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I guess Lunar pegasi have to surrender their wills in order to keep their race alive....what with them being so vicious and feral. With Myrmidons equivalent to Navy SEALs, they need a sense of duty to keep themselves centered. By giving themselves over to a cause (Luna's adopted children, basically), they can focus on protecting ponies as their purpose.
I've been up all night and I'm rambling...
I'd say, overarching chapter theme is purpose.
First scene very clearly, second scene is the aftermath of the binding of Pinkie and Cheese and Loch Skimmer in the third scene.
Since she has married and come to Equestria, she has been overloaded with purpose and it makes her happy to be at other's service.
Is it just me, or did kudz manage to throw in a Weird Al reference here:
his eyes curious as
Anypony that tries to get a sensible answer from Pinkie or Cheese at the same time needs to get psychiatric help.
5329364 Yep.
Chapter 3:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 12:
And now, the behavioral correction that began with a slap to the snoot and a swarm of bees has reached a new stage. Diamond Tiara has finally allowed herself to ask for help from those she loves and trusts. Good for her.
On a quasi-related note, one thing I've considered but haven't commented on is correlating Sentinel's moment of blood rage with Bucky's slow metamorphosis into a lunacorn. That kind of horrific hair trigger seems like a very dangerous addition to War's psyche. Of course, then I have to wonder how much of it we've already seen...
Also, I do like how party pony randomness is the perfect camouflage for Fate-induced nonsense. Given the sensitivity of the ponies in question, that doesn't seem at all like a coincidence.
Looking forward to more.
5329364 Well considering Cheese IS Wierd Al...
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He made the same references back in Chapter 356.
priceless
Still reading, but:
Trying to hold my laugh still while i write this.
Edit:
AND AGAIN !!!!
there are so many contradiction points in this story, though many are brilliant. pony want to live by their own wills yet some of them cannot be trusted to. the bat ponies especially. sometimes freedom is not an option here. diamond tiara is lost and does not have the strength to find her own path.
despite it eing a culture that wants to support free will, some cannot survive by their own wills.
yet at the same time there are times these contradictions just........ don't add up. especially when the elements are involved............ almost always when they are brought up. when it can be so easily defeated that whatever force they were made to fight could easily access them, and the bonds that manifest into a power to beat discord and nightmare moon keep on failing and falling apart, it leaves me wondering what use are the elements if they provide neither sword, shield, nor armor to its wielders?
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Because they're flawed and have weaknesses. Shit happens. Very sad. Time to move on past this point.
5330058 when the power itself can fail along with its wielders, much comes into question about its worth. mainly when they are designed towards a certain purpose. all this specific enemy would have to do is access thsoe methods.
seems the problem is that harmony is the generic energy, the by the books force overall. meaning it has no specialization as a force, where magic like dark magic and chaos twist the rules of the world. having your anti evil weapon be fueled by the generic forces creates a lot of weak points in its integrity. why it is the generic force is probably gonna be along the lines of why laughter is both chaos and the one element that is not following a virtue of some kind; something you saw and decided to go with and i cannot see why you did.
for every four bits of good idea and or brilliance there is at least one idea that is off or even outright a flaw.............. it took me a while to realize why i could not accept that pinkie pie could just break like that, but then i found the source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIo9UXSaxFI . this the source of that view. pinkie literally shutting down her chaotic behavior for her friends. heck it was rather easy for pinkie pie to go to that extreme..... perhaps this whole cheese thing might have been necessary, but i cannot see pinkie going catatonic. she could never leave her friends, never...... by going catatonic, she left them.
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Pinkie Pie didn't make that choice. In fact, she had no say in the matter. Something else made that choice for her.
But you don't get that, so I'm not going to waste my breath explaining it.
5330385 the chaos entity itself i suppose. .......... then the problem is sitll in the presentation. it seemed more pinkie was just overreacting to the laugh rather than something else attacking her from within. if she seemd to have temporarily lost her mind, yelling at someone, defying them, or begging them, before she collapsed, something that would have outwardly replied her mind falling apart from the strain yet after this revelation make sense of her fighting against something that was trying to separate her from her friends.
though personally this whole thing being self inflicted would have had more bite.
........though i will say that cheese does not make sense being here. i get the idea; chaos held by two is easier to handle. yet apparently laughter is madness rather than a virtue and thus is alrady putting a bit of chaos into the other elements............ it would make more sense that the more ponies that are keeping that madness under hoof the better, and why not the element bearers instead? there would already be a link of existing to begin with from the sounds of it.
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Pinkie Pie and her family has long had magic. Her Granny Pie had magic, very much like Pinkie's magic, and this magic goes back many generations. More of an explanation is coming, but earth ponies can 'contain' spirits. Maud has one, Pinkie has one, several earth ponies have them, and being a spirit vessel helps an earth pony's inherent magic manifest in strong weird ways.
