Signing On to Discord
"Schnorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Pinkie Pie slept like a rock in mid-air. She drifted slowly over Rainbow's head, her muzzle dribbling with ghost drool.
Rainbow looked up from a sleeping mat that she was sprawled across. The phantom shadow of a slumbering candy pone crossed over her spectral features. After a roll of her eyes, Rainbow smiled and shifted to the side.
The city hung sideways in her tired vision. In the distance, she could spot the white shape of the wagon. Logan, Flynn, and Kepler formed slumbering dots around the dormant vehicle and its chaotic contents.
More sleepy breaths—this time it wasn't Pinkie. Rainbow looked over her shoulder.
Ariel slept on a mat just a few meters away. Even in slumber, she refused to leave Rainbow's side. Her fuzzy gray body was curled up in a foalish ball that almost made her look the same size as her petite companion. Almost.
Rainbow's eyes wandered further. She knew better than to look for Wildcard. The Desperado was undoubtedly perched somewhere lofty and advantageous—where he could swoop down and protect the Austraeoh at a moment's notice. He always made sure that he could see her, even if she couldn't see him. Somehow, Rainbow knew that Bard would be proud.
A warm breath escaped her lips.
There was no sign of Seraphimus at the moment either. For the first time in as long as Rainbow could remember, she didn't care.
Her eyes wandered a bit until she spotted a familiar flicker of gold. Somewhere—off in the distance—the Midnight Armory loomed beyond the metal, the chaos, and the great Cuve of the Dark Side. Now—with all that she had learned—its shine was all the more dazzling. Even with her eyes closed, Rainbow could see its minute shape in all its alicorn glory.
Abaddon had a Song. The ancestors of Whitemane had a Shine.
Rainbow's eyelids hung heavy. She curled up, trilling a bit to herself as she settled into a comfortable position...
...and drifted away.
"... ... ... ... ... ...the itsy bitsy Sparky went up the webbed spout."
Rainbow's eyes popped open.
"Down came the exposition aaaaaand washed the Sparky out!"
Rainbow's eyes rolled. She looked directly up.
Pinkie's sleeping body drifted by. Soon, a lazy dragonequus came into focus, lounging on a magic "hammock" above the scene. He made shadow puppets against the underside of a metal bridge through the use of a ghostly flashlight. The spotlight featured spidery limbs encircling a stick-figure pegasus enmeshed in webbing.
"Up came the kaizo and dried up all the angst." He puppeted a shadowed bevvy of mute explosions against spotlight. "And the itsy bitsy Sparky threw up a fight scene again."
Rainbow exhaled long and hard.
A pair of red-on-yellow eyes peered down at her, above a glinting grin. "How're my improv skills? Hmmm?" He twirled the flashlight until it turned into a microphone that produced a whine of feedback. "Better with or without the watermelon gag?"
Rainbow clenched her jaw.
"Ehhhh..." He shifted his hairy body. "Let's face it. The show was better before the special host ditched everything for 'The Plot Is Right.'" He backflipped off the vanishing hammock and slowly descended via an open umbrella. "I should just stick to the menacing veneer and empty threats—" He nearly bumped into a sleep-gliding Pinkie Pie. "HEY! I'M MONOLOGUING HERE!"
Rainbow rolled her eyes.
"Nice girl." Discord landed beside the sleeping mat, folded up his umbrella, and shoved it into his earhole. "But she really shouldn't be asleep at the whinny." He winked and placed his knuckles against his hairy hips. "Friends don't let friends doze and drool."
A low grumbling sound escaped Rainbow's muzzle.
"Okay. Here it comes. I know it's coming."
Rainbow's eyes narrowed.
