Twilight Sparkle is not immune to the law, according to both Twilight Sparkle and the law itself. However, when the Equestrian legal system is far too close to Skyrim's for comfort, other ponies seem to disagree.
Crossover: Skyrim. (If you haven't played Skyrim, you may not fully appreciate this fanfiction.)
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I love this.
This makes a whole lot more sense than MMC
LOL
And it does
This needs to get to the featured box asap.
It just doesn't feel realistic to me.
* There is no indication that Twilight's view on justice is some romantic nonsense from a book. That means that the powerful not being immune to the law is at least the official version.
* None of them appear to think anypony is going to be in trouble for prosecuting Twilight.
* None of them start gushing about how they're her biggest fans and she can do no wrong.
Which basically exhausts options as to why they might be pushing for the non-persecution with Twilight making no moves in that direction. Otherwise, privelege makes the officials soft an malleable to her wishes, and if she looks like she wishes to be here, who are they to question her?
No one talks like that. If the political climate is such that the judge would dismiss any charges against her without hearing them because the very idea of accusing her of anything is a joke, then he wouldn't be reacting like that to her presence. The closest would be laughing at the joke that the pony before him might really be Twilight, with other options being disbelieving or confused by her and being accused of something (because nothing a Savior of Equestria might plausibly do could leat to her arrest), or angry/scared that an overeager guard is arresting The Twilight Sparkle and will get them all in trouble.
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First, the goal of my story isn't so much to be realistic so much as it is to be funny. Moreover, Twilight's view on justice doesn't have to be romanticized in order for her to object to the kind of system I'm portraying here; she only needs to believe that the law should apply to everyone regardless of who they are or the ponies they know. I think of Twilight as a pony with a strong set of morals, so it made sense to me that she would have that opinion. That said, you can freely disagree with me on that point, as not everyone's interpretation of her character is the same.
The guards' reluctance to do anything to her is realistic as well; Shining Armor probably wouldn't be all that friendly to a guard who arrests his sister, even if she did break the law. I thought I made that clear, but maybe a little touching up is in order there.
Your comment regarding the judge's attitude makes sense, however - that part was not very well-written, and I'm changing that part to be a little bit more appropriate.
Thanks for the feedback. It's nice to get constructive criticism, and I welcome the opportunity to improve my stories.
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Generally, humor is based on some sort of exaggerated or twisted version of reality. What I'm trying to say is that I don't find it very funny when I can't figure out a core part of the joke - and just how Twilight's status translates into non-prosecutability is left awkwardly without an answer. They could be scared of getting in trouble with Shining - but nobody seems scared. They could be assuming they shouldn't waste their time going against someone with connections that can order them around - but when she seems to want a trial, they don't jump to fulfilling those wishes.
But that view would totally be romanticized idealism in a country where it's commonly accepted by everyone that those with the Princess' favor answer to her alone. I was referring to the possibility of Twilight literally being a legal Don Quixote and that the joke the contrast between her expectations of modern values and the reality of a primitive medieval kingdom.
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The problem is, the legal system I'm using here isn't that of a primitive medieval kingdom. It's like the one in Skyrim, where the law applies to everyone in theory, but guards "look the other way" for those with the Jarl's favor. If you're familiar with the system in question, you should get the joke (and if you are and you still don't, then there is indeed something wrong with it), but if you operate under the assumption that Equestria is being ruled in any other way, it probably won't make sense to you no matter how it's presented.
As for the guards being afraid, there's not much point in being afraid when your future is a foregone conclusion, and they'd probably try not to show it if they were anyway. The guards in the story were quite aware of the danger they were in, but they were resigned to it. The city guards in a world where both the heroes and the villains are far more powerful than they are would probably tend to develop such an outlook.
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As I said, that was just one of the possibilities.
I haven't played Skyrim, but there is a limitad number of reasons why those guards look the other way. A general cultural understanding that important people are bigger than life and it's not appropriate to bother them about misdemeanors, the jarl being guaranteed to bail the perp out so the guards shouldn't waste their time, or the jarl giving the guards trouble.
No, guards in a world full of heroes and villains would be resigned to the danger being turned into newts or sucked into a portal, because they can't do anything about it. Being resigned about a the danger of getting in trouble with superiors is a product of a society where the powerful are a fickle bunch and the guards might get in trouble with someone for both doing and not doing anything in particular.
3720571 You... have seen how the nobles are portrayed in the show right? I mean can you get more fickle than that?
4817793 You realize you replied to a comment from over half a year ago?
The Duke and Duchess of Maretonia did not seem very fickle to me. That's who you're talking about, the only ponies in the show mentioned to have noble titles, right? Or was it the Canterlot high class from Sweet and Elite, which the show does not establish as nobility, does not establish as having the power to give ponies trouble on a whim/if they are arrested, and are portrayed as snooty and judgmental, not fickle?
4820904 Sadly at the time of my writing that comment I was half asleep and not quite thinking straight, though by noble I meant Blueblood in all regards. As he's the only Equestrian Noble that is established as being a noble
4821016 Um, no. He's established as royalty. Also, your entire argument about how "Equestrian nobility" is like is supported by one guy being rude for one evening.
4821031 Like I stated previously, that argument was constructed while I was half asleep. I was just trying to properly articulate the train of thought I had apparently let meander of the tracks last night.
Though in hindsight I should really not attempt to comment on anything at 5 in the morning after not sleeping for thirty seven hours.