Honest Acceptance (Morpheus) Part 3
“I— You— She—”
After a few seconds of Applejack staring at the former tree and Rainbow wordlessly growling, the sounds in Rainbow’s throat were finally coming together into words. Ve tightened the filter an extra notch to adjust to the similarly congealing emotions.
“How can you possibly ask that after everything you’ve done?! After everything Chrysalis has done?!”
The pegasus flew into my face, and the itchiness started to escalate into a slight burning sensation. The taste of brimstone filled the air, and I edged away from her even as I raised the filter more.
“D-don’t you dare try to push my mother’s crimes on me! I may make my own mistakes, but I am not—and never will be—that monster!” My wings buzzed harshly to make me look larger than I felt, breaking through the illusion around me with crackles and sparks.
Rainbw retreated slightly as I pushed forward, and some small part of me savored the faintest waft of sour milk in the air. There was a brief chink in her armor—a small crack in her mask—and from that ve knew she wasn’t invulnerable. Quick as a whip, though, it was drowned out once more by spicy anger and bitter distrust, and ve had to lock my joints in place lest I balk in turn and beg for mercy.
Gnashing my teeth, I continued to vent. “Mother is at most an honorary title—nothing more. I do not, and never will, think of her as family. She’s not the one who raised me or cared for me or did any of the things you ponies call part of being a family. My teachers did that. My servants did that. The other nymphs did that. They were my family, and I refuse to be anything like my ‘mother’ if I can help it.”
I found my face almost snout to snout with Rainbow’s as we both refused to back down. “You are an Element of Harmony. You’re supposed to encourage peace, not try and pick fights with me when I’m trying to make up for my mother’s mistakes. In fact, that’s pretty much the exact opposite of harmony, so Hive help us all if this is the best the legendary Rainbow Dash can do!”
A hoof met my face faster than I could see, and I felt chitin crack. I reared back from the force, falling backwards into one of the trees. The oddest little spots danced in my vision as I opened my eyes, and my head pounded to the ringing of a massive, ear-splitting bell.
I bemusedly held up a hoof to see if I could match the holes in my vision to the holes in my hoof before it occurred to us that ve should have expected more than one punch. Wobbling up onto my haunches, ve found a rather determined Applejack pinning Rainbow to the ground. The grass was matted from what appeared to be a rather aggressive tussle, and as the ringing in my ears died, I finally started to hear the second argument ve’d started between them.
“That doesn’t tell me why you and everypony else are taking his side!” Rainbow was a whirlwind of emotions too dangerous to try and taste.
Applejack sighed, half-hugging, half-strangling Rainbow as the pegasus made another break for me upon seeing I was up. “Consarn it, Rainbow! We ain’t taking his side! We’re givin’ him a chance to prove us wrong, and you’re just provoking him, thinking it’ll prove you right.”
“See! That’s it right there!” Rainbow snarled. “When was I suddenly not included with the rest of the gang? You were with me the other night!”
I saw the pegasus’ wings try to unfurl, but Applejack is as strong as they come. “Don’t go twisting my words around, Rainbow! You know Ah didn’t mean it like that. All Ah meant is that you’re trying to be so dang protective of us right now that you’re forgetting somepony else might be in need of a little loyalty.”
“He! Hasn’t! Earned! It!” There was the distinct sound of bowling pins being knocked over as Rainbow broke free and streaked off into the distance.
I shook my head, wondering if I had something worse than a concussion, and winced as the headache spiked with the motion. “Hive damn it all. Something tells us I just made things worse… Again….”
“Actually, Ah think you made more progress there than with any of your other stunts.” Applejack dusted herself off before picking her Stetson up off the ground. “Sure, you were still trying to manipulate the pants off of us with that little tantrum, but that was the clearest picture of you Ah’ve gotten all day.”
