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THANKS!
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You commented in chapter 154 but the typo was in 153. That was confusing.
Hah. That's what the other Black Cloaks get for playing by the rules. Seriously, how fucking stupid does ANYONE have to be to think that their enemies will follow the same rules/code of honor/guidelines for engagement/whatever the fuck other term for combat you want to use that they would follow themselves? None of them would. And Witching Hour and Tiddlywinks are living proof of that.
Not sure about the license to cast. Surely that doesn't apply to telekinesis? I could see for powerful spells or questionable spells, some sort of spell-tracker and a central database to who's casting the orange-lighted spells.
But all spellcasting? That's the same as binding a pegasus' wings, or hobbling an earth pony. Are /all/ unicorns being held accountable for the Canterlotian nobles? That's a bit far, if so. Even for the sake of calming everyone down, because that's a third of your population demographic that is essentially being forced to second class even though they've been suffering at the hooves of the other two - despite not having anything to do with the nobles who were justly punished.
If that's the case I can't blame the unicorns for making covens. Imagine sitting around the dinner table, trying to tune out how horrible the outside world is, and an angry mob breaks into your home, snatches up your family, breaks their horns and beats them in front of you - despite being completely innocent. I cannot blame survivors and family of that for wanting revenge, and frankly they'd deserve to get it.
Good work another chapter well done
................ really, a gun control thing?
more so........ tiwlight, you do realize you are basically banning body parts, right? and there is a REASON why they get along well enough. earth ponies are so strong most weight is barely anything, and pegasi both have flight, a magic that can help things be lighter, and their wings are very dexterious...... yeah unicorns lack all of the above.
At the very end, is Bucky reacting to the burst in strong unicorn foals, or the general situation? Also, if Unicorns are limited to casting one spell at a time, then could he attune a focusing crystal to his magical signature and mana reserves, aka making a casting crystal? He could mount it on the end of his horn so he doesnt poke anyone :sillyface:
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Well, I highly doubt many of the unicorn cultists and criminals running around right now are all Canterlot Nobles. Then there are those like Flim and Flam who are constantly trying to con ponies. I doubt they could get anything like the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 built without their magic.
Also, it will probably be altered to apply to certain Earth Ponies as well if more like Pina who can focus Unicorn Style Magic through their hooves show up.
Edit:Is a half asleep idiot who did not notice the third paragraph
interesting development. Again you have time and time again implemented character decisions that go against almost everything i believe in, yet i cannot dispute them because of their circumstances as a race. Controlling spell-casting is like controlling flying, and it goes against all aspects of choice i can think of. Yet they are forced to do it because of danger of unicorns and their absurd amounts of power. I have always thought about power differences among a specific race. You have really odd rules in a world where the strongest in an individual species is unimaginable more powerful than the weakest(this does not include groups, or technology). The larger the gap the more weird rules appear. I really like how you are properly accessing the implications of the power gap.
When you have a weird power gap, it becomes very hard to maintain control of a large group, because it is exceptionally likely that at some point an enemy will be born with high amounts of power and, alignment aside, it is put in a very powerful position. It then gets odd because unless the species in inherently decent (more so than the ponies) you are forced to either use very very strict control measures on choice, which is oppressing, or you end up letting a large group of powers stagnate into a really fucking powerful entity. Then it gets to a point where there is little choice but to A: War, which is what was used in this story. or B: Go super dictator on everyone
It took me 3 days to catch up to this current chapter. so many words......
"The stallion's blinking was out of synch"?
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I want to see one of the several hundred unicorn type 3 foals try to break Bucky's record, or all of them at once. Xp ANARCHY!!!
And that's when I knew we were going to have some great times with these characters.
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Aye, but what I'm saying is I nobles, by near enough definition are the elite. That means there's only a few of them. People who are legitimately mad and dangerous and bring harm to others (criminals is an inappropriate word at this point, since not all criminals are bad and there's no law to break at the moment) can't account for much of the unicorn population, either. That's like finding out a group of one racial ethnicity robbed a store and killed people, then blaming everyone of that ethnicity for the crimes of those few - on an enforcement scale. That's not even like, if the situation is as it seems to be from what I said above, then it's literal and not a metaphor.
