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Gah! A knock-on-the-door cliffhanger! KILL IT!
well, this is a very scary family
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There was something there that needed fixing.
Don't worry, 'Tia! Your nephew, while he'll be bitter for a bit, will be behind you all the way! Will he hate losing his nobility and prestige? Yes... but ANYTHING to stick it to House Avarice!
... DAMN MY BLUEBLOOD FIXATION EVEN THOUGH HE'S NOT IN THIS FIC!!
EDIT:
Also, a 'little scary' nothing! He just said he's willing to teach children how to boil somepony alive in their own bodies.
4435587 There is nothing more scary than cornered people when the cornered people have power
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I agree.
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There there, it's okay, he might even survive when the populace comes to put the nobles to the torch for all the horrible things they've done.
I mean, it isn't like Blueblood has ever done anything that might arouse a little ire...
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Something any unicorn could potentially do if they understood that ponies are made out of water and focused their concentration.
Hmm, I can boil water, and ponies are mostly made out of water... Eureka! I can boil ponies!
4435608 As far as we know, in canon, his one crime was being a stuck-up jerk toward Rarity... and that's not a crime. That's just being a person.
He didn't set kitten on fire, or anything. Just was a bit of a pompous, spoiled ass. Rarity's my fave Mane Six pony and I still side with him on the basis of her unrealistic expectations. She's lucky he was an open jerk and not on par with House Avarice.
Also, the boiling thing is still terrifying.
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Emphasising the need for strict emotional control and the argument for unicorn neurosis.
If a unicorn felt a little too peeved at you for a little too long, you might boil.
Take that anger, turn it inwards instead, and distance one's self from society to keep society safe.
Called it! House of Two Light's is Celly's house!
Also, that right there's a cliffhanger.
4435676 And yet that very system is about to be reduced to dust. Thank you, Bucky, Derpy, and Berry! You doomed two-thirds of ponykind!
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I want to make a House of Pants and include a joke about dropping their load... But I am sick and I cannot be trusted.
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A new system is coming...
4435686 Hm... Fancy Pants of House Trousers...
Sounds legit.
4435690 But will it be in time... and how long before certain unicorns, in shame, turn that hate inward and start boiling themselves without meaning to, wanting to stop, but the hate is too strong...
... Because Berry Punch started a war that uncovered a shit-ton of crimes.
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Bucky somehow managed to live under quite an emotional load without boiling himself.
Hence, neurosis as a survival technique.
It keeps other ponies safe.
4435702 While it's stated, so far he's only character to display it. Sure, examples in the show that could be interpreted as such, but within just the story, it seems to be unreliable without an active character of similar condition. Sure, Lyra, off-screen in the past, was like that, but we readers never actually SEE it.
... Then again, this is probably more of the Blueblood fixation talking.
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I am thinking about writing a spin off story about what happens to Lyra and why she vanishes into a place where Celestia and Luna could not find her.
See, I know where she went. And why she came back broken. I have a vague idea of her story kitted out.
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun,
When a good man goes to war.
Friendship dies and true love lies,
Night will fall and the dark will rise,
When a good man goes to war.
Demons run, but count the cost.
The battle's won but the child is lost.
Oh beware when a good man goes to war, for he will fight tooth and nail to protect those he loves. Weap for the child who goes to war, for the child is lost and the scarred remain.
4435726 4435714 Also, there may likely be those not-unicorns whom look to House Avarice and QUICKLY come to associate more unicorns that them with their crimes.
Berry has started something, as said. There will be consequences, and they will not be pretty. So many becoming victims of racism and torment, because she treated a delicate issue with all the subtlety of a bomb.
Neurosis would never save them from that.
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She sliced open a boil and let the sickness out.
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Racism and torment? Not so much. What she did is going to end this.
4435727 "Your kind always underestimates ours. You mistake good manners for timidity. You mistake self-control for passivity. So self controlled are we that we that sometimes we won't retaliate if you harm us. But if you — any of you — harm our loved ones, we will come at you like fanged, slavering beasts from the darkest of LSD nightmares. Believe it."
4435743 And then it will SPREAD.
I can see it now. Random unicorns, Blueblood, being pelted with rocks farmed by Maud Pie, all because of the deeds of one corrupt house and how far that corruption went.
And then, Princesses, you will get to witness a unicorn being butchered alive in the streets and no one stepping in to help... because you let Berry Punch off relatively lightly.
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Well, really depends on the nobles, don't it?
Makes what House Evening Star is doing suddenly make a lot more sense.
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Of course, what house do you think Fancy Pants is a member of?
4435773 No, it already made sense, because the youngest of the House is Princess of Friendship, and such were already biased.
We still don't have the points of view of other unicorn Nobility, just two different biased houses, three counting Celestia's and Luna's.
Perhaps if a certain Prince gets some voiced opinion without bias, that will shut me up.
That said, it depends on the populace, not the nobles, if the Unicorns get so shafted that it's pre-Founding all over again.
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Hopefully not involving a competition of royal seating!
Sidenote: I really need to find something that goes well with the words "Game of musical thrones". The thought is not leaving my brains.
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I know, that's why I made the joke.
