Chapter 12
"Discord..."
"N-now, Princess Twilight, let's not be hasty here."
"Dis... cord..."
"Sure I may have teleported Big Mac away somewhere, b-but..."
"Discord..."
"I-It's not what it looks like! I swear!"
"Like hay it's not what it looks like!"
Discord's vision is soon filled with orange as Applejack jams her head into the spirit's face, cutting him off from the mentally breaking down alicorn. This was somewhat of a relief, but an angered earth pony wasn't much better.
"You damn snake!" Applejack starts. "What gave you the right to hurt mah brother like that?! Teleportin' him into Sugarcube corner, feedin' him to the darn wolves?!"
Sliding backwards across the ground, trying to get away from the enraged mare, Discord sputters, "I-I-I didn't mean to, Applejack! Honest! My magic is on the fritz! I was just trying to set him aside and talk to him privately about what he said to Fluttersh-"
"Fluttershy liked his comment, ya varmint!"
Discord blinks. "... Wha?"
Fluttershy, standing next to a quiet Pinkie Pie and an aghast Rarity, blushes deeply as she flutters over to the draconquus' side.
"Discor-"
"Discord..."
The group looks over at the still clearly malfunctioning and unhinged Twilight Sparkle's interruption before returning their attention to Fluttershy.
"... Discord," she resumes. "I told you how friends don't always get confrontational about things that happen to their friends... but you didn't listen, so now we're upset. Do you understand what you did wrong here?"
Discord face droops.
"Y-yes, Fluttershy. I do... I just thought that having your flank being glorified like it was would be something you'd be upset about, s-so I wanted to fix the problem.
"I didn't know that Big Macintosh stepped in Poison Joke today though... I didn't know at all... I'm sorry, Applejack."
Applejack's angered face lightens a bit at Discord's display of apparent honesty.
"... Well," the farmer begins. "I'm still mad at you like you wouldn't believe... but I think I can let this slide, dependin' on what you did to mah brother."
Discord cringes.
"W-well... I set him up with a magic mirror that let's him rant at ponies without hurting them..."
The orange earth pony's face brightens considerably at this news.
"R-really?" Applejack asks excitedly, a smile slowly forming on her lips. "Without hurtin' them? Y-you really did that for him?"
Again Discord cringes. He looks away.
"E-eh, yes... that was the plan. I-I hit a bit of a snag though, h-heh. Y-y-you see... funny story..."
"DISCORD Q. DRACONQUUES!!"
All eyes fall on Princess Twilight, whose mind has apparently finally left the angered daze it was in thanks to the rather advance summoning spell (and the rather advance onset of an aneurysm), and has decided to take over the reins of the conversation. With a flare of magic, Discord is lifted into the air and brought before the alicorn.
"This... this..." she begins to fume, steam actually leaving her snout as she does. "This has all been your fault, hasn't it?!"
"W-wha?"
"I told her about the seeds," Fluttershy explains loudly, so Discord could hear. She then approaches Twilight's side. "I also told her how it wasn't your fault! Not at all! Twilight," the flying pegasus says to her friend. "You need to calm-"
A burst of magic sends a gale of wind in Fluttershy's direction, gently pushing her off her flight path.
"Oh no, Fluttershy," Twilight explains in a half laugh half growl. "No no no no no... Maybe he wasn't the reason behind the seeds being gone. Maybe he wasn't the reason behind my Death Castle being what it is... but I know that he's the reason behind the Poison Joke! He created the stupid thing! Celestia taught me that herself last time I saw her!"
All eyes are now on Discord again.
He looks away. "Well, y-yeah, but that's just left over chaos magic from a thousand years ago! Not my current doing."
"Like the Plunderseeds?!"
"... Y-yes... like the Plunderseeds..."
Twilight twitches.
"Oooohhhh, well... erase the damn demon bane from existence then and we'll be A-okay! Heheheh now!" Twilight stomps her hooves twice against the ground, adding "Chop chop!"
"C-can't..."
Purple plumage scatters everywhere as the alicorn's wings hold themselves tall and firm above the cowering spirit of chaos.
"Oh of coooourse you can't. Of course! Why not?!"
"T-they're a natural part of the world now. I can't just make air disappear, after all... just some of it..."
"... Hehehehehe..."
Everypony takes a step back from the suddenly giggling unstable princess.
"Heheheheh fine!" Everypony jumps at the outburst, even Discord. "Well then... if you can't do that then at least tell us that Big Mac is safe. Maybe, just flipping maybe if he's okay then I'll be lenient on you."
