"To every corner of Equestria, I'll spread harmony and equality. And the evil of cutie marks and the misery and pain they've brought to ponies throughout history will end. Isn't that right, my Elements of Equality?"
An alternate ending to the Season 5 premiere. You can guess that the premise is Starlight Glimmer succeeds at indoctrinating the mane six, who are now eager and willing to bring the gift of Equality to everypony Ponyville, their friends, their families, no pony shall be left behind. All bow before Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Sameness.
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Fanfic based on fanart by TheCheeseBurger and Cutie Markless. thecheeseburger.deviantart.com/art/Equality-is-Magic-525287479
Does not have to do with the Pony POV Series.
MLP:FiM
Song mod by Persona22
'And then they were all eaten by griffons and died, none of them able to fight back any better than the worst fighter in Equestria.'
*Sugar Belle nods sadly while standing next to a platter of horrible muffins*
(*shudder*)
Very good ... though I don't know that their victory would be quite so easy, as their own powers would have been greatly reduced.
Twilight's plans to turn everypony into Alicorns seems like a smarter way to bring equality.
The part about Discord almost made me lose it in this story. Well done, I enjoyed this view on what would happen if Starlight Glimmer had won.
5874197 There aren't very many griffons.
They have reserves.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
For some reason reason, I cannot stop thinking in the Cybermen.
This is the scariest story I've yet read on Starlight Glimmer and her plan. The part that sealed it for me was the transmogrification of the show's theme from something peppy into something creepy. I imagine it being played at a slow pace and with instruments that most anybody can play and no better than anyone else e.g. grade-school recorder playing. That is, of course, assuming Pinkie's fourth-wall capabilities are canon. And assuming that the show's composer was watching.
5874197
Yes, but it also means they their competency level doesn't decrease with loss of numbers.
Hello, my name is Elder Dash, and I would like to share with you the most AMAZING town!
Hello, my name is Elder Shy, It's a town where everypony is equal, don't you see?
There are so many awesome benefits, you simply won't believe how much this town can help you out!
Hello! My name is Elder Pie, I would like to share with you this town of equal marks!
Hello, my name is Elder Sparkle (Hello!) Did you know that differences bring about disharmony?
You can learn all about it now, (hello!) Starlight Glimmer will show you when you come to our little town!
Hello! My name is Elder Jack, and can I take you to this town for you to just peruse!
Hello!
Hello!
Hello!
I'll just take you there
we have a lot of information you could really use!
Hello!
Hi!
My name is- Celestia! You have a lovely home! (Hello)
It's an amazing town!
Bonjour!
Ni hao!
Mi llamo Elder Spike!
Are these your foals?
This town gives you the secret to friendship if you're super nice! (sound good?)
Friendship is nice
and super fun
Hello!
Ding Dong!
and if you let us take you there we can show you how it can be done
No thanks?
You Sure?
Oh well
That's fine
Goodbye!
Have fun in hell! (hey now!)
You simply won\'t believe how much
This town will change your life,
This town will change your life,
This town will change your life!
This town will change your life,
This town will change your liiiife!
HOOOOOOOOOOONK
HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET RID OF YOUR CUTIE MARK?
No, no, Elder Sentry! That's not how we do it! You're making things up again! Just stick to the approved dialogue! Elders, show him!
Hello!
HELLO!
My name is
ELDER SENTRY!
And we would like to share with you this town of equality!
Hello!
Hello!
Ding dong!
Heigh ho!
Just take a look!
It's free
equality!
You simply won't believe how much this town will change your life!
(hello)
this town will change your life!
this town will change your life!
(hello)
This town will change your life, so you won't burn in
HEEEEELLLLLOOOOOOOOO!
You're gonna die some day
But if you just believe you'll see
That there's another way.
Share equality
With friends and family.
We can fully guarantee you that
This town will change your life!
(Hello!)
This town will change your life!
(Hello!)
This town will change your life!
The town of Glimmer
(Glimmer!)
Hello!!!
5874210
Princess of Sameness, "Equality is magic."
5874232
Indeed. Basically, the Equal Six are tackling the pragmatic side of Glimmer's way of thinking that she never considered due to the current scale of her herd. They've SURPASSED Starlight Glimmer, yes that not very equal, but neither was Glimmer secretly keeping her cutie mark.
5874235
Lose it as in sad, or lose it as in angry rant?
And thanks!
5874280
Not QUITE the same, but the same idea or removing all difference. I imagine them using magic cloning mirrors to produce foals a thousand years down the line, having eliminated the dividing line between mares and stallions.
5874288
I was worried I'd made this story too short to get the message across, but I'm happy to hear that you did indeed feel impacted by this what-if tale if the mane six were broken by Glimmer's indocturnation.
5874474
THAT IS SOMETHING ELSE! Is it a parody of something? :-D
5874505 It's a parody of the opening song of my favourite musical "The Book Of Mormon" -- Hello. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkLV1zE8M0 there's the original song. :D.
5874478 Lose it as in sad. It was slightly heartwrenching.
5874237
Episode 8 of this season is taking us to the griffin kingdom, so, we'll find out!
5874472
Was it Naruto canon or fanfic that had someone responding to his clone swarm tactic with 'A million times zero is still zero. Learn how to fight!'?
The two friends nuzzled, and the The Princess of Sameness cast the spell.
That's one part that bothers me... how can she cast a spell that powerful with the = cutie mark?
Starlight made it clear that she couldn't cast the spell needed to do it if she gave up her own cutie mark. And Twilight was clearly de-powered without it.
5874729
I think Starlight Glimmer's dialogue of "I no longer need to carry the curse anymore" implies that Twilight Sparkle is taking on the 'burden' of being 'the one pony around here with a cutie mark' so that Starlight Glimmer can give hers up. After all, its not like Starlight can't just open the jar lid and give it back any time they feel like.
