Sunset sat on the ground, leaning against Twilight who once again had a good hold of Spike who apparently took off from the girl who was walking him. The other girls sat in a semi circle facing the two with Cornelia on the end followed by Taranee with Hay Lin and Irma matching their leader and new friend leaning against one another for support.
“That was tiring... What was even the point of attacking us?” Cornelia groaned.
“Not out loud, Taranee, link us up and include Twilight.” Sunset said.
“Are you sure?” Taranee asked through the mind link.
“I’m sure, she knows everything and I won’t hide anything from her.” Sunset assured the girl through the mental link.
“Wow, this is weird.” Came Twilight’s voice through the mental link, all of them connected so they could talk without worrying about eavesdroppers.
“I don’t think they were attacking us, I think they were trying to teach us.” Hay Lin said, “Grandmother wasn’t being controlled, and I know she would never be involved in something that would hurt us. The way she talked... It was like she was trying to train me.”
“Wait, you were attacked?” Twilight asked out loud.
“Think it, Twi.” Sunset reminded her, getting an embarrassed giggle from the girl, “And we weren’t attacked, more made to spar I believe. Nerissa slipped something in my hand that she didn’t want anyone to see.”
“What is it?” Taranee asked, worry clear in her thoughts.
“I’m not really sure, but I know it’s important. Whatever it is. I know she gave it to me for a reason and I have a feeling it might come in handy.” Sunset explained.
“I’m not sure if I trust that witch.” Irma groaned, “I guess I do agree with the whole training thing. I mean I never knew I could use my water to heal.”
“Wait, you can heal? That’s a lot better than making rock people to fight.” Cornelia sighed.
“You can make golems?” Sunset asked in shock.
“I think she called them golems.” Cornelia mused, “What’s so special about them?”
“They can be pretty handy, though I doubt you will find much use for them in actual battle seeing how they would more or less slow you down. They are good to know how to use though as they do have a lot of uses outside of battle.” Sunset said.
“Are you okay, Sunset?” Taranee asked with worry.
“What do you mean?” Sunset asked.
“I’m not trying to read your thoughts other than the link, but since you let me create the link I keep getting feelings broadcasting from you.” Taranee explained.
“Is that what this depressive feeling is?” Twilight asked softly, giving Sunset a worried look.
“I’m fine.” Sunset assured them.
“Sunset, even I know it isn’t healthy to bottle up your feelings.” Twilight said.
“We’re your friends, Sunset.” Hay Lin consoled, “Please don’t shut us out.”
Most of the girls winced in pain as images bombarded them, seeing their final argument with Will. The scenes moved from that to Will having a heated argument with Susan, to the redhead going to Meridian to not only storm the castle, but to take out Cedric and Phobos on her own. The way her body seemed to shift from physical to a body made of pure energy was a little disturbing as they could feel all the emotions Will had, but all those emotions seemed to fade when the redhead was in the energy form. It was as if she barely had a conscience. The sad tone of the spirits shook the girls to the core as Will begged to have another chance at a better life.
“STOP IT!” Sunset roared as she jumped from her place on the ground, clutching her head and stumbled a few steps away from the girls. She didn’t think the others felt the presence as it seemed to be aimed at her. It was piggybacking off of Taranee’s mental link with the girls and trying to dig through Sunset’s mind. She had to snap her mental defenses back into place forcing not only whoever was trying to dig into her memories, but severing the link with the girls.
“What was that?” Irma asked, hands over her mouth in horror at seeing Will’s last moments first hand. Hay Lin followed suit, choosing to stay silent though as she cried and shook her head.
“Was that real?” Taranee asked as she stumbled off the ground.
Cornelia and Twilight had rushed to Sunset’s sides, supporting the girl between them as she seemed to be having a panic attack of some kind. The blonde rubbed her back saying, “It’s ok, Sunset, deep breaths.”
“We’re here for you.” Twilight said, rubbing Sunset’s arm.
“I’m sorry.” Sunset gasped out, finally gaining control of herself. “I…I don’t know what happened.”
