Colour me intrigued. An adventure with your signature self-insert too! I hope it updates

Now this looks nice!

I wonder just how many of the characters you were offered make it into the story, and as what ^_^

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I'd say a little under ten. I had basically the same idea in mind as Twilight did for what I wanted. Golden Luck is actually my OC as well.
A part of the problem was finding characters that fit what I wanted to do with them...and weren't just "Oh, Shining Star is like, a super heroic pony but they're also nice and a little shy and easy to control"

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Welp, we readers will eagerly await the results ;) It's going to be fun to see who made it.

Why is this in the clopfics folder for hypnosis/mind control when the rating is E? Are you just planning on bumping it up later?

Also this is a nice story.

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Could have sworn I changed the rating.
Honestly, I'm torn about which folder to use. There are going to both clop moments and dark moments in this fic.

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Well it is entirely possible to use both, so long as the moments are equal.

Woot. Great to see your doing well with the characterization of Greymane and Cloud Prism.

There's never enough hypnofics, especially ones with an actual story. Hope there's more of this; it could really go anywhere from here.

Are you planning arcs where they face a particular theme like robots/changelings/etc? Or is it shorter encounters with smaller scale villains?

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They will not defeat a particular...challenge in any single chapter. In addition to that, there's going to be an overarching story arc; I have at least two main antagonists, and
I'm seriously considering adding Starlight Glimmer as a long-term character. She will show up.

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Ah, that being said, I am taking suggestions for themes

This sounds interesting! Excited to see where this goes (and I see Spiral Dream in there, fun!).

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Well, off the top of my head, here are some general methods of mind-control:

Mindless Drone / Hivemind: Changelings have powers that allow them to control other ponies, subjugate them and turn them into slaves to the Hive. Or perhaps not even Changelings, but something else (like tentacle plants in the Everfree).

Possession: ghosts, demons, The Smooze/Slime, shadow beasts, etc. taking over bodies and using their powers for their own nefarious ends!

Illusions: making ponies think/see things that aren't real.

'Normality': Reality-warpers with powers similar to Discord can change fundamental truths of the world (or just in a localized area) and make the ponies there think that everything is the way it's always been/should be. Perhaps they don't actually change anything, but just make ponies THINK things are a certain way, similar to Illusions but deeper.

Hypnosis with trigger words: self-explanatory!

Artifacts of Attraction: potions, amulets, rings, magic staves, etc. physical objects that allow the user to mess with the minds of others.

Also, maybe for one of the later arcs you could do something like having the mane six / Princesses taken over by a powerful mind controller, and then Project Starburst is the only ones left to defeat/avoid Puppet Twilight and take down the bad guy.

Those are just some random ideas, dunno if any of that is useful but I figured I'd toss it out there.

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If you're planning on mature themes later on, I definitely suggest having the rating at least be teen until then, the current E rating could be a bit misleading to readers.

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If you've got villains in mind then surely their general style should be something you plan for them.

If you're not settled on it yet, then how about a robot theme for one villain. Not actually turning them into machines, but hypnotizing them to think they are. So they appear normal but when they hear the trigger they remember they're robots that must obey their programming.

5860999 someone already did that, if you're interested, i could send you the link

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Can't think of a story like that. Send me the link.

5865295 its not exactly that, but itis pretty close
Imperium

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Oh yes. Not quite what I had in mind, but I already read that.

5868438 alrightie then, goodbye

Very interesting premise focusing on a specific re-occurring problem throughout the series. I wonder how the Elements will be viewed here, since their also one of these dangerous devices.