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now wait a second, the princesses are titled nobles, and have not been tried themselves for allowing things to get to that point.
Please tell me:
How much more is Bucky going to be abused?
Oof.....That was a rough chapter to read....
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......i really do not understand why that whole trial thing was needed at all, least with bucky. luna and celestia are the absolute monarchs of equestria if often cautious with using that authority. a word is all she would have needed end their legal system.
Holy Crap. The feels are so painful. I need to go back to the happy chapters now. That chapter was almost physically painful
5001766
Um... I have no comment because the story isn't finished yet.
Stop making assumptions.
The is still without doubt the single greatest fanfic in it's Genre to date. And as much as enjoy reading this... I must take a break from Bucky's adventures and misfortunes in life... the end of the Isles arc has been emotionally draining to an extreme (Albeit, not nearly as much as it has been for our beloved Kudz).
Expect me and my snarky comments back in a few days... for even I need my fix.
Well now.. Now he can't even magic up the ability of sight from fake eye now that he has returned home. Damn.
5001720 ´Cause they are the ultimate bastion of law...it would be as much as prosecute the law itself, incarnated. In a certain way, they are above the law.
Excited=exited
The politics going on here... that hurt worse than I thought it would, claiming to do terrible things to his family. I kinda want to slap him even if I know why he did it. Luna and Celestia are awesome for holding on to their emotions so well and dealing out the most merciful punishment they could give under unmerciful circumstances.
those words will hunt me for a long time, i shed liquid pride in the name of bucky's herd
i thought he would do something like that but my money was on him casting mind control spells on them to bend them to his will.
5001766 they certainly had the authority to do so, but they don't want to be dictators who's word is law. The only way to fix the old ways is to finish things the old ways to prove why they are flawed, and introduce a method to lay the foundations for new laws. This is the way which would be most acceptable to the populace, and not have them riot against dictatorship.
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The nightmare is over... now the healing can truly begin.
But was it ended in time? I feel as though too many were harmed to bring about this end... The end does not always justify the means.
5001781 considering included amongst that number was night light and twilight velvet, fathers of tiwlight and shining, it seems that celestia is doing something compeltely not celestia; letting petty and souless law guide her judgement. she is passing judgement on ponies simply because they bear a noble title. twilight and shining were made to stand trial even, simply because of their titles. solely because of their titles. granny smith had more influence on the rotten state of affairs that was equestria than they did.
maybe i missed something but why is celestia diong this? why all this meanginless song and dance when she could be directing her energy towards trying to put things back together before something else attempts to take advantage of the weakened equestria?
5001876
You clearly missed something.
5001816 Mate, really, best thing you can do now, no sarcasm ! It seems you´re as atached to this herd as i am, but i lack the strength to get a brake from this.
Share your happy moments with us, when you come back. We can use some happiness.
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Aaaaaand now i just sounded like a changeling. This put a lot of things in a different perspective.
So...the trial itself WAS a sham after all, but only in a sense that it allowed Celestia to legally tear down the system and start over by showing just how useless the old system was, especially when it came to the nobility. Also don't like that they had to villainize Bucky to do it...unfortunately I can also see that this was done to publicly discourage others from repeating his actions, only becoming truly corrupted instead and creating another Grandpa Bitters again on the isles or somewhere else.
I don't like it at all, especially, given Discord's comments that the Elements themselves would have been useless against Grandpa Bitters(who I will continue to refer to as such since I can't recall his actual name), that Buckly's methods of dealing with the Isles may indeed have been the ONLY way to fix things short of a 'nuke 'em all' method. I don't like it...but now that we're here seeing the end result, I can understand it.
5001876
Yeah...you CLEARLY missed the entire point of this chapter, because that's EXACTLY what she's doing through this 'song and dance.'
