Cadance stood firmly upright before a door. Celestia brought over a marker to swipe just above Cadance's head. "Lovely little niece, you've gained a considerable bit since last we checked." She pointed the marker at the new mark, then the old one a few inches below it.
Cadance did a little proud dance. "I'm growing, Auntie." She grabbed Tempo with the same glowing energy. "Check her next!"
Tempo turned an ear back. As lovely as things had become... With a soft sigh, she went for the other side of the same door, where there was only one mark.
Celestia brought the marker over, but made no mark. Repainting the same line, again, felt silly. "Hm... Cadance, dear, why don't you run along?"
Cadance had heard that tone before. "No."
Celestia cocked an ear. "I want to talk with your sister, about personal things."
Cadance remained attached to Tempo. "We're twin sisters. We have no secrets."
Tempo nodded at that. "There is nothing you could tell me I wouldn't want her to know."
Cadance burst into giggles, snuggling the smaller Tempo gladly.
Tempo smiled softly at Cadance's infectious laughter, but uncertainty still stirred within as she met Celestia's luminous gaze. However close she and her sister had become, a divide still lingered between herself and Equestria's ruler.
"We don't have to talk about it now if you'd rather not," Tempo murmured, scuffing a hoof. She hoped Celestia's hesitance signaled simple distraction, not lasting doubt. But the way the tall alicorn watched her - had something changed?
Celestia inclined her head gently. "I merely wished to spare you both saddening facts. But as Cadance says, you two are twins in spirit now." She gestured them closer and they clustered near, eager and apprehensive all at once.
"Dearest Tempo..." Celestia began slowly. "I know you've wondered at times why your growth differs from other foals. The truth is, what magic shaped you did not design a changing form."
She met Tempo's widening eyes with compassion. "You shall always be as you are - a filly in shape if not in years. I did not wish to burden you so soon, but Cadance's joy shows your spirits remain bright."
Silence hung between them a moment. Then Cadance nudged against Tempo fiercely. "That doesn't matter one bit! You're my sister no matter what." She blinked back sudden tears. "Who cares if you stay little? More importantly, we'll always have each other!"
Tempo sat on her haunches to cross her arms with a frown. "No." She echoed her larger sister's word in timber perfectly. "I'm already... I shouldn't be this." She pointed at herself. "I was made to... hurt her." She noses against Cadance's cheek. "Instead I protect her. I already don't follow that stupid magic."
Celestia smiled faintly. "You are a rebellious one, Tempo... But..." She reached out and ran her hooves over Tempo slowly. "You are... You are my beloved niece... But you are also a doll, a golem. A doll does not grow. Only living things do that."
Cadance huffed at that, joining in Tempo's obstinance. "Than build her a bigger body." Her tone implied it was just obvious. "Auntie, you're being silly."
Celestia blinked at that suggestion. "From the mouth of babes... But I'm not sure if that would... work." Still, she dares a smile, sitting up over the foals. "But if we don't try, how will we find out?"
Tempo's eyes shone with fragile hope. A bigger body that could keep growing? She turned to Cadance, hardly daring to believe. Her sister met her gaze with defiant optimism.
"It has to work!" the little pink filly insisted. She puffed out her chest. "Auntie is the strongest magical pony ever. She can make a whole new form for you, I know it!"
And though anxiety lingered around Tempo's heart, she wanted so desperately to share Cadance's confidence. If Celestia herself believed in this mad hope... What other choice did they have but to try?
"But what if..." Tempo began nervously. "What if I lose myself? What if making a new body erases who I've become so far?" A dozen fervid worries cascaded through her mind for what seemed the hundredth time since waking into existence that strange day.
Yet Cadance simply rested their foreheads together tenderly. "You are Tempo," she whispered, strong with conviction. "Nothing any silly spell does will ever change your heart..."
The tiny filly's faith rang loud in Tempo's mind, overcoming fear with its innocent melody. She turned to meet Celestia's kind gaze. "I'm ready if you are, Auntie... Let's bring this Tempo into full bloom."
Celestia nodded and rose to her hooves, horn flaring. White wings encircled Tempo as the air thrummed with gathering magic. "Have courage," Celestia intoned softly. "Your song is just beginning..."
Suddenly, the glow flashed blindingly bright! Cadance gasped as incandescent streams of magic spiraled Tempo into the air...
