Sunset Shimmer might not mind losing her magic, but the Dazzlings definitely do.
Feeling robbed after the Battle of the Bands, the three of them retreat to the inner city part of Canterlot, where the risk of spontaneous magic cars and rainbow death-rays is hopefully a little smaller. Months later, they're still no closer to fixing the gems and getting back to business, so Aria opts to take matters into her own hands in the only way she knows how:
eBay!
...It doesn't go as planned.
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Chapters (9)
/agree so hard.
Well...That certainly happened.
A little confused, but I want to see where this goes.
That picture reminds me of an old he-man villain.
Edit:I had to Google it, they just look a bit similar, that’s all.
Other than that...well, why the heck not? I'm tracking.
0:15 Dagi's new walk cycle
I'm more partial to Rainbow Horse Jesus personally.
Hmm. Adagio is happy about that? Very interesting.
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Well, now I have a new thing I need to watch.
I have no idea where this story can possible go, but I can't wait to find out.
Well, this promises to be a fun and weird tale. And yeah, Dagi would be pleased at how Ria and Nata look - she's probably sick of being an oversized hairless monkey.
There is absolutely nothing I can say that can make this sentence any more golden. In fact, you need to reread the rest of this guy's fics just to comprehend this man's level of comedic genius. As in now you fussy plebs.
HAHAHAHA oh man love this story. Keep up the great work.
I...I don't know. I just don't.
Why can't I stop reading this?
Aria seems to drop the panic/concern at being Adagio's appendage pretty quickly, somewhere toward the beginning of this.
Of course, until it's time to go to the bathroom...
And reality ensues. Priceless.
I'm honestly surprised it took Adagio that long to realize that having other people replace your arms would be a real problem for all three involved. I guess she was really desperate for magic.
"Ray of Enfeeblement"?
Is... is this the D&D version of the monster? Is this like the webcomic Spinnerette where all the original versions of the game had to be supressed for having real occult information in them (in fact, that comic has a character who turns herself into a drider using one of those books... although that was on purpose, not accidental).
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I was thinking that with a premise like "magic book turns two people into sapient snake-arms," there wasn't much use worrying about whether or not everything made sense. As such, the book might be what amounts to an enchanted Oriental Adventures manual.
That's the first (and pretty much only) place I ever heard of the Hebi No Onna, so listing its given abilities rather than apparently making them up as I go felt more cohesive. The hypnosis ability was probably the one the artist was thinking of when they drew the cover image.
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Well, having that confirmed, the Sirens are probably misinterpreting what a "Globe of Invulnerability" does, so it's a good thing they didn't try to test it.
... Though personally I don't remember Hebi No Onna in Oriental Adventures but I think I saw one in a Ravenloft thing back in 2nd edition.
I love how cuddly Adagio is with the other two!
7029811 They need a bidet like yesterday, at any price.
Teeth-meltingly adorable, but so odd.
I wasn't the only one thinking it either?
I mean, they now have two extra tongues! That can go anywhere. And they can't get any privacy from each other... and reasonably share sensations... and can hypnotize half-eager slaves...
Edit: To put it another way, I can't stop thinking about the Power Perversion Potential.
And then there's the way that Adagio is fawning over her
sistersarms... and Sonata not caring...Most likely.
It really is.
She has a point.
This is amazing.
You two have issues.
*Evil giggle*
Sonata swearing. Unexpectedly hilarious.
Heh.
... I, can't fault her logic.
Lemon Zest. Also, yes, the famous Deus ex Vinyl Scratch.
Indeed.
Oh why not, imma do it. Ten THOUSAND YEARS will give you SUCH a crick in the neck!
Shouldn't it be Mistress?
Hm, post FG then.
Yes.
Wow, that's, kinda sad.
She's good at it.
That bad?
Sounds like it.
Capitalize.
Yes and it is absolutely great. With all of your stories being mostly chaste, this kind of change of pace feels oddly fresh.
Also, Non-shameless-Dagio.
Lemon Minion is Best Minion.
But yeah, new garments would be wise. And Lemon can afford it.
Starting?
Well, it makes sense that someone with the right type of personality would see more effects from hypnosis than others. Some kinds of mind-control aren't strong enough to make someone do anything strongly against their nature, but if their nature is to play along, then you're fine.
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Halloweentown 3 went into this as the macguffin; compulsion and mind-control spells exist, but you can't make someone do something they would never do. Naturally the macguffin is an amulet of Absolute Control.
