A young stallion is suspected of arson on the house of his girlfriend, but the judge decides he can't pass the judgment himself and, benefiting of the fact he lives in the magical land of Equestria, turns to the princesses to decides on his behalf.
The only problem is, the princess happens to be Twilight and Twilight has no idea what to decide.
She embarks on a little journey to try and find out if she should better throw somepony in jail, risking the fact that he might be innocent, or setting him free, risking the fact he might be a danger for society. And therefore decide how much is worth sacrificing for the insurance of safety.
By chance, there is always the option to rely on princess Celestia as she always knows what should be done.
Chapters (10)
Why'd you publish these all at once?
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I couldn't find a good reason to publish them one by one. It doesn't seem to benefit the reader to publish them one by one. And I'm not sure it would benefit me either.
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If you update your chapters individually you get more chances to be on the home page which equals more views and likes. Also, more views means more potential for readers giving their thoughts which can help improve the story as well as the direction it may head. Make sense?
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It makes sense
Yeah, the Dash storyarc and the case could be separated into two stories, but, as it is now, chapter 8 did give me "unexpected feels".
You have my fave and like, not only because of that moment, but because of how much Twilight this was. I mean, how she dove into the case and had a hard time adapting to non-concrete evidence. And, even with the ruling as is in Equestria, Celestia herself doesn't feel completely at easy with these decisions - rightfully in my opinion.
So, yea, thumb'd and fav'd.
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It is probably the biggest weakness of that story that I created the whole "Dash's dad ark" just for that revelation.
And to show how much jail can (at least I think it can) affect someone and therefore how important Twilight's decision actually is.
In my opinion too, because in our world, the lack of evidence would normally lead to the suspect's liberation because of the significant doubt.
If I had wanted to follow my own principles (and the legal system of my country), Fire Anthem would have finished free. But as the Equestrian system I describe basically ask the population (in the form of one pony) to give its opinion (inspired by the US jury system and the good old "12 angry men"), I had to go with the most probable way the population would go for, which is putting in jail just to be sure...
It may have something to do with the population in my country having voted about a judicial question and that vote going against the very principle of proportionality in the sentence.
Well, in the end, I'm glad you could enjoy the story even with that extreme weird Dash's dad ark that, in retrospective, I shouldn't have done that way...
I liked this story.
OK, I know it wasn't the point of this story, but I just have to say this:
I bet it was the neighbor. He was in love with Face Full and wanted her to himself, so he pland this whole thing to get Fire Anthem out of the way.
And that is how my mind works when presented a story that ends like this.
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Thanks
. I wish I had done it differently (kicked out the whole Rainbow Dash arc and found another way to say how terrible prisons can be), but I'm glad you could appreciate it.
And for a moment in my head, it was. But if it had been him, that would have weakened the moral of the story... What if I were to tell you Faith Full did it?
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What a twist!
Not really. Still believable.
Good Job
YAY
Is he alive or did he leave?
SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO DASH'S FATHER
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I didn't consider that he could have simply left. That would have probably been a good compromise. Yet Dash would have tried to find him.
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wait, suicide?
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Yeah, I know, it's too extreme. And yet... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520329/
I didn't know at the time, but it seems it's not that extreme after all.