Discord, now to his feet, takes a step back from the much smaller, but nonetheless intimidating magical creature.
"L-lenient?"
Twilight smiles brightly, her eyes closed in an effort to project a false image of serene peace.
"Yes... lenient... I have other ways of stoning you after all, Discord."
And thus did Discord's fear grew three sizes that day.
"I-I-I-I-I-I..."
Flapflap
A soft yellow hoof touches the spirit's mismatched shoulder. Fluttershy glares at Twilight from Discord's side.
"Twilight, you're getting too emotional again."
Twilight again twitches.
"Can you fluffing blame me for being upset, Fluttershy?!" she argues. "I come back to town after chasing a crying Rainbow Dash, only to then find you girls here talking about how Big Mac just committed social suicide while I was gone! Besides that, after all you've seen happening around town this week due to my Celestia forsaken new home... can you fluffing blame me?!"
"That doesn't give you the right to push the blame entirely on Discord for his mistakes though!"
"I'm a bucking princess, Fluttershy! Assigning blame is one of my core legal rights now!"
"Twilight!"
"..."
"... Twilight..." Fluttershy repeats gloomily. She waves a hoof towards their gathered group of friends and explains how "All this yelling isn't getting Applejack any closer to seeing her brother again..."
"You're hurting your friends, Twilight," surprisingly speaks up Pinkie Pie, of all the saddened ponies. "... You're hurting us..."
"..."
Twilight shakily raises a hoof to her chest, takes a deep breath of air, then exhales equally as deeply while her hoof slowly extends outwards. She repeats her foalsitter's breathing technique three more times in silence before letting out one last long puff of air. She lands gently on the ground, takes a few more breaths for good measure, then folds her wings and looks over her friends.
"... I'm sorry," she says to the best of her frazzled nerves' ability. "I'm sorry everypony. I'm sorry... Discord... That wasn't very mature of me to do..."
"Darling... it's okay," Rarity replies for the group. "I think I can relate to the stress you must be feeling, just a little bit. I think we all can, in one form or another."
"I-I-I can too, princess."
All eyes return to Discord.
"T-that sickly feeling in your gut when everything goes to Tartarus?" the chaotic spirit asks. "The one you feel when you absolutely know that excrement has hit the fan?" Discord gulps. "W-well, I'm feeling that right now... thinking about how fast these good vibes are about to disappear on us once I tell you how colossal of a mess I've unintentionally made for everypony..."
Silence befalls the group.
Twilight's eye twitches again.
With no one watching her, Fluttershy silently facehooves to herself.
"Darn it all, Discord. We had a good thing going here..."
"... Go on..." Twilight says flatly, no hint of emotion.
Discord gulps. "W-well, you sort of summoned me at a bad time. Like I-I said, I set him up with a magic mirror, so he wouldn't hurt anypony... but my magic has been all faulty lately, right? S-so, one thing led to another and... well... Spike, he..."
Twilight's eyes widen. Her horn begins to glow a pure white as flames lick her coat.
"What about Spike?" she asks hauntingly. "If you left him alone with Mac..."
"I-I-I did... but he's fine! Perfectly fine! Big Mac can't hurt him!"
The magic cuts off and the flames die along Twilight's form.
Discord shrinks down towards the ground.
"... Because I may have sorta kinda accidentally... Discorded him..."
The magic fire returns to Twilight's being.
"What?" she screams, the word 'enraged' too mild to properly describe the event.
"I-it was an accident!" Discord cowers. "I swear it by all that is unholy it was an accident!"
"What did you do to him?!" Twilight demanded.
"U-um... Unintentionally t-turned him into Mac's ghost writer?"
Twilight fumes quietly, her anger simply coasting in a straight line at this point, boiling under the surface.
"... So, Big Mac is somewhere in town right now, talking to a magic mirror..."
"U-unknowingly writing Princess Celestia a very interesting friendship report, f-from the Friendship Death Castle," Discord weakly confirms, nodding his head.
"..."
"..."
"... Discord..."
Poof
With a burst of purple magic a bucket and broom appear before the spirit of chaos. He numbly grabs them without thinking about it.
"Clean up town," The Princess of Friendship decreed. "All of it. Every, single, square, inch. Get rid off all the dust, get rid of all the mud, get rid of all the stray outside magic..."
Poof
Another flare a magic brings up a small mountain of packet seeds.
"Put the magic in these. Create new Plunderseeds. Return each and every seed to me. Don't try to hide any; I've counted how many there are here."