“Was that really what happened?” Twilight asked in sympathy.
“I think so, yeah.” Sunset groaned, “I don’t really have memories of it. I guess the stupid Heart has shown visions to people, but I wish it would just tell me what it wants.”
“Maybe there’s a reason it can’t?” Twilight suggested, Spike down at her feet began growling towards a dirt path coming down off of the bridge as a limo pulled up. The back door opened and out stepped an enraged looking woman with long blonde hair dressed in an expensive purple dress and heels.
“So you had something you needed to do today?” The woman demanded, taking a few steps in front of the car to stand and glare at Cornelia.
“Mother!” Cornelia gasped out, the girls looking between mother and daughter, the older having an enraged expression and the other had a deer caught in the headlights look.
“You waste your time not only hanging around these degenerates,” The woman sneered, getting an indignant shout from Irma, “But also wasting time spending it with these stupid crayons?”
“I’m sorry girls, I better go.” Cornelia sighed, hurrying over towards her mother while the others looked on in anger at the older woman.
“I can see why Cornelia acts the way she does now.” Twilight whispered from next to Sunset, the other girls crowding around the two to support them.
“Really, crayons?” The woman snarled as Spike kept barking, Twilight having to get a better hold on his leash.
“At least they are better than your friends.” Cornelia said, surprising all of the girls, especially Sunset and Twilight. They were shocked when the woman smacked Cornelia hard, knocking the girl to the ground. They were going to rush to her, but the blonde waved them off and sent a look screaming to stay out of it.
“Mom, please don’t.” A younger girl said climbing out of the car, holding a black and white cat to her with eyes watering with unshed tears.
“Lillian, get back in the car.” Both the older woman and Cornelia said. For the older woman though it was a harsh order, while Cornelia’s was more of a plea.
“Don’t order her around, you little brat!” The woman snarled at Cornelia, standing over the blonde girl.
“I’m not, I just don’t want her to see what a monster you truly are.” Cornelia sighed, earning the woman’s increased ire. The woman spat down at Cornelia with a look of contempt on her face.
“I don’t know what I ever expected from trash like you, half bred crayon.” The woman snapped.
“What do you mean by that?” Cornelia demanded as she was wiping the spit from her face and climbing back to her feet.
“I never wanted you, if it wasn’t for Lillian’s father convincing me to keep you, I would have tossed you to the curb when you were born!” The woman snapped.
“He’s my father too!” Cornelia yelled at the woman.
“No, your father is the biggest mistake in my life. I got drunk and had a one night stand with that crayon trash.” The woman sneered, seeming to enjoy taking joy out of emotionally attacking Cornelia. Sunset started to storm over to stop it, but Taranee grabbed her arm stopping her.
“Cornelia is telling us to stay back and stay out of it.” Taranee whispered to Sunset.
“Let me get this straight. You are yelling at me for spending time with my friends when you’re the one who went and slept with one?” Cornelia choked out, her expression was rage filled yet her eyes were full of tears. “Wow, mother of the year right here.”
“You worthless trash!” The woman screeched, tackling Cornelia to the ground, straddling her and smacking her over and over switching back and forth from one hand to another. The girls were frozen momentarily, not believing something like this could happen. Spike managed to pull free just as the cat squirmed out of the young girl’s arms, both running to the mother beating her daughter.
“STOP IT!” Lillian sobbed out, a bright light engulfing her then covering both Spike and the cat. When the girls could see again two large creatures had stopped the woman. A masculine humanoid cat creature that was black and white had a hold of the woman’s wrist.
“I wouldn’t do that, doll.” The cat said, the dog creature also had a masculine humanoid figure with a vicious looking muzzle of razor sharp teeth snapping just centimeters from the woman’s horrified face.
“Please don’t hurt her!” Cornelia sobbed out as the cat dragged the woman off the crying girl.
“I don’t see why I can’t use her as a chew toy.” The dog growled out.
“Because we aren’t like her, fido.” The cat snarked out making the dog growl.
“What are you?” The woman shrieked after yanking her arm free and running back toward the car and Lillian.
