A scientifically brilliant but antisocial former student of Canterlot High seeks out Adagio Dazzle, now alone and down on life. He promises to restore her powers in return for help with a massive scientific breakthrough.
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Well damn...
I'll give it to Twilight here, she can talk one hell of a game. Even I'm having a hard time not seeing Radian come around to her point of view after that. This really highlights the difference between how Twilight was after she accepted her destiny as Equestria's sole ruling princess from how she was in earlier seasons. In fact, she's almost a little too confident here; while she's still bad at flirting, her referencing the villains she's faced and how she's not naive felt a bit more self-actualized than the show ever portrayed her.
Still, it was an impressive showing on her part. Particularly for someone who's as comparatively sheltered as Radian's been. On the other hoof, this also felt like they were stepping back the flirting a bit, more to a "siblings teasing each other" level than "they're on the verge of having an affair." Something I doubt Adagio would forgive him for if Radian was ever dumb enough to do.
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There's a bunch of details about late season FiM I took issue with. I didn't want to change that, but decided to take what I could and make alterations, and Twilight (plus her ascension) being one of the biggest ones. There are others, like the school of friendship as a concept, but I've addressed that (Starlight and Sunburst are still principal and vice principal, but they mentioned how they've turned it into a combination of a traditional school/college and a cultural learning centre for everyone seeking to travel or visit Equestria and beyond).
One of the few absolute changes, as mentioned in an earlier chapter, is that Twilight is still being prepared to take over. I didn't see it as a major stretch to say that Celestia and Luna have decided to stay on for a little while longer and make the transition more organic. I know mentoring Twilight was already somewhat addressed, but this felt better, at least to me.
As for Twilight herself, I went into this story knowing I needed her to be the best version of Twilight I could envisage. To be honest, I wanted to be as kind to all the characters as possible while leaning on their strengths and flaws, but obviously Twilight's the most important character from the Equestria side (to the point I'm on the fence about changing the main character tab for Aria and Sonata to just use the Dazzlings, keeping Adagio since she is a deuteragonist, and adding Twilight), so she naturally had to strike all the right notes. To have her be the right level of benevolent but strong willed, clever in both ways seen as devious and knowledgable and so forth. Keeping her sillier traits was just as important, like still freaking out a little about some of her past misdeeds and her... somewhat questionable eating habits.
I've dropped hints that they would have got along like a house on fire fairly early, so it shouldn't have been too much of a surprise. Both like their lists, both were anti-social intellectuals and both had the same opinion of the rest of the mane six when first exposed to them; that 'they're crazy'. Strange minds think alike.
But yes, as mentioned in the last chapter and carried on here, there's a mutual attraction, but Ray's specifically said he would side with Adagio no matter what, and Twilight has likewise been adamant that she respects their relationship too much to let this develop more than a friendship. A very close one, evidently, due to their interests, background and how supportive Twilight's been and how honest Ray's become.
Of course we've yet to see REAL, un-addled Adagio and Twilight meet. I wonder how that'll turn out...
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one adagio would murder him OR she'd be ok with it ether because maybe sirens or even aquatic mammals have more than one partner i THINK dolphins have herd similar to horses i think there called pods