Turning to me, she adjusted her hat before continuing. “Might be just the thing Rainbow needed to hear, too. Oh, she’ll need to cool off, but that ain’t anything new.” She frowned, briefly looking off into the distance where Rainbow had flown. “Although, Ah’m a little worried about how long it’ll take for that to happen.”
She turned back to me. “Don’t you worry about that none, though. When she finally simmers down, chances are she’s gonna beat herself up for crossing a line. She’ll be too proud to say it, mind ya, and that pride might just dig her a mighty fine hole in the ground, but it’s the honest truth. Give her some time and eventually she’ll give you a fair shake.”
In the epitome of diplomatic fashion, I stared vacantly at her for several seconds. “Huh?” I nearly toppled back to the ground when I tilted my head.
“Shoot.” She frowned. “Ah hope that ain’t a concussion.”
It was, but ve were a little too busy attempting to evaluate the situation to immediately confirm her suspicions. Ve barely even registered the farmer helping me to my feet.
“Darn it. This was not what Ah needed today. There’s no way in Tartarus Ah’m bringing ya to the hospital like this. Can ya fix yer disguise?”
“My disguise is fine.” I wobbled slightly as ve waved my hoof in front of her to prove a point.
“Ponies don’t have holes in their hooves, hon,” came the reply.
“My hooves don’t have holes in them. That’s probably just the spots in your vision. That’s what it is for me.” Ve frowned as ve realized the hole in my logic. “Wait. You don’t have a concussion, do you….”
“Aww, horseapples,” Applejack sighed. “Definitely can’t take ya to the hospital like this. Ah don’t even know if they can treat ya, much less how they and the rest of the town’ll react. Better to just get ya situated at the farm for now and see if Zecora has anything to help.”
Trees passed by in a blur as Applejack began to nudge me along. We weren’t moving quickly by any means, but I simply couldn’t find the focus to pay attention to the physical world as ve kept getting distracted by all sorts of fascinating things: like figuring out how fast we were moving, or calculating the change in applied force levels as Applejack started to get more insistent on dragging me along, or counting as many digits of pi as I could when the smell of apple pie drifted out from the house.
“Okay. We’re back. Now to get ya inside without anypony seeing, ’cause Ah ain’t gonna lie if you’re caught.” Applejack’s voice cut through the haze of irrational numbers, and I blinked to see her peeking inside the main door. “Granny’s napping, and Big Mac should be out in the fields for a while yet. Let’s get ya situated in the guest room before anypony notices.”
I was pulled through the door and placed into Applejack’s rather homey room. My head spinning, I almost missed Applejack burying me under at least five different kinds of bedding before she hurried for the door.
“Wait!” I raised a hoof and the farmer paused, glancing back with a frown. “What about the bet? I can’t exactly make it through a day on the farm like this.”
The farmer deadpanned. “Hon, that bet barely meant anything to begin with, and it definitely doesn’t mean anything now. Y’all should have known ya can’t just manipulate me and Dash like that.”
I sagged into the covers. “But I could taste it. Both of you were less angry and everything….”
“And how long did that actually last for Dash?” Applejack’s eyebrow arched. “Competition is just that, competition.”
“But—”
“No buts you pear-blasted bug. We haven’t let competition get in the way of anything since the Iron Pony competition. If there ain’t no reason to treat friends differently, then there certainly ain’t no reason to treat enemies differently.”
Ve stared at her for a moment. “That is a surprisingly logical standpoint.”
Applejack snorted. “It ain’t logic, hon. It’s just common sense. Approaching it like some fancy logic problem means you’re overthinking it. Ah better be off to grab Zecora, though. Ya may be sounding better, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. Try and rest up while I’m out.”
With a tip of her hat, the farmer left me to my own devices, and I quickly cocooned myself within the mish-mash of fleece, wool, cotton, silk, patchwork quilts made with all of the above, and the odd duvet that was pretending to be a blanket. My head had barely hit the pillow before I was out like a light, although there was the odd sense ve were forgetting something.
Probably not as important as rest….
