With the Spirit of Chaos locked in stone by the powers of Harmony, a new order must be created. The spirits of Love and Harmony are given physical form, taking the names Cadence and Philomena, so that they may walk among the ponies and ensure peace reigns.
Too bad they're both terrible at this.
Sequel to Head Full of Cotton Candy
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I'm diffidently watching this
:EDIT: This was amazingly awesome and hilarious. Just thank you for making this.
Wow well let me just say I love the idea of your story and I can't wait to see where this story goes you gain my like
There are no words for how much I was looking forward to this.
Death, with his Hade-ness, is my favorite. I hope Time, Life, and Death don't just fall into the background.
Glad to see you back to writing! I had loved Head full of Cotton Candy, can't wait for this.
They remind me of the Think Tank from Fallout New Vegas.
Jump to about 9 Minutes in, 6 voices speaking from one body all with different personalities.
Huzzah! The dysfunctional family of fundamental concepts continues! I'm eagerly looking forward to the misadventures of Love and
ToleranceHarmony.Discord's narrative is hilarious! And I'm wondering how Love eventually mellows out. keep up the good work!
Though I'm not a fan of Cadence being a boy, I'm favoriting this.
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Well this is a pleasant surprise...
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But wait, when in the continuity does this take place? I'm thinking it's just after Discord is sealed in stone for the first time, but not the second.
This is awesome. Short, sweet, and reminds me of Greek mythology.
Yeeees! I've been waiting for this, let the reading commence!
Wait, but Love was a guy before... Is Shining Armor gay? Awesome!
*Cadance. You're welcome.
Shaping up to be pretty good so far, though.
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I'll be finding ways to work them in as often as I can. Death, as usual, is going to be playing a larger role in things than Life or Time, though. In ways that may just surprise you.
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You know, it never even dawned on me that I could make that Love and Tolerance joke. I'm seriously such a dink.
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You know, Discord's narration was a last-minute decision. But I keep needing to check myself or else I let him dominate the story. And even if you've only seen him in HFoCC, you still haven't seen what I'm planning for him. He's got a thousand years to get all the wildness out of his system, and even that might not be enough.
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In my defense, I had created a male pink alicorn to be Love's physical body in Head Full of Cotton Candy months before Princess Cadence was ever announced. So when they stole my idea and just changed the gender, I decided to steal the character back and turned his body into a mare's body. Not that he minds.
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Spot on, it's the day after Discord's first imprisonment. Discord even said as much himself early on.
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I said it all the time in Head Full of Cotton Candy, I actually had the Greek gods in mind when coming up with the Spirits' personalities. Or at least the parts that made them selfish, jealous, quarrelsome, childish, hedonistic bastards. The Greeks' idea of such imperfect omnipotent beings ruling the world is my favorite mythological/religious understanding.
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He's the embodiment of emotional and carnal love. It'd be weird if someone WASN'T gay for him. Unless they were straight for him, I guess.
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Cadence is the original spelling of the name, "cadence" is a musical term, and her full name is Cadenza. I'm keeping the double Es. I'm glad your'e enjoying the direction the story's taking.
Given how your last "comedy" went, I think I'm going to wait until this finishes and make sure people aren't talking about how you made them cry in the comments before I decide whether to read this.
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Oh. Eheh. Riiigght
I promise this is a pallet cleanser for my last story. There's only silliness the whole way through.
Huzzah, the male with double the normal amount of names have returned! And he brings us a sequal to HFoCC! Flock, my children, flock towards it!
....
Okay, now that that's done, may I comment that Harmony seems to have taken a level in rudeness? I mean, she was daydreaming of killing her siblings! Last I checked, Harmony was more scared and pacifst(y?) that Shaggy and Scobby combined.
Though, this could be explained that 1) This is Discord telling the story here, and 2) She may have toughened up a bit from all the years of Chaos.
I look foward to seeing more of you!
Discord's narration reminds me a little of Prachett or Douglas Adams, but more disdainful toward his subjects. I love it.
Does Harmony actually think this? Or was it just part of Discord's narrative? If I recall, Harmony was rather fond of Discord in Head Full, so I'm not sure which is correct, or even if both are. Clearing this up will help me better understand your use of Discord narrating; how much of it is his account of events, how much of it is the characters' own thoughts, etc.
You know, the ending of Head Full, in spite of how miserable it made me, was simply fantastic. It just felt so much more... legitimate, not having everything work out perfectly but things still being okay (Scroob finally at peace, namely). As self-destructive as this may sound, I wouldn't mind some heart-clench in this.
...Or would the fact that I'm ready for it make it less effective? Damn placebo effect
Oh, and it's off to a good start, I of course eagerly await more!
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That's going to be up to you to decide. Discord's going to be twisting some of the ways inner thoughts and emotions are presented, at least in regards to him.
But as for heart-clench in this story, there's going to be none of that. Unless you feel bad for Love that everything he does ruins everything for everyone else and only minorly inconveniences him. It's going to be absolute goofiness.
“Oh wonderful.” Love clapped. “I’m doing what?”
This is going to be awesome!
