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A big chunk of it's in italics. Otherwise, another great chapter.
Celestia is finally seeing her error, foreshadowing, and mama bird Derpy.
Juvenat treatments, perhaps?
Also, after Celestia's first thought, everything is italicized. You shat the bed there, kud-bud
I think you forgot to close the italics somewhere...
Major type. Everything from '“I feel sick,” Celestia' is in italics.
even if he ascends
“Love will find a way?! Berry
So the twins were lost, Cadance will age naturally, and Shining Armor will be labelled a 'pervert' for getting with such a young mare, if he's even capable of doing so once she is older.
And now we have this 'Night Stallion'. Ah, the joys of The Chase.
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I've had less then two hours of sleep.
5400835 Excuses are the refuge of weakness.
Never expected this to happen, i can see twilight ''almost'' dying soon
up at his die
and the whole ending id italicized
Kudz... You will get a Cadence for this
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???
5400863 soon you will know, have a Xmas special for you
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They did intervene though. When they could.
They finally broke away from the plan and then rebelled, re-birthing the alicorn race. It cost Thanatos his own flesh and the ability to ever feel any soft of love, warmth, or affection ever again.
Keep in mind, these were proto-alicorns, the race that you saw exterminated. Winged unicorns. Powerful, but not too powerful, but they had the abilities of all three tribes. The could heal the land, the sky, and they had the magic to defend the equine race.
Celestia and Luna were made stupidly powerful because they were given divine sparks and the magical abilities of thousands of their dead race.
even with the questions about the hows and why-fores, i am getting most of the story so far. enjoying it overall as well, even as certain themes and aspects distract me. albeit i am still left wondering two things about cadance's demise.
largely how the dragon got into the crystal empire. crystal heart defends it. even if it is not as violent as to blast anything with aggressive intent to death, it could probably repel a dragon and the mirror walkers.
but more than that, how could cosmic pants manipulate the mirror walkers? fate is blind to them and cannot bind them. so how could cosmic pants manipulate them if they are not connected to the things he could use to manipulate them?
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Ponder who was involved in Cadance's death.
Not the dragon or the mirror travelers. Just think about the other party involved.
The one using a dragon as a puppet.
You think he'd be stopped by a worthless little trinket?
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Will Cadance even have all of her memories back?
Even if she does, having to wait for the better part of 20 years before they can get back together does not seem particularly reasonable. Maybe Shining will pick up a few mares to start a herd and welcome Cadance into it when she becomes old enough again - assuming she still wants him.
Celestia now on a drastic upturn. Omnicorn looking even worse. Way worse.
But that Tragedy for Shining.
When I saw this, I just sat there staring at my screen, I knew the second trial had been gruelling, but a fricking DECADE!
5400885 Gods above... to endure what they did and still keep /some/ sanity about them... I can see why Celestia was so desperate to keep her father's love, despite things. Poor girl needed to have something.
I know that feel, sis....HOW MUCH I known !
And, again, we have the ultimost reason why particulary polemic chapters must be reading with extra patiente, since things clear thenselves in later updates in this story.
This chapter was very curious for me. In one hand, hoof, claw, whatever, it deepens all the suffering and pain. The shared torture, the suffering, the loss of the foals, Shining´s loss...sorry, I´m keeping writing this, but, really, I can´t stop thinking ´bout what he´ll endure. Not sure what is worse: to know your wife and kids are dead, or to know that your kids are dead and you wife is alive, but out of reach forever.
In the other hand I feel a strong sense of hope coming from Celestia. For all her mistakes (and another deep one was just uncovered...make her guilty ´bout the Nightmare crisis even more deep and meaningfull) she loves and want to protect everything and everyone.
So many things, so much...actually I would love to not have another update ´till tomorrow (I can´t believe I said that). Too many things to let sink in the soul.
5400899 Wich memories ? As far as I understood, she DIED. She is reborn but she is a new being. She is not the same Cadence. Sure, it is MY vision of the thing, I may be wrong, but looks like that for me.
5400898 that does not explain anything honestly. both cosmic pants and the fates have methods they need to use. the fates work with possibility, cosmic pants works through agents and altered destinies. he would need to use someone to disable the heart. albeit the question is would the heart detect the malice of the omnicidal androgynous eldritch abomination if the royal crystal heart shiner was coming along at an odd time?
and whatever methods cosmic pants uses, how could he use them to manipulate those disconnected from the 'systems' of his cosmos?
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You actually think that a a godlike being would be powerless against the Crystal heart?
See... this is where the problem exists. This is why everybody stays pissed off.
Little things like this that are just so infuriating.
And the assumptions that you know how his power works.