Are unicorns even allowed to defend themselves now? Can they cast to protect their family from unprovoked aggressions of racist and hostile neighbors? Will they be able to magic themselves out of harm's way, or stop a monster from eating their children? That's the sort of thing I want to know. From what little we've heard so far, if it's just that non-specific, then Twilight has gone too far. Might as well just put all the unicorns to the sword, it'd be more merciful than handicapping all of them and condemning them for something they had zero involvement in claim to, no family ties to, no financial or business ties to - or anything of the sort.
IF that is the case. Then I say it was only natural that covens started to form. Have to protect your own, no one else matters when everyone turns against you. You consolidate your resources and dig in - and if anyone comes at you, you all make sure they don't leave the same as they came in. I can't imagine that they're all comprised of crazies who just want to burn the world for no reason. In a situation like the civil war, and innocent unicorns who don't have any business with Canterlotian nobility being attacked and mauled - then I imagine most of them would have sprung up simply out of sheer inability to trust anyone else and their own survival.
And if that is the case it would make for some interesting story to bust in on a coven and find out they're mostly just scared of being hurt again or losing their families or being under a system that was made predatory to them.
5042733 but they could still do so through some other means magic or no. it won't stop a con man from being a con man........
besides earth ponies are extremely strong and pegasi have their mouth, front hooves, AND wings to use as manipulation tools. remove a unicorn's magic and they are in fact at an enormous disadvantage and would struggle to survive in a world where every else is far more capable than you.
the problem here is that they would not have anything to fall back on without magic. even a pegasus could theoretically use cloud if their wings were gone to help deal with their limitations. a unicorn hsa nothing at all.
I feel a little bad, because I kept half expecting one of Witching's twitches to end with FAIRY GOD PARENTS!
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You're comparing apples to oranges here. Magic in a unicorn is a natural thing, unicorns are born with magic. Humans aren't born with guns.
Furthermore, magic can be applied to everything ranging from creation to destruction where a gun's purpose lies in only destruction.
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Minor magic isn't the issue. As will be revealed later, serious sorcery, deep magic is the primary concern. But since everybody has a knot in their knickers, I thought I'd reveal this info.
By the way, every pegasus requires a license to fly. Flight camp. No pegasus is allowed to fly unless they have that license. Want to fly? Get a license. Loch Skimmer, Ripple, and Sentinel are all going to have to do so.
I think many folks aren't seeing that the restriction and licensing of magic would rather have more benefits since unicorns would have to comply with the laws before being allowed to engage in higher level magic. Twilight wouldn't be stupid as to condemn simple magic such as Levitation. Otherwise, the laws would be confining and repressive, no doubt causing yet ANOTHER riot (which really at this point wouldn't be much,but still, unhappy ponies). The best way to balance it is most likely by restricting the magic type levels of magic unicorns use rather than the types themselves, spell books being needed to be rewritten to include the type level if a certain spell.
At least, this is a theoretical structure of laws based solely on magical usage
5042830 well that is all part of education for a pegasus i would prseume.
perhaps i got a little overzealous but i did so kinda intentionally. even if only dangerous magic is restricted yet the vast majority of typical spelsl are untouched, ponies are gonna kinda freak out over it...... yep, gun reference, though a clever one.
i expect an accidental inuendo to appear at some point in argument against this restriction at some point.
Making magic a licensed privelage just seems like another form of oppression. In Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, the villain Galbatorix was a border-line control-freak who wanted to allow for no one to be able to use magic in any instance unless he gave his expressed permission
He lost (as the villains always do) and the new Queen, Nasuada wanted to enforce a similar notion - Magicians of any type or level would have to take some kind of oath or have their right to use magic forever taken from them.
The hero, Eragon, told Nasuada her intent would never work but she would not listen. Sounds like Twilight's of the same mind.
Magic in and of itself is simply a power, it is not good, it is not evil, it simply is. It's how it's used and who uses it that makes the magic seem good or bad, but people choose to blame magic itself for their losses when they should be holding the magic-users themselves accountable
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Read through the comments. This issue has been addressed.
5042729 I'd only be to control the use of dangerous magic(dark/necro/overly-high-level magic). Any unicorn should easily get a license without any problem. It'd probably be some kind of magic tracer placed on them to warn the Bureau if the unicorn starts casting illegal or really strong levels of magic they'd have no reason to use in everyday circumstances. The Bureau would just do a quick investigation and call it a day if nothing serious is found. Any attempts to alter or remove the tracer would also warn the bureau.
