This story is a sequel to The Company We Keep
Sombra is by no means an easy opponent. He is a wild card who often employs manipulative ways, among other equally bizarre strategies that are a perfect reflection of his insanity and mysterious nature. After all, how many ponies can cheat death like he did?
How many ponies can cheat death forever?
Sombra certainly thinks he can.
Book Four of Sombra's Odyssey. Formerly titled '神の一手'. Lovely art by Rocket Lawn Chair. Old cover art may be found here. Text added by me. Contribute to the TVTropes page! The story title is a term that can be defined here. Proofread by anonymous user.
Chapters (20)
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The title (Divine Move, in English) is a reference to a move in the game of go, it did have some Kanji in it but I simply wrote it all with hiragana, since that is the system I can work with best and will make it easier to read for people who don't know the kanji since they can have multiple meanings (and since I only know like five of them, not counting numbers) and pronunciations. Does this help?
Tracking.
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I looked on your page and it says that you are translator, I like your awfully helpful suggestion of using kanji but don't know the knaji to use. Do you have any suggestions?
In regards to the title, I choose to leave it in script rather than change it to English because I did not believe it would have the same impact and the reference would be lost.
Sore wa hijō ni kyōmibukaidesu.
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Thank you!
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Sorry, I don't know what that means...I'm actually quite the novice.
Why would someone need trigger warnings? It helps no one.
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Some people really seem to like sane narrators. It just helps to know in case you wanted to skip this story if you don't like that sort of thing.
I look forward to a possible day when Sombra finally purges Onyx once and for all from his being.
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I'm sure he does as well.
How is that a trigger warning?
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Some people like fluffy stuff or characters who are sane (especially since this isn't dark enough to need a dark tag and I don't plan on it to go that way) so it was fair to put a warning even though the character was introduced in other stories as such it is still a bit different when they narrate as you get to see more of them and what they really think. Has this comment helped you at all?
I love how you write Sombra
7342708 Thanks so much! He appears in other stories too. Please be sure to upvote as well.
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From the short description:
Have.
Just saying 'cause it might give a bad first impression.
7430668 Thanks for catching that!
What was it that reformed Discord? Twilight calling him a friend...
What reformed Sombra? Pizza....
Because no situation exists that cannot be improved with pizza.
7440827 I actually don't like pizza.
7440917 Some people would claim heresy...however that phrase has been used to describe those who would prevent the church from improving simply because it would undermine the standing of those who think they lead it...that said it's a rather strong word for someone who doesn't like pizza...that would be like me being hanged for wondering why we have turkey at thanksgiving when it is absolutely the poorest excuse of bird meat that I have ever tasted...
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7456787 [Does not understand how this ties in with the friendship part.]
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In Portal 2, GLaDOS (pictured) at first wants to murder Chell, but later reconsiders after Wheatley takes over the Aperture Science facility and becomes her friend.
7457918 The more I hear about these robots, the more I like them.
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Definitely consider playing that game. It's great.
Portal 1-2 are good games. Thought the friendship thing is incorrect.
I really liked this line.
This feels like editor lampshading
INB4 someone says "You look horrid/terrible" to Old Lady Sunhorse
7780408 Wrong universe, Norry!
Yeah, stop trying to steal that job from Nightmare Moon, Sombra.
Haha Tia just got fuken rekt
Or a ???? move.
I don't actually have a clever comment for this quote. I just think it's worth highlighting how amazing it is.
7825624 Sombra is amazing like that.
Icy stop linking me to other stories to read :T
I have enough already xD
7894712 No u
Dammit Icy
I'll just finish the main arc
Then read all the rest of the extras
7896637 All of them, you say?
7896641 Yup
Or at least most
haaaaaaaaa Sombra making a pun
Didn't expect that
*sigh* So true
Cadence plays a lot more carefully than Twilight did around him which is the smart thing to do.
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She's a clever girl dealing with a cleverer demon, so yes, it most certainly is.
oh good she apologized, and also wrote a hilarious letter at the same time
i dunno if "wimpy" is quite the right word to describe cadance. she may not be the strongest, but she's incredibly hardy, even if she does tend to cry
eh, fair enough
awwww
huh, wouldn't that be a positive?
ah, the next few paragraphs show it as such, though an uneasy equilibrium as of now
ooh, the joys of swings
maybe he'll actually figure out how to use one one day
now *that* would be a tale
swiveling chairs, trains, and pizza is a great list of modern inventions worth paying attention to
oh my
this is an amazing diatribe
well that's not ominous at all
not sure that's the healthiest way to look at your friends, but you did kinda *just* accept her back as one earlier that day so who knows
oh my comment from last chapter just became a bit more *oof*
well that's one way to put it
that is almost certainly the proper response even if it's not at all what she's thinking
goodness the entire conversation was great
*somehow manages to agree with a series of increasingly annoying sneezes*
heh
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Sombra is the NB icon we never knew we needed
oh so that's what he witnessed that caused him to blow up that section of the archives
ooh, secret tunnel