Chapter 30: I Just Want to Help
***Insight 8:55 am***
"Thank you for the muffins ms. Hooves," I said as I took a bite out of one of the muffins Ditzy had kindly brought with her.
"It's no problem doctor. You did help my little muffin after all," She replied while petting Dinky's head. Dinky was happily licking on a lollipop that I had given her at the end of our session. Normally I don't give candy to my patients, but Dinky is a special case. When she first came to me three years ago she was for lack of a better term, broken.
"She's a nice filly. I'm glad that she's happy to be with you," I still remember Ditzy adopting Dinky. They were both so happy that their smiles would carry over from each of our sessions. That was why I became a psychologist; so I could help ponies.
"Me too. Would you like for me to bring some more muffins during our next visit?"
"You don't have to ms. Hooves." I held my head high before leaning it down a bit, "I prefer banana nut."
Ditzty winked at me before tapping her daughter's shoulder to get her attention.
"It's time to go Dinky. Say goodbye,"
"Bye Insight!" Dinky said enthusiastically after popping the lollipop out of her mouth. She looked at the treat in her magic before she suddenly asked me something. "Can I get an extra lollipop?"
"I can't give you too many. You'll get cavities," Kids. They never learn how bad a cavity can be until they've had one.
"It's not for me though! I'm giving it to Chance," This caused me to stop for a minute. I knew Dinky was in the same town as Chance, but I never thought that they might of been friends. Oh this could be extremely bad. Still, I couldn't just leave the situation as it is so I gave her one extra lollipop before asking,
"Are you a friend of Chance's?" Her cheeks went a little red when I asked that. That's cute, I believe she might have a little crush on him.
"Y-yes. He's really nice," She was stuttering too. In all honesty this could be good for both of them, but first Chance needs to give up his delusions for it to work. If he doesn't then he might just make things worse for Dinky. He was actually scheduled to be coming in any minute so I humbly apologized to Ditzy and Dinky before shooing them out.
I walked over to my desk, and filed Dinky's case back into it's proper spot before pulling out Chance's file. I truly feel bad for him with all that's happened to him since Jungle Vine destroyed him. What mare plays with a child's mind as if it were a toy? Did she not realize what she was doing? The more she pushed the more of his memories faded until there was nothing left to save.
When he first came to me I had hoped to recover some fragment of Chance, but there was nothing left. The only thing that he could remember was his name or at least part of it. This is really why I want to go ahead with the mind wipe; nopony should have to live their only memories being horrible.
Ever since we were able to get a hold of him he wasn't ever truly able to interact with many ponies. Especially unicorns at first which would cause him to go into blind panic when they'd use their magic. This was a perplexing issue because there was no ready means to handle such a fear with unicorns being so wide spread in Equestria. That's when ms. Jubilee came along.
She took him in and that's when he started improving tremendously. The success was short lived however because of the incident involving one of the farm hands. He just wanted to help and nearly killed the poor stallion. After that he started to regress a little bit and more incidents began to happened. If it wasn't for Arrow's involvement I would say Chance would be unreachable.
"Hey, you in here Doc?" Chance called from the doorway.
***Chance 9:05 am***
"It's good to see you Chance, but you're a little late," Insight said while looking over toward me. I was currently enjoying a sucker Dinky had given me on her way out of here. I talked with her a little bit, but I didn't ask why she was here. I suppose I could of asked her, but that wouldn't be polite.
"Sorry, Insight. I saw Dinky and decided to talk to her a little bit," I said after popping the sucker out of my mouth. Damn thing was almost impossible to get in there too! I know it's one of those suckers you have to lick for awhile, but it's candy so I don't give a fuck!
"Are you friends with her?" He asked with a weird look on his face.
"Yeah...She's one of my friends,"
"That's good to hear. So I've heard that you've been getting in to some more trouble lately?" I knew he was going to ask this, but I still didn't have a way of answering it without looking very bad.
"Ummm...yeah, I've kind of been in a bit of trouble again. What thing that I did do you want to talk about?" I knew he couldn't possibly know about the forest yesterday so I didn't know exactly what he was talking about. I've still been in trouble throughout town after I got out of the hospital and Arrow was still in it.
"I've heard that you wore a cloak and hid your head while chasing ponies around town. Why were you purposely scaring ponies?" He asked. I remember that prank and it was amazing!
