Hey, Snowy! Instead of just standing there and "hating" at ponies like a dumbass:
EOL-4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies. EOL-6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them. Maxim 22: If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody's done something wrong. Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence. Maxim 37: There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'time to reload.' Maxim 47: Don't expect the enemy to cooperate in the creation of your dream engagement.
We found Numeric Essence dead in their house last night. She committed suicide. We did not find a will. We did not find a death note. Numeric Essence's role was Amnesiac. We found Snowy Hock dead in their house last night. He was incinerated by an Arsonist. We did not find a will. We did not find a death note. Snowy Hock's role was Vampire.
7137578 In fairness, he was up against basically 'Toontown' personified, and smart enough to know it. You can't fight something like that with bullets, and he came about as close to winning as anything could have. When Pinkie is compelled to not shred you purely because 'it's the gloat scene!' then it's tactically smart to gloat. He even had her try to counter-gloat with a tumblr-ready trailer line, and got it to backfire.
7137014 7137414 Indeed it is not quite over for Pinkie, but the danger point is over for her and she's back among the ponies. (and yeah, maybe none of us seriously believe Hina is going to smite everybody, but compare her arc with Pinkie's similar arc: of course she doesn't kill our heroes, but that is a big breakthrough for our Kirin, plus she has some interesting powers she can share: see next chapter) We have three more chapters (including the 'happy clop arc ending' stuff) and Pinkie is in the very last scene of the very last chapter of Precious.
7137808 Assuming "punch Fluttershy in the face" isn't an option because he's frozen too, remote-control the foal to punch Fluttershy in the face. If that won't work either, well, he should have planned ahead. How to make the foal useful in three easy steps, taking only a few minutes:
1. Bite the foal. He's a flammable vampony now. 2. Suspend foal over a fire. Hold end of rope under a hoof or something. 3. Incapacitating, seriously threatening, or killing Snowy now guarantees the death of the foal. Gloat and monologue accordingly.
[Yes, I know he wasn't supposed to win. Yes, I know ponies aren't vicious by nature. Yes, I've been reading TOS-era Star Trek, Warhammer 40k, and Baen Mil-SF lately, where violence is always the answer. Snowy is still villain-of-the-week material, and significantly below Sombra at that. All talk, no action. "Prior planning prevents piss-poor performance" and all that.]
7138102 Aw. You should be writing an Evil Overpone story, it would be quite good
But noooo, he's not frozen and punches don't do much against the undead as Rainbow Dash learned, and he can't remote-control anything because as he recognized, even thralling and Stares aren't that accurate for a remote control (that was the reason he gave for wanting to eat Dash; she's too hotheaded and will fly off the handle and do dumb things when asked to obey). Plus, his whole ANGLE on neutralizing Pinkie was menacing the (non-thrall) foal and then being able to pull back and go 'you're the monster here, not me' which required the kid be Stared but not thralled or killed (then).
I think he did pretty good at being a smart baddie, but he ended up going up against 'Pinkie Pie's repressed anger' which for Trixieverse Pinkie is a really scary thing as she'd been going off the beam for BOOKS on end. Honestly, Fluttershy's advice on how to accept and handle your anger was far more important than Pinkie's DPS calculations. I think Insane Pinkie is nearly tied for Insane Twi as 'best temporary Big Bad', some of the stuff she was getting up to in this book was astonishing. Nightmare fuel material.
But it's winding down now: and for those whose hearts needed closure from losing Essence, it turns out ponies have ways of dealing with this too. Those lost during this book are getting a Ponyville funeral. We've not heard of these before, and Twi and Trixie actually haven't ever seen one, but Celly has.
I've been waiting for some sort of closure for Pinkie for several books now, hope it lasts
Commence read.
Very touching and needed moment for Pinkie.
It ain't over yet folks.
Hey, Snowy! Instead of just standing there and "hating" at ponies like a dumbass:
EOL-4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
EOL-6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.
Maxim 22: If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody's done something wrong.
Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.
Maxim 37: There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'time to reload.'
Maxim 47: Don't expect the enemy to cooperate in the creation of your dream engagement.
