The final part of the Unity Pact Saga. Be prepared for love, life... and conflict. Old enemies will return and new enemies will test the mettle of our heroes in New Humansville and abroad. The Natural Magic of the world has not finished its plan yet.
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6895115 Fixed thanks! I have no idea what that video means though.
6895196 soft smile: im glad morning mist found her redemption i had a feeling this would happen wasnt sure you were going to do this but im glad you did but i think we all know who this human is huh i hope she ends up in his herd
Something on this site is really doing you an injustice. Caught this chapter, awesome one by the way, but I found that there where three chapters I missed since it only appeared in my feed and not on my tracking updates.
6896736 Yeah, that's been happening since Part 2.
I'm not sure if this is Chekov's gun or just sastisfying reader's curiosity.
6896932 That's a good question isn't it.
So does anyone know what is causing the issue with this story and notifications? I never get notified when a new chapter is up and it was like that for the last story as well. I find this incredibly odd.
I'll eventually get to reading this. Until then, my reaction (again) when I realized I had missed this on publish date.
The binge reading shall be glorious!
Trying to find mention of the two characters Ashley and Beacon anywhere. Did they leave?
6908876 They did actually. They're mentioned by Andrew in the same chapter where he mentions Razor's Mom.
Now THIS was the chapter I've been waiting for. I'm all misty eyed.
They spoke of many things and thought he sometimes asked he.......I think though is what you meant.
http://verbalabusejournals.com/about-abuse/brainwashing-and-domestic-abuse/brainwashing-steps/
Let me just cross over things which are not present in this chapter...
1. Isolation
2. Monopolization of Perception
3. Induced Debility & Exhaustion
4. Threats
5. Occasional Indulgences
6. Demonstrating “Omnipotence”
7. Enforcing Trivial Demands8. Degradation
This is horrible, it is full frontal personality re-writing, also look how people 'helping her' slowly herd her to denounce her old name and identity. I do not really consider this redemption, it is just breaking and remolding of personality.
She was broken, reduced to infantile receptive state, bombarded with thoughts which are not her own, isolated broken and then tossed in lifeline, only thing that can keep the pain and abuse away who slowly talked her to proper ways of thinking. Then made her know he will "always be watching" and even handed her amulet to provide audio enforcement "for her comfort."
There is no other word for this, this is brainwashing, pure and simple. (But do not worry it was for her own good, and good for everyone else too! So it is all good.)
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I can't say that it wasn't a positive and merciful thing to do though, given the situation.
All this really did was make it easier for her to be the better person she herself wanted to be... from the moment immediately following her epiphany as Chris finished beating the ever-loving ponyfeathers out of her.
Without some mental conditioning, she most likely would have either killed herself, or her being miserable could have come full circle and lead her to go off killing again because of everything she had been forced to face.
And keep in mind, most every military ~US military branches included~ on the planet DO employ a substantial number of brainwashing techniques to "break down" their recruits and build them back up to withstand and provide the best chance for survival in combat situations.
Mental health facilities also use a light form of brainwashing to help their... unsound... patients.
Sometimes, brainwashing is actually a force for good. Not unlike blood magic, it's simply easily misused.
That said, I don't feel this was in any way a misuse of the practice.
It very well might have saved lives (at the very least, Midnight/Morning's life was saved by it*), and it did so all while bettering the life of the person it was focused on.
Footnote:
*Just look at Beacon. He was forced to face harming someone else who didn't deserve it, but he WAS initially convinced that he was under orders. And even though deep down he knew it was wrong, he had 49 others who he trusted implicitly to be good ponies all providing peer pressure to the whole group, keeping a circle of pack mentality up to re-enforce the misguided thought that it was the right thing to do. MANY good people have been mislead in this way.
And Beacon was suicidal because of this, even after he was forgiven.
Now consider that Morning wasn't just mislead, but flat-out indoctrinated into a cultist society from early childhood.
And she wasn't just responsible for a handful of deaths, she was responsible for HUNDREDS of deaths.
Every unicorn she helped bleed to death, every person she helped kill over DECADES.
Without some mental reconditioning to put her on the right path, she was going to kill herself at best, or go mad and run off to kill countless others, or go off to create another cultist society at worst.
This whole passage could use some re-wording.
First it refers to Morning Mist as her bloodmage name Midnight Haze.
Then it goes on to have Morning talking, clear her throat, and then she introduces herself to Catalyst... AS Catalyst.
Re-read the underlined part in the quote.
That part says that the speaker is Morning (or rather, "Midnight", the name associated with her bitter and hateful self that she's wholeheartedly renounced).
Then, after the underlined part, it says "She cleared her throat ...", indicating that it's still Morning talking.
Morning then offers her hoof to Catalyst and says "I... don't believe we were ever... properly introduced. I'm Catalyst," to Catalyst.
I think what you meant to say was something along the lines of either:
Or...
Not exactly a typo per se, but still... I hope this helped!
'He' told me that nopony knows my face because most never saw me. They only knew me by my old name. I'm not her anymore. I'm Morning Mist,' she cracked a small smile, 'And I have an appointment. He was right, there's nopony here yelling at me. There's nopony to tell me I'm not good enough.'
start at 32:39
Correction: It's
Query: Has no one else pointed that out?
9756399 Not that I'm aware.
The Klingons have a saying: “You can never tell the true worth of a man until he tries to kill you, and you him. Only after that, can there be room for friendship to grow.”
Youtube Fireflight - Unbreakable (Official Video) on the Official Artist Channel
(one of my pet peeves is that reposters gets the views, and not the actual artist.)
(edit: and vid's often getting deleted when reposted, so it's best to try for the Official Artist Channel videos if possible)
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Ahh, I see.
If you say, "I ran into an !@@&[)÷ today." Then it just means you ran into one.
But, if you are saying, "I've run into nothing but !@@&[)÷@ all day!" Then it's like you are saying you are the only sane person around. When in fact, you are the only crazy person.
Or in this example, the only !@@&[)÷ causing problems is you.
And you end up worse than all the ones you are "seeing".
So, in relevance to the story: Morning Mist, after encountering one "a**hole" of a unicorn, starts "seeing" every unicorn around her, all day as being just like him. When in reality she had just become the thing she hated. And then she became worse.
That's the reason for the video.
11275573 Ah, you mean stereotyping like how 3rd wave feminists thinks all men are rapists. Gotcha.
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I fixed some things with this chapter. I hope you find this more palatable.