"It is coming, isn't it?" Discord leaned in, fang glinting. "Come on. I wanna hear you say it." He twisted his ear until it turned into a phonograph funnel aimed at the petite pegasus. "'Get lost, you freakin' harmony-pooper!'" his voice cracked raspily. "'You bloody chaos lord of anti-alicorn menacing! Ya inside out cat-huffing eggplant-chocolate...' or whatever your glorious catch-phrase is." He shook his head until it was back to normal and gestured at the sleeping, drifting Pinkie. "You know what to do. And you can do it! Just wake her up and the rest of your bosom buddies will come scampering in to herd me back into fart-space where I can't ruffle your precious feathers." He raised a pinkie finger while a red tie materialized beneath his neck. "Do it bigly, ya snowflake!"
"... ... ... ... ..." Rainbow gazed blankly at him.
"Or maybe..." He yanked the tie until it retracted into his voice box like a venetian blind. Eyes thinned as his voice hissed. "...you simply don't want to shoo me away? After all, what's the excuse at this point?" His eyes darted towards the wagon. "The metal's over there, Sparky. All the trolls are spider food. So—please, humor me before I humor myself into stitches."
"... ... ... ... ..."
"Here's something I don't understand." Discord leaned back, twiddling his digits together. "You'll talk to long-winded half-alicorn do-gooders. You'll talk to giant blind turtles living in cities named after penultimate saints. You'll even talk to evil frosted chaos dragons with a fetish for indoctrinating entire tribes of wayward cultures. Now—lo and behold—you're about to go on a field trip to listen to a giant spider diva pontificate about who-knows-what... and yet... you just will never... ever talk to me! Well? What's the deal, Sparky?" He flung his arms out. A long gray beard and a bent cane materialized on his person. "Aren't I just as old and wise as the rest of the motley crew? Has that ever occurred to you? Not that I'm jealous or anything, ya little whippersnapper... but what have they got that I haven't? Owwwww..." He rubbed his aching backside. "Aside from a metal hip replacement..."
Rainbow Dash took a deep breath. At last, she muttered in his direction. "You killed my friends."
"Ehhhhh...?"
"You killed my friends!" Rainbow Dash hissed. Ariel stirred slightly beside her, snorted, then fell back into deep slumber.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight..." Discord nodded slowly. "We're still hung up on that precious nugget, aren't we? Very well." He backflipped. A psychiatrist chair materialized in time for him to land on it, wearing a three-piece suit and thick glasses. "Very well..." He struck a match across Pinkie's flank as she drifted by, lit a cigar, and flipped open a notepad. "How doez zat makez you feel, fraulein?"
"And what just irks me..." Rainbow's teeth clenched. "...is that you still have the gall to joke about it. Even now."
"Shtill... haz... sie gall..." Discord puffed on his cigar as he scribbled into the notepad. "Ja... Ja..." He held the paper towards her, displaying a foalish drawing of a rocket launcher. "And vat does your mother haf to do vith thees?"
Rainbow sighed hard, shaking her head. "Can you at least tell me one thing straight?"
"Well, naturally, I have to tell it to you straight," Discord said in his normal voice. He adjusted his spectacles. "Local spider legislation doesn't allow that kind of marriage. I mean—besides—have you seen their public restrooms here?" He laughed, hugging himself as the disguise vanished from his thrashing figure. "Hahahaha... ohhhhhhhhh I'm so relevant and fuzzy..."
Rainbow's eyes narrowed. "Why did you do it?"
"What? Skip shaving? Puberty's a female dog and I left my newspaper at home."
"Why did you kill my friends?!?"
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Sparky..." Discord "stood up" and walked towards her. "Kill... be killed. Be harmonic... be chaotic..." He bent back, doing the limbo beneath Pinkie on her latest slumbering fly-by. "For such a prismatic pegasus...... guhhh..." He stood back up straight, hands on his hips. "You truly love to see things in black and white."
"It's the life I've had to live," Rainbow muttered. "Thanks to you."
"Oh, it's me who's to blame, huh?" Discord pointed a finger at himself. "As if I just strolled in and did backup drums for the song we're all singing?"
Rainbow blinked. "Huh...?"
