Seven years before Twilight Sparkle, a curious creature arrives in Ponyville. How will they react to each other and this strange new world?
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Maybe it’s just me by the earlier chapters he said he’s a foot taller than ponies and by what the show shows us the height of which ponies are in enter the doors in about 2 feet over their head Or there about half as tall as the doorway yet he hast to duck down into doorways to get in it seems like his height isn’t always the same since the princesses can enter the same doorways without having to duck their heads .
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Just seems to me it’s quite hard to guess how big the ponies are compared to him and body size I’m trying to visualize the story sorry if this is annoying
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Np; I put Doug at 6ft tall; just above Princess Luna for height, not quite to Princess Celestia. Taller than the average pony by a good fifty percent. He ducks because the proportions are off, more so than actual necessity - their buildings aren't as big as he's used to.
Great just great. I hope Rarity will straighten this all out. I know she will probably give Doug a discount once she finds out the truth. Still these ponies are being highly xenophobic right now and I hope they get called out on it.
I sorry for him no one likes dirty racist cops .I hope he can find someone who can help him.
Yeah I got to admit ponyville is starting to behave very belligerently towards Doug even with the misunderstandings going on.
They're not enslaved, foal, and no copulation happens between humans and horses - so lose the 'w' already.
Wait so this is the librarian's fault? I mean besides AppleJack no one else knew about him wanting to open a portal besides her.
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Sort of? She shared her experience with the other ponies, but it really only escalated after Rare Find ran screaming out of Carousel Boutique.
Ma'am? Is... whoever talking to the female guard here? Or should they be talking to Rich?
And here again, same type of question.
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They are referring to Filthy Rich and Doug. They're merely being 'polite', using 'ma'am' like we might use 'sir'. Yes, it's sexist, rudely so.
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That analogy kinda falls apart when the only time you'd call a woman 'Sir' is if she's an officer. Calling any woman you met on the street 'Sir' would almost certainly get these officers a citation. :\
This whole situation has been so forced from the start and it's really grating on me that it's a core plot point at this point. Don't know how much longer I can keep reading this.
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The Librarian part, followed by the guards? Blunt forthrightness does lead him to pretty... adverse situations, and the pony overreactions certainly don't help matters. How would you have handled it, from either the pony or human side?
On a side note, glad to see you're sticking with the story, and I hope the contrivances aren't too terrible.
The wanton racism is infuriating and infantile. Those Guards needs to be imprisoned. That one b!tch almost murdered him for pete sake.
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If I was those mares' Captain, then I'd make sure that they were both stripped of their ranks and dishonorably discharged from service under Celestia before being thrown in the dungeons for a while.
I'd make an example out of both of them.
Because there is zero room for racist, sexist, "trigger happy" cunts such as those two in any sort of law enforcement position. All those idiots would most likely do is pointlessly escalate minor "situations" (such as Doug's verbal, non-physical argument with Filthy) to the point that there is possibly violent confrontations with whoever they decided to harrass.
Just cause they are wearing guard armor and serve under Celestia doesn't give them a free pass to be giant assholes to any people they want without a very good reason for it. Guards such as those two twats make the rest of the guard and Celestia as well look bad.
Those two Guarsmares are a couple of dirty, racist, speciest twats. No one like cops who act in such a way as these two do, they are both fitting the profile of "dirty, racist, power tripping cops" to a T.
At this point the way Ponyville treats Doug for no real reason has just continued to cement my opinion of it being nothing but a giant cesspool of racism, hatred and intolerance that is masquerading as a happy, quiet, little pony town.
If I was Celestia and I got a report from Ponyville of just how racist, intolerant and hateful the ponies were being to someone of a different species, who has done them no wrong, besides maybe being in the wrong place at the wrong time and being in the center of a couple misunderstandings. Then I'd be super pissed and make it a point to clear my schedule and fly straight to Ponyville that day, talk to the mayor and call a mandatory town meeting to address those issues and remind all of the ponies there that we were supposed to be a country/nation of tolerance and peace that followed the tennents of harmony.
That they would all do well to remember those facts and that there is absolutely no place for racism, hatred and intolerance in our country/nation against someone who hasn't done any of them any wrong.
Seriously, fuck those two guards.