5001894 all i am thinking right now is every single moment and every single bit they waste on punishing ponies who do not deserve it, like night light and twilight velvet, they are giving the enemies of equestria time to prepare and leaving open weaknesses for them to exploit. perhaps she does not plan to have that punishment remain forever but that would still make it complete waste of time.
as equestria is right now, it would be disturbingly easy for some enemy force to slip in and take control over a significant portion of land. far as celestia knows even as she sentenced nightlight and tiwlight velvet to a life of complete reliance on others, likely something they did not earn nor deserve, Chrysalis has already made a hoofhold in the ruins of manehatten or some other place. and that demons from wherever Tirek and Scorpan orginated, smelling weakness, are cautiously slipping into equestria.
the war is not over so long as equestria is not standing on solid ground. far too easily, far too easily something could come along.
Politics actually does something good for a change.
Tartarus done froze over.
I imagine there's going to be some recovery time for the family, but they won't be just sitting around. Knowing them, they'll want to pitch in and help make Equestria a stable place to safely raise a family. That in itself is going to be a rather long and painful process.
Is it over yet? Will I be able to read through everything now and come out at the end of the tunnel? I have a friend I was going to rely on to tell me but he is offline right now.
5001934
Sounds like a good reason to have a pony well versed in the arts of war and offensive spell casting head a school to teach little unicorns how to kick ass and make friends with earth ponies and pegasi to present a united front.
Oh my goddess this is giving me so many good ideas. How could I have missed this opportunity! I FEEL SO STUPID THAT I FAILED TO GRASP THIS OPPORTUNITY!
Oh wait...
5001876 reason being is that she cant let ANY noble off easy, just like with the case in the dark knight (batman) if one was found innocent they are all inncocent
5001959
The worst is over.
5001907 which is a problem i have with some of the concepts in the story. largely a being of darkness feeding on what KILLS darkness. it makes no sense as whatever magic he could use to convert that energy into something he could consume would be made of dark magic, and the harmony magic would break it apart anyway. it be like trying to make a filtration system out of sugar.
and with the song and dance of it all, equestria has always had to deal with others who seek to take what it has and conquer it. and now there is a massive oppurtunity for them to do so. there was no need to show how worthless the laws were; the state of equestria was already a testament of its failure. why emphasis an already obvious point? some reason i am getting visions in my head of demons from the homeland of tirek and scorpan slipping into equestria. chrysalis turning what is left of manehatten into her own kingdom, and other lesser known evils implanting themselves into equestria with plots to take advantage of tis weakened state.
were there no threats to equestria remaining, then i would agree that this song and dance would be necessary. but their world is not one that will patiently wait for them to finalize its worthlessness.
Bon Bon and Thistle was not there, and that made | were not is the proper tense I believe
I expect many happy things to happen before the next arc, this was just so hard to read. You are indeed and artisan of wordsmithing good sir!
5001822 if that were absolutely true then Celestia would have made things right as soon as she realized how house Avarice was ruining everything
5001962 ........ think we are confusing each other right now. all i am saying is that this did not feel like an approprite moment for this kangaroo court ot meet. not since you had tirek attack not so long ago. ... perhaps the kangaroo court was necessary, perhaps, but the proble is the recent monster attack would probably give them a grim reminder that there are those out there still who would itnend them harm, and they are at their weakest right now. just does not seem like this nasty little affair occured at a appropriate time.
Well..... that went a lot better than I anticipated. Then again most of the ideas I cooked up were worst case scenario's. I felt the punishment was cruel and crafty, use him as a scape goat to get his family off Scott free, was pretty smart. Also get to replace the old broken system, two birds one stone as they say. Also a suggestion, put a earther and a peagusus on the law making committee with shiny and twily. Then all five races are represented, since were going all the way with pomp, stance, and formalities for the history books. Was a good update the emotions were strong and in my opinion ya didn't mess up celestias character. Thank you for writing this story can't wait for the next update.
5002017 But that would be pushing her hand...errr, hoof in the subject, thus creating a new system that starts without the confidence of the ponies nedded to be trusted enough to be used.
