For his hard work to the Crown, the Royal Engineer of Equestria has been honored with a retinue of VIP bodyguards who protect him everywhere he goes. Their ordinary, everyday adventures together wind up being anything but ordinary.
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Oh I’m so giddy just imagining how Luna would react to what happened with the batpony guard post.
Wow, that was really tense! Great atmosphere!
Yup, they're a fun bunch. I can see why they're hidden away under the mountain, Luna must be tearing her mane out trying to acclimatize these yahoos.
Blatant disregard of Princess Luna/ Mother of Stars?
That asshat is going to get it one way or another. Wonder if Luna learn of it and 'visits this group' for a... 'word' or two
Great chapter
One checkpoint interaction with one prejudiced guard over, a whole country to go.
Yeah, this was stressful for our heroes. Didn't even read the authorization from LUNA!? Someone needs written up.
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A whole country, or a whole Moon?
This Valencia needs a thorough dressing down -- or a swift kick up the arse. As I stated in a previous comment, "stable animals playing at being civilized."
Well, now I learned two things today. "Parthian shot" is the original form of "parting shot." And shibboleth is a word.
Don't ask what the rank and file batponies are like.
Don't tell Equestria they want Equestria dead.
At least not until they've calmed enough that they can form peaceful relationships with Equestria.
And just think, these are the ones that were allowed to accompany their Goddess.
so, taking bets on the fact annon *MIGHT* speak what appears to be Spanish....
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Probably this:
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Source: Spy!
But maybe with a ladel, or even a- *shudder* -rolled up newspaper, Sunday edition!
It sounds like a decent amount of the batpony 'purists' don't like the fact that Nightmare Moon didn't make good on her promises. Maybe Princess Luna isn't as loved by the batponies as we might think.
This chapter get this sountrack from me as recommendation:
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Yeah, it begs the question. How many of the batponies are loyal to Luna, versus how many are loyal to the Nightmare?
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Thank you for that. Love me some adorable Luna.
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I have a feeling that the "purists" are probably in the minority.
10599437 It's always like that when you see the situation happening.
I think it's called putting your shoe on the other foot or something.
Anyways yes I had to relax a bit and felt my bones pop.
Somewhat glad Eb didn't go full shōnen manga on these guys. Highly preferred the snout jousting, even though no snout was booped.
Grat chapter and googling that one curse, gave me a great laugh in the middle of a tense scene. 🙀😂
Batpony after they get beaten verbaly so hard there ass turns red from the backlash:
Actually, bats can see in the dark, even in conditions we would consider pitch black. Their vision just isn't quite a sharp or colorful as ours, so they rely on echolocation as well. They're basically the Mr. Magoo of nocturnal mammals.
Day-yum!
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Brushie, brushie...
I got a feeling for an uprising of purist bat-ponies in the future...
Nice
“Hey Luna?”
“Yes?”
“Some random guard in the rookery was insubordinate, committed Lèse-majesté against you, and at minimum implied she was willing to commit petty treason if that is still an offense in Equestria.”
“I see, could you by any chance provide me with their exact locat-you know what hell with it reading your mind.”
Teleportation sound
Sounds like the bat-ponies came through like the Orc from Warcraft. Only the strongest and best warriors came with Nightmare. I could see that they don't recognize Luna as their leader, but her darker side instead.
If things are that close, I wonder, if a human had end up in that place no one will ever knew unless one of the bat ponies decided to tell princess Luna?
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I feel like it would've come up before. He's had a lot of opportunities to show off to Ebonshield, and he's been instructed specifically to not talk to batponies who aren't her as much as possible.
This place sucks. Anon shoulda bought that private countryside villa, if they're gonna be going through that everytime Anon wants to train a lil
Well shit. With such loyal, disciplined servants, it's a real head-scratcher how Luna lost.
I figured their language was similar to spanish. I took learning of the language, but that was some years ago.
"What do we have here? One ?woman? with a group of prisoners?"
... , is what I can pick up from bits and guess work. The "??" are there because I wasn't for sure what that meant exactly, only that the word was feminine.
--
On another note; the batponies (Thestrals?) seem very confrontational as far as first impressions go. The way they didn't seem to care for the weight and power of Luna's name-and the way that guard and her brother treated Ebonshield like a traitor- makes me wonder about many things.
'The Batponies were locked away with Nightmare Moon for a millennia to one of the farthest place they could go. Generations grew and died under the protective wing of Luna's alter ego; promising the day they will be freed. When that day came, their Great Mother and leader, became no more.
Now, after 1,000 years, the one they had looked up to was now someone different, and telling them that what they and their people were taught all their lives was now wrong.
Perhaps Luna's name doesn't hold very much weight anymore, is because they DO NOT give weight to her name.
Perhaps they still value a different Mistress of the Night.'
...or so are my thoughts.
Take what you will from a random man on the internet.
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Either way Anon would've had to confront the Bat Pony situation sooner or later if he really wanted to do his best in completing Luna's request to help integrate Batponies into Equestria, but renting a villa would've certainly been easier and more straightforward to just train. So begs the question of why Ebonshield would go with this idea knowing the resistance they might encounter.