"That was Scootaloo's idea. We decided to go pranking around town so we decided to end the day with a bang, and boom the headless horse in real life."
"Scootaloo is another friend of yours?"
"Yeah! You can't beat her ideas. I've seriously haven't had that much fun in forever!" Insight's face changed a little bit more at that. He was actually grinning a little bit at me.
"That's good to hear, Chance. I'm glad you're finally making friends your own age,"
"They haven't given me a reason to hate them so why wouldn't I be friends with them?" I asked. I mean I don't typically befriend the colts and fillies that I meet, but they're always assholes in some way. Especially Cold.
"No reason. I would like to ask you something else. How has you're foster family been?" It's going to be weird answering this question since normally I don't have anything good to say. The only good report before today was when ms. Jubilee watched over me, and that was because she didn't act like I was crazy.
"How can I put this? Loving and Button are two of the nicest ponies I've ever met," He smiled at me as I said that. I understood Insight cared enough about me to worry about this, but that wasn't his only reasoning. He doesn't have direct power to do anything if he detects signs of trauma, but Arrow has a lot more legal authority over me than my foster parents. This is because I have to be with the family for a full year before I'm relinquished to them completely.
"What about Open or Gibson?" My face dropped to a frown at the thought of those two. Gibson I could look past because he's in his teenager 'fuck everything' faze. Besides I was starting to go into that faze when I was dragged here by that mare.
"Gibson can be nice when he wants to," I was openly avoiding answering the part about Open because I didn't want to leave them yet. If he hears about how much of a jackass Open is then he might tell Arrow and I'll be taken away again.
"What about mr. Seas?"
"Who?" For the love of god I hope he gets the hint that I don't want to talk about him.
"You're deliberately avoiding the question. Has he threatened you, Chance? If he has then I'll call Arrow and-"
"DON'T CALL ARROW! I mean don't call Arrow. Open hasn't threatened me I just don't get a good feeling around him." SHIT SHIT SHIT! I really have to real this back before he does call Arrow. He slowly walked over toward me with a small frown.
"What do you mean?" Insight asked while looking into my eyes.
"Something about him just feels...off. Like he's trying to pretend he's something he's not," I do my best to avoid him at all costs, but I always hear him coming into the house at one in the morning. He's got to be doing something shady because I know he works during the day.
"Alright, May I ask you a question Chance?"
"Actually, Can I ask you a hypothetical question?" I think that we're far enough into the visit for me to safely ask this so I hope he'll listen. Who knows, he might even believe me.
"Go ahead,"
"Let's say Hypothetically I actually don't remember who I was"- I looked at Insight who had an eyebrow raised -"Let's also say that I was a pony for my entire life, and just don't remember. How exactly would I go about becoming normal again?" Insight's expression was unreadable at this point as he thought for a moment. He smiled at me before speaking,
"Well 'Hypothetically' you'd have to slowly reintegrate into society. Once that is done you can either try to remember who you were or start a new life."
"Thanks Doc. It looks like our session is almost over though," I said while pointing to the clock that read 9:50. He looked up at it before he jumped up and ran toward the door. I guess he had somewhere to be?
***Celestia 9:35 am***
"Luna...just...move!" I said while pushing my sister toward her therapist's office.
"I don't need a therapist!" She shouted back toward me. I'm happy that she's home, but I forgot how stubborn she could be about her health. 'We're alicorns' is not a reason for us to neglect our bodies or our minds.
"We have to make sure you're mind is healing!"
"My mind is perfectly fine!" She said as she moved away and started running back towards the castle. Before she could get very far I was able to catch her in my magic and levitated her beside me while we walked toward Insight's office. Insight is a therapist that does particularly well when it comes to extreme cases of mental trauma.
He is one of the only Unicorns I'm willing to let learn that mind wipe spell because he understands when it's necessary. Normally, I wouldn't condone such a use of magic, but he only uses it on foals while they can still adapt to life. If it wasn't a complete mind wipe I'd say that it would be able to help my sister forget that she was even on the moon to begin with.
"Your highness," Arrow said when I walked up to Insight's office. What was he doing here?
"Hello Arrow. What are you doing here?"
"I'm here for Chance's appointment. He's actually getting better!" He said excitedly. I admit that I might not have treated my last meeting with Chance as it should have been handled, but I couldn't just let him off the hook. I mean I was told there was a dragon who foalnapped Chance and had murdered several ponies already. Why does information always get so muddled on the way up?