“Hi, I’m Spike.” The dog said cheerfully, but the glare he was sending the woman showed he really wasn’t in a cheerful mood.
“Come on Lillian, leave that trash with her crayon witches!” The woman snapped, dragging Lillian back to the car not noticing the smirk on the girl’s face as the large cat creature shrunk back down to a normal cat and jumped back up in the girl’s arms just before being pushed into the car and the vehicle speeding off.
“What…was…that?” Twilight asked, just as confused as the others as Spike returned to normal and came back to her feet while Sunset and the girls were checking on Cornelia.
“What was what? Spike asked innocently, cocking his head to the side.
“Spike, next time I suggest going for a walk... hide the leash.” Twilight groaned.
“Why? I like walks!” Spike said, getting another groan from Twilight.
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That's good.
Eyup, in the cartoon and even in the comics/books Caleb was with Cornelia, though I'm pretty sure later in the comics they grew apart and Cornelia started dating Taranee's older brother and Elyon got together with Caleb. I may be wrong and getting that mixed up with a fanfiction, so don't trust that statement fully.
That...is scarily so true.
I didn't think she did as I didn't remember, but it would be cool to see Hay Lin be able to do the sun thing though it would be scary just knowing she could lol. I can actually see her using a vacuum as a last resort to knock someone out if she gets good enough control over it.
That is true actually and something I didn't consider a whole lot, it was just the only skill I could really come up with at the time. Maybe if she masters golems though she can get more creative and create smaller more advanced creatures that would be faster and out of other materials? Then again, your other suggstions is still much better than golems anyways. And maybe she could actually use crystal manipulation to create bits/small satellites around her that fires lasers.
It's fine, ranting is good actually. Gives help and new ideas. You have a good point as she did seem to be the type that liked to grandstand and I can see her pushing some of those skills on a student.
To tell the truth, I have no idea how much a pediatricion knows but I do like having Irma as a designated healer. It can be really helpful in tight scrapes and will be useful in the second part for sure. You bring up a good point, one that would make Irma way too powerful for this story as only Sunny gets that kind of powers mwahahaha. Nah, seriously though, Sunset may seem OP a little, but she won't be that way after the beginning of the second part as she has a little extra help that is only temporary.
I don't really know who Alex Mercer is, but I have heard of the game. Just haven't played it. It would be cool to see both Irma and Cassidy get that powerful though since I really like both characters. Like you said though, it's OP so I probably won't delve much into the OP side of things though I do want to keep her able to heal, just not to that extent. Eyup, Irma will likely have to stick with that plan.
I actually didn't know that, but he becoming element is a very important element for the first part.
I might just have to do that in a one shot later as she drags another girl with her who will be getting a makeover to resemble a certain white and pink themed hero from the Marvel Rising specials pretty soon. Probably in the Monday batch of parts.
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I'm glad it was informative, I did actually enjoy the cartoon but it was a bit cringy at times and I think some of the stuff they changed took away from the story.
Looks like everyone but twilight and cadence have something to think about. Because will memory is part of sunset even if she can't access them and they did hurt her
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Maybe they could carefully massage the link to find out what exactly happened to Will?
I'm not saying this to backdoor "Sunset not having Will's memories", rather merely seeing things from Sunset's POV and providing closure for Will
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And hopefully help sunset heal from the emotional wounds she got.
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Yep, though the guardians will start talking to Sunset about it starting with Cornelia pretty soon because of her circumstances.
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They have now pretty much seen Will's last moments and what happened, but they will have to process what happened and Cornelia will be starting things off pretty soon.
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Well, the definition of OP depends on many factors, for me it is simple fact: "Is that ability catapulting character to levels that make all possible antagonists non-threat?" True thanks to her knowledge, divine heritage and experiences Sunset is powerful but not OP. She can still be taken by surprise, there might be some more knowledgeable or powerful opponents, and she can't solve issues alone or in no time at all without lessons, preparation, and all things that a good protagonist needs in a journey *Glaring with malice at Ray Skywalker*.