“Rise and shine, flyboy! Don’t make me bring out the swatter!” A raspy voice yelled with all the forced cheer of a clown with an eight year degree in theater and drama. “I’m missing nap time cuz of you, so if I don’t get to sleep neither do you.” Just as I got over the spike of pain that was shooting through my head, a mini-deluge hit me.
“Cold!” I shrieked at impossiply high frequenciesthat were not at all feminine.
“Geez. Stop being such a pansy. I thought your were supposed to be tougher stuff than that.” Ponyville’s lead weather mare bucked the cloud above the bed again, letting the last of the moisture rain down upon me.
“Sounds like you’re in a better mood,” I hissed.
“Does it taste like it?” She smiled back smugly.
I snorted, attempting to extricate myself from the now soaking cocoon. “Not really, no. Cotton candy doesn’t really taste good when I know it’s probably just sadistic glee, and you have awful choice in dipping sauces. Liquid rainbow and hemlock just doesn’t appeal to me.”
The grin got smugger. “That’s all I need to hear.”
“What do you mean by that, and why are you even back?” I frowned, dumping everything but the mattress in the corner before looking in the closet to see if there were spare blankets. My magic flickered to the pounding in my head.
The cheer remained as overly chipper as an axe. “Well, I just happened to be starting a nap on a spare cloud that blew in from the Everfree, when Applejack came running up the path towards the Everfree.”
She ground her teeth, fake smile quickly turning into a glower. “Of course, you had to get a concussion from one measly punch. It wasn’t even a proper scrap or anything! And if you couldn’t handle one hit, chances were you’d never had to deal with a concussion before. I figured you’d be sleeping it off rather than simply resting, and that’s the last thing you want to do before you’re sure the injury isn’t bad enough to leave you in a coma or worse.”
“Bugbits and eggeaters.” I swore in Chitri. Ve knew ve had been forgetting something.
Rainbow narrowed her brow, glaring at me from above. “Do I want to know what that means?”
I shook my head, and she shrugged. “Whatever.Anyways, I raced back to make sure you didn’t kick the bucket. I might wanna beat you to a pulp, but that doesn’t mean I want you to become a veggie or end up dead as a doornail.”
Her emotions were cooling, and I couldn’t help but tilt my head as I stared at the prismatic puzzle in front of me. It seemed there was more than one enigma among the Elements. “Well, I guess I should tha—“
“I said I didn’t need your thanks!” The snarl was back, along with her more colorful emotions. I sighed, seeing whatever moment there could have been break the sound barrier as it left faster than it came.
Rainbow was about to follow it out the window when she called back. “Oh! I almost forgot. You totally owe me for saving your skin. Big Mac saw me on my way back, and he’s probably gonna be coming through the door any minute. You get to take care of explaining things, because I can’t make promises that my explanation wouldn’t get you squashed like the bug you are. Later, flyboy!”
Ve contemplated following Rainbow out the window, but a few seconds of buzzing wobbily above the ground caused us to discard this notion. I was far too out of it to fly. Perhaps I could—
The front door opened, and I threw out plans B through F in a heartbeat—all involving potential hiding spots I had no time to find. Barricading the door was also tossed to the side after a quick estimate of the mass of the approaching giant compared to the mass of the little bit of furniture in the room. As Big Mac’s hoofsteps came up the stairs, a last ditch effort at illusions and a disguise confirmed it was indeed monumentally stupid to try anything with a concussion.
And so ve took the only other option, and sat in the center of the bed ve had yet to remake. My breathing was calm and collected as I projected the utter confidence of a stallion who belonged in a mare’s bedroom on her soaking wet bed.
Wait. That was a bad idea, too. Panic. Panic!
“Are ya alright in there, Mister—” The door opened as I started to skitter off the bed for the closet, and there was silence.
A couple of moments passed as ve waited for the explosion.
“Ah reckon that explains the Pinkie Promise.” A simple drawl was panicked screaming.
