Every action taken is like dropping a pebble in a pond, creating ripples that extend ever outward. Every choice has consequences, good and bad... Putting on a Crown may have changed Sunset Shimmer's life...but it also Changed two worlds...
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of course Cinch is in league with a demon.
Trixie?
Ooh, Sunset's magic is working wonders. Keeping Twilight from view, hiding in plain sight (twice I might add) and also safeguarding Shining from dark forces. Equestrian harmony magic just might be a match for these dark fae.
Well, it seems the darkness has something of a face now. I'm not sure if he's a canon character, or an oc at this point, but I have my suspicions.
Also, looks like Sunny's power is keeping the bad thing off Shining, at least for the time being.
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I agree, if it's canon, I got 3 characters I can think it could be.
What has me interested though was his use of the word "changeling". Can't wait for the conflict between a demon and demon/angle!
uh oh, something tells me the games are going to be a major clusterfuck
we already have four-ish factions (sunset and the gang, sunset and twilight, cinch and her shadow, and chrysalis doing something on her end), adding a fifth is going to be horrible for everyone involved
well done!
oh, or maybe this is just from the shadow's perspective (who is probably sombra's human world equivalent)
oh wow! they used sacrificed children to curse the school! totally cool and not creepy at all!
thank fuck for sunset screwing up his plans, even in small ways
oh fuck
holy fuck! thank goodness for mind sunset!
she truly doesn't have any idea what wallflower's name is
or wallflower is a chosen name and she's just being an ass
both are equally likely
those sound like proper demon names
is the shadow an old fashioned demon? oh my
huh, her impassioned speech is at least partially shadow influenced... interesting
i suppose raised conflict does benefit his ends, and twi finally getting around to snapping back is definitely going to increase conflict!
oh! the one person who had the sense to stop suri from spouting something even worse is one of the cinch's underlings, heh...
oh... him getting in the police force is probably intentional
oh dear
hell yes!
very very interesting...
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(a bit off topic but)
...
huh, sunset could totally have angelic heritage
depends on what form of demons exist in this world, are they a separate class of beings with magic that's merely opposed to holy magic, or are they the true inverse due to originating from fallen angels (and that's not even getting into how that interacts with the portal and equestria, because she was almost certainly born in equestria, and most mythical beings are decently common there, but there's far less reason for angels and demons to have the same relation to each other on both sides of the portal since alicorns exist, barring something else like her parents being from the human side of the portal or being from the pre-discord era)
hmmm
would also explain sunset's emotivore tendencies having seemingly no negative effects on the people she "feeds" from, if her interactions with the gang, twi, and twi's family are any indication, combined with her movie 1 and movie 3 appearances...
hmmmmmm
And my guess that Demonset isn't necessarily evil has paid off. In other news what an interesting villian you have set up.
At this point i know this plan will blow up in sinchs face but i dobt know if that will be bad or good for her boss
Great chapter!
Ps: while reading this i couldnt stop imganing the bad guy as the demon king of primal
"Up the airy mountain
"Down the rushing glen
"We daren't go a-hunting
"For fear of little men."
--William Allingham
A quarter century ago when I first went online from home one of the fandoms I was involved in contained a lady who claimed to have actually met the Good People.
She said if you behave yourself, you'll be all right.
Ok, Sunny is powerful, one of the top five unicorns we know of, powerful. But this seems stronger then she should be.
The tarts... Her magic, the berries magic and Laughter via Pinkie? Maybe... Shining immune now because, as a normal human, he doesn't have magic while Twi can be effected again because of hers?
How is this thing going to use Twi so far from CP though? It seems bound to the grounds and the games are at CHS. Might explain why Cinch would make her play there though. If she can get the magic, then she could turn the tables on her "master". Unless Twi was to be sacrificed right before or right after? Or the "tempering" was to allow her to host this thing?
Mental Sunset is going to be very unhappy if that is the case.
Did Shining's partner notice the bone inlays on the desk because she snagged some of the tarts? Because it seems most people would fail that spot check do to a glammer of some kind.
