And Galen has found an auxiliary guard to add to his herd? And she's a griffon. I am VERY intrigued to see where this goes.

Adding a griffon to the mix............I approve. =D

5326789 so, the formula for the next human to arrive would be to get Rarity and Fluttershy in a herd with another guard? because two elements of harmony and a guard is a emerging pattern(two datapoints leads to high margin of error, but whatever)

Pop a squat.... I always thought that meant 'to take a shit in the woods...'

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I'm not sure if you noticed, but I went with a completely different dynamic for this herd and let's just say that Big Mac has a sweet little butterfly in his future...

5326953 The really interesting thing that would be part of that formula, would be, who the auxiliary guard be as a regular being.

Enter a Griffon...

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I hope she's not just a passing character, there is not enough griffon love in here. I'm not looking at her as a possible love interest, merely a good mate for Galen. Hunters the pair of them, I'm looking forward to an awesome dynamic between Alexandria and Galen.
Keep em coming...

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I'm pretty sure it's "cop" a squat, as in grab something to sit on. Cop is an old verb for grab, as in "cop a feel". Possibly an origin for the word copper for police.

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Oh, she won't be a passing character in the slightest. I have some things in the works for her and have had them ever since the beginning I hope you enjoy what I've developed for her, both story and personality wise

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Griffons just don't get enough love, plus like she said, who would expect a griffon to be an Equestrian Guard?

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It's all idiom. Pop a squat and cop a squat mean the same thing here. It's just the local slang from my neck of the woods. Plus it totally sounds like something Pinkie would say lol

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Oh, she won't be a passing character in the slightest.

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Blatantly pilfering for future use...

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The big thing about this was he was being absolutely serious about the advice. Things are happening that could turn into a very bad ending if not handled just right. Of course, he has a modus operandi, but he's so tense and worried about this stage of events that he just followed the motions and only did a little teasing with Big Mac. Even a god of chaos can be afraid for the future after all...

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In the direct aftermath of his fiasco with Tirek, Discord behaved exactly like this. He knew things were serious and likely to end up badly for everypony unless Twilight managed to save the day. The situation he's trying to avert/mitigate (which will happen in the second arc of the story) can end in a situation much, much worse than what Tirek could have wrought. Discord can be serious and buckle down when a situation is truly dire and that's what I was trying to convey here...

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Discord has ever only acted out of character twice: in "Keep Calm and Flutter On" and "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2". In both cases he was acting out of guilt and shame, not some need to be serious. If you think I'm still wrong about this, you can reply however you like and I promise I will not to respond. I am done giving feedback on this story, its pointless.

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I think you're forgetting that this is a fiction and there's always room for interpretation for character personalities in these stories, especially since Discord is largely considered a minor character despite his popularity and an antagonist despite his reformation. Look at Trixie and Gilda after all. It's not like it's a bad interpretation after all. If things are going to go bad and apparently in a potentially god threateningly way, I'm sure that would give Discord of all characters a reason to act like he did.
Besides, where's the fun in always making sense?
A serious side to Discord would work perfectly well in some instances anyway since chaos would become the norm and he's against becoming predictable.

It has been established from the original Xenophilia that Honeydew is a trained martial artist, at least, trained enough to compete in tournaments. She's not on Rainbow Dash's level, and nowhere NEAR Lyra's, absolutely, but she's not exactly a newbie. I feel that she is handled a little bit too neatly in this chapter. Now granted, after years of messing with the extremely collected and even tempered Lero, she probably wasn't expecting much from Galen, but the fact that her training isn't even mentioned is somewhat remiss. Perhaps just a bit about how, despite her martial training, a human just exploding into violence isn't something that she was prepared for, and even a well trained fighter can be caught by surprise.

It just feels a little... off, you know? I mean, Honeydew is a bitch, but she is better developed as a character than just a bully.

Edit: Also, something you might find interesting, from discussions about the character's motivation with Anondash, as well as some of the more canon connected Xeno writer's stuff, it is heavily implied that Honeydew is as vehement in her hatred of Lero as she is because she is secretly attracted to him. Kind of like some (only some) of the most poisonous homophobes are as vitriolic as they are because they harbor secret attractions to their gender, and are ashamed of it.