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Holy throne, that was definitely nail biting! Awesome work!
"Those that try to thwart another's love shall hear galloping hooves, and cries for revenge!"
Headcanon accepted
WoW, this was very epic, and now the Nightmare is dead, i wonder how they will come to terms about their feelings, Nick must talk with Maya and Fluttershy, one way or another, good work man and waiting for the next ;).
It's an interesting question which side Phoenix will land on - human customs tend mostly toward monogamy (though it's not hard to find exceptions) but Ponies are used to harems/herds, and Twilight, at least, is used to that idea. The outcome could still be that Phoenix's answer to "Who should I be with? Twilight, Maya or Fluttershy?" ends up as "D) All of the above".
Very highly sated. Had almost everything in it. Well done.
Zodiac: Sighs I feel much better now... The ripples of time ahead are beginning to clear away the blur that I once saw. It's safe to say that this future is looking promising for everyone here...
Celestia: And it's all thanks to everyone there... By the way, another one of those alternate timelines and/or universes uncle?
Zodiac: Oh... Celestia... Are you this timeline's Celestia or my Celestia?
Luna: Hehe, did you forget us for a second or something uncle?
Zodiac: Haha, of course not. It's just with me jumping back and forth in these alternate universes, I can't see or tell the difference with you two or anyone else for that matter.
Celestia: It cannot be helped that is for certain. Still, I am very happy to see you back. We miss you with you being gone, you know?
Luna: 'Tis true... The days and nights which you are gone, Equestria feels a little empty without you being around...
Zodiac: Wraps them in wings It's okay you two, I miss being around you two as well but don't forget, you two are adults and ruling over a land now. I'm just a seer watching over space and time, trying to keep the course of history true to its path.
Celestia: We know uncle and we wouldn't stop you any other way, its just disheartening that you had to carry this burden while we just rule over a kingdom.
Zodiac: Don;t let my burden put you like so. I chose to bear this, trust me... I understand you two...
Makes sense, I guess.
Huh, well provided you take care of your body...
I think it's more accurate to say she knows OF her.
And you're trusting this thing called NIGHTMARE which you know tried to take over the world before, why, exactly? Even with mental manipulation courtesy of said Nightmare?
Hurt is a strong word, but yes. There's something very refreshing about seeing this through the eyes of someone as young as Pearl, she doesn't have the jaded cynicism that comes with being older, she's still optimistic and idealistic, and sometimes sees things nobody else does due to the way her mind works.
From the mouth of babes, Maya.
What are you planning?
And it CLICKS!
Huh...
Come on, you're almost free...
She's about to crack, just keep pressing!
Roll credits. *ding*
There is literally nothing clever I can add to this, the characters are doing it for me.
SHIT!
Come on, come on...
End this Nightmare and rejoin the waking world!
Yep, now use that excitement, that joy, EXPEL THE NIGHTMARE!
Whatever Nightmare said was a VERY poor choice of words.
YES!
No, you were strong, YOU expelled the Nightmare from your mind.
MERDE!
She's more lavender than anything. Also, the Elements of Harmony. Make that bitch taste the Rainbow!
No. She's innocent and you know it just as well as I do.
And it clicks.
Ah, ah, ah, Nightmare. You yourself said it, "the useless refuse she is". No escape from THIS one.
Pearl, not PearlS. Also, it'd be Tartarus if anything, but yeah, RAINBOW HER!
More restraint than I'd have.
As a History nut this makes me SO happy, since the thumbs up down wasn't to decide if the fallen lived, but if they DIED. Thumbs down, they live, thumbs up, they die.
You forgot to capitalize the L in like. Also, Rot In Hell, you monstrous Nightmare.
7826913 Actually, the Roman gesture for 'kill' was an extended thumb: up or down didn't matter. The gesture for 'spare' was a closed fist, with the thumb hidden. This was pointed out in the parent doc's comments, and my own research confirmed it.
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Oh, OK.
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I am curious about what the Nightmare truly was: maybe a "descended spirit", like the opposite of Mia Fey? And was she destroyed (cessation of existence) or send to hell as a damned soul?
7826989 Pointed out by me, actually. Thank you very much.
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In the words of Derpy/Ditzy/Bright Eyes in Turnabout Storm... "Thank you! Thank you!"
