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............... kay there is no conceivable reason luna would have anything that would actually kill anyone here....... let alone melt foals to the bone.
5023632
Maybe it would... and maybe it wouldn't.
We'll never know.
5023637 it seems more likely moonbow will end up crippled as things are going right now than anyhting else.
5023661
What makes you say that?
typo? I'm not sure...
"popcorn" Aww...the happy memories...
And Moonbow, endurance! Good for you!
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wont
wônt,wōnt/Submit
adjectiveliterary
1.
(of a person) in the habit of doing something; accustomed.
"he was wont to arise at 5:30 every morning"
synonyms: accustomed, used, given, inclined
"he was wont to arise at 5:30"
nounformalhumorous
noun: wont
1.
one's customary behavior in a particular situation.
"Constance, as was her wont, had paid her little attention"
synonyms: custom, habit, way, practice, convention, rule
"Paul drove fast, as was his wont"
verbarchaic
verb: wont; 3rd person present: wonts; 3rd person present: wont; past tense: wont; past participle: wont; past tense: wonted; past participle: wonted; gerund or present participle: wonting
1.
make or be or become accustomed.
"wont thy heart to thoughts hereof"
5023679
Derp, my English is really bad.
“There had never be little inky hoof prints on our ceiling!”
problobly should be
“There better never be little inky hoof prints on our ceiling!”
5023696
Maybe, but this is how people actually talk.
In my headcannon, the bones are fake. The enchantment on the lake is real enough, but if you faltered, you would simply be taken out, you mind wiped and returned to your cozy little home, with the knowledge that for some reason, you were thrown away after the "Trust". If you did make it across, you were told as Moonbow was, thus instilling the fear among those who have passed. This explains why Luna took her away, so that if she failed, the guard would not have known the truth... Correct me if this is faulty.
5023632
Let's look at this another way, shall we?
Hey! This water is completely harmless! Don't be afraid my little pwecious snowfwake! If you fall down and go boom you will just get wet!
See, this doesn't help make a strong Myrmidon, does it?
During SEAL training when they crawl under razorwire with live rounds soaring them, would it be better if the razorwire was made out of harmless plastic and the bullets made of rubber?
It frustrates me that this kinda stuff actually has to be explained to people.
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I will never confirm one way or the other.
Every time Luna acts like a mother to her Myrmidons, and they get to see another level of badass trial they must pass to be accepted... focusing on discipline and control... and I remember Luna's one of the ones who decided that she should slaughter the hell out of nobles for what basically results to disproportionate revenge... it frightens me. And not in the "wow how badass is Luna she's scary" way. In a "you have someone who seems to hold her underlings to a higher standard than she holds herself" way.
Unless the way of the Myrmidons is punishment based on self-righteous emotional outbursts, then it's fine. But I doubt that that's what they're supposed to be about.
... You know what, I bet I'm just not remembering what the nobles did to the populace hard enough, am I?
5023841
To be fair, Celestia just vapourised quite a few and Luna thought it was open season.
That was more of a misunderstanding. And to be fair, Luna technically had every right to kill them all, they had declared war upon the House of Two Lights. Luna wasn't actually under any obligation to let them live.
Just saying. Try to see it from Luna's perspective. Not excusing anything, just trying to point out that there is more going on here and it isn't quite so simple.
5023704
different colloquialisms then I guess, have never heard it that way
5023726
Actually most servicemen and woman go through that training. I did when i was at basic.
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So, did shitting your pants in fear make you more capable or would it have been better if the drill sergeant had held your hand?
People just don't understand what it takes to make a killer.
Anyhoo, thanks for helping me to prove my point.
5023891
Well its more the case of using that environment to teach soldiers how to keep moving while being scared to push through fear. (We also did similar things on ropes bridge like structures to deal with fear.)
5023903
Exactly. You had to know that the danger was real. You had to be AFRAID. Otherwise, you would have never had to work through the fear.
5023696
how about...