When golden sparks faded at last, Tempo hovered there transfigured - now a grown filly, early in her teen years, just as Cadance had reached. She stared at her new limbs in awe, then laughter broke joyfully from her lips.
Cadance cheered, rushing to hug her restored sister. And Tempo swept the gleeful little pony up in turn, heart near to bursting.
Celestia let out a breath, sides moving as she recovered from the considerable spell. "Tempo, you... What makes you 'you' is resilient, more than even I would have guessed. I felt it, even as I reshaped your shell."
Cadance nudged against her sister, returned to twin status in appearance. "So we can keep doing that each time I get bigger?"
Tempo turned an ear aside. A growing body would have been best, but... Maybe what they had arrived at was a close second best? She could look Cadance in the eye again, and that was way more important. "Thank you, Auntie."
Tempo gazed at Cadance, her twin once more, and affection swelled powerfully inside. True, she may never grow like a real pony. But the chill of being trapped tiny had lifted thanks to Celestia's gift.
"I can't thank you enough." Tempo met Celestia's luminous eyes. The tall alicorn had poured so much magic into restoring her adolescent form just to ease their worries.
Cadance grinned, bouncing eagerly around them. "This is perfect! Now we get to be the same again." She popped up between Celestia and Tempo, gaze pleading. "Does this mean Tempo doesn't have to go to school anymore either?"
Tempo blinked in surprise - in the joyful rush she'd nearly forgotten how her lessons had continued setting her apart daily. A wistful smile found her lips. "I guess I am about the same level as you now, sis..."
Celestia snorted with a little smirk. "You stopped going to foal's school, Cadance. That does not mean you're done with school, young lady. You are both headed to the next level." She clapped her hooves together. "You'll be challenged, but it will be fun. You'll learn whole new things and meet new ponies."
Both fillies looked uncertain, but the nature of it varied, with Cadance wondering at the classes and what new friends she might make. Tempo was thinking of how to protect Cadance in a new place.
Celestia reached out to boop Tempo on her snout. "You. You have a choice."
Tempo blinked, eyes focused on the hoof on her face. "What's that?"
"You could not go." She drew the hoof away. "A choice, I admit, I doubt I see you taking. You don't need to go. Raven has assured me you are now educated. The valleys, if you remember them, have been filled in. On the other hoof--"
"No! No way!" Tempo crossed her arms before stomping her hooves. "I'm going with Cadance to her new school."
Cadance brushed against her sister. "You're the best! If you know this stuff, you'll help?"
"Yes, of course." Tempo smooched Cadance's cheek. She'd also protect Cadance from everything, but she didn't mention that part. "I am ready."
Excitement trembled in her voice. "Maybe out there I can finally uncover my full purpose!"
Cadance nodded vigorously beside her. "Ooh, won't it be fun figuring out our special talents together?" She mimed scanning a cutie mark onto her flank. "We'll have the most awesome class adventures, I just know it!"
What neither predicted was that a growing Cadance wanted to start being useful beyond being an adorable filly. She started foalsitting for a filly as small as she had been when she found Tempo.
"Sunshine, Sunshine,
Ladybugs awake.
Clap your hooves
And do a little shake!" sang out all three of them.
It had taken Tempo a few times hearing it before she got it down perfectly, but they ended with all three of them shaking their rumps at one another and laughing.
Twilight rushed off to read a book she was captivated by, leaving her foalsitters behind.
Cadance raised an ear at her sister. "You don't have to come with me to Twilight's. This is a one pony job, promise. I have this."
"I have you." Tempo gently embraced her sister. "I know you can do this. You're very talented, sister."
Cadance colored faintly. "Thank you, but..." She was growing enough... "Eventually, sis, we're going to do things the other can't be there for."
Tempo slowly inclined her head. "What would those be?" But Cadance had no answers, just blushes, leaving Tempo a bit confused. "I will protect you. I promised you."
Cadance nuzzled Tempo gently on the chest. "I love you so much, but if I... Twilight!" The conversation broke as the two scrambled to stop Twilight from doing something ill-advised.
Tempo helped Cadance wrangle the energetic little Twilight, but her sister's words lingered in her mind. Doing things apart...somehow the thought filled her with unease. Hadn't she vowed to always stand by Cadance's side?
