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RangerOfRhudaur


Nai hiruvalye Valimar, nai elye hiruva; namarie!

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This story is a sequel to The Lay of Canterlot High


He was at the head of a mighty host, sergeant in a great army of the voiceless 200 strong and growing. As they marched from Our Town in the northeast down towards the capitol, their numbers swelled, seeming to double with every three towns they passed through. The air in their camps was electric, brimming with promise, with hope, the hope that the revolution might succeed. All was going so well, he couldn't help but grin.

But it was still his fake grin, the one he wore to try to cover up the screams whirling around inside him. And as they settle down for the evening, preparing for the last leg of the journey, he desperately tries to stop them from escaping, from giving voice to his hidden fears.

But in the darkness of the night, however much of a sergeant he might be in the daytime, Party Favor is still the boy who cried himself to bed with laughter, and the fears he tried to leave behind are not done with him yet.

TW: Interphobia, some non-sexual reproductive organ depiction (non-explicit)


Continuity: The Song of the Spheres
Branch: The Seekers of the Stars

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Comments ( 18 )

What's Interphobia?

I'm going to assume that blitzball doesn't involve a giant sphere of magically levitated and contained water. :raritywink:

In any case, a haunting reminder of how Starlight recruited her followers. The lost, the forsaken, the desperate... from these materials is Equalism made. You don't join a revolutionary movement because you're happy with the status quo. And that description of the tenets of Equalism leave some terms worryingly vague. Especially "eminence." Given the prophecies we've seen, I doubt many realize just what they signed up for...

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It's a variant of "intersexphobia," which to me seemed like a bit of a mouthful, though the concept is the same; lack of understanding, fear, and/or hatred of intersex individuals. Do you think I should replace it?

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Lol, no on blitzball, though once everything's calmed down Dashie might want to try that. Thanks for making me want to come with headcanons regarding what it's actually like, too.

Also, yes, the fact that Party Favor's membership in a cult is basically the high point of his life is horrifying. Starlight found him and countless others like him, those society either spat on, cast out, or just ignored, and began singing; "Oh, come little children..." Glad to hear I managed to leave the Equalism tenets disturbingly vague! The way Favor's remembering them isn't exactly the way Starlight describes them, of course, (too complicated, too thought-intensive), but even dumbed down they are disturbingly vague, for good reason; nobody takes to the streets for "A 2% funding increase for this obscure social program!", they take to the streets for "Equality!" The less specific you can be in your political talking points, the better off you'll be, sadly.

Oh, don't worry, Unmarked, Mother Starlight will take care of you. Don't listen to those hideous, hierarchical prophecies, don't listen to the oppressors crying wolf, just gather round, gather closer, just a little bit closer, just a little bit closer and then you can stay with me, forever.

Ok, so I’m guessing that the reason he’s with them is because they’ve been the only ones that actually cared about him.

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True. Kind of sad, isn't it? He's a member of an authoritarian cult, and that's the high point of his life story. Oh, my poor boy, I want to give him a hug so bad. :applecry:

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Does he even believe what they stand for?

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Oh, yes. He's one of the most frenzied of Starlight's supporters, partially because he genuinely thinks she's right (the hierarchy of school and masculinity drove him out of his home), partially to quiet his doubts about it, his completely unreasonable doubts about the only people in the world who care about him. Just because he's a bit confused by some of Starlight's ideas (the bit of cognitive dissonance where he reassures the leaders of the Unmarked that he's really against hierarchicalism, a philosophy based on a few making decisions for the many under them, in other words having leaders, is an example of this) doesn't mean he's going to think they're wrong; the Unmarked are his family, and unlike his mother and father, he intends to stand by his family.

Comment posted by Pete100 deleted May 25th, 2021

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So just like the others in the unmarked he’s gonna need a body bag?

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I don't know that things are gonna go that far. I can confirm, though, that the Unmarked are going to get burned in some way.

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Oh. Because, based on what I’ve read so far there seems to gonna be a battle or war. So I assumed some would die.

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Perhaps, perhaps not. We shall have to see.

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Astute observation, though; yes, it does appear that things are creeping towards a boil, doesn't it? But what form will that boil take? A war or battle, as you foresaw? A political conflict? Something else entirely? Conflict does appear to be approaching, but what form it will take, as well as how deadly it will be, is still up in the air.

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Ohh. Ok, that makes sense.

He grabbed whatever he could find through the tears. Even his own parents, the people who'd given birth to him, the two people in the world he thought he could count on, thought he was weird. It wasn't fair; just because he was born a little different, just because his voice was a little high and his face a little soft, suddenly he didn't deserve to be a man? They didn't even talk about asking him, asking the boy they were going to mutilate if he was okay with it. He was a circus freak, there to be stared at, poked and prodded, a thing instead of a person.

Sweet filly tapdancing Luna on a pogo stick, this is fyayed up.

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