Flash Sentry, a new student at Canterlot High School, must adjust to life in a new town and school, make new friends, battle evil creatures that threaten mankind, and solve the mystery lurking within Canterlot's social media network.
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Still not sure what this means.
Alright, the victim is Rarity, and the Zodiac is Capricorn. We have 41 Days.
No major battles till Jan huh? Grind your S.Links Flash! Grind them like never before!
5512051 I think it has something to do with Flash's *ahem* handling of someone's chest.
...Is Eris trying to talk to Flash through Sunset Shimmer now? Is she that mad that he took her staff? Or is she mad about the, uh, other thing Flash grabbed?
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Second, actually. Flash mentioned it to Twilight on his birthay before either of them knew anything about what's going on.
Hm... Maybe Eris is special, and accesses Zodiac in a different way than the party does? Or, at least does that during a Zodiac attack? Like, the others are pulled into Zodiac, and she voluntarily accesses it with the app?
If she's not pulled into Zodiac like the previous victims... she might not have been a victim at all, but still had awakened to Persona some other way, through science or making pacts with spiritual entities.
We already know she can figure out the movements of the characters with at least some accuracy. Of course, knowing that they would be at the tennis match is hardly difficult: it's public information. She knows when they're being pulled into Zodiac, though, or can control when that happens, since she attacked Cadence at that exact time. Of course, it's really convenient that Cadence was out of omission when Eris attacked... but I'm ruling out Cadence as a suspect, for now, even though Eris and Cadence have never been seen in the same room together, and it's super convenient that Cadence can escape from the Zodiac beast if she's alone. If Eris really wanted to kill the inhabitants of the apartment, why would she be helping them conquer the Zodiac in her alternate persona. Why would she have helped Flash in the first place? If Cadence!Eris really wanted them to win against the Zodiac and was trying to help them in a bizarre antagonistic and circuitous way, why would she go to the trouble of concocting an alternate identity, hide that she can use multiple personae, and attack Flash when he's alone for maximum difficulty?
Also... if Eris has this much access to knowledge about them, why doesn't she set up normal attacks for them? Might be easier than to try to attack them when they are at their strongest: with time to allow them to prepare and when they are in a group. Why is she insistent on the Zodiac doing the job for her, or doing it inside the shadow world, if she was indeed able to send shadows after them?
Of course, perhaps y'know... normal murder would make figuring out who the culprit is easier, and the culprit might not want to take that risk, instead hoping that she can do it when there is basically zero chance a normal person could figure it out once the deed is done. And she did try to figure out how to split them up this last time.
5512161 Trying to convince yourself Cadance is Eris is silly. I'm debunking that one right now: Cadance is not Eris.
Fighting bitch ninjas in zodiac. Boss as fuck.
Well, it seems that ZIT is getting closer to find out the thruth, even though they aren't getting any intellectual assets .
I want to ask though, was Rainbow's Persona allways meant to be Nike, or did I influenced that decision somehow. If it's the latter, I'm really sorry.
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Awwwwwww.
Back to the theory that it's Fluttershy!
5512247 Originally, it was meant to be Icarus, but Zef was waffling between Icarus and Nike for a long time. Ultimately, literally a week before the due date, we decided it was Nike (the design would have been the same either way).
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Yup. Rainbow Dash was actually getting BOTH: during pre-production, when the prospect of Ultimate/Ascended Personas was still up in the air, Icarus was going to be her initial Persona, and Nike her Ultimate Persona. Once we decided that the "endgame" would adhere more closely to MLP:FiM concepts in that regard, and Ultimate Personas became something else, we defaulted to Icarus as a placeholder until we could decide which of the two was more thematically appropriate to Rainbow's arc, since they both embody traits from Rainbow's pony, EG, and PEG incarnations.
Like Moth said, the basic theme of her design WAS decided from day one, even before other Personas we've seen so far. I could give a rundown on why she's a cyber-goddess, but Kaneko and Soejima's Persona designs are so rife with symbolism I'd rather not force my own interpretation on anyone :)
Huh... so THAT'S how Cadence...
Well, at least this time we have a lot of time until the next victim.
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Is it just me, or does every answer we get just raise more questions?
Hmm... No, no, no sense in that level of speculation at this juncture. I'll keep it to myself for now. Though I think I'm seeing some mistaken assumptions here.
In any case, I love both Nike and Sagittarius's designs. The latter sounds like a cross between Chrysalis and Tirek with extra pointy bits. Very neat.
It's probably best not to think about the psychological ramifications of Sexy Refreshment.
Also, I'm becoming very concerned about Fluttershy...
5512474 Nope, it's not just you. It's like a murder-mystery or a really well written anime or HYDRA really: "Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place. Hail HYDRA!"
Also, nice touch bringing Rarity along shopping with them. The perfect way to open the possibility of more familiarity. (Also, *said while silently squeeing* I can't wait to see how Sweetie Belle gets shown on this!)
