Sequel September: Caverns of Discord · 8:51pm Sep 30th, 2015
Hello, everypony. I am the Critique.
AND I’M ON THE LAST WEEK OF SEQUEL SEPTEMBER!
And thank God because I don’t know if I could go through another week of this shit. Especially if the stories I would review are anything like this week’s piece of shit. The sequel to the Lost Prince called The Caverns of Discord.
Yes, we are finally breaking up the monotony of sequels to stories that just add a number to the end of it. We are actually using some creativity here. Which is more than I can say for the rest of the story.
Before we begin, many of you are probably wondering what is The Lost Prince. It’s actually a story about a prince who is the little brother of Celestia and Luna. And I just lost half of my viewers on such a stupid concept. Don’t worry, those of you who remain, it gets worse.
The prince becomes friends with the main six (Big shock there), reenacts Cupcakes and Rainbow Factory, and murders a bunch of changelings. All while being seven years old. Yeah, I’m not excited about this either. But… we’ve got to end Sequel September with something so… here we go…
Hope is quickly diminished by the first thing we see… the long description…
Roy's life never got easier since he left canterlot as a young colt but his life did get better with all the ups, and downs with the moving to ponyville from the Everfree Forest,but in a maze discord created Roy's endurance, and self-control will be tested to the limit as his bloodlust reacts to almost every sighting of blood. Can he control himself or will he kill everypony on sight?
So, discord (That’s the force, not the character, as a character’s name would be capitalized) created the seven year old’s endurance and self-control. And oddly enough, this introduces the seven year old’s love of blood in the description. I told the main six that letting him kill all those changelings was a bad idea. But would they listen to me? Nooooooo….
Add on top of that the run on sentence that seems to go on for fucking ever and I already want to punch somepony in the face! Also, isn’t it odd how his life never got any easier, but it did get better? You’re sort of contradicting yourself!
And almost instantly the story gives us something stupid.
I had stayed up all night working in the forge on one thing. a small dagger able to switch in, and out of a leather strap without cutting it. having to use leather made this process harder than needed, because it takes a few gears, and so on for the blade to slip it out without cutting the leather, but when I had nearly finished I heard hooves pounding on the ground coming towards my forge.
So, he made a dagger that he could pull out of the leather sheath without cutting it. Clearly, in this magical world where people can build golden armor for the royal guard, the seven year old (I don’t care if he’s 18 by this point) is able to make a knife that doesn’t damage the sheath when you pull it out for use.
Again, in this world where you can use a fucking sewing machine, we don’t have knives that fit perfectly into our sheaths. What a fucking load… And that was the first paragraph, people. First, paragraph.
This one is going to physically assault me, isn’t it?
ROY! Fluttershy screamed as she approached quickly, and out of breath.
JESUS! I didn’t think it’d be that quick!
Fluttershy, calm down! You don’t need to yell at me!
Our lovely Fluttershy explains that the main six are in trouble and that the seven year old is the only one who can save them. Naturally, it provokes this response…
"What's going on, and can I make another one of these in time before I come over there." I reply to her as I slip on the leather bracelet thing with a dagger in it.
Because making another fucking dagger is more important than saving the life of your ‘friends’. Priorities, yours are fucked up!
Roy goes out to help Twilight and the others and finds out that Discord has attacked them. Discord has sucked out all the feelings of Twilight and the others, with only Fluttershy able to escape him. Funny, maybe this is him being 7 years old since when he first met Twilight, she was already friends with the other members of the main six. But what the hell do I know?
Discord explains that he used his knowledge of the Elements of Harmony to defeat them and absorb their emotions. The seven year old gets angry and evolves from a unicorn to an alicorn. Funny, I thought he used his magic to hide the fact that he was an alicorn in the last one, but what would I expect from someone who didn’t even read the last story they wrote?!
Roy attacks Discord and we get this lack of feeling line from Twilight…
"ROY DON'T!" Twilight screamed in an attempt to stop me, but I ignored her warning, and made a fatal mistake, because I flew up to him without a plan to stop him, because when I tried to buck him, he disappeared, and trapped me with magic in a single spot.
