Shining Armor's Impossible Decision (The Fury of Alicorns Scorned)

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Discord lures three alicorn mares into competing for a unique prize. When two mares lose, they'll blame the contest judge: Shining Armor.

(Loosely!) based on Greek mythology (The Judgement of Paris)

_{(Cover image source: I edited an MLP:FiM screencap)}

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Nodqfan

Nodqfan #1 · August 11th · 1 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

Hahaha, that was an entertaining read.

Captain PonySeidon

Captain PonySeidon #2 · August 12th · 1 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

I love this turn of phrase you used here:

Cadance's magic reached for his tail, pulling out a pink, curly hair. "I can see that, Shining. Tell us about your last twenty four hours, why don't you."
Shining saluted again. "Yes, Mare'm, your highness. Your highnesses."

Anyways, a delightful re-imagining of a classic tale, especially with the twist for the ending! I could almost see it being an actual episode. Have an upvote & a new follower!

TheArbiter1

TheArbiter1 #3 · August 12th · 9 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

Well, at least Shining didn't help start a decade-long siege like Paris did.

dragon_slayer

dragon_slayer #4 · August 12th · 2 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

Delightful! Excellent! I can't believe I hadn't seen this premise in a fic yet. Hell, I still have yet to see any fic use a joke where Discord turns himself into an apple! (I think. I might be forgetting.) Clearly this is a mark against everyone except you, Mockingbirb!

The Iguana Man

The Iguana Man #5 · August 12th · 13 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

Alternate ending:

Shining: May I see the apple, please?
Celestia: Of course, here you are. So which of us deserves thi-
CHOMP!
Celestia: Wow... in one bite, too.
Luna: I'm astonished he was even able to fit it all in his mouth.
Cadance: I'm not!

Caladis

Caladis #6 · August 12th · · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

Brilliant.

stag the story teller

stag the story teller #7 · August 12th · · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

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lmao best coment ever

Strinct

Strinct #8 · August 12th · 2 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

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And then he grows majestic (the most majestic) alicorn wings and flys into the sunset. Must be genetic.

furryman

furryman #9 · August 12th · 4 · 1 · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

If this leads to the Trojan War will the enemies use a giant wooden human to enter Troy?

FanOfMostEverything

FanOfMostEverything #10 · August 12th · 4 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

I do appreciate how Luna acknowledged the unenviable impossibility of the choice throughout the piece. In all, brilliant work in conflict resolution, and not a single war got declared in the process! Thank you for this.

Bad Horse

Bad Horse #11 · August 13th · 3 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

What a good idea, to map this story from Discord and 3 goddesses in Greece, onto Discord and the three goddess? princesses of Equestria!

I was confused a bit initially; I thought at first this was a prequel to explain how Shining Armor, a guard, ended up married to a princess.

OoooyVeeeeey

OoooyVeeeeey #12 · August 13th · 6 · · Don't Let This Decision Be Your Last, Shining ·

I thought he was gonna say that of course his baby sister is the fairest princess, and have Twilight make sad puppydog eyes at the insinuation of any other decision to convince them to accept his answer.

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