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I only saw this one so far.
First to should be you
Beyond that, congratulations on your latest Nightmare Fuel scene.
... There's something I never thought I'd be praising...
............. uuuummmm maigc? pretty sure they would have someone capable of healing magic in most units........ at least that is logical to think i think.........
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With most of the unicorns being taken in the sweeps and healing magic impossibly rare?
Have you been paying attention?
Diamond Tiara in a civilised part of the world had to spend lots of time in the hospital.
Well... That happened. Poor Keg Smasher.
4505998
Oh, we're not done with the wolves.
4505993 i really don't understand why so many people do not try and think how magic would be integrated into their lives. perhaps not like harry potter levels but i highly doubt medical practice would be devoid of it....... not to mention potions could be brewed for healing.
also unicorns can LEARN magic. it is pretty obvious since they have thousands of books on magic. most unicorns do not bother because of normally having no need. show itself shows that ponies are capable of much more magic than their cutie marks. rarity can teleport things and transmute cloth, and her cutie mark is gems not cloth. so cutie mark and talent not going to stop someone from learning magic to heal if they need to.
4505993 not saying that they could regenerate his eye at will, saying that the brands and such and crude practices used here........ well magic could ease their needs, thoguh the eye may well have had to go anyway.
4506018
Healing magic is incredibly rare in this universe, as stated.
It isn't something that is learned.
Please, don't tell me the rules to my own universe.
It is bothersome.
Well, that happened. Hopefully, Equestria has the magical regeneration capabilities that can heal this kind of injury. Whether or not it does, Bucky's still not going to have much fun. To say nothing of the complications of consummation, should Keg Smasher decide not to waive that part of the deal. Given his track record, I'm not sure whether he would. He's already holding his country's future hostage on the matter.
Looking forward to more, especially whether or not we ever find out about Thistle and Derpy's arrangement. And, of course, what the latter's going to do when she finds out what happened to her husband.
Well... seems I was right about Bucky and the wolves. But dammit, why couldn't he have done that sooner! Keg Smasher, have you ever seen a Derpyboom?
Cos you're about to!
4505985 Agreed.
This is all I can hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu101dw7uc8
Damn... Just... Damn... It was an amazing scene. I enjoyed it, and I don't think that I can really express how undeniably fantastic the scene was. Still, there will be something said and something done. The hurt put on Bucky will be placed somewhere else by an angry pegasus mare.
4506036 shrugs. depends if the rules are being used as excuses or not. the healing thing is probably not an excuse, even if it kinda doesn't make sense. a world where you can be turned into an orange and back and healing magic is incredibly rare? you gotta admit it is odd to have that occur.
and even if there is no healing spells why not potions? not saying, oh he could get back on his feat with a quick drink, saying that why would their methods be totalyl achaic without even some mystical thing to help in the process? even a potion.
I don't think I can make it any clearer really.
The Isles are Equestria without the Princesses.
There are no public libraries full of books to teach spells. They don't have modern medicine. They don't have a lot of education and potion making falls under education. The Isles are a hinterlands. I am sorry if that seems difficult to grasp for some of you, and I already see another downvote, but this is how life is.
The contrast is necessary and meaningful.
Sorry for the plot-hurt this seems to be causing, but the chapter was appropriately marked and if you read it, you have no one to blame but yourself.
The Isles Arc has only just started. And it is going to be a long arc.
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Yes. Amphibian oranges and a crippled orange pegasus that can't fly.
Somebody should cast a spell that fixes Scootaloo right up, right?
I mean, amphibian oranges!
Or what about the pony in a wheelchair?
Granny Smith getting a hip replacement. Magic should have fixed that! Amphibian oranges!
There are too many instances in the show that prove that healing isn't something common to Equestria.
