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"Looks at title."
I'm just gonna leave this here...
>Reads update.
>See's best pony. [Berry]
>Instant gasming intensifies .
Why must this fic continue to get more and more awesome?
Twilight is Cadence's sister in law
also yeah it was heavy but well balanced with humor
There was an OVERREACTION here.
It's gone now.
Bummed by the chapter?
Let me tell you the wonderfulness of Saint's Row and the failings of GTA V, because it really pertains to your story. If you haven't played SR you are doing yourself a disservice and you need to play SR 2-4, but I'll make sure you get the gist of my point anyways.
Saint's Row deals with some pretty outrageous things. We all know the naked grandma dong-faced slamdown. We all know the tentacle bat and the dubstep gun. We all know running around with an RPG as a transvestite circus clown gang leader. However, through all that comedy, the game can center in on a specific scene and make you feel it. Carlos' death, Ayisha "dying" a second time and the Ronin ruining the funeral, Gat's apparent death and how much is messes with Shaundi. Through all the comedy, there are perfect moments when you get drawn in to something serious and it has more of an impact. Hell even when you make Merle crush his girlfriend without knowing in SR2 you get how fucking serious this is, then it alleviates it through comedy.
It has an impact because it so strikingly contrasts each other. Sure people are dying but it is always in a funny way while your friends die in sad, terrible ways.
GTA V is filled with terrible people doing terrible things. So when something as a torture scene or someone dying comes along, it is just name of the game. Killing people in GTA V has no flair so it brings the expectation levels for a serious moment down since there is nothing to contrast it. The theming and the tone is completely lost and nothing truly matters or breaks through. It is a serious game and there is nothing to break it away from that, which really just makes no attachment at all since you don't have good memories of the characters.
Through the seriousness, it doesn't have good light moments to bring you out to reflect. Nope, it's kill a bunch of people, torture them and then kill some more.
Now on how this is related to your story.
Your story is funny as fuck. I get excited whenever I see it. I get attached to Ares and all the other fun things that the ponies go through. It is a fantastic comedy and one of the best stories on this site.
Now you have all this comedy, and it brilliantly contrasts the serious moments. Ares is having fun doing his CUDDLE ALL THE PONES thing but it is matched with his need for companionship. Shining Armor is the butt of Ares jokes but he reacts perfectly to them as a foil. Twilight switches between a funny side character and a good character flawlessly because of her personality. Flash is a great fall guy. The Princesses are a perfect match of snuggle adorableness and motherly fury to keep Ares in check.
Candy. Well Candy is complicated, but we can clearly see her emotions and I couldn't think of a better character to take us on this trip.
I am always excited for the next chapter. I will always wait for the next section. Please keep writing, you make us happy.
Aw I was hoping Blueblood would have been sent to the hospital by Ares
I for one welcome our scrunch-based overlords.
the scrunch is an almighty God
i imagined Morgan Freeman's voice there.
also, the parts with Berry Punch were the best ones.
3819161 well... that's like... your opinion, man.
Oh
My
God...
Ares you goddamn genius... The cuddles will be infinite! Teach me your cuddly ways.
Every Goddamn time I see there's an update, I get that freakin' song in my head
That aside, I fuckin' love this story, it's awesome as Hell
Now excuse, i fear for my life...
I MUST ERASE THE SCRUNCH!!
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ALL HAIL THE OMNIPOTENT SCRUNCH !!!!!
THIS CHAPTER WAS SOOOOOO FUCKING GOOOOOD!!!
More please.
I lost it riiiiight about here...
This is great. Keep up the fantastic work!
the scrunch is EVIL
He have shown us the ways! and we my follow it!
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You don't talk to many women, do you? They might not all be bipolar, but they all have that little switch, particularly in emotional situations.
As for your little "abuse" rant....just....wut? Do you even see how much bullshit Ares gets away with? And their anger was at the fact that he didn't tell them a critical bit of information just so he wouldn't cause problems for them, despite the fact that they're friends and they want to be able to help him. He very much deserved a verbal thrashing for that. Haven't you ever seen a mother yell at her kids for doing something stupid that nearly got them seriously injured and then bury them in tearful hugs right afterwards? Same thing happening here. It's not abuse, they're upset because someone important to them almost died by being an idiot.
And last but not least, who ever said he has PTSD? His symptoms are much, much closer to an extreme phobic reaction than PTSD. He did suffer a traumatic event, and he has recurring nightmares about it, but the rest of his personality is the exact opposite of the typical symptoms shown by PTSD sufferers. The trauma could just have easily given him an extreme phobia of bitterly cold temperatures, and given his reactions, that's most likely exactly what it did.
THE SCRUNCH!!!
As always a fucking awesome chapter! And nice cameo by Berry Punch, it was quite amusing.
Ah Berry Punch. Best drunken pony. It's been awhile since I read a story with her like this.
Bravo!
You deserve a medal author guy.
I laughed... a lot. Great chapter!
Trying to imagine a human with a monocle and wearing blue horse hair as a mustache is now my new happy place. even better imagining a cranky flash sentry glaring at said human for now having hardly any tail left. cadence was adorable in this chapter.
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Heh, you'd get no complaints from me. Hate Shining Armor more than any other character in MLP. I don't really care one way or the other about Flash.
Another good chapter, though I thought I should point out that Panic Attacks can't cause Cardiac Arrest.
Even people with heart disease and Panic disorder aren't at risk of such a thing. It just makes you go into fight/flight mode, if that could cause you to drop dead we would have died out as a species long ago. I suppose it isn't an impossible thing to happen, but if your heart was in such bad straits to begin with I imagine shovelling the snow or taking a jog would end with the same result.
Wait a second now. The way Ares tells the gender of a guard pony is by rubbing their stomach? How does that even wo-.... O-oh my...