Yet the subtle changes in Cadance as she grew didn't escape Tempo either. A gentle wisdom taking root, and slowly spreading wings longing to soar free.
Tempo blinked back an anxious prickle. Cadance deserved to find her own path, as much as Tempo still craved the purpose caring for her twin gave.
Perhaps the time was coming where she must test her wings beyond just being Cadance's sworn guardian. The idea terrified...yet didn't a seed of restless curiosity live inside her too? Wanting to discover who Tempo was in her own right?
She gazed at her cutie mark - the same heart emblem Cadance bore. Two twins reflecting one cutie mark between them... But that was how she was made.
For the first time, Tempo dared wonder what talent destiny might unveil if she stepped fully into her own...whatever that meant without Cadance to define her.
A tear dripped from her. Why did a doll cry? She'd shed tears a few times in her life, and they'd always confused her. If she was a doll, how did it even work? She wiped a leg over her stinging eyes. Such thoughts did little to make the tears stop. She felt bad, and she cried.
She forced a smile despite it. "I have so much more to learn." She trotted after Cadance to resume helping with Twilight. Abandoning her mid-foalsitting session? That was just a step too far.
Foalsitting brought smiles all around once more as they played and laughed together. But Tempo now saw the subtle ways Cadance guided young Twilight too - gentle encouragement here, a teaching moment there. Already she had the heart of a teacher and mentor.
Bittersweet pride swelled in Tempo's chest. However much she craved things to remain unchanged between them, Cadance clearly shone brighter leaning into her burgeoning talents.
So Tempo would adapt in turn - find some new harmony that still kept her twin close while giving space to fly free. She just needed to uncover her own latent gifts fate surely meant for her beyond playing guardian.
The answers eluded...but Tempo would seek them with renewed fervor. For both their sakes.
I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks that, but for me the work looks very good... simplified, probably. Let me explain why this is so.
Cadence wanted a sister, and by the clap of hooves, some cultists create an absolute copy of the young princess. To begin with, I think it's a very lazy approach to the work to create an antagonist in the form of cultists. What are the kidnappers cultists of? Why Cadence? Why create a golem? For example, to enter the palace and exert some kind of influence on Celestia. How will a weak-willed golem do anything without receiving a direct order? Wouldn't it have been easier just to subjugate the mind of the original Cadence and use her as a doll? Why kill the original if she can act as a bargaining chip when it is revealed that there is a golem in the palace?
Why is there no investigation into the fact that the princess was abducted from her own chambers, which should be like the president's ground bunker? The guards were obviously negligent in their task. Where are the punished?
Let's move on. For some reason, Celestia and the whole of Canterlot accept an exact copy of the young princess that has appeared out of nowhere without any questions. In general, from the very first day, Cadence took from somewhere an immeasurable family love for her new "sister". Okay, let's assume that the source of sisterly love is Cadence's magical predisposition. Why doesn't she care about this turn of events? Why doesn't Cadence have a shred of suspicion that Tempo's entire "personality" is a performance so that the golem can sneak into the palace and stab two alicorns in the back at once, after which it simply collapses? Why doesn't the "wise" Celestia have such a suspicion?! After all, it may well turn out to be a suicide golem, whose task is to get into the enemy's location and self-detonate, taking half the castle with him.
Why does no one ask about the knowledge of the newly minted "princess"? To be more precise, why does no one ask if the new "princess" has knowledge that does not correspond to her assumed age? Suppose the knowledge was copied when creating a golem. Why doesn't Tempo have any knowledge of history?
To sum up, the idea of the story is not bad, but the implementation leaves many questions.
Without negativity and with best wishes.
~Dragon Lord.~
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I can't really argue this? A meteor from the sky or a rogue spell would be just as cliche. Most answers are cliche at this point. There is nothing new under the sun.
Fine questions that deserve answers that have not come yet.
Who said the original plan was weak-willed? They certainly did not.
But they also didn't expect a passing soul to inhabit it. Nobody got what they had intended for the day at all.
If things had worked according to spec, they could have told the golem to head on into the castle and do what they wanted done, and that would be that. That would also be a very different story.
Who said there wasn't?
Welcome to Equestria. Public floggings are not Celestia's style.
Celestia has been testing, measuring, and studying the new copy since the moment she arrived. She does not shout and she does not rave. That's what makes Celestia kinda great. She watches and she decided with a soft hoof. Cadance loves Tempo, and Cadance doesn't appear to be enchanted or otherwise forced.