Looking up at Big Mac from my compromising position on the bed, I found myself under his scrutinizing gaze. Ve briefly wondered why I couldn’t taste his emotions before realizing the filter was too high from my encounter with Dash.
As I lowered it, I blinked. There was nothing but the taste was oranges. “You aren’t afraid or angry or suspicious?”
“Should Ah be?” Despite the stoic face, one could hear the eyebrow arch—even if it was on a microscopic scale.
I gestured to the chitin and holes. “Well, you know….”
“Ah ain’t one to let my emotions run wild.”
“That’s an understatement.”
“No point in negativity.”
“You might say that now---”
“Ah trust Applejack.” There was a small slice of a very large honey-glazed apple pie with that statement.
“So does Rainbow Dash, and she gave me this.” I gestured to the new cracks in my face. Ve needed to get to treating them soon or they’d leave marks.
“Eeyup. She’s a hot head.”
I snorted, failing to hold back a laugh. “That’s putting it mildly. When I met her the other day, her emotions set me on hallucinogenic fire. Hottest head I’ve ever seen.”
Big Mac simply nodded with a small smile. “Need anything then?”
I stretched before getting up and finishing remaking the bed. “Can you get me a mirror and make extra certain the Cutie Mark Crusaders get nowhere near me? I saw Applebloom had her Cutie Mark this morning, but ve know what those three can do. Applejack said she was going to mention it to you, but I can’t stress how much I’d rather not face Cutie Mark Crusaders Vermin Catchers. We might look like bugs but most of us aren’t vermin.”
The stallion left chuckling. “There’s more than three now.”
Ve stopped briefly to contemplate that with the proper amount of horror it deserved.
“May the First Father have mercy on my soul…”
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I haven't even started reading this yet and I'm giggling like a dumbass already, just from the title of it. I feel like the biggest nerd right now. I am either going to absolutely love or hate this, one way or another. Any story that starts with a calculus pun has to be either amazing or awful. I hope it's the former.
Also, second layer to the pun: at the limit, delta approaches zero. There's a difference, but it's not nearly as big as it seems at first glance.
Brilliant as always
Very nice, though I think he's going to feel bad with a concussion. It's recommended to not think or concentrate for a couple weeks to allow the brain to rest and heal. He's kinda screwed without his calculator brain working right and being unable to transform for 3 or 4 weeks.
Yeah, that's about right for Dash... and nice to see that Mac is at least neutral but leaning in Morpheus' favor via AJ, instead of blind rage. Extra bonus in keeping the CMC off him, though if Zecora comes up with nothing, there won't be any hiding left to do.
Uh... by the way, everyone reading along, remember that Dash is kinda dumb. If someone has a concussion, you need to let them sleep at least, and if they slip into a coma then you need to take them to the hospital, though if they're that bad you should have done so already. Sleeping's how the brain sorta... powers down to fix itself. Waking people up while that's happening is just asking for trouble.
Tl;dr, Rainbow Dash is not a licensed medical professional.
Its interesting to see the nuance here of little things. And this approach is very fun each new chapter. And how scary the crusaders are to said prince.
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Actually, traditionally it's recommended to wake the patient up regularly the first day and night. From what I can tell it's not that sleep is bad so much as you need to make sure there aren't hidden complications like internal bleeding in the brain, and the biggest sign of said complications is losing consciousness. That's the traditional suggestion though. There's some debate over how healthy that is precisely because sleep is the best way to rest. The bigger dumb mistake is probably leaving him unmonitered, but Applejack is bringing Zecora so that's somewhat counteracted.
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Hmm... I can see why you might say that. To be honest, the first few chapters are probably the weakest link. They're the wordiest, and I didn't have my current and absolutely fantastic current editors for them.
As to characters, things might improve as you go on? It's hard to tell since I don't know exactly what ticks you off about them. If you're having issue with Twilight though you're probably going to have issue with Spike, AJ, and RD as they're the ones I'm working with in an attempt not to fall into the old trap of making Morpheus a Gary Stu in the "everypony likes him" sense though... They're the ones I worry most about being out of character because I need to balance their more antagonistic view of Morpheus with the other old trap of accidentally villifying the original heros.