I'm sorry. I think this has just crossed the boundaries to where it stopped being entertaining for me. We've gone too far from the relatively-light hearted and fascinating look into the psychology of a near-alien sentient species and into what I have to say I find to be very human politics - and I find you're just laying on the gritty far too thick. I've seen stories where this type of thing happens before - that take a darker look at the source material, which is interesting but slowly slide darker and darker and into "frack over the heroes" territory. Unfotunately, I don't and never have found people being miserable to be entertaining, despite what Joss Whedhon has said (and MLP has pretty much disproved), so when it hits that level, I find it frustrating to read and that the later payoffs (if any - the worst example I ever saw was a Naruto fanfic that when from interesting premise to full on torture porn) do not outweigh the benefits. (I stopped reading This Platinum Crown at the end of the first arc for largely this reason: not for the violence, but the politics.)
I also find the amount of casualties to strain my credulity: if the Isles are haemoharrging ponies at this rate, their population shold be already extinct or will be if these wolves have suddenly stepped up their attacks, since I believe the sort of losses (I'm not talking about the losses to the expedition, but to the populace in general) are simply not sustainable even on a medieval level over any period of time. (If you can quote me some numbers the contraty of course, I will retract that statement.
So, while I may give it another chapter or two, I think I am likely leaving off here. This is not a denegration of the work, per se but simply an admission it has gone into territory that I simply do not enjoy reading.
(I always feel obliged to note such things, just as feedback.)
In anycase, thank you for the enjoyment I have had from the story until this point, and good luck with your other endeavors.
4506018
It's not a question of magical healing being possible or learnable...it's a question of resources, namely unicorns available at ALL. Bucky has pretty much been established as being the most powerful unicorn on the isles by default. All the others were either taken in the sweeps or just plain not powerful enough. Also...do you REALLY think that a kingdom/province that can't even afford modern plumbing or heating in their leader's home would be able to afford, probably EXPENSIVE, healing potions?
Seriously, you haven't being paying attention to story events at all, and you're just ignoring it when you're being told BY THE AUTHOR, that, no, no one can heal Bucky magically...right now. HOPEFULLY he'll be able to get some sort of help when they eventually return to mainland Equestria, as it was evident that there IS magical healing enough to hopefully fix the damage. However, they're in the Isles, not Canterlot, which have been fleeced so much BY the nobles of the latter that a hot iron is the best they've got.
to get to get
4506102
Eventually, the Isles Arc will end and there will be a return to happier times. Happier times where everybody involved is much more grateful for and will have completely different perspectives on.
But hey, since I only have a chapter or two to fix everything, I'll have them on a boat next chapter and back into hunky dory land.
Because that would make everybody happy right?
4506099 deformities and signs of aging are not the same as lacerations and wounds. there is neither evidence nor evidence against the use of magic in medicine and such. gthough it would explain how rainbow dash had a full on fracture in her wing and it healed in a couple of days.
4506117
So you can heal a fracture but not a bone deformity? Is that it?
How does that work exactly?
You could just break the wings and heal them.
4506105 ..... why does everyone treat healing as some kind of super powerful magic beyond the reach or mortals or something?
4506131 Did you even read the post you just replied to? That had NOTHING to do with healing being a super magic or anything of the like.
Fact 1: Any unicorn with enough talent that, even if healing WASN'T a super magic, would have been able to use healing magic had been taken in the sweeps.
Fact 2: They live in rocky, barren terrain, barely getting by with crops of food. They don't exactly have the space for making potions ingredients, and importing potions from the mainland would be EXPENSIVE AS HELL.
4506122
I'd say that, in the case of a fracture, the body wants the bones to grow in a normal way, so it's a matter of putting them back into proper position and then fusing the pieces together, so that the body's normal operations can continue. With a bone deformity, the body thinks that it's growing in a normal way, even though it's not; trying to put things into the proper position wouldn't work, because the body would just continue to grow things out incorrectly.
A related question: Were Scootaloo's parents ever shown on the show? It's entirely possible that nobody has thought about it.
4506122 a deformity is something that has no grown right or strong enough, and it seems with scootaloo it is the lack of strength to the wings. the body cannot seek to repair something that has lways been that way and thus healing could not handle it. the magic that would likely be required to give someone use of their legs or scotaloo the ability to fly would probably be infinitely more complex than using magic to help the body recover more quickly from injury.
hell with scootaloo it could have nothing to do with physiology. there could be some strange abberration to her magic that prevents her from achieving flight. she is able to manipulate air sitll, and she uses it to properly herself on her scooter, yet cannot manipulate it to achieve flight. and a magical abberration is not something you can heal by breaking her wings.
