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Which is why the mirror travellers steal from other realities.
Why waste resources creating when you just take from the weak?
Worked for the Mongols.
For this kudz getting a minion...
Much done. Bucky "fixed" (not sure yet if it's good)
Next chapter will be fun... The wife's attack
5930841 it does not change the need for someone to craft and maintain the materials taken, let alone adapting them for use.
reverse engineering still requires engineers.
also cannot help but facepalm a little here with what sunset did. really? pheonix fire? from the amulet?
think largely the issue is as i said. this sunset never went through the same thing that sunset shimmer did. a demon possessing you is still an outwardly force. how would that allow her to access some secret aspect of the amulet?
or
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Bitch bitch bitch...
Oh my freeking GOD!
How, wha.. didja see... and then... BOOOM!!!
OK ok.. ok,
phew wow that was... something. Totally get the Phoenix healing, it isn't regeneration but reconstitution. His limbs burnt away and the ashes reformed into his new limb. Healing and regeneration is like advancing and improving the bodies natural healing process. This is like system restore, or format reinstall.
5930872 just sayin, a guy who goes throwing the craftman under the bus is gonna find a major lack in people making swords, shields, and wagons.
and as i said, this circumstances would work with the idea that sunset's demon form was a manifdestation of her self. she had to look inwardly. and that could give her the insight necessary for this thing.
when a demon attacks, you will always end up looking ath direction it came from. and the demon that made sunset a monster in this story came from outside herself.
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Lol lord, seriously I think it's time to get off the Sunset bit. She's diffrent, its all diffrent. The cannon verse is a diverging path and the road we're on has more to see if you would look past your own expectations. She tapped into the leylines, heard the wisdom of the alicorns, how would she not be able to undo the Amulet which was made by power hungry unicorns. I thought it was all so poetic.
As for the mirror travlers, you are on the opposite fence my friend. Warrior are skilled at war, they know how best to kill, if they find a weapon they don't know how to use they watch and observe. Humans have done this since the first ape picked up a rock and hit something dead with it. You must understand that in a survival situation feeding the weak and sick only makes the strong less able to fight. Sometimes sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Even if that good is nothing but a bunch of homicidal elitist.
Sunset became a demon when she wore the element of magic. Why dies she need round two, possession boogaloo? Give the poor girl a break.
5930872 also basically now sunset is Amore. http://orig02.deviantart.net/b24f/f/2015/109/2/9/princess_amore_by_mlp_silver_quill-d8qct1b.jpg
Fire burns the sin off the mind and dirt off the soul.
It burns with cleansing agony, taking all that is evil and leaves but the core of the being.
I feel the healing fire overtake me.
It is a good pain.
And now we have seen just how much the fuel affect the characteristics of the flame.
It is beyond compare
I lost my favorite anti-hero image :( not to diss the recovery, but did you really have to make him lose his metal claw? It was so cool!
Best. Chapter. So far. Love that Bucky is restored... So to speak. I wonder how everyone back home will react.
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aww, yeah while the metal claw was cool, I was kinda hoping he'd come out with half his body being griffin like his daughter. Like hed have to get a lions paw back leg. But this was beyond my expectations!
...Mind. Blown. That is all.
Where did the metal went from Bucky's talon? How could it turn flesh? I mean it looked like from the outside as a normal claw sure, but the inside structure couldnt be match a normal one, which mean the transformation had to know how to build the bones and body mass.
If Bucky's original leg not supposed to be a talon, why transformed into that when it rebirth from the fire. It didnt made the back leg a talon, and the front hoof was missing just like that, only had metal attached to it.
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my guess is something like, the material that made up his leg was broken down to the atomic level combined with the material within the ambiance it was formed flesh and blood, iron into blood, carbon from what was there and probably some magical transmutation as well. But the template comes from his arua, or soul. His magic was altered to work the claw so it was in that shape when the limb was remade.
Okay artists, get to work. we need new pictures for this.
I don't think Bucky will have to worry about his power level too much, Sunset just admitted to channeling a positively HUGE amount of magic through him in his 'rebirth,' not to mention he can probably tap into the leylines with some degree of safety once more; which was his ace in the hole back when he retook the Isles.
If anything, the biggest issue will be the loss of Dark Magic as an Out Of Context solution, which was always it's biggest strength. I suppose Bucky will simply have to resort to good ole' fashioned Unicorn cleverness once more.
The only thing that kind of bugged me was the Dark Magic bashing, though to be fair, it's looking more and more like the kind of magic that creates a negative feedback loop in order to reinforce itself, which can be incredibly dangerous to a prolific practitioner's health and sanity. Just look at what happens to warlocks in the works of Jim Butcher.
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Dispite their brutal way of life, much like the Vikings they still live on today in art, history and culture. Their influence has spread throughout the lands that they plunder and there progeny that they leave behind. To a group that must seek outside their realm for materials of life, power is everything. They have no resources to trade, no culture to barter with and even if they did it's unlikely such a prosperous land would give up its riches to help outsiders, so after many generations of being the beggers of the multiverse, they turn to the one thing they have in spades, power. Strength to fight, strength to take, power to not be victims but to victimize others.
But to be fair, the Detectostration of Vanhoover may have partially been caused by a certain alicorn's modification regarding foals in Bucky's brain...