“There better never be any little inky hoof prints on our ceiling!”
or
"There better not ever be any little inky hoof prints on our ceiling!" <-- I feel this is a real 'angry mom' way of saying it.
“There had never be little inky hoof prints on our ceiling!” feels a little awkward to me as well, like words are missing.
also while I'm posting maybe some more contractions?
sometimes it feels like there are to many 'I am'-s and 'It is'-s, like Bucky's family is more formal to each other, when they speak, then makes sense. I could understand Bucky not using many contractions due to the bizarre super self controlling nature unicorns get raised under... but they all have a oddly formal way of speaking that messes with the tone for me.
I could be wrong, I'm no grammar genius. It just something I've noticed that feels a bit odd to me.
the child abuse in this and the last chapter is downright disgusting. and abuse is the only word for it.
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Don't read history books. They're full of abused children. Like the pioneers who settled the American west. Most of them were barely teenagers. And never read about the US troops that fought in WWI. A lot of them were 14 years old... disgusting. How could they do that to those poor innocent children...
5023726 ........ yeah seal training does not end with anyone dead unless something Majorly goes wrong. training like she is going through is the kind that can end up hurting or crippling someone. to that, razor wire is rope skipping.
just have a hard time thinking of it as anything that remotely fits in a society where a large portion of their childhood is spent finding the marker that shows their talent and individual spirit. training meant to remove that factor I can only imagine as exceptionally damaging as it is not simply cultural, but instinctual to the equine. heck I even had a thought once in a while that major psychological attacks that are not magically triggered could possibly alter the cutie mark or even make it vanish.
also difference here is that back then culture was different. in equestria it was rather indicated that these extremes were far from the norm.
5023861
The unconditional leader, who appears to believe she is always right, of a brutal law enforcement group with zero oversight decided that a warring force, who posed no legitimate threat to her or her sister, should be slaughtered like animals... over what amounts to a misunderstanding.
Scary. Maybe not as scary as if she just got angry and started killing, but still scary.
Popcorn!
"I never said I was smart."
Flashback:
"You can't just go off slamming head-first into things going BUCKY SMASH!"
Bucky needs to figure this stuff out like, yesterday or he won't live though many of his victories...
Good show, Moonbow...
Another great chapter!
A training exercise that kills most of your recruits is insane.
I do not know if Luna was serious here, but it doesn't really matter now, does it? Moonbow made it, and she is going to pounce Sentinel so hard the next time she sees him that Canterlot Castle will have a new hole in several walls.
Okay I gotta admit I don't really care for the moonbow arc that's been happening. The main reason is I don't really care for Moonbow herself. She hasn't been around long enough for me to like her much, and almost every scene she's been in she gets shadowed by a character I do like to develop character of her own.
I mean I feel bad about what's happening to her, but that's me feeling bad about what's happening to a kid not the character. That's why I think people get so fussy over her torture. When Bucky was killing himself, we felt bad for Bucky not some neurotic unicorn with a masochism complex. Mainly because we understood his reasons and we cared about him.
Moonbow's mostly a blank book with a few pages filled out. We know she had to witness her clans slaughter, and she likes to mess around with Sentinel. She wants to protect her sorta family that she's known for a very little amount Of time because of Sentinel. So I don't really find myself emotionally involved with this character and her self imposed torture. Thus it feels like I'm being beaten with the character stick, when I would rather go see how Buckys magic lessons are going.
Speaking of which how hilarious would the conversation with Derpy be if Moonbow had failed and bought it. "Hi Luna, how's Moons training going?" Derpy asked with a bright smile. "Oh hey Derpy it was great she almost made it in but missed by this much" Luna responded holding her hooves slightly apart. "Then where is she we haven't seen her in weeks?" She queried with a raised brow. "Oh her bones are decorating my death pond. I like to have picnics out there every once in a while." Luna hapilly informed with an even brighter smile. "Would you like to join me sometime, I can show you which are hers!" It would be hilarious to watch that pan out. Morbid sure but still funny.