Twilight then points a hoof behind herself.
"Go. Now. Make yourself useful."
Discord looks over his tools and at the pile of seeds.
"But..."
"Go."
"But I want to hel-"
"Go."
"Please list-"
"Go."
"You're not bein-"
Poof
With a third and final effort of magic, Twilight summons a blindfolded creature of nightmare out of thin air.
"KKKKRRRRREEEE!!!" Wails the small monster.
Discord stumbles backwards.
"GOOD CHOATIC GOAT LORD ABOVE!! W-WHAT IN THE WORLD?!"
Her friends back away as well as Twilight passively trots over to her new 'pet's' side.
"Discord, meet Owilicious The Second."
The cockatrice lets out another shrill cry.
"... Owilicious The Second isn't as cuddly as Owilicious The First."
Poof
A purple light envelops the half chicken, half snake creature before it disappears.
"Go," commands Twilight one last time blankly, though her voice held some measure of her earlier anger.
Discord lifts himself to his feet, frightfully looks the princess in the eyes, sweeps his gaze over the rest of the gathered ponies, then reluctantly lowers his head in defeat. He grabs his 'gifted' tools, conjures a large sack to carry the flower packets, then gloomily heads further into town.
The girls are silent as they watch the draconquus leave.
As soon as he's out of sight, a heated round of questioning begins.
"Sug! What they hay was that all about?!"
"Why were you such a meanie pants to him?!"
"Dear, what you did was uncalled for! How could you?!"
"What are you doing blindfolding that poor creature?!"
Twilight lowers her own head, grumpily trotting off in the other direction towards her home. She doesn't ignore her friends though.
"Because he did more harm then good for Big Mac, Applejack. Because it's dangerous to let him have a big head, Pinkie Pie. I did what I had to, Rarity. There's no such thing as Owilicious The Second, Fluttershy. It was just an illusion I made awhile ago in the case something like this ever happened, in order to keep him inline."
The four other ponies look at each other, equally satisfied and unsatisfied by their answers at the same time. Their friend was clearly reaching the tipping point between being a stable pony and becoming something akin to nightmare incarnate.
"... Discord planned this, girls," Twilight speaks over her shoulder to her trotting friends. "I know he did... I don't care what he says or what you think... He planned this..."
The girls are silent, but Applejack eventually speaks up.
"I... I don't know about that, Twi..."
"You were the one most angry at him, AJ," the princess is quick to point out.
Applejack looks away. "Well, y-yeah... but that was before I saw him cowering before you not two minutes ago!"
Twilight stops. Her friends watch as she performs her breathing exercise one more time before turning around to face them.
"... Do you know how I know he planned this, girls?"
The girls are again silent.
Twilight smiles weakly.
"I know, because out of anywhere, anywhere at all that he could have taken Big Mac, he choose to take him to the worst place in Ponyville for him to be right now. The, absolute, worst."
"... The Friendship castle?" Asks Rarity, remembering Discord's final words to them.
With a weak nod of her head, Twilight confirms that this is true.
"W-what's wrong with your place, Twi?" Asks Applejack. "I mean, besides it being a Death fortress and whatnot."
"Oh Applejack," Twilight coos softly. "Think back to this morning. Aaallllll the way back then. Do you remember what I told you?" the alicorn asks before looking over all of her friends. "Do any of you remember why it is that I'm so stressed out?
"It's because I have not had a single ounce of sleep this past week. None at all. That's because I've been doing nothing, nothing at all but solve every earth pony's problem."
"... Y-yeah... so?" cautiously asks Applejack.
Twilight keeps on smiling.
"... Guess who I've seen the most this week, Applejack," Twilight says, sounding almost playfull. "Just guess. Out of all the farmers and planters and hobbyists in this town, guess whose had the most troubles this week. Guess who I've seen every, single, day, and who I'm probably going to receive a visit from right now.
"Go on... freaking guess."
___________
"Hello? Princess Twilight? It's me again. S-sorry to bother you for the fifth time this week, but my garden is talking to me again. The trees have stopped glowing though... but I think the sunflowers are speaking in Neighponese...Are you here?"
The earth pony places a hoof upon the castle's doors, causing them to gently open of their own whim. They were still busted from Discord's earlier entrance, but the mare doesn't know this.
"... Hello?" The pony calls out again. "Twilight? Are you in here?"
She receives no response.
"..."
With a clip and a clop, her mind having been made up, Miss Cheerilee foolishly enters the Friendship Death Castle.
