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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Oof! That smarts!
Also damn this blind magical bastard. How dare he seem so cool while being a dick lol
Welp, was expecting a beatdown. Wasn't expecting it to also happen to Ebonshield. Yikes. This Ignacio must be an impressive pony if he can pull all that and conjure up a fighting style for a creature he's likely never encountered before.
Lily.
Lily plz.
Wat r u doin'.
Remember what Ebonshield told you before y'all entered in the rookery.
This is a pony you don't want to get on your bad side.
ancient-looking batpony colt -- that would be a stallion. Colts are young horses/ponies.
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You're technically right, but the story convention, as written, has used Colt for male ponies of all persuasion from the outset.
Well...this was definetly more than a expected of Eb's demostration
Tbh even if I dislike Ignacio he's right about something...in a fight you can't expect fairness and much less so if you are a guard that must be ready at all times and not having a hangover or tiredness from a night out with sex included.
This place does suck
Shoulda bought that country side villa or something
this was pretty cool
wow! that was great!!
Well I suppose Ebo will not be able to train with him after all, but now I wonder how did that bat pony knew how a human moved? Or did he simple give him an Abissian plain set of movements?
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He is cool, but he’s also a crotchety old cunt at the best of times and Ebonshield had the temerity to interrupt
his beauty sleepsenior citizen nap time.Assassin's Pone...
Bring Sajuuk to bear! Bring Sajuuk to bear! Bring Sajuuk to bear!
Man, I got no clue how you can write this fast and stay dedicated. Dang.
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You're too serious bro. This is a pony fanfiction site, curb your criticism.
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The secret is doing less of the writing and more of the extra elaborate editing.
I'm adapting TheManFromAnotherTime's story from Greentext to conventional prose, which is significantly less difficult and less time consuming than producing the original work.
Was waiting for the rest of the team to back her up to be honest, I almost expected Anon to flank the human fake and mace him in the head.
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i hope that they are ok, i was hoping an update...
Weird.
Why does everyone keep assuming that even aincient experienced magic users see with their eyes? Even averagehumans get a feel for their surroundings by their skin responding to heat and air currents like a low res thermal camera and motion sensor array, never mind complexechos. Most of it is just extremely subconciously, deliberatly filtered out by years of social conditioning.
As for how the human ghost moved? Thats because thats what that human is.
Given the performance, Id have given better odds on Anonymous, after getting used to training in his armor, to do a much better job.
Well if the fake Anonymous is anything to go off, Anon has potential to be a very intimidating opponent.
DDDAAAAMMMNNNN!!!!! 😲
now that was awesome!!!!
So might I guess that the reason why Ebonshield said he would not fight against someone from her "school" is because she is a assassin?
No wonder Ebonshield was so eager to leave. The place is full of more assholes than Dark Helmet's cruiser.
Is it me or was anyone expecting to see anonymous step out of no where and take on the clone? It would have been cool. This is good too, don't get me wrong, but this is just an idea.
I see why Estelars are so respected. Seems like you must endure a trial by fire, not just be a "model soldier" like in the Canterlot military. I bet there are high ranking Equestrian officers who haven't seen a day of combat but in the batpony military, training IS combat.
Im also suddenly very curious as to how Ignacio manages this magic. Is his instrument enchanted? Is it his natural magic? Does music have an innate magical essence? Is the arena enchanted and the instrument just works as a remote control? Super neat!
A little disappointed that Purity is a rogue/assassin like we all thought she would be. Not that there's anything wrong with it, I just love me a good curveball. The ponies seem very surprised, but I guess a lifetime of anime and assassin's Creed games makes it not that special to us. You showed something like that to a Roman Legionairre and they'd lose their shit.
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TMFAT is out and about; he's still commenting in the comments section as well.
Eh. One shouldn’t wake a ornery sorcerer without expecting something vile coming your way.
Why do they seem so surprised that the blind BAT pony can function at the same level as if he were sighted?
“Middle-aged?” If Eb is in her forties and in top condition, I’d say she’s a little too young(ish) to be thought of as middle-aged just yet.
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I think it depends more of the time rather than how she is in condition. She is in top shape yeah, but assuming ponies lived 80 or 90 years. She is still consider a midddle age mare, by been 47.
…as well as a crib robber which make her a bit creepy but Lily is a crip robber so it kind of balance it out.
Well, of course Ignacio is blind. Old practicioners of “black” magic are all but required to have some suitably gruesome physical handicap, if they’re not simply outright undead or worse -- must be in their union rules or something.
Be interesting to see if there’ll be any payback for what he did, of course; the whole “send him at thee wickedly” line could be taken as bat pony balladeer code for “I’m going to kill you now and enjoy it just because I can!”, after all. On the other hand, caste systems suck for those of “lower” station for a reason. And then again those two in particular might yet turn out to just be actual old buddies who are simply that used to playing hardball...
...meh, it’s plain and simply too soon to tell before at least the next chapter. I will say, though, that as far as first impressions go bat pony culture seems to be actively going out of its way to paint itself in a bad light.
Well, that's what she gets for waking a guy up so early 🤷♂️
Yes, yes. This is a great Chapter for the enjoyment of the martial arts and magical theory, but I must point out how wholesome it is that Glamerspear has taken to protect her leathery-winged friend and comrade who just a few days ago she suspected of sucking Equestrian blood...
...and how less wholesome she is now that she's openly fantasizing about the Royal Engineer without the aid of Mamaburn-induced fever daydreams.
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Me: waiting all day for this chapter to come out
Also Me working front counter at McDonald's is seeing the new chapter has come out:
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Well, to be fair. Bat Ponies in the story haven't been mentioned to be able to use echolocation as real bats do. Like Glamerspear pointed out earlier, They instead have eyes similar to those of cats (and Nightmare Moon), which are apparently capable of similar night vision.