"That's good to hear Arrow. I was just-"
"Haha! I have broken free!" Luna cried as she started running away from us. I sighed before nodding toward Arrow.
"I apologize, but as you can see; I have a family problem to deal with." Why Can't Luna just see a therapist like normal ponies?
***Insight 10:00 am***
Where are the princesses? They're normally here at exactly ten O'clock. Oh my, did I miss the deadline and they walked away? That can't possibly be good for princess Luna's health especially considering how close we are to a breakthrough.
I was pacing in the reception office while I waited for them to arrive. I was certain that they would be here by now, but instead they're nowhere to be found.
"*wheeze*My apologies *wheeze* Mr. Insight," A very sweaty and tired Celestia as she came in. Luna was wrapped up in a fishing net for some reason, and attempting to gnaw through the net.
"It's not a problem, princess. Would you like that report you asked for?" The report I was referring to was Chance's latest visit. She asked for it to ensure that he is getting better mentally.
"If you would kindly," She said as we started to make our way back into my office. This was when I remembered that I never ended my and Chance's session. As I opened up the door he was standing by my desk with a slightly shocked expression on his face. I was about to ask why when,
"HAHA! No net can hold me!" Why do I get the eccentric patients?
***Chance 9:55 Am***
I was still relaxing in that therapy chair Insight had left me in before bolting out of here. He could of at least said goodbye before ditching out on me like that! I looked around the rather ordinary office of Insight.
The only interesting things were on Insight's desk. He had some weird clock thing, and one of those old timey scales. I got off the chair and made my way over to his desk so I could mess with said scale because why not? When I reached the desk however something caught my eye.
There was a piece of paper in the center of the desk. When I looked at it I immediately recognized it as one of Insight's patient files. The only reason I knew what those looked like was because he showed me mine at one point. By that I mean I looked at mine while his back was turned.
I knew I shouldn't read this because it is illegal, but then again it's probably mine. I began reading what was on the paper,
Patient has a noticeable increase in happiness with her new foster mother.
Nope, that is definitely not mine. I shouldn't read this, and just let Insight know he left it out whenever it is that he returns. Then again, I already broke the law so reading a little more couldn't hurt. Damn you curiosity!
Memory wipe seems to have had no negative side effects on her other than a minor headache that is easily treated. I'm glad that she chose to go through with the memory wipe, but I'm certain no filly wants to remember what she had to. I've only had a few patients from Detrot, but she witnessed her entire family being killed in that train wreck. Ditzy is a good mother for her, and I'm glad she came by when she did.
Wait, Isn't Ditzy Dinky's mom?
Ditzy decided that since she would think she was her blood mother that she would give her a new name. I believe it was Dinky.
Dinky went through with a mind wipe? She doesn't seem like...I mean...What? At this moment was when Insight walked back into the room with a large white alicorn right behind him.
first off I have to say that i'm kinda disappointed you used the phrase Foster Parents, instead of the using superior Foalster Parents
I mean come on, is this not the land of horse puns? lets step the game up a little
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So, Luna goes to therapy to? that's new
also the Celestia thing totally makes sense seeing as the ponies said F.C. was bad and killing ponies, If the Zecora incident is anything to go off of
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also. headless horse pony prank? why did we not see this amazing prank? don't you think we would have liked to see this? a bunch of scared ponies running around? do you think we hate that kind of thing? I will be the first to inform you that we in fact love that kind of thing. jk man, add more little things like that
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on a more serious note, I really enjoy the new dinky angle you have. not much to say about it, but am eager to see more
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it's good to finally see things from insights perspective, I really like this chapter, adding depth to ponies is always a plus.
a couple question before I leave
At this point in the story, how long has Chance been in ponyville?
How long has he known Arrow?
speaking of Arrow, how old is he?
also you may have mentioned it before but I kind forgot, sorry, how old is Chance perceived to be?
6451664 Answer to questions.
Chance has been in ponyville for a little over a month now. Lot's of things happening in such a short time, eh?
He met Arrow two weeks after he escaped Jungle Vine so about seven months
Arrow is in his late twenties. I'd say around 27 or so.
Chance is believed to be about 9 or 10.