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Not necessarily. It's possible that Eris and the real mastermind behind Zodiac are two different, possibly even unconnected, people. (At least, unconnected as far as Eris knows.) Two different people, at any rate. Those lion-themed Shadows that attacked the party might well have been sent by said real mastermind instead of Eris. (Or said mastermind let her borrow them, if they are connected.) You see, at this point, Eris strikes me as being motivated by petty revenge, while the real mastermind -the big bad- probably has higher, or at least different, goals in mind.
Assuming Fluttershy (an Aries) is Eris, let me draw you a scenario. Her Persona awakens on her birthday, in March or April. She uses it to survive and escape Zodiac. Over the next few months, she learns how Zodiac operates; how to bend it to her will, at least to some degree. During this time, whatever grudges she has against her dorm mates fester to the point that she's willing to kill them. (She may have had a devil (the true mastermind) whispering into her ear on this.)
Now, if she is Eris, and ends up doing a Heel-Face Turn, I could see that happening as follows: Flash finally making her a social link, and as it ranks up Fluttershy begins to doubt that what she's doing is right. Further battles with the gang as Eris notwithstanding. At some point, she stops appearing or texting as Eris, and the gang wonders what happened to their foe. Then Fluttershy's birthday rolls around... and she's forced to blow her secret. Now, I would be very surprised if anything of the sort happened, but that was fun to think about. In any event, I see her realizing that her dorm mates actually care about her (rather than just appearing to for social reasons), causing her to turn herself around. Provided that she is Eris, that is. Which, despite writing the above, I rather doubt.
Now, as for what we know or suspect about Eris; we know that she is strong and athletic. We know that she is a skilled fighter. We have cause to believe that she is a skilled hacker. Remember, she said that she was planning to upload videos of Twilight. That tells me she was the one behind all of the hacking. (Incidentally, one of the reasons she found being accused of being Sunset so funny may be that she considers Sunset's computer (and perhaps other) skills to be amateur hour.) Might be behind the camera attempt too, which if true would explain why Snails didn't want to talk... But not why he didn't just pin it on Sunset. Genuine loyalty to her, perhaps? Blackmail material? I don't know. Of course, that might really have been Sunset's handiwork rather than our villain's; in which case you have to wonder what kind of game Sunset's playing. It's certainly possible that Sunset and Eris are in cahoots, although I'm not willing to flatly say that is the case.
Finally, I'll state my real thoughts on Eris's true identity; I personally think it's someone we haven't been introduced to in-story yet.
I am genuinely curious as to how Rarity managed to measure that. The interesting thing about those is that their length when flaccid has no real correlation to their length when erect. Meaning either Rarity simply measured it while flaccid and the measurement will prove to be a pain in the future considering how often Flash finds himself surrounded by scantily dressed hot girls, or she induced a boner in him, something I'm sure Twilight would freak out about.
I guess I should contribute something to the guessing pool now. The only problem is that I don't have anything to contribute. Right now, we just know too little about everyone besides the current protagonists to be able to really definitively say "this is true" or "that is false". Sure, right now, Fluttershy is looking really suspicious. But how can we be sure she knows how to fight? Sure, maybe it'll turn out she does, but it could also turn out that Sunset Shimmer knows how to fight as well, and Fluttershy was just a red herring for the readers. Not to mention we know practically nothing about how Zodiac works, so any guesses made about that are moot too.
5512620 I agree that we probably haven't met whoever the true force behind everything with Zodiac. Eris strikes me as a Mid-boss. Once the team finally beats her is probably when the story will kick into high gear and we'll start getting reveals on what Zodiac is, etc.
5512811 If she was taking measurements of him again for clothes, it's likely she did get an reaction from him. Though, measuring it seems like something Pinkie would do, not Rarity.
I'm gonna stand by my previous comments that I think Sunset and the Horoscope app are a form of warning, not a way to antagonize people.
5512829 Except it says, outright, that she did measure it.
5512900 Right, but what I am saying is that given that she got a reaction the last time she measured him, if she did so again (which she undoubtedly did) then she probably got a reaction from him again, without having to do anything untoward to elicit said reaction.
Basically, I'm saying she didn't tease him into having a stiffy on purpose.
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5512926 You realize you're debating a throwaway gag, right? Behave or beehive!
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You make a good point, but I can still hope she's innocent despite all speculation and/or evidence to the contrary, right?
...Actually, on that note, I'm going to assume that Fluttershy truly was working at the animal shelter when Sagittarius and Eris attacked yesterday. She could just have easily been going to the bathroom around the same time as Rarity when everyone was sucked into Zodiac at the tennis court to create an alibi, rather than obviously trying to completely avoid being placed in the area during the event.
Yes, I know I'm grasping at straws here.