5400885 i was basing my claim of too powerful on Twilight and cadance actually, not the regal sisters. hard to imagine anyone beating an entire race of ponies with that kind of power. albeit i presume that what twilight and cadance are is more powerful than the proto alicorns.
wasn't really very clear that they were some mortal variety, these proto alicorns.
clears up a bit more. still it seems off to me that thanatos would have stayed his hand till the race was completely gone.
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His cutie mark is dead wilted petunia.
Not a shield, not some symbol of defense, but a dead wilted petunia.
Up to that point, he had followed the plan. He trusted that his parent knew what they were doing, Didn't always agree, but he went along with it.
5400953 It don´t need to manipulate things directly...he can influence other things to make everyone act as it wanted.
Also, something able to twist Cosmic Pants own creation would, very likely, ignore the Crystal Heart...actually the Crystal Heart defense is powerfull but VERY specific uppon its power. As I understand, he protects from shadow magic, and shadow effects, that aim to ´cause destruction against the empire and its citzens. Between using other forms of magic, other forms of energy attacks (I consider magic a form of energy) and making those that attack the Empire not evil, but misguided, I presented you three easy forms to bypass the heart protection easily.
Again, more will come, more will be clear. And, unfortunally, more will suffer. That act from CP sounds like a last effort to push his will. it seems that, since that failed, it will scalate things greatly, but since it can only affect the worlds in indirect forms, it´ll take a time before the next attack.
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I had thought she (along with Derpy and Berry) were due around Hearth's Warming, and they said that winter was approaching. So I'd thought if they were a couple months premature they might have a chance..... but Cadance, Derpy, and Berry were all due in early spring weren't they? With Thistle being due around Hearth's Warming.
5400958 .......... restating that.
i am analyzing how he operates. likely ones operates in a certain way for a certain reason. so far he has needed to use others to get what he wants. him suddenly able ti disable a powerful artifact like the heart kinda breaks that chain. not that i do not think him incapable, just that it would not be subtle in any way if he did it directly. and indirectly comes with the question of the heart detecting his malice towards the crystal empire.
5400975 It would be right to say that, ´till that point, The Sisters and Thanatos were very like as Celestia were, only more aware of the things it did wrong (Celestia was more inclined to blindly follow its orders, without question, while Fates and Thanatos kept following, but seeing the mistakes) ?
5400975 so basically fooled like celestia.
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Spring.
Thistle has a holiday gift for Bucky.
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Yes, I know it was an absurdly silly question. But I was hoping with every scrap of futile, foolish hope I could manage that her foals would somehow survive.
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Correct. The Fates were hyper aware of those mistakes.
Quite the tear-jerker. Thankyou.
5400991 Not quite like Celestia. They were aware of the mistakes (Celestia made herself blind to those mistakes and suffering, as the state of chaos Equestria has fallen into testifies) but kept following the orders anyway, ´till that break point in the victory feast.
5400993 It´s not absurd...most of us probably though something alike. Despair to try to save Cadence´s foals. That´s what happens when you feel so much empathy for a fictional character that you just want he or she have a happy ending someway.
It's been what, not even three days, and 32k more words. Wow, just wow.
Great, now you have me wondering what Celestia and Luna went through the tests in Tartarus for... Since apparently they both did it before the occurrence of NMM it had to be something from the Chaos War or something.
restating myself. i am trying to analyze how he operates. he is not using his powers full on, and there has to be a reason for it. so far he has manipulated beings to get what he wants. albeit with celestia he was required to psychologically manipulate her, so that is a limit there.
not saying he could not disable the heart, but it would not be some subtle gesture. power needed to make the heart stop working would have to be something far greater than the heart's power. and the reaction would likely be something violent. and ultimatley not his style so far.
there is some limit to what he can do, else he would do more. least that is what i am getting.
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Has anyone ever told you how hard it is to take you seriously when you misspell big words and can't even be bothered to capitalize your 'I's?
You can't get too mad at our reactions to you, like I've said before you've been stubbornly refusing to enjoy this story for what it is since day one. Did it ever occur to you that sure, Twi and Cadence are pretty powerful, they are flying unicorns who bring down dark spirits and sprout shiny palaces from the dirt after all. You keep taking things too literally and trying to apply realistic things to a fan fiction about a freaking magical world of pastel equines. Take that stick out of your ass and either keep reading or stop following the story, it can't be that hard can it?
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Firstly, learn what the fuck a CAPITAL letter is in your sentence structures.
Secondly, how do you know that in Chase-verse something needs to be more powerful to beat something else? Oh, wait you don't. Because you're not writing this.
Something that I am extremely grateful for!
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Personally I'm seeing the Omicorn as being like Darkseid.
Why?
He likes to make others do his dirty work for him.
I have a feeling that in the end the game isn't going to end the way anyone wants it to. That at best it's a stall. A chance to keep going, which is what the Fates want, a chance to see the world exist, but at the same time there will be several credible threats disposed of.
