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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So are you going to be instantly hostile towards yaks? They're pretty much unknown due to the border being closed, I seem to remember, and they do tend to destroy stuff.
What about griffins? They're also pretty isolationist, for the most part - not much is known about them, either.
Or hippogriffs, which are practically unseen until much later on.
Be wary, sure, but not actively hostile when the creature hasn't done anything wrong. All Doug did was try to explain his world, and his world's equivalent of you - he never actively tried to blackmail, bind or otherwise remove anypony's free will, which is what you're accusing him of.
Well it was something of an apology but Rainbow dash is an international incident waiting to happen if she interacts with other races, least the altercation did not escalate.
Well that went well.
It is kinda expected when you live right next to thé Everfree
I'm am happy things are getting better hopefully this continues to a better relationship between them all.
Oh lord when i read "i did not have to miss" i immediately thought of Princes bride, then was happy to find it was an actual Princess bride reference. Bravo lol.
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As you know, the concept of a reference is centuries old. Well, really, that's all this is. I've just sucked one year of your life away. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest - how do you feel?
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I'm sorry. I can't keep a straight face when I read your profile name and look at the picture at the same time. It's too perfect.
That's the most fucktarded reasoning I've ever heard. With their logic any pony could be a potential threat and yet they treat them with a level of decency that any of their kind would expect of a stranger until they prove otherwise, fucking racist mindset of anything not pony = bad murdering monster. I really hope Doug calls them out on their prejudice and throws solid logic and facts at them instead of just taking it "cause that's just how things are"
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I mean, you're not wrong that it's incredibly racist (speciesist?) to treat ponies well and anything unknown with naked suspicion bordering on homicide. But they live on the border of the Everfree Forest! Which contains friendly species like manticores and cockatrices and ursas and Celestia knows what else. Two very well liked ponies recently died after one of them went in there. It sucks that some innocents will get lumped in with the monsters, but they've chosen which side they want to err towards. Something will come of their treatment of Doug, though.
So let me get this straight: Rainbow gives one of the worst apologies of all time (one she doesn't even mean), Doug refuses to accept it (rightfully so), Rainbow Dash attacks him, they wrestle which ends in a draw, then he forgives her even though she still doesn't mean it? I hope some retribution comes for her, especially with her screwed up logic. Yes humans do something similar at times, but even we wouldn't attack a intelligent creature just on the basis of it could be dangerous to the extent these ponies do.
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Yeah, you pretty much got it. Although her second apology was genuine, and saying (and meaning) 'I wish I got to know you earlier' covers the 'we are fully within our right to drive away things we don't know'
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Are you sure humans wouldnt arrack an intelligent creature just bc it might be dangerous? There is a very good reason stories and movies etc exist that are about aliens not even bothering w a first contact and just attacking earth or similar kind of themes. Its bc no matter how much we try to deny it humans would more than likely do the samething or something along the same lines. Humanity as a whole are horrible ctreatures. However as individuals most humans are pretty decent and caring creatures. Humanity is a walking talking contradiction.
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Doug im pretty sure that should say unfriendly......
For all the comments I've made, I'm having a hard time verbalizing the problem I have with the ponies' mindset. Something about espousing harmony, but not actually living it. There's a difference between being wary and belligerent, and the ponies seem to be more the latter than the former, and the reasoning just isn't there. They know manticores - for example - are dangerous because they've proven themselves to be. However, while they have every reason to be wary of him, they have no reason to be belligerent, yet they are. That's a very ugly blemish on what is otherwise a very enjoyable story. I especially like Rarity and I think there's real hope for both AJ and (now) RD.
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I think that's part of the point. The say how much they love their harmony, then don't follow it's tenants. It's meant to show assholes being assholes.
Filthy xenos
The Princess Bride reference felt extremely forced.
If I was Doug, I simply would have flat out refused to accept Rainbow Dash's shitty attempt at an apology and told her to fuck off and not given her my species name or other info, so she couldn't have filled out her "Friendship Report" and she would have been given a citation and been rejected from the Wonderbolts because of it.
It may sound harsh, but in my mind Rainbow would have deserved whatever happened to her after she treated me that way she did and vehemently refused to give a sincere apology to me after she physically attacked me. It's not my problem if her dumb ass actions ends up resulting in her being permanently rejected by the Wonderbolts.
Maybe her realizing that all of her actions have real and lasting consequences, just might make that trigger happy and hot headed jackass think twice before going off half cocked without at least attempting to think things through.
I'd refuse to accept her apology, not only because she attacked me when she was supposed to be apologizing to me. But because she said, and I quote: “I said I wasn’t going to apologize for my actions earlier, and I meant it. There’s too much that can go wrong with somecreature you know nothing about."
By Rainbow's logic, Doug should have had a similar mindset as she, and likely the other ponies did, and he would have been entirely justified if he treated the ponies with the same amount of open hostility and suspicion that they have treated him with. Along with not being remorseful about it in the slightest or having to apologize for his actions either.
That and they should also treat every species they know nothing about, in the exact same way as they have Doug, including zebras such as Zecora and Griffons such as Gilda and Gabby.
For a race that constantly goes on and on about the tennents of Harmony and seems to espouse them so highly and says they value peace and Harmony. The ponies sure as hell don't act like a species that values any of the tennents of Harmony, peace or Harmony itself either. They honestly act as a bunch of hypocrites would.
And Doug simply forgiving Rainbow Dash's half assed excuse for an apology, after the way she treated him and attacked him when she came to apologize. Along with him forgiving all of the other ponies for the way they treated him as well, the guy is a giant damned pansy and a dumbass.
You do not just up and forgive people who have treated you like total shit for basically no real reason other than rumors, heresay, racism, misplaced suspicion and mistrust; because that's only setting yourself up for even more of the same treatment.
I could understand if the ponies had taken a "cautious and guarded but polite" approach as Applejack and Rarity have, but all of the outright open hostility they have treated Doug with so far is completely ridiculous and uncalled for.
The only two ponies really worth even considering as potential friends/allies at this point in this story, are Rarity and Applejack. Just fuck Rainbow Dash and everyone else with a cactus.