Domination of Equestria - T+215 - days.
“My...my baby…”
“Cadence, darling, we never had a child. Remember?”
“No...I...I don’t know, Shining...you’re not…”
“Yes I am, I’m your Shining Armour. We’ve been happily married for a few years now, remember?”
”YOU’RE NOT MY HUSBAND!”
“Apply another sixty thousand volts.”
“Gaahhhhhh!”
“Cadance, please. I don’t want to hurt you. You need to calm down.”
“You...you killed our…”
“I keep telling you Cady, we don’t have a foal. I don’t know where you’re getting this crazy idea from.”
“But...I remember…you...all that blood...”
“You’ve always wanted foals Cady, maybe you’re just misremembering? You’ve always been prone to flights of fancy.”
“...Flurry…”
“Up the dosage.”
“Master, any more might kill her.”
“...Heart…”
“It won’t. Trust me, Alicorns can take much worse than this.”
“As you command Master.”
“...Shining?”
“Yes dear?”
"It hurts Shining..."
"I know dear. I want to take your pain away, but you've got to forget first."
"Don't...want....mustn't...forget..."
"Just forget about foals. You've never had a foal. There is no foal."
“You can’t...be…”
“I’m right here Cadance.”
“No...you…”
“I’m right here, and I’ll stay right here by your side until you’re thinking clearly again. We’ll be one happy family…”
Overlord Rule No:38 If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age.
ah brutal but efficient
7550205 basically the motto for this over lord's policy, organisation and existence in general.
Funny, I could swear he used this one before...
7550250 i think you are right
Why kill the baby? A baby has very little memory. They will always imprint on the ones who care for them as their parent, so if you find the offspring of the enemy at a young enough age before memory imprintment can occur then you can logically imprint yourself on the child as their parent and raise them to be loyal to you.
and baring that, implant a bomb into their necks just in case.
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Rule 18 and rule 19.
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Plenty of cases through history where a child has been manipulated by others into a method of revenge, having an excellent motivation to do so.
Bonus points in this case because alicorn.
No more McFlurry?
7550427 I think it's to stop the possibility of them growing up and finding out about the truth from someone else.
He killed Flurry Heart? I see there is a shred of good in him after all.
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Stop who growing up?
Cadance doesn't have any foals
Yes, but...why kill Shining Armor and Flurry Heart but not Cadence? I think the last version was better (unless my mind is making up a false memory and there was no last version...)
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I have no idea where people are getting this idea from. The only possible thing is maybe you're confusing it with Rule47?
7554780 yh i keep the rule documented in chronological order id know if i put the same rule twice
7554780 There's bunches of comments being moved around to the wrong chapters and such because of editing.
Reading this chapter I thought it was more the anti kid rule than the genocide rule...
One of the few rules I dislike honestly, because if you look nearly everybody has someone they're connected to.
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Well, all those countless mooks need something to do.
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Alicorn.
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NO. EXCEPTIONS.