Alex Mercer, the protagonist of the first game and antagonist of the second one is a scientist that turned into sentient biomass made from viral cells with total control over his makeup and ability to absorb more biomass from other organisms(There are similarities between him and "The Thing" from both old and new movies). Within the borders of his universe this guy and his "cousins" can easily be classified as an apocalyptic threat seeing that in addition to truly destructive capabilities, to kill him you need to annihilate every single cell otherwise he will just respawn like it's nothing from the closest cells (One internaut had the idea that if he used his hair to make plushies that spread via business for children on the entire planet, he would have an infinite amount of plushie "Horcruxes" that military can't track or remove in any way ) There is an ongoing theory that soul destruction attacks don't work on him because he is probably just a viral mass that copied Mercer memories not original and so it is some sort of viral golem. So in short - one scary guy in a hoodie. And the games are nice (Never played but watched let's play for story) if you like "dark power-fantasy slasher".
Yay for trading information ... and Sunset is not well ... at least she's not literally bottling emotions like Starlight, that kind of molotovs would be as funny to watch as volatile Arkham Asylum patients.
Ohh someone's using Heart as focus, either it's the spirit of the heart that tries to be helpful but with limited understanding of mortals does the poor job... or a certain villain that I am almost sure is bald tries to dig where he's not wanted or needed.
It's good that Sunset hides whatever is that she received from Nerissa ... and I kick myself for missing something like that while reading. And Sunny has good idea for golems , work force for quarry for the economic win .
Wow, mommy dearest is bigger Karen that it is legal, usage of Euthanazol pills authorized.
Cornelia has mixed heritage?
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*Looks at poison joke omake* That is a scarily good explanation for stronger than normal and persisting effect, it's not persisting, it's all natural ... and ironic considering that Cornelia was kinda slurring at herself without knowing.
And now the question is who is the biological father ...
(Not that Corny step-father doesn't deserve recognition for not abandoning her , better parent of the two for sure)
In my mind, I have three options two are ... scary, third is maybe a joke.
1. Blueblood (Lesser chance since his counterpart is probably a teen, but it works with blonde hair)
2. Sombra(It could work...at least with age)
3. She might be family with another of the main characters (Since when affairs are on one side of the field?Also it could be pre-marital)(Please , please let it be Flutershy , it would be perfect ... Applejack is also acceptable I guess)
Go Lilian, and it's nice that Spike got "Hircin's Hound" upgrade, and Corny's mother is either blind or too terrified to notice both the cat change and Lilian's reaction ... wait .... Lilian was smirking ... oh crapenstein she's starting to realize what she can do ... and that is as scary as it is an occasion for celebration.
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DISCORD, WE NEED POPCORN RAIN, IT'S GONNA BE GLORIOUS CASE OF OMNIPOTENT ADOLESCENT, AND IT"S GONNA BE BETTER WHEN SHE STARTS HER PERIODS IN COUPLE Of YEARS!
Also if Corny's mother starts telling everyone she might land in the same padded cell with Cinch, after all she must be crazy and dangerous to children if her reason for attacking is seeing monsters instead of cute animals.
Twilight please, please, please have some piece of equipment that was at least voice recording.
Wait, Kandrakar's heart could interact with radio antennae in cartoon... maybe it accepts a USB interface?
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I am stupid, Sunset has quintessence and there might have been public cameras in the vicinity, connected to the public monitoring server. Sunny it is time with all your gaming experience to take an example from Watch_Dogs ... and start the SkyNet scenario.
Also notifications stopped showing , strange that...
Forgot to add in last comment.
I'm sorry but what just happened in the latter half of this chapter? It felt a little out of nowhere and was poorly transitioned. I get you were trying to give Cornelia a bit of some character development (or something of the like) but it might have been handled a lot better such as telling us who just entered the scene and what is their relationship with the characters.
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Yep
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That sounds true, and makes me a little less worried about Sunset being OP because some plans I have for her will show some of her weaknesses.
I think I might have to look into this game and try it as it sounds kind of fun. The plushie idea is evil genius, I like it lol. He does sound pretty scary in some ways though.