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I see what you did there.
Oh no....
Wait. This could be good. Big Mac can confess his feelings.
*Gets to the end, sees who arrives* Tease.
Can't believe I have to wait another 2 weeks for that to resolve. Easily your most evil cliffhanger so far. Bravo.
Oh, shipoopi.
I can't even. Comprehension.
And I'm dead. Though I may rise from the grave in subsequent chapters to read said chapters in order to die once more.
Twilight, don't blame discord when you are the real problem, also solution to problem, take a bomb, place in castle, explode bomb, destroy castle.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
HERE WE GO NOW!
No maid's uniform? I am disappointed, Twilight.
I kind of fell bad for Discord
He didn't really do anything wrong on purpose, he just made some mistakes, one of them even caused by Twilight, since she left Big Mac alone with Spike
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this is either going to turn horrendously ugly, stupendosly awesome or both and everything in between
Even Discord didn't deserve being treated like a punching bag right there.
It really amazed me that Twilight became a princess at all, given her level of immaturity and her questionable sanity.
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You can clearly see that the other ponies share your sentiment. Even me
It's the same case here as it is was with Caramal; they'll get happy endings eventually, I always try to make sure of that when I do something cruel. Just wait and see
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i like you
Oh, Fluttershy, never change.
Well I hope Cheerilee can take Mac's compliments as well as Fluttershy. At least I really hope that's the way things go down, I really don't want him to not like her.
From now on, Twilight's castle is now The Friendship Death Castle to me.
This fic is brilliant.
Twilight is awesome.
All the interaction with Discord you have written is hilarious.
This fic has no comedy tag?
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Who says it's going to be a compliment?
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It used to! But, as it started getting more serious in places, I hosted a poll concerning whether I should keep the tag or not. The readers spoke, Three to Four; one vote was all it took to remove the tag.
All the scenes and jokes are already mapped out in my head though, so removing the tag didn't change the story in the slightest. Chapter 11 can attest to that fact
Discord officially pissed Twilight off and it was hilarious and terrifying. I can just see his face falling as the idea "Oh good grief she can kill me now" sinks in. Pushing Twilight is a game for Discord, and finding out his favorite toy can hurt him if he plays too rough with it? His brain finally clicking over to the idea "This pony is not my toy" and she can actually harm him must be a horrifying revelation.
And the whole idea of this all being about Discord getting Big Mac and Cheerilee to hook up? Yea a plan that has a noble goal but spreads tons of chaos as a result, so Discord, even as a "good guy" he still has to be a chaos spirit :P
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I aim to raise your blood pleasure... er, I mean please. H-hehe...
Also, cross those fingers (or hooves. Whateve), my last exam for a good week is Tuesday. Next chapter in one week, maybe? Hopefully
OH boy. Things just got worse.
5132352 Yes please!
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Yes, if he was smart the very first words out of his mouth would be: "Twilight send me back I'm trying to help stop this." immediately upon seeing her.
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Honestly, you people are being too empathetic. Discord was the main focus of this chapter, so you connected emotionally to him. Twilight was the aggressor so you immediately focus on turning against her rather than rationally examining the situation. This is not about maturity. This is about stress. Twilight is no more at fault here than Discord. Discord made things worse on accident, he couldn't control his magic. But the levels of stress we're seeing here create a psychological schism, robbing a sapient mind of its ability to consider actions the deeper the stress goes. Essentially, get someone stressed out enough and they're not able to make reasonable decisions, they lose control of themselves.
Doubting her maturity level is biased towards Discord when they're both feeling about as horrible right now. Having been a student of psychology, and having been far beyond the levels of stress Twilight must be experiencing right now (to the point of nearly dying), I can vouch that this is the case. Especially for someone as logical as Twilight who would not as used to dealing with situations that leave her emotionally charged and drained.
Unfortunately, her friends don't seem to realize this and the writing shows they're essentially blaming her for something that's getting dangerously close to her inability to stop no matter how hard she tries. They need to be fully concentrating on calming her down, by offering assistance and reassuring her that tomorrow everything will start getting better. If they don't, they're risking permanent mental damage to their friend and once Twilight does calm down her guilt will harm her already small and vulnerable emotional core.
In essence, Twilight stands to lose more from these actions than Discord does, and people are too busy blaming her to help her, both in the story - and the audience, too busy being emotionally connected to Discord (due to having created a favorable atmosphere) to stop and think what this is doing to her. That sort of one-sided emotional/immersive bias is a big issue in the Fimfic community.
