Is It Possible To Wear A Wizard Hat Backwards?
Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle were late for band practice. Not that they would really be missing anything, seeing as the first five to ten minutes of each practice was just Rainbow trying to convince the group to do some new song. Some times it was a great idea and wound up being fun, but usually Rainbow would move on to another song by the next practice. That’s why the group had made the rule of “only one new song per week” to try to keep Rainbow in check. Not that it stopped her from trying to convince the girls to ignore it.
“So that’s the basics of pegasus flight mechanics,” Sunset explained as she opened the door, “I never really studied them in depth so that's about all I can tell you.”
Twilight didn’t seem disappointed by this, though she did seem to be looking off into space longingly, “Don’t worry about it, any information you can give me is more than I could find out on my own. I just wish I could go to Equestria and study these things first hand.”
“Arrg! Why is this so hard!” Rainbow yelled, clutching her head and staring down at a very marked up piece of paper.
“So what’s the problem today?” Sunset asked no one in particular.
“The problem is that words are stupid,” complained Rainbow, her head flopping down onto the desk.
“Rainbow wants to add a rap portion to one of our songs, but she’s having a harder time of it than a rattlesnake in a three-legged race,” Applejack explained.
While Twilight tried to puzzle out exactly how a rattlesnake could partake in a three-legged race, Sunset simply nodded.
“Mind if I give it a shot?” she asked.
“Knock yourself out,” Rainbow muttered, holding out a pencil for Sunset with her face still flat against the desk.
“What song are you thinking about putting this in?” Sunset asked, taking the pencil and putting it behind her ear.
“I don’t care anymore,” came the muffled response.
“Alright then. Give me a second,” Sunset closed her eyes and folded her hands in front of her chin. Not ten seconds later she nodded, “Ok, I’ve got it.
We’re gonna pony up so we can pwn you down.
Shut your face or your mouth’s gonna hit the ground.
We’re the Sonic Rainbooms. We ain’t stopping soon,
Beat your ass from morning, night, till noon.
I’m a Sunset, you’d better avert your eyes.
Not a siren, but I still can hypnotize.
Don’t make me angry, ‘cuz I’m a demon.
Think you’re gonna beat me? Ya must be dreamin’.
Don’t worry, we’ll try not to steal the show.
No promises though, so why don’t ya just go?
So now you know, I lay down a sick flow.
Let’s hear some shred. Kick it Rainbow!
With her hand still raised up in the air to punctuate the last line, Sunset looked at Rainbow and said, “And that’s when you launch into the guitar solo.”
The room was dead silent for an uncomfortably long time. Just as Sunset was about to call for help, fearing that she had somehow broken her human friends, Rainbow spoke up.
“Teach me your ways!” She yelled, throwing herself at Sunset’s feet.
“Sunset, darling,” Rarity began, “How exactly did you do that?”
“Well I’ve had a lot of practice,” Sunset shrugged, removing the relentless Rainbow Dash from her leg.
“When? I’ve never seen you rap before,” Pinkie Pie chimed in.
“Back in Equestria,” Sunset stated.
“Wait, so are you telling me that ponies, those cute, colorful little things we saw through the portals during The Friendship Games, have rap battles?” asked Rainbow Dash.
“No… Well, yes… Kind of?” Sunset looked around the room finding only faces that wanted more explanation. Rainbow Dash looked incredulous, though Sunset doubted Dash knew what that word meant. Pinkie Pie was hopping up and down with a smile that said ‘storytime’. Twilight had taken out a notebook and a pen. Even Fluttershy had an expectant glimmer in her eye.
With a sigh, Sunset began her explanation, “Ok, so as you all should remember me telling you, I was born a unicorn. Back in Equestria, unicorns can learn magic, from basic things like levitation to super advanced stuff like moving the sun. All spells have a few similar components though. There’s gathering the energy needed, focusing your mind and will, and an incantation.
“That last part is what’s important. You see, to help shape the magical energy into the proper spell a rhyming incantation is used. Eventually you can shape the spell without it, but when learning a spell or in an environment where you can’t focus it’s common to mentally recite the incantation. So you need to memorize a lot of rhyming phrases if you want to learn a lot of spells. Then, once you reach a certain point, you start making up your own spells, sometimes in the heat of the moment.
“I’m not sure I told any of you this, but I was quite the prodigy. Learning magic was my life. I’ve probably studies hundreds of rhyming pairs and I had a lot of practice making my own incantations. Meaning I’ve, in a way, rapped before.”