"You heard the Mouth of Arachno-Sauron earlier!" Discord gestured. "The music's been playing long before either you or me swung up to the home plate. Doesn't matter if it was the Drag Queen of Strings or the alicorns who first uvulated the ditty into the vacuum chamber. Fact is... the rhythm's been a-clangin' for a long-butt time, and we're both caught up in the chorus."
"So..." Rainbow cocked her head to the side. "...you're saying that... you didn't mean to kill my friends?"
"Did you mean to become the Austraeoh, Sparky?"
Rainbow frowned. "That's no friggin' excuse."
"Isn't it?" Discord winked. "You of all ponies should know, Miss Black-and-White, that there are two types of individuals who show up to a concert. Those who like to dance to the music..." His fang glanted. "...and those who like to sing out of tune."
Rainbow sighed pitifully. "You're a coward who won't own up to what he's done."
"I'm a person who likes to bring the house down," Discord said. "And Equestria? Girl... that's one big friggin' house."
"No wonder Celestia and Luna turned you to stone."
"Yeahhhhhhhh. I get ittttttttttttt. Nobody likes a heckler. But if you never boo or hiss at a concert... then all you get is the same music over and over and over again!" He tilted his head back until it practically looped around, along with his boring eyes. "Borrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingggg!"
"Hrmmmmmmmmm..." Pinkie Pie smiled, drooled, and smiled some more in her sleep. "Borrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiinggggg... heeheehee..."
Discord side-stepped past the sleep-hovering ghost and loomed above Rainbow Dash once more. "Hard as it may be for you wrap your fruity head around this, Sparky-chan, but I never meant to mail your precious friends to the Department of Pushing Daisies. I'm not unlike the Wanker Children's beloved Abacus..." He held his arms out as a top-hat appeared atop his scalp. "... ... ...I love an audience. It isn't all that fun if there's nopony living to make sense of not making sense." He lifted the top-hat, revealing a gasping blue unicorn with a snow-white mane. "WHOOPS!" Discord puffed the entire illusion out of existence, blushing. "Wrong move, there. Didn't want to train wreck this all again, now, did we?"
"If you didn't want my friends dead..." Rainbow Dash stirred angrily where she pretended to be lying down to sleep. "Then why did you smile and laugh at their deaths in Ponyville?" Her ears curled back, reddening—along with her frown. "Why have you threatened to do them harm over and over again?"
"One... I didn't smile and laugh at their deaths. That was—at best—subdued amusement. After all, when things happen that even I don't expect, it's a full rich day for me." He stifled a yawn. "As for suggesting miserable things in general, Sparky, well... I just enjoy incurring acrimonious reflexes from your central psychological nucleus through consistent unmitigated stimuli of an unpredictable nature for the sake of casual mirth."
"... ... ..." Rainbow blinked. "What?"
He leaned his long long long long neck forward until he was staring her down with a glinting smirk. "I do it for the lulz." He punctuated that holocaustal statement with a wink.
"... ... ...Pinkie Piiiiiiiiiiie..." Rainbow's voice cracked. "Time to wake upppppp!"
The hovering mare stirred with ghostly hoof-kicks, snorting and murmuring.
Discord started flickering out of existence. "Very well. One step forward and a million farts back. Is that the way it's gonna be?" He drifted backwards, holding a glossy tablet in his hoof and "swiping" down illuminated page with a single claw. "Still... probably for the best... otherwise, this could have gone on for multiple chapters. 'Discord Dialogues Part Eight'. Pffft... give me a break!"
"Pinkiiiiie..."
"Alright alright... but don't count on a ghostly breakfast just yet!" Discord winked. "Something squirmy, its time now come, slouches towards Sparklyhem to be born." Just as he said this, a set of giant hairy legs phased through his vanishing figure.
Rainbow Dash actually jumped, startled.
A familiar tunnel-weaver emerged from the silkscape below. Merula perched on its back, accompanied by multiple hatchlings. Soon, Rainbow found herself in the company of the All Singer again.
"Austraeoh..." Merula vibrated through the silk construct.
Violin strings shook through the air.
