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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Ignis most likely requested the magic to generate opponants based on the capabilities measured from the combatants wolrd lines, which included Anon with his closeness and back history of giganumbers?
Top end Quentum Relativity has some extremely non human belief behaviours.
What a fucking twist that Artemis has probably ruined the relationship and not Huckleberry.
Oh honey...
Oh honey...
Oh ho— seriously, how many more times am I going to have to say it for this chapter?
Poor Sparkshower. That sweet but naive little pony really is her own worst enemy at times.
We all knew it was coming to this
So many ponies in need of a hug in this chapter, holey cow.
Oh this sweet summer child...
In Sparkshower’s defense, it looks an awful lot like she’s being ghosted or very haphazardly strung along. She may not be consciously willing to admit it, but deep down, she’s got to be feeling it.
Yes, the awkward is VERY strong in this one, and here I thought it would be a letter from Huckleberry that'd cause the drama
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I both understood and didn't understand this comment.
Well that was all kinds of not-good, eh? Poor Sparkshower.
Honor... just dance the Maypole with the Royal Engineer already. Lily's gonna' be otherwise occupied.
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I'm not unconvinced that Ray Casting is completely ruled out. Ignacio might have been using an "advanced, master's version" of similar magic. Y'know, the way your backyard sky-peeper and a mountain top dome-mount are both telescopes, but one is by far and away more advanced, and capable of so much more because of it.
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She finally gets a letter back:
"Okay. See you next vacation?"
And nopony has any idea what to make of it.
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Really this is all I can say about Sparkshower's entire situation.
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As much as I want to roll my eyes at Sparkshower’s feather-brained antics, I don’t think it’s fair to place the full blame for this situation on her alone. From the sound of it, she’s tried on numerous occasions to make contact with her Huckleberry only to be given the brush off every single time.
I feel what happened here was a result of her going into panic mode and having no one to stop her from doing something stupid.
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I agree but still, the poor dear is totally distraught
My guess for how the Maestro's musical sand spell works is that it uses the target's mind against them, creating enemies from their own memories. Like Boggarts in Harry Potter. The way the Maestro was surprised afterwards by how tall Anon is suggests he didn't really know anything about him at all during the fight. But Eb has seen him move around enough that she could imagine how he would fight.
Also I'm guessing the Maestro uses echolocation to find his way around. Perhaps it's not necessarily something all batponies know how to do, but for one that is also born blind and specialized in sound based magic it seems kind of obvious to me.
But they mentioned the Royal Engineer once before that and six times after... did Eb not know it was supposed to be secret, and did the others forget in the heat of the moment?
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I think Honour Bound was just being facetious, here. Though Glammerspear is clearly the most hostile towards Ebonshield’s latest colt, I get the impression that H.B is non-too-thrilled to engage with him either.
Wow, Eb's colt-toy is really the luckiest stallion in Equestria.
Oh dear.
i love this, this is fun
At this point he's just going to have to pick all four of them up at once and dance around the pole with the ribbon in his teeth.
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Oh, he was doing his part. By not doing his part, to be specific.
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We already knew that.
gosh poor inocent sparky, she messd up big time. mostly becouse she missed her colt dearly
The universe is conspiring to make The Royal Engineer and Sparkshower a couple.
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Front page headline in the morning paper:
Royal Engineer to Bring Back Herding?
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Alas, it's not up to me.
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"Royal Engineer viciously assaults our most ancient tradition!"
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I agree that he is also to blame. My statement was more about how everyone in the comments for the past few chapters have been saying that due to Huckleberry's actions or lack thereof, that would be the catalyst for the relationship ending but now it seems Artemis' letter will be the catalyst instead.
So I’ve got this pile of mail for an uh Artemis sparksnower, but no one in the city knows who that is.
That’s an h, you idiot!
I wonder if at the start of the next chapter we will see this big pile of letters arrive, perfect dramatic tension /irony
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It was Artemis' letter; Artemis Sparkshower is the mare in a relationship with Huckleberry Pudding. Lily Glamerspear is the unicorn who's made herself the "side chick" for Captain Mailedhoof.
my guess on Ignacio's sand constructs is a form of aetheric resonance. like sonar but with magic echoes instead of sound. which would explain why he was able to pinpoint everyone else and address them and "look" at them like he had eyes, but with Anon he only had a vague idea where he was, likely using mundane sonar. everyone else he could "see" their inner leylines and mana path ways and the like, but anon has so little in his system that he appears like just background noise. I'm assuming the bare minimum amount needed to support life, if any at all. with a full sorcery going the spell filled in the gaps with mundane information like sound, since all his magic seems to be song based. basically a ultrasound examination "ahh yes this is how this muscle group connects and moves, and this is how this joint works...." and filled in the blanks with guess work and some kind of built in logic matrix in the spell.
this lack of magic however also explains him being immune to the Princess's majesty.