Pinkie has a chaos spirit, her Granny's chaos spirit, and when she has her foal, Quiche, he will also take on some of the spirit as well.
The spirit is what causes Pinkie to have two personalities. Pinkamena and Pinkie Pie. Pinkamena took over in a moment of Pinky's weakness and chained her up, much in the same way that Pinkie keeps what is inside of her contained.
5330559 ....... on one hand that spirit idea has merit. on the other hand it further emphasizes that earht ponies cannot have any significant power without a catch.
its like you like making some things that are ismple complicated yet other things that can be branched out simplified. its all over the place there.
and this situation makes me wonder if it would all have had better punch if cheese opened that door and found that pinkemena was the captive of pinkie, and she had shut herself down to keep pinkemena and the chaos inside her from getting out...... sometimes a weakness is not that it is a weak point, but something is too strong. pinkie loves her friends more than she loves herself........ and causing a situation where she would either let something dangerous out or shut herself up inside her head, she would go with the latter. realize her mind was falling to pieces and lock everything away to prevent the chaos from coming out.
one way or the other, WHY did ti have to be cheese? from what was described about laughter's relationship with the elements, it seems that the other bearers would have been the superior choice as not only would pinkie's element grow stronger, so would all the other bearers too from the sounds of it, their bond made more powerful than ever and a little madness to balance it out as well.
though if the idea that pinkie was keeping her own insanity captive could create an answer to that; she was too afraid of letting it affect her friends and would have refused.
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Pinkamena was not the one in charge. Neither was Pinkie.
5330831 perhaps alone she could not defeat it........ but pinkie would not be alone. the powr of the bond of harmony makes it she is never alone. and while they would need the elements to manifest their bond as a tangible power, in a world of the mind there would be no need for such a medium. she probably could not purge the being, but she could contain it if at the cost of herself as well, all of them locked in her old house in her own head.
they bitch slapped discord with that power is the reason i am saying this. Discord, a powerful chaos spirits. Whatever this chaost spirit is, you labeled him as a minor one.
though it might be plausible clotho was the one that shut her head down. stil it leaves the question of why do it in away that would make her a liablity to her friends in a dangerous situation?
and again i ask, what benefit would being bound to cheese to help keep chaos in contorl have that would be better than having her friends be the ones helping and thus increasing their already strong link even further.
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Clotho didn't do it.
You didn't pay attention to the chapter again.
5330967 on the contrary if you read it i said that the chaos spirit was the one, just adding that clotho might have been the only alternative to the chaos spirits incarnating those props.
the chaos spirits however are weaker than discord after all. it may have grown stronger but pinkie is bound to a force that is stronger than discord. she probably would not know how to control the chaos with it, but could contain it. the power remains a mystical if metaphorical force without the elements, why couldn't a metaphor manifest inside the mind?
i am rather serouis when i say the story needs to prove that harmony is powerful in this world if one is to believe that it will be helpful later on. so far we have only seen it as weak and meaningless most of the time, as the element bearers were unable to heal theri own. and i do not mean blasting people, just that these bonds they have hold power to them, and perhaps are so strong they begin to surprise the fates, who ultimately need a power beyond them to defeat a force beyond them.
and even then it makes no sense WHY they couldn't. if the chaos had grown so strong, why not divide it by six rather than two? clotho said only someone who loves pinkie could help here. and all of her friends love her as much as she loves them.
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Same thing happened to Pinkie's Granny... special kind of love.
Say, any of Pinkie's friends capable of giving her a good hard penising and giving her a foal? No? You don't say!
You are working from an incomplete data set.
5330967 *Gasps* So, are you saying you wasted time? Impossible! That anon guy is always full of wise words and opinions!
5331109 platonic love can be every bit as powerful as romantic love dude. love is love, boning or not. that jsut seems a blatantly arbitrary rule to make it cheese sandwhich that has to be there rather than the mane six. and as the power of the elements is equal to the bond of their bearers, something that makes it that powerful would be something the sister WOULD want to happen.
it said that it had to be love, not the potential to give a foal. and even then, increasing the power of the mane six seems a priority too.
if anything something like THAT seems necessary from what i am able to see. if the fates need the mane six, and bucky as well, to defeat some dangerous foe that is a coming, then the mane six have to start doing things that the fates are incapable of. if they do not then how could they defeat a foe that the fates themselves are less refusing to fight and more INCAPABLE of fighting?
5331109 Don't try to argue with him, I tried to do it on a different story and he just blatantly ignored the points I was trying to make.
I hate lag I was clicking next and it piked down vote and next at the same time so I amedetly seid nonononono and so on this chapter I re uptumed
Ach crivens
That was awesome