5401071 It´s ahrd to explain, specially for me, but I´ll try.
One thing is to influence a world, to make suggestions towards it´s ways. Anotehr completly different thing is to totaly control such world destuny and every being alive acts. One is influence, the other is control. In one situation, you have free will, in the other, you don´t even have sensient beings, just puppets.
That´s why it can´t just step up and says "ERASE EVERYTHING" !!! You see, Cosmic Pants, too, must follow some rules, some limits, It is NOT the christian GOD, all-powerfull. It´s a being with god-like powers, but, still, restricted by rules that it MUST obbey. Actually, it is very limited by such rules, since its creations, sometimes, at great sacrifice, are able to desobey some rules, while it can´t even think ´bout doing the same.
But, still, being very old and powerfull, there are dozen of ways to overcome the Crystal heart protection. I already wrote three different forms, and I´m not millenia old. Although, sometimes, I feel like I am.
It created an universe that it feels needs to be wiped out, ´cause such universe failled in keep its balance, a balance of rules and, as such, he must re-create the universe, using rules ´cause, in its vision, rules are more important then any and everything. So he can´t break the rules in order to follow the rules.
It´s pretty much an god with the worst case ever of OCD in the whole reality.
And I´ll repeat: The Crystal Heart is a very limited protection. It works towards certain conditions, it´s not that powerfull. Actually, as far as we know, the Crystal can be very much destroyed. With everything that happened, none said, specifically, that the heart is working. I believe it´s whole and still protecting against the specific threats it was designed to protect, but I can be wrong, and along with Cadence, the Heart could be lost at this very moment.
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5401088 i am starting to think you two are the same person here. and capitalization does NOT freaking matter in the comments.
other than that. guys, this is a story that takes account rather realistic factors for its magic. in other words, using realistic point of views IS important here.
5401107 certain undefined condition. it could be dark magic, yet at the same time emotion and magic are intertwined. beings with malicious intent would produce some amount of dark magic.
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No such luck, I'm a different person than Lucky here.
5401111 Errr, no, please, english is not my native language, I write A LOT of awfull mistakes but, even so, basic language rules, to capitalize is important.
We had a couple of situation on this story where raw power wasn´t the answer. The most important (one that you argued a lot too, if I remember correctly) was the final attack against the Crystal Lich.
And to think that, at that point, we tough that a Crystal Lich was the worst Bucky would face. If only...
Anyway, we have a pretty much stone beat scissor beat paper universe here. When two equivalent powers face each other, the bigger power wins. But different powers/magic work against each other in different ways. The Crystal Lich became stronger with harmony magic, but dark/shadow magic destroyed him easily.
Now that I think, kudzu keeps repeating that the mirror travelers fear shadow magic a lot. And, now, we know that the travelers are influencied (even controlled maybe ?) by Cosmic Pants. Or by the eldritch terror ? If so, why IT fears shadow magic so much ? Usually something cannot protect itself from his own power. I think it´s called thanatology: everything carries inside of itself its own end/death.
5401111 For starters, you're wrong. I only have one account. If, and this is a very big IF, you want to be taken seriously ever, then good grammar is needed, not just capitalisation but correct punctuation as well, otherwise your comments just look like an ape has been given several helpings of Red Bull and given a computer.
Now, as to your 'realistic point of view'... can you use magic? What's that, no you can't? Is magic even real? No? Then what exactly the fuck is a 'realistic point of view' on magic?
You know what, don't bother replying. I don't want to know what crap you come up with.
5401138 rather. i said RATHER realistic. not completely realistic, not something you would find in the real world, but the magic in this stories takes into acount a lot of rules related to real worlds factors.
5401111 Let me assure you that Lucky424 and CloudySkies are different people. Given that I'm speaking to one of them right now.
For once, I agree with your point about grammar not mattering in comments, because while being grammatically correct lends credibility to one's arguments, you neither deserve, nor shall you ever receive, credibility. It is not because you are an incredibly caustic individual, or because you write like a semi-autistic fourth grader, but rather because you lack the experience in creating anything here. Lucky424 is a writer, and I am a writer, and before you go and claim anything like us being the same person, sample both our works and you will find numerous differences if you are even semi-literate. We have the experience you do not; we have created, taken part of ourselves and made it into something else, so we, and I'm sure we are with the majority of this fic's fanbase in this as well, capable of understanding things from the creator's perspective.
We have our own universes; the rules you wish to impose do not apply, nor will they ever apply. Kudzu could say that gravity in his Equestria had a downward acceleration of 15 m/s^2 rather than our standard of 9.80665 m/s^2, and he would not have to give two squirts of dog piss about your opinion, because in the end of all things, that's all you have is an opinion, and opinions are entirely worthless.