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Discord is the kind and fair king of Equestria, and he realizes his feelings for someone who's been by his side all this time...but when she doesn't return his feelings, how will he handle it?
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I really like it its good
Good.. Wish you could have made it longer though
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Thanks for commenting! Yeah, I probably COULD have, but it was just a tiny side-project I cooked up in an hour or so for Ponysquare.
Okay, I pretty much never downvote a story, but this time I'm going to, because this whole premise is flawed and I keep seeing this trope.
If a guy is "kind and fair" and he falls in love with someone, and she does not return his feelings, he is not going to then proceed to go insane and unleash chaos all over the world. And if a guy is "kind and fair" but he's depressed because the girl he loved friendzoned him and now he's playing wacky pranks to keep his spirits up, his friends are not immediately going to come to the conclusion that he needs to die or at least be imprisoned for a zillion years. Either Discord's reign of chaos was too destructive and cruel to be justified by Celestia friendzoning him, or it wasn't, in which case Celestia and Luna are being total asses by deciding to lock him up.
I keep seeing this trope -- Discord turned evil, or turned chaotic, or let go of his morals, or whatever, because Celestia rejected him. It doesn't work. The first time it was done, the author explicitly stated that when Discord implied that he turned evil because Celestia rejected him and called him a monster, he was lying, or at least perceiving the truth in a unique way, because what was really going on was that he'd already been a monster and Celestia rejected him not because he looks weird but because he was evil. That's a reasonable interpretation. Every time I've seen it done since then, the author is trying to make Discord into some poor woobie who basically couldn't help but turn evil because the mare he loved so cruelly rejected him, and this does not work. In real life if you shoot up a gym full of innocent women because the girl you wanted to date rejects you, you are wholly and entirely evil and you always were and that was why no one wanted to date you. Genuinely nice guys who just can't get lucky do not do this kind of shit.
I like Discord and I like interpretations of him where he isn't wholly evil and where he had reasons for what he did. Being rejected his entire life by every single pony he ever met could well have reasonably led to a total lack of empathy with ponies and a desire to torment them and make them squirm. But being rejected romantically by one pony is a terrible excuse for making ponies in general miserable. it doesn't make Discord seem romantic or sympathetic, it makes him seem pathetic and kind of disgusting. I mean, I can get behind an interpretation of the character that says "he's just evil because he feeds on conflict and disharmony and that's what he does" because at least that isn't pathetic. That isn't a guy who was presumably supposed to be decent turning evil for a really unpleasantly stupid reason.
And in this particular story, it's left ambiguous how evil Discord really was; it's kind of implied he was just doing a lot of goofy shit, same as he did with the cotton candy clouds and floating pies, not so much with the making ponies think they're dogs and turning friends against each other. But that kind of makes it even worse, because now there's the possibility that Discord was just acting out because he was depressed, and his supposed best friends and co-rulers decided to kill him for it. So now we don't know whether Discord is pathetic and evil or Celestia and Luna are rigid and evil, but either way, the characters are not sympathetic.
Rejection hurts. We all know that. But no one is entitled to any one other person's love. Stories that suggest that it makes sense for a guy to go insane and upend everyone else's reality because a girl rejected him perpetuate a harmful trope which, at its extreme, leads to the Virginia Tech massacre. A kind and fair king does not destroy his kingdom because he was rejected by the woman he loved. And if he wasn't destroying the kingdom then Celestia and Luna's actions are unjustified.