(Tagged AU as there's no evidence either way to suggest Ahuizotl was lying in "Daring Doubt". Featured on 2/02/2022.)
Daring Do is convinced she no longer has anything to fear from either of her greatest enemies: Doctor Caballeron and Ahuizotl. She has the Truth Talisman of Tonatiuh as proof, the artifact never lies.
Or does it? Not long after her latest book is published, Daring Do learns that someone is threatening the Tonatiuh Basin. And that someone turns out to be Ahuizotl!
But how was he able to lie to and fool Daring Do? And what is the real reason he'd want her out of the way? Like it or not, Daring Do will learn a harsh truth about her nemesis, not everyone is capable of changing for the better.
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This was great!
Well done, I remember the debates about whether or not he was bullshitting, especially if one knows their mythology
Wow now this is what I call a real twist better than the episode itself, glad you steered away from the old cliche
Hmm...while I do think that this is better than other attempts at the idea, I still think it falls short. That's not a reflection on you as a writer, that's more me just having a problem with that "plot twist" as a whole. I don't really think there's much of anything that can be done to salvage it at that point (aside from headcanoning that it didn't happen if one wishes too).
Still, I at least applaud the effort, so have an upvote from me.
Eh, I prefer the idea that he was genuine when he spoke
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This, but with a bit more thought put into it he's worryingly proactive. Any guardian who goes "the most efficient way to deal with the problem of invaders is to burn the whole world with these rings I happen to be guarding" and then tries to actually go through with it is one who should not be allowed to roam free.
Even though this story has the AU tag, I’ve actually immediately seen this kind of event happening in the official canon of the show. Especially considering he was never present during Twilight’s coronation.
Everything about this one-shot was truly an amazing read, and it’s once again an example of you being able to tackle the kind of concepts I had in mind better than I could do myself. The explanation for how he was able to overcome the effects of the Talisman made so much sense too. Heck, you definitely have a point on lie detectors not always being very reliable, and the Talisman was basically the artifact equivalent of a lie detector.
I don’t know whether this would be too much to ask, but I deeply hope that you could make sequels to this story. Because now, I’m wanting to see where things would be going from here more than anything.
Once again, I feel like that this is a good tidbit for a sequel?
great.
Sequel?
Sure is good he managed to convince himself he was a guardian then.
"It was me Daring Do. The author of all your pain."
Or you could have launched your plan to take over the Basin without drawing her a map to the fact that you were evil. Just saying.
Again, if you had launched your scheme without the need to gloat, you might have gotten away with it.
Now what's to prevent Daring from assuming you already have artifacts and coming back with a army to look for them?
Seriously why is it that supervillains always think their clever for doing the bare minimum?
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True, but then we could say the same about Discord.
We all knew he was lying about being a good guy.
The show writers didn't.
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It wasn't the whole world he was focused on. Just the basin would have gotten those centuries of heat.
To be brutally honest, I wasn't a fan of this story. It just seems like too much of a turnaround to be believable.
Daring Do: "Ahuizotl is sus!"
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Of that's the case. Then that Truth Talisman sucks!