*****Dusty’s POV*****
I laid there in my mistress’ arms as she cried herself to sleep, not knowing what else I could do. I felt truly terrible; I promised to protect her from her own emotions, but I never believed that they were as bad as they are. I tried, I really did, to keep her emotions in check, but I was overpowered almost too easily. She has grown so much in such a short time that it is very frightening.
I looked at her sleeping form, feeling a deep pain in my heart. I failed her, I let Kat down and now all of Equestria, no, the entire world will pay the price for my failure. I should have talked her out of this, I should have never let her do this. I knew it would end terribly, but still I let it happen.
The anger deep in heart started to glow. But I wasn’t angry at Kat, no I could never be truly mad at her. No, I was angry with myself. How could I fail this badly? I should have done something, anything that would have prevented all of this, but I waited like a fool. I’m so sorry Kat, I couldn’t save you from yourself.
Then I felt a change in the air; someone was in the castle. I dispersed myself into mist and floated out of the room, stopping a few doors down to see the six ponies Kat had befriended in my absence. Only, they didn’t look very friendly at the moment, especially the leader, Twilight. I reshaped myself in their path, blocking them from continuing. “Greetings, young mares. Can I help you with something?”
Twilight literally growled at me. ”You go get that backstabbing, lying bitch you call a mistress, now!”
“Excuse you?” I demanded. “I will not let you speak ill of my mistress, no matter what she--”
“Shut it you stupid animal!” Twilight yelled in my face. “I want to see that monster now! I am going to drag that bitch to Canterlot where she will pay for all of her crimes! I thought I could trust her, but in my heart I knew all along that you can’t trust a monster like her!”
I don’t know what… no, I know exactly what came over me in the next instant. “YOU CALL MY KITTEN THAT ONE MORE TIME AND I WILL CLAW YOUR EYES OUT OF YOUR SKULL AND MAKE THEM MY NEW CHEW TOYS YOU DAMN PACK ANIMAL!”
That shut her up, also silencing any other retorts from the others. It was silent for the next few moments before another pony spoke, that being one called Rarity. “Um, not to be rude, darling, but what do you mean ‘kitten’?”
My anger had still yet to subside so I continued to scowl at them, specifically Twilight, refusing to take my eyes off her for a single second. “Kat is mine. I have been with her since the beginning, so as far as I’m concerned she is my kitten.”
“Well, you should have taught your ‘kitten’ better!” Pinkie, of all ponies, said back, her mane completely straight and her coat a darker shade of pink.. “She broke a promise to Twilight that she wouldn’t hurt Princess Celestia too bad. Breaking a promise is the fastest way to losing a friend… FOREVER!”
“If you want someone to blame for the loss of Celestia’s horn, then you can blame me. I was supposed to keep her in check, but her powers prevented me from doing so. I was only barely able to keep her from fully breaking and using her most powerful techniques on the solar princess.”
“Oh, I haven’t forgotten about you, Dusty. You're at fault here as well, and I’m going to bring you both in. No doubt you both will be banished for all of time.”
“And who says I’m going to let you harm my kitten? Even if Kat doesn’t think of me like that, I will protect her with my life. And I will not stand here and let you call her a monster!”
“That’s all she is! Kat is a lying, manipulating monster who needs to be sealed away in the darkest depths of Tarta--”
*SMACK!!* Twilight was suddenly slapped from the side, nearly sending her to the floor. Everypony was frozen in place from shock, not just from the act, but by the one who did the act: Fluttershy. The butter-yellow pegasus was staring at her friend with pure hatred, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
“D-don’t you ever, ever call my grandmother that again!” Twilight was aghast, holding her cheek. “Kat made a mistake, Twilight. She’s probably feeling bad about enough without you making things worse.”
I nodded. “It’s true, she cried herself to sleep as soon as she returned here. Please understand, Kat is not as strong as she tries to make others think. She is more fragile than glass and something set her off at the castle. What that is is not in my liberty to discuss, but it broke her mind. Kat has never been right since she was eight; deep down, she still has the mind of her eight year old self. She’s broken, don’t you understand?! She needs help, she needs people like us to help keep her together!”
Twilight stood, holding her reddened cheek, still scowling. “I don’t care. She’s had enough chances, as far as I’m concerned, Kat Shifter is an enemy of Equestria and most definitely not my friend.”
“I concur!” announced Rarity, joining by Twilight’s side.
