Twilight,
I've thought about our conversation more, and with some time to reflect, I can put it like this: I enjoy causing hurt. Is that too blunt? I don't like that I enjoy it, and I could talk about in terms of moral expectation and mathematical expectation and the results of mutualistic cooperation—but I'd like to think that I'm mature enough to put aside the childish need to frame things in aggressively rational terms. I couldn't stand to be a hermit any more than most ponies, but when I do have pleasant company that nasty part of me insists on acting out, and tricks the rest of me with snide pleasure that lasts just about until I start wondering where everypony has gone.
I try to keep that part of myself restrained, but if I only lock it away it surges out at the worst moments. Thus it becomes a balancing act, and neither side is pleasant: you have seen my errors in one direction, but on the other side is the ice queen with anger issues that I spent a long time being. I will spare you an exhibition: those are old mistakes I would rather avoid, now that I find myself making unavoidable new mistakes at all hours.
I may find the chance to get some theater tickets soon, if you would like to take the train up—though I will confess that I've started to find a certain amount of stress relief in getting away from the city every so often. My work pulls me in every direction at once, and I feel sometimes like I'm working four full-time jobs and mothering a horde of idiot children at the same time. Barring anything else, you may expect to find me in Ponyville on the next weekend even if it's just to spend a day with my head in the fountain.
Lim.
P.S. But you do know her accent really is fake, right? She's not even good at it. There's a reason the proper snobs use vocal coaches.
Cool, updated as I was trying to get caught up. Glad I decided to finally check this out. Not sure of all the references but loving it.
Now what scenario is this... Plz Explain.
10472508 Somebugly made the mistake of pointing out that Rarity's posh accent is a put-on.
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Ah... that explains things.
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10472511
Probably in reference to this:
A self-aware Chrysalis? What sorcery is this?
And it's a trans-Atlantic accent, it is by definition fake.
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The intended joke is that you get through all this introspective stuff, feel kind of bad for Chryssy, then read the
P.S.
and start wondering how much of that is just to distract from whatever she did to insult Rarity's accent.I'm pretty sure Rarity has been faking that accent for long enough that it's become her real one, but it sounds nothing like the rest of her family or hometown so the point still stands.
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Judging from the long description, having obtained a box set of the show may have been involved. She has an actual motive, so "if you keep going the way you are now... ... you're gonna have a bad time" plus unambiguous proof thereof would work.
Wait, is chrysalis trying to be good?
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From the sounds of it, she's doing whatever it takes to survive. And the world is set up in such a way that being good is a necessary part of that.
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So, she’s pretending?
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Is she?
10472616
If she’s being nice to survive she might be. When does this take place?
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Re-read 1 and 4, those make it pretty obvious.
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Is it at the beginning of the series?
nice work
10472532 I got it. Others didn't.
Least it was Rarity. If she tried to pick on Fluttershy I can only imagine Rainbow would have started a never ending war.
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Your image is borked
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Fake it til you make it!
Chrysalis being “good” I don’t know about; if nothing else, she could always at least claim that she has a vested interest in Equestria doing well because that’s where she and her changelings have their favorite feeding grounds and if the ponies suffer too much, then that’s not good for them either.
But regardless of her reasons it’s always a relief to see her being allowed to be smart about things. The show, I feel, kept tossing her a few too many idiot balls to clutch to fully realize her potential.
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If she were in any way competent, changelings would never have provably appeared in the show. Which, due to being a work of fiction, is tantamount to not existing.
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It wouldn't necessarily have to be Chrysalis's fault that changeling her discovered it would of just have had to been worked differently like maybe a drone infiltrating ponyville isn't quite good at their job of imitating the pony they have replaced and Twilight or Applejack pick up on it there are always other ways for things to be introduced
Posh hors got taken down a peg. I wonder id she'll remember that when the Mare-Do-Well thing comes up?
Chrysalis makes a friend or is interessted romanticly in Twilight?
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You fake it until you make it. Pretty soon it will come naturally... like Rarity's accent. Not even aware she's doing it anymore.