Yes, Twilight really has no emotions and/or feeling here. I could really tell that from the ‘Twilight screamed’ line or the fact that we had to put the line in all caps at the highest font we could find!
Discord, however, is quickly able to best Roy and traps him in a labyrinth. When Roy wakes up he finds Derpy... who has had her wings torn off. Classy. And to add to that, Roy gets ideas about killing her in violent ways. You couldn’t kill her if you wanted to… She’s the Goddamn Batmare!
Derpy explains that she’s been here for a long time and Roy goes on his quest to kill Discord. You couldn’t kill him if you wanted to… He’s the Goddamn Discord!
Roy travels through the labyrinth while tending to Derpy’s wounds. When suddenly he is attacked by shadow ponies created by Discord. Funny how Discord in the show doesn’t want to seem to murder ponies, because then he’d have no one to play with. Killing kind of seems out of character, but hey, that’s all this story is about. Bloodshed.
Don’t believe me? Well, how about when the shadow ponies bleed as he tears them apart.
One got close enough for me to kick it down, and smash it's skull into pieces by stepping on it while I used magic to increase the gravity on my hoove to slam down on their skull. Surprisingly they have blood, so they body starts to gush out massive amounts of blood starting to clump trying to stop the bleeding from the already dead shadow pony.
After going Michael Myers on them, Fluttershy meets up with Roy and of course, she trusts the psychopath who murdered everyone of the shadow ponies and is now covered in blood. Wouldn’t you?
Be like trusting a T-Rex not to eat you because he’s got blood on his face.
After killing the shadow ponies, Roy tells Fluttershy and Derpy that he needs to teach them about a spell that they can use to teleport or something… I don’t understand it. Here’s what it looks like…
"Wait.Hold it. I need to teach you both some hoove magic that can make a teleport location to one place that you place a mark at." I tell them while showing them how to do the magic, and then how to make the mark on the ground. They both place the mark in the room since neither of them has their wings to get out of trouble quickly
So, I guess, it’s like a teleport spell that can make them recall to their old location… Or some shit like that. It’s not very well explained at all. And even if it was, how would Derpy and Fluttershy use that magic?! They are not unicorns! I mean, yeah, the theory is that Pegasi and Earth Ponies have magic that allow them to do certain things, but I don’t think teleportation is one of them! I don’t know it’s been a while since I saw an Ink Rose video about it!
I mean, I would even buy it if there was some artifact or stone that allowed for that! But no, there is no mention of it!
After that, Roy decides to get some rest and Fluttershy crawls up next to him and sleeps with him. … Okay, not in that way, but I’m sure it’s coming. When he wakes up he is attacked by Pinkamena, who wants to rape him… I’m not kidding…
"Well hello Roy nice to see you again, but this time we have some unfinished business since you are now mature enough. I will be taking a bit of a ride on your cock if you don't mind right? Of course you don't mind your a stallion, but once i'm done with you I will rip your cock, and balls off Roy." Pinkamena Diane Pie says approaching me
Okay, one… wrong. Two, what do you mean, ‘you’re a stallion, so it’s okay.’ bullshit! Yes, I realize that rape happens more to women than it does to men. But that doesn’t mean that rape doesn’t psychologically scar men! Why is it okay to rape a man?!
So, yeah, Pinkamena attacks Roy, but Roy is able to fight her back. Pinkamena whines about Discord not being able to get rid of Roy’s horn and wings… Which makes no sense because he was able to steal Celestia and Luna’s mane. But whatever.
And then… Pinkamena just stops… No, I’m not even kidding. Pinkamena just stops attacking Roy. For no reason…
"Of all the things Discord forgets to do. He forgot to take away your horn, and wings." Pinkamena said to me with a gleam of annoyance in her eyes.
"Pinkie Discord can't, because I can change from an alicorn to any kind of pony I want." I tell her as Fluttershy, and Derpy peek their heads around the corner.
