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Aside from the main plot, I like the little details that show just how much corruption there was in the Royal Guard, from medics pawning supplies to even Luna having a personal smuggling line straight to her, which begs the question of why she needed that, and what exactly what she smuggling in.
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Yeah the more I thought about the Royal Guard the more I was like "they're just security theater. They don't actually do anything anymore, they're just there for show." and then I thought about how much that would cause like institutional rot. Like yeah of course no one, not even the ponies in it, would take it seriously. There would be true believers, like Rose or Shining Armor or Golden Star, but quite frankly they're fools.
The Royal Guard are for tourists to gawk at during celebrations, they're not a serious group anymore.
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Makes sense. Guard medical supplies clearly aren't going to be used for guard stuff, so might as well pawn them off for a bit of extra bits with how many are stockpiled. And Al's line about Luna being his best customer shows it clearly wasn't an off and on thing for one of the top heads of state, Luna was buying direct from him for possibly years since the Changeling Invasion.
My honest bet is a drug of some sort, which might help explain how she's the only princess keeping her head on mostly straight while running things. Would not be surprised if she was popping antideppressants of some sort due to the sheer time and culture whiplash before everything went to hell.
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Nah, my thoughts on what Luna was getting in was old stuff that's been made illegal or fallen out of fashion in the thousand years since she disappeared. Nothing taboo, just stuff that would look bad if ponies saw a princess partaking.
eeeh... her reaction to finally realizing that she really shouldn't have prevented celestia's death is a little too tame, imo. she immediately passes over it, no further regret or anything.
like come on, she literally killed bulwark for it
I'm not going to lie, I feel a little giddy over having predicted where Rose would end up, though her reasons for doing so are certainly a little different than I thought they'd be.
She is now so entrenched in her beliefs, that she no longer sees Celestia or Luna as divine, but the Sun itself. She now sees the Princesses as the problems instead of the solution. It's incredible for her to come to this realization now, but at least she isn't deranged enough to attempt killing the Princesses herself.
She and Tempest are finally on the same page entirely, at least. Rose has thrown her lot in entirely with the Storm King, even if she's convinced herself it's for the "right" reasons.
I really, really love just how much of a hot mess Rose is. She's consistently gaslighting herself into believing she's some sort of paragon of the sun, that everything she does is righteous and good, that her way is the only way. Even the mere act of admitting Golden, Parade, and Bulwark were right all along is almost immediately covered up by her thinking that it was for the wrong reasons.
I genuinely hope she and Tempest make it out of this story alive, because I could easily see her coming back as some big bad in the future alongside Tempest and the rest.
By this point, even if she lives to see things fixed, I genuinely believe she'll convince herself that Celestia and Luna are still unworthy.
And that's a big "If."
Because we are rapidly running out of time before Canterlot is completely erased...
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One of my friends called Rose 'An irredeemable paladin' way early in the story when I was explaining her arc and that's kinda been the thesis statement for her as a character since then. She's gone from faithful to full on delusional at this point and it's just so much fun to write.
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Rose definitely has oathbreaker energy
So uh, which one of them is the devil?
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Who do you think the devil is here?
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A part of me wants Rose's death, but another masochistic part of me knows that Rose has not yet hit rock bottom, Rose still has many sins to commit in the remainder of this story (and possibly in Babel), I am convinced That the longer Rose lives and the more sins she commits......her end will be more ironic, tragic and satisfying for us, or I may be wrong. To the author of this great story I only want to say one thing, quoting the great Anton Ego: "Surprise me!"
Celestia doesn’t even herself the same way, I mean even her subjects