“Me too!” Pinkie said, moping by them. They looked at the others, urging them to join, but Rainbow and Applejack hesitated. Fluttershy already announced her position, setting herself down by me.
“Well?” urged Twilight.
“I-I can’t,” Rainbow slumped, shocking the ponies against Kat. “She gave me back my father, girls, and I know the kind of things she’s been through because of my background. I need to stay loyal to her.” She flew without enthusiasm, joining Fluttershy who wrapped a consoling wing around her friend.
“AJ?” Twilight nearly pleaded.
Applejack hung her head, slowly turning away from Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie. She trotted over to us and sat down on her haunches. Twilight was near tears as she saw the orange mare make her decision. “Why AJ? Why?” Pinkie cried.
She sighed. “Because if Ah turn mah back on Kat now, then things are only gonna get worse. If Kat don’t have her friends by her side, especially during this hard time, then she’s only gonna go further into the darkness.”
“Let her!” Twilight screamed. “She’s already evil! She’s a terrible monster who has destroyed the lives of thousands of ponies! She doesn’t deserve friendship!”
Once again, my anger boiled over. “How dare you--”
“Dusty,” a soft voice calls out, chilling me to the spine. I turned around and I saw her there, her eyes red with tears that still streamed from her eyes. She was holding on to the wall for support, but her eyes… those beautiful red eyes that were usually so full of life, now were those of one who had no will to live. Kat was shaking her head. “Don’t Dusty. I’m not worth it. She’s right. I am a monster. I don’t deserve any of you. I don’t deserve anything.”
“Grandmother,” Fluttershy called out as Kat turned and started walking down the hall. She tried to go after her, but found herself blocked by gravity shields. “Grandmother…” Kat ignored her, her head hung low as she continued to walk. Fluttershy began to tear up, several falling to the floor. She turned to Twilight and the others, her face showing anger and sadness. “Are you happy now, Twilight?! Are you happy that you’ve destroyed my grandmother?!”
“She’s not really your family, Fluttershy!”
“Kat is my family!! Nothing will ever change that and I will always support her and be there for her! As long as I live, I will not let her fall to the darkness!”
“Well said, Fluttershy,” I nodded. I then turned to Twilight and the others on her side. “Now, I must ask you to vacate the premises. You are no longer welcome in this castle.”
“That’s fine with us!” Rarity huffed. “Consider our spa appointment canceled Fluttershy. Neither you nor your grandmother are welcome in my boutique.”
“No cake for you!” Pinkie proclaimed with a strange accent. The three ponies filed down the fall, Twilight stopping and turning to us.
“I will not stop until you and Kat are sealed in stone, Dusty,” she spat at me. “You and her will pay for your crimes, mark my words.” She gave one last dirty look at all four of us and then walked away.
I sigh and turn to the remaining girls. “Thank you for supporting my kitten, girls. It means a lot to me.”
“Anything for you, great-grandfather,” Fluttershy said with a sad smile, which I returned.
“I have a debt to repay her, so I’ll stay with her until the end,” Dash replies with fake enthusiasm. This was obviously eating her up inside, and I only wish I could do more to ease her pain.
“Kat needs somepony ta keep her from fallin’ further. Ah gave mah word to help her and an Apple never goes back on a promise. That’s the honest truth.”
“Thank you, now let’s find Kat before she does something truly stupid.”
*****Third Person POV ~ Canterlot General Hospital*****
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were not happy ponies right now. After everything that happened with the Gravity Queen, they were battered, bruised, broken, and deeply hurt. Kat had truly broken them, both physically and emotionally. Celestia was feeling it more than Luna, however. The breaking of her horn and her heart was truly devastating to the solar diarch. After coming out surgery, with the doctors being unable to restore her horn from the thousands of pieces, she had yet to say a word to her only sister.
Luna had only just enough power to lower the moon and raise the sun, having to limp back to her bed painfully. “Sister, please, speak to me. I know you are hurt, but I need to know you are ok.” Still Celestia stayed silent, only proving to make Luna even more worried.
“Why did this happen?” Celestia spoke with a pained whisper, surprising Luna. She smiled for a brief moment before the depth of the question hit her. “Where did we go wrong? Why couldn’t we just be the happy family I wished for?”
Luna sighed, reclining back in her hospital bed. “Those are questions that I cannot answer, sister. But we must focus on the problem at hand. Kat is far more dangerous than we anticipated and we paid the price for our arrogance.”
Celestia nodded. “I agree, Lulu. But what is that we can do? I am no longer in any shape to face her, nor are you. Kat just has too much power for us to take on in our present condition. What is it that we can do against the Gravity Queen?”