Sooo he just molested a guard? Is that what happened here?
Also Scrunch loved that bit.
Do you mean, 'playing'?
3819786 Indeed they aren't. I've worked for almost exactly four years in PR, two and a half with the same female co-workers, and they do have some mood shifts... but nothing like seen in this fic. These are just freaking stereotypes.
And I'm not talking about him being ranted at, jeez. I'm quite supportive of him getting an eye-opening earful... but not for several hours, and much less getting slapped because of it. While Ares is by no conceivable means a saint, I don't remember a single instance where he lay hands on anyone, mare or colt. That's way more than enough justification for the string quartet not to lay hooves on him.
Thirdly and perhaps most importantly... a phobia doesn't come with a load of depression as a side dish, and we know Ares has that ever since the second chapter. He was just covering it up, and it shows in the words of Celestia and Luna themselves after they arrive.
(Also Luna is a hypocrite. She gets no right to yell at Ares when she knew exactly how bad it was and tried to cover it up as well.)
Shiny ->>>>>Cadance->> Ares.
With the way things are going, I think Ares is halfway through in snagging Cadance.
Luna on the other hand.....
THE POWER OF SCRUNCH COMPELS YOU!
3819161 Ah, the Shakespearean style of writing. Set up the drama with laughs, and set up the laughs with drama.
As long as you end on a high note, you feel like you're riding on air.
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This depression wouldn't be anything like the depression he's suffering from being stranded in a different world without his family or friends ant not able to return home for the foreseeable future, would it? Cause that's the only depression I've seen from him so far, and that has nothing to do with his phobia.
The hours of being told off is either an obvious exaggeration by the character, or an obvious hyperbole being used by the author. The story is mostly being told by Cadance, from her perspective, including the scene where the hours of being told off happen. Her stretching the time for the sake of impact shouldn't be unexpected, since there's no way anyone would sit there for 14 hours listening to that. This story is mostly comedy, it's not meant to be taken that seriously.
The hitting thing, I guess that's just something you're not going to be able to agree with. Speaking as someone who often goes out of his way to aggravate people much the same way Ares does, that's not the sort of thing you do if you can't handle the fallout. And let me assure you, when the fallout involves the consequences of what you've done to a female friend, it often involves slaps to the back of the head. The whole point of all of this is that they're his friends. A bit of rough contact that doesn't do anything worse than sting a bit after messing with them is a minor annoyance at worst. Call it a double standard all you want, but if you get that bent out of shape when a female friend touches you, you're destined to lead a very boring love life.
I don't really know what else to say about the mood swings either. I could point back to my previous example of the mother and child, but since it didn't work then, I'm assuming it won't now. I could give you the names of the people I know who have reacted almost exactly like the princesses did right after a friend nearly killed themselves, but since you won't know them it would be a bit pointless. But that reaction is a common one in a situation like the one they were in.
I suppose this is just going to have to be one of those things in life that two people will never be able to agree on. Oh well, I shall let my laughter at the antics of Ares and everyone else's favorite princesses serve as the accompaniment to your indignant footfalls when you leave after the next chapter is posted. Later, dood~.
3822691 ... you know what? You just gave me a pointer that hadn't gone through my head: that most of the narrative may be unreliable due to rule of perception applying to Cadence, which would involve hyperbolic measurements.
Thing is, disregarding this kind of thing is an enormous pet peeve of mine, as you may have already realized A preceding binge of the dead-serious Marble Hornets may have gotten my sense of humor a bit skewed as well.
I'll take a second look at this chapter with that in mind. Thanks, dood~
Deppression, psh I wad to busy laughing about scrunch to be sad, that and checking guard genders. I wander how the betting pool will go between the guards for how many Ares is able to figure out and how he distinguishes them. Will he use THE SCRUNCH *waves arms like applejack in the zecora episode* oh my pinkie is gonna love Ares, and Dash, the castle might never recover
Awwww, all the feels in this chapter made me happy.
This chapter proved to me all over again that Following this story was a smart decision.
HAIL THE SCRUNCH! whatever the heck that is
...Does Berry have a broken stopwatch by any chance?
If Ares starts handing out little red and white balls... I will laugh so damned hard.
so i'm convinced he is some sort of incubus sent there cause he slept with the devils wife or something and is too lucky to be beat so he's after all the mares...and i'm ok with that
man this is great makes each day brighter.
Something I really love about Ares is that he just goes with the flow. He doesn't settle for being a bystander to silly moments, but rather jumps right into them. I think that this is an important part of his character and how he deals with hardships in his life. Imagine being ripped away from your world, having a near death experience in a harsh and unforgiving environment, and then realizing that your only companions for an indefinite amount of time are a bunch of talking animals because you're not just far from home, you're in a place that isn't even recognizable. You've gotta have some sort of a sense of humor in order to survive that, and I feel that this character trait is why Ares fits so much more into the "human in Equestria" theme than the brooding, suicidal bronies that are continuously shoved into the stories that make up the bulk of it. He has a fighting spirit, and we see it in how he runs with things like "the scrunch." It's really lovely, and actually one of the main things that keep me invested in the story.
ALL HAIL THE SCRUNCH!!!
Damn son, that way of dealing with blueblood was like oscar winning
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Brilliant my good sir
I'd give you a mustache but you already have one. Bah!
Here's another
Good sir? May I have a word? Oh, no, wait, may you have my word? *ahem*
MOAR!
Really enjoyable story, cadence doesn't just fall for the main character. He is their for her and they have a budding friendship, which is where the strongest romantic feelings eventually come from. I am very interested to see what happens in the future, keep it up.
FUCK ThIS LETS GET SHIT faCED
BABY DONT HURT ME! DONT HURT ME! NO MORE!
Sorry, I had to do it.