“So every unicorn in Equestria is a rap god?” Rainbow asked.
“No, not every unicorn. In fact most aren’t. Only a handful of us learn more than a dozen spells, most ponies just don’t need that many,” Sunset said, “If you want to see what a real wizard can do, ask Princess Twilight next time she’s over. I’m a bit rusty, but she’s using this stuff everyday.”
“Oh my gosh! I just realized something!” Pinkie Pie yelled, “If a unicorn is rapping when they’re casting a spell, than two unicorns having a magic battle are actually having a rap battle!”
“Actually you’re more right than you think,” Sunset smiled, “You know how I said that when you can’t focus you recite the incantation? Well it’s pretty hard to focus when you’re getting shot at. Add in how you sometimes have to change up your spell so that your opponent can’t counter it, and a magic duel comes amazingly close to a silent rap battle.”
“Are you speaking from experience?” asked Fluttershy, “Does that mean you’ve been shot at before?!”
“Relax, Fluttershy. I’m still here, aren’t I?” Sunset hugged the worried girl.
“I can’t believe it,” muttered Rainbow Dash, “Ponies are more gangster than I am.”
Meanwhile in Equestria, Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship and Element of Magic, looked up from where she lay, curled up around a book in her bed, and asked, “Why do I have the sudden urge to say ‘Thug Life’?”
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In your long description, you accidentally typed "Equestira".
I like it. The idea of rhyming having power is always fun.
So if Hodor or Groot were capable of using magic, would they be incapable of using this rhyming method, or able to think literally anything they wanted and make it a spell?
Maybe use that one language from Doctor Who.
Head-canon, accepted, complete with cannons!
Okay. This does not touch my headcanon at all, but was nonetheless a funny read. It aspired to be nothing more than a comedic exploration of unicorn magic, and did so perfectly.
upvote and fave.
Would you be offended if I were to describe my view on how magic is recorded? Might give you an idea (or eight) for new funny stories?
That was a good story also after Twilight fixed Starswirls spell it did rhymed to
7144341 Doesn't that make for a poor first impression. Fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.
7144766 Feel free to share your ideas on how MLP magic works, even if they do rebuke my own. Though I warn you, posting them implies consent to me turning them into stories. Ideas will receive proper credit of course. If you're the more secretive type, feel free to PM them to me.
-Calm
All opinons are welcome, even if they're wrong.
-Insane
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It seemed to me that you were interested in world building and would enjoy dissecting ideas presented to you. And then making a Frankenstein's Monster out of the organs of various ideas. I know that I enjoy doing that.
There are nine forms of spell notation. Each form is suited for a different style of thought (ie, good at math or music or language). Any spell can be written in any form, but the difficulty of the spell can vary if using a bad form (emotion manipulation is easy with music notation, difficult with math notation.) With rhyming, a spell that is written in linguistic format would be easier to memorize if it was a poem or song, and so having it rhyme is useful.
Example: 9 forms of basic Levitation in the nine elements/forms of magic.
Metal: looks like a physics formula. It is using magic to subtly mess with gravity. Effectively a gravity spell
Earth: Mentally repeating a word like lift, rise, up. Earth magic translates the desired word into magic effect, more advanced magic uses words and rhymes
Plant: humming/imagining a single note of music. The magic takes it from there (more advanced spells have more music notes. Cadence routinely preforms entire symphonies in her head to cast her love spells)
Water: precisely make a mental diagram of the desired path of motion, including force vector arrows.
Fire: mentally command/order it to move to a specific point.
Air: Makes the air exert force. done with basic thinking processes.
Light: create a mental pattern where regular physics is overlapped with the desired set of hypothetical physics, changing how light interacts with matter to allow the light to exert a macroscopic force in the desired direction
Shadow: reach through parallel dimensions to select a dimension where the levitation is actually the object sitting on a surface that is the desired altitude and orientation. link the native object to its parallel reality version and make it mirror the desired location.
Spirit: Imagine the object floating. The magic proceeds to transform the surrounding area into a 'soft zone' between the physical world and the spirit world. In the spirit world selected, pure will then lifts the object.
Now I'm thinking Zecora rhymes all the time to keep herself limber for a magical rap battle.
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Considering your story was more than pretty decent, I figured you'd want to correct that. When I see stories with a typo or ten in their titles, descriptions, and chapter names, it makes me cringe. The fact that it was the only typo that jumped out at me for the whole story, I was impressed. Proofreading is a lost art...