“Perhaps I could be of assistance,” spoke an unknown voice, surprising the two sisters. They moved their heads back in forth looking for the source of the voice. “Over here.” They look over to a darkened corner of the room, engulfed in shadow. The darkness twisted and turned before a human girl walked out of the shadows. Her hair was black until it hit her shoulders before it turned a deep red as it progressed down to her waist. Her eyes shined a pristine blue, though there was a coldness to them. Her dress was very revealing, only barely covering her breasts, leaving her midriff and shoulders bare, exposing a crescent moon tattoo just above her breasts. The outfit covered her arms and legs like a drape, with an extravagant belt over her waist. Rimmed bands were on her four limbs making it seem as if her boots were a part of her dress. “Greetings, Princesses of Equestria.”
“W-who are you?” asked Luna, slightly afraid of another human in her home.
“There is no need to fear me, Princesses. I am here to help.”
“Help?” Celestia asked with a raised eyebrow. “I don’t think we need anymore of your kind’s help!”
“You misunderstand me, Princess Celestia. I am here to offer my… services.”
“Services?”
“Yes, Princess Luna. I, too, have no like for the Gravity Queen, Kat Shifter. As such, I wish to offer my abilities to you so that she can be brought to justice.”
“Princesses!” exclaimed a guard who burst into the room. The princesses were immediately distracted by the guard, then looked back to where the girl was, only to see that she was gone.
Celestia shook her head clear and addressed the guard. “Yes, what is it?”
“It has returned.”
Celestia paled. “Alert Shining Armor and Princess Cadance, send them there now. Go!” The guard saluted and sped off. “I have feared this day.”
“Sister, what did he mean by ‘it’?”
“The Crystal Empire has returned,” spoke the voice of the girl. The two princesses were startled, looking up to the source of the voice and finding the human standing on the ceiling. She jumped down in a slowed backflip, landing daintily on her feet.
“How did you know that?”
“I have been keeping an eye on that area due to the high amount of energy coming from there. If I may, I suggest sending your pupil to the Empire to assist.”
“Why would I send Twilight there?! I will not lose my precious student to that monster!”
“Because if she goes, so will the Gravity Queen.”
“I don’t follow,” Celestia admitted, feeling both angry and confused.
“Kat and your student are friends. She has befriended all of the Elements.”
“WHAT?!” exclaimed the princesses.
“It is the sad truth. She has blinded them, making them think she is the victim in all of this. When she is only manipulating them further.”
“My poor Twilight,” Celestia said while hanging her head sadly.
“It will work in your favor, though.”
“How so?” Celestia asked with a cautious look.
“Well, if you agree to accept my help, I can get you Kat Shifter.”
Luna and Celestia looked at one another, weighing the benefits and the consequences of this new shifter’s offer. On the one hoof, it could help capture a powerful criminal, but could also turn loose one who could be just as bad. However, Kat was the greater threat and if this shifter could help them, then they would let her. Celestia turned back to the shifter. “We accept your help, Miss…”
Suddenly, a starry black bird cawed from the window as it flew to the shifter’s shoulder. The girl scratched the underside of its beak affectionately. “I am the one who will bring justice to she who has wronged us, the true Master of Gravity. I am Raven, Raven Masters.”
eh.....
kinda not liking where this is going, twilight doesn't understand the full story.
*pimp slaps Twilight a second time*
Calm the hell down Twi!
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not to sound like that guy but im gonna, the full story is irrelevant. genocide is bad, assault is bad, if you do these things because you "have the mind of an 8 year old" you are still put away, and if its really serious you are never let out into society again. kat is a monster, there is no story that you can give me that would prove otherwise.
4944953 This is a LOHAV/LOHAH
Just who is Raven Masters and why dose she want Kat gone?
I just can't wait to know.
Keep up the good work
And the true villain has tricked the princesses.
Well, with the Elements divided like that, things aren't looking too well. Yowza.
F**k you raven
4945098 Well said.
4944980 Just warning you kotor has made himself a nusiance in several other fics with his analysations because he cannot accept that characters will not always act as he wants.
4945211 Maybe so, but his analysis of Kat's character has been spot on so far.
A crescendo of fire and dust left the fighting field empty and bare. The bonds shattered, its pieces still clinging to their hearts. The hearts strained against the pressure in the tug-of-war, and it only left both broken and bleeding. Ashes in Kat's hands and crumbling dust on the hooves of the Sun Goddess.