5132616 Actually you did the wrong thing, when some one does not use rationality to think, in this case twilight, you can not explain her actions through rationality, no matter what!!!! That would be like saying a doctor who is under pressure is okay for giving the diagnosis because he was impaired in his thinking at the time by stress, no matter what, in a court of law that will not hold up.
This seemed a mite more silly than usual. Why don't you put both the comedy and drama tags on this story? Why do you need only one?
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That did not make sense, I'm sorry. The comparison was poor, and you're trying to hold legislation from our world to theirs. Which I doubt would work because you can't place those sorts of legal restrictions on the rulers of an absolute monarchy.
This is not about right vs. wrong. Otherwise, if we used your example - then Discord would also be taken as harshly. There are many people in our jails and prisons who made mistakes that ended up causing more problems - Discord could and would be held for Reckless Endangerment. I think you can see why your comparison was not quite what you wished it to be.
That aside, everything stated in my earlier post is correct. If you wanted to create a proper comparison, we would have to link Twilight's mental condition to someone suffering from PTSD. Living with a PTSD-suffering veteran, I can tell you that that only further reinforces my point. Discord and Twilight both screwed up, and neither of them entirely meant to. With Discord, his magic has gone haywire - if you refuse to lay any blame on him, then consider that he should have gone to get Twilight or Celestia himself instead of trying to fix Big Mac mostly for his own amusement, KNOWING his magic was not working properly and he could not control it. He knew things were not going to go as he planned, and he did it anyway instead of getting assistance from someone who actually could help contain the issue.
Twilight, as I stated, is descending into levels of stress where she begins to lose control of her own thought and decision-making process without exceptional willpower to resist automatic action-compulsion. Beyond that is total loss of control. The fact that you are so adamant in blaming her for everything only continues to prove what I said about the community and the part of the audience who lacks conjectural analysis. Would you want everyone to blame you for your actions after getting drunk? They would of course, this is natural because people rarely look beyond the ends of their own noses - but it would be harmful to you, who was not in control of his actions at the time.
Which is the point I made. Twilight needs assistance now, or time to recuperate and calm herself. If she continues to have more stress heaped upon she would only get worse until the point her physiology simply couldn't handle any more stress and she either blacked out, had a heart attack or stroke, or completely snapped and descended into the absolute loss of control that is dangerous insanity. These are all things that happen due to outside influence and pressure from the situation and others. Not by choice. The only choice she could have made to avoid this was distancing herself from the problems - but her situation doesn't allow her to be able to do that. Not without someone to take over and trust to handle it for her.
So, to reiterate in closing, Discord and Twilight are both suffering and neither meant to do what they did. Blaming one, you have to blame the other equally. Attempts to do otherwise, especially without logical deduction, can be chalked up to emotional bias.
This is going to either be the most hilarious part, or the mos cringe-worthy.
I can't wait to find out!
Somebody knock out Twilight to let her sleep and fix it yourselves. She is not in her rational mind. As a sleep deprived person, I can tell how well no sleep works.
I'm handling this. My other side will not appear.... Deep breath.....good
..............
BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
This can't end well. Never, ever,ever, EVER. Cheerilee, you are in for the surprise of your life.
And celestia is going to blow a fuse.
Twilight......
you called?
GAH! Stop doing that!
this is my first time...... Oh, what is that you're reading?
Oh boy..... Twi..... You opened that to all dimensions....again.....
that shouldn't be a prob- oh..... Buck.
TWILIGHT!
Run. Now.
WAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!!!
*whoosh*
hee hee, that was fun. I have to do it again sometime....
*sigh* could you do that in your own universe! please? I'm tired of cleaning up after random guests! Be even if they write the stories......
Oh.... This is still on.... Whoops.....
I'll stop recording now....
Aww that was pretty sweet what he said to Spike, he really does have a soft spot for children. Who else has a soft spot for children? Certain mare who just walked in~
Now to wait for next update how he'll fuck that one up. And the letter to Celestia, haha oh wow. Not sure how bad that could be, because I'm rather sure she has had her own share of
criticism over the couple thousand years of her existence. Though who knows? Maybe Big Macintosh is secretly a well read political expert who tears her policies a new one and she gets really upset over it.
I feel pity for Discord, but seriously, he needs to stop trying to help!
I remember that story! What's it called? I can't remember. I was waiting for the revisions to finish to start reading it. Is the author finished fixing it?
Hmmm... Not really liking the direction of the latest chapter in taking a rather unsympathetic view of Twilight. I'm hesitant to see where you're going with this.