Information is good. Ooooh, like giving Pam some seeds? Would so love to see the carnage from that lol.
They were using the Taranee's mind link to try and pry more into Sunset's memories to look for weaknesses to use against her, but triggered her memories which was shared with the others in the link. The Heart itself though has showed two people visions so far that touched it, but it is limited to what it can do because of limits placed on it and keeping Sunset and her mind normally hidden from Kandrakar means it can't really communicate with Sunset either as it is actually connected with Kandrakar as well as a few limitations placed on it.
Yep, and it will not only save Sunset, but also help lead to the villains fall. I do like the thought of having a golem do the heavy lifting, who needs clumsy forklifs and cranes when you can have one of them do it for you.
Eyup, which is going to lead to helping Sunset a lot.
Never thought of that lol, just kind of had something like this planned since it was revealed Cornelia's mom was like that to get Corny in a position where Sunset will have to talk about her past with her. As for the father, her stepfather has tried to be there for her, but his wife has made it very hard and yep, very ironic.
Her father though:
1) Ewwww either way lol.
2) Could be
3) Honestly, I never came up with the identity of the father as I was going to leave it as a random guy. I love the idea of Cornelia being Fluttershy's half sister though so will likely go with that. Thanks.
I love the thought of Spike looking comically vicious when in his bigger form. Corny's mom was way too terrified to notice, but Lily kind of knows. They are three years older now than in the cartoon so Lily s a bit more mature and Corny's mom has had more time to get into her head. Lily can pretty much handle the truth thankfully, though the popcorn idea sounds realy good.
She won't tell anyone about the monsters, she actually knows better. And while Twilight won't have any recording equipment other than her phone, I will say there was something recording the whole incident that will cause some grief for the woman.
I never actually thought of that, I wonder if there is some way to make something like that.
Also something else I never thought of, but it would have been a good idea if not for the way of how it was recorded. I loved WatchDogs though and might be something kind of cool to do sometime in the SITCH-verse.
I've had that happen before.
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Thanks, I fixed it.
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Sorry if it did, basically Cornelia's mom tracked her down and caught her hanging out with Sunset and Twilight which was mentioned earlier in the story her mom is pretty bad and she is racist. She flipped when Cornelia talked back to her. The scene was mostly Sunset's pov but she pieced together it was Cornelia's mom, but she never knew her name so didn't know what to call her. Or at least that's how I tried to write it.
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This will be a big first step coming up thanks to the events of this part.
Crap baskets, that's a worst-case scenario that the villain is piggybacking from Teranee's "phone line" because it makes quick and stealth communication impossible at least for Sunset, and that is bad since she's the leader. Not without reason having better communication or sabotaging enemy contact is important in warfare, in small squad fights it is even more important.
Villain scored a major point there ...
And now I have an image of "The Verdant Bucker" Fluttershy in a team-up with "The Teenage Girl" Lilian and "Mother Cornelia-nder Hale-son, The Gaia Priestess" as "Anti-Twilight League"(Sparkpires not unicorn/alicorn)" going to Italy to crush Volturi vampires to erase sparkpire menace once and for all as a family weekend...After all Daddy Shy left none in america...
*Adds note for future omake*
And now I have a problem: On the one hand, I love laughing and complaining about stupid villains, on the other hand, I appreciate good villains as much as I complain about them ... and I don't know what to think about Cornelia's Mother being an almost extinct example of Karen with more than one brain cell that knows when to not shout something to the manager... Truly an endangered species ...
What could be a recording that could give her grief ... hmmm... hmmm... I gonna go with a guess: Her own car camera recorder (that one that is used for insurance claims) recorded her and since she was speeding quite fast with the car, police stopped her, and saw the recording. Since Irma was part of the group, and Irma's father is "*In the best impression of Palpatine: "I AM THE POLICE!"*, Cornelia's mother suddenly is a victim of police ... we call it brutality, they call it "She was obviously resisting arrest". That is my blind and surely missed guess.
