
After thinking about it for some more time, despite my original believe that all vegetarians ate no meat at all, it did make sense to me personally to draw that line, because fish are much less intelligent than any mammal or other animal, they are very close to insects which are barely sentient, or not sentient at all.
>Sapient vs. Sentient<
Anyway, same must merit some truth for herbivorous sapient animals like the Equestrians.
I know that they can eat meat if they want to, horses are just not equipped to be hunters or predators.
on www.thehorse.com, an article about carnivorous horses, we find out that they do eat all manner of junk food, including things like sausages and ham, if the opportunity is given to them. I also now of instances where, not only horses, but other herbivores ate small birds for example, when they where down on the ground for whatever reason, but still very much alive and the horse wasn't sick or anything. (there is also an example on article).
More so, in Iceland horses are fed with salted fish in harsh and cold environment, and they don't mind eating it. The people there for example, set up a barrel with the fish and the herd feeds from that barrel on their own. Again on "thehorse.com" there is a biologist mentioned who personally observed that behavior.
If there is anything keeping the Equestrian ponies from eating meat like fish or chicken, it would be their moral code/moral standards. They can very well eat the meat and also digest the animal proteins provided, better that cows apparently, but it depends on what they see as allowed and right in their society, if they even want to consider eating meat for example.
Why Fluttershy would feed her animals fish, must be because she doesn't consider them animals in that sense, rather sea-food, an thus finds it morally sustainable.
We also don't know their entire species background stories. Pegasi for example, who were seen as a more brutish class of ponies in the past, might have survived on fish from the sea, especially if they lived close to the coasts. Coast cities like Baltimare, could have fishing companies, who sell fish as a delicateness of sorts, maybe something ponies don't need to have, but CAN have anyway.
when all is said and done Alex will ask the Minotauri12.photobucket.com/albums/a210/coinson/You-Mad.jpg
Technically, she did say to make some other friends...
Nice break-up joke there. Deliverey was very smooth.
He almost missed Luna entered the room
“Mew-mew?” the world he said sounded quite weird to Luna
But I would not be your only company”
1. Entering.
2. Word.
3. Forgot your full stop.
Loki
Loki wat r u doing
Loki
STAHP
The chitauri scepter... This won't go well...
Who the heck left the scepter with Loki?! We know that thing is baaaaaaaaad news, and needs to be separated from him. PRONTO!
While I’ll forgive you for not seeing Ragnarok at the time of publishing, the Valkyries were sworn to protect the Asgardian throne, and before the events of Thor, Loki is a part of that.