"Roy! What are you doing to Pinkie!" Fluttershy says walking up to me, and stands between both of us.
"Well if you were here a few minutes ago you would have seen her trying to rape me then rip my crotch off."
"And I thought all stallions enjoyed sex way too much." Pinkie mutters a bit loud.
"Well I will just excuse myself from this awkward conversation." Derpy says backing out of the corridor
"I have an idea though for you Pinkie I might be able to teleport you out of this maze with the magic I have, but it will take a lot of my strength to do so." I tell her walking up to her past Fluttershy.
"Do it I wanna get out of this hell hole anyway." Pinkie says urging me on as her hair starts fluffing up again.
Seriously, I’m looking at this passage over and over and I cannot find any reason why Pinkie stops being psycho bitch who wants to rape and murder Roy to suddenly being ‘Smile, Smile, Smile’.
Did you just forget that she was a psychopath? Or were you just too lazy to come up with a reason why how she would be defeated without killing her?
Anyway, Roy teleports Pinkie Pie away, and Fluttershy says that she wants to stay with Roy and rescue other ponies who might be trapped here. Roy and Fluttershy have a tender moment and then Derpy is kind of a dick here.
"You two done? or are you just gonna forget about your little search Roy." Says Derpy butting in. "Because correct me if i'm wrong Roy you said that you were still gonna search after casting that spell." Derpy tells me with a stern look on her face.
I think the author was trying to make Derpy look bad so Fluttershy can look good by comparison. Based on what we see later in the story, that would not at all surprise me.
But since we did just have a fight scene between Roy and Pinkie Pie, we get another fight scene between Roy and some shadow ponies. Oh, wait, the Pinkie Pie fight didn’t have gore in it, so it’s completely different!
After some more pointless bloodshed, Roy goes back to Fluttershy and explains that they are all safe now. They enter the place that the shadow ponies were guarding and find Celestia and Luna who had been kidnapped by Discord. I swear, sometimes I think Celestia’s the Princess Peach of My Little Pony.
Roy rescues Celestia and Luna and they agree to help him find others that might have been captured by Discord. Something to mention is the pacing seems to be less focused on psychologic temptations that Roy has to fight in order to keep his sanity, which would have been interesting to see versus the pointless bloodshed. Also, since it is more focused on killing things than establishing a character, the moments when Roy isn’t killing something, thinking about killing something, describing how to kill something, or doing things that remind him of how he could be killing something are very brief.
Even the dumbass romance between him and Fluttershy, which I think you are supposed to feel for, honestly takes a back seat to the gory violence. If you are going to do this big debate with him trying to keep his sanity, actually do it! It’s just an excuse to write gore and it’s not even that good of gore! Just make the character an over violent idiot if you want to write this way!
Also, Celestia and Luna have no reaction to seeing Roy again. I guess that’s why there never was a search party for him.
Celestia: Didn’t we have a brother at one point?
Luna: Yeah, but he kept yelling at us and calling us ‘stupid bitches’.
Celestia: On second thought, I don’t think we have a brother.
Luna: Yeah, it’s really the best way to have him.
So, the group decides to get some rest and when Roy wakes up Derpy explains how she found the pony she was looking for when she was trapped down here. However, before Derpy could rescue him, she was attacked by several ponies who could use magic and … didn’t chase her. I guess when you’re a villain who lets heroes escape, you don’t think about how this could possibly bite you in the ass.
Changeling: My queen, Twilight Sparkle and her friends are getting away.
Chrysalis: Meh… let them go.
Changeling: But… my queen… we could totally catch them and kill them.
Chrysalis: Nope. Just let them go.
Changeling: Are you sure that’s the best move? I mean, they could come back and defeat you, you know.
Chrysalis: Come now. When has the villain letting the hero live ever backfired?
Changeling: … You are kidding, right?
So, Roy gets into the arena with three of the newest shadow ponies that Discord can create and they are all as powerful as he is. Except with one slight advantage…
"Oh Roy I hope you know these things will attack each other, but their ultimate goal is to kill you. Why are they all not trying to kill you. Well I will tell you why, because it's no fun watching one pony getting ganged up on by three others with the fight so one sided." Discord says popping in once more, but this time with skin like the wall as he blended in with it, but he disappears quickly after he says what he wanted to say.
