Domination of Equestria - T+213 days.
Fall of the Crystal Empire - 23:44
“Where’s Shining you bastard!? Where’s my husband!? Let me see him! If you’ve hurt him, I’ll, I’ll!”
“Locked in your own dungeons. I have no uses for him, he will be executed in the morning.”
“What!? Executed!? No no no...nonononononononononono-”
“Oh be quiet you hysterical mare. You lost this war seven months ago, you should have been prepared for this.”
“I won’t let you get away with this! Do you hear me I will not let you get away with it!”
“My dear you are singularly unable to stop me, like dear little Rainbow Dash who uttered those words before you not a few scant hours ago. There is nothing you can do. Your armies lie shattered and broken, your heroes are dead or incarcerated and your very own power over the heart is now mine to command. You're less than the Pegasus you were before your ascension Princess.”
“No. No. Please, please no! You can't do this. Please don't do this! He's my husband, my heart will break. I can't live without him. I won't live without him.”
“Princess that is precisely why you must live. Killing you with your husband would be too easy. No, in order to shatter your power truly I must shatter your heart.”
“You're a monster! I didn't really believe it, I thought the reports were exaggerated. You truly have no compassion, you are incapable of love.”
“Of course I am. Love is a binding attachment which I cannot afford. Becoming too attached to any one pony leaves me open to being exploited. Much as I have exploited you on this very field of battle.”
“You’re sick! You’re sick in the head! You’re sick in the heart! Your soul is rotten through!”
“You’d be surprised how often I hear that.”
“Hardly, it’s obvious to anyone who meets you! It seeps from the very fibers of your being. Your sickness poisons the air around you.”
“You flatter me.”
“Gurlp! Bleh!”
“Oh dear, Princess, you look quite ill. Don’t go making yourself so unwell you can’t bear witness to tomorrow’s execution. It’s going to be most spectacular.”
“Please, let me see him, just one last time. If there’s any shred of goodness in your heart, in any part of your being, please, just let me see him!”
“Dear me no! Giving the condemned stallion succour in the final hour? What were you planning to do, have him sire your child in the darkness of his cell so you have something to remember him by? Hah! If that’s your plan I might just let you! The security camera footage will be worth its weight in gold!”
“Bastard! As if I’d give you the satisfaction!”
“No? That’s a real shame. Well, once you see your husband perish tomorrow you may well change your tune. Your Aunt did after all.”
Overlord Rule No:14 The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request.
Well that is pretty darn Evil with a capital E.
DOWN WITH SHINY ASS! There is a REASON his name is SHINING Armor, even IF there are stories where he's actually up in the front lines.
6511717 No it's...well yes it is, but that's exactly what to do when facing a foe that controls love: break their heart.
6511719 I agree fully.
Yeah, I see what you tried there, Cady. You ain't pulling that Love Bomb shite again.
6511746 That can backfire pretty badly though, even with a mind control spell on standby. One of Nom_deCheval's stories has another world where Cadance was rejected by her first love and turned evil. That world got seriously messed up by her.
I have to admit, the more I am reading this story, the more I am beginning to dislike the Tyrant. Not that I will stop reading.
I was concerned about this when I first saw this fic, and said so. The Evil Overlord List is pretty damn funny when the rules are being applied hypothetically to vague half formed blobs in the imagination. Not so much when they are happening to fully realised characters I like. These are getting a bit too much dark and not enough comedy for my taste.
This chapter isn't in the least bit amusing. At all.
This fic needs a serious injection of funny, and fast.
6512036 I imagine the funny rules get funny stories, the practical rules get serious stories.
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Nice to see some seriousness with all the silliness.
It makes the Evil Overlord a serious dude.
Now we just need an invasion from space with aliens and Michael Bay blowing things up for no good reason.
6511974 You bring a very good point.
The Evil Overlord not only has to watch out for heroic figures trying to overthrow him for the best of reasons; but also ambiguous individuals who wish to defeat him for the sake of revenge, greed, envy, wrath, discord and more.
There is really no one he can trust, no one he can rely on, and no one he can love without risking his own safety.
For anyone who is wrapped enough to be okay with what he is doing is not likely to follow his example and take the power him or herself.
Then once that happens or while it happens there would/will be an opening for the heroes to strike and restore peace to the realm and beyond.