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Indeed! And vengeance will be swift and terrible, as here.
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Great... now somebody's going to try and write that!
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Thank you! There will be long talks and discussions about things. And you may not have long to wait for the next chapter, which is already underway...
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The answer remains to be seen, but I'm guaranteed to rustle some jimmies no matter which way I go here. Some readers want to see multiple partners happen while others categorically do not. The only answer I can give right now is I will go where the writing takes me and do what's right for the characters at that point in time. So... stay tuned.
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Whew! I'm glad to know you found the ending so satisfying. That means the entire trial arc was worth it, then.
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Good question. The Nightmare was a regular old dream demon that rose through the ranks and was eventually crowned queen. As for where dream demons themselves come from, I'd say damned souls who show certain promise for serving the dark powers. After a time of torment, they're offered the chance to start dishing some out punishment of their own. But what The Nightmare said here was true--that there must always be a Nightmare. So a new one will rise. Beware...
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Well, at least he's got the sirens to keep him company... Interesting AU you've got here. Are there stories of it, or just a headcanon of yours?
HA! Please Nightmare... puh-lease. It doesn't matter if they're human, pony, or whatever. If you love them, you love them, it doesn't fucking matter.
Damn fine work you glorious peeps, glorious work well done~ Hot damn this was one hell of a read, and one hell of a ride.
7827817 Isn't this what Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit would never ever stop going on about?
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I have thestrals as possessing a predatory streak and a taste for meat, eating fish and hunting the occasional game animal over in Rise of Firefly, where I'm fleshing out their backstory. Fell Flight figures prominently there. It's also worth noting that in the Xenophilia universe, pegasi will eat fish.
It's a valid point, but all Maya can really think of right now is what Twilight did to her. You'd be surprised what anger can make you blind to.
The wisdom of children is a real thing. And Pearly's about as wide-eyed an innocent as you could imagine.
You beat me to it.
A tyrant's downfall.
So simple, yet so powerful.
Just one more push...
And if there's anything Phoenix is good at, it's pressing!
Can you just imagine a movie of this?
I'll take that as a compliment to the writing, thanks!
This is Ace Attorney. Nothing is EVER that easy...
Or at least turn it into a far more pleasant dream...
Stand by!
Indeed.
A suitably epic expulsion, I hope!
As Mia herself said. But it's not over yet...
Fun fact--originally, I was going to have The Nightmare try to take over Trixie after Twilight, but as the writing developed Maya turned out to be a far more vulnerable and tempting target.
Taste the Rainbow™!
She knows. But knowing it and accepting it are two different things. Especially when it accepting it means accepting certain other things...
And the Nightmare, by trying to use Phoenix Wright to tempt Maya, just made it more impossible for her to deny. In effect, by accident, she forced Maya to face that truth. I imagine Maya will somewhat ruefully admit that herself later.
She's now hooked and wriggling on her own bait, unable to break free.
Fixed. I have trouble keeping that straight sometimes. The rule is, her name is Pearl, but Phoenix calls her Pearls, and everyone else calls her Pearly.
Not even sure Pearl really needed to kept from seeing the Nightmare's execution given some of what she's seen during the course of case investigations with Phoenix.
Like Leo, I had to look it up after I was told by JCL in the google doc comments that the thumbs-down motion was incorrect. It was indeed, so I researched the subject further and found that this was the answer--that an outstretched thumb meant death, and a closed fist with hidden thumb meant spared. Funny, that...
Actually, the l in like is correct; it's that exclamation point after 'shadows' that shouldn't have been there. Regardless, it's fixed now. Thanks again for the longpost! Always a treat! And hope you enjoyed the climax and comeuppance of the chapter...
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Appreciate the kind words! Trial's over, but the story isn't quite yet... a few more chapters remain, and still a few things planned!
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I am confuzzle
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You're quite welcome good sir! And I see, now we get to see the calm after the storm... whoo... unless there's one last bang before then, both types
Cornered at last!
And sometimes not even that when she was in Alterac Valley on Nostalrius.
Twinkle, you've been at it there for 8 straight hours. Vanndar Stormpike's life isn't worth wasting yers. Give up already!
We'd have won by now if you made a healer and joined me!
If it wasn't for that biased bridge, yeh'd have lost by now anyway!