Which on the ohter hand was partially done because of his walk down the path of dark magic...
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"Hey Derpy, we're back, and we fixed Bucky!"
"You what?!"
"No, not like that."
Hmm... Don't get me wrong, I am happy for this, but there are two issues that come to mind:
1. Is the fulgarite still infused within his bones and such? Pretty it may not have been, but it did save his life multiple times.
2. Does this affect his lifespan, which he had been shortening? I mean, blasted with rebirth, I honestly hope it sort of gave him back what had been lost there too.
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Sunset was given a gift for freeing all of those entrapped phoenixes...
Bucky is whole! (Sorta)
Loki is skipping rocks!
The Night Stallion just found out his prey is not as weak as he believed!
Twilight is still adorkable!
Well, the Night Stallion is confirmed for the worst, stupidest kind of social Darwinist. The more destructive the stuff you steal, the more dangerous it is if you don't understand how it works. And a society full of nothing but the harshest, most bloodthirsty individuals is going to be little more than a ravenous pack of beasts. They may end up too busy backstabbing one another to effectively conquer.
Of course, when you've killed off all of the earth ponies and their sanity glands, what else can you expect?
Bucky and Sunset should both have some interesting immediate futures. They're both going to need to get used to their new bodies and abilities.
Also, holding on to the portal control rod seems like a very bad idea. It seems like that thing's just waiting to get taken back.
Am I the only one that completely did not see this coming?
So we're (unfortunately?) one step closer to the giant airship battle where Bucky is supposed to die....
Well... that I was not expecting.
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1. I believe it was all removed, while having super magical glass in his bones was awesome and saved his life once... it was magical glass in his bones. Bones need to move they are not 100% ridged. Because of the glass in his bones he was in constant pain. I hope it was all removed.
2. As for the lifespan thing, his life was shortaned because part of his soul was devoured, and then he went and shortaned it again every time he made a spider golem, or mythical ball of demonic blood. And I doubt the Phoenixs were able to restore his soul.
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No. The phoenixes cannot add length back to a candle. They understand the need for death and rebirth.
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So they give you a coupon for 50% off of your next candle purchase?
Now while initially this seems like a good thing, it does cause me a bit of concern. A real but twisted horn that changes colors. A flesh and blood leg covered in scales. It seems like foreshadowing of draconequus Bucky.
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Aye, you can see their influence. But that doesn't mean they didn't burn out. The Mongolian empire simply collapsed and never came back. Just because they left a lot of babies behind and some cultural ideas doesn't prevent them from ultimately failing as a conquering empire.
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but it's a key survival trait, leave behind something that lasts. It don't matter if your entire Civilization lasted 1 year or a ten thousand if you are remember for eons later you have succeeded. They survive because they do what must be done. Culture can be remade, legacys can be fought over after survivability has been established. The Vikings may not be around as hordes of pilliagers, but they still exist. So do the Mongols.
I was wondering how the second stump was going to be treated.
This was not on my list of expectations, but I like it.
Oh goodness. Bellisama's never even seen what he used to look like. Did the phoenixes at least give him a bigger dick to make up for the lack of scary? He's also going to have to learn how to be more aggressive in the bedroom on his own, since the damaged parts of his mind that allowed him to override his practically effeminate nature are probably gone.
So many changes!
Edit: Sunset totally just went Bad Wolf on him.
Since he's no longer relying on dark magic, I'm guessing Bucky's shadow magic will be able to develop and get stronger now?
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Once more... the phoenixes cannot make a candle any longer...
**chortles**
btw... small notice, this chapters earned Kudz a new minion... will publish blog post later on
So, all those lives thrown away to rebirth the land, make Bucky anew and purge the taint from him. Too bad the lot of that energy was wasted because Bucky's gonna bite the dust soon.
Am I the only one upset by this?
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Huh, it's almost like that's exactly what's happening. The Mirror Travelers started backing the Minotaurs and Griffons to get them to make guns for them because they lacked manufacturing processes of their own. And they dropped both those factions like flaming alicorn road apples the moment they weren't strong enough to slaughter a stronger foe.
The MTs have been making a long series of bad decisions that they've only made work because the Equestrians we know don't have a way to take the fight to them. And worse, they're totally convinced that this has to be the way it works, because they've had unknown generations of time for the Night Stallion to mold them into his metaphorical image...
Hmm... Hey Kudzu, do you play Mass Effect? Because I just got a strong Shadow Broker vibe off this train of thought.
Ho boy! Bucky gets fixed! That's... really awesome.
I was sure Bucky would keep descending into madness until he destroyed himself, and that was the greater plan for him.
Aaaand... haha this line:
Commentary on the apparently necessary actions that Bucky Luna and Scorch did...
Valid commentary, or the naive preaching of one who doesn't know any better?
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I wonder why
5930915 XD Of all the people, you're still here.
Heya Lord! What's been up lately? (Seriously though, how've ya been. This isn't some sarcastic trick, I'm done trying to act smarter than you and what not. Just, what's up?)
Mmagic. (Snort snort)
Welp, there goes Bucky's badassery, hope it's worth it.
Aww, i liked the way he was.
Awwweee, Bucky got nerfed. Oh well, It made for a great twist that i don't think anybody saw. I wonder how he will function now. OH! Will bucky be allowed back into the Crystal Empire now!?