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An excellent first glimpse into this side of the running of the country. Along with further demonstrations of the outermost layers of your version of Celestia. This continues to be quite fascinating.
Ooo, awesome chapter! Twilight is learning the works.
I wonder if there some reason why the High Queen like that. Perhaps something like a curse that takes people's lives the more she values them, and harms nothing if she don't cares at all. Or she could be just evil person. That too happens from time to time.
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No man is ever truly good. No man is ever truly evil.
Okay, the High Queen might be a bit evil. We'll see.
Poor Cheerilee she should of been sentenced to a lesser prison
Really digging this one. Looking forwards to more. It’ll be interesting what we learn about Celestia and how her and Twilight’s relationship develops.
Quite a cool look at Celestia, here. I love her interactions with Twilight.
Thsts the thing. There isn't anything. Or hasnt bern for sometime. I think she needs a counter. A counter named Luna or Discord. And she wants that counter, its what Rarity is working on. I think this Celestia is ultimately self destructive. She wants a enemy to match her, to relieve her boredom. To actually do something other than to rule.
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I dont think there is a lesser prison. I also do not think Celestia cares at all about people once there sent there or if they survive or not. And I think she doesnt because she is bored. Utterly bored going by some of her actions in this story.
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Hmm she needs something to challenge her or keep her interest
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There are lesser prisons scattered through the Equestrian Empire, and Castle Canterlot has a dungeon, but if you are found guilty in the city of Canterlot, it's off to Golden Oak Prison.
Empress Celestia is very bored, and she absolutely does not care about the guilty once sentenced. The High Queen has ultimate claim over every soul in the Empire, and she will do with you whatever she desires.
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That's what Twilight is for
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True
This reads weird. Not for the first time the emotions and reactions characters exhibit don't... really seem to match the context.
Why is it ruthless again, from the pov of CC guard, working under and directly interacting with Celestia? This is not just the correct course of action, it's normal by the local standards.
Rarity is fine, this thing takes her spotlight, which is absolutely unacceptable, and so everything she does makes sense.
Twilight herself... It evened out by this chapter, but before the reactions to things seemed to be all over the place, from stone cold, calculating, with excellent emotional control and actor skills, to childlike awe and back for no discernable reason at a drop of a hat. Both make sense, but not at the same time.
And even here.
Well no, according to the context, the Law must be upheld and it's usually is pretty binary. Plus it's already expected and established that Celestia doesn't care and strives to get it over with asap, so... Why the long face? The proceedings is new, of course, but everything in them would fall entirely within expectations by now.
Celestia, taunting the the convict with 'I am your god'. Big cringe. Is she THAT insecure? It's petty more than evil, her power is self-evident, and the nation clearly doens't seem to believe her being a god anyway, regardless of the whole 'kissing the sun' thing nobility practices, so what's the point? Would there really be any satisfaction of asserting your dominance over a cockroach under your boot?
Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe this goes for 'emotion before substance', Mad Max style, but there it is.
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First of all, I appreciate the length, coherency, and constructive nature of your comment. I disagree with a great many of your points, and I'll try to explain my position with the same tact and respect as you did with your complaints.
The tongue thing is simple enough. Just because it's "acceptable" action to them (which I'd argue isn't the case on account of how the Empress rules her kingdom and, more specifically, how she rules over her guards) doesn't mean it's not ruthless. The Empress can do whatever she likes, because she's the Empress, but for some random band of rebels to employ such violent tactics, is rather vicious. Plus, the guard probably doesn't want to imply that his Empress is a violent brute, because that probably won't end well. He knows where his bread is buttered.
Twilight is in an uneasy mental state, so one could imagine that she'd be a bit all over the place. If that comes off as more of my error than Twilight's character, I'll try to be better about that in the future.
The thing about Day Court is that it's not just criminals coming in to be tried. It's also peasants from the smaller villages coming to request aide. Things like grain, water, protection. Twilight only had experience with the way the Empress deals with "criminals" like her, so she has no baseline for how she treats the innocent.
I thought long and hard about that "I am your God" line before putting it in. Your question about the Empress' insecurity confirms to me that I made the right choice to include it. I'm gonna just leave it at that and let you draw your own conclusions.
You asked whether or not you were missing something. No disrespect intended, but the answer is yes. It is through no fault of your own, but you're starting to draw conclusions of these characters with a level of finality that they are not ready for. Give it some time, things will open up.
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Okay, fair enough. I've had mixed results with early evaluation before.
Well, to me it's a sign that at least for some people she crossed the threshold between feared and hated. People are willing to organise, adapt to their enemy and sacrifice themselves to strike at her in some fashion. I expected this to be commonplace and persistent, but apparently it's not, at least not to this level of commitment. Perhaps that's why her decision about them was pretty tame, considering Flash's words a few chapters back, as well as her own. A show of respect.
As for the rest, well, I concede my points. Hopefully future developments will provide more context about it.
Well. To be honest I'm not sure WHAT I think of this story.
Pinkie just so happens to be my second most hated pony. So her and Twilight being an item is a big turnoff. (Only read two other stories regarding the ship. One story just died, maybe because the ship makes that little sense, and the other was Green, which was more interesting because Celestia got involved, and Luna tried dating Rarishy.)
But the little hints off world building have sparked my curiosity. I am eager to find out what happened to Luna(that mural or painting has me worried Celestia killed her for her rebellion, but then there's that voice Twilight heard...) and why Celestia wear the Elements of Harmony in gem form.
But my most burning question is WHY THE FUCK DOES CELESTIA HAVE THE TITLE OF HIGH QUEEN IF SHE'S EMPRESS AND THE ONLY QUEEN!?!?
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She wasn't always the only Queen
How long has Rarity been chancellor? Surely she's got to know that the Empress will always give her less time than she asks for.