Interesting I wonder if you could expand this with a sequel having a Magic duel between Starswirl and some great dark Wizard. It would be awesome plus you could make the cover art be a thug Starswirl. You could call it Straight Out of Clopton.
Thug love, Twi. Thug love.
What about whenever ponies randomly burst into song? Or are spontaneous choreographed musical numbers completely unrelated?
7147121 I always assumed that was the Magic of Harmony or something. Have you ever seen two rappers make the same rap at the same time? I'm assuming the answer is no.
7146649 The problem with a written rap battle is that it turns into a poetry slam. While still cool, poetry slams are not rap battles. If I, or any one else, could assemble a team to turn it into a video, I would totally do something like that.
7145424 That... That's a wall of text. I feel like you only barely scratched the surface with it too. I see you took the Chinese and Greek elemental systems and fused them with a third thing that I'm not sure of. Overall that's a cool idea with one thing preventing me from adding it to my head-canon, lack of proof. I can't argue for or against it based purely on the TV show and movies. There very well may be a comic that touches on it, but I'm haven't read all those yet. That being said, I'm totally going to keep an eye out for anything like that in the future.
-Calm
Simultaneous rapping is hard. Poetry slams are awesome. Calm overdoes it on logic.
-Insane
Awesome story. Just hilarious!
7147391 Awesome
That episode was a mess, wasn't it? Starswirl's spell just doesn't really fit in. The rhyme idea kinda works, I guess, except for its complete and glaring absence in every other magical event on the show. Including while Twilight was practicing new spells, like the apple-to-orange transformation spell in Too Many Pinkie Pies. Special talent or not, she was struggling with that spell-- wouldn't she want to use the rhyme for that?
I'm going to just pretend that Starswirl's spell was actually in some kind of abstract spell notation, and the poem is Hollywood shorthand for the lengthy and rather dull process of actually deciphering the technical details.
By analogy, a programmer tasked with completing someone else's unfinished (and poorly commented) work, trying to figure out what it does in the first place, might spend hours just scrolling through code, pulling up references, and so on. But when they make a movie about it, they show him typing furiously and speaking in sentence fragments for about 30 seconds, while gibberish flashes on the screen.
So what actually happened (I imagine) is that Twilight read through all of Starswirl's notes-- that whole book, possibly-- then grabbed some scratch paper and mapped out the procedure. Once she had figured out how the components of the spell would interact and where the magic would go, she cast the spell a few times, slowly, trying to figure out exactly what it was doing. But it didn't seem to do anything. She looked through her notes again, tried a few minor variations, but no matter what she did, the spell just didn't seem to do anything at all. So she gave up in frustration, put the spell away, and resolved to start fresh in the morning.
Because the alternative is that Twilight Sparkle, given access to a previously unknown historical record, a lost spell from the most important conjurer of the pre-classical era, read two lines and then put it away so she could go to bed.
And suddenly I'm picturing Twilight spitting verses faster than Eminem in 'Rap god'... It's an interesting thing to see.
*Edit*
I forgot to mention that, in my head, she's chain casting during said rap.
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7150351 I totally agree, Twilight was very out of character for large portions of that episode. But that's the thing, Twilight is a character in a TV show. I'm very 'by-the-book' when it comes to how things happened in a TV show, movie, or book. Now if a dimension hopping pony or, more realistically, one of the writers tell us that that's not actually how it happened, or how they wanted X to happen but it was cut because of reason Y, then their word overrides whatever is shown. I know it's kind of backwards of me, but that's how I choose to interpret these things.
-Calm
I'm calm enough to realize how ridiculous it is, but I'm insane enough to stick with it anyway.
-Insane
...So if Eminem went to Equestria, and was turned into a unicorn... How powerful would he be?
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I head cannoned that it wasnt a (unicorn) spell at all, but rather a self target and operation code for the elements themselves.
Which would also explain sunset "not being ready" when she was Celestia's student, in her state at the time the elements even if available may have seen her as a problem to be solved rather than an alicorn to be made.
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Well you, my good sir, have just started a war.
I read through your rap. I found it quite the bore.
I find myself wondering just where the beat is,
Doesn't matter though, you'll still be defeated.
Keep your hands off my s**t, stop your silly hissy fit.
Your quite the nitwit, please tone it down a bit.
I'm Insane, bring the pain, a weather team, I make it rain.
Also Calm, won't be long, droppin' rhymes throughout my song.
Don't be thinking you're a star, all you do is drop the bar.
I'm ahead of you so far. Keep your hands inside the car.
I'll beat you with your belt, why don't you tell me how it felt?