With a house divided, loyalties tested, and the honest truth waiting to be find, it takes knowing how to be kind on the inside to pull away from the darkness. There's no time for giving or laughing, no time to study for a grand test neither are even prepared for yet.
For the Gravity Queen and Equestria, it is a fight without end. Because war, war never changes.
...I blame the chapter title.
4945337 ...how do you do that?! That's deep! Deeper than deep! It's like... super mega ultra deep! It's like a preview commercial for a tv episode! Brilliant! Brilliant!
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Another pawn is moved, another piece turns. All the while the clock ticks further, counting down to the zero that marks a new day.
Yeaaaano I have read this story from the beginning and now I'm sorry to say its gone boring (everywhere I go I always see ponies win) and its annoying as hell but this is just my opinion this was fun to but now......no goodbye
nevertheless I am on the side of kat in this story I hope she winscelestia and suffer another defeat hehe if I'm a little evil
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Challenge accepted.
If a child was given the power to kill people with just a single thought, he/she would almost definitely do so at some point in time. But the child is no different than anyone else. Tell me, have you never felt the desire to kill another, have you never felt righteous anger? If you have, you know what I'm talking about, and if you haven't, then your opinion is as valid as a random text generator.
The problem isn't that Kat harbors hatred and goes into fits of rage when she sees something deeply emotional troubling. Many functioning members of society could describe themselves that way. No, the problem is that no one can stop her. The problem is that there is such a disparity between her power and everyone else's that she literally had to be sealed away because ponies though that she might destroy the world by accident.
...heheheh... Harmony has been split in twain. Honesty, Loyalty and Kindness have broken away from Generosity, Laughter and Magic... ...the Gravity Queen is ill, and there are many who would happily put her out of her misery, but not the second half of Harmony. They would prolong that suffering indefinitely by sealing her in stone. In light of this, can the Queen truly be thought of as a monster, though she slaughtered the Changelings and broke off Celestia horn? I do not, for she has demonstrated that every terrible action that she committed against life itself, including the mentioned actions, weigh heavily on her broken mind. In my mind, she is as much a victim as Celestia. Now, would somebody tell me why the heck I laughed after I read this chapter? I'm pretty sure it was a bitter laugh of a sort that only the shrieking depths of madness can bring. Could anybody verify that from the facsimile of said laugh at the beginning of this? I'd appreciate it if somebody out there could do so.
4946059 I'm not sure, but I think it was a compliment, so thank you.
4885356 No he is secreting a manly eye fluid that could be used to turn hippies into real men if made into bombs.
Decision Making 101, 'Tia. Do not make decisions under duress. Smart of the Raven to throw in that extra pressure on top of everything the sisters have done. Everyone is too stressed at the moment. For some reason I am giving Dusty the voice of Liam O'Brian, specifically Leviathan. Not sure what accent Pinkie was going for. Understandable that Twi' lashed out that way. Also curious to see if she ever decides to do any other summons besides her first two, or maybe Dusty does one for her.
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see that isnt a good reason, the difference between me wanting to kill someone and actually killing someone is my moral compass and my self control. i control myself to not kill someone just because i dont like them, i would intervene if i saw someone hurting another. Now alot of people are claiming kat is a victim, why? because she feels bad? my question to you, why does she feel bad?
is it because she knows shes in trouble? because she knows what she did is wrong? because she knows she will be punished? you cannot safely answer these questions unless you are willing to risk other peoples safety.
A fantastic example of these issues was in the show "The walking dead" i truly hope some of you watch it. if anyone saw the episode where carol had to kill the little girl you know what im talking about.
So ultimately i ask: are you willing to risk the lives of people around you to try to rehabilitate a known killer?
Is it normal to imagine hearing Dusty's voice as either Liam Neeson from Taken when he's calm or Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate when he's pissed?
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Thank you for the reference. Not a huge fan of cakes anyways. Muffins are better.
Also, I'm calling it: Dusty will summon Gilgy.
4947505 I think of the talking cat from Tales of Xillia 2. The one with glasses.
I don't quite understand Fluttershy's reasoning. How has Twilight broken Shifter when it was Shifter herself who chose to harm the Princesses, or was merely an emotional statement meant to ease her suffering by giving someone altogether un-responsible for the current situation in order to feel a little better in a time of crisis?
Raven needs to refresh her knowledge cuz twi and kat are mortal enemies, not friends.