I'm having so much fun with this. Please keep going
Neat.
I get the feeling this is gonna be fun.
Wise move.
Good point.
Fair enough.
Half tempted to make an NSFW joke.
This is hilarious.
No. Really?
Wise.
Adagio really likes overdoing it huh?
She's right.
Again, shouldn't it be Mistress?
As you wish.
OK then.
Prudedagio? That's a new one.
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It can be, but while 'Mistress' can mean 'woman in authority,' it can also mean someone who is part of an affair, which Adagio, in this interpretation, would rather not be confused with.
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Not necessarily a prude, just a little more in control of her libido than the usual depictions (even my own!).
And that's two Crystal Prep students down...
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Fair enough.
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At this point it is difficult not to take SfaCF's Adagio as the most canon Adagio there is, so even a healthy* amount of libidocontrol from Snakedagio is seen as prudism of a highest degree. You could even say, that the contrast between the two is quite dazzling.
* - not really.
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Wait, really?
If you mean that you just really enjoyed that portrayal and now pretty much default to her acting that way, I'm glad the story left such an impression on you, but for the fandom overall, she seems to get a very different characterization. In the stories where she (and usually Aria along with her) isn't just a flat, irredeemable bitch, she typically gets cast as Sunset Shimmer 2.0 (usually being second to her in every way if she's lucky, source material be damned), or some flavor of MamaDagio in my experience.
I don't quite understand the reasoning that of the three seductive sirens, only Adagio is often seen as extremely promiscuous for it.
There are plenty of exceptions, of course, but those are the vibes I get as far as the most popular versions go. Getting tired of samey interpretations is one reason I try to write the primary characters just a little different every time.
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I think the key value is a combo of
- believability
- depth based on undisputable 'what there already is'
- how well it upholds to the spirit of a source.
Where your Adagio(s) annihilates any competition.
The most popular interpretations are always the obvious and superficial ones, doesn't make them the best.
Because Sonata is tacos and Aria is a grump, while Adagio is a lead singer and "my lead". Also the highest amount of onscreen hip swings per minute.
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Hm. I guess that makes sense.
They certainly feel right to me, during the writing process.
I wish I could have this sentence coated in gold and grafted to the front page of the site. Or, at least coated in steel and swung hard enough to leave a dent in the shape of the words. Maybe super-heated and used to brand it like a cow.
Ahh, yes, how could I forget? It's the same line of thinking that Twilight (either one) might as well be named Books.
I still don't like the name 'Muffins.'
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Adagio gets type-cast as promiscuous because she spends the most time touching other people during their cafeteria song*, which doesn't really mean she's anything more than a tease (and that when feeling confident in her song magic), but some people run with it, because many writers like to have a convenient box for characters.
On a side note, I'm not a big fan of the name "Muffins" but "Derpy" and "Dinky Do" were also terrible, so I'm not upset by it either. Of the three, "Derpy" is probably the worst as an official name, so I'm just glad they didn't totally cave in to what they thought the fans wanted.
*Reactions to that have left me stuck with the head-canon that human Trixie is gay.
*Start* to get crazy?!
Pinkie finds out?!!!
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Makes sense, I guess.
I feel like 'Ditzy Doo' works as a pony name, while 'Muffins' is a really weird way to acknowledge a meme. It's not 'Muffin Monday' or 'Fresh Muffins' or even 'Stud Muffin' (which I know aren't great names either and the last would probably make more sense if she were a stallion anyway, but they at least sound pony-ish to me), just "Oh, the fans stick her with muffins to an obsessive degree? Her name is now Muffins."
It's a very small complaint, but it's like if they told us part of Celestia's name was 'Cake.'
...Which would support the theory that she was involved with the creation of Pumpkin and Pound...
Well...
You know, while this is mostly being played for laughs with their transformation, I am still incredibly disturbed by the mind control they're doing to everyone. This chapter really showcased some unpleasant implications with their power with the girl Adagio wiped the memories of. Barring removing extremely horrific memories that leave deep scars in the psyche, I find the thought of someone forcefully wiping a memory to be...horrifying.
So, in short I'm just waiting for this entire mind control phase to backfire horribly on them, either with them doing permanent harm to someone else this way with no way of fixing it or by them trying it on the wrong person and that individual being completely unaffected (could be Sunset Shimmer and company, could be some other supernatural creature, doesn't really matter) and then everything going horribly wrong.