"Some ran" and "Some tried to escape" seems a bit weird to me.
you better run Keg cause Derpy is going to be PISSED
Fascinating story! It's went a little bit "Cerebus Syndrome" early on, but it's turning out to be quite a ride. Great job!
Your story _might_ deserve an updated description at this point though.
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By the way, my reasoning is what makes me believe that Bucky is never going to have his full sight back: There is nothing left to fix. I do believe that Celestia and Luna could probably transmute a new eye for him, considering the other magic we've seen them do, but I don't think they're going to do anything. I wouldn't be surprised if Bucky had the raw power to do the same, but that wouldn't be allowed.
I also noticed the sunburn. I assume that means any attempt at physical comfort is just going to cause pain. Derpy won't be able to mother him, Dinky and Piña won't be able to snuggle next to him, Berry won't be able to touch him, because it would just cause him more pain.
I share some of Aotrs Commander's concerns. I'm not putting in an ultimatum, but I do share some of his concerns.
4506147 sighs. fair enough i guess.
4506203
Strongly agree. There is an author blog post where the comments have lots of suggestions for things to add to the description.
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Does this discussion even matter? Life-threatening injuries are not in any way like being born crippled (even if I abhor that interpretation of Scootaloo). Something more relevant? Read It And Weep. Compared to what happened in this chapter, Rainbow Dash had a simple flying accident. If magic had been involved in her healing, and it still took her a couple of days to recover, how do you think it would handle something as fatally serious as what happened in this chapter?
Oh, also . . .
4506117 I agree about deformities, but signs of aging? How the fk do you explain Celestia, Luna, Discord, Sombra, and such living for millenia? Sure it may be internal magic instead of horn magic, but it's still freaking magic.
4506269 like you sai,d internal magic. the magic acts on its own to sustain them. directed magic would require the appropriate spell, and as the damage was caused by wearing from constant use, it would mean remaking the warn tissues.
though with discord he might just not age at all. alicorns do age but age slowly.
4506278 You didn't even address the point I made with Rainbow Dash. A non life-threatening injury takes a couple of days and bed rest to recover but you expect them to waltz in and heal several life-threatening injuries easily?
4506115
It is your story. Not mine. You can damn well tell whatever story you like, at whatever pace you choose to tell it at. I would not dream of telling you otherwise; nor would I expect you to "fix" (which would indicate there was something "broken") what you intend to do, what you have planned out. I intended nothing more than to say that the story you wish to tell and the sort of story I derive entertainment from reading no longer coincide.
You cannot - you must know you cannot, you've said so yourself - please everyone, and you admitted you have expected people to stop reading, given the direction you are going. I am afraid that I must be one of those people (in the the very loosest definition of "person" that can be applied to me...!) I have very much enjoyed the story (especially in the early chapters), but the places you are enjoying going to, I... simply am not.
But I believe that it only polite, that, on the very rare occasion it does happen, when I decide that I am no longer interested in reading a story that I have been following, that I should at least try to explain (politely) why, and thank the author for the enjoyment I have had until that point, rather than just disappear wordlessly into the ether. I apologise if that bothers you; but I feel a polite comment in this manner to be far more meaningful than an unfavorite or down vote (neither of which I shall be doing, by the by): at least this way, you at least know WHY. (Whether or not you choose to given any weight to my personal opinion, one voice among many, is not something I can or should control. As I say, I am not your sole reader; judging by the thumbs-down on my previous comment (at time of making this one), you clearly have a loyal fanbase who do want to see the story you want to tell; and good for both them and you!)
I posted HOW many comments in here and haven't yet praised the chapter itself?
It's a doozy, I'll give you that. But it was a well done doozy The scene where he lost control felt very . . . Spielberg-esque. In a good way.
4506310
Rarity = class three.
Ability to physically manifest objects.
Conjure fainting couch - mass manipulation - extreme mental instability and neurosis.
4506331
I apologise if my tone was defensive.
I've had people make ultimatums in the past regarding this story.
