For a second i thought it might have been a changeling or something, but then that last line...
Maybe Rarity didn't actually descend to such levels willingly, but instead had her mind broken by some human. (That didn't sound as terrible in my head). Is that even better than the alternative of her doing it with free will?
Well I already broke my silence once, ain't hurting any sort of reputation or what not by talking some more.
Kinda like Hanif Shakiba, when I first read it my thoughts were 'nah, too easy dude, you're not fooling anyone. Total changeling material: bug eyed, bug butt, bug brained, bootleg- Rarity.' Then I got to the end thinking '...huh, that's a lot more interesting, so what gives?' Ah Rares, how great thou art... evil conniving horrendous pony. What can I say, it got me curious about the 'lets make a deal' corporate Rarity.
And thus begins there question, “Actually, what is Queen holier-than-thou and her creepy cockroach cohorts up to?”
9245612 9244726 I can go ahead and tell you guys changelings are one of the few characters not anywhere in the story to date. As to what would drive a pony like Rarity to do stuff like this, we'll spend the next act finding out.
Well this is depressing. On the surface, it would appear Rarity has gone native, even enslaving other ponies, even ones she knew personally.
However, there's a hope spot in that we don't know the particulars of how truly 'free' free ponies are legally. It's possible that, being a pony herself, Rarity can't legally free others, even ones she owns, so the best she can do is to buy up those she can, and the things like tracking collars are to keep them safe from humans who would still see them as nothing but slaves.
The downside is that the laws around pony slaves seems like something Twilight would have looked up long ago to try and get out of her own situation, though it's possible she's just bern broken enough that she's never thought about it...
9245626 Aye, dude. The cynic in me says that even in a world with a population of seven and a half billion humans, changelings would still just be scraping by on metaphorical Cheetos dust if they fed on Agape/Storge.
But on the note of the next act, is that short story "Just Business" still essentially canon until otherwise noted? Just curious (pretty good read, by the way).
9246471 Yeah, I probably would just to keep it obvious so no one stumbles onto that first in Pastebin. And again, good job, dude. It was a good read and did add a fair bit to some of the later dialogue in 'Staying out of Trouble's arc.
oh snap
For a second i thought it might have been a changeling or something, but then that last line...
Maybe Rarity didn't actually descend to such levels willingly, but instead had her mind broken by some human. (That didn't sound as terrible in my head). Is that even better than the alternative of her doing it with free will?
Just wow
Well I already broke my silence once, ain't hurting any sort of reputation or what not by talking some more.
Kinda like Hanif Shakiba, when I first read it my thoughts were 'nah, too easy dude, you're not fooling anyone. Total changeling material: bug eyed, bug butt, bug brained, bootleg- Rarity.' Then I got to the end thinking '...huh, that's a lot more interesting, so what gives?' Ah Rares, how great thou art... evil conniving horrendous pony. What can I say, it got me curious about the 'lets make a deal' corporate Rarity.
And thus begins there question, “Actually, what is Queen holier-than-thou and her creepy cockroach cohorts up to?”
9245612
9244726
I can go ahead and tell you guys changelings are one of the few characters not anywhere in the story to date. As to what would drive a pony like Rarity to do stuff like this, we'll spend the next act finding out.
Well this is depressing. On the surface, it would appear Rarity has gone native, even enslaving other ponies, even ones she knew personally.
However, there's a hope spot in that we don't know the particulars of how truly 'free' free ponies are legally. It's possible that, being a pony herself, Rarity can't legally free others, even ones she owns, so the best she can do is to buy up those she can, and the things like tracking collars are to keep them safe from humans who would still see them as nothing but slaves.
The downside is that the laws around pony slaves seems like something Twilight would have looked up long ago to try and get out of her own situation, though it's possible she's just bern broken enough that she's never thought about it...
9245626
Aye, dude. The cynic in me says that even in a world with a population of seven and a half billion humans, changelings would still just be scraping by on metaphorical Cheetos dust if they fed on Agape/Storge.
But on the note of the next act, is that short story "Just Business" still essentially canon until otherwise noted? Just curious (pretty good read, by the way).
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'Just Business' Is canon and a mild spoiler at this point in the story. Maybe I should mark it as a side story.
9246471
Yeah, I probably would just to keep it obvious so no one stumbles onto that first in Pastebin. And again, good job, dude. It was a good read and did add a fair bit to some of the later dialogue in 'Staying out of Trouble's arc.
Cats pajamas is what this is.
Rarity runs a sex dungeon. Oh god.