Heart of Kandrakar is magic so it's probably USB-compatible... through wireless magic ... I wonder how many terabytes of capacity it has ... and if it has its own Wi-Fi...And now I have an image of spirits watching animes inside the heart, and punching each other over what they are watching next ...
Oh and I logged out for two hours and it seems to have fixed notifications .
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Yep, and the villain is actually somewhat competent usually, but he is getting scared as he had failed in his plans twice now so is also getting desperate in his attempts.
That one sounds awesome, but I keep debating what to do about Fluttershy's dad. Should I make him actually the Verdant Bucker like i the omakes or make him some nameless clown that left Fluttershy's family. If the Verdant Bucker, which I'm really liking the idea of, what do I call him that soulds like a Canterlot name?
Sadly she is a little smarter than Cinch in some ways, and as you said an endangered species knowing when it is best to keep her mouth shut.
You are sooooooo extremely close with the whole situation. Sooooo cloooossseeeeee.
Hmmm, maybe link up with bluetooth? Might be a good way for Twilight and Martin to find some good data to get a jump ahead in their studies and experiments. I bet with how powerful it can be, it might have near limitless storage for all that anime. I can really see some good fights breaking out on wether to watch Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon.
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Happened to me before too. I hate when it does.
The heart of the earth ! haha
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Well, that is troublesome since their pony counterparts don't have names, as far as I know, pony!mr.shy was a cloud factory worker, and pony!mrs.shy was a gardener and that is the end of information on them ... well not-including mr.shy cloud collecting hobby.
If I would need to name them:
a)If "Shy" is equivalent to surname:
Mr.Shy - Windy Shy
Mrs. Shy - Flowery Shy (Flowery Remedy before marriage)
b)If not:
Mr.Shy - Sleepy Cloud
Mr.Shy - Flowery Remedy (It just fits)
As for the connection to omake ... well that's up to you since by its very nature omakes are have very loose or no connection to the canon as semi-comedic pieces.
As for who is human counterpart ... hmmm...
Maybe an often tired from work (almost narcoleptic), barely keeping up father that just wants his son to shut up and let him rest, but also deeply cares about family and often at the cost of his health tries to be there for them (more for a daughter than a son of course), and woe to those that harm his family (See Sparkpires incident before he passed the mantle onto his daughter). In short Mr.Shy is that quiet kid that can snap at any given moment and go T-800 on surrounding offenders.
Connection to Cornelia's biological mother ... he was seriously tired and somehow his co-workers dragged him to a bar where he had his ... adventure. He tried to be honorable and be in his daughter's life, but Cornelia's mother did everything that was non-ethical under the sun to keep him away, and then he met Ms.Shy, had a "zing" and the rest is history. Ms.Shy knows that she's not his first but meh no one is perfect (Her calmness may be a side-effect of all "herbal remedies" that she had contact with), and hopes that her husband will solve this so he's less tired and stressed. If they would suddenly have contact with Cornelia... well Mrs.Shy would probably be neutral but accepting, and Mr.Shy would not know what to do since he was not there entire life and doesn't want to be pushy ... as much as Fluttershy family member can be pushy (Zephyr not included).(That would make Cornelia oldest child in Shy family side)
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At least that's what the mind's eye provided for me as an idea in ten minutes...
Imagine all the government data that Twilight and Martin could steal and then hide in a necklace, and then to interrogators say that yes they stole it and hidden it in a magical necklace while pretending to cry. How fast interrogators would be slapped by their boss for psychological torture on a bunch of nerds that are so innocent that they invented that "stupid" excuse just to end interrogation?
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I can't really remember seeing any of the parents other than a brief glimpse at Pinkie's and Granny Smith of course, though I know the most about Night Light and Twilight Velvet. I've heard about Rarity's though I can't remember the name. I'm not so sure if the Canterlot bunch actually has surnames as some seem to have some kind of matching scheme while other families don't so I don't suppose that part matters. I think I read somewhere that Fluttershy's mom is named Posey which I think what I called her in the story. Her dad though, I actually like Windy Shy which could be his current name, maybe changing it every century or so though he would be one of the first Canterlot people. That is if is really is a vamp, which means he can have kids in the story if that is the case. Then again, he could just be plain, normal Windy Shy which would be good too.