And then they all live happy ever after. (except for the villains)
The End. (Hopefully)
~Leonzilla
6511974 Yup, in a world where emotional based magic and ascension is a thing executing the demigoddess of love's true love in front of her is decidedly unlikely to be a good idea. It is entirely likely that either her love magic will super charge letting her rescue him, and do considerable damage in the process, or that seeing his execution will cause her to suffer a dark ascension resulting in the Overlord having an insane goddess who really hates him to deal with.
Better to just kill Shining Armor and Cadence at the first opportunity and if you really must break them present the survivor with the preserved head and cutie mark of the one you got first, or if you are feeling really vindictive have them taxidermied and give them to the survivor
6511762 Funny, I would think they already tried that by that point.
Wonder how our evildoer got around that one?
~Leonzilla
Lol!
Not giving the pleasure, he is reaching anothe rlevel of EVIl
Actually this came to my mind, wouldn't be more evil to let Candance to concieve a child, and kill the baby before he or she see the light of day? or take it away from candance and kill him or her in front of her?
6512807 The point of this isn't to be as evil as possible. It's to as practical as possible.
6512507 Yeah but he already dealt with Luna and Celestia together. One Cadance, even if evil, may do some damage but ultimately won't stop him, unless he lets the transformation and sudden attack take him by surprise.
6512507
As hinted in other chapters already, the Ooverlord has an incomplete method of magical core extraction that The Alicorn sisters used on themselves for the Twilight vs Tirek fight.
By shattering Cadance's heart while her magic is extracted yet her cutie mark remains, the Overlord is rendering Cadence incompatible to her own magical affinity to inflict PTSD and CMFIS.
Imagine how desperate Cadence will be for any love, even false love.
The Evil Overlord and the show proper do agree on one thing... that Shining Armor is indeed useless.
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Hey. I'll have you know that he took the gold medal in the Wife Tossing event during the Equestrian Games.
Can we PLEASE at least get some indication that the Overlord is going to fail? Every time I start to enjoy this story I get hit by chapters like these and it makes me sad all over again.
6514833 I think that is the point that by following these rules he won't be beat. It is (in my opinion) a nice change from the friendship always wins bull crap, in a Game of Thrones-y kind of way.
No. The hero is not entitled to anything. Woe to the losers after all. I don't get the last requests or words thing.
6516106 It's moreso to the fact that the overlord shouldn't give the condemned the chance to distract the overlord so that a daring rescue could happen
Yeah, as a guy whose made several of these mistakes while playing the bad guy in video games, I see the necessity of this one, but it still bugs me.
I wonder how he'll deal with the Changelings.
6519088 "Ooh, bug ponies. do what I say or I will annihilate your entire hive."
"hey chrysalis, come here." *shoots in the head* *takes control of the hivemind* *?????* *profit*
6514833 no
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~!!!!!!!!!!
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So that's what he meant with that last comment......Oh, wait, that's what he meant with that last comment. *Chills Intensify*
6512807 It's that kind of thinking that got Wilhuff Tarkin killed.
What happened to "Overlord Rule No:4 Shooting is not too good for my enemies."?
7553065 What about it? It states that you shouldn't feel bad about shooting your enemies whenever and wherever. It does not dismiss any post-war gloating, victory speeches and/or paying back Sylvanas if she really deserves it. Who knows, maybe he was thinking about using Candy Ass some way once she broke, like he did Celly. Which, of course, meant that she needed to break first.
Refer to Rule 6. It's not okay to gloat at your enemies misfortune before the killing blow, but it is more than okay afterwards. The kingdom was probably filled to the brim with crossbow-wielding minions that were most likely being regularly tested for Stormtrooper Aim, including several dozen training their Aimbot-Spell-Enchanted weapons at Shining's dick a few inches away from him. It wasn't like they were doing anything else anyway.
A little confusing. Celestia had no lover. Unless he killed Luna after marrying her, which seems unlikely as it would damage his claim to the throne and more importantly it would mean no one to foist the paperwork onto. Unless he means that Celestia was having an affair with Shining Armor...
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Celestia?
Cadence.
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He is talking to Cadence about her aunt changing her mind, right? Logically he means either Celestia or Luna. He is married to Luna and already has her in his pocket/pants/whatever.