5513062 Hey, as I said, I don't believe she's Eris myself. I'm just pointing it out as a possibility, and how it might work.
I just had a thought. Whoever Eris is, she may have had more time to prepare than you'd think, if you judged according to when her Persona awakened. You know how time stopped in Zodiac, until this most recent fight? I can easily see Eris using this to learn all she could about Zodiac, and prepare herself physically. Prior to Zodiac, she might have been a hacker with no muscles or fighting skill to speak of. (She might also have acquired her computer skills in Zodiac, but I doubt it. I don't think there are any computer networks she could practice on there.) She might have a more-or-less safe place in Zodiac where she can exercise and train, and maybe fight Shadows for a bit to acquire experience in battle. If that's the case, she might have built herself up in between her appearances thus far. Then again, if she does have a base of sorts in Zodiac, she could do a bit of healing there, rather than being incapacitated in the real world as long as she should be.
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Maybe Eris is a shadow with an ego? A being who only exist inside Zodiac, living inside the canterbook net. That would explain how she has so much information and can keep track of the heroes, but doesn't do any of the simple physical ways of getting rid of them (like poisoning the food if she was Fluttershy or just getting someone to hurt/kill them if she was Sunset).
Being a shadow she could have limited control over Zodiac (she obviously doesn't have full control, or she would have attacked at other times or at least helped the shadow bosses fight instead of keeping her distance) and this latest strange Zodiac was forced by her to take advantage of Flash being away.
About her physical actions, maybe the one who knocked out Cadance was someone blackmailed or intimidated to do it, and her fighting body could be either a concentrated shadow form or Eris is capable of possessing people with strong negative emotions inside Zodiac. (And both possibilities would be disrupted when her phone, Eris medium to the world, was destroyed)
5513376 I actually have a similar theory. The idea is that Eris is Ophiuchus, the mastermind. Not Eris the girl; Eris the Persona. More specifically, in this ridiculous and unlikely to be true theory, Eris-Ophiuchus is a memetic/viral life-form somehow born of the rumors and negativity of the students of Canterlot High. She is capable of "infecting" others, giving them a secondary personality that can seize control of them for short periods and even has a false Persona. In this interpretation, the reason she's after Applewood is because Cadance was the first person to awaken her Persona, and then Flash did as well, making them threats(the motivation is also the weakest part of my theory).
Anyway, the big question I have at the moment is why those nameless two? If Ophiuchus/Eris's motivations are personal, why were they targeted?
5513376 I can buy Eris being a Shadow with an ego. (I doubt that's it, however.) I must point out that what Flash fought was obviously a flesh-and-blood human being, so that means a possession angle if that's the case. I also doubt the intimidation or blackmail angle. As for why Eris doesn't go after them in the real world, that should be easy to figure out; she doesn't want to leave evidence that might be spotted by J. Random Cop. Remember, what happens in Zodiac leaves no evidence. That's a pretty compelling reason for her to confine her direct attempts to there. Also, you have to remember that Eris might be someone we haven't met yet.
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Perhaps a beef with them that Cadance didn't know about? Alternatively, they were killed by Zodiac, but Eris had nothing to do with their deaths.
5513488 The intimidation/blackmail part was only about Cadance assault. After all if Eris already took the effort of knocking her out, why not pull her to Zodiac and finish her? Cadance is the second most important party member, killing her would cripple the team.
While its true that leaving no trace is the main advantage of using the Zodiac to kill someone, if you have free reign in the normal world then you could do so many non-criminal things to disable the team and get an easy Zodiac kill. After all, you are going to jail because you are a bad cook?, getting in a fight and suspending someone?, breaking a phone?. It doesn't matter if you can be traced if what you are doing isn't a crime.
5513488 Not entirely a theory without history though, In Persona 4 Teddie turns out to be a Shadow who developed an ego and Persona of his own. He goes on to somehow grow a human body so he can hang out in the real world.
5514053 Maybe she has a use for Cadence? Or...other theories that will remain unsaid outside of a closed group currently.
5512474 It's not just you. I feel the same way...
5514399 I'm aware of him. Didn't seem to be quite the same thing. Then again, I did skim his entry in the wiki, rather than reading it thoroughly. And what are those theories, if you don't mind me asking? PM me if you/your group decide I can know. And if I can't, well, I'm not offended.
Fool moves forward to tie with Celestia! Luna is left behind nipping at their heels! Otherwise each racer is still in the same place...
Wow, this race is kind of slow...
I wonder if there's a reason why Eris didn't kill Cadence when she had the chance.
Other than, you know, that being a really lame way for her to go out.
Er guys, what about December? I doubt the badguys are just going to skip a month just because nobody from your dorm is there.
6577197 Bodies leave evidence if cadence had died the girls would have known something was up and been on guard.
5512051 Alright let's chie it up!
5512161 She may not be able to, my cruuent theory on eris is that she's actually shadowshy.