Did I say advantage? I meant, handicap.
Seriously, why would you create villains that attack each other? That makes no sense! Are you trying to lose, Discord? Are you fucking high? God, I wish Dark Souls had thought of that! It sure would have made Ornstein and Smough easier to deal with.
Wait, it doesn’t… Never mind.
So they fight for a bit with Roy getting the upper hand against one of them, when the other two start attacking him. And Discord gets a fucking kick out of it.
No… I’m not kidding. Take a look at it.
My magic blasts all three of them a few feet away where they all gather in an attempt to kill me. "Oh so they have joined forces to kill you I see how fun." Discord says obviously enjoying the show.
So, why did you have them split up their attacks on each other when you wanted them just to all attack him anyway?! Oh, fuck it. Let’s just get through this.
So, he manages to save Doctor Whooves. I know, big surprise right? Doctor Whooves explains that he is from another dimension… Which Roy instantly calls bullshit on. Doctor Whooves explains that, Yes, he isn’t from another dimension, but wants Derpy to think he’s cool, so he keeps lying to her.
Yeah, I’m sure that will work out for you in the long run, Doc. So, what are you going to do when Derpy does find out you’ve been lying to her for years? Or wants to visit your dimension? Or asks your family what’s it like to live in another dimension? … Yeah, kind of didn’t think this one through, did you?
Actually, it turns out that this is the Doctor in the body of a pony and he wants to piss off Roy so he can kill him and have him regenerate into a new body. Which, really makes the Doctor out as kind of a prick. I mean, I know he can sometimes be a bit cruel, but he usually has a selfless reason for doing so. This is just… kind of dickish. He uses Derpy as an excuse to be reckless so that he can regenerate and leave her. That’s pretty fucking cruel!
Roy attacks him in a blind rage, but Celestia, Luna, Fluttershy and Derpy appear and stop him. Roy, however, manages to cast a spell, and rather than killing the Doctor, he teleports him somewhere else. I don’t really know why he didn’t just kill him, but whatever, the story’s almost over.
And apparently, this entire chapter was made to make the Doctor a dick. Why? Because the author hates the character. No, really. That’s the only reason the Doctor is a dick in this.
Author's Note:
this is way over do but i'm too lazy to get anything done. At the least I got the pony I hate most in this chapter
Look, if you don’t like Doctor Whooves, fine, but… why would you make him so detestable for no reason?! It feels like you are purposely trying to get your audience to see your point of view, without even trying to meet them halfway. How would you like it if I took your favorite character and made them unlikable to the point of being unrecognizable?
Angel, go die in a hole, you useless piece of shit! I never loved you!
Guess who’s number just came up?!
Batman: What are you, dense?! Are you retarded or something?!
After discussing the topic of taking Discord down, and this maze for hours, and hours on end. We finally came to an agreement of teleporting everypony out of the maze, and then dealing with Discord himself with the force of ponyville, and canterlot combined.
Because, why the hell would we want to show that discussion?
So, apparently, Roy is actually stupid enough to think that if the unicorns all band together, they will just magically somehow be able to defeat Discord. The dude ruled Equestria for years before Celestia and Luna had the Elements of Harmony! How the hell would an army of unicorns stand up to the guy who can alter reality?!
Oh, who fucking cares?
By the way, forget about this conversation because it amounts to nothing. Roy decides to forgo his friends and face Discord alone.
"Well then Roy I hope you know what you're doing then, because if you don't well lets just say it won't be a happy ending for you if we all get stuck back in here, because you couldn't take down Discord while you are in your current condition." Luna says frowning at me, because she obviously doesn't like me right now after trying to kill Dr. Whooves.
She probably doesn’t like you for a lot of other reasons too.