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Fixed it in both of my comments.
Ffs, I don't know why but no matter how hard I try I continue to mix their names up, not once has this happened with any other story or characters. It's like a curse or something. What makes it worse is that their names reference their professions and special talent so it shouldn't be that hard.
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Don't worry, you're not the only one! There have been a number of fixes in the original story over the years where TheManFromAnotherTime got them mixed up, too; I've made that mistake myself in a few chapters as well.
I've been wondering how that blind pony earlier could conjure up things without having seen them.
Either he's seen another human before he went blind, or he has some sort of arcane equivalent of echolocation - the ability to send out waves of arcane energy, imperceptible to most, including other unicorns, but capable of receiving enough information back to "see" around them.
(whistle) Discord missed one doozy of a chaotic start of the day.
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Please do NOT post spoilers from the greentext. Ignacio has only mentioned being able to "hear" Glamerspear's horn so far.
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Hasn't he? I thought he explained how he moved around before. Shit.
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They've met him once so far. In the first meeting he says he can "hear" Glamerspear's horn (he claims it "buzzes" when lit) and that Sparkshower (a pegasus) does not have the ears to hear it as he does, while he claims Glamerspear should, even though Glam herself says she can't.
Given some of the conversations and situations Eb has walked into in the short week or so she's been in Equestria, all I can imagine running through her head is this clip.
Let's give a thumbs Up here, who ALSO FACEPALMED before, during, and after the end of this lines.
I have the feeling Huckleberry will be making an impromptu appearance at the Grand Galloping Gala - possibly partway through this Maypole Dance and his mood will be far from calm and collected.
Oh my poor girl. She's so sweet and innocent. I think it'll work out in the end. She's wasting her time with huck and needs a stallion who is on her level in terms of wants and needs
Give me a ping, Vasili, one ping only please
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Discord will be absolutely proud.
What a desaster I wonder if her Pudding might be a simpelton so he might not get the implications
Well... Time to inform Anon of his not dancing a couple dance with his naive guardsmare...
I like Ebs study toy
Nice chapter
Awesome chapter, but omg sparks...
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What exacly? That faceless stud become her ex?
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You make good points.
I guess it slipped out?
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Nice~♡
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Second it
Oh wow, I didn't expect that it would be Sparkshower that would end up dashing the relationship to pieces. Oof.
This broke the Robo.
My guess for how the Maestro conjured the sand minions is pretty much the same as rowantwig's: due to all the sound bouncing around the arena he was able to sense how Anon looked and moved. Similar to seeing just what was going on and how to move his puppets. Lily was being too dismissive with her conversation with the colt toy. Just because you've done training doesn't mean something hasn't come up recently or other teachings out there. Granted being very irritated and having a short fuse at the time doesn't lend itself to broader thoughts at the time.
Okay...The colt may have gone been on to something with the Ray Casting theory, the main flaw in Glamspear's argument is that he needs to be able to see to supposedly be able to use it, and ray casting instead works on a conceptual level meaning as long as he knows about the existence of the Anon he can make a golem of him.
My god it works on the same principle as Emiya's projection magic.
First off I just want to say that I think this is a great chapter, one of the few fanfics I check on the daily for updates.
Second throwing up a idea as to how Ignacio was able to to see and use his creations so effectively, I believe the key lies not in any inherent magic ability instead his semi mutated Batpony physiology.
His hearing especially, as it was noted in a comment before he could hear the fizzling of glammerspear's magic and even have a general sense of where everypony seemed to be. I believe because of the hypersensitive hearing he has he is able to use sounds as a way of Echolocation, and he was able to create so many of his sand creatures because of others he's "seen". speaking of how he see's and controls them so well, is his Music, in a cave where sound bounces all around the entire room, with loud music that he played not only do I believe he was able to get a very close mental image to where everypony was, but also, how everyone looks to a degree painting a image through the sounds and reverberations coming from the sound waves and what they make contact with, also including his sand golems (just calling them this as I dont fully know what to call them) allowing him to control them fluidly and realistically as to how a creature would be able to move, and as humans aren't the only bipedal creature in equestria im sure he could have a general idea how one would fight. As for how he controls the sand itself, ill be honest and say I don't have a clue, as I dont know the rules, technicalities, and physics behind mlp magic .
Feel free to @ me if you have any other ideas for how he can control the sand or if you think im wrong im open for criticism!