Oh wait, you're DEAD. Too late now.
We found Numeric Essence dead in their house last night.
She committed suicide.
We did not find a will.
We did not find a death note.
Numeric Essence's role was Amnesiac.
We found Snowy Hock dead in their house last night.
He was incinerated by an Arsonist.
We did not find a will.
We did not find a death note.
Snowy Hock's role was Vampire.
7137578 In fairness, he was up against basically 'Toontown' personified, and smart enough to know it. You can't fight something like that with bullets, and he came about as close to winning as anything could have. When Pinkie is compelled to not shred you purely because 'it's the gloat scene!' then it's tactically smart to gloat. He even had her try to counter-gloat with a tumblr-ready trailer line, and got it to backfire.
7137014
7137414 Indeed it is not quite over for Pinkie, but the danger point is over for her and she's back among the ponies. (and yeah, maybe none of us seriously believe Hina is going to smite everybody, but compare her arc with Pinkie's similar arc: of course she doesn't kill our heroes, but that is a big breakthrough for our Kirin, plus she has some interesting powers she can share: see next chapter) We have three more chapters (including the 'happy clop arc ending' stuff) and Pinkie is in the very last scene of the very last chapter of Precious.
And one other
7137808
Assuming "punch Fluttershy in the face" isn't an option because he's frozen too, remote-control the foal to punch Fluttershy in the face. If that won't work either, well, he should have planned ahead. How to make the foal useful in three easy steps, taking only a few minutes:
1. Bite the foal. He's a flammable vampony now.
2. Suspend foal over a fire. Hold end of rope under a hoof or something.
3. Incapacitating, seriously threatening, or killing Snowy now guarantees the death of the foal. Gloat and monologue accordingly.
[Yes, I know he wasn't supposed to win. Yes, I know ponies aren't vicious by nature. Yes, I've been reading TOS-era Star Trek, Warhammer 40k, and Baen Mil-SF lately, where violence is always the answer. Snowy is still villain-of-the-week material, and significantly below Sombra at that. All talk, no action. "Prior planning prevents piss-poor performance" and all that.]
7138102 Aw. You should be writing an Evil Overpone story, it would be quite good
But noooo, he's not frozen and punches don't do much against the undead as Rainbow Dash learned, and he can't remote-control anything because as he recognized, even thralling and Stares aren't that accurate for a remote control (that was the reason he gave for wanting to eat Dash; she's too hotheaded and will fly off the handle and do dumb things when asked to obey). Plus, his whole ANGLE on neutralizing Pinkie was menacing the (non-thrall) foal and then being able to pull back and go 'you're the monster here, not me' which required the kid be Stared but not thralled or killed (then).
I think he did pretty good at being a smart baddie, but he ended up going up against 'Pinkie Pie's repressed anger' which for Trixieverse Pinkie is a really scary thing as she'd been going off the beam for BOOKS on end. Honestly, Fluttershy's advice on how to accept and handle your anger was far more important than Pinkie's DPS calculations. I think Insane Pinkie is nearly tied for Insane Twi as 'best temporary Big Bad', some of the stuff she was getting up to in this book was astonishing. Nightmare fuel material.
But it's winding down now: and for those whose hearts needed closure from losing Essence, it turns out ponies have ways of dealing with this too. Those lost during this book are getting a Ponyville funeral. We've not heard of these before, and Twi and Trixie actually haven't ever seen one, but Celly has.
7138265
Doing a collab as an Evil Overpone Consultant, maybe. Writing is hard.
Anyway, because playing what-if is fun:
All they need to do is be distracting:
OK, "hey kid, be a distraction!"
Which would work just fine with Operation Piñata and would also prevent Flutters from doing much to him if she valued the foal's life.
Well, pony nightmares, anyway. That doesn't even rank as "eleven o'clock news" for humans.
Poor Mr Waddle. The blasphemy will probably do him in.
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Oh great, the kirin finally gets over herself to go fight evil...and shows up just in time to try and kill the wrong vampony...
Damn. Probably my favourite chapter in a while. I hope there's a place for Pinkie with (or at least near) her family.