Fancy Pants running around in a panic, leaving bricks behind him.
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That's actually sort of the point.
This is a re-founding. Fairly this time, without the unicorn nobility entrenched in the upper levels of social stratification.
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That is almost Bucky-ish.
4435821 And you are not really listening to what I'm saying, it feels from your responses.
Basically, from how it's playing out, all unicorn nobility not aligned with Bucky's decision is to be evil. That negates the whole 'different points of view' thing.
I personally want to see some unicorn that doesn't like House Avarice but also doesn't blindly side with those overthrowing the nobility. So far, I've yet to see that, and I think it ruins it a bit for me.
Also, how do you think they're going to make it 'fair'? Suddenly, Unicorns can no longer have nobility and everything's fine? That's not how it would work out. There are going to be 'previously oppressed' that WILL take fury out on these Unicorns whom are deprived of any help.
So, again, PLEASE show a different point of view other than 'House Avarice is evil, so let's destroy the entire system' and 'on side with House Avarice'.
bucky rages and ends up blowing up canterlot.. oops
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And I told you, that viewpoint is coming, but it cannot happen right away.
Who do you think sent the ledger?
Who would have access to the deepest darkest secrets of House Avarice?
Use yer noggin!
Given that I'm not a native english speaker I never bothered to look the word "Avarice" up and wrote it up as just a name and nothing important. Then when in this chapter it was mentioned that they gained control of pretty much everything and are sitting on a pile of blood money I was reminded of Symbol of Avarice and actually bothered to look the word up.
With what has all been found out about house Avarice in the chapters leading up to this, the name is certainly fitting.
4435838 Its what i have been asking for a while. But im patient enough to wait and see. Honestly the whole idea of rebelling against nobles in a war and killing them doesn't really solve the issue. With or without nobles there will always be people who will hold the reigns of power. Just look at our current society for more proof.
(Ps im not saying im pro-nobles and such just being a bit realistic)
4435857 Exactly, but I, in contrast, don't want padding. I want to see it get underway.
4435855 I am, and the only one I think of is, in your words, not in this story. If it's Rising Star, I don't care. If it's anyone from House Avarice directly, I don't care. If it's Blueblood, a character I am sick of seeing get the shaft because he was a jerk to ONE MARE, then I would care.
4435860 Relax dude. Just breathe in and out slowly. Lets be patient and see what happens and then we get the torch and pitchforks
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Rising Star, having access to the financial ledgers of House Avarice?
Oh bugger everything. I don't understand how to even reply at this point. I am going to go away for a while. Get away from my computer for a bit maybe.
Possibly toss myself from a bridge or something.
4435871 Considering the screen-time he's getting... *eye-twitch*
4435869 *preemptive, already has some butane, lit torches, and flaming pitchforks*
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And Blueblood is NOT in this story. At ALL.
So just give it up mang, really annoying.
He has NOTHING to do with this. Nor will he ever.
I wonder if any other noble houses who may be reasonably uncorrupt would see house Starlight as hypocrites for calling for their dissolution. They have the least to lose, after all I doubt that Twilight is going to be stripped of her princesseshood, nor Shining his title afforded by marriage to Cadance. Their parents will lose their position, but they have realistic avenues to pull themselves back up.
There are potentially ignorant houses out there that were manipulated by Avarice who will simply lose everything as a result of Avarice's corruption. Not that I think this should really dissuade the protagonists, but they are going to start things that they feel involve significant sacrifice on their part that will involve more sacrifice from everyone else who wants to join in.
At very least its going to earn them a lot of enemies, and not exclusively corrupt ones. Probably a lot of cries asking why this couldn't be solved some other way. Keeping things this way is monstrous though, so something needs to be done, omlette and eggs and such.
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Yes, so a relative nobody who was SUMMONED by House Avarice because he is in a LESSER house is going to have access to the inner secrets.... Never mind.
4435876 Funny, since 1) He's Nobility. 2) Connected to Celestia and Luna as family. 3) He's the go-to fellow for this, and pompous, spoiled fellow whom grew up in nobility and thus would be greatly affected by the shift in status quo.
You are ignoring an elephant in a room, sir.
That is not chaos. That is intentional ignorance.
4435876 Well this happens when we deal with touchy subjects people will go ballistic.
Eris is really proud at the moment isn't she ?
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But not in this story...
He doesn't exist.
He was never a planned character.
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I think I will add Blueblood after all, as the only casualty of the war.
He dies in a tragic microwave explosion, having no servants and wanting some kind of dinner.
Or something stupid.
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... Seriously? ... SERIOUSLY?!
... You know, I'm not even going to dignify this with the 'not Equestria Prime' thing. You're just like every other author who shafts that character. So he was rude, BIG FUCKING DEAL!!
4435902 I can already see myself just casually reading Blueblood getting blown up and be
like WTH And then laugh at the randomness of the scene .
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Has nothing to do with that.
I have a character roster with far too many characters.
My story notes are approaching 30k words. The goddessdamn notes for cripes sake. Who writes 30k words for story notes! That's more than most stories.
Blueblood's exclusion has nothing to do with him being rude, but everything to do with practicality.