Tempo seems to love Cadance in return, almost fanatically.
Seperating them would hurt them both, and to what end? Hurting a filly for what? No, she let them grow up together, both getting along famously.
She cares a lot. She spends time in all but one of these chapters caring.
Cadance is a child. Why would a largely-sheltered child harbor these dark thoughts?
She watches.
Many ponies wonder, but that she has it actually points to her not being a mindless automaton, waiting for a chance to go berserk.
Her soul is not from Equestria. I thought that was obvious. I was wrong.
I think it should be “Lovely little niece,”
I had wondered if Tempo was able to grow. It’s good to see her wondering on how to define herself beyond her sister, even if she is not ready to make that step yet.
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I dunno, but I feel like some people on this site seem to forget that we're dealing with ponies here. Ponies aren't as jaded as humans are.
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Eh... I turned off the computer early. It's terribly inconvenient to type from a phone.
The point is not whether it's a cliche or not, but that cultists appear in history and create an exact copy of Cadence right after you are told that Cadence wants a sister. That is, they have neither a backstory nor any obvious purpose for the reader. They just appear for a couple of chapters, and then disappear from the radar for an unknown period of time.
Counter question: who said the opposite? (regarding your question about the willlessness of the golem)
From what places should the reader learn about what cultists planned to do with the golem? There is nothing at all. The cultists created a golem for some reason.... and that's where all the reader's knowledge ends. To fix this, you can interact with the environment. Like, "In search of a way out, Cadence looked around, but apart from the strange symbols, formulas and calculations covering all possible surfaces, she saw no way to avoid approaching death." Then, already in the castle, "Listening to the fillies, Celestia tried to clarify exactly which symbols Cadence had seen. However, in her frightened state, the young princess could not remember much, but even that was enough to understand that the cultists worshipped [enter name] and perhaps wanted to [commit lewdness] " Such a small explanation would have already made the picture a little more complete.
again, a counter question: Who said the opposite? You see, reader, he is like Thomas the Unbeliever. Until the writer shows him something, it doesn't exist.
Why is it necessary to be public? Elementary in 1-2 sentences at the end of the chapter, put a small description of how Celestia punishes careless guards, but in her own style. And so, it turns out that her mug was stolen, and not her beloved niece.
How long did it take? Less than a day. At the same time, no deeper examinations were conducted for potentially hidden charms.
What is more important, to satisfy a child's whim by giving a potentially dangerous toy to a child or temporarily removing a potentially dangerous toy from a child to make sure it is safe?
She's also a princess. That is, an important political figure who should be taught how to conduct politics correctly. A carefree politician is a bad politician, and Cadence is just that carefree. Moreover, I do not know what you are planning about the Crystal Empire, but I have a feeling that Celestia is not even going to place Cadence on the throne of the Empire in theory. Either Celestia is planning to destroy the Empire by putting an incompetent politician in charge.
This is not mentioned anywhere
Either I'm blind, or you're making something up as you talk. I don't remember anyone asking any questions.
It's obvious to READERS. Nobody told the CHARACTERS of the story about this. Therefore, it is surprising that no one is wondering about such a lapse in memory.
Apparently, other users don't like it when other readers ask uncomfortable questions. I wonder what this means to me?
11777628 (I mention you so as not to be a hypocrite)
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Dude, don't wiggle your ass. If you have any complaints to my expressions, then express them to me, and do not suck up to the author, who turns the arrows on inconvenient and plot-important issues.
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They sure do have a purpose. They created Tempo. That is their current purpose, for the reader, and as far as anypony else knows. Why did they do this? Unresolved.
Celestia did not ask that. Next thing you'll tell me is that her guards will fail to protect her at every actual attack on the nation.
I legit have no idea what this is in reference to.
Oh, so you're okay with a private one? Then it already happened. Enjoy.
They've grown from young fillies(young-Twi's age) to Cadance Entering High School age. This is a long time to get to know somecreature.
Are we living in the same Equestria? I suggest rewatching the show that happened instead of the one you wish would have been.
Mentioned explicitly in the first chapter actually. Do re-read it.
What questions?
Answer to the above I think? She knows things. A golem does not know random things. They are programmed. They don't have uncanny knowledge of strange things and gaps in other, also useful, things. That's not how automatons tend to work.
