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OKAY, well.... fuck. Really not sure what's going on anymore and that's good and bad. This feels like a roller coaster and at 130k words in I have NO idea where this story is leading which is bad as I feel like at this point I should have some fair clue about what the end game is. I mean, guessing at and trying to figure things out is all well and good, but then a human steps out of the car and I'm left wondering what is going on with anything anymore.
Basically, I'm very engaged in the story but simultaneously scratching my head a lot more than I'd like.
Also, dangit Meadowsweet... I wish someone would sit her down and inform her she may well have had it the worst, but she's too dim to realize what she went through. Also, that she was probably terrifying what with the destroying the sink, reshaping the metal and all that. So, interesting perspective from her, but very frustrating at times.
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I was expecting a My Little Dashie ripoff, but then my hand just started moving on its own! And now I'm bound by demonic contract to Ul'r Thog!
I wouldn't call her dumb, so much as... uncurious. She wasn't really validated for asking questions as a child. Anyway yeah, it's difficult, but I hope you can put up with it, because it's important for character development, and I hope that I can manage to describe the scenario despite Meadowsweet, in a way at least the reader can understand, and groan when she doesn't even try.
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Oh, I was mostly going off of regular police interrogation tactics. Especially that false framing device where they drone on for hours how cool they are with the fact that you're guilty, so it can't hurt to confess. The shooting thing actually isn't a very good interrogation tactic, but she's just so infuriatingly obsequious, you can't help but scare some sense into her. Her interrogators aren't exactly top professionals in their field.
If I was going for enhanced interrogation, it'd be things like being forced to stand still for 10 hours, and beaten any time you moved, or having your face covered in a cloth so that you panic and suffocate as soon as they pour water on it. You know, mentally breaking the prisoners so that they have no will to resist your suggestion. It's brainwashing 101.
If she was, how would you tell? She's afraid to try anything!
Heh yeah, Twilight really redeemed herself there. She could've totally screwed them over, and they were in no position to do anything to stop her. All her police minions could close in on them, and ha ha ha it was my plan all along. But, that scene proves that she can make mistakes, and doesn't immediately sell them out as soon as things get heavy.
...which itself is kind of suspicious. Just where did Twilight get wise to this kind of subterfuge?
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Uh oh. I thought it was obvious? The story's leading to them meeting the President. Also leading to explaining why there are humans, and why Meadowsweet isn't running from them. Long term, I think it depends what the President has to say, but I think it's safe to say they won't be staying at the barn for much longer.
Oh. The end game. Huh. I uh... yeah. That's... difficult to reveal in a story that's so heavily dependent on intrigue and subterfuge. You should have some clues to where it's going, given what Meadowsweet is learning about what ponies are. But it's really only scratched the surface there. Plus these people truly aren't involved in Twilight's schemes. They just want to get on with their lives and never see her again. So... maybe the end game of the story is slow to be revealed, but maybe the real point of the story is simply... how to live a good life.
Oh, well that's cleared up pretty quickly at least. Was it too much of a cliffhanger for the chapter?
Uh... inform her what? That fixing a sink like that was impossible? Though to be fair she didn't fix it, but hammering it into place like that also was pretty impossible. Have you considered that she might not have paid it much mind, simply because it just seems normal, and natural to her now? That kind of was what the squirrel scene was supposed to convey. Meadowsweet isn't exactly thinking... human anymore.
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I'd help you... but maybe I'll wait till after the stories done first.
Twilight and even Meadowsweet have commented on her not being too sharp about things, I was just going with the precedent there. But uncurious is a more apt description, so fair enough.
I know of waterboarding but not the standing and getting beaten thing. I had heard the lack of food and staying in a brightly lit place, solitary confinement, etc. were also some of the tactics used though, I didn't mean to imply all of them were being used. That said, do police really do this kind of thing? So not even just the CIA? I want to be shocked, but the state of policing in the US is pretty terrible at the moment so I wouldn't be too shocked sadly.
That's fair, was mostly post expectations blown commenting at that point in time.
I've read the next chapter where the few remaining humans were explained, so ya it was cleared up quickly enough.
I know! That's why I really wish someone would just sit down and get the full story and have a proper freak out about physics being bent by an earth pony. That's all. Still hoping it'll come up later when they go to train the newly converted humans. Time will tell though.
Otherwise, I also meant her starving in isolation. She keeps playing down what happened to her but I think that's just how she sees it. She didn't have broken bones and could still walk and tackle ponies so clearly she wasn't too bad off.
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Are you really gonna trust what Twilight says about Meadowsweet?
Are you really gonna trust what Meadowsweet says about Meadowsweet?
To figure out her intelligence it's better to pay attention to what she's capable of, and what isn't hard for her.
I've never been in a police interrogation. I know they don't starve people in solitary confinement. What I was referring to was the interrogation, where the officer tries to use the power of suggestion to get the suspect to confess. It's actually been a huge problem in court before if I recall, because of how good it is at getting false confessions out of people. Like, where someone actually starts thinking maybe they did do it after all. I wish I knew more about the tactic, but I hope I learned enough to get it right from Meadowsweet's perspective. (It doesn't work so well on the easily confused and the cowardly.)
Oh yeah, that standing and getting beaten thing I actually heard about from those Christian summer camps, where parents send their disobedient children to be fixed, thus proving that parents should be the last people with authority over their own children. A lot of times they have the kid balance a bible on their head, and if it falls... yeah.
Don't read Tricks.
Only problem with that is, there was nobody to witness what Meadowsweet did back there other than herself, and she's avoiding even thinking about it. Has she done anything physics bending since then? Yes, in subtle ways, that are kind of not being paid attention to because there are literal unicorns right over there using real magic spells.
She wasn't the one who suffered the most. That doesn't mean she didn't suffer terribly. Meadowsweet doesn't care about herself as much as she cares about making the world a wonderful place for others, so it's easy for her to downplay her suffering, because it would make people feel bad if she told them about it. She's basically a therapist's worst nightmare.