Buck you hordie! They have a similar roadblock near Iceblood and don't have to surrender one of their towers to hold it! Stupid, useless Stonehearth Graveyard! You suck!!
QQ moar, Twinkle! Now get in here and eat or I'll join as horde and mind control yeh off the bridge!
Et tu, Linky?
3edgeworth4me.
My bestie is also a beastie. A gal can't get a break.
To be fair, who wants to be trapped in a jar? It do like the J4A callback, aka the only qualification I have for reading a Phoenix Wright crossover...
We were meant to be. One man, one member of the Mane Six like God intended.
Which is why diamonds exist!
With a 7-incher to boot!
Ah shit, fam. We have a title!
A very revealing question, isn't it? The Nightmare understands the passions of the mortals she's abused for thousands of years, and it's left her cynical and jaded. She's reduced all sex to pleasure, all attraction to perversion. The idea that Phoenix could consider her anything more than a fuck buddy does not even register. Thousands of years have brought her rivals wisdom and understanding, like we see with Celestia earlier in the story. The same has only brought Nightmare to lose whatever connection she had to those she's enslaved. I like what you may or may not have done there, sensei.
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I'm as surprised as you that this is a thing.
Bad guys really need to quit making a point of bolstering the flagging hero's courage with flagrant hubris!
Ha! Nice.
Oh, come on!!! Maya, forget what she said. Just... No. NO! Fluttershy gets a 'sort of, not really' pass for being a pony but you're a human! Stop! Do not Lero out on me and share Phoenix Wright! No! No! NO!! Curse you, Xenophilia. Curse you!
Niiiiiiice! NIIIIICE! High-energy scene!
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Great chapter! A fitting end for the Nightmare to be finished off by her many victims.
Hot damn, what an epic conclusion.
Really, though, my favorite bit was the whole scene at the end as Luna, Trixie, and the spirits in the gallery brought about the Nightmare's end. That was great.
7827431 A headcanon that is undergoing development hell! Thankfully, I didn't publish the book about this for fear of said development hell...
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*Cues music*
There was a story of a kid in Korea who died after gaming for like thirty straight hours few years back. Take a break once in a while, people.
Twinkle, you've been at it there for 8 straight hours. Vanndar Stormpike's life isn't worth wasting yers. Give up already!
Never got into stuff like this. Though sometimes I wonder if games like that end more friendships than make them...
You, know, maybe I'll give Edgey-poo a cameo in these last few chapters...
Oh, she can be a beast in bed, all right... and unabashedly so! :nonexistent vinyl emoticon:
And I'm actually behind on the AA lore at this point. Haven't finished T&T, haven't played AA:AJ, haven't played the new game or either of the investigations one, or the Professor Layton crossover. Then there's other unreleased stuff like that 19th century one that uses Phoenix's ancestor, takes at least partial place in England and deals with the English jurist system. But I'm told it'll never get released over here because of copyright concerns regarding their use of Sherlock Holmes in the game.
And now you just KNOW someone's going to try and do that...
Plus a body pillow of Daring Do.
Or in Maya's case, hamburgers from the nearest In-N-Out location! http://www.in-n-out.com/
Or 11-incher in ponified terms. I'm sure that was in one of her novels, too...
Roll credits!
I can't say I consciously did that, but you're right--it works on that level, quite well. She probably can't see sex as anything more than a biological urge or a pleasurable act; something she can use to manipulate others with. She completely missed the third leg of the stool it sits on.
I had no idea!
She's up against the wall and losing it at this point as she sees the elements powering up. She has but seconds at this point to possess Mia and make her escape, and was harried into making her final mistake.
Well, come on... who wouldn't want to taste the Rainbow? Spitfire and Applejack already have!
Be still your jimmied rustles! Sadly, Lero lurks everywhere!!!!!!
What the entire trial built to, and yet it only works for everything that came before it. For all the potential versions of this scene we discussed along the way, I think we nailed it in the end making it short and sweet.
Originally, the plan was for the Nightmare to succeed in possessing Maya, the elements to zap her at which point Luna finishes her off, but as you say, this turned out to be far more fitting. I'm glad we did it this way.
LMAOO this is too perfect.. so while I was reading, I had the varying listed youtube music videos playing in the background. They pretty much stayed in the same vein until THIS played
Right when the final verbal showdown was happening. it was such perfect timing.