Twilight is doing this because covens are starting to cast these kinds of spells without any way for the government to easily track them down. As stated, it's gotten to the point were even the elite fighting forces can't deal with them without heavy loses. The cults are going to win in the long run unless something drastic is done.
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A license for flying? So you can't flap your wings and take off if you haven't been licensed? Did Fluttershy get a license? I don't know if she returned to Cloudsdale after Dash knocked her to the ground. Who checks a pegasus' license? How does a flying license get revoked? Why isn't Dash's revoked? She's technically a weapon of high-level destruction with the Sonic Rainboom. Do her Rainbooms get tracked? Can she be arrested for doing one outside of a controlled environment without alerting authorities to the fact she is going to perform one and has observed all safety measures first? Is there flight insurance?
I mean, you just dumped a pretty big thing on our heads there with that. There has to be a fairly complex system involved to support licensing of body parts, and how one violates the terms of their license. What can a pegasus do while flying to have their license revoked and thus end up with their wings bound? It seems to me like it'd be easier for a unicorn to violate their terms and end up with a magic inhibitor or in jail than a pegasus getting arrested for... I dunno, flying too fast.
I imagine it can't have anything to do with weather, because they can technically do that from the ground and can still walk on clouds. If it did, Derpy'd probably be in jail already if she ever did anything like in Last Roundup.
That one little bit of info raises a ton of questions. Just say if they'll be addressed or not so I can know whether to keep pondering or try to ignore them if they're not important in any way.
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Depending on how well they are received, there might be side stories, crime novels so to speak, of the black cloaks in action.
Short little jaunts where Bucky and crew go off and deal with unsavoury elements.
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For too long, Equestria has been operating under common sense laws.
Well, common sense would tell you that the unicorns would never use the obedience spells found in the public library in a bad way. And common sense would tell you that a unicorn would never do something evil like use mind control to score with that nice pegasus he met in a bar.
Seriously... obedience. Public library. Discord ate the words out of the book.
These are all issues that will be addressed over time during the reconstruction.
Heh, Witching Hour is like a twitchy psyker without her augmetic hood. I like.
But, stealing voices, now that's devious. Pony skinwalkers?
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Illusion magic. Sort of like what changelings use.
Hear a pony's voice once and you can copy it.
5043162 That is a very useful skill. Honestly surprised it hasn't come up before.
Doth I notice a Fallout reference
5043162 ............ wouldn't it be kinda obvious if someone itneracted with disguise cadance and noticed she casted an overtly large shadow?
or, you know, walk towards her and run into something before reaching her?
Can you please tell what defines a warlock? I grew up on D&D so I have a set meaning for the term
Terms and meaning as follows:
Mage - all magic users that are using magic not granted by deity (see cleric)
Cleric - magic user using magic granted by deity in exchange for devotion
Sorcerer - mage that was born with innate magical talent without need of dedicated study
Wizard - mage who after decades of dedicated study unlocks their inner magical talent
Warlock - mage who after deal with daemon or plane entity is granted powers
To call a Wizard a Sorcerer is to say he only passed law school thanks to born talent.
To call a Wizard a Warlock is to say he only passed law school thanks to giving a teacher a blowjob behind the cafeteria.
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A warlock in common terms is a dark wizard.
5043724 kay
I have to disagree with Twilight law there. In the sense of in universe not for it being in the story. Her justification for it is simular to the ones spouted by anti gun advocates. Emotional and reactionary. Though in this case it more like anti explosive laws. So it kind of makes sense.
There is the problem of racism. If you are going to license unicorns you should do the same for other races. A license for flight and another to lift loads above a certain weight.
Then there is the part where you are legislating a natural part of a being. Which is a whole can of beans by itself.
Then there is the mark of shame it will put on all future ponies of this race. Like a scarlet letter for something that your ancestors did. That kills a culture/race I know that from experience.
Then there is implementation of the law which is all kinds of horrifying.
Then there is the legal effects.
Then the social nightmare.
Plus one could point out that this was because of luna not being there to fight the darkness or whatever.
I could go on.
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Apparently pegasi have to have a flight license. But they gain it at flight camp when they're still foals, I assume. So I'm not sure how relevant it is in comparison to unicorns. I can't imagine any scenario where you get your license revoked for flying, so it doesn't really add up. We'll see.