4949848 It will be addressed at a later point.
I want to establish now that Dusty is in no way, shape, or form a villain in this story. He's just a concerned father who has no real idea what he's doing.
4946185 Okay, please explain just how the ponies "won"? I, myself, would like to know how almost SLAUGHTERING Celestia constitutes losing.
4949154 "Raven" is either the one who, or someone associated with the person that orchestrated this big mess. She's omitting that little tidbit on purpose. "It's hate-mail time! 'Dear Raven, you suck. Signed, Everyone.'"
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Go ask someone with phantom limb syndrome what self control is. Or maybe you should ask someone with a genetic predisposition to fits of rage. Maybe you should tell someone in Kat's situation that they didn't have a good moral compass to allow themselves to get into that situation.
Tell me, when a girl complains to a company's CEO, showing scans of her and her family's brain activity diminishing over time because of the pollution the company is creating, and gets violent when the CEO deny's all of her clams without giving them a second thought, who is at fault? Is it the CEO for allowing the pollution to ruin her life, or is it the girl, for getting violent when her brain was no longer working correctly?
First off, Kat is not a serial killer. She's closer to a president with access to a nuke button. Heck, the changelings are just like the Japanese in WWII, who were so loyal to their leader that the word kamekaze comes from them. She specifically said she was acting to save ponies, and in fact did save ponies by doing her changeling crush attack.
Or is it your opinion that everyone in the military is a killer? Or is every politician who has to make tough decisions a killer?
Kat also did not kill Celestia. Sure, she injured her irreversibly, but that is not the same thing as killing.
Now, what is right and what should be done are sometimes two different things. I'll just go into what should be done here.
Kat should have to go through years of community service for what she did, with mandatory help.
Now here's my reaoning:
You have several options. You could do what Celestia and Twilight are doing and try to attack Kat, either to imprison or kill, but that one has a large chance of Kat getting even more emotional and killing, well, in the worst case, everyone on the planet. You could also let her roam free, but let's be honest, that's practically suicidal. Or you could be like Applejack and stick by her because it's what will help her. I mean, you may experience some fits of emotions yourself, but the least amount of ponies will get hurt that way. You could even make it so she better understands the livelihoods she's destroying by playing chess with city buildings.
Edit: Missed this:
Because she couldn't control herself, broke the horn of the pony that had pretty much been her mother, and ruined the trust of her friends.
She feels bad because she can't trust herself, and because she regrets what she's done.
4950310 See, now this guy gets it. I applaud you my friend, here have a moustache for your glorious words: .
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Senpai noticed me!
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4949990 makes sense to me.
4948432 nah probably he will call on auric. Or maybe not
So I finally caught up and now I'm sad because I have to wait for another
But great chapter as always, but I kinda wish it didn't have to be like this.
Elements divided, a new challenger to the battlefield, and relative chaos beginning to rise greater than before as the threat of Sombra looms on the horizon. If I didn't know better, I'd say Discord was somehow involved in this. I look forward to how this plays out!
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Am beside with laughter at the picture, especially since I know of a HiE cosplayer fic involving Doge.
i just love this story, i was wondering where raven came into the story and there she is can't wait untill next chapter ^^
4950310 dude holy shit thats a brilliant explantation i totally agree with that
… Huh, so THIS is one of the people on Auric's side in the upcoming War? She seems more like she's fit for Makuta Teridax's influence, if you ask me. Nonetheless, I wonder how she'll react to being involved in the war. I wanna fight her! C'mon, then, Shifter! Face the Flame Pokémon!
This is interesting, and I WILL like and follow this sh*t!
4956157 That's the idea. Kat's a wildcard with a good heart. Though, how much longer can it stay untainted? That's the real question in the war.
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no just no, phantom limb syndrome to explain emotional responses to stimuli? seriously c'mon! also down grading kat from serial killer to a president with a nuke button? i already down graded kat from a genocidal maniac to serial killer. comparing what happened to the japanese to complete genocide is a huge discrepancy. if you had used the native americans or the jewish people that would have nudged me into your line of thinking. also you never answered my other questions about her mental health. you are saying you are ok with putting someone like that near other people in the hope she gets better. you are risking peoples lives in the off chance you can fix her, what if you cant? what if she leaves you alone and hurts others? are you going to take responsibility for the pain she caused?
honestly what i took from this was that actions like genocide are ok so long as you have a reason.