5133487 Go up. Click the story name...Look to the right on the page. Press the 'pg dn' button twice.
Really curious what he's saying to Celestia now. Confessing his secret crush every colt has on her? Complimenting her physical features? Saying he'd like to stick his muzzle between her -- nevermind.
5133531 whether or not the narrative gives her any sympathy, the way he writes this makes the readers feel sympathetic to Twi.
The scene with Discord and the Six was actually very good. You gave a good reason for Twilight's breakdown and her treatment of Discord was mostly fair and understandable. I wonder what she's planning to do with those plunderseeds? They're magical siphons so I think she might be planning to use them to operate the castle without damaging the surrounding areas.
I'm wondering exactly what Big Mac will be compelled to say to Cheerilee?
I also wonder what the full text of Mac's letter to Celestia will be. I can see her glancing at it, blushing and immediately hiding it in her mane. It is later transferred to her personal file in her personal safe in her inner sanctum, only ever to be taken out again on the lonliest of nights.
5131792 What if Big Mac's feelings are that he doesn't like Cherilee in that way? What if instead it's something really bad?
-Angel of Team Angelfang
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Then they stop stringing each other along and get on with their lives.
I think it's really unlikely that Discord could be stoned by anything short of the elements of harmony or rainbow power, but I suppose as a bluff it's one Discord doesn't want to call. At this point, it seems like they should just give him back his powers, Discord's magic seems more dangerous when he isn't in full control.
5132616 That is exactly why Twilight is immature and unfit to rule. We have seen a consistent pattern of freakouts and explosions to what should be relatively minor stressors in the show which are absolutely unacceptable in a leader as this chapter demonstrates. She simply does not have the maturity and self control to respond appropriately to difficult situations so putting her in charge of something like this is a recipe for disaster. She really should never have been given any kind of major leadership roll in the first place so Celestia honestly shares a large part of the blame for this mess, although that does not get us to a solution.
What really needs to happen at this point is for the others to give her a good hard reality check one way or another to kick her out of her hysteria and then force her to stand aside while they grab Discord and use him to fix this mess. This is doubly true given that he is (strangely) one of the most level headed characters in the story at this point and is clearly doing his best to fix things which the others seem to have accepted by the end of this chapter. Honestly, I think they need to find some way to sedate Twilight until this crisis is over and they can untangle her screwed up, sleep deprived mind in a much more relaxed setting after she has had some forced rest to cool off and fix the sleep deprivation.
5132891 Using your drunk comparison, the real problem was Celestia making a known an alcoholic a princess. She really should have known it would result in messes like this and waited until Twilight got herself more sorted out.
Discord also knew he could not leave Big Mac alone because the poison joke would compel him to wander off into town. That was exactly why he made the mirror for him in the first place, and if you look at the end of chapter 10 you will see that as soon as Big Mac acknowledged the mirror, Discord asked Spike to write a letter to Celestia. He did the best possible thing he could under the circumstances because Twilight is in no way fit to be dealing with this situation, he just got screwed over when his magic (which I seem to recall the princesses broke) decided to discord Spike.
Fluttershy stuck up for discord despite him clearly being in the wrong?
twilight reacting appropriately to stress?
you know who could stand to be taken down a peg or two?
off topic rant but good chapter so far
5134782 He might also have an opinion or two about what Cheerilee hasn't done about the blatant bullying his sister and her friends suffer on a near daily basis at school.
^bear^
That's almost creepily impassive. But not quite, stopped at being hilariously impassive.
All that's left is for Brutally Honest Big Mac go off on Twilight... of course given the way she's in one of her more deranged states and has been taking out her frustrations that her new title and power-siphoning home have provided her on everyone(especially Discord when he was right in the middle of trying to fix it), that may NOT be so good for his health...
Hope they can fix this, and hopefully Cheerilee will be alright
Cheerilee, huh?
Could be fun, but it's going to be hard to top an angry letter to Celestia.
Twi's crazy, though. It assumes WAY too much attention and foreknowledge on Discord's part for him to know both about which pony had been badgering Twilight the most AND that pony's maybe-relationship with Big Mac.
Wow, Twilight is a bitch :l
Sunflowers speaking in Neighponese ?
I can't think of many cartoon characters of otherwise that have to deal with such bizarre problems on a regular basis.
The best part is how nonchalantly Cheerilee ask about it like if she was a woman asking a firefighter to get her kitten out of a tree,
totally normal.
~Leonzilla