The stiff writing isn't really something I can address though. I'm pretty sure it's just part of my style to write as dry as a desert and fine wine. It's hard for me to turn off the verbosity and I can be overly serious about the littlest things -- sometimes in a humorous manner. That's why I picked Twilight and Morpheus as the narrators. As much as you might find Twilight out of character, anypony else would be even more so.
I admit the way I write is definitely an acquired taste though, so your reaction is completely understandable. I'm honestly surprised the story's gotten the little attention it has.
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If you have a shred of self-preservation, you too would be wary of the CMC and their merry band of misfits.
It's just common sense.
6871197 I'm a happy lemming to the adorable bringers of the apocalypse!
I love how AJ completely understands how Morpheus' mind works, and tries to accept it. It really shows how a changeling mindset is different from the ponies, and that Morpheus being manipulative is not really intentional, it's just how he is.
Amazing, as always.
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For what it's worth, I'm commenting on this as I read it, without looking ahead or the benefit of hindsight. What I say is only the impression I have at the time of posting and may change as I get further into the story. I'm up to chapter 6 now and find both the formatting and the attitude of the characters quite a bit improved already, so I'm going to put her previous mean-spirited inner monologue down to morning grouchiness.
As for the rest, well, we'll see how it goes and how much I end up liking it. I'll be the first to admit that just on the strength of the concept alone, I probably wouldn't have picked it up. It's not all that original or fresh and doesn't seem to put any really new twist on it so far. I'm here mostly because I enjoyed the math pun in the title. Still, I'm willing to give it a fair shot on that basis. Even if I don't think it quite lives up to what I was expecting yet, it's certainly not actually bad, either.
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Thanks.
I wouldn't say she completely understands it so much as she's aware that her own interpretation of Morpheus's actions might not match up to what he's actually doing. Like how she knows he's being honest -- or rather that he thinks he is -- but she doesn't know how he could possibly justify thinking that with a lot of the stuff he says.
Then again... Maybe I am accidentally spinning it like she completely understands it. I do have a tendancy to hand out epiphanies like candy sometimes.
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Poor phrasing, I suppose. I mentioned that it would grant a connection to the Hivemind first, but that's more of a side effect. The primary purpose is information sharing, with the benefits being speed of transference and/or privacy and the downsides being range. Sticking to a rather rough computer parallel, if individual changelings A and B are clients and the Hivemind is the server, then sharing through the Hivemind involves Changeling A finding and organizing the memories/experiences/etc., uploading them to the server, messaging Changeling B of their existence and location, Changeling B having to find and probably decode them, and Changeling B downloading them. This spell not only eliminates some of the middle processes by having Changeling A share directly with Changeling B, but allows sharing of more personal data that might be too sensitive to risk placing in the Hivemind through a direct link from Changeling A to Changeling B.
In Twilight's case, she's gaining an indirect connection to the Hivemind through Morpheus and doesn't have the instincts to parse the given information. I probably phrased that whole section like that because the spell was being modified since it was an exception to it's general use. Looking back it is phrased rather oddly though. I'll need to try and make another run through to clean things up again one of these days.
Side Note: There's also some cultural significance to it, but it's not something Morpheus would have said or even thought about, so it would have been odd to mention it at that point in the story. I have no idea when or if a proper time will ever come up.
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I will say if you're looking for a shockingly original twist it might be hard to find or take awhile. There's one or two things I might consider as such, but they're scheduled for later in the story. For the most part, you're going to find a lot of tropes, memes, or common fandom head-canons that I incorporate to form the base of the world and tone. From that base I'm practicing trying to make subtler nudges and spins for the most part -- nothing so different as to be a unique entity but hopefully just different enough to be entertaining and highlight that it is in fact different. I mean, it's nothing new for changelings to be math/computer themed. It's the little things like the title that I'm using to make a difference with here -- trying to build a whole and cohesive world while making things interesting through the interactions of a lot of small things.