Back on track I still love Bucky and his families interactions warm my heart. I did this entire comment on my shity android phones touch screen keyboard. Thanks for the update can't wait for the next.
Wow. Look at all these people who fail to understand what a life without constant moral and health security is like. How lazy and privileged we've become that we forget all the lessons that have kept our race alive and prosperous. Comfort has weakened us, made us too sensitive. Each generation becomes less and less stalwart, and more and more outraged over things that honestly don't matter in the long run.
Many of our ancestors underwent similar trials as this. Obviously they succeeded, or you'd not have been born. In Sparta, if there was anything wrong with you as a newborn you were tossed to the wolves. This, by comparison, is far kinder. It's so ridiculously hard to train someone who is already mature. You must begin training as soon as physically possible in order to guide a future warrior's growth into that of a honed blade. Yes, she is a foal. What is your point? It's because she's not younger that she must be broken, so she can be remade to make up for as much time as was lost
If she was lacking, found wanting, then when she enters service she could very likely end up getting herself, her teammates, and innocents slaughtered. The likelihood of that failure increases with each year towards her prime she'd have waited to begin this sort of training.
Equestria is not modern human society. Stop throwing points of view that are born from modern human society at it. Make comparisons, but NOT judgments. Don't think you lot should even form opinions on the subject since you've all probably led cushy lives full of NOT being shot at or having to fight to defend your families. When you understand what sacrifice for the greater good truly means, and not just some knowledge-proxy, but actual damned experience that grants you an understanding of what is important in life (hint: not knee-jerk reactions over pithy ethics spawned from societies growing weaker with each successive generation - and the arrogance to believe that this set of ethical views are the most correct or the only ones that matter) then come back and look again. The entitlement is just oozing out of this page, by people I highly doubt have even been in a fight and thus can't understand how important training is, a lack of comprehension in the way the body and mind work together, and work against each other. It's a tad sickening to have such people mouthing off like only their watered down views force-fed to them by their society which thrives on its members having a soft backbone matter in life.
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This. This is an awesome., well written, well thought out argument that is made even more potent by the fact that one of the main points in this story are the clashes of different perspectives. Thank you for this post.
5024728 that is a good point. My good sir, i do believe you have opened my mind a bit more
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I am not a soldier, but I have been in combat, if one wanted to call it that.
I know hardship and the strength that comes from it.
Some perspective.
I am Native American. I come from a few tribes, those aren't important. Well, they are important to me, but that information isn't relevant here. I spent part of my childhood on an indian reservation. It has left me damaged in ways that most of you will never be able to comprehend.
We starved. We lived in absolute poverty. Every month, white government trucks would come out and deliver food. Stale mouldy bread. Rancid meat that was full of maggots. Corn, beans, and rice that was full of bugs like weevils and the corn usually had some kind of black fungus growing on it. Bricks of pale yellow flavourless government cheese.
And when this food was being handed out, we were told how lazy we were. How worthless we were because we did not grow food.
All around us was sand. The white folks took the water away when they made a dam. Nothing would grow there. Nothing, and I do mean nothing would grow there. Just barren sand. But we starved because we were lazy.
We were lazy because we didn't have jobs. There were no jobs. There was no civilisation for miles and miles all around us. Just fucking sand and scrub. Fucking peyote buttons and snakes.
But this was our fault, because we were lazy.
And I was forced to endure living this way for a long time.
I was born in Sacramento California. I have lived in a number of fabulous places such as South Central Los Angeles. The reservations. When I was young, my mother was deemed unfit and I was taken, stolen away by those who wanted to erase who I was and make me civilised. I was barely double digits when I was literally dragged away by white people... I was placed in chains. I had my legs hobbled and my hands cuffed because I dared to fight back and resist what was being done to me. I had my head forcibly shaved against my will because my hair made me a savage. I was told that I only had one name now. If I said my other name or used it to sign papers I was beaten. And I do mean beaten. I eventually found myself tossed into a Catholic boys home with some of the most vicious nuns you could possibly imagine. Breaking filthy little savages like me was their goddamn religion. I endured.