Now you people can stop saying that Celestia was in the wrong because you see why she went straight for the attack! I don't mean to sound rude, but man did that get annoying. Also I might just make a chapter dedicated to pranking later, but I'm not sure
I have to say I like how you did the whole perspective angle it's kinda cool, now I know I've said that (if I'm remembering right) if celestia went on to do the mind wipe while chance was unconscious in the hospital she would seem like a tyrant to me, but that's only in that situation. But what she did in FC's cave was kinda wrong, yes I understand that women she got word about the "incident" it was all misconstrued and she went into all holy mother mode, but once chance tried to defend him she should have thought that oh I don't know maybe "perhaps I've misread this" and use her diplomatic side and found out what actually happened instead of saying that chance must have Stockholm syndrome. Anyway on to the chapter being longer I have only one thing to say a and the image says it all
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I took a bit out of one of the muffins Ditzy had kindly brought with her
*bite*
So now we get to see Insight's point of view on the situation. Very interesting, I could argue with his logic but I don't need to since there's no point him being a fictional character and all. Nice job here.
*reads the part about Luna having a therapist* Yikes!
I admit that I might not have treated my last meeting with Chance as it should have been handled, but I couldn't just let him off the hook. I mean I was told there was a dragon who foalnapped Chance and had murdered several ponies already. Why does information always get so muddled on the way up?
Yes that is something I've been waiting for.
"Haha! I have broken free!" Luna cried as she started running away from us. bahahahaha
Why Can't Luna just see a therapist like normal ponies?
Because she doesn't think she needs one and thus her pride is wounded by going to one, she is also probably afraid she will be treated like an insane pony. At least that'd be my guess, and I might feel the same way in certain situations.
Luna was wrapped up in a fishing net for some reason, and attempting to gnaw through the net. ----"HAHA! No net can hold me!" Why do I get the eccentric patients? Hilarious
"Thanks Doc. It looks like our session is almost over though," I said while pointing to the clock that read 9:50. He looked up at it before he jumped up and ran toward the door. I guess he had somewhere to be?------------I was still relaxing in that therapy chair Insight had left me in before bolting out of here. He could of at least said goodbye before ditching out on me like that!
This feels a little awkward to me it seems like Chance's mood changed a lot in between the pov switches, not a big deal but just sticks out to me a little.
Oh my Gosh
So wow lots of interesting plot-points in this chapter, had a good mix of humor, and a little shock factor (not horror shock, I mean surprising developments) for me at least. I enjoyed this chapter a lot keep up the good work. Almost 200 likes, good job man you'll probably overtake me soon unless I get a chapter out very soon. Once again good job.
6451889 You can thank mix-up for that surprise shock actually. He came up with the idea to have a character we already met have chosen to do the memory wipe. I thought the idea was brilliant, and it added more depth to the chapter which is why it's here. In other words thank mix-up for the wonderful plot twist. As for all the comedy; It's about time I brought it back to the story.
6451815 Did I really forget to mention she thought he was held for longer than a day? I knew I forgot one freaking detail!
So if Chance had the mind wipe would he be adopted by Button and Gibsons parents? or be a foster foal?
>>Radio Foalster Foal sounds weird. i put it in my comment but it didn't sound right.
6451299 One of the Crowd:
Thank you mix-up.
6452053 He'd probably be adopted by either them or if he so chose to Arrow. Also your name is a lie! Lyra is best pony.
NEVER!!!!!!
6452193 ALWAYS... we need a Lyra emote.
After going through the chapter three times, I have to say One of the Crowd that you did a splendid job on this chapter. At first, I thought that there was a lot of condense information that seemed to just clarify all the confusion of what happened during the dragon lair incident. But after that, I found that your execution of the story was actually very fluid, but still condense, despite the length of the chapter. It finally settles a lot of questions and information that really needed answers to in order to understand what happened from before and makes moving on an easier affaire.
It is good to see that the Mind Wipe Spell purposes seem to be strictly limited to extreme cases of foal trauma and nothing more. It reassures me that princess Celestia is not just ruling like a despot over a disguised utopia, and that she does not punish descent with that spell whenever somepony displeased her.
It was good to finally see Celestia’s point of view on the Dragon lair incident, people have a hard time understanding her motives of her just going straight to the kill with Fire Starter. I do agree that the action was brash, but I could easily chock it up to miscommunication on her end, and that the situation that Chance was in described to her that it was a life or death emergency.
