Since you've deliberately left the summary vague I guess I gotta hide spoilers for every comment.
So, all we know so far is:
1) David is in another reality. He has at least two sets of conflicting memories. 2) A reality he had been in had no Equestrian Resistance (either because it was immediately put down or great propaganda) 3) Because of the lack of resistance, David has basically had open season on everypony he's seen, and has apparently killed a ton of them. Possibly all of them in another reality. 4) David is without Excalibur but has access to magic and immunity to the ponification serum. 5) David had the manes (kill marks) of all six of the Elements of Harmony. 6) The reality he finds himself in not only has an Equestrian Resistance, it also has the Elements of Harmony still around, and on the Resistance's side. 7) He is unsure who is supposed to be alive and dead. 8) Sam is alive. I assume this is the same dude who in the prologue of the original AoA was David's best friend prior to becoming the avatar and was turned into a Pegasus that David put down (that scene really didn't sit well with me but that was supposed to be the point I guess). It's tragic because it's only later did he gain the ability to fix the minds of the converted and to also turn others immune to the serum. Hey, I guess he gets a chance to undo that this time.
In (possibly over-brief) reply to a well thought out analysis:
1) Yup. 2) Also yup. The consequences of that are part of his back history, and there are already hints to what happened to him in AOA (as well as other work, some of it not mine). 3) Also yup - again, already hints in AOA. 4) Without as of yet. Otherwise yup. 5) Yup. 6) Yup. 7) Yup. 8) This is the same dude, yup. I'm curious as to why the scene in AOA didn't sit well with you: to be honest, that's one of the things I'm gonna touch up in the rewrite of AOA, mainly because Sam is under-developed.
Just the whole losing his best friend thing and having to put him down (especially since had he lived he may have been cured). Such is the price of war and it was a necessary building block for Elliot, but it still left me with bad taste in my mouth. I'm a sucker for a happy story and that part definitely wasn't happy at all.
5689268 True there. That part, I fear, will not be changed at all. Still, if it makes you feel better there are happier stories ahead in AOA. Maybe not in this AOA but still...
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I knew there was something I meant to do today.
Since you've deliberately left the summary vague I guess I gotta hide spoilers for every comment.
So, all we know so far is:
1) David is in another reality. He has at least two sets of conflicting memories.
2) A reality he had been in had no Equestrian Resistance (either because it was immediately put down or great propaganda)
3) Because of the lack of resistance, David has basically had open season on everypony he's seen, and has apparently killed a ton of them. Possibly all of them in another reality.
4) David is without Excalibur but has access to magic and immunity to the ponification serum.
5) David had the manes (kill marks) of all six of the Elements of Harmony.
6) The reality he finds himself in not only has an Equestrian Resistance, it also has the Elements of Harmony still around, and on the Resistance's side.
7) He is unsure who is supposed to be alive and dead.
8) Sam is alive. I assume this is the same dude who in the prologue of the original AoA was David's best friend prior to becoming the avatar and was turned into a Pegasus that David put down (that scene really didn't sit well with me but that was supposed to be the point I guess). It's tragic because it's only later did he gain the ability to fix the minds of the converted and to also turn others immune to the serum. Hey, I guess he gets a chance to undo that this time.
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In (possibly over-brief) reply to a well thought out analysis:
1) Yup.
2) Also yup. The consequences of that are part of his back history, and there are already hints to what happened to him in AOA (as well as other work, some of it not mine).
3) Also yup - again, already hints in AOA.
4) Without as of yet. Otherwise yup.
5) Yup.
6) Yup.
7) Yup.
8) This is the same dude, yup. I'm curious as to why the scene in AOA didn't sit well with you: to be honest, that's one of the things I'm gonna touch up in the rewrite of AOA, mainly because Sam is under-developed.
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Just the whole losing his best friend thing and having to put him down (especially since had he lived he may have been cured). Such is the price of war and it was a necessary building block for Elliot, but it still left me with bad taste in my mouth. I'm a sucker for a happy story and that part definitely wasn't happy at all.
5689268
True there. That part, I fear, will not be changed at all. Still, if it makes you feel better there are happier stories ahead in AOA. Maybe not in this AOA but still...