Because of all that has happened, I have radically different views about suffering. Abuse. Has my experiences broken me?
Maybe. In some ways.
Do I think of myself as a better person for experiencing it?
Yeah... I do. And if I had to do it all over again... I would.
5024969
I agree completely. There's not a scar on my body, bullet I've spent, or knife I've used that I would undo if given the chance. Every hardship was either forced on my shoulders, or I put it there myself for the greater good. Even a lifetime of supporting others leading to constantly being betrayed by those rare few I could trust and count on - the ones I worked the hardest for, bled the most for... leaving me with so much stress and anger that my heart could give out just to spite me at any moment - has led me to what good things I have in the life left to live. All the mistakes, the pain, the blood, the violence, all the devotion and sacrifice. Even with all the problems on my lap, I wouldn't be who I am or capable of what I'm capable of if I hadn't been tempered thus.
HANG ON ONE COTTON PICKING MINUTE! if they went to shetland island, and they only took two days(ish) to get home...
That means.... EQUESTRIA IS SCOTLAND
Missing something in there, but I'm not sure what.
Otherwise, excellent chapter. <3
5025292
Um... no?
5025299
People talk like that though.
5025305
I think the sentence is incomplete.
5025303 Ireland? cause it would make sense that Ireland is griffonia
5025305 "there better be no little inky hoofsteps on my ceiling"
5025314
Griffonholm. More Scandinavian.
5025342 so equestria is ireland and minos is scotland?
5025350
No. The Shetlands are the Scots / Irish analogue. Haven't you been paying attention?
Somehow, I wrote a half a million words and this was missed.
5025359 shetland isle is apart of scotland, so they will of cause be scottish, but main land equestia would have to be scotland (btw im just talking out of my ass, i saw exactly how close real life shetland isle is to scotland and made a connection with the flight time it took bucky and crew to reach equestria/scotland)
I think I see both sides of Moonbow's experiences. On the one hand (hoof?), I read Moonbow's trials and I think: "HEY!!! THAT IS CHILD ABUSE! LEAVE HER ALONE!!!" <biotic charge> Of course that's my human perspective: (human rights, ethical treatment, good hygiene, be excellent to each other, etc.)
On the other hand(hoof), there's my 'pony' perspective, as it were.
Equestria is vulnerable, and there are outside forces that will not play nice, and there are groups that WILL kill you if they get the chance. To properly defend something, you have to be prepared to face pain, suffering, and the very real possibility of loss. There's the way we would like things to be, and then there's the way that things are; you have to be prepared to deal with the latter if you want any hope of obtaining the former.
Also, I agree with A_Rarity on how that pool works. (You are led to believe that it is deadly, but it doesn't ACTUALLY kill; the bones are fake; memory charm if you fail so as to not be traumatized) It makes more sense to me that way. I understand the comparison between barbed wire and bullets vs. plastic and pellets; aka real test vs. cheap knockoff. But if that's the third (and final?) trial, then anyone up to that point has passed the first two, an accomplishment in and of itself. For Luna to simply throw that away simply because they weren't up to passing the third trial seems like quite a waste of potential.
To have that pool actually kill seems like throwing away valuable silver just because you were looking for gold.
If this seems confusing I apologize. I'll try to clarify if that's the case and if it'll help anybody(pony).
5024969 You come across as the type of person I'd like to share a drink with. I for one think it's pretty cool. I admire that you have a better story to tell than I do. I'm also quite intrigued. I can't help but wonder how old you are. Of course, that doesn't really matter, just that I'm curious as to when and where this is happening. From what you've told us it appears things need to be fixed.
Goodbye Seals, hello Sparta.
What a tasty test that was~ hehehe...
hardcore, damn Moonbow ;n; She needs hug damn it!
*looks below*
...
Ya'll are getting to serious up in this shit!
Oh wait, these are old... eh, regardless, serious bizz.
I'm curious about your age as well author! You don't have ta tell, I am just curious I suppose :P
Nice chapter well done good sir.
*bows*