5001962 and sorry for making assumptions, but i was less making assumptions and more wondering if this was the appropriate times. giant centuar minotaurs trying to take all the magicks in equestria is about a good reminder of the threat as a three hundred foot tall skinless giant kicking in a wall.
though another thing that has come to my mind after reading another comment is how little sense the wolf msater eating harmoyn magic makes. the magic he would require to convert harmony magic into raw energy would have to be made of, well, dark magic. he couldn't use some neutral power i think, with his powers so tainted, and using similar to harmony magic would be even more impossible. it would be like trying to filter water using a filter made of sugar. it would only get washed away.
Heh heh heh, kudzu you clever, brilliant Bastard you. Never before on this site have i read a story with as much hidden meaning and manipulations in the text. Bucky, as cold and as heartless as his words may have seemed, knew just what to say to protect his herd, no matter the cost. thorough his actions his family is resolved of all blame according to the law. He made it where even if some pony tried to blame them as conspirators in his plans they would have no proof. Wonderfully written chapter.
5001962
Kudzuhaiku, Lord of Sass.
*heart is slowly crushed into a pulp then used as fertilizer*
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let me restate my comment and or critique if i may after a bit more thought to it all.
perhaps this kangaroo court is necessary, but i question if it occurred at an appropriate time. you had tirek attack recently in your story, and i would think celestia would be more concerned with making sure something else does not take advantage of equestria than destroying the legal system. priorities i think is the problem here and i am not certain if going for this problem when the entire country is sitll weak is having the priorities set straight.
other than that is the whole evil eating harmoyn magic thing. discord saying it was the only way seems rather....... one sided. especially cause it makes no sense how the wolf master did it. to turn it into raw energy he would need some magical system that did so. the problem is that he would ahve to use dark magic; any other would be beyond his aiblity to device considering how steeped in corruption he was. put simply the harmony magic would wash away the magical filter as if it were made of sugar.
with changelings they do something similar but there are two major differences. they feed on love because of a lacking and are not beings elementally vulnerable to love to begin with.
even if he somehow created a system somehow bypassing how his own magic works, filters only can handle soo much. the release of energy from the elements of harmony would be monstrous. its kind ahard for a filter to work when it is taking in a capacity well beyond its limits.
5001973 Even though he was claimed by Clan Pickled who were the victims? This does not seem right to me, not at all.
5002115
The crystals were made with powerful abjuration magic and dark magic woven together. Think of it a reinforced weave. You use one type of magic to shore up the weaknesses of another.
5002126 he never offically renounced his armicer position
5002137 Perhaps not, but trials have been utterly thrown off track because of such a gray area. He could have used it.
See... Here's the thing.
If I'm not completely wrong on this, according to the ledgers, a certain 'House of Two Lights' was right in deep there as well...
5002160
Everybody is so impatient.
Do you think that just because it didn't happen during this chapter that something won't happen?
I kind of hate you right now and hate celestia luna and Bucky of this plan
Sorry
5002129 guess we have differnet idea of what harmony is. from what i see the reason why harmony is so powerful is its ntaure of twos, or more. it is several different forces working in tandem and equally. order and chaos standing on the same side of things. the tree itself kinda shows that. while a thing of seeming perfection it is also a raw formed thing as well, a tree of crystal.
even then you have to admit his magical filter would somehow have to absrob the release of a force so powerful it can bind the Everfree forest, which more and more seems to be some form of primordial or eldritch force in of itself if it requires the Tree's full power to bind properly.
Excuse my while I go find the proper responses for each chapter I have just read.
196:
197:
Don't have any for the other three sadly. But 197 was definitely continuous kicks in the dick.
5002166 Well, yeah, actually. Technically, she just let herself off scot free. During the sentencing, she ordered all the laws removed and a new system built from the ground up.
Due to the fact that the laws she broke no longer exist, she's now completely off the hook.
She made it so she can no longer be hung by the same noose she hung the rest with by burning it before her turn.