This story is a sequel to All-American Girl
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This law governs not only physics, but politics as well.
This is the story of one of those reactions, when the need to do something -- anything -- leads people astray.
Not every idealist is a hero. Not every villain is selfish. Not every cause is just . . . save in the hearts of those who fight for it.
This story is in an episodic format and takes place at various points in the timeline of AAG.
Cover image created by GIULIO.
Chapters (10)
Neat
Celestia's dialogue seems off...not sure why, but doesn't sound like her.
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Thank you for the comment.
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I admit that Celestia is not a character I know well, so it's entirely possible I got something wrong. Beta readers didn't pick up on it either though, so perhaps it's a matter of style? Either way you're right that it isn't particularly compelling dialogue and could be better. I just don't know how either.
You've caught my eye... I am curious as to how this'll turn out.
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Thank you for the feedback, sir. Hopefully you'll be getting notifications about this from tomorrow on so you'll be able to keep up.
Fascists or not, they have a lot of points. Celestia and Luna devote too much time dealing with their newfound love/sexual lives and familiar drama...to the point Cadence seems the only alicorn actually doing her job.
And don't forget Blueblood and Champagne's evil conspiracy to take over Equestria (twirl moustache)...not considering what would mean having to deal with the changelings and Nightmare by themselves.
And finally, leaving a inexperienced changeling queen in charge given the current scenario was another bad idea.
I'm actually curious as to see how the Humans adopted by Equestriani will turn out.
It's kind of the reverse of DJ's situation. In particular, the two Human children have very Equestriani names. I wonder how this will affect them in the future.
Sounds like they confuse harmony and order.
Hmm, well it's certainly loyal to its tragedy tag because damn this story was a downer. Not what I expected out of an AAG story, which tends to still leave in happy moments to counter the bad and a note of hope ringing in the end. Not sure whether I like that change. I mean, it obviously gripped me since I'm here at the last chapter, but I just feel so... down after reading this.
Then again, tragedy was never my thing.
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They do make good points about the problems, but as Namar astutely pointed out they're completely wrong about the solutions. That is a signature of fascist movements throughout history which has even been lampshaded by many of their leaders, there is a revolutionary force that promises change in a country and then they touch are an emotional nerve for the populace and then a counter revolutionary force arises which promises to fight the first force and be completely different while at the same time advocating for functionally the same things only with one big difference. In this case of the EFP/Purehooves conflict it's one of race, but otherwise their grounding for both in the Weather Underground seen in the Rarity prequel story means that they actually agree on a lot outside of that.
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Hopefully their childhood will get more light in stories written by other authors.
Heh. Heh. Yeeeeeeeeeah.
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Thank you for the comment, sir. I'm sorry it's not to your tastes, but I'm pleased to hear it got an emotional response from you. The tale of most of these characters' lives is probably not going to end well in the future, but it's entirely possible for at least some of them to survive. Though it would be assuredly be at great cost.
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The major problem with fascists is that many of their solutions involve hurting the ‘other’ and not helping ‘their kind/proper folk/etc.’
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In short, yes. Fascism brutally attacks its out-group while failing to provide for its in-group, which makes it a bad governmental system. The only places that have been able to maintain it for more than a generation are the non-expansionist Iberian nations, and they aren't exactly fascist today either.
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Your version of fascism is still so much preferable than the Purehooves.
And I loved your story and hope Shin makes the EFP a canon element to the universe. While our still happens to be a reformist pressure group with no compulsions against violence, they are pro - integration rather than racists. And last but not least : their leadership actually believes what they preach, rather than using the group as a convenient excuse to get into power.
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Well, the EFP preaches that they're the ones who should be put in charge because they're the only ones that can save Equestria, so being power hungry and sincere aren't mutually exclusive for them.
Also, this story was designed from the ground up to be canon, so you can rest easy there.
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Awesome. The Purehooves have far too much power in canon.
I somehow have not seen this story for years after I read the previous one. It would help you gave a link to this sequel in the long description of your previous story.
Also this is pretty reminiscent of the BLM/Antifa riots and considering this was published in 2018 and those happened in I think 2019-2020 I find it pretty funny that what the article of this chapter says can somewhat even if a little bit be applied to those real life riots, unless I'm wrong about the timeline and those riots happened during this story, :/