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I have a dog, he is evil, I love him

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Princess Flurry Heart is the new ruler of the Crystal Empire, thanks to her no longer petrified friends. She goes to give her parents a visit. They aren't happy to see her, but they have no choice in the matter.

Written for the one thousand word contest.

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well, hope she dies

They should be happy that Flurry didn’t continue the Empire’s tradition of regicide.

This is incoherent. There's really nothing here to hint at character motivation beyond "for the evulz hurf durf". There's barely anything to connect it to known characters from the show.

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Fair, but I'm a sucker for the stories where there's a villain who is cruel just because it is fun

So she's just doing this for fun boring you had Canon the her parents break out find a way to repower Twilight and bring Discord back defeat all of the villains she and the villain gets sent back to Tartarus and for flurry heart since she thinks the amount of paint is causing is fun 😊 we cut off our horn and our wings tie her up with chains ⛓️ throw it in a prison cell filled with monsters that haven't eaten in days and see how much fun she has feeling the pain and bring it back to life and do it again and again and again and again and we keep torturing her for the same amount of time she's been in power and for in that time ends that's when we let her die permanently no less than what she deserves

Okay, but why though?

Seriously, there's no rationale for Flurry's turn to the dark side here beyond "Felt cute. Might overthrow my aunt later." As Cadence notes, even Flurry's own logic doesn't hold up to even the most casual scrutiny. Point A needs to connect to Point B or the story falls apart, and there's no connective tissue to be found here. Sorry, but this bleakness for the sake of bleakness just doesn't work.

The door unlocked, and Flurry walked through, then locked it behind her. She waved the smoke from her eyes and then made her presence known.

oof, that is ominous already, if she is letting herself in to a space that was not unlocked for her, and then locking it behind her

"Hi, mommy, daddy," she said, "I brought you some food, daisy sandwiches, frog eye salad, and chocolate milk."

frog eye salad? what?

Cadence sprang out of bed. Her featherless wings instinctively opened to fly away, but she folded them as soon as her shock wore off. She couldn't fly anyway, not without her magic. Shining was nowhere to be seen.

oof, that is a disquieting mental image! poor Cadance...

You've seen Trixie and Starlight Glimmer and how happy they were when they helped Chrysalis take over her portion of Equestria.

augh, what happened there? i mean, Flurry turning out evil is one thing, almost expected, but Starlight and Trixie? :(

If you don't have at least a bite, I'll cast a 'want it, need it spell' again. "

augh love how casually horrifying this is! and the worst is that between her mom and aunt, she has had bad examples to learn this kind of magic from

"Auntie Twily's the princess of friendship and magic, and since my friends deprived her of magic and her friends, she had no power to use. Now Auntie Twilight is staring at a wall in Tartarus, with nothing except her thoughts."

augh, poor Twilight! :(

Flurry's smile fell. She growled, "I will never do that. My subjects will never have to live under him ever again. The rest of Equestria is suffering, but there are more resources for my kingdom to prosper because nopony else is using them." Flurry gripped her parents' faces and made them stare at her. "Even Cozy, as bloodthirsty as she is, knows to not harm my subjects. If she does, I will kill her. I love her, but I love my subjects more."

oof, and i love how Flurry is doing all of this for a greater purpose in her own mind. i mean, very zero-sum and even downright evil, but wow, this rings so true to how people can justify the worst deeds if it means the good of the people they care about, no matter the suffering of the people not in that group.

Flurry grinned, then let them go. "You are, but I'm the princess of families. Shouldn't my family get special treatment?"

augh, what a delightfully dark twist on the idea! and it makes a certain kind of sense in my mind, which really makes this work for me. one reason why i disliked Flurry's existence in the canon is that it makes royalty hereditary and unearned, and this is in a twisted way the ultimate response by Flurry to that contradiction. i love it!

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