"Mrmmmmffff..." Ariel awoke, looking up with thin eyes. "What...?" She stared into the enormous fangs and twitching pedipalps of the giant tunnel-weaver. "SHIT!" She jumped in mid-air and flailed like a rabid feline. "HOLY FU—"
"Shhhhhh!" Rainbow grasped Ariel, clamping a hoof over her muzzle. "Relax, girl..."
"Gnnnkkt!" Ariel slumped in her embrace. "Whew... cheese and crackers..." She brushed a shakey hoof through her mane. "...forgot where I was for a moment."
"Ahem." Rainbow turned to face the spider-speaker. "What's up, Merula?"
"It is the Songstress of Ages," Merula announced, abdomen dancing. "She awakens."
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Hmm is this the first time we've seen Discord out while one of the girls was around, albeit sleeping? I honestly cant remember.
It's pretty nice that Discord and Dash finally had a(nother?) proper talk. Dash is still too harmonic to understand or to continue talking to Discord, it seems, but we'll eventually get there, hopefully.
Anyway, it's time for Dash to listen to an old spooder's song...thingie.
Can't wait for the next chappie!
We're off to see the wiza- er, I mean actual spoder queen!
Now is time for exposition
Thing is, I kinda agree with Discord here, at least in that he's not singularly responsible for the "deaths" of the rest of the Mane6. Yes, he's got the lion's share of the responsibility because he was screwing with Equestria in the first place, mind-diddled the Mane6, and created the whole scenario in the first place. But he's technically right that their deaths wasn't his intention or goal. It was literally the side affect of Twilight doing something incredibly impulsive and Dashian levels of stupid by trying to use the Elements of Harmony in a situation where not only were they missing Rainbow Dash, but none of the other Mane6 were in their right minds.
I mena, c'mon, I know Dash can't think ill of her friends, but has no one ever brought up the distinctly logical point that Twilight seriously screwed the pooch by trying to use ancient and powerful magics even she didn't fully understand in a situation where none of the components that are supposed to make that magic work were even present? It'd be like someone trying to take off in a plane that was missing half its engine parts, and then blaming a hurricane that happened to occur at the same time for the plane crashing and burning. Sure, the hurricane might've contributed to the plane exploding, but so too was the idiot trying to fly the thing with a missing wing.
Anyway, in other news, we've got signs of potential trouble on the horizon with these Winter Children. Seems like Abaddon might be a little too set in her Song, and hasn't really taught her children the concept of adaption. No wonder they've been losing to the Bloodwings, despite being so physically skilled and powerful. If they really are only able to really act and think within the bounds of the Song, then they're probably no good at changing their actions or tactics or incorporating new ideas into their culture. That means they never thought to develop new ways of fighting the Bloodwings, they'd just keep using the same failing tactics over and over again. They'd never think to build new weapons or armor to protect against the Bloodwings' weapons, or try new methods of trickery or ambush.
So too would they be offset by the Austreaoh not following the script of the Song. Now the question is, is Abaddon so senile in her old age that any deviations in what she perceives as the Austreaoh will cause her to freak out and declare Dash a false Austreaoh? Maybe it'll be the sense of Discord inside Dash that'll trigger it? Or maybe Seraphimus' pressence that won't be considered acceptible? Either way it seems like its growingly likely that Dash and Abaddon are going to have a disagreement over something in the Song.
We'll see how that all shakes out.
Seraphimus Solo Quest Chapter Count: 26
He asks a good question.
Did he though? From what I recall, it was the backfire from attempting to use the elements while either discorded, or trying to sub Spike in for Dash.
Not that Dash would know that of course, but still, if you want to get technical, it is Discords fault for Discording them, alternatively, it's Twilight's fault for coming up and executing the fatal plan, or it could even be Dash's fault for plain not being there.
granted the latter 2 are effects of the cause, being Discordation, but Discord was not personally responsible.
He set up the dominoes, but someone else knocked them down.
...I can think of better ways to make light of the cryptic spiders than calling them wankers honestly.