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Niña refers specifically to a young girl or woman and more specifically a child (used in this context in a mocking manner), while Discola has a multitude of meanings, but most commonly is used to refer to someone (feminine) who's indocile, disobedient and outright rebellious. Niño and Discolo would be the masculine forms of both words.
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Thanks. I figured it was something like that.
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You bring up a good point.
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I was rather amused when she called the belligerent one a "gloomy pussy full of dust", myself.
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...huh. I didn't realize they were part Scottish too.
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You are right, that means "What do we have here? An outcast girl/crazy girl/brat with a band/group of prisioners"
The spanish sounds castellano cuz of some of the word difference from latin spanish, even so a few words are ordered a bit wrong "tu papel maldito" should be "tu maldito papel" or "tu puto papel" or "tu pinche papel" or even "tu papel de ostia"
All that meaning "your damn/fucking paper" in various ways
Another would be the insult Valencia got from Ebonshield:
"You know what you are? I will tell you what you are, tu coño sombrío lleno de polvo."
That meaning, "your sad asshole full of dust" coño means plumbing, more specificaly reserved for the black pvc plumbing for shit/soiled water. But an "albur" in spanish for where the shit exits from in our bodies.
"Maybe the author was trying to say "sad dusty pussy", the translation for that would be "una triste concha llena de polvo" or "concha arañuda". The last one I have personaly heard in my stay in madrid from two woman fighting in a store over some guy for what I gathered before walking away.
Aside from that all is good, the climbing stress and suspens is well put, keeps u at the edge of the seat hehe. The characters remain themselves and have not been diluted in the slightest which is awesome and great in of itself, more awesome so that the author develops his/her characters well adding to their depth. Im loving the story so far, I cringe at the "engineer royal" bit every time I see it lol imagining she said "the Royal engineer" or "el Ingeniero Real" because otherwise it sounds dumb but that may be me confusing the language the author is really going for, they told me but I frick forgot XD. Maybe latin? But even then real as in royal and not truth/verum would be "regalis" so maybe not Latin either. Heck lol its 1 am maybe im just loopy from lack of sleep ;p at any rate I love this story and sheer this author on :3 nights.
Actually, it depends on the type of bat:
Megabats (frugivorous and nectarivorous) have excellent eyesight, even better than that of humans, and only a few species use echolocation.
Microbats (mostly insectivorous and iirc also the sanguivorous vampires and generally-carnivorous false vampires) are more diverse but generally have poor eyesight, which they apparently use for relatively long-range sensing needs such as navigation over distance scales of hundreds of metres or more (echolocation, while capable of great precision, is inherently relatively short-ranged due to delay and illuminance issues). Vampires are noted for their thermoception (ie, ability to see heat) and several species of false vampire are noted for having good eyesight.
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The line as I read it, though, was about eyesight in the dark? They could, like us, have pretty good eyesight, but not as keen in absolute dark, so the echolocation helps bypass that problem. ^_^
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It's possible that with their displacement to the moon their language developed a different variant. And I can agree, I could feel the build up of tension. When the guard smacked aside an official paper signed by Luna, I knew things were going to go down.
I am glad no fighting occurred, but I am also disappointed. I was wondering how the fight would have gone and how Anon would have fared with his new armor.
What did he say to Ebonshield?
(brings up Google Translate)
(reads translation)
OH, HE DID NOT!!!!
Bilingual spaniard here, about to translate.
"Ah, what do we have here? A bratty kid with a group of prisioners?"
"I tell you, go back -- you go back! I shit on your permit!
I am in charge of this Frontier.
I personally have never heard this in Spain. The literal translation would be "you shadowy dust filled cunt"
Wich again, it's not really a thing we spaniards say.
The closest thing i could think to say in spanish that could mean something similar woud be "Zorra mal follada" that more or less translates to "You badly fucked bitch."
We don't really use "cunt" as an insult, but as a generic expelitive more akin to "fuck"
If we want to call someone a cunt, we usually say "zorra" or "Nenaza".
"Zorra" is a vixen, a female Fox, and is used in pretty much the same way as bitch. We just change the animal XD. Except if you want to call someone a son of a bitch, in that case It translates literally to "Hijo de perra" or even "Hijo de puta" (Son of a Whore).
"Hijo de puta" can also stand for "motherfucker". We don't really have a curse for fucking anyone's mom.
And "Nenaza" (Literally "Big girl") is pretty much calling someone a pussy.
I have lots and lots more, fell free to ask anything
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Thank you for your translations. I was wondering what she was saying to them.
I'm really loving this story so far and can't wait to read more of it.
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Don't you mean she?
Literally Iron Sky moon nazis
Yeah they kinda are...
Yeah, Show her!
Wait, what?
Ah well, one to many colts in bed u guess...
So many questions...
This is intense! I love it.
Not the bits bring happyness, good food, a good place to Rest, thats happyness
Yeah, how strange...
Surrounded, alright.
Well, it's nice to know what she really thinks.
Man, talk about contempt.
Wow, that batpony guard was a real cunt. Racist as fuck too.
There's either a space or a dash missing here, depending on intended reading.