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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How does this fit in with Flurry's later birth? She had a unicorn father and alicorn mother, and she seems perfectly healthy - if not a complete hoofful, since she could easily destroy her Empire.
I smell a contradiction here...
Or he. Don't just presuppose the hypothetical foal's sex. Colts are just as important as mares, if not more important if they're of fewer number.
...Hopefully this doesn't affect Shining or Flurry at all...
I appreciate that your characterization of Neighsay highlights the fact that, possible paranoia aside (let us not forget that Twilight was the one to give him the idea that the border nations were a threat with her very poor choice of words), he has Equestria's best interests foremost in his thoughts. He's not a bad education administrator. He's pretty cynical, but given the importance of education and where the EEA is headquartered and the kind of asinine situations they probably deal with, it's probably for the best the organization is headed by a no-nonsense administrator. There are plenty of butts on legs roaming about with sticks shoved so far up themselves the faces they're joined to are stuck looking skyward, and these butts are oh so self-important with their cushy, satin-lined seats at the big table they all make reservations to in order to argue about which of them is .000001% more important than the rest of them because they have a bit more money to throw at frivolities.
Boy, this went somewhere. I'll get back to you when I figure out where, exactly, but it definitely went somewhere. But yeah, Neighsay's a cynic, but there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. I appreciate that you're not bashing him. So many writers bash him or, even more commonly, Blueblood.
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It is explored in the other stories but they find a way to let Shiny and Cadance to have Flurry Heart. They find a way to remove Shiny from helping choose the tribe of the foal.
It also shows why all the adult Alicorns are Harmony Locked and I wonder just how pissed many where when Doug knocked up all four adult Alicorns. But further explores why the Apple heard was abnormally large in story.
Thank God for this I've been trying to get a hold of my depression for the past two days this helped me
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Doug Graves did provide a link to a comment (No. 118) on the final story, which listed the number of foals each mare had; I'm guessing this is what "Harmony Restricted" there means? Alicorn mares can only breed with magic-null humans?
I still don't quite understand why Doug Graves put "Harmony Restricted" next to the number of foals in that comment, unless each alicorn mare can only have a certain number of offspring or something. 🤷
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No not a certain number. Look at the ages of all four foals before Harmony Restricted. Something happened where he got Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Cadance pregnant about the same time. This put the ponies at risk because there was a huge possibility that all four mares had their foals around the same time. So who was fulfilling Celestia and Luna’s responsibilities while they where in labor?
When they talked about Cadance and Doug’s foal it was alluded to as a source of friction between Doug and Shining Armor. Something big happened and it wasn’t planned.
Hopefully we can get Harmony Restricted better explained in this story because it must have been an unique even.
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How much to spoil... though don't let that stop the speculation!
In the immortal words of G. W. B. (and, in Errant Finale, Discord), "Fool me once... shame on... ? ...Shame on you. Fool me [twice]? You can't get fooled again!"
In order to get there, though? It's an ongoing quest for the alicorns during the upcoming years. The members of Herd Apple play a role, as does Sunset Shimmer, inadvertently.
I haven't written the Harmony Restricted part yet, and it won't happen in this book but in a different one at some point in the future.
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Glad to hear it!
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Yup. I too dislike the characterizations of Blueblood (and Neighsay, though I've seen far fewer fanfics with him than Blueblood) as unlikable and incompetent do-nothings. Neighsay is very focused on the negatives, much like Cookie Crumbles. I like to think Twilight struck a nerve when she was dealing with him, and he has a bit of a sore spot against her, perhaps taking a little more pleasure than he should in trying to tear her down.
Huh, I hadn't actually noticed that; I was more interested in the number of foals than their ages, and then curious about the "Harmony restricted" tag.
I was already planning on reading the sequels whenever this rewrite's done, but now I'm even more curious...
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Well considering that every other alicorn but Cadance had foals two years in a row I think something major happened as at least Applejack went every other year. Then again I don’t remember when Flurry Heart was born. Still with how many foals they all had they definitely experienced a population boom for the reasons stated in this chapter.
This was a awesome lore chapter I hope all four princess have Doug's foal's.
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Ah; that list was all of Doug's foals with the various ponies. Cadance did have Flurry Heart the same year as the others' first (would have been a 19), and then Doug's the year after that.
Oh, yeah, most certainly on the population boom. Like, huge understatement. Especially with the... other addition to their population.
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So Flurry Heart was/is 19 at the end. Now the picture becomes a little more clearer. I think I can see why they may have their ability to have kids blocked.
Eight yrs? Nightmare Moon returns right at the start of mlp. Is returned to being Luna by the end of the second episode. And its supposed to be just over 6 yrs till that happens
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We know this, yes. This becomes a plot point later on.
I think at the end here you meant to put amends.
Ok wtf.....is he trying to say that AJ Rainbow Dash and Rarity are eating ponies??!! I can at least kinda understand if he accused Doug of doing that...despite there being zero evidence that he has even THOUGHT of doing anything like that not to mention that there havent been any disappearances to my knowledge.
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More from the report that the foals were low-powered, and needed to obtain 'moar power!' any way he/she could. He's brainstorming (absurd) situations, not trying to link it to Doug or the Ponyville foals specifically.
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The words are very close; in my mind 'appends' means 'tacks on at the end as something extra' while 'amends' is more 'changing what I said to something else'; he doesn't really edit any of his earlier words, merely puts them in context.
I half figured doug would go merlin at some point, or more luke skywalker realize that while he cant hold any magic of his own he can thru meditation or ritaual or heck just enchanted things (and maybe after a leson or two from zecora later alchemy) manipulate teh ambient magic all around him
guess were not going there then again i have many a chapter left to go thru