How far will one stallion run to escape what pursues him?
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From the context, Derpy should be saying that "There are two different kinds of pegasi mares,"
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Whoops!
Reminder time again please Kudzu. Why is Twist with the Cakes?
Uh... is that 36 mares that want to be bucked by Bucky? Some would say he's very lucky. I'm on his side here though, that's scary!
Dang it, i wanna know what happens with the delegation
I'm curious as to how this is going to be resolved.
Poor Bucky
...oh, right. Bucky is both scion of Sombra's and Princess Platinum's line and currently father to Cadance, the now infant Crystal Empress, that would make him... yeah. Huh.
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The Cakes took her in.
Chapter 257, and I quote:
5408315 Thanks very much.
he feels Derpys wing on him slapping like there is no tomorrow with a shout of "more wifes?"
I'm... the more it focuses on Cadence's new life, and keeps Shining's fate gone... and the more it's about how happy Cadence is now and how great Bucky is as her family and implicitly how unimportant Shining is and always has been, the more I feel the daggers in my heart.
Not saying it won't eventually come back to it but... yeah. Gonna express an opinion, here.
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Be patient.
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I am! More or less! But I also wanted to express my opinion for it while it was here in limbo and have my heart all wrenched.
The Lord of Winter can survive anything: shadow cursed wolves, gunpowder powered gryphoons, transdimensional unicorns....
"We have a full harem of willingfull and horny mares for you, my Lord."
"...ypes..."
Running to Derpy for help is the exact right reaction
Will there ever be stuffy buckies at some point?
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There is a whole chapter coming about this very issue... and Shining Armor well, how far would you go to be with your love?
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...He's going to have an Alicorn Age Regress Him to Cadence's age, isn't he?
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The age regression spell offers the appearance of being young. It wears off. It is harmony magic... it does not destroy the balance.
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Read The Chance?
There are stuffy Bucky wives... Well, the pony wives anyway.
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To the Crystal Ponies, he probably was fairly unimportant before, and totally irrelevant now. He was a source of heirs for the empire, but had no claim on the throne (Prince Consort). With Cadance immortal now, he's just an ornament. (I'm intentionally ignoring any role he holds in their military.)
I'm sure he'll be back. We just don't see much of him due to the focus of the story on Bucky's herd. SA is not unimportant, he's just not the focus of the story.
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Don't have to read The Chance to see Bucky's wives stuffed. You just need to... OH! Whoops. Heh....
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Well, that's what I meant: to the Crystal Ponies he was never important.
To extend this, though, to the world he's also not important. When the Fates wanted a protector for Cadence, they avoided asking Shining to do jack shit about it, and went straight to Bucky. There could be other reasons for that, sure, but it's probably rooted in that... well Shining was never particularly important. He's accomplished a lot, but in another way has really accomplished nothing compared to the people around him all the time.
Even the suggestion to him sacrificing his life for a chance to be with Cadence by Kudz indicates his existence is basically defined by his wife, rather than by himself. Seems like a pretty unimportant person who'd be defined entirely by just one other person they have a relationship with. Even Cadance, who was all about love, sacrificed herself not for Shining's sake, but for the empire as a whole. (Unless I misread.)
And, Prince Consort, as a title, is one that doesn't make any sense in a world that is matriarchal. The reason the title exists is because king is implicitly above queen because of an assumed patriarchal society, so they need a lesser title for the husband of a matriarch to have. But in a world where a princess is more or less the unquestioned leader for a millenium, even if the other realms have kings and the kings are in charge there, I'd say the implication that a king or just a prince is somehow above the queen or princess would seem rather silly.
5408151 ...shrugs. simply stating possibilities of function. and honestly, most of the magical mcguffins are capable of multiple things. elements of harmony are capable of healing, sealing, teleportation, and such. even individually they seem to have a function that prevents someone from using its power to harm its owners. like how the crown retaliated against sunset satan when she attacked twilight. basically elder wand rules; another might be able to wield its power, but always to a lesser extent and it will defend its true master if turned against them.
what is is what is in the chase. it just seems like an artifact as powerful as the crystal heart would have more abilities than simply repelling shadow.
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Shining Armor would have never been able to endure the trials in the Stygian Pits.
He's strong, he's virtuous, he's devoted and dutiful, but it takes a special kind of sickness to endure those trials.
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Unless said title was to drive home the lower position. Remember that the Crystal Ponies lived under a tyrant Emperor. I'm not saying you're wrong, I agree with you about the title, but there could still be reasons to use said title.
As to the rest, Kudzu has asked patience... so let's give it to him, yea?
Eagerly awaiting more chapters focusing on pegasi motherhood lessons for Rainbow from Derpy!
So, a bunch of ponies want to be part of Bucky's herd.
Why is no one smart enough to ask Bucky AND Derpy about it?
Lel
Meh. Cadance shouldn't be raised all spoiled and pampered.
Remember how her first raising went, before she became a demicorn? As far as I recall, she was a pegasus orphan found and raised by earth ponies. You can't get more down-to-earth than that.
Also... Childcare. Brrr. I'm not the motherly type, I've never been.
I prefer dealing with explosive, dazing or flesh-burning corrosive chemicals and angry, spoiled, bratty customers at the chemist's any day.
