The war between Nature's Law and Nature's Fury is reaching its climax. I, Cadence, Goddess of Harmony, am about to do battle with the avatar of Discord's Father himself. I need to lay all the cards on the table, in case I do not return. This is story of my family, and one member of my family in particular. My Little Brother Best Friend Forever, Morning Star. The Concept of Perfection, and the Devil himself.
Cadenza's tale in the Pony POV Verse.
2017/04/29 MADE IT TO POPULAR STORIES!
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This is excellent! Well-written and engaging!
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Thanks for the praise, if it's a little generic. But thank you all the same.
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So, what happened to Magic? I mean, Magic's still around so...
Twilight is Magic's incarnation isn't she? If so, that puts a layer of poignancy to their interactions.
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Yes you are correct.
For all that this is a goddess's lament, rich in tragedy and poignancy, I can't help but be amused by the origin of bad self-insert OCs. It makes so much sense!
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Ironically, D___t was the original of the silent RPG protagonist is how I imagined him. Pandora, DIscord's sister and spirit of imagination, was the one who through her good intentions accidentally created the horror of the Mary Sue. In G1 the Golden Door led to the realm of legends, but the characters of fiction when they left their domain began to lose their fantastic traits (the genie's magic faded, Prince Charming began to lose his charm, Robinhood was losing his impossible aiming skills, etc)... Pandora tried to create a character that could enter the real world WITHOUT that happening... this being however wanted to twist EVERYTHING and EVERY STORY to be about them, period...
The last chapter just HAD to link back to something else, didn't it? UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH
Uh-huh, okay, whatever helps you sleep at night, hun.
Eh, depends on if you mean shouldn't or can't. Because one makes you a literal godmode sue.
Should ever know. Can ever know is just god to mortal condescension. And as a god you should already know RIGHT where I think you should stuff it.
Well that's one way to make sure no one beats up your pet alicorn gods.
Gah, every repeat of that word feels more and more like a racial slur. Intended or otherwise.
......I can already tell this guy's doomed.
Geez, does it have to be so painfully one sided? I almost feel sorry for the guy.
Well he was clearly a failed creation at birth, otherwise he wouldn't have developed the flaws that lead to his downfall.
You know, I can't help but feel that maybe the title of alicorn of perfection might have set the bar a little too high. Too much pressure to fill in shoes even his parents couldn't fill.
And what if he decided to prove her wrong? I thought alicorns were supposed to be immune to timeline whatchamadoingles or whatever.
U mad, bro?
Then wouldn't that fall under Morningstars domain?
1v1 me bro, put up your dukes, put 'em up!
Well, I'd argue that infinite punishment for finite crimes is unjust, but we've done this whole religion song and dance before already. I hate it being crammed into mlp, you want it in your mlp fic. Moving on.
So Rota goes to the doctor right, and she's like "Doctor, doctor! I think I need glasses!"
"How can you tell?" the doctor asks.
"I didn't see that coming!" she responds.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow
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Uh. No. This has to do with how people think Christians Worship a supreme being. And me expressing that through writing. And how people simplify what they think Christians believe.
Supreme implies one that is sitting above all on a throne like the elite or a king.
Being implies a separate singularity entity.
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And I was referring to the fact that you tied their existence to the continued existence of everything.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu
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So a god is an actual god, a concept of reality, something that actually exists a part of reality, and not some really old super-powered alien from a different universe who had set themselves up over the "primitives" with some arbitrary motifs or an old man with magic powers, or an ancient super weapon breeding replacement parts, or an collection of Super Golems of a dead civilization, or a Tulpa with delusions of grandeur to parasitically feed off their collective belief.
It's like how Madoka didn't become to embody home, she BECAME THE IDEA OF HOPE ITSELF! And had always been the idea of hope.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoNotTauntCthulhu
Seriously, he just wants to bake his cookies. He doesn't like bullies who ding-dong-ditch his house.
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It's still a way to make sure no one beats up your pet alicorn gods.
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Except that wasn't the point.
It was the question: if gods (plural) were actual gods, and not any of the above, how would they function?
AND IT'S A QUESTION I NEVER WANTED TO WRITE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!
I HATED having to quantify Celestia and Discord's relatives!!!!!!
They were supposed to be distant, mysterious, in the distant past and far in the background! They were NEVER supposed to be the focus! They weren't supposed to be the focus anymore than the Valar were the focus on Lord of the Rings! (If you don't know what those are, look it up).
But I was peer pressured into quantifying them by my editors! And things spiraled from there!!!!!
So don't go thinking this was 'I'll write this fanfic about all these fan characters of mine who will be the real stars of the show, and they'll yada yada blah blah blah'!!!!!!
Sometimes things in stories just happen!
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Did you lack vetoing power? These are your stories dude.
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It's called peer pressure. And when I argue things, I lose friends, which is what happened with the Shining Armor arc when I put my foot down and didn't want it to go on for SEVERAL MORE chapters.
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If they're willing to stop being friends over not being allowed to alter your story however they wanted then I'm sorry, they're not very good friends.