Most ponies don't know every single detail about their friends. And even when certain details are known, they usually don't bother mentioning them without rhyme or reason. For example, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy both know each others' families pretty closely, but nopony's looking for an excuse to remind themselves that Zephyr Breeze is a thing.
Conversely, when your friends first find out about a heretofore-unmentioned sibling, they will probably want details. So when Twilight receives an invitation to her brother's wedding, her friends are naturally curious about him.
Turns out, there's a good reason why she doesn't talk about him.
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This is... In my eye at least, totally possible.
Only issue I got is why the "AU" tag?
~Skeeter The Lurker
7561414 It's a fixfic that edits a conversation in the show and alters canon.
7561414 It replaces the BBBFF song and Twilight's angst about getting the news of the wedding from an invitation with a bunch of exposition about headcanon.
Basically, it definitely didn't go down like this in the episode, therefore AU.
Holy fuck I need this to be cannon.
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My point still stands. With the execution given by King here, calling this canon is more than possible.
I mean, who's to say she doesn't know a mind wipe spell and didn't use it on us the audience?
Edit: At least tell me why. Sigh. Guess I can't make a good joke.
~Skeeter The Lurker
So wait, Equestria has all these military organizations meant to protect them, and their first line of defense is to rely on six young women getting along?
Also, I have to be amused by Duskmantle being part of the Royal Guard. And the Assassinorum, of course. Pay no attention to the cellist playing a dirge for your thoughts of rebellion...
Very fun headcanon dump, though there's not much here beyond that. Still, best of luck in the contest.
7561523 They have the option to employ a six-pronged supernuke that has no collateral damage. Why would you not make that your first line of defense?
7561480 Poe's Law, bro. They probably think you meant that utterly ridiculous suggestion seriously.
7561480 I didn't downvote it, I swear!
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That's exactly what a downvoter would say.
Kind of silly to imply that there are ponies that could take Discord down in a couple minutes, when it took the princesses personally stepping in with the elements of harmony to do a single thing to him last time, and none of them managed to do anything against Chrysalis and her army.
Wanting to fix the patheticness of the Royal Guard (and any related headcanon organizations) is fine, but pushing them all the way past to hypercompetence (hypercompetence that never actually matters against any of the Equestria-threatening villains we see, to boot) isn't any better.
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Probably because it relies on six non-trained, vulnerable ponies who all be in the same spot at the same time, with their artifacts in hand, in order to stand a chance against the kinds of villains they're sent at. If there really are ponies who could defeat Discord easily, then it's ridiculously pointlessly risky to rely on the mane six (especially since Discord only lost to them because he was literally playing with them; if he had, say, teleported the elements of harmony to the bottom of the ocean, they'd never have beaten him). Why not keep them as safe as you can unless you have no other chance but with a rainbow laser?
7561693 I know, but I swear it wasn't me. I only downvote something if it looks like it's going off whatever logic (read: none) My Immortal held or is so asinine and poorly worded/spelled/anything that is should be from My Immortal but doesn't have the same humor from reading something something so stupid.
I can't think of what else to add so here's a Sun Horse.
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7561615 Exactly as 7561696 said. It's like having the Green Berets on call and choosing to instead send in a Girl Scout troop.
Also, damn I feel sorry for Shining Armor, almost 40 years old and he still sounds like that.
Hey, how'd the rest of it go? No way it went like canon.
Well, I can buy this fully. Though this is another one of those, shame it has to end so soon but it makes sense why, kinda deals. Certainly never thought of the Mane 6 as part of the Royal Guard but that makes sense as well. Sheesh you're giving me all kinds of head canon over here.
Anyway the story was an interesting little read and got the ole brain going. Nice work.
7561851 yea I wanna know how it went to plus I wanna know what rarity saw was it a changeling? Something else?
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Shining Armor is still mind-controlled. He knew it was a trap, but he went in anyway because it's the most reliable way to find Cadance. His people show Twilight the plan, which involves making herself seem like she might discover Chyrsalis so that the enemy captures her (Cadance's behavior having changed after they arrived in Canterlot, so they're fairly sure that she's imprisoned somewhere nearby). The Mane Six set up the ruse, and Chrysalis takes the bait. Twi is imprisoned, she and Cadance are rescued before the wedding even starts, and the Bearers of Harmony bling themselves out to crash a wedding.
7562070 thats a chapter right there so i dont know why leave it as a 1 shot
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wish she had teleport-ed them all instead of the dome.
7562070 I'd read it.
7562070 the only issue in that plan is Honesty, and that depends on how you write it. If Applejack is told there is a plan but not what the plan entails other than the fact that all she really has to do is truly cater the wedding, is that lying by omission or is that making sure that honesty cant/wont spill the beans if asked she truly cant answer since she really does not know. Fine line there.