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Magic restrictions would be for basically the same reasons you'd lose a vehicle licence.
Persistantly injuring others in some way -for example. Drunken stunts over crowds, causing airships to crash, ...
Imagine if Rainbows stunts leading to accidents were done drunk, and ended up getting lots of ponies hurt.
Or if Big Mac took to pushing over walls to show off his strength without thinking of what or who was behind them, or the cost of the wall.
Or Trixie did magical fire over a crowd recklessly causing severe burns to many instead of a pretty light show.
Licensing is a problem - it's either blanket for everyone except serious criminals, or needs at the very least to be graduated.
Taking away all magic for (say) getting drunk and recklessly burning down an orphanage with fireworks - I don't think many would query.
Doing the same for merely persistently annoying others is a rather different matter.
Perhaps limiter rings that could allow 'personal' use - for example levitation and other low-power magic use within two body-lengths, or flight to working-hours only. Perhaps rings with inbuilt alcohol or other intoxicant sensors?
You can of course kill/banish/imprison them, but something rather less drastic may be positive.
A punishment like this would also usually affect a ponies work, and may leave them or their families destitute. It would therefore need to be switchable somehow.
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I can see ways a flight licence can and should be revoked. Think about flying in crowded airspace around a city. There has to be rules or you will have collisions..... with fatal results. Ignore the rules and get sent back to flight school. Keep ignoring the rules and you are grounded.
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Look at Lightning Dust. Stupidly reckless to the point where it put others in danger and then not giving a flying fuck about it. I assume an attitude like that would get a Flying License revoked quite quickly.
Also, Flying Licenses would probably keep unicorns from using that gossamer wing spell or whatever it is called and entering what should really be Pegasi only events like the Best Young Fliers Competition. Granted, that only happened once with Rarity, but who is to say some young hotshot Unicorn won't hear about how well she did in it and try doing it himself to try and show that a Unicorn with fake wings is a better flier than a pegasus. The Magic Licenses would probably help prevent that, but point still stands.
wow, I really like Witching Hour, I like a lot of characters, especially in this story, but it takes a special kind of character to make me come out in say that I like them and their personality/characterization I really hope to see more of her (and her husband) soon
Major clusterfuck warning!
Wow Twilight. Nice job on the new laws. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a rebellionnif the magic licensing goes into effect.
...Ugh. I agree with all the comments calling out Twilight Sparkle on making a horrible decision. Frankly it reeks of an idiot ball being picked up to allow drama later. So very much drama. Aside from being next to impossible to enforce, Twilight should know that it's impossible to have a process that is corruption-free, and because of that, there WILL be unicorns be being given a run-around. Or worse, unicorns who wouldn't normally, getting a pass through by the greasing of hooves. I mean hell, SOMEONE should notice this, if not Twilight then Celestia or Luna, or hell, someone in Bucky's herd.
Not to mention it's horrifically discriminatory, and worse, it would set up a system where some ponies wouldn't be able to find, or practice, their special talent, with particular note of Pina being able to actively utilize earth pony magic, which proves that unicorns are not the only ones who can actively use their magic. Pegasi can too, in a way.
Seriously I know that I'm several HUNDRED chapters behind but I am going to be so unspeakably disappointed in both the characters and the author if this becomes a serious 'thing'.
EDIT: OK, next chapter clears a few things up but this still seems like a system that will break down within a few generations, even WITH the immortal alicorn of magic watching over it.
Oooooo lordy... that isn't good... And Twilight... seriously? A license for using magic?
*flips table*
For fuck's sake... not a wise move kiddo.
Nice job!
Depending on the laws dealing with self alteration i may or may not be able to get that licence......
Forgive me if this is cleared up next chapter.
I would have thought that in organised unicorn spellcasting society, there wasn't already an informal "licensing" system, in the form of a ranking system. I mean, how many fantasy worlds have wizards described as a "Wizard of the 6th Circle" or have a Magister become furious when referred to as a Mage, which is CLEARLY a lesser title?
Of course, in order to GET these titles/promotions, you have to PROVE that you have earned them. To ensure that no school of magic is unfairly biased towards/against, the tests would sound simple, but what is being judged is not your attainment of the goal, but HOW you did so.