So remember when I was just suddenly in Equestria? Everything had gone to hell and I died from blood loss like half an hour after I got there? Yeah well, I'm alive again and in a different Equestria... and this one doesn't look too much better...
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Wait. . . Did Twilight and the rest not know what happened to Rarity? Because I doubt that Twilight would let Rarity be sent away as a slave.
Although considering this is a "grimdark" world. . . Rarity was the last of them, wasn't she?
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I'm assuming that there will be no FoE Equestrias? Both kinds of FoE.
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Fall of Equestria is highly unlikely. Fallout Equestria is a very high possibility.
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Well, hopefully now he’ll have some time to think back on what he was told before he was thrown out the cosmic door....
Nice chapter. Hopefully things manage to work themselves out in the end. I'm a person who loves his happy endings.
My opinion of Discord continues to nosedive like a lead weight thrown from an aeroplane.
Sending unprepared grunts without the most basic understanding of their equipment and abilities is just bad strategy and I cannot forgive that... and I suppose it's morally repugnant to make an untrained civilian the arbiter of the fate of whole universes just because you find them personally unsightly as well.
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I assume so, but it was never actually stated what happened to the others. The last Rarity knew of them was that they had split up and searching the town for Pinkie. Spike was the only one to go with her. So if they are still alive, then I doubt they know. But, yeah, since this is grimdark, they’re probably dead. Still a chance though.
...Assuming Salvatore doesn’t get killed first.
Hey..... hey Sal. USE YOUR NEW CHAOS POWERS!!!
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As of right now Salvatore's 'abilities' are severely restricted and he can't make any use out of them other than to activate his crystal sense. He has no way of harnessing anything and what little chaotic power he does have he can't control.
In short, he wouldn't be able to just say 'oh yeah!', snap his fingers and make everything good again. Something might develop in the future to make something like that a possibility, but right now, aside from his crystal sense, respawning, and uncontrollable ability to jump from universe to universe, and world destroying power that's securely fixed to his death, he's just a powerless human.
Think of his abilities as something like the spidey suit Stark makes for Peter Parker in Spider-Man Homecoming -- except the restrictions are impossible to hack.
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Oh! Okay. Didn't really come off like that to me. It would have been better if Sal TRIED to use his chaos powers, only to fail. That would have communicated that message much clearer. Clearly, Sal wants he and Rarity to escape, and by the rules you've set, he can do that with his chaos powers. However, you haven't yet placed rules on Sal's chaos powers yet, so, as I saw it, Sal could AT LEAST had the power to punch through the cell wall, or bend the bars. But, since he didn't;t try it, I was confused. Your explanation in your response clarified the situation, but the fact still remain the story doesn't't address the limits of Sal's powers. This, he'll need to try and fail to use his powers so that way those rules can be communicated in an organic way.
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Would be nice if you made that clear in the fic and not make Salvatore look like a moron or a guy with memory span of a gold fish.
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This is discord we're talking about, things don't have to make sense and in this case they don't need to.
No matter what happens discord wins,
Sal saves a universe, good, Sal finds and destroys the crystal which destroys the universe, good.
Sal dies and the universe gets destroyed, good.
So it doesn't matter who discord would pick, either way discord wins.
The issue i have with this whole premise is that if there are multiple Equestrias then there are multiple discords each with power to erase whole universe with a snap.
And you can't say that discord doesn't exist in these Equestrias, cause if the elements exist so does discord as he's the reason the elements were found in the first place.
You could say he's stoned atm but how would he react if his universe is destroyed.
She bludgeoned herself to death.... Assuming here, Probably banged her horn so hard that it caved into her skull.
Fuck.
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Fair enough, I did explain that there were heavy restrictions which I think would itself imply that he couldn't just use Discord's power however he wanted. Still, I went back into the first chapter and made a few things a bit more clear.
On Salvatore not at least trying to use any abilities. Remember that this is a self insert. More specifically in the sense that he acts like I (assume) I would in these situations. And if I were in his situation, I would've assumed Discord had only given me those powers he outlined specifically.
Would it have been common sense to try and use any powers he could've possibly had? Probably, but there are times when I'm lacking in the common sense department. So yeah, I'm a moron sometimes, it's a flaw and one that I'm not gonna overlook when writing Salvatore.
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I've already taken the fact that are multiple Discords into account and when the time comes, I'll deal with that issue accordingly -- or discordingly if you know what I mean.
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Got it. Thanks!
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Fair enough I suppose.
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One more small issue, if the multiverse is true in this fic, that means that there is an infinite amount of earth's with infinite amount of Sals creating infinite ammout of grimdark Equestrias.
So basically Discord set up Sal for a Sisyphean task.
You know? if salvatore would look more closely at his surroundings and imagine some things that he could do with the materials he currently conserves (he lost his glasses and in the next one he recovered them), he can use them to possibly help himself in the situation of need. If he were wearing a belt with a buckle, he could use the metal part (if it is long enough) like a ganzua when deforming it to the desired shape (many can open locks with practice and / or time). You can investigate areas that are possibly more fragile or describe the place a bit better. I do not say that it is not well described but it would not hurt a little more details ... I think I am one of the few who are given the false mentality of escapist.
To all this, there are some questions that surround my mind: can Salvatore keep objects of another reality / dimension when jumping to another? because if so, it would be interesting to see it with a fallout equestria pipbuck. if Salvatore is seriously wounded, but does not kill him but leaves him partially crippled and spends a certain time already with the wound. Will the next reality come back as new?
