She appeared as if from nowhere, a dark shadowed figure full of dread magic. Shining Armor and Cadance scowled with apprehension, but her attention was on the _other_ shadowy overlord that stood before her. Only one could remain.
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Damn... poor Shifting. I liked her.
Trust and faith are some of the most difficult things to build up, and more often than not the most easy to break. You can spend years building them up, but in a single instant it can all come crashing down.
Shifting is very irrational, are we sure it was, her snd not a imposter? Not the first time i read that happened...
Otherwise
The Beach is full of Sand, one Sandcorn on a Beach filled with opportunities.
Now Shifting becomes a background character. But without faith the whole thing became unstable. Better to be fast and hard done.
A sad ending to a romantic relationship . And it was definitely Umbra's fault.
Now Umbra has introduced the concept of the infinite Multiverse to Equestria. But with the multiple mirrors Celestia should have already come up with the concept.
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Is that so surprising? Their relationship was not built upon rationality; it would seem unreasonable to think that rationality would be their primary navigational aid.
ETA:
I just realized: Shifting is probably going home. There is absolutely no way Cadence is not going to immediately figure out what happened.
Things like this happen in a polycule (sadly speaking from experience here)
Ugh. Monogamy is such a disease. Pity's it's common enough that people see it as normal.
Rip that relationship
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They thought the mirrors led to other literal worlds, out there, not here. 'Here, but different' is hard to pin down.
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A Shapeshifter less, a world of potencial lovers still a option
Umbra will be a great leader one day with a big follower pool. Perhaps a great leader to her subjects and allies and terrific enemy to have...
Heart wrenching, but always refreshing to see consequences realized.
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Not exactly a healthy way of looking at it. The way I see it is that monogamy is easier. Fitting only one extra into your life is far, far less harder than two or more. Or how about an open relationship? The amount of trust you must have for that has to be ludicrous. Humans are greedy, selfish, and fickle by default, so letting someone you love go around and lay with other people sounds just straight-up insane to most people. How do you trust that they're telling you everything? It's not easy.
Not everyone is up to try anything more difficult than monogamy, and that's perfectly fine.
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Not necessarily. How do you trust your partner isn't going behind your back? The same thing is true for monogamy as it is for polyamory. Communication is a vital part of any relationship, as is setting boundaries from the start. For polyamory to work, you have to be a person that doesn't easily get jealous over your partner having another relationship, same as your partner not getting jealous if you have a relationship with another person. Trust must be a given, as it needs to be in a closed off relationship and a mono one, an open relationship depends on you being honest with those you love.
Sure, a poly relationship could easily look more complicated from the outside, especially one that gets tangled in multiple forms of polyamory, but it works just as well as a mono relationship if you know you can trust your partner to tell you everything. If you can't? Why the hell are you in a relationship with them if you need to control them to make sure they don't break your trust? That's the same for every type of relationship. If it happens, you either forgive them for it or you break up with them. Now, breaking up can be a lot more complicated depending on whether or not that person was also in a relationship with someone else you both were in a relationship with, but that's a wholly different can of worms.
Monogamy doesn't necessarily have to be easier. It is certainly harder for those people that have a natural inclination to be polyamorous. It will tear them apart if they have to choose between two people they love (or more). Sometimes it can be easier to be together in a polycule, sometimes it can be easier to be in an open relationship, and sometimes it gets even complicated with mono relationships. Now, throw in a whole bunch of different varieties of homoromantic, bi/panromantic, aromantic, and whatnot into the mix and then the fun can begin in earnest.
This chapter... hit a bit close to home.
My ex cheated on me in January. She begged for me to stay and I agreed, but then she walked away and led me on this year.
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I'm poly, but this attitude of your's is abhorrent.
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I can only hope I shone a proper light on the feelings at play here. Umbra saw that dark path, and could have walked it easily. Talking Shifting down wouldn't have been that hard.
But she turned away from that. As wrong as she was to cheat, I feel she was a bigger pony for letting another care for themselves before minding her feelings at that point.
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I will say it's simpler, just for less moving parts. But not easier. There is a difference.
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I suppose that's the better word for it. Still, one can mess up a relationship in the same way for every kind of relationship. The fallout might end up being different, but the gist is the same. Whether by accident or on purpose, messing it up can happen with the same actions.
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I'll say, Umbra resolved it better than most people would. I still don't understand why she did it in the first place, but perhaps that's my demiromantic/demisexual brain not comprehending why people do stuff like that when they are in a relationship. Umbra is someone that thinks things through from what I've seen so far, but her brain seemed to go AWOL at that moment. Happens to the best of us, I suppose. Haah, what a bummer... I certainly didn't expect it to come to this when they got together. That's the reason why you need to talk these things through at the beginning of a relationship, just so everyone is on the same page.
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For the second part. I think Umbra forgot what is normal. First a unstable male human, than a powerful female unicorn, a open relationship with royalty, turning in a alicorn hybrid, a relationship with a changeling and a adopted daughter of a race she herself killed. Plus all the fights and work.
I think "to adapt" became her common sense.
Or David just like a little drama in the story ;-)
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Yeah feels drama for drama. Sake to droppi g the story now.