Even friendly arachnids are fucking terrifying.
edit:
Literally 3 hours ago, so 2 hours before this went up, same-sex marriage was legalised in my home country of Australia.
-Through the path long forgotten, into the darkness long begotten. Ofolrodi.
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Thinking on it a bit, I have a notion that part of the reason Dash blames Discord so completely and won't let it go is not just because she's angry with him, but because those feelings she's got are part of what still tie her back to Equestria. Its sort of like how not eating meat is one of the few things she's retained since the begining of her joureny. She just doesn't want to let go of the things that still form that part of her, the part of her that remembers home. No matter how far she's flown east, or even upon the other side of the freakin' plane, there's still a line she can trace connecting her all the way back to Equestria, and her anger at Discord is part of that tether. If she stops being mad at him, that's one less thing from her life in Equestria that's a part of her.
Dash might simply be afraid of losing the last few vestiges of home, even something as negative as the rage she felt when she blamed Discord for her friends' death.
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Pretty sure it's a first. Usually it's either him or them, or occasionally a flicker of his reflection.
Wonder if this means discord is getting stronger, for lack of a better term?
The Sleeper has awakened! Time for the hella long talk about like everything
"Accomplish Ofolrodi. Repair Microwave."
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I think Rainbow saw him on reflective surfaces, even when the girls were out. But the girls could never see him. The really interesting part for me is Pinkie's reaction, albeit in her sleep, to what he's saying. So it's possible that they could actually see him, he's just hiding away from them. I guess much later the girls and Discord might meet each other, this is gonna be interesting.
Looks like main point I missed asking about multiple times has had to be slapped down and blatently described to get it accross.
There is no gondola back to the Light Side, except that what the World Spiders can build? As in, who created it teh first time and how, given someone had to make it accross the Edge in teh first place, in order to lay the guide cable for the Gondola to be built along. Spider silk is far more stronger than steel, than it is weaker than perfect carbon nanotube, and silk is a complex atomic carbon chain based construction, along the same lines as cross linked inrtermediate length carbon nanotube bundles.
Thething I really hope that doesnt occur is that Abaddon can only change herself in one last way so her children can follow the changing Austreoh. And thats to give birth to one last lot of extremely active, lively, intelligent, adaptive offspring.
That are very hungry.
Down and down, deep into the spider's lair.
You know, I expected some kind of joke about sexual urges here.
I long thought that Discord had some awareness of the greater scheme of things, and I think this all but confirms he knew at least PART of the Austraeoh legend. It also seems that he didn't really want to play his part in said legend, but was forced into it. At any rate, sounds like it is time for some answers from the Spider Queen. Lets hope she is at least receptive to the change of plans.
This is the kind of conversation with Discord that has needed to happen for a while now. I hope we get more, but for now it is time to talk to a very old Spider Lady.
Controlled contact like this in little doses is good to keep the pets to kill each otehr.
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you mean, to keep the pets from killing eachother.
...right?
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the Gondola was explicitly built by the Emraldinian Alicorns and their mortal apprentices. Only Alicorn Magic, or some equivalent, can produce Harmonic Metal. The Herald should still have some scraps of the stuff on hand leftover from Seraphimus's cage.
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He set up the dominoes to fall in one way, but then Ilrifa came in like a Mister Domino special effect tile.
https://youtu.be/TYud4GeEF-c?t=4m40s
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Wait till she comes to the realization that he didn't kill her friends, but she definitely killed him.
Can't wait for that script flip.
Daww Discord chat at long last!
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While I'm aware that connotations shift, I feel that if people forget what a word literally means then, like the word "literally", the meaning will be twisted until it is a mockery of its original purpose.
That, and I'm pedantic as hell.
I swear, Skirts, I love you to death but if I read the word 'fart' one more time...
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Just look at terms that have become slurs; this is exactly what happened to them. Somebody uses a word to apply to something in a new way that it hasn't been applied before. Then it becomes associated with an ugly connotation, so the original meaning is lost because the new meaning is nasty. Then you basically lose the word out of the language. The one that pissed me off most recently is 'queer', which literally means 'strange, odd', and wonderfully sounds strange and odd, but now is utilized as a slur by some impolite people in North America.