And when I told them I couldn't fix what they wanted me to fix within a chapter or two, there was a massive whiny shitfit.
It left a bad taste in my mouth. My apologies.
4506161
Trying to escape and failing is not running.
It is getting pulled back and ripped apart by Bucky's magic.
4506548
No problem.
I have seen people display that sort of entitlement in their free entertainment before myself, so I can understand.
*tips helmet*
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4506147
That, and I DID say that the healing Bucky needs is probably possible, as Mrs. Avarice showed up to whine to Celestia looking right as rain despite the recent beatdown Berry gave her. That shows it IS possible...in Canterlot.
It's the difference between getting hit by a car in the US or UK, rather than getting hit by one in say...Congo. You'll have a pretty decent chance of living in the former because there's an abundance of modern medicine and facilities, but you're screwed in the latter due to NOT having those.
4506717
THIS!
Diamond Tiara would have been fine in a day or two had she been a unicorn with the right name, a pile of bits, and lived in Canterlot.
NOOOOO BUCKY!!!!!!!!!!
.....well at least he only lost parts of himself, YOU BETTER NOT DO SOME TRAGIC FAMILY MEMBER LOSS IN THIS STORY OR MAMA WILL GIVE YOU HER WRATH!
4506548
I agree: It's your story. You decide how it's told. While I get there is and will be criticism, there is no pleasing all. Try to please all and you please nobody. And if people make demands that go against the general direction you intend this story to go then you can ignore those, but even among those there might be valid criticism.
My own criticism for this story for now would be that some parts are quite disturbing and might pose emotional triggers to quite some people (child rape, the torture that is medieval medicin, etc), but at the same time I get that without some of that the story will completly derail from what is intended. Also you at least mark the chapters that feature potentionally disturbing content (unlike some other non-dark stories I've read).
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As you all can see, yes, he can make (maybe, just maybe) a full recovery if 3 EXTREME unlikely conditions met. He is not even close to Canterlot or Canterlot-level hospital facilities. He does not have the money (and i have a feeling that he will not accept any help from the sisters, when, or if, the times that they decide to offer such help). And as for the name, well, you all know already.
Even Tiara being rich as she is, and being pretty close to Canterlot was not enough to a war minor injury to heal that fast.
4506115
I personally say to stay the course, and finish the story you have inside of you. Don't alter it in order to please some of the readers. Do you know what makes a good story? It's ability to spark an emotion and be talked about. If people are talking about the chapter they read several days, weeks, and in some cases months after reading said story then that story was a success. It did what a story is supposed to do.
One of my favorite Justice League stories of all time is about extremely dark subject matter. Memories to a Stranger by The Lady Isis is an amazing story, but the darkness in it. The background to the story, it was dark. Still, it spawned a massive amount of talk. People still talk about it.
That's how this story has been. I've been talking about it, and I'm sure more people have as well. Don't pull back just because of a few people losing their nerve. Keep it it.
Also, thanks, thanks for letting us see the universe you've created.
- LF
4506102 I'm really torn about Platinum Crown. I've been reading it since the beginning and it's come to the point where there's WAY too many characters and political intrigue/subplots going that it gives me a headache just trying to figure what the fuck is actually happening. With each new chapter, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find the motivation to read it. I just don't know if I wanna read it anymore ...
As for this story: It's hardly the most grimdark thing I've ever read, but it is a bit jarring. Now, to be fair, Kudzu did say this arc was going to be darker in tone so this isn't entirely unexpected. Not exactly my cup of tea, but I'm willing to continue reading just to see how it turns out. The only author on this site that I've ever stopped reading a story from, due to disturbing/unexpected levels of gore, was Seven Fate's The Alchemist's Heart. To put it bluntly: He really fucked up the story. And from what I understand, he hasn't improved it at all since I stopped reading. This story is nowhere near that point...so I will give Kudzu the benefit of the doubt.
4506115 get over here so i can swat some sense into you
you make this story just the way you like it. you decide how it all goes and you should NOT, i repeat, NOT give in to whining and belly-acing from a few people. i want to read what you want to write and nothing else
In this thread, know-it-alls knowing this universe better than the creator of the universe does.