Dodnt discordia gave him some of his powers? Cantón he make things appear, por do some magic?
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By a similar logic though, anyone struggling to do anything is undertaking a Sisyphean task because there are always multiple universes being created where the same thing could be happening. Doesn't change that what you've said is true, but it's pointless to think about somethink like that. Though that actually does give me an idea...
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I think you misunderstood what a Sisyphean task is, just cause there are infinite version of me doing the same task doesn't mean it's a Sisyphean task, because all those versions of me will either complete the task or fail it and not do it, either way the task is over.
A Sisyphean task is like a never ending quest that you have to do over and over fore eternity, you can't complete it nor can't you quit.
In Sal case he will never save or destroy all grimdark Equestrias as there is infinite amount of them, nor can he quit as he will die sooner or later and destroys the current universe.
The only way out of this for Sal is for Discord to release him or for Sal to gain immortality.
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I did realize that I misunderstood your statement after I posted my response and came to the same conclusion. For now there's still plenty of story left to go and at this point anything is possible. It might take some time, but I'll find a way to solve the dilemma. As I said, your statement did give me an interesting idea that I'll probably put to use later.
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Unless she did a Mia from Resident Evil 7, where she banged her head so hard against the wall, she knocked herself out.
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Hopefully.
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Just because it's something Discord might do doesn't mean it's not stupid or morally reprehensible, it just makes it in-character. I am not obligated to like the character of Discord, especially not when he purports to be "totally reformed, honest!" and yet fails to learn any of the values of harmony that his friends represent.
He reminds me more of Season 2 Discord, which isn't a bad thing, but it was an inherently weaker and less likeable character than later variations of Discord. There would be the redeeming factors of watching him chew the scenery and mess with our protagonist's head but as things are he's just a distant jerk who's too self-absorbed to deal with the problem himself.
For example, after reading the first chapter I thought to myself "Discord's been spending too much time around Celestia" and after thinking about it for a while I've come to the conclusion that he's at least been taking notes. Send a normally-sedentary person out into the wider world, outside of their comfort zone, with
littleno preparation, Check; Give them insane levels of responsibility over the wellbeing of otherswhilst giving them the knowledge and equipment required to overcome the situation, Check... and at that point he probably got bored. As long as you ignore his own... twists... he's acting a lot like Celestia.8981926
Fair point, but when Celestia does it trillions upon trillions people don't die, Sal has died twice now that's two whole universes with countless lives gone, this Discord doesn't seem to care, he could just fix it all himself, but he doesn't care, he just sends random guy to do it for him or suffer nightmarish tortures and he even doesn't care if Sal succeeds as i mentioned previously win or lose Discord wins either way.
Your'e right about his character but his action do make sense, if you can't possibly lose why bother, just pick the next best loser and be done with it.
breathe
Doomedguy, you deserve everything you have coming.
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Except that he can't fail. There's only three options: he dies and destroys the universe, he finds the crystal and destroys the universe, or he fixes the grim dark universe he's in. If you're going off multiverse theory being about choices/events then at most three universes can be created and each of those created will be destroyed or fixed by Salvatore regardless of whatever other choices are made by the characters in the story. Even if other universes are spawned they'll have a Salvatore with those three options, and even if he waits till old age to die eventually those grim dark universes will perish because there'll be no room for new choices/events and so those branches will self terminate. Also, who's to say that if Discord can destroy a universe from Salvatore dying that it also doesn't destroy any/all branches off of that particular universe.
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Yes I did mention how this is a Sisyphean task, Sal can't fail but he also will never succeed, there's an infinite ammout of universes spawning at all times, and even if there were an infinite ammout of Sals were still dealing with infinity.
For the most part the author will decide how this works, so neither of our ideas could be true.
I already hinted a similar thing when I said that there are multiple instances of Discords
And for the last part if an entire branch could be destroyed don't you think Discord would destroy it already?
Just find the universe that converges all these paths and destroy it himself or send Sal there in the first place.
Seeing as that's not what happened we can assume that universes are not connected and have to be destroyed one by one.
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That was kind of my point, the crossed out and coloured sections represent the lesson Discord took from it. It's as if he's learned only that which suited him, which is why I compared him to Season 2 Discord; he's more interested in tormenting others for his amusement than anything else, which could go a long way to explaining why he's doing this at all, he must know it's a pointless and impossible task but he's making Salvatore do it anyway because it amuses him to watch as he flails about ineffectively and dies over and over again.
Personally, I think the "I'm completely reformed" thing was just a ruse and Salvatore had the terrible misfortune of getting singled out by a version of Discord who managed to take over his Equestria, which would explain why the only thing we saw from his universe was the Realm of Chaos and his My Little Pony collection, that's just what his universe looks like now that he's in charge.
As for why he sent Salvatore on this Sisyphean Task? Other than the aforementioned reason of Because It Amused Him, he didn't like the competition. Just like Discord's reaction to Fluttershy Making New Friends was to attempt to childishly one-up her, and when that didn't work to throw Tree Hugger into another dimension/universe/knitted hell. It's impossible and incredibly petty, but that just about describes Discord anyway.
oh god
Yeah, that's about all I have to say right now. I don't have enough brain power for an extended response.
Well, at least he was sent close to the problem. Could be much worse. Like appearing in the middle of the ocean, not knowing what makes this universe grimdark.