And that isn't the only one it's happened to. We've lost the words that meant "lighthearted and carefree", "a bundle of sticks or twigs bound together as fuel", the alternative terms for "donkey", and a verb that meant "delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment" (AKA to slow but not stop).
This reminds me of why 1984's language control wouldn't work; the problem isn't so much the words themselves as 'the sneer on their faces when they say it'. If people want to use derogatory terms, then they'll figure out a way to attach that 'sneer' to a pre-existing word - which ultimately "ruins" the word.
*sigh* At least I can read them being used 'properly' in older literature.
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Etymology is a fun thing.
I actually do find it fascinating to look up the histories of slurs to see just how they came to be twisted into their current meaning.
Like "a wall built to stop the ocean flooding an inland area."
or even just a bastardisation of the Spanish word for black.
or being built off a mishearing of the Korean word for America.
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Pretty sure it's been mentioned a few times, usually to be shot down by Dash.
This is pretty much what I expected out of Discord now that's he's had a chance to speak. I've been getting this feeling ever since he reappeared that he knows a lot more about what's going on in this grand cosmic board game than he lets on. I expect we'll start hearing a little more (or rather, get pointed towards more conclusions in funny ways) once he's actually given time to talk and Rainbow decides to listen.
Also, I never suspected him to be behind the deaths of the other five. I figured it was more because of unfortunate magic feedback from the elements being used incorrectly. Granted, they never would have had to use them in the first place if it wasn't for him messing with things and sending Rainbow off elsewhere....
BTW, still absolutely love the way you write Discord whenever he's doing chaotic shapeshifty things.
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I get the feeling that it wouldn't matter if the elements were used correctly or not. Rainbow dash would still be where she is now and her friends would still be incorporeal. (I'm still not convinced they actually died.) Discord is totes dead though, GJ Dash.
The circumstances of how might change but something or someone wanted this journey to happen and it used the elements as a driving force.
Probably the same way it tried to use pegasopolis with commander hurricane.
if you could look back far enough into history their would probably be a clear pattern of rainbow maned Ponies being pushed East for no clear reason.
I bet you bits verlax has a trophy room full of failed East farters somewhere.
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I don't recall, but it doesn't surprise me if Dash would do that. Its not really her style. She's way more prone to taking blame on herself rather than tossing towards other people, save when she's got a real obvious target like Discord. Still it makes me think.
Discord, whether he intended it or not, is still the catalyst of Twilight and the girl's deaths, yet what I find interesting here is that its entirely possible the Elements of Harmony might have fried the girls regardless of whether or not Dash was actually there or if any of them were "Discorded". One thing that keeps coming up is the idea that this was all pre-ordained or whatever. Destiny. Fate. Whatever you want to call it. I don't buy that, personally. Oh I imagine there's a force trying to push events in a certain direction, but I don't view it as an absolute force, nor necessarily a good force that shouldn't be opposed. But it brings up the idea that no matter what the next time the girls tried to use the Elements of Harmony, regardless of the situation, that they would've backfired and "killed" the five while leaving Rainbow Dash alive.
Of course knowing what we know about the show its an interesting note to think about, given that if Discord never showed up then the Mane6 wouldn't have used the Elements of Harmony again, at least not until the Pony of Shadows. I mean, with no Discord then he wouldn't be there to turn to stone or unturn to stone for Fluttershy to reform. Chrysalis was taken down by the power of LOVE! Sombra was beaten by the Crystal Heart. Then the bit with the Plunder Seeds happens and the Mane6 give up the Elements of Harmony to the tree. Who knows how the fight with Tirek might've gone down without him being able to absorb Discords power? Maybe SuperTwilight might've had the power to take him down herself in that case, but even if not I imagine the whole bit with the Rainbow Power would have still happened. Which begs the question that if the Austreaoh's power aped off the Elements of Harmony to kick off Rainbow's journey, would it have been able to pull that off with the Rainbow Power, or would it need to have waited until the Pony of Shadows came back? Of course everything with Starlight would've gone down first, but I imagine all those events would have more or less happened the same.