I liked the part of Celestia’s dragging her sister Luna to Insight office; it brought a little much need humor to the chapter and make the chapter a little more than just an exposition chapter with just a little development at the end. It is interesting to see that Celestia believe that her sister that needs help for her, I wander what prompted this decision and what other length she had to go in order to get her sister to the meetings with Insight. I wander what issues Luna has. I also wander what would be her position about Chance predicament, after all she did just nearly hoofover Chance to Jungle Vine without a second thought, when they first met. I don’t think Chance will feel in anyway safe with Insight and two of the princesses in the same room with him, seeing that that two of them have push the idea of a mind wipe on him.
It was good to finally see Insight’s thoughts and perspective on things, as up till now he seem like he just wanted Chance to just go through the magical equivalent of a frontal lobotomy on him, and completely disregarded his fillings on the matter. Now we finally see that he is actually concerned for Chance’s wellbeing, even if it is actually misplace, and seem to think that Chance is just a broken shell of a pony that one’s was; he is trying to pick up the pieces left, but it seem to be nearly hopeless to restore any semblance of normalcy to Chance. Seeing him smile, about the friends that Chance seem to have made, seem to show that he has still hope about his recovery, and that he is willing to hold the treatment for now. But, Chance can’t let his guard down, he is still a threat to him, It is still scary to think that he has the power to erase a pony’s very identity like that; Chance is still not out of the woods yet.
So Dinky is a mind wipe subject, I honestly didn’t see that one coming (wink), I wished that I had thought of that (double wink). She is the perfect character to show to Chance the results of such a treatment, as she is already familiar to him, as well the same goes to the readers. Dinky is a now going constant reminder of what nearly happened and might still happen to Chance if he is not careful. I wander how he will react to her from now on, will he try to make her remember or will he stay quiet about it.
But still I wander in what condition was Dinky before the Mind Wipe before going though it willingly? I can understand that having your entire family dead in one event must have been very traumatic for her; seeing it with her own eyes is another matter altogether.
Also, I wander how do they prevent Dinky from asking questions about her past? Do they just strait up tell her that her memories where erase, or do they fabricate an entire past for her that they want her to believe. On a darker possibility, is there a spell that makes her mind avoid such questions or do they implant new ones in her mind.
On a lighter note on the subject, it was good to see that you don’t take everything that I suggest directly like that. Making Dinky having Chance showing an interest in him instead of just a way to buttering up Insight, like I suggested, was much better than my idea in my opinion.
I wander what is up with Open Seas, Chance seem to foreshadow that a problem will soon come up. What could he be hiding from his family? Does he do some sort of contraband of some sort, stilling drugs?
Again great Chapter One of the crowd.
6452241 Finally! I've been waiting for your amazing comment! Also I already told them that you came up with the idea. I can't take credit for such genius all the time. They might get suspicious!
As for switching the idea to be the opposite seemed to be a better idea as I wrote because Chance hasn't really said anything along the lines of being attracted to Dinky. She however has shown she's been interested with her blushing and a little in conversations. As for your questions on Dinky questioning her past; you see she *Train noises for the entire explanation*. Do you understand?
6452066 thank you. I felt that it would help to put a new angle to the story
Also, I had read the first few chapter of your story but I lost track about it when I was swamp by a lot of new stories to read. Now I think I'm going to go back and read them. For what I saw it was rather a good story. I will comment on the as soon as possible.
6452285 Thanks I await your comment.
6452282 Yeah, I know that but I was all ready two third written the comment and I did not had the heart to erase such a nice sentence, so I settled on the winks instead to put a much needed humor to my long boring comments.
6452302 You're comments are not boring! I actually like reading them, but that might be because they stroke my ego and tell me how to improve.
6452299 I am horrible at drawing. Trust me, I however have been told I am good with people on multiple different levels. Seriously, I've acted as a semi-therapist, a best friend, and even someone you tell an important secret to (I can't remember the name). I don't know why they trust me so much I'm just you're everyday guy...who likes ponies.
6452317 So ego stroke is that all they are to you?
just kidding, I'm happy you like them.
Now if only I could finally start my own story, but it's soooo hard to do.
6452332 Just take your story slowly. plan out an intro and an ending. Then come up with major events that will occur and work towards each of these events. While writing always keep in mind the ending and what makes sense. Hopefully this helps you a little with writing your story.
Also *ego intensifies*
6452377 It occasionally does and I'm always worried I'll forget to put it so I just put it in most of the time.
6452332
Right!?!
