Mar
21st
2019
Ideas For Puddinghead · 4:57pm Mar 21st, 2019
Well, my work's going well so just so I have some ideas for later;
Where do I go with Puddinghead and Smart Cookie?
I mean, I used the rise of Emperor Augustus for Hurricane and Elizabeth I for Platinum but I've never been able to find a figure from history to base Platinum on.
I mean, an insane elected authority figure?
Who do I base her on?
And don't make any Trump jokes. It's too easy.
Any ideas for how to conclude her story? Please let me know.
insane leader, you say?
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Maybe...she could when it gets though, fail to realize the situation, like Napoleon?
5031088
Ah. I'm not going that far.
Besides, there's someone else I've based off Caligula; Potentate Magnificence Dvinius (My headcanon's version of Grand Ruler Celesto)
5031093
Not sure. Might consider it. I haven't actually got a Napoleon equivalent yet.
5031131
Your call. In terms of modern insane elected authority figure that was the first that popped in
5031135
True enough.
Caligula maybe?
5031434
I've got a character like that already. Dvinius. (He's based off Grand Ruler Celesto)
5031539
Ah did not know that.
Have you ever considered that Puddinghead is only acting like a fool and or the history was written by Celestia to make herself (and Luna) look better? Or at the least make Clover, Smart Cookie and Pansy look better. Heck, The flag is pretty much the two alcorn sisters, clearly a pro-Celestia and anti Hurricane/Platinum/Puddinghead bias exists in the historical text.
5031672
Yes. I've already shown that Hurricane and Platinum were actually very capable and widely loved monarchs (Clover and Pansy meanwhile, while highly respected, were more manipulative and ruthless than they're normally portrayed, prepared to commit evil acts for the greater good).
There is the implication that Puddinghead was at least half-pretending, using her supposed mania/stupidity to lull her enemies into a false sense of security. She was also quite ruthless, driving foes to madness either through gaslighting or through the weaponised use of Poison Joke.
And there is historical bias but it favours Earth Ponies. The Earth Pony Republic was actually the most powerful and the most violent of the three tribes but never actually had any true ruler, just a lot of squabbling factions raiding each other's borders or those of the unicorns and pegasi. And while Platinum and Hurricane are portrayed as cruel and pompous, Puddinghead's madness is almost treated like justification for their mishandling of the situation. Most of the most popular histories on the Founding were written by Earth Ponies long after the founding and have attracted controversy. Star-Swirl moved to teach the finer points of the Founding but this knowledge rarely left Canterlot where it was taught in the Royal Academy.
I'm doing more on it later.