Skeletor ??? of the Empire. · 10:48am May 25th, 2021
I’ve had a bit to think about after the latest chapter. A few comments made some fair posts about Skeletor in this story and how he’s effectively “useless” right now. Well, I guess it’s a little worse than that. He’s more like a house cat right now and I need to fix that soon.
With such a large cast of characters and trying to touch on all of them at least once, I’ve accidentally let Skeletor fall to the wayside to help other progress.
I’ll try to focus more on his character and self growth, and make him more relevant again. (Insert Make Something Something Again joke.)
I’m not sure how I feel about moving a few confrontations ahead of schedule, but even I have to admit that the story is going really slow at this point.
Thank you all for you comments and feedback one SMoTE, I try to read them all and take any advice about writing or characters seriously to create something you can enjoy.
it okay,skeletor never wanted to rule anyway, and we all have our down moments, he honestly more content not ruling and trying to focus on getting back home, it when he finds out he been deceived and others, crum catcher or sombra make their move when he needs to step up, regardless of what he wants he is the master of the empire now, events around him are gathering steam and when they blow he have to lead
Here was I thinking the atory was about how the events would lead to Skeletor rising as the Emperor os the Crystal Empire.... it is disenheartening to find out that is not the plan.
Anyway I think the mistake here is that you lost sight of the narrative. You can have a large cast as long as they all serve the narrative focus instead of sacrificing the narrative to "flash out" the cast. Same as how the baker pony, track tun I think, is not mentioned anymore now that his function was fufilled for this part of the story. There is no reason to pay attention to terciary characters when they have no relation to the main focus.
I am, however, assuming Skeletor is still the main focus of the story.
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Oh yeah, Skeletor is still the main focus. I guess I just got caught up in the themes of not judging books by their covers and being forced to do things you don't want to do that I ended up focusing on the branching ideas of that theme instead of how it just specifically related to Skeletor, something I plan to fix now with future chapters.
And I think that quite a few people are disheartened that I originally planned to have him away from the throne. But, as people say, no plan survives contact with the enemy, and I do miss seeing him stumble a bit on his path to being a leader. Besides, what is a lord or king compared to a Master of The Empire?
Even though Skeletor didn't get as much first person focus as he did, I think it was really interesting to see the first person perspectives of tbe ponies viewing Skeletor.
I'm sure Skeletor will get back on action once Sombra rise to ignite "The Crystal Empire Part 1" -Episode event to hunt down the Ex-ruler.
Theres so many plots going to keep Skeletor relevant to the story; Skeletor's portal experiments, personality disorder issue, learning new magic abilities, deception plot planned behind of his back, Meeting the Main Six and the Princesses, talks about this 'other human' ( He-Man assume ) living on other kingdom, convince remain ponies that he isn't their enemy until he can rest ( Until a sequel comes ).
I'm not a fan of deceptions because we the readers KNOW what's going on and want save Skeletor from that mistreatment ( Teasing our helplessness be unable do anything and just watch ), but I won't deny it because it will make this story more interesting read.
I just realised the title abbreviates as SMOTE (past tense of smite).