6452349
I take this advise and use for my own gain
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6452911 Good luck! I expect to be told when these stories are written.
Hello there, hate to do this but....
Why would little Dinky have to grow hands if she is a unicorn with magic?
Also how would Chance scare anypony dressed as a Clock? Well maybe Minuette, but in her defense she has phobia about being late.
Any who, like the story, love to read more. And from all of us in the Possum Lodge, always remember try to keep your stick on the ice.
6453713 I don't recall ever mentioning Dinky and hands in the same sentence. If you would kindly point out where I said that so I may fix it I would appreciate it. As for the cloak, he was using the legend of the headless horse to frighten everyone. Finally thank you for reading.
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6454517 I am a moron. Thank you for bring this to my attention.
6454593
Eh, if every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs.
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6454654 Just keep David Cameron away from the pork
6457393 Why? *Hold pork in front of David Cameron*
6457923 Mine haven't either. That's mostly because I never did anything wrong. Literally, My childhood was very boring.
6457844 #Piggate
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/david-cameron-the-prime-minister-did-what-with-a-pigs-head.html?_r=0
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/conservative-sources-deny-david-cameron-pigs-head-allegations
6458028 ...I ship it? My brain is still trying to process what I just read.
6458038 Film Crow did a fun lil animated parody (just talking, don;t worry). The media & internet have been having real fun~ Especially as people compared it to a "Black Mirror" episode >.<
So yea, now the media has stopped having a hissy fit over the new Labour Party leader, we now have this.
6458078 Wait! Film Cow did a video? The guy who did charlie the unicorn, llama's with hats, and Franny and earl? That Film Cow?
6458091 Correct a mundo~
6458104 Oh shiiiiiit.
6458110 Welcome to #Piggate and British(ish) internet amusement
6458126 Thank you for the welcome. Now I'm going over to that house with all the ghosts. The ghost house if you will.
6458133 Also, sorry for the random and somewhat creepy news >.< I think a couple of ghosts to colour me white is the least that my karma will throw at me.
6458144 It could of been creepier. Trust me when I say we live in a freaky world.
He is one of the only Unicorns I'm willing to let learn that mind wipe spell because he understands when it's necessary. Normally, I wouldn't condone such a use of magic, but he only uses it on foals while they can still adapt to life. If it wasn't a complete mind wipe I'd say that it would be able to help my sister forget that she was even on the moon to begin with.
(begins banging head on keyboard to get the words out of his head)
What do you smoke before you start writing??
You've got the Sun Princess acting like a moron---violently attacking people, threatening to execute FOALS, condoning obscene utter violations of the mind in the name of "psychiatry," brute-forcing her sister into therapy, thinking that erasing her sister's memory would fix her problems...
And as to your version of "psychiatric care...." Where the FUCK did you get your understanding of psychiatric care and ethics from, the eighteenth century?? Or did you just do a 24 hour marathon rewatch of "one flew over the cuckoo's nest?"
Mind rape--- completely erasing someone's mind--- as a form of therapy? Physically FORCING people to submit to psychiatric care? Are they going to be administering electro shock therapy to Twilight on her off hours? Maybe conducting a few rubber-hose beatings to "drive the madness out?"
Hey, I get the attraction. If you're a soulless diseased fuck living in the Dimension of Soulless Diseased Fucks, I'm sure erasing a child's mind must sound LOADS easier than actually helping the child heal and cope. Kids are ANNOYING, right? Just hit the "reboot" button, that'd be much easier to deal with for the adults. It's not like they're real people anyway....
But in ANY OTHER UNIVERSE, it's an act of evil. No psychiatrist outside of Frankenstein's lab would condone it. And you've got CELESTIA permitting and promoting it!
JESUS, man, WTF.
6466950 .... You do realize that MLP is set in a 16-18-20th century-sh time right? And, if all of those points bother you why are you still reading this?
phase, both counts.
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Dude, people read something in the hopes that it gets better in the next chapter. If everyone quits after they don't like a chapter, this site will be dead before the show started wrapping plotholes.
And no, Equestria is not set in a weird mix of 16-18-20th century. It is it's own timeline, and with things like freaking friendship of magic that can cheer up even the most traumatized ponies, it makes absolutely no sense that their psychiatric knowledge is all in pulling the trigger in memory wiping.
I like the story overall, especially with Button and Chance, but Jesus Christ in a rollercoaster, the Celestia this author portrayed just grinds my gears!