So, Roy goes into one of the cages and finds the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Who are still called ‘fillies’ in this story! Seriously, when does this take place?! Roy is called an adult, but clearly the characters around him haven’t grown up, since the Crusaders are still children, where as Twilight and the others are normal aged. And they weren’t children when they met, it was only Roy who was a child. So, why would Roy be the only one aging if....
Wow… my brain actually shut down from trying to figure it out… That’s a new one…
So, Discord appears and attacks Roy with a doppleganger of himself. This really shouldn’t be a problem since he’s slain Changelings all his life. Also, I wonder if this copy will attack Discord, just to make it a fair fight. What? It would follow his tactics perfectly!
They fight for a bit, because it’s not something we have seen. There is some gore which, again, is supposed to be disturbing, but I’ve seen this throughout the entire fucking thing, so it’s just become rather boring and juvenile at this point.
Discord, and the copy fall, but the copy falls on it's head cracking it's skull open while Discord floats down with growing fear.
Yeah, you break that skull, dude. That was a really cool moment. And only getting cooler after the 60th fucking time!
Not even kidding. Look at these scenes from earlier in the story.
manage to flip my blade out of the leather bracelet, and slip it into a shadow pony's face shattering their skull, and brain if they have one. I pick up two more of them, and toss them at the rest from both sides, One got close enough for me to kick it down, and smash it's skull into pieces by stepping on it while I used magic to increase the gravity on my hoove to slam down on their skull.
. As all three of them are upon me I use my uninjured wing to push them back onto the ground where I slam one of their skulls in with increased gravity from my magic, and two back hooves.
This feels like someone who just found out what gore is and decided to write a story, filling it with as much as it could without properly understanding the repetition equals boredom.
So, after Discord is pretty much beaten, he agrees to teleport everyone home and leave Roy in the prison for all eternity. And here’s my question, if Discord can just leave Roy, the only magical being that can stop him, in a dimension where he can’t escape, why doesn’t he just put him in a magical dimension where he can’t escape and just leave him? And when he does leave him, what’s to stop him from wreaking chaos again now that the only opposition is gone? You don’t exactly have to be Patton to figure this kind of shit out. It’s not like just because Roy gave him a ‘big, scary’ threat and has no power to back up said threat, that Discord is just going to roll over and play dead.
But, the Discord we got is a little on the stupid side as he does teleport all the ponies back home and continues taunting Roy, even though he’s technically already won.
Roy continues to search for a way out and eventually finds Discord, they … you guessed it… Fight for a bit. It’s almost like this story has become formulaic. And so Roy wins and our hero does the most lovable thing he could possibly do… Skins Discord alive.
… Surprisingly, it’s not as gruesome as you might think. It’s like the author wanted to do this, but actually had no idea how to present it in any gruesome fashion, so he just threw up his hands, said “Fuck it” and just plastered ‘I skinned Discord’ all across the chapter as if it was supposed to mean something.
He manages to get home. I’m not questioning it, why should you? He hangs his victory over his wall like a trophy and nopony sees anything wrong with this at all and Roy goes back home to plot everypony's demise.
Yeah, this story is shit.
It’s a completely immature story that is going for the shock value than the actual story or characters. The only thing that’s missing from this story is a big pair of boobies bouncing about in every other scene and the teenage hormone triangle of cliches would have been complete.
It feels like ‘child’s first gore’ fic. It’s just a big pile of scenes that are trying to be gory for the sake of ‘Oh, I just found out what blood is and I’m going to spread it on everything.’ And even then, it’s not that gory. It just tells you what happens, rather than going through every agonizing detail of what kind of trauma the body might go through in these situations. That’s what good gore would do. Detailing how every single bone of the spine rubbed against one another, gridding itself so violently they might as well be flint trying to light a tinder.
Okay, maybe not a good example there, but a little more detail about everything the body might go through would be nice. Especially since it’s the main focus of the story in the first place. As bad as the gore is in this story, the character development is even worse.
Fluttershy and Roy’s relationship flies by so fast, you could blink and it would have passed you 16 times. Even seeing it, I’m not even sure what kind of chemistry they have. Apparently, Fluttershy has a thing for overly violent idiots who rub blood on every pore of their body.