The rest of the elements can get away with lying their plots off considering their virtues don't depend on truth or honesty. I mean Kindness doesn't need to rely on truth, generosity can lie easy, loyalty to ones friends means one can lie to a enemy, laughter is the king of lies if you consider pranks and jokes as untruthful things, and magic/friendship only needs to lip at the virtues that undermine its power as long as its truthful to the ones that matter.
You've got some unique ideas here, but all you do is float them and don't actually take them anywhere (except in a perfunctory comment.) Admittedly, this is an exposition dump by design, but that doesn't excuse the whole exposition-dump-as-story design from being flawed.
7562320 What else do you expect when a guy's got twenty-four hours to try and string together something vaguely serviceable? Frankly, I'm surprised that bar up there isn't pure red.
It is a flawed design. But I'd at the very least argue that the average fixfic has more flaws.
This one goes directly into "Favorites". Wish it could be adopted as canon, but the show doesn't do that level of reality.
Threats more dangerous than Discord? Yeah, it's not hard to imagine that. All Discord did was turn ponies' natures backwards and coat the world in sweets. Granted, mind control is a scary thing, but I have the feeling that if you just went along with and enjoyed the chaos, you wouldn't necessarily have to lose yourself along the way. These ponies have it easy compared to most heroes... there have been a few dangerous-seeming villains, such as Tirek, Nightmare Moon (at least what we saw in the Season 5 finale showed that she was pretty ruthless, although Equestria looked to be thriving overall), potentially Chrysalis, depending on how dark you could imagine the emotion-sucking thing, and Starlight Glimmer from certain perspectives, but when you look at even someone like Q from Star Trek, they're easily trumped.
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For the record, I believe Ice.
~Skeeter The Lurker
7562341 How was Equestria thriving when what used to be Ponyville turned into thick jungle? Nightmare Moon's apocalypse seems of the breed that she's too stupid or self absorbed to actually do anything for her kingdom beyond stroke her ego and so everything's fallen into disrepair and/or been abandoned. A famine is quite likely if she somehow managed to make farmlands into monster infested jungle.
Also, the chaos was fun because Discord felt that way. We know from the stained glass that Discord did some more horrible things in the past, like dangling ponies over fire while listening to them scream in horror. Discord's opening play was all fun and games, it would have gone south quickly if he was anything like himself a 1,000 years ago.
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That's racist and you know it.
7561420 I'm sorry, but I'm kinda with 7561696 on this one. This story is, well, kinda meh.
That was an accurate summary of what turned me off about this whole story.
Have yet to even read the other fixfics, but I guess even the concept itself doesn't spare great writers from churning out, well, meh stuff.
7562471 And that's without even considering the deadline.
Where did Twilight get the cake? I don't remember cake being at the picnic, but I guess it was always there.
Awesome and silly. Neat.
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The cake was always there.
7562486 Nice shot. I'm getting Deja Woo from looking at that. Now I need to go on a picnic and bring a cake. I've been to 15 picnics in my life and no one has thought to brought cake. Just don't ask how I can remember that because I don't know.
Again, pretty neat slice of life, short story. Understand this was a prompt (I pay attention sometimes) and I was wondering if you wrote this in one sitting?
Thank you for giving my evening some added entertainment. :3
7562548 Pretty much, yeah. Not my best work.
7562549 You're welcome!
i haven't read this story yet but i just gotta say your descriptions hook me so goddamn hard
7562643 The payoff, however, doesn't always measure up.
7562647 you had 24 hours. But this concept could be easily expanded in a bigger fic. Only things like "ponies our side that could take on Discord" kinda break immersion, else this was rather good and has some potential to be quite interesting in a bigger fic.
7562615 Not your worst work either. A couple of thousand words in one sitting takes a bit focus and time. Add in a time limit and a vague mediocre prompt (subjective), you do want you can with the hand you have. I'm under the impression the show's writers don't know what to do with Shining Armor. His wife and child seem more fleshed out if you go by the show.
congratulations, zephyr you are the new flash sentry
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7562680 Your kind words are appreciated, though they obviously don't invalidate any of the criticisms made by people who thought more about my own story than I did. And I'm okay with that.
You guys keep being golden.
7561696 Congratulations, your thoughts are more ordered than a guy strung out on coffee trying to write a vaguely good thing in under twenty-four hours. You win.
7563023 Technically, it's exactly as effective, it's just that most of the problems are circumvented by sticking all the ponies in the same cone instead of separate cones.
How do they expect anyone to NOT assume Twilight and SA are related when they both have the exact same geometric shape in their cutie marks?
7563056 What a ridiculous notion. Next you'll be telling me that Doctor Whooves and Minuette are father and daughter.
what the hell is Ma-Ti?
7563163 And then I knew what it was like to feel old...
Fun fact: You have access to a massive database that will give you any answer you want the instant you ask it. USE IT.
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I know. I feel old, too.
Reminds me of Dishonored's Bottle Street Gang lol. Makes sense if there are horrors in this 'verse. Might see the Outsider hangin' around.