Probably not the best idea for hooking readers in, but it seems to be what I'm getting the most praise on from the readers who make it past the first hurdles and decide to commit to the marathon.
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Oh, so she's basically using him as a gateway into the changeling network, alright. Yeah, that didn't quite come across from the description of what the spell does.
And eh, I've got a compsci bachelor's. I'm down with tech jokes, that's good enough.
This kind of thing is what makes me think this story is full of assholes. Even by the standards of how Rainbow is written here a lot of the time, this is awful. "Hey, you should be thankful to me for making sure I didn't accidentally murder you. Because you're such a sub-equine piece of garbage, that's really the best you would deserve anyway, so you better appreciate that I went out of my way there."
I mean, seriously, does really nobody here see a difference between being loyal to your friends and being a vicious, bigoted cockbag to everyone else?
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To be fair, Rainbow Dash can be a completely overprotective jerk. Case in point. The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone when they first remet Gilda, and Griffon the Brush off where Dash first lost her friendship with Gilda because Gilda thought Pinkie was jealous and out to get her (Which was indeed the case. "Getting her" simply involved the Pinkie Logic of throwing a party to try and forge a friendship Gilda clearly didn't want). Both of these cases show Dash being overprotective of the other elements. Griffon the Brush Off didn't have Dash listen to Gilda's side, and Treasure of Griffonstone started with her getting irked at seeing her instead of being a good friend and asking forgiveness (which she would have done for AJ who is another friend/rival, but isn't a jerk to other ponies).
Changelings do not have the benefit of being a former friend, and they have the added downsides of having been a major threat to Equestria and being in the unique position of perhaps being one of the largest insults to Rainbow's honor. That is to say, Rainbow can blame them for the wedding when she didn't believe Twilight and stick by her side.
Am I making her too much of a jerk? Maybe. It's one of the things I worry about when writing her in particular, but she is the most confrontational of the group.
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There's a limit to how far you can take that justification, is all I have to say about that. There's a difference between brushing someone off (which even the episode title alludes to) who has personally hurt you before, but being willing to let someone die and then mocking them for it? That's more than halfway towards psychopathy. Rainbow is, in relative terms, the most confrontational of the group. This is, I think, going way past what is even remotely reasonable anymore, though.
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I'm not arguing, because I completely understand what you mean. But out of curiosity how much are you reading her actions as purely hostile, and how much are you reading as bravado? I'm wondering if the bravado is making things seem worse than I imagine them to be because I know what's bravado and what isn't as the author.
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Don't take it personally. I'm told I'm a passionate kind of person, but I really don't feel as strongly about it as it may sound.
You should feel free to argue, I know I do.
That said, it's a difficult line to draw. There's a difference between bravado, bluster and being vicious - and at this point? Rainbow is vicious. She has assaulted him at least twice now, that I remember, just because he said things that upset her. Those are not the actions of a fundamentally good and caring person, which is what Rainbow is still supposed to be, under all that bragging and preening she does. Those are the actions of bully and a thug. If an author starts to make her give that kind of impression, I think they're doing something wrong. There is no qualitative difference between seriously hurting someone out of a need to present a strong image and doing it out of sheer maliciousness. Someone stills suffers for your pettiness.
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Heh... Those were ironically the only two hits I had planned, and I guess they would seem a little sudden if I didn't properly express/shows Rainbow's feelings/thoughts. It probably won't happen again. Not because your pointing it out, but because Rainbow's hit that point of "Okay. This is stupid. I'm being stupid. I almost got somepony killed, and it's still hard to stop wanting to do something to him." That's partially why she left him to face Mac on his own. It was bravado to cover that she didn't trust herself. That said, if the precedent is that she's being malicious by this point, then she's just gonna keep seeming malicious isn't she.