Hunt you down. Hollow round. Gone before you hit the ground.
Rap spittin' all the day. Why you coming out to play?
Keep your awful raps away or Calm/ Insane will make you pay.
Also thanks for pointing out those mistakes. I was hoping that with how many people had read it there weren't any, but you have a keener eye than most.
I'm going to read this one later, but couldn't help but comment on this:
That has got to be one of the single greatest chapter titles I have ever seen.
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To me, chapter titles are just as important as the title of the story itself. So thank you for the complement.
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Meanwhile inside my mind:
Oh man, oh no! Calm what we gunn'a do?
This guy's making us look worse than Scrappy-fricken-Doo
-Insane
Insane, relax. I've got this in the bag.
You know I never bluff, but I also never brag.
-Calm
You're a bit like a satellite, going a whole lot of nowhere,
Hanging around something bigger so that someone knows you're there.
I keep Calm and carry on. In the royal sort of way,
Such a shame it's something a sad sack like you can't say.
Kinetic bombardment? Please, I doubt you even lift.
And schizophrenia? No, this is what you call a gift
I got twice the thoughts in my dual-core mind.
Leaving weak rappers behind.
You should go get back in line.
Less you step out to resign?
Let me give you some space, a thousand three hundred light years.
That's how long it takes for your raps to reach my ears.
I don't know how they came up with your constellation,
But it had to be something to do with what they were taking.
My time is valuable. I do work, nearly get to front pages.
Keep your poor prose away cuz it might contagious.
Don't make me call Luna. She'll put you in your place.
Unruly, underwhelming constillations get erased.
If I didn't want the space used, I wouldn't have responded. Though if I respond again it'll probably be by PM.
Edit: I had to run off to work and forgot to mention that, yes, this is all in good fun. I'm rather amazed that this is happening and it is super cool.
...rap battles in the comments. Well, I can't rap but now I wonder if you can wear a wizard hat backward... does the Hogwarts sorting hat count?
You can, but it's impossible to tell the difference.
Oh, wow, that had me laughing. That's just a hilarious idea. I can really only say that this story is exactly what it says on the tin, and it's great.
Oh, this really explains so much. No wonder they start spontaneously singing all over the place. A good third of them are doing it all the time anyway.
You know, I'd really get a kick out of a sequel to this. Twilight Gangsta and the Elements of Thuggery.
this was a lot of fun to read. you made some great points and fantastic connections. I liked the rap, which is more than I can say for most "rap" type
words that rhyme awkwardly and arhythmicallythings I've read in stories.I'm somewhat curious about why Sunset and Twilight were late to practice though since neither character seems like they would be late to things without worrying. I did enjoy the broadness of the scene-building to give a general explanation without feeling overbearing.
Proofreading is an art, but aside from the previously mentioned things, I thought you did very well with editing and proper punctuation - impressively so with regards to proper quotations and commas (I admittedly have both an overabundance and a penchant to drop commas). I'd read a sequel
and it's 'straight from the horse's mouth'
7162869 Why is it that every time someone complements my proofreading skills/ proofreader, they then go on to point out something I did wrong? Does that seem odd to anyone else?
I do know what you mean though, so many good stories have lost my attention because of basic grammar mistakes.
I had originally tried to work in that Twilight and Sunset were late because they stayed after class to talk with a teacher, but I couldn't make it fit with the feel and flow of the story. So I dropped it. A reader can make up their own reason for why they are late without too much issue.
-Calm
Stop being hypocrites.
-Insane
7163055 People point out grammatical mistakes because they care enough about the story to want it to make it better, especially in ways that don't actually contradict the vision of the author. If they dislike the story, they won't bother. Think of it as a compliment.
7163462 Right, I keep forgetting I need to use emojis as text doesn't convey tone. That was a poor attempt at observational humor. Sorry for the confusion.
7163482 No problem. I've seen other authors complain about the constant stream of minor criticisms that they're getting being heavily demoralizing, so I just wanted to be sure.
Perfect!! XD
That last line did me in. Great story, very creative.
I have a thug life shirt with a unicorn on it.
I feel these are necessary to post:
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Quite enjoyable, this story.
Edit; This is relevant to the rap battle that happened in the comments:
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Exactly.
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Mahow
You should probably re-tag this since EQG has its own tags now
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If you don’t turn me back the f*** around I’ll place you in Hagrid’s House!
“Which one is that?”
The literal one. Or Mr. Potter can introduce you to our dorms under the stairs.
“That one!”
SWINE ASS!