Same concept behind using training weapons... ramped up to 11. You're not afraid to go all out.
Also wondering if Purity gets promoted due to this being some sort of "surprise" test; the lesson being 'separate your feelings with what must be done' and 'death does not wait for you to be ready'
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Maybe so, but that doesn't mean that it's outside of the realms of possibility when said sight is lost.
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It's true. Although it's an extremely rare ability, it's documented that some people have been able to develop Human Echolocation abilities either by developing it themselves or having someone else who has developed the skill teach it to them.
I wonder if Ignacio was able of the same feat as those people...
hallelilia this was an awesome chapter !
i expectet ebonshield to be a badass fighter an i got delivert :D
Talk about fighting your inner demons.
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So, the bat ponies have a a second language inside their territory? Catalán is an official language in Cataluña(Origin), Valencia and some Islands of spain together with Spanish, but Catalán is a special language that manage to survive time, the region(Cataluña) was difficult to conquer in a way, so the romans coudln't completely change the language, it was influenced, but very slowly and very late in its life, spanish on the other hand was born directly from latin and also influenced by arabic occupation, but said occupation didn't change Catalán, or did it very little, so the originial languages of the region evolved apart, resulting in the spanish and Catalán of today, is there something similar for the bat ponies in the storiy? If you use Valencia in Catalán, it means that language exist in this story, spanish doesn't have this "è".
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Most of the batponies in this story take inspiration from Catalonian culture and I've tried to use Catalan language idioms where possible. That was at the urging of readers in the /mlp/ thread at the time when Ebonshield was first introduced -- my original idea was to have her speaking British English as opposed to the Equestrians' American.
I never thought about where there might be "other" Spanish dialects represented but I suppose one explanation is that simply the batponies who were invited/allowed to form the Canterlot Rookery mostly come from a single region of the Moon (and this is a very distinct possibility given their history, as will be revealed in time). Or perhaps Catalan is simply the dominant dialect on the Moon, and what we would call mainline Spanish is a local vernacular. Or perhaps it doesn't exist at all.
I admit I haven't *really* though through completely why 1000 years of separation means Equestrians speak American English and batponies speak Catalan Spanish. There must have been a France/Prance somewhere in the past too -- although not explicitly stated in the story, I headcannon that "Prance" must have been the original nation for most Unicorns. Maybe a proto-Catalan was one of many languages that existed at the time of the split and won out amongst the batponies while Equestria harmonized to English.
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My own thought on this subject was that the Batponies that formed the largest initial contingent of the Children of the Stars spoke Spanish because, for whatever reason, the majority of the ponies that flocked to Nightmare Moon's banner initially came from the place that spoke it, which simultaneously explains why they'd have linguistic evolution away from an Equestrian (English) language, and why the Lunars would still have a background and foundation to learn how to speak fluent Equestrian quickly.
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The Lunars have their own reasons for being able to speak perfect Equestrian.
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Catalán is a Spanish dialect as much as portugesse or Italian are Spanish dialects, Catalán, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Occitano(Catalán is an Occitano dialect actually) , all are "Romance Languages", which means they all come from Latin, and are very similar between them, Spanish Italian and portoguese can actually understand each other to a certain degree, Catalán is more similar to Italian than Spanish, though mostly in written form, french is the farthest from the others in pronunciation and writing, but still somewhat understandable in written form to the others; according to your explanation, I assume Latin was the original language of the bat Ponies one thousand years ago, then, different languages evolved when they went to the moon in different regions, prench evolved in equestria from Latin from bat Ponies that didn't go to the moon, bat Ponies passed the language to Ponies, that would the most logical conclusion, unless you have other ideas.
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When you factor in that their sense of hearing is more sensitive than that of a human, there is a high probability that the ones that DON'T develop a form of echolocation are the exception.
Many of us wait for Anon to get some action. While watching Ebonshield fight was awesome, I feel somewhat disappointed I'll have to wait longer. Then I realize Shadow-Anon got some fight time so, I'll consider it as Anon himself fighting... Though I do believe Ignacio got it right, Me thinks Anon wouldn't just 'stay down'. And another thing, Since it was His shape that injured her leg, I wonder if Anon will somehow feel responsible. On the flip side how will Ebonshield feel about having to kill a magical construct of her crus- I mean VIP Anon? Juicy Stuff I tells ya.
He's quite old (a lot of time to practice), occupies an obvious position of great note (has clearly been practicing with great success), and has a custom-made location tailored for him... I mean, if you walk into Twlight Sparkle's personal ritual room, while she's there with her favorite spell book, and you ask her to do some magic, don't be surprised when she whips out some mind-boggling spellwork.
Honestly, outside that room, I bet the easiest way to mess with his ability is... add water. Turn that sand to mud.
Note to self: Never play 'BFG Division' in the arena...
I can just see that anon would like to train with the blind "Master Musician" to get the "Real feel" of battle, because come on how often does one fight with adridalin in there vain's better when your life is in real danger.
Love the Hidden blade dance going on as well, all four hooves are your weapons.
So honestly I can see how this can be a fighting style my brother made it a challenge for it in AC for me to play it with hidden blade.
Talk about being as blind as a bat!
I get the old guy, he is there to be dangerous and simulate war, not for games and relaxing. Keeping his "septima estrella" on her hooftips both physicaly and mentaly, he did the Anon golem thing to screw with her mind rather than anything else. What I wonder is how he knows how a human fights? Hell he even blind. Hehe, awsome chapter either way making her look like she outranks my fav guard: Honor, I wonder what goes in Honor's head.