Wait a second...
5408503 ´Cause the survival chances to fight the Lord of Winter are better then asking Derpy to take part of the herd.
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Good point.
Also. WHERE IS MY MEAT BICYCLE! I LOST IT!
God, I love Harem flicks. ^.^
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Well in general for a long time, in a lot of places, this was just how things were done. Gifts of treasures, animals, able soldiers, servants and concubines would be offered (think of any picture of a shiek surrounded by a harem of beautiful women) as gestures of goodwill or as terms in a negotiation. The Crystal Empire and it's citizens specifically are 1000 years out of date, so even with whatever "modernization" Equestrian has been able to impart, a lot of those standards of conduct are still in place with those ponies who are in charge of things.
Also, Bucky is kind of known for having a !ot of wives, his was the first recognized herd marriage in Equestrian in centuries afterall. One of the conditions of the alliance with the Sea of Grass and the Griffon Kingdom being recognized was Bucky being married to Belisama. Offering the heir of Sombra, who was rather known to be a bit of a playboy himself, a group of willing mares as (all-purpose servants as a token of gratitude for rescuing their Empress from Tartarus itself and making her immortal in the process seems like a no-brainer.
Looks like that social awkwardness is creeping back up.
5408410 36 newly stuffed wives mayhaps?
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Well then. I see.
Also. I STILL CAN'T FIND MY MEAT BICYCLE! WHERE DID IT GO?
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Seeing moments like this is good to remind us that despite how much has happened, that the Bucky from those first hundred chapters is still in there, making up the foundation of the character's personality even after all he has gone through. That Bucky is still growing and learning.
5408627 Nice point ! Actually this sort of thing happened a couple of times in the last chapters. The trauma from tartarus´ trials sure are a heavy burden uppon Bucky...he is sort of becoming his former self again, in some aspects. He never liked being around many ponies, but this became way worse lately. Berry and Bon Bon have a lot of things to undo to estabilize him again.
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A good portion of it is probably falling back into old habits, but I think that some of it may also be a recently developed fear of meeting delegations from other nations, the Shetland Isles, Griffon Kingdom, Sea of Grass, Tartarus, Las Pegasus, Crystal Empire, pretty much everywhere Bucky goes, he comes back with at least one new family member, if not a claim to a throne. (Scorch is sort of like an uncle, and Bucky counts Twilight, Luna, and Celestia as family, so I'm counting Glass Slipper and Tourmaline for this purpose)
On that topic, anyone want to start a betting pool on what percentage of the world the Lord of Winter could claim rulership of if he wanted to by the time this story ends? Because he really seems to be collecting a lot of notches in his rulership bedpost for some who has no interest in being a ruler: the Shetland Isles, the Griffons Kingdoms, the Crystal Empire.
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War conquers. Conquest is in his nature.
Thirty-six? That's half of seventy-two...
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Petrification for the next couple of decades maybe? Or is he gonna go off the deep end.
In reference to the age regression spell. There is one used in “Bringing Up Blueblood” by InsertAuthorHere. That one was able to be cast and removed, thus solving Shining's current problem
/fucking died laughing someone send a high-level cleric
That said, he could accept them into the tribe but not specifically his herd. Much like the Cakes wish to be and Barley is. The Crystal Empire's offered wealth could be used to better the Empress' city of residence, giving her the best environment to live in and helping to make it safer. Could also be tapped for special crystals from the Empire to try experimenting with enchanting and the like... really, this is a good thing. Just so long as they stay respectful of the boundaries.
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Shining Armor is the Krillin of Equestria. Krillin is the strongest human on Earth! ... Aaaand wholly insignificant and pitiable. That said, I do feel for him. Lost his wife and unborn children. ... No one in the world needs him anymore. He honestly doesn't really have anything to live for. I kinda wanna hug him.
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I wish I could argue about this, but he definitely is that in a whole lot of stories. I felt bad for Krillin too, but... the way that that anime was, if you weren't the strongest or nearly so, you were only good for comic relief and reaction shots. MLP is nothing like that, and still manages to get him to be treated like Krillin in fics anyway.
He didn't just lose his wife, his wife is now being doted on by Bucky who is genuinely happy she's with him and not with Shining. Even Twilight seems satisfied with this outcome. Shining may be the only person who is unrecoverably hurt from this outcome.
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We're not even sure if she like... retains her old life and personality in some sort of mental bubble waiting for her to mentally and emotionally mature, or if being raised again will make her a completely different person. She -might- wind up being the same old Cadence, just younger and immortal, or she might be Cadence Bitters. If the former, some sort of suspended animation is probably best for Shiny. If the latter... well, I wouldn't fault him if he didn't see the point in going on anymore. I know I wouldn't see a reason if I lost my wife.
Or, hey. It worked for Rising Star. Go Fey!
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More like Bucky is still running from mares!
Damn it, Bucky! Now you've doomed an entire nation.
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He already thought he had more mares than he could handle before being forced to pick one more up on his trip through Griffonholm... I wonder how many extras he will get stuck with before the Chase is done.
5409735 a pessimistic guess, half the female population, 7/8ths for optimistic
5409735. Yeah no kidding when i seen the number 36 and i was thinking ohhhhh shit.