I'm actually trying to decide if vamp or no vamp, but I do love omakes. I don't think they seem to be around as much anymore which is sad unless I just haven't come across them which would suck because I really love them.
Hmmm...I like that! Sounds like a good father, I really like this description for him. Sounds like the perfect father for Fluttershy.
This sounds really good and a great explanation for what happened. And I do like the idea of him trying to be honorable, but Corny and Flutter could still be pretty close in age as he could have met Posey almost right after Corny's mom unloading on him and telling him what she thought of Canterlot. They could have had a zing and possibly been together within a few months producing Flutter and making them get married sooner than planned. That way Corny could still be the oldest. I can easily see Mr. Shy being unsure at first, though Posey might actually be a little more than just acceptiong after the initial shock, especially after finding out what Corny's mom did.
I could see the MiB dragging them in and doing that with J & K playing good cop and bad cop lol. Or even just the CIA for FBI. I have a feeling Twilight and martin would make them look like giant idiots.
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Eyup.
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Actually, in omake papa shy was just a normal if very pissed-off human, when he slaughtered Forks sparkpire population. He was just dressed the part (He wanted to imtimidate "Twilight" author for making Flutershy cry by the books, not knowing it was autobiography and it escalated to "Alucard Walk category") when they granted him the title and "Honorable Vampire status (Still human)" that he later passed on ... but him being a vampire could explain ... "The Stare" that could be some sort of vampiric hypnotism (There are dozens of theories on what mechanism of Flutershy's "The Stare" operates on).
As for families ... as far as I know in EQG they were not shown only mentioned , in comparisson to their equestrian counterparts who had at least one episode across all seasons (Pinkie&Twilight family got more exposition).There were also cameos in backgrounds but from memory I can't say them except that Flutershy parents and Zephyr were visible in "The ending of the end (Part 2)" episode when Cloudsdale was closing itself from the rest of Equestria.
As for vampires having kids beyond adoption ... I never understood how it is possible since vampire is ... you know undead and that means a moving corpse? Magic beats many compability problems in diffrent races but ultimately life comes from life . As for argument of Dhampirs (Half-Vampires) as a proof of posibilty ... well the most popular Dhampir that I know , Blade Vampire Hunter was in womb when his mother was bitten and that is reason for his race status.So a unique occurance instead of something more common.
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for some reason I was thinking he was a vamp, I'm an idiot. I do love that he did that though even more now that I know he was human and went up against those...things...without any supernatural abilities aiding him. All that for his daughter makes him even more father of the year material in my book. I do like the theory that Fluttershy's stare could be related to vampirism though.
I might have to come up with names for some of them then when the next part in the sequel rolls around as the Canterlot girls will be playing a lot bigger role then. I don't remember the episode Cloudsdale was closing itself off, I will have to check that out for sure as that sounds like a good story to check into.
That's true normally, but I've read stories that had vampires as a different kind of species. Forgive me if I don't remember all the details correctly, but it is from a series called the Night World. A true vampire was called a lamia and the could go out in the day, it could just be pretty uncomfortable and it drained their powers. They could breath, eat normal food and everything though they did need to suck blood as they needed the cells that carried blood because their breathing didn't quite carry enough oxygen itself. They could also age though they had the ability to stop aging when they wanted and they could have children. he ones they turned into vampires though was actually called vampires I think and while they didn't burst into flame, they didn't have as good a tolerance to the sun as the lamia. They were frozen at the age they were turned and couldn't have children because, as you said, they were undead. They had to actually die before coming back as a vampire, going into a death state for at least a day or two, but I believe it was 3 days.
As for dahampirs, I love them but the surprising thing is despite loving marvel when I was younger, my first exposure to them was D from Vampire Hunter D. Then I still didn't learn about Blade until I played two very fun games at the time of finding them, Bloodrayne. I wish they had an actual 3rd game instead of the sidescrolling one that seemed to abandon the story from what I understand.