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:}
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Yeah, I don't do the "random physical attraction" thing. And it always seemed a little weird that other people do, lol.
Its a slight funny, yes. But also because "princess" has certain connotations to Twilight that are pretty far opposite her.
Indigo is a good.
Of course it was coming, but we could've all hoped Twilight would avoid it. Nope. No such luck.
Mental-Sunset: Stupid Little Voice 2 -- Telepathic Boogaloo! I mean...what? Yeah, its hard to say how much is it just Twilight's head versus is it something external? I suppose that's up to debate, hahah.
Wallflower being obnoxious? Say it isn't so! :P Yeah, no, I get it. She is. But there's a reason.
Yes, Mental-Sunny uses pony-isms. The question is...is that because Twilight is attentive to her girlfriend's verbal idiosyncrasies or because there's more to it than Twilight's stress mind developing one weird ass coping mechanism?
Cinch and her....Master...have plans. We will see how that pans out.
Yeah, there's still a lot of chapters to go, but we're getting there.
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...that's been implied, yes.
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*horks soda out of nose*
I want you to know, I read that to the team, we all had a good laugh, and my spouse went "quick! Nobody tell them!"
*chuckles* I'm not going to be that mean. "Turning tricks" is a euphemism for prostitution. The implication here is that Suri was caught in a compromising position with such a person.
As for the magic...Even the beginning of FiM refers to the Elements as "the most powerful magic in Equestria," and Sunset has also said that in Rubicon. Several times. If anything's going to stand up to Cinch and their master...its going to be something on that power scale.
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Canon Character. Its just that...Names have power. And I dont plan on giving the readers that power over him just yet.
Sunset's power does seem to be repelling the bad things, doesn't it?
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Definitely a canon character, though being the human world, its the human world *counterpart* of that canon character.
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Mmm. The Games are going to be....something. Lots of people with different agendas clashing.
Shhh....don't look at the shadows. Be wary of staring too long into the abyss, because it lets the abyss look into you.
They used sacrifices to do something to the school. How many or what....that's complicated.
Sure does seem like something is wrecking the villain's day, doesn't it? Mind Sunset or real sunset, or even just leftover magic.
Maybe she simply does not view it necessary to remember what cattle call themselves.
They do, don't they? Maybe there's a reason I dug into ancient Babylonian and Sumerian for names.
Yes, her bit of a retort at Suri seems to have been goaded.
And if you look back, you'll even get a hint at the identity of the fae hidden in the ranks of mortals. Bruhahaha.
*cackles*
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An interesting hypothesis.
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Is she? >:}
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Oh, things will definitely go to Hell at some point.
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There's enough irish in me to show respect to the places claimed by the Third Race, to stay outside faerie circles and to show deference to the things beyond mortal ken. Only a fool is arrogant enough to think he has nothing to fear from places that resist the modern world's intrusion.
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Does it? Perhaps...perhaps its many powers...or a lot of power...or perhaps its just varying degrees of the same power.
The berries had their own magic, and what went into them was not Sunset's magic alone, but a synergy of that magic with Pinkie's. Somehow. For some purpose.
Shining is protected....while Twilight is being...tugged back and forth. Perhaps there's a reason for that too.
There's plans for Twilight, plans the villains have. They've mentioned a ritual, and a sacrifice. What that means though...well...you'll have to wait and see, I suppose. Or speculate. That's fun to watch.
As for Shining's Detective partner. She is a minor reference to another show. Her ability to see through simple redirections like the desk is part of that reference, nothing more, nothing less. Devil's Advocate is...quite the formidable woman in her own right, but it comes from her force of will and strength of character and is pretty unrelated to everything else. Shining though.....Shining's behavior is the different part. Its why the shadow notices, why Cinch is off balance. He SHOULD still be under their latent control, and he's not.
...Still....
At the end of the day...
Just remember that you can't sell your soul twice.
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Well...
Me and my naive, innocent mind are informed.
