Inspired by the fanart: Reform Therapy
By Doodle-Mark
A writing challenge by Tranquility Soul
Discord managed to persuade her friend to take up the challenge of trying to change four villains of their ways. Discord is here for protection and support, whilst Fluttershy tries to get every villain to settle. However, things can only be good up to a certain point with four villains in the room.
First time writing a one-off story like this. There's always room to jump up on improvement from there, but this is, for now, the best I can muster up with the amount of imagination and character knowledge I can put up with.
Chapters (1)
I think Fluttershy gave up way too easily on them here. All she did was berate them, try one exercize with and thats it. And frankly, they were behaving pretty well all things considered, only arguing with each other rather then try anything phyiscal. If Fluttershy had this level of patiance when dealing with Discord, I think he would still be a statue.
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That was my reaction as well. I like the setup, but Fluttershy gave up on them way too easily. Discord says their past the point of redeeming, but neither of them tried that hard at all. And yes, the villains were only arguing. The idea that failing one exercise at one session means the villains can’t be reformed is as lazy as it is stupid. It’s like saying an alcoholic can’t be saved because he had a drink after one AA meeting.
And yes, Discord was just as unwilling, if not more so, to change. It took a lot of tries, but they didn’t give up. Yet we’re supposed to believe the trio and Sombra can’t, when the reform efforts were so half-hearted. Perhaps in a sequel they can try again. Personally, I think Discord should be kept away from these reform efforts. His presence isn’t helping.
To be fair to the author, this a one off story and I fer one found it to be funny for what it is, though there is potential for a sequl though that is up to the author if they want to or not.
Not bad. Have a Thumbs Up!
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Good for a one-shot comedy, though I definitely concur with the criticism of Fluttershy giving up too easily. I admittedly have a bias against Discord being the arbiter of who can or can't be redeemed, since I really dislike that twist of him using the villains to boost Twilight's confidence (not trying to start debates, no thank you), but I also admittedly have a bias for Sombra, my favorite villain, and thoroughly enjoyed the gag of him being tortured as dust (shadow jam?) in a jar.
Also, Fluttershy was a real alpha.
I honestly can’t lie; I wanted this to keep going. It’s so good; yet so short. This story should be longer. It’s that good
Seemed like Fluttershy gave up pretty quickly, but what Discord did to them was hilarious.
In a way, the premise of this kind of reminds me of a video of Doctor Wolf, where he has a therapy session with all of the Legion thanks to Discord in an effort to understand them better and reform them.
This story is exalant keep up the good work 10 out 10
Fluttershy gave up WAY too easily.
Did you mean there?
You missed a word.
LOL. Btw, I loved the story. It's comedy for sure.