It means people will comment about you, mostly?
I read well almost all the debate between David Silver and The GreatDragonLord and i just want to say while both point are valid i could care less what is happening in the background of the story until David decides to elaborate. All i care about is how Tempo, Celestia, and Cadance interact with each other, watching as their relationships deepen, and seeing what Tempo chooses to do with life was given and how it will evolve and flourish as she grows and adapts. Though i'm curious what will happen with Chrysalis now that there are technically 2 Princess Cadances now how her Foalnap will go? Will she still succeed with her plan only to be foiled not only by Twilight but Tempo as well? Or more hilariously will Tempo get Foalnapped instead, which then leads Chryssy's plan to fail at the first step as Tempo goes terminator on her and her hive's ass (minus Thorax please i love that changeling like a very dear friend\brother, i'll be sad)?
Oooh…
Just a thought, how will Chrysalis react to there being two Cadences?
Will Tempo be the one replaced or will she help save Cadence?
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I'll have you know my ass wiggles very nicely and I'm not a dude. I did not answer to your comment because I commented on something David said, but if you want to be an ass about it, then be my guest.
11777692
That's more like the truth.
Will they be able to? Next, you're talking about the series, so I'll remind you of the series. The guards could not resist Nightmoon, did not offer decent resistance to the Changeling invasion, Tempest and her army captured Canterlot without much hindrance. Any more questions about the competence of the Royal guard of Canterlot? The only guard more or less adequately shown is Shining, but he can: put up a giant shield, the full strength of which remains unknown, because at the time of the final episodes of the second season, Chrysalis had already weakened Shining. He can throw his wife, mind you, the princess, whom he is nominally supposed to protect. And he can also show off parkour, so that later he can get some treats in the bedroom (the series "best gift ever").
This means that some of my questions arose because of omissions. If there were no such omissions, the picture of the plot would have developed better.
Have I offended you in some way? Why are you being rude? I asked you a specific question, the essence of which is as follows: "why were the guards who allowed an outsider to the princess's chambers and missed the abduction of the princess from, in theory, the safest area of the castle, not punished in any way?" At least this is not mentioned anywhere in the work. And you condescendingly answer my question in this way. I don't need favors like, "Okay, I talked you into it. So be it, I'll add this. Are you satisfied?" If you don't want to talk, just say, "fuck you, Dragonlord, I'm an author, that's how I see it. I don't give a fuck about your opinion." I will answer you "ok." And you will not see me under this work anymore. I will ask you a specific question: do you want to continue communicating or should I leave and not bother you?
I'll review the chapters. Apparently, I didn't catch the timeskip.
I think we're going to have a laugh together now. From the series, the only thing we know about Cadence's past is that she was Twilight's babysitter. We'll learn the rest from, in my opinion, three issues of comics. In the first two (I don't remember the numbers, but I'm too lazy to look), Shining and Cadence tell Twilight and friends how they met. It is in these two comics that it is told that Cadence and Shining went to school, that Shining was a nerd in the local equivalent of DnD, and Cadence was a school beauty, whom some rich man unsuccessfully tried to woo. Then there was a festival where Shining performed, which attracted the attention of Cadence, and then the details. The third comic is the one about Sunset. On one of the pages, you can see how Cadence, Shining and little Twilight are walking. I can also try to tell you about the book, but I know very little about it, because I haven't read it. And so, what else do you want to know?
In the first chapter, Celestia is mentioned only in passing. And the original question on this branch was about her.↓↓↓The original question↓↓↓
In the work, apart from Raven, Celestia and perhaps a little, Cadence, no one asked questions about the third alicorn, suspiciously similar to the second.
Let me try to restore the chain of questions and answers.
It was about the fact that the characters in the story do not know that Tempo's soul is from another world. Therefore, they should have been wondering where she got such knowledge from. If suddenly the characters would assume that the Knowledge was copied from Cadence, then they would have to wonder why there is a failure in the knowledge of history. That was the crux of the matter, but it's not in the work.
It takes an awfully long time to answer even on a computer.
11777730
You lost me.
The entire start of this chapter is them marveling at how much Cadance had grown, but Tempo did not.
This doesn't happen overnight. How much time did you think passed?