The story of the violent outbursts that Roy has is pretty much nonexistent that never seems to go anywhere other than it shows up when Roy is really mad. And which of course, everyone seems to think it’s perfectly normal for Roy to run around in the skin of Discord, laughing like a maniac singing ‘Carnage Rules’.
Honestly, if the story had decided to focus on the psyche of Roy, him trying his best to keep his sanity in an insane world that wants him to destroy and his struggle to keep his violent nature in check and completely ignore Discord, the stupid maze and focus on the struggle of everyday life, that would have been far more interesting. It has some potential there, but it decides to go with this ‘Oh, I’m the hero and everyone should love me’, which is the plot of every single fan fic ever written.
Finally, and fatally, it’s only written like shit. The grammar and spelling are atrocious. Honestly, I think I saw the word ‘hoove’ 50 fucking times. The grammar makes it incredibly difficult to read and half the time the sentences in which characters talk are part of paragraphs where another character is already talking, making it difficult to keep track of who is talking and who isn’t.
That’s all I’ve got for this Sequel September and thank god. I don’t think I could have gone another week of this shit. So, with that, I leave you with this…
Now, what's this a sequel to?
Oh... that one.
And when I was seven, I was just making little paper dinosaurs... over-achiever.
what is this i don't even.
First off: "Roy's life never got easier, but his life did get better". Paradox much? Can't you just say he's had a good time of living in Ponyville and be done with it?!
Second off, what the hell does he mean by "created Roy's endurance"? Is he really a robot and someone gave him an upgrade to his fusion cell?
And finally, he reacts violently to the sight of blood. Here's an idea: put him in an asylum, with padded walls. Blindfold him. Just do something. so he can't actually see until this wears off.
Or better yet, chop off his head and then point it at his body; see what happens then before he's dead for real.
Congratulations, you've achieved something that blacksmiths have been able to do for thousands of years. You must be so proud.
You're racist against Super Saiyans- Markiplier
Kind of like why Joker can never bring himself to kill Batman.
Why can no one get Discord's character right?
Well, it worked for Blue, so... you never know.
At this point I'm not surprised.
It isn't but since men are the expendable gender in Fictionland and 9 out of every 10 writers who use rape are SO INCOMPETENT THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR HANDS AND TONGUES SEVERED FROM THEIR BODIES SO THEY CAN NEVER CREATE ANOTHER STORY EVER AGAIN, it just persists.
... Yeah, that kind of is the truth, isn't it? Shame really; she has so much potential, but everyone is more focused on characters that have already had a lot of their character squeezed out of them.
Think I'll mention stuff for bragging rights and such. It took me eight chapters of God Empress before I got to the heroic bloodshed stuff. Seriously, it pays to take some time before you start getting people to kill other people.
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I can't say that Dr. Whooves is one of my favorite creations of the fandom (though I do like him), but this... this is wrong. It's just so wrong. It feels like something just got broken for the sake of the author being a jerk.
And now he's gone past jerk to being a whiney little bitch. Look, if you don't like the character that's fine, but murdering them in your story only makes you look like an immature brat whining about something they don't like yet not having the skill to address that properly.
I kind of got that feeling a while back...
Sad that Sequel September is over, but I look forward to October. Hopefully you find some good fics out there
That sounds promising. I get the feeling that it is not though.
Looks like that be a lot going on there. Has lost me though on that this whoever killed a bunch of changelings at seven years of age. Would not be too far fetched if he did it wile the changelings where barely a fledgling. Might make for an interesting story if done right. Such as telling of how he knew of them, and hated them enough to kill any. And how?
I think more on assaulting your physiological limits too continue.
It already has mine. Roy is either terrible at working leather, or he manged to make one dull knife that would not wreck what he made to hold it. A dull knife is not a hard thing to make either.
