Chronicles of an Evil Overlord

by Melancholy

Rule 3

Domination of Equestria - T-24 days.

It was dark in the Ponyville records office, despite the glowing orbs of magic hovering around the sole occupant. A single Alicorn furiously going through family records from across Equestria at a furious pace.

Come on Twilight, think. THINK. There’s got to be somepony who knows this guy!
Parents are dead, mother died young, father remarried, then died a couple of years ago in an accident.. Siblings, dead, also in accidents. There actually seemed to be a lot of accidents recorded in relation to this family. If it wasn’t for the fact that Equestria was in the middle of a brutal and bloody takeover there would probably be plenty of cause for deeper investigation into several of these ‘accidents’.

What’s this? A younger brother from the second marriage? Used to be in charge of a major corporation before he disappeared. Within two months of his disappearance the elder brother assumed full control of all his assets, wealth, corporate facilities, everything. So that’s how the ‘Overlord’ got the resources to take over Equestria!

Twilight was appalled, naturally. The idea of harming your own family for personal gain went so against her natural grain that she nearly lost her lunch then and there. Still, he was listed as missing, he could still be alive. If she could find him, maybe, just maybe, there was a chance. He could assume control of his stolen life again, the country hadn’t fallen yet, control of the legislature was still in the hooves of good (mostly) decent (sometimes) ponies. She couldn't rely on that once the take over was finished.

It was another couple of hours in the gloom of the records office before she finally did lose her lunch. There, on the table was a photo. The photo was part of a newspaper article from the Manehatten Herald.

Missing Businesspony found dead in the harbour. All his vital organs removed.

Overlord Rule No:3 My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.

Comments

[Yet another time lord]

Oh come on, you're sucking all the posibilities for dramatic and daring storytelling,give us something to work with

[Nightingalehound]

6495585 Its a story based around the Evil OverLord Rules for never losing!!!!

[Leonzilla]

You know what they say, better safe than sorry.

~Leonzilla

[ArtichokeLust]

Or, you know, you could share power or make them your underlings. A lot of people are surprisingly okay with that. You could also just take power from someone completely unrelated to you, or better, one of your enemies.

It's unlikely you know everything about what the rest of your family does, and even if you do, killing off people in power tends to lower moral, especially if they're related to you. Realistically, anyone who knew about it would be highly tempted to quit or leave, even if the previous boss was terrible, because they know you're the kind of person to kill a member of your family.

The best option is to remove yourself as much as possible from the initial benefitial killings, through hired assassins, distance from relationships, etc. People do tend to commit crimes against people they know, but that's just because it's convenient. For example, you could kill off the CEO or other key people from some of the leading businesses in your country and invest in everything that would benefit from their fall, using various bank accounts and fake identities. Then you could do some money laundering or steal the identity of one of the people you assassinated.

Don't do that though. That would be mean.

[Eonflare]

You do kinda have to be a real evil bastard to kill your own family though. I mean, sure it cleans up loose ends, but most people would be really nervous about working with someone knowing he killed his own family.

[Mr_Nobody]

'mostly decent sometimes ponies' would be a sweet band name.

[Pedro-Paramo]

dog doesn't eat dog. WTF

[LegacyMine]

6499085 Not uncommon though. In the Ottoman Empire when the Sultan died, all his sons used to slaughter each other until there was one left. And with polygamy that could be up to a hundred.

[Bronzer]

6495585
He wants to win, not be dramatic.

[Harbin9er]

6498325
What part of EVIL overlord did you not understand?