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I apologize for the incorrect treatment (This is really my mistake). What was said about the ass is a figurative expression meaning "to shirk." Your comment was a clear complaint against me, but it was made to another person. Moreover, you even highlighted the words "some", such as "I will not name them, but everyone here understands who they are talking about." So, if you have any complaints about my statements, please express them to me. and not to anyone else.
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To begin with, I haven't read the recently published chapter. All my questions are about chapters up to and including the fifth.
My specific question is still unanswered: Should I leave or will the conversation continue?
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Well. Then forget everything I said. Enjoy the story.
11777736
Okay, I'm leaving.
Without negativity and with best wishes.
~Dragon Lord.~
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I did actually mean it in a general way. This story has drawn out some people with that kind of attitude, but yes, I actually meant you, too. And since this is a public conversation, I'd assume you would have taken notice of it. As you did.
Even though time pass I wonder if we will see those ponies that wanted Cadance dead? Also, love the idea of Tempo not being able to grow. That’s a unique concept that I haven’t seen before on FimFiction. Poor Tempo, soon Shining will take Cadance away
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In fact, in terms of superimposing human perception on the pony world, I am more loyal than it might seem. It's just that in the case of this work, the Cadence is shown to be very windy. Not at all like she was in the series or the comics I mentioned. Again, in the comics and TV series, she was relatively mature. If at the time of the fifth chapter she is about Twilight's age, then my claim really doesn't make sense. It is unlikely that at this age Cadence will begin to learn how to be a princess.
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From my understanding, Cadance seems to be around six? Seven? Elementary school age, anyway. The latest chapter gets into high school age. I agree, at that age, training to be a politician is a bit early. But that doesn't mean Celestia can't take her in at that age and show her around and get her used to being treated like a princess.
11777753
Well, I'm not saying anything about that. As I said, my whole claim is coming to naught, because I tried to present it to a six- to seven-year-old child.
11777746
What episode reveals to us Filly Cadance and their behavior to take notes on?
11777768
Please re-read the comment, I said that in the work Cadence is shown to be too windy compared to the series or comics. But now it is clear that such a comparison is incorrect, because in the series or comics, Cadence is shown several years older than she is at the time from the first to the fifth chapter of the work.
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Oh, you thought Cadance in Ch. 1 was an adult? Wow... that would be a very different story.
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That's exactly what I thought.
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I don't know if it counts for things, but they were referred to as "fillies" in Ch. 1. And Cadance thusly grew while Tempo stayed the same until magic from Celestia.
These skips were unexpected, I really wanted to see Tempo's relationship with Celestia grow into some Mother Daughter type
Good attitude. +1 bonus point!
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Celestia is an aunt, and proud of it.
Reminds me of
- MLP: FiM
- Romance
- Drama
- Slice of Life
A human finds himself yanked out of his own life and plunged, with no field guide, into Equestria!hmm... thatt doesn't sound quite right....
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It was a joke. Tempo and all that.
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Just some other ways you could have put it.
This has been an enjoyable story to read so far! I'm looking forward to seeing the unique ways Tempo will differentiate herself from Cadence as she matures into an adult.
Crikey people!
It's a story about magical horses not a bloody national constitution.
No, I'm not trying be another guy to "wiggle up the author's ass" or whatever that dang expression was to that other person.
There just seems to be a great deal of nit-picking, moreso than usual/expected.
Sure, sure, this site is heavy on open criticism - which is overall good.
But in this case it seems to be criticism to satisfy personal irks with the story.
Cliche start to the story?
So was Undertale.
Sometimes we just need to accept a token cliche, which in turn enables the rest of an inviting story to take form.
11777925
"...Let's presto this Tempo!"
Yeah, that was trying too hard.
EDIT:
"But it still would have made me smile if I read it," says Pinkie
11778691
Damn Hasbro, they never made anything good.
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She wets herself too.
11778691
That looks depressing.
Pardon? Didn't she gain it with her ascension?
11837924
For Cadance, figuring out is more of 'figuring out how to use it'.
Someone smack the cultists again for us. How did they honestly expect the ruse to last? If the automaton couldn't increase its mass because it also can't process food, did they expect its usefulness to last less than a year? Silly silly.
Perhaps with more directed and efficient spell casting a feature add-on might be given to Tempo, having to rely on Celestia's intervention periodically might be avoidable....
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One imagines whatever their original goal was, it was to be done quickly.