Sumac's potential for villainy · 6:17am Sep 4th, 2017
“Are you sure this will work?” Flurry asked her co-conspirator, Sumac. With one raised eyebrow, she turned her head in his general direction and gave him a look that only traitors plotting treason could give. She studied him, trying to determine the confidence on his face and to see if there was any hesitation in his reply.
“It’ll work,” he replied while nodding his head. “After I got a sliver of Trixie’s soul, I suddenly gained an innate understanding of illusion magic that I never had before. When you say the magic words, your gown will transform. You need to trust me.”
“I do trust you, Professor Egghead.” Flurry, who felt ravenous parasprites in her stomach, began to gnaw on her lower lip. Standing in one place, she watched as Sumac made a final inspection of her finished, fitted gown. “I’m nervous, Sumac, and I’m so scared. This is my coming out of the closet moment and everything needs to be perfect.”
“I suppose that is one way of looking at it,” Pebble remarked, and Flurry was relieved that the earth pony filly did not disagree. “Sumac, did you manage to get a moment alone with Shining Armor?”
“I did,” the colt replied while he continued to look the gown over with a critical eye. “I was subtle and smooth and I don’t think he realised I was messing with his head. Flurry, at some point tonight, your parents are going to sneak off somewhere to be alone and they are gonna do something gross with each other. It’ll give us time to do what needs to be done.”
“Sumac, how did you manage to pull that off, anyhow?” Pebble asked.
Flurry found that she wanted to know too.
“I uh, asked Shining Armor for… advice… theoretical advice.” Lifting his head, Sumac pulled off his glasses and then used a spell to clean them, leaving them spotless. “I acted real innocent and a little shy and told him that I didn’t plan on doing anything this cotillion, but in the future, I might kind of want to have that special first time here in the Crystal Empire and I said I wanted to be adventurous and exciting.”
Flurry groaned and thought about covering her ears.
“Shining Armor gave me some advice on how to sneak away, where to go, and uh, even some advice on useful positions.” Sumac slid his glasses back on and with a turn of his head, he looked Flurry in the eye, a gaze that Flurry was unable to return. “I repeated everything he said back to him and implanted as much suggestion into my words as I could muster. Flurry, you might end up with a new sibling. I’m not really sorry.”
“You wicked little shit.” Pebble’s eyes narrowed and Silver Lining began to giggle.
Feeling hot and flustered, Flurry’s ears burned and she found that she couldn’t look any of her friends in the eye. “So, uh, Dad will be overcome by his own suggestions and he’ll lead my mother away, if we’re lucky. Once they’ve slipped away, the floor will be ours and then you and I can make our announcement, Sumac.”
The parasprites in Flurry’s stomach proved to be too much and now, she felt sick. Belching, she could taste the tea from earlier and for a moment, she worried that the burp might turn into a full blown spew. Maybe spewing would make her feel better and get rid of that slight headache that lurked at the base of her skull.
“You’d better go,” Flurry said to her friends. “I think I need a nap before tonight because I need to be at my best and I already feel tired. Thank you so much for everything.”
“Don’t mention it, Princess.” Sumac bowed his head, a sincere gesture that Flurry appreciated, and she watched him smile his rogue’s smile. “You get the rest you need. Pebble, Silver, we should be going. We’ve got stuff to do.”
“Sleep well, Flurry,” Silver Lining said, and she gave a wave goodbye with her wing.
Stomach churning, her heart pounding, Flurry Heart watched as her friends departed.
The grounding will last... forever!
only IF he survives that long
discord would she a proud tear, he would.
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lol, yeah, it's too bad Discord isn't watching this. I imagine he'd want to help, too, since it would be sticking it to stuck-up nobility.
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eh he is probably recording it though.
"Flurry, you might end up with a new sibling. I'm not really sorry." Lol
And Sumac got Shinning Armor to give advice on how to Sumac could deflower his daughter. Even if that is part of the Crystal nobilities goals I cannot even fathom Shinning giving that advice without his head getting messed with.
Words are plenty powerful without magical compulsion behind them.
Kudzu, i thank you for this blog post.
why?
because i never got an update in my feed saying Cotillion had been published, but this blog post got around that fimfic bug
now i have 34k words to marathon, plus comments.
thank you again
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4658051 Who said it was about Flurry?
I mean, they're technically half-cousins. But also kinda not. So they decide whether it's incest or wincest.
You know, you would think after the Royal Wedding Shining Armor would have done stuff to protect himself from mental manipulations, but then again those might not work considering Sumac's words work even on Chrysalis
You're all missing an important detail: after the changeling invasion in Canterlot I bet my own immortal soul that Shinning and the inner circle are more then ready to resist this kind of manipulation.
In other words: Shinning, maybe even Cadence, are playing along, in some part (maybe they are not aware of everything), with the plan.
Plans, inside plans, inside plans....
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Have to remember, even Chrysalis fell to Sumac words so many even being prepared for such manipulations might not be enough.
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Well, if Shinning Armor is assuming Flurry will marry Sumac he can kind of infer any such information might be used on his daughter.
4658273 But we don't know that was what he assumed.
If he was, he just wanted the best for his daughter, however awkward it may be. We didn't see it, so we can't tell how awkward it actually was.
And if it wasn't, well, he's a stallion with no sons. Fathers like to pass on their knowledge, just like mothers. Shining Armor was likely projecting onto Sumac.
The plan's climax is for Sumac to project an illusion of him and Flurry fronking right in the middle of Cotillion in front of all the Nobles isn't it?
I guess you have to resort to sort-of villainy when it's not a viable option to just point out to others, "That's bullshit. This is bullshit. The whole system is bullshit."
Even if it would lead right into the Flurrian Reformation.