Leather on it's own, depending on the quality, type, and thickness is already rather resistant to being sliced. It's why some cheap armor was made of leather. It is also why good work boots and gloves even today are made of the stuff. Makes me wonder how much the writer knows about leather in general. Should not be hard to make a sheath that can hold a knife without the knife cutting thorough it.
Another prob with this story. Discord is not likely to do that. He likes to play with his victims. It is one thing for him to alter their emotional state of mind to something more negative. I don't see how much fun, completely unemotional ponies would be for him.
It reminds me of the cartoon Reboot. A virus of randomness, Hexadecimal basically turned everyone into a statue that would fade in time.
The hero Bob stopped her by telling her how peaceful and calm everything will be now. No more unexpected events, just peace an quiet. Hexadecimal got upset about this, and with a snap of her fingers, she turned everyone back to normal. Not without a sly grin from her after. Apparently her winning that way just did not suite her. And letting Bob win by tricking her the way he did, she felt was amusing to her.
Unemotional ponies would be too boring for Discord to have around. That is why this did not sound right. Unemotional is not the same as being discorded form one's usual, or true self anyway. But I am not writing the story.
This story is lacking in continuity, among other things.
This story may find him a way to do both.
Oh' that sounds so wrong. I got to stop thinking that way.
Exactly the point I brought up about him earlier. Dead ponies would be about as much fun for him as a bunch of passionless, inexpressive, cold, impassive, indifferent, detached, aloof ponies!
I could try and fix the wording on this, but I don't see the point.
It's been a wile since I saw an Ink Rose video myself.
If Pinkie and Zecora are any indication of non-unicorns using magic, it should be plausible. Seeing that they are possibly using a glyph or sigil in this story:
"The word glyph is sometimes used alongside the word "rune" in describing magical drawings or etchings. Runes often refer to placing the image on an object or person to empower it, whereas the magic in a glyph lies dormant and is only triggered when the glyph is read or approached."
This should let even an earth pony to work magic, outside of unicorns controlling it by one's will through the use of their horn. Remember, Twilight was teaching Apple Bloom how to work magic through potions as Zecora does. Zecora seem to be able to do more than that, though she is no unicorn or pony.
Still I think the theory in this is sound. We have no idea if glyphs can empower a spell in their world, and I don't see why not.
I am not exactly defending the story, but I do think it is a neat idea. It would beg the question however, If any pony could use a glyph, or sigil to cast magic, then why don't more do it?
Yes, we don't see much of anything like that on the show. Other than a few magic artifacts. Like magic books and wands.
It is that lacking in continuity again.
You get that too? I thought it was just me.
I could see Discord enjoying a bong. It would be the funnest thing in this story. And might make all of what is happening make a little more sense.
Think of it, Discord sharing all of what has happened as nothing more than just a vision he made up to screw with Twilight, and a few others, while he was high on the bong!
And not all that smart of the Doctor. What little I know of him. He is suppose to be pretty damn smart for what I do know of him.
It also seems to be another jab at Derpy. Derpy seamed upset about having to wait on Roy and Fluttershy having a moment. Making her out to be a prick. Now the writer picks on the fan built relationship of The Doc and Derpy, by having the Doctor willing to die in order to get away. And that is after him spending time to mess with Derpy's head.
I am thinking the writer dose not like Derpy much.
Not exactly a blind rage, by a blood thirsty pony, if Roy thought this through.
I would like to know how the writer got the Doctor? Roy teleported away a supposed immortal that regenerates after each death. And in this story the Doctor wished to just leave. Roy gave the Doctor just what he wanted, and did it without killing him. So how was this a kick to the Doctor's ball sack? I don't get it?
I'm easily confused.
Hay! I take exception to that.
Ending this with some Charnage. I can live with that.
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I don't think I had the displeasure of going over that one.
When I was about seven, I was taking apart my Transformers, carefully, screw by screw, and putting them back together like some sort of 3D puzzle. And other stuff like that.
I'm trying.
You know, I think you got a point there.
Again, I'm trying!
Stories like Derpy's Finest Hour.
I hope so as well. October is one of my most favorite months. B' Movie Horrors Galore!