If I was Doug, I probably would have just punched the guard square in the friggin face with everything I had, when she flew up and got in my own face when she cut me off and kept me from speaking out at Filthy Rich being a scummy asshole who likes to rip people off.
Then when I went to walk away after making that last quip to the two guards, I wouldn't have turned my back to them as I walked away, so they couldn't potentially attack me from behind and catch me off guard.
Then If that guard actually bum rushed me with her spear and the other one didn't stop her, I would have tried to grab ahold of it and rip it away from her and proceeded to use it against both her and the other guard.
Then I would tell whoever asked me why I attacked them was because it was in self defense against an armed guard who attacked an unarmed me, unprovoked over a small verbal quip, with a damned spear and the other guard came to assist her rather than her having tried to prevent her colleague from ever charging me with her spear in the first place.
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I appreciate the spirited response. The guards were certainly hostile, openly so, but acting on limited information against a creature who may have become violent at any moment. Understandable, but not commendable.
I'm very curious as to your reaction to chapter 16, where a number of your very valid complaints are addressed. I'll hazard a guess and say it isn't enough. But remember, the ponies live next to the Everfree Forest, where a large number of aggressive and unknown threats reside. Is it wrong for them to be extra cautious, to have a policy that discourages outsiders, even seemingly benign ones, from sticking around? Or, going by your comment in chapter 5, maybe their response wasn't aggressive enough, if condemning all of Equestria is someone's reasonable reaction to being ostracized. They should have taken him out before he has a chance.
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If it was me heading the ordeal with investigating Doug, then I'd gather two teams together to get things sorted out.
One team would be for going to speak with all of the ponies he was actually in contact with, (those being Storied Pages, Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack) to find out what really happened between Doug and all of them and how he acted instead of going off of mere fear fueled heresay and rumors.
The second team would be conducting a tandem undercover surveillance operation, keeping an eye on Doug to make sure he doesn't do anything wrong, attack anyone or that none of the ponies around him do something seriously stupid and agitate him into a potentially violent confrontation. That and to gather further Intel on his personality/mindset, how he interacts with those around him and if he is truly a violent creature who is a threat or is just a strange and ignorant outsider simply bumbling around and the ponies are unjustly being discriminatory/racist or speciest based on unfounded fears.
They would have explicit orders simply observe and to not engage Doug physically unless there was no doubt that he was about to become physically violent with someone or he was clearly doing something else wrong, such as stealing or damaging someones property.
After all of the facts were collected, all the witnesses had been spoken to and their interactions noted, the undercover surveillance team's operation concluded. Then that would be the point whether I made up my mind that based on all the facts and evidence he was not an immediate threat to Ponyville or any of its citizens. That all the bad things being said about him were u true and he could be left to his own, with potentially someone undercover in the town keeping an eye on him to make sure nothing happens and to learn more about him and his kind.
I would have basically just treated the whole ordeal with Doug with cautious optimism, since he was intelligent enough to reason with if any issues came up and he wasn't openly violent and hadn't attacked anybody physically.
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If I was Doug, then I honestly most likely never would have went back into that horrible excuse of a town again after being chased out of it, as the ponies basically applauded and cheered while I was being chased out.
I'd probably have worked for Applejack and Rarity (on the down low) for a week or two, enough to get some supplies (such as food) and a train ticket to leave Ponyville. Then I'd have snuck back into town, onto the train, and left for somewhere such as Appleloosa or Dodge Junction and try to get a good, clean start there.
Screw both the ponies and town if they thought I was running away because I was either a coward or I was trying to "run from justice." I wouldn't have stayed in that horrible cesspit of a town even a single second longer than what I absolutely had to.
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If a group of ponies does something so terrible to a human simply trying to co-exist peacefully with them, that it causes the human to snap, go off the deep end, and violently lash out at them similar to how Luna did.
Then I just can't bring myself to feel sorry for any of them as they have created a "self fulfilling prophecy" and probably deserve whatever happens to them.
The only exceptions to that being the human going after their friends and family who had nothing to do with that scenario. Harming innocent or uninvolved people to hurt others is where I draw the line in such a situation.
All the ponies themselves who did the human dirty though?
They are all fair game in my book.