I guess it comes back to whether or not there's even a point to Dash blaming Discord for what happened? If not Discord, then its entirely possible some other antagonist would've shown up to force the situation. Whatever force the Austreaoh is, whatever manner it uses to influence events, its likely Dash would've been stuck doing this trip in one form or another.
8596014 It's also not connotations that shifted in this case, it's denotations, main meanings.
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Here is all 7 lines said by Sera:
Do not call me 'Sera.'
Do not call me—
Do not call me 'Sera!'
Don't call me 'Sera,'
Don't call me—
Don't call me—
Do not call me 'Sera.'
Sorta related is this line also said by Sera:
Do not call me 'toots.'
And this line from Rarity:
And don't call her 'Sera'! We are not on a first-name basis now—
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As a geologist for whom these distinctions matter, I would have to disagree. But, for the purpose of this story and everyday conversation, you're right that it doesn't really make much of a difference.
Just don't make them think you're food.
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The spiders didn't build the first gondola. The alicorns did.
it's tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime
Wait, have we known the Ghost 5 and Discord can be out at the same time before now?
Who? Man, finals are wrecking my brain more than I thought they would.
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Thank ye kindly!
I'm not sure I've seen either Austraeoh or Appledashery synopsized quite this well before.
Actually from the way I looked at the events he didn't. They died because they tried to use the Elements improperly which, while in the show it just failed, here it had far graver consequences. Though granted that was before all this later on stuff came about of how now all this may have been preordained which would even include her friend's deaths.
At this point I am starting to wonder if Discord is starting to feel jealous of Rainbow and her friends. They have something that eludes his immense personal power, and I think he is starting to want it as well. But that is a long way off, and right now Rainboww needs to prepare to journey to the lair, of the Spider Queen.
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Discord possesses an intriguing personal philosophy, a form of deterministic view that dictates how they are all unwittingly playing the roles set out for them. Always an odd view in my mind; freedom of choice is an illusion, you’re bound by fate to do what has been preordained. It’s a concept which feels especially appropriate when applied to a work of fiction in which the author, for all intents and purposes, serves as that higher power manipulating the threads of reality.
Apologies for divulging a condensed version of my own personal philosophical ponderings.
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Trixie was my assumption - or an illusion thereof, at least; while it's clear he's still his trippy shapeshifting self, I don't recall that he's shown the ability to interact with anything else.
What’s up with all the political references in this chapter?
I mean, he’s not wrong. It wasn’t totally his fault. Twilight acted upon the Elements of Harmony in an erroneous manner and costed the others bar R.D their lives.
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Uhhh...what? Could you pinpoint me to said references?
I haven't read all the comments, but based on a ctrl-F search... Am I really the first one to know that this was a jab at Drew Carey going from Whose Line is it Anyway to The Price is Right?
Yes, and you go back to Mare-A-Lago if you don't get indicted.
Funny thing is that I already had that accent ready in my head before you wrote it out. XD
Thing is—and I know I'm not the first person to point this out—he didn't. He was the cause of their deaths, but he didn't kill them. Twiggles even acknowledged way earlier (though her train of thought was shot down by her friends) that she was actually the reason they died.
Yeah, last thing we need is a Trixie appearance.
This was what I was hoping to hear discord say. As long as I can trust discord to value life, he's not that bad in my book.
It's starting to sound like Discord wants to join the Ghost 5 as wherever he's going is kinda shit. That would be....something, I guess. But in all honesty, even when we have the internet troll of all internet trolls on our side, he'd probably do more good than not.
Also hoo boy, off to the big spider God.
I love when ponies are described with cat like mannerisms. Make them feel more real somehow. And also adorable. Like how yakovlev-vad does a lot of his drawings.