What role does the royal nephew Prince Blueblood actually play in Equestrian society? As one who may accede to the title, I could be on the verge of finding out...
You know, something tells me Celestia was bullsh*tting about that supposed spell Sombra and Blueblood supposedly cast on them. Yes, it's a neat explanation, but that's part of what makes me doubt it. It's too simple. Too neat. Too useful to protecting Luna's ego by laying the blame solely on the stallions who seduced them.
Well there was a massive time skip through out the chapter, I supposed that you didn't had anything planed during those major events anyway. But, I was hopping for some revelation or some conflict that would happen some time soon especially in relation of his family heritage and had to confront something that has nothing to do with who he is especially between Blueblood and Luna. Still it was a great chapter, I can't wait to see the next one that follows.
It means "nobility obliges," but the concept behind it, to quote the Random House Dictionary, is "the moral obligation of the rich or highborn to display honorable or charitable conduct."
By the way, Celestia didn't actually refute Blueblood's joke.
He commented about going after Twilight Sparkle; he meant it in jest, but she didn't outright say "no". Sure, he thinks he's supposed to play matchmaker, but let's not forget, this is a game Celestia has had practice with for over a thousand years now. This could be a gamble to find Blueblood a happy lifeāone not spent in her arms, or longing for her arms once he's grown too old.
I myself must be beaten down by one enemy and mustn't even approach the other while Luna...she must know nothing about the one and must listen to reason about the other.
I object that she must in fact listen to unreason in that case.
"And yet we cannot! If Sombra is indeed flitting about the edges of the Empire, his spell will latch onto our familiar energies and add them to his own! We...we can do nothing!"
Huh... an actual, causal reason for that, for once--at least from Luna's perspective. How refreshing compared to the baseline.
I'm unwisely working on three novel-length projects all at the same time--this one, The Casebook of Currycombs over on my AugieDog account, and one that knits together a bunch of non-Pony short stories that I've had published over the past few years. So individual updates will keep arriving: just at a slower pace than I'd like...
8182903 Oh, I know. I've been enjoying Currycombs, and looking forward to the Cluny novel--only read one of those shorts so far, but enjoyed it a great deal. And I have enough on my plate to be happy to take them as they come.
Still, as students of history will recall, the return of the Crystal Empire didn't become any sort of disaster whatsoever, nor did the return of Discord not many weeks later, nor the ascension of Twilight Sparkle to alicornhood as the Princess of Friendship not many weeks after that. It was a rather busy spring, one might go so far as to say.
Indeed, the season felt like it went by in half the time one would expect.
On!
On into the final act of our three-act melodrama!
Mike
What does Noblesse Oblige mean?
Hm.
Hmmm.
You know, something tells me Celestia was bullsh*tting about that supposed spell Sombra and Blueblood supposedly cast on them. Yes, it's a neat explanation, but that's part of what makes me doubt it. It's too simple. Too neat. Too useful to protecting Luna's ego by laying the blame solely on the stallions who seduced them.
Well there was a massive time skip through out the chapter, I supposed that you didn't had anything planed during those major events anyway. But, I was hopping for some revelation or some conflict that would happen some time soon especially in relation of his family heritage and had to confront something that has nothing to do with who he is especially between Blueblood and Luna. Still it was a great chapter, I can't wait to see the next one that follows.
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Literally:
It means "nobility obliges," but the concept behind it, to quote the Random House Dictionary, is "the moral obligation of the rich or highborn to display honorable or charitable conduct."
Mike
Great update. Curious to see what the future holds for 'Blueblood'.
By the way, Celestia didn't actually refute Blueblood's joke.
He commented about going after Twilight Sparkle; he meant it in jest, but she didn't outright say "no". Sure, he thinks he's supposed to play matchmaker, but let's not forget, this is a game Celestia has had practice with for over a thousand years now. This could be a gamble to find Blueblood a happy lifeāone not spent in her arms, or longing for her arms once he's grown too old.
8159256 I like your idea.
I object that she must in fact listen to unreason in that case.
Huh... an actual, causal reason for that, for once--at least from Luna's perspective. How refreshing compared to the baseline.
I'll eagerly await the final two chapters.
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Thanks for all the comments!
I'm unwisely working on three novel-length projects all at the same time--this one, The Casebook of Currycombs over on my AugieDog account, and one that knits together a bunch of non-Pony short stories that I've had published over the past few years. So individual updates will keep arriving: just at a slower pace than I'd like...
Mike
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Oh, I know. I've been enjoying Currycombs, and looking forward to the Cluny novel--only read one of those shorts so far, but enjoyed it a great deal. And I have enough on my plate to be happy to take them as they come.
Indeed, the season felt like it went by in half the time one would expect.