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Well, there's nothing stopping you from making her decide that she has been a horrible person and making an effort to be better than this in the future. That's what character development is all about, after all.
...wait, the Crusaders have expanded the roster?
Head for the hills, folks - we're doomed! DOOMED!
Rainbow packs one heck of a punch.
Big Mac, advanced stoicism.
7040540 Babs? Manehattan branch? I don't know if the Gryphon episode came out at this time.
Well now we know that Rainbow is a complete unrepitant bitch.
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It is, and it's extremely off-putting. There's a difference between bravado and sociopathy.
There should be a group of changeling queens that sit about in a room and calculate things...
You can call it... the Mother Board.
I'm not going to lie, but I have to say I don't know why Rainbow Dash is this hostile to Morpheus. When I say that, it's not just because he is a changeling-by this point, Twilight has vetted him and he's been very upfront, including admitting his head is on the line due to a particularly moronic contract.
I have read this in one sitting, yet I can't follow Rainbow Dash in why she is repeatedly so angry with him at every opportunity as to insult him, try to attack him, or actually attack him.
Frankly, at this point she is entirely unsympathetic, and rather than a genuine conflict between someone who has legitimate reasons for her hatred, it seems incredibly forced and more akin to how Gilda was written in the first season-aggressive and one dimensional.
This is, in part, due to the fact that I don't think you're writing Rainbow Dash very well, or I've missed details that better explain her. She lacks depth to her, and seems more like a character someone else described to you on a superficial level, and then you used that description solely to write Rainbow without expanding her character or taking other material into question.
Ugh the gotta keep a concussion victim awake myth, why do people still believe in it?
I mean really Rainbow Dash isn't exactly supposed to be a very learned individual, but she should know about common sports injuries.
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It's not entirely a myth, though. From what I've read, there's wisdom in staying awake at least until a doctor can diagnose you officially. It's supposedly to help notice if the condition is worsening because of internal injury.
Rainbow, in her own way, is just checking that things aren't worse than she thought. She's not very polite or good at it, but she's still mad at that point. Not mad enough to completely blot out the guilt, but mad enough to still be a jerk. Had Mo not woken up, however, she would have double timed it to either get Mo to the hospital, or fly Zecora right to the house.
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Pretty much, I got a concussion once myself and it's better to stay awake than to fall asleep because if you do the latter there is the chance you could be unconcious for quite a while, not to mention it's harder to diagnose for a doctor if you're unconcious than if you're awake since with the latter the doc can actually interact with you, more infomration quite simply.
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#1 You have to remember that Rainbow dash is a VERY Hot headed pony. She's someone who can easily get worked up and rather angry. I mean let's not forget that she CHEATEd on MULTIPLE occasions when racing against AJ.
#2 As she says, she gives her loyalty to those who PROVE that they deserve it. She feels that Morpheus hasn't quite earned the level of loyalty that everyone is giving him. Not just loyalty, but Acceptance.
#3 He's the son of Chrysalis. She is saying that he took part or is in some way responsible for everything that happened in Canterlot. CLEARLY she has serious unresolved issues about this.
#4 He insulted her.
#5 He's manipulative and she HATES that.
So while some of this may be exaggerated, she's not really acting that far from her character. Is the author exaggerating this for the point of the story? Quite possibly. Is it baseless or unbelievable? Not at all.
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You have no idea how much this comment means to me, given some of the other comments on Rainbow, though now I can only hope you won't get mad at the "resolution" to the Rainbow arc. It was.... rushed isn't the right word so much as sudden, although there's more to the suddenness than wanting to avoid vilifying Dash like some people seemed to think I was doing. The arc is technically ongoing, even if it seems resolved. I just need to find an appropriate chapter to address it.
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I understand that I am late to the party, but it doesn't change how I feel about Rainbow Dash. Don't get me wrong, she is in my top five list of vest pony, and I understand why she's feeling like this. But damn if I don't want to know how much glue you can get from a pegasus.