After the defeat of the caribou and the toppling of their empire, the citizens of Equestria try to pick up the pieces. However, the road to recovery is not as easy for some as it is for others.
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Excellent chapter. I think this is the best one so far in this story.
...in case people are wondering why I'm commenting so early, I got to read it before it was up.
Gonna need some editing, particularly for spelling errors. The segues were a bit weird, but overall I'm excited to hear Trixie's past. I think offering Merryweather help was a little forced, as following in from Trixie acknowledging that trusting others would be bad voodoo. Then again, I guess she had no choice. Nice implementation of her murder dilemma.
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Thank you. Don't worry about Merryweather, there is still some purpose for her. Also if you see any misspellings, feel free to either PM them to me, or simply make a comment listing them.
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Huh? Did I really miss that many?
Just how bad is the housing crisis? Did the caribou rampage that hard in Equestria? I thought that the everything was taken and then given to the males.
You did a good job on that backstory part; it had me engaged throughout .
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If you read certain stories, such as "Sun's Setting", you will find that the caribou had a very silly habit of setting fire to buildings because "vikings". Of course this trait ignores the fact that real life vikings had no intent on settling or taking over the cities they raided, but some of the writers for FoE never took that into consideration.
So, I have to assume some of the caribou just like having an excuse to burn things, and what better excuse than "a woman owned this house". To be fair, it IS an effected way of destroying everything they ever owned, and possibly demoralizing them, but it completely ignores that they are torching a perfectly good house that they could live in. So yeah, because of caribou stupidity, there is a bit of a issue when it comes to housing the women at the moment.
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Aside from some of the caribou's affinity for arson, there is also the issue that you can't just take away the houses that were given to the stallions just like that, for a number of reasons. First of all, many mares are disenfranchised and deeply traumatised, were sold and relocated across the entire country, and I wouldn't be too surprised if quite a few of them don't even know exactly where they are. (Imagine being blindfolded, put in a crate, then put on a train that goes Gods know where, then being given to a Master that tells you jack shit about where you are because he doesn't give a damn about you.) Plus, if you took away houses that were given to stallions, you'd have the same problem at hand - only this time affecting the stallions instead of the mares. You also don't want to force the mares to live under the same roof as the stallions who violated them either. The caribou didn't just destroy material properties, they also irrepairably destroyed social relations that make a working relocation of properties and resources that benefits everyone even more difficult. Not to mention the fact that they left not only the issues they caused unattended, but essentially left the entirety of material production in a terrible mess. You can see this chaos in Schorl's story Bruised Apples in their approach to agriculture, or in Twipet's story A Change of Events when it comes to logistics and administration. You also can't just "leave things to the market", among other reasons because with the stallions still holding all the property and the mares being mostly disenfranchised, this would just lead to a (at least partial) recreation of the gender division the caribou set up on an economic level. That's also just the tip of the iceberg of issues a post-Dainnist Equestria will face. Essentially, in this situation, you have no other option for the time being than a combination of wide-ranging government planning or at least intervention on the one hand and measures to get everyone equally involved in the reconstruction on the other hand (i.e. semi-forced labor for everyone), and even then, the ponies will have to experiment quite a bit to even find something that works.
Of course, these are hopefully only temporary measures. Once the country's productive and social relations are at least functioning again, Luna can of course move to a different, New Economic Policy.
While I liked Trixies story the first part of this chapter as well as parts of the last one have left a different kind of bad taste in my mouth. It feels like these characters are close to condemning anyone who was brainwashed or broken. I can understand those who willingly worked with them or submitted without a fight...but the rest not so much. Given what we know, it's hard to fight against brainwashing of the magical variety. Also different people have different limits to what they can take.
Buddy girl.... that's some nice indirect manipulation, but horrifically obvious for a rational person, which speaks to your choice in this irrational mare
If Sunset is really there to help (I doubt), she'd tell you that's enough, because even in your drained state you still held on