To begin with Hoooooolllyyyy shiiiiiittt. Yeah, you earned that M. I understand your hesitation in posting sometimes, but be assured that your writing is top notch and this is a great story. On that front, a Gold Star for you and your team for making me go to the dictionary to find out what the title meant. I am more confused at least a little how the magic fruit shielded Shining's mind but that the Shadow can still get through to Twilight, even if his is not the only hand on the wheel in her mind. Very curious.
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Was talking about Sunset being strong enough on her own to protect Shining and Twi a bit while they are inside the belly of the best so to speak.
Why I thought of those tarts. Laughter would be quite powerful vs Fey and this shadow. If Sunset could get Fluttershy to help as well next time might give the thing food poisoning!
As for selling ones soul only once. Tell that to John , Constantine, and a few others in fiction. Wouldn't recommend it, but it's possible.
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looking back at chapter 95, the changeling appears to be sour sweet
no idea what greater purpose she could serve or reference she could be, i don't remember if she's shown up before
maybe something in interlude 20 but we don't currently have the time to comb back through it, so we'll leave it as is
Well, congrats, you've already implied the BBEG was a fuck, but now, with this chapter, you've successfully got him to come across as a skeevy fuck. That means you've triggered my primal brain that makes me wants to kick his balls up into his throat, then punch them down and out through his asshole. Intangible or not, where there's a will, there's a way,and I know five people that go by the name 'Will', so seems that's covered.
That's not a bad thing, mind, it just any being that preys on innocents already sucks, but beings that prey on innocents and decide to likewise check the 'Underage' and 'Particularly Vulnerable' boxes at the same time really get me down to clown. Or as the kids meme these days, "Angy AF".
As an aside, I was figuring it was some creepy wee bastard targeting kids, and notably female kids, by association to the aforementioned creeps in the park and the creep-ousin of Twilight's.
Something else I/really/ like here is that Sunset is doing so much unintentional good. Because it's something I love to see, when people just try to make certain things better and it cascades into larger, grander, successes, even if they don't know. Furthermore, if creepy-mc-searching-for-host happens to bring this up to Sunny later during conflict? That she's been impeding and winning battles against him without trying?
Yeah, that's gonna be a confidence boost.
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implication my hiney.
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So, I feel really dumb having missed this in my last big breakdown of Sunset's behaviour and belief of being a monster. As in I did that re-read and completely missed something that I think may be a really, really big reason why she's a bit different and more prone to anger than other ponies.
So, we likely have the obvious theory that Sunset may have been human first, and wound up in Equestria. Hence no parents, bouts of anger. But she seems far to versed and inherently gifted in magic for that theory to jive with me.
But then I caught it in the Finding Philomena Flashback.
She felt the chicks needing help. Not heard, not saw... Felt.
So our little unicorn here has had empathic abilities since she was a foal. Furthermore we've seen her attitude both shift to that of others, as well as others have their attitudes shift towards that of Sunset's, notably Sparky's.
So my theory is, Sunset isn't just some emotivore, eating emotions and that's it. I think Sunset opens empathic gateways between herself and others innately. It's how she felt the distress of Philomena. How she could /feel/ her friends fraying during the battle of the bands. Hell, when the Sparkles are arguing and Shining stepped towards his mum, we never got a descriptor of him raising his hands, but Sunset jumped up and was not only ready for a tussle, but was hands up, defensive stance, as if she knew he was looking to swing, which he confirms with Luna and Cadence later. That he was going to swing. And Sunset could feel that.
So tying this back into Sunny, take a kid who barely has reign of their own emotions. Now take a group of other kids with nothing but hate and contempt for the first kid, and leave them alone together. Also, the first kid not only knows the others don't like them, bit can feel the hate and contempt too, and the others start mocking and belittling the first.
If I'm right, then filly Sunny never had a chance to be chill. She got a bunch of shitfuck noble brats just feedback looping hate into her on a regular basis. Fuck dude, if I had to deal with my emotions and everyone else's, I'd likely snap a few times myself