4960040 Okay, I feel I need to defuse some of this here. Okay, I get how some people may think that Kat went overboard with the whole genocide thing, but let's make this clear because apparently I did not. The changelings are monsters. I described them as the inspiration for vamponies for a reason! They don't care who they hurt to get their food as long as they get fed. Yes it is a terrible thing to do, I get that, but what other choice did Kat really have? When has letting the bad guys get away so they can change ever done anything?! She let that happen the first time and it still led to this. This is their base nature! Have we learned nothing from the Joker?
Also, how is Kat's reformation any different than Discord's? Discord was always described as a tyrant, so it's not inconceivable that he killed ponies under his rule. For all we know, Discord has a higher kill list than any other creature on the planet, including Kat. I know in my story Discord was only ruler for a short time comparatively, but that's still a long time for someone with his kind of powers to do something. They took the same risk with Discord, why not Kat?
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Maybe I should have posted a bunch of shock pictures, if severity was what you were looking for.
Have you interacted with people with serious mental health problems? Have you read stories about people with serious mental health problems? This is not a story about a person with serious mental health problems. She can't even be said to have PTSD, because then random things would be scaring her and sending her into rage, not just deeply emotional things. Unless you can give a description of her mental health problems, I'm not going to try and disprove something you can't even describe.
What if she just sat on her bed and cried instad? What if she helped everyone and saved the world because she realized her mistakes. You would have killed or imprisoned her for no reason. Are you going to take responsibility for the pain you caused her? And are you going to take responsibility for the pain you've indirectly caused everyone she could ever have interacted with?
And you haven't even given a decent explanation as to why she's a danger to anypony. Heck, protecting ponies has been core to her character for the entire story. why would it change now?
Yeah, killing a person is okay as long as you have a reason. Or you could say killing a person is okay in self defense when your life is in danger. Everything sounds different when you oversimplify it.
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Edit: okay, that last image may have been a bit much, but with your last sentence, it seemed like we were already descending into petty insults.
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because she viciously crippled celestia for murdering her cat that is still alive. shes clearly unstable and needs to be put away or put down. also it wasnt about shock its about percent of population removed from society, you used nukes, i used examples like the holocaust and native american purges carried out by several european factions. the percentage is amazingly different. no not every soldier comes back a psycho path, and yes i have talked to people with mental disorders and metal impairments. my father has an incredibly severe case of bi-polar disorder and depression, he HAS to take drugs to deal with these issues or he does go crazy and has gotten violent with others without the drugs. the difference, i know he can be controlled, i dont know kat can be controlled. again i refuse to risk others lives to satisfy a "what-if" scenario involving someone with a "gun" hell if you want there is a story a few years ago in Connecticut about a family that was brutally murdered by two felons that were released cause the parole board thought they were rehabilitated. im not a gambling man.
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I think what you are also missing here is that this has only just happened. It hasn't even really been 24 hours since Kat's rage, so of course there isn't going to be a whole lot happening. The only ponies who know where Kat even lives are the bearers, Garble and his gang being the only others. You make it sound as if Kat will not be punished for the crimes she has committed. She will face punishment, but she must first be captured for that to happen. How are six mares supposed to do that? They don't keep the Elements on them, they have had no time to retrieve them from Canterlot, and it's not like any of them are strong enough to take her on. Kat could easily overpower any of them, even in the broken state she is in. The point being is that you seem to believe that there will be no consequences, when there just hasn't been enough time for them to happen yet.
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But the meaning is also different. Nukes were supposed to end war. Purges were only ever supposed to end lives.
Y'know, my dad's seizure medication can be effected by something as arbitrary as grapefruit, and one of my friends had a tendency to take things too far. But the reason I trust people is never "because they can be controlled", it's "I've become close to them".
Anyway, this goes back to my first post where I was saying the problem was that Kat had too much power.
You don't seem to understand. Just by being able to do anything, you are "gambling". You also seem to think your "gambling" with something like a slot machine, while it's much closer to poker.
And I'm getting the feeling you're especially mad because changelings got hurt. Hey, I'm a little annoyed that Pinkie is going against Kat, but I can't say it's not realistic, so I'm not complaining.
Edit: I might lose interest in the story if Kat killed Pinkie, but that's still not really a problem with the story. It's just my personal preference.
This story. I hate it. I love it. I hate it. I love it. I hate it. I love it.
Why must I ride this rollercoaster of emotion? Every chapter, something changes my mind about my thoughts on this story. So why do I keep reading it? What reason could I have, to willingly subject myelf to such emotional torture?
I can't stop.
I might be a masochist.