Skyrim reference? Thought so. No matter how many times I walked by that NPC, he always said that.

4268428 Skyrim reference? Where!

4268428 Skyrim reference? Where!

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Have you ever tried mercenary work Jason? I might suit you."

Just take out Jason and you have a Skyrim reference

4268674 ohhhh right now i remember thanks

4269404 Thanks

4268674 "I might suit you"
Giggity

Great story. The reference was that part about mercenary work.

"If your occupation is of interest the I must ask. Have you ever tried mercenary work Jason? It might suit you."

You just had to do that.

"Wonderful! Time for a celebration... cheese for everyone!" -Shogorath Dadric prince of madness to the hero of Kavatch (He's better then Discord)

4305704 Your certainly a lively one aren't you?

Glad you're enjoying the story.

4334451 I don't feel like addressing the issue of Jason's reaction in this form simply because it would be major spoilers, if you want to know then PM me.

It should also be known that I lack an editor, nor do I really want one. This story is what I've always wanted out of a HiE story, and it will follow the path as I see fit, if not everyone is happy with that then that's fine, because in the end this is my story and not their's.

Otherwise, I appreciate the criticism and will consider elaborating on Jason's behaviour via the next few chapters.

.....this contradicts a previous chapter (about the crime thing). Maybe Rarity is just way too paranoid or Cece was kind of lying before. Wonder if future chapter clarify this

Here's my constructive criticism:

Here I can do anything, travel, learn, it's a bit of an improvement to be honest.

...On Earth there's nothing to travel to and nothing to learn? I live in Canada, too, and considering the West Coast, Rocky Mountains, Prairies, Maritime, and Arctic, I'd say there's lots to see and do. I'm also in University, and I can't keep up with all that I'm learning! Were you even trying to live life Jason?

Despite appearances, Equestria is full of bandits, brigands, thieves, and rouge beasts. Some of which the Royal Guard are just too few or to thinly spread to address, so you might find profit in that particular industry.

in my time life was bleak, dark, and unforgiving. This is definitely an improvement to that

So Earth (Or at least Canada), with indoor plumbing, electricity, paved roads, advanced healthcare, social security, and total lack of bandits, brigands and rogue beasts is bleak, dark, and unforgiving?

And Equestria, with it's bandits, brigands, thieves and rogue beasts isn't bleak, dark or unforgiving? It's an improvement over bandit-less, brigand-less, slave-driving-diamond-dog-less, booby-trapping-eel-thing-less Earth?

Before you write, be absolutely sure you know what you're trying to say. If there's something specific about life on Earth that you think is bleak, or unforgiving, or unfair, share it. I'd like to know exactly why this Jason guy doesn't think much of life on Earth. Right now, I get the impression he doesn't fully appreciate life and all it has to offer. That doesn't make him sympathetic, that makes him a brat.

In your short time being here you have already generated a fair amount of interest

Yeah, he's gone on a spree of killing animals that prior to his arrival weren't interfering with ponies' lives at all. He's throwing rocks at a metaphorical hornet's nest.

Before Equestria, Jason had lead a mostly average existence. He slept, ate, went to school, played video games.

This contradicts what we've seen of Jason up until now: We first see him preparing to go on a hunting trip. I was under the impression that he went hunting a lot, because he owns hunting gear and copes well with being outdoors.

If I am mistaken, and he doesn't have any interests outside of video games, then you've made a common blunder of character development. Giving your human a bland, empty pre-Equestria life doesn't make me sympathetic for him. In fact, it makes me disdainful of him for not having any passion or initiative towards anything. Even if I acknowledge that he's 15, and that most kids at 15 are too wrapped up in the personal hell that is puberty to spend any time thinking about the future and whatnot, that doesn't make the situation any better in my mind. If this kid was a plodder on Earth, then surely in Equestria, where he has no obligations to go to school or get a part-time job, or anything, he's gonna do less than nothing.
Also, when you're fifteen, a pimple on your nose makes you feel like a freak. Now imagine you're thrown into a world where everyone gawks at you because you walk on two legs.

Have you ever tried mercenary work Jason?

This is a trope in Human in Equestria works which I call, "The Element of Violence": The human's ultimate reason for being in Equestria is to kill things.
Is humanity really only good for destroying things?
Thanks to vaccines, we've essentially eradicated smallpox and polio. That means that every year, X number of people would have died from these diseases, but didn't. Since this figure accumulates every year, it will, given sufficient time, exceed any given number, including the number of casualties of both World Wars combined.
The Green Revolution in the 1960s was a major agricultural effort to improve food crop strains and insecticides, and has increased global food production enough to support billions more than we previously could. Billions! No single act of war or ethnic cleansing has ever reached nine digits.

Yes, Equestria is portrayed as an idyllic world, and neither Earth nor people are in any way perfect. But that doesn't mean you have to reduce your character to savagery just to justify his life there. People spend their entire lives figuring out how they want to spend it here. He could be a baker for all I care, but to say that the only thing a human can do in this world is terrorize it is disrespectful both to humanity and to the ponies we all know and love. Ponies can take care of themselves. Humans don't have to be their lowly henchmen.

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"Equestria is full of bandits, brigands, thieves, and rouge beasts"
Earlier Equestria was pictured as a crimeless country, a perfect world.
Just a little something bothering me...

Hold up... Did Twilight seriously lecture him on how to act in of the princesses? And tell him to bow to them? Last I checked one does not bow to a foreign ruler. It was a faux paus and could actually cause a war between countries if you acted wrong.

"Forgive your enemies, but ever forget their names"

its never not ever

why would he return to the past if human are going die in hundred years.
it point less.

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When did anyone say 100 years?

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I find the skyrim quote funny because Jason asked just two days prior if there were bandits or beast, and they said equestria was completely peaceful.