Dear Princess Celestia,
I had a lovely time while you were gone. There's no need to thank me for arranging for some semblance of order while you were busy off in a hole under a dungeon under the surface of the Sun or wherever it is your sister put you while you were having that little spat. It was obvious from the moment I made myself known that you hadn't prepared your ponies for even a measly day or two of eternal darkness. Do they also scream and run about when there's an eclipse or a particularly large bird flies overhead?
You and I both know know that I could have done more. Consider it a token of goodwill that I merely had a bit of fun ordering your little ponies about and taking advantage of every amenity of your private suites. Where do you even find sheets with such a high thread count? Are they some kind of royal commission? It was like wrapping my naked body in a cloud, without all the cold and damp that comes with the real thing. And that bath of yours... one could fit at least five or six hefty stallions without even trying.
I had that secretary of yours pencil in some time for the nerds to start setting up all the legal nonsense. You're going to be changing everything to write your sister back into the government, so it's as convenient a time as any to lay the groundwork for unification. It would really be more convenient if you were an unabashed and unrepentant tyrant like me, instead of pretending to rule by law while intermittently editing history, but I suppose you're not competent enough to keep your ponies in order without the extra support.
If this goes well, perhaps we could even meet in person. Or maybe we already have? Are you entirely sure that none of the ponies in your court are actually me? I'm sure you understand that the temptation to laugh at your follies in person is immense, no matter how unwise it would be for me to, for example, take the place of your servants and arrange for a door to open to crowd of ponies at the precise moment you find yourself in a compromising position with your newly-returned sister.
Yours in future abutment,
Queen ChrysalisP.S. I took that horrid chimeric statue you keep in the gardens. There's a certain appealing repugnance about it. It will make a delightful decoration for my throne.
So she stole Discord ?
That might turn out less than well...
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Or maybe that was a replica and Celestia rushed to put something in his place and put the original
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Correct. In this version of things Celestia knows of them but has only sketchy information available about them, to better fit with how in "A Canterlot Wedding" she's pretty much completely blindsided by Chrysalis even with a painfully poor imitation.
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Yes.
So she took Discord.... Neat
Oh Chrysalis, you glorious troll, you.
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To be fair, this makes the circumstances that caused his escape in canon
impossiblenearly impossible (I'm not going to underestimate the CMC).Ponies like to panic about basically everything, so don't think too much about it.
Heh. I wonder why she has a bath like this in the first place...
That's probably not good... For her.
Interesting story so far.
I look forwards to see where it goes.
Are you planning to work out the entire time between now and the Canterlot Wedding when the final reveal happens, or do you have other plans?
that gonna be a rude awaking for discord to gain freedom only to be powerless surrounded by hostile bug ponies
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If he gains freedom. That wasn't an actual timed thing so much as a bunch of disharmony happening in front of him. Not particularly likely in the middle of a changeling hive.
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She still has the anti-magic throne that leaves him powerless... not that he's likely to find the disharmony he needs to escape in a hive with a non-idiot Chrysalis.
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I'm pretty sure it was both: Over time his bindings grew weaker and the Cutie Mark Crusaders gave the final push, like putting your weight on a rotting step. But even if they hadn't had their little spat, he was probably going to get free fairly soon (and if they had the same argument in front of him a few decades before, it wouldn't have been enough to release him, much like stepping on that same rotten board when it was new wouldn't make it collapse).
So, moving Discord to another location might delay his escape, but I doubt it would prevent it. Though if his powers don't work in Chrysalis' antimagic zone, they can just restrain him when he gets loose.
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If? Virtually none of the season 6 finale would have happened if Discord had been able to contribute, so the throne was hastily concocted by the writers to make sure he couldn't. (They could have just pretended he didn't exist the way the movie did, but instead they went for the anti-magic throne)
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That's what I figured, but I still haven't gotten around to watching the last couple seasons. Regardless, my main point is that Discord will be unpetrified fairly soon (though possibly months or years later than canon), but apparently in a fairly safe locale for it.
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I would love to see that. Him, Discord, "Lord of Chaos", running away from hungry changelings.
I've always thought that since the Sun and the Moon are moved by Celestia and/or Luna, nopony alive knows what an "eclipse" IS, as it is probably something from the Discordian Era
Unrelated, but "Eclipse" is also what I'd call any pairing that involves Celestia and Luna together. Puns about interposing between those heavenly bodies are welcome.
I’m a little confused with this chapter.
Looks to be Sure Chrysalis plays mindgames as a hobby but isnt she abit to reckless?
Oh god, this is fucking GOLD.
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not at al, with discord away from the gardens, the cmc won't free him. this chryssi is competent, unlike tia.