This whole scenario isn't helped because I find the thought of going around with full mobility to being a snake arm on someone else to be a horrifying result and I'm continuously puzzled why Aria and Sonata weren't more upset by this development, powers be damned.
Still, for all the frankly disturbing and somewhat horrifying possibilities here, this has been interesting so far and it hasn't gotten too terribly dark, and I sincerely want to see what happens next.
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I can't really answer your questions without spoilers, but I will say that if you're earnestly expecting things to go dark and tragic on a light-hearted, slightly absurd comedy fic, you might be waiting a very long time.
I agree that messing with peoples' will and memories is a bit messed up, though, which is probably why it should be left to the villains. Twilight trying to use the reform spell, Cadence's argument-cancelling magic, and the Elements 'turning Luna back to good' don't count, I guess.
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I'd argue that they do count.... Sort of.
You can argue that making Nightmare Moon sane was a necessary evil or the least terrible of a bunch of bad options and/or that the Elements just 'cured' some kind of mental imbalance, like magic Thorazine. I usually lean on the latter, to avoid thinking of the protagonists as mind rapists.
Cadance's using magic to smooth over arguments still seems like a petty abuse of power, even if she argues that she just caused them to remember their feelings rather than directly controlling them.
There's a decent chance the Twilight one was meant to count, though, given that trying to use magic to fix everything even when it's not the right idea is one of Twilight's established character flaws and so is that too much stress (and what's more stressful than Discord?) can make her stop paying attention to how her plans affect others. It's important to remember that just because the protagonist does something doesn't mean the show considers it right.
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I've been pretty amazed at how relaxed about this Aria and Sonata are, too.
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On the issue of this chapter - I'm glad to see this continue, and I did enjoy the interaction between the sirens. Also, I find it amusing that all of the named servants to date are Crystal Prep students. Given that the lavatory assistant went unnamed, however, I'm going to assume she's a nameless background character rather than someone I like...such as Fleur Dis Lee.
On the issue of mind-altering magic...yeah, I can't justify the good guys doing something like that willy-nilly. Twilight considering something like that against Discord seems like a major last-case scenario, the Ultimate Plan Z - given it was Discord, that might be justified. Can't really say anything about Cadence's magic, but I prefer to think that she's reminding folks of their pre-existing love rather than doing any massive alterations. As for Luna and the Elements...oh, the ambiguities there. Was Nightmare Moon a possessed Luna? Was NMM Luna driven mad by depression and envy? Bit of both? Still justified and done to save her, but still, ambiguity.
Also, if you're taking votes, I'm against you showing the 'Bad End'.
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It might not have come across too well, but I was sort of being sarcastic with it 'not counting,' hence bringing it up at all. I don't consider bad behavior to be suddenly okay when the 'good guys' do it, but I probably could have stated that more clearly.
If Aria and Sonata's behavior doesn't make sense by the end of this story, I'm hoping it will by the end of the trilogy.
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ForSpite pretty much sums up the mind control stuff below, so I won't ramble.
Your vote has been taken into consideration! It's not exactly grim or depressing, but I'm not opposed to skipping the bad ending entirely, as it's just a stray thought of "What would happen if...? Well, pretty much this."
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Are you talking in relation to snakedagio trilogy or...? I have to say though, I do really wonder what kind of event could conclude this first part of the story as a complete entry - so far it felt like (ridiculously amusing) slice of life dazzlings everyday life in a wacky situation.
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The story following this one is something new, I think, but I'd rather not give any spoilers just yet.
7147155 I suppose I am a little disturbed by the casual slavery as well, but I do agree that mind control magic is run rampant in Equestria (there's no way you'll ever get me to agree Mi Amore "love shield" Cadanza only "reminds couples" who already love each other). Consider mine a vote in favor of showing the bad end, even though I'll probably find it disturbing.
May be a bit odd, but all that humanity that our clearly villainous trio(?) pours out, made me want to replay dungeon keeper/evil genious. Regarding Sonata's sex concern, if that will ever happen to them it most deffinitely going to be noisy.
Awww...Sonata and Lemon are bonding.
Oi...
She has a point.
I adore the dynamic the Dazzlings have.
But what?
She has a point.
And it is hilarious.
Heck if I know.
She's right.
I kinda feel bad for you, that sounds beyond boring.
Poor Lemon.
I fail to see how that's a problem, you're a fantastic author.
I feel like this is against the Evil Overlord list but I can't remember an exact rule it violates.