The fic could make that a bit plainer, yes.
The place is called Our Town? That is actually pretty clever.
I don't believe it, she honestly DOES believe her Equality/Sameness shtick.
Good Lord, it's worse than Sunnytown! At least with those guys it was a curse, but here, it's a whole new level of creepy.
FlaUnt.
Ouch, poor guy.
...
She tried.
Yikes.
And here I thought you said you hated the idea of "lock the power in a box" or "spread it among the populace"
I suppose not.
I don't believe it. She really DOES believe her own stuff. Then again, as one guy pointed out, when the facade was up, then why bother to keep lying, she really did mean all that stuff.
And that is just creepy as all hell.
5874484
Also because Starlight, like John Lumic, ended assimilated by her own terrible creations.
5874601
HEY JERK! SPOILERS!
5875847
Except here it was of her own free will.
5874606
I was thinking more along the lines of the Modrons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modron_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
5874729
There were some 'upgrades' made to the Equal Mark.
5875184
"I don't believe it, she honestly DOES believe her Equality/Sameness shtick."
What scares me for western society is that people can't grasp that a zealot does what they do for the cause, not for wealth or power.
5876228 What kinda upgrades? Because with the spell, everypony, EVERYpony should be the SAME. That means, Twilight shouldn't be smart, or gifted in magic, because then she wouldn't be the same. From the looks of it, it's not the weaker ones gets upgraded to match the higher 'ranked' ponies. It's everyone gets lowered down to the lowest rank. So everypony will be as healthy as the sickest, as smart as the dumbest, as physically active as much as the laziest, and as magically gifted as the weakest unicorn.
With how the spell works in the show, what is shown here shouldn't be possible. So what changes did you make?
5876214
"Dear Princess Celestia. Today I learned that its perfectly OK to call people 'jerks' when asking them not to do something, even if you have never raised the topic with them before and the alleged 'spoiler' was already all over EQ daily without a spoiler-block text, because it was in the episode summary that Hasbro just put out in the promo material. But hey, my preferences as to what I do and do not want to see reign supreme and trump even common courtesy, such as maybe using the word 'Please don't' instead of 'Hey, jerk!'. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."
Seriously, if its a rule around here that even the promo trailers count as spoilers, then I sincerely apologize for inadvertently stepping on it. But the key word is inadvertently. It's not like there's a sticky thread at the top of a forum saying 'NO SPOILERS PLEASE' or something, and we have literally never talked on this topic before so I have no idea of your personal preferences. It was an accident. And I dunno about you, but if somebody does something accidentally wrong I don't yell in his face that he's a jerk. I save that for repeat offenders.
So, I guess we both made a poor first impression today. But tomorrow I will be a guy who knows that comment threads are no-spoiler territory. And you will hopefully be a politer dude when requesting someone to do something... but I don't control that. You do.
OH MY GOSH!!!! I'm so excited to read this!!!!!
Those manestyles are epic btw ;D
SO AWESOME!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
5877542
The idea is that once they've been indoctrinated, and yeah, Glimmer realizes she needs to send them back to Ponyville to avoid trouble she'd rather not face, the six begin to add pragmatic aspects to their new way of life (since they're the first of her herd that she isn't there to stamp out any deviations from the creed) and are eager to spread to every pony else. This makes them MORE dangerous since it means they can ADAPT. They were the first Glimmer had no CHOICE but HAD TO let 'leave the nest.'
5878051 Be sure to tell the artist that.
5878074
Thanks!
ALL OF MY NOPE.
The music from 'Psycho' should be looped to this.
Nope. Creepier.
5878253
Starlight Glimmer, "Fight as much as you want, in the end, all ponies desire to be free, and cutie marks are what chain us from within."
5878262
"Cutie Mark Crusader Equalists. Yay."
5878263
5878310
Yeah, and I'm Richard Nixon.
Still think that music should be looped to this.
5878245 That doesn't really explain it tho. The spell/cutie mark magically makes them the same, in the show. Whenever they try to be different, it forces them back to being the same. AJ couldn't speak 'countryism', and Pinkie couldn't be more happy than the others were, and they all ran/flu at the same speed.
It wasn't Glimmer that did that, it was the spell itself. She said she studied it for years, so she isn't even the creator of it.
So how did the Mane 6 going home change how the spell worked? especially enough to make Twilight 'Unique' enough to be able to cast the spell as well, when she should be 'Equal' to everypony else?
PS. To give an example of what I mean, it's like Casting the same spell over and over, say Fireball, and then suddenly one time the Fireball is 3 times bigger, blue, and homes onto Blueblood and lights him on fire. Spells don't just... suddenly change, because then it's not the same spell!
5878328
"It wasn't Glimmer that did that, it was the spell itself. She said she studied it for years, so she isn't even the creator of it."
She wasn't trying to remove the foursome's cutie marks again, she was trying to turn them to ashes.
5878249
Who's the artist? Where can I find the picture? 0.0
Wonderful fic. Made me kinda sad.
5878419
http://thecheeseburger.deviantart.com/art/Equality-is-Magic-525287479
5878422
Any part in particular? Or just in general?
Where to begin. To be frank, I didn't like the idea of starlight's little cult. But, I thought I'd give this story a shot for the sake of being fair. And, I was pleasantly surprised. In my opinion, you could've probably made it longer, rather that a one shot. Decribed it in more detail. Put a chapter in for each group, culminating the same way. But its still good.
5878682
I was worried that I had made the story too short. But I wanted to get the point across. Happy that you were entertained still in spite of its length.
5878427 Just in general.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