The prequel was very well written but the ending harshed my buzz for few whole days, it's great to see something a bit more cheery.
Get yourself drunk, and the ugly shall become beautiful, while the beautiful shall become hideous... Sorry Love, you just gave the Empire an inoculation against your hypnotism...
You just updated, so it must be my birthday! There's no other explanation for something that could make me so happy.
Stop it, you're making me old!
EDIT: Oh geez, I just got finished reading, and things are not looking good for the Crystal Empire, thus far.
Oooh Discord, you are my no.1 narrator.
Poor Sombra.
He has every right to be pissed at Love.
Oh, this is glorious. Too funny.
When Love says all the water, does that include the water in ponies' bodies? Probably not, but if so, he's just killed his subjects. All of them.
Anyway... wow. I'd forgotten how big a douche Love was. Poor Harmony. What's the incarnation of cooperation to do?
OHHH SHIIIITTT!! Why did you have to drag me back? I just recovered all my feels from the previous story so I hope this one wont be depressing, But still i gotta read up as to how Love ends up marrying Shining Armour...
Why is love such a dick? I don't remember this, also what timeline does this follow and when is this happening?
I thought chaos(Discord) was a spirit like form that is out of his stone form? Can anyone hear him?
I gotta know how sombra ends up imprisoned in the end
Didn't stop at the architecture, you mean? Because the architecture looks pretty crystal-y to me.
Roulette, or roulette. Somehow I think you meant to say something else in that first half, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it was.
Okay, wow, I did not expect you to actually come back with a sequel, and you've definitely hit the ground running; this is great stuff! Love the bickering spirits, and how absurdly irresponsible Love is being with his body(again), though it's rather confusing to have everyone(and the narrator) refer to him as a him when his body is currently female. Any particular reason for that, or for why Sombra didn't apparently take notice?
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It's because Love, the spirit, is male, while Cadence the pony identity is female. Whenever Discord is going to make fun of Love, he'll refer to him as his brother and a guy. For all the other narrative, he'll be Cadence and a female.
If all this is confusing, then it's just going to make a lot of the jokes later on more relatable.
Lumpy Moon Princess
Was that a 'Lumpy Space Princess' reference? Because if it was, then I love you.
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Then I love you too, affectionate stranger.
Because of this story and the last one every time i see Twilights brother
I just burst out laughing
poor dude he married a dude in a mares body
I'm happy that you're still making these, though Love seems like even more of a jerk than before. Poor Crystals.
We need a Sombra emote. I would totally use the fuck out of it.
Wow.
Being Sombra sucks.
No wonder he had trouble speaking when he came out. He was so filled with rage at the injustice of it all that he literally could not form words.
I wonder how Discord charmed his way back into existence? Did he sweet-talk Harmony? I would kill to see that.
He's speaking in tongues
Blast Him
poor poor Sombra
I've always wondered who wrote this song!
Now I know it was Princess Cadence.
Wow, that ended up being more depressing than funny. Poor Sombra...
I'm Professor Oak, but people call me the Ponymon Prof. Now, is Cadence a boy or a girl? Because if she's really a he, that's cool too.
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It's the weirdness of what happened in the story this is a sequel to.
In TMWTN's other story, he introduced a The Spirit of Love, a pink male alicorn with, well, Love powers. This was BEFORE any info on A Canterlot Wedding was released. Because the show made such an incredibly similar character, he made said Spirit's next body Cadance, stopping there from being both a love alicorn and a love Spirit hanging around. The Spirit of Love still identifies as male, but is in a female body(and Love being what he is, does not care).
That help explain everything?
2046877 I read the first one, actually. I assumed Cadence was a guy since his first body was a guy. Also gay Shining Armor is best Shining Armor.
Oh, this is glorious, thanks for the laughs.
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Yeah, I felt sorry for him too.
I like this story because unlike the other it doesn't make me cry every time I read it. Also how come Discord is narrating? I thought he just went into the sky to join his brothers/sisters?
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This takes place before the end of Head Full of Cotton Candy, during his first imprisonment. He's still in existence, just in stone.
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I would like to point out that Sombra brought it on himself a bit.
"Finally, all communications with Canterlot were to be ceased, and that everything that transpired inside the Crystal Empire henceforth was to be “our little secret, m’kay?”"
"How many of my distress letters to Canterlot have gone unheeded?"
He should have followed the rules! Our glorious pink princess is infallible!
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Love is... transgendered, you could say. Man trapped in a woman's body and that, though quite literally. Besides, love isn't exclusive to any gender or sexual orientation, so neither should the Spirit. He should be as kinky and diverse as all the different forms of love in the world! And if there can be a love between an all-powerful timeless anthropomorphized concept living in the body of a female pink flying unicorn and the unicorn who has no idea about any of that beyond the female pink flying unicorn part, then by God I shall write it!
AMERICAAAAA!
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Not crying, eh? Well then I'm going to swear to make it my persona mission to make you cry of laughter before this story is done! This I swear!
As for why Discord is narrating, the truth is that I couldn't really bring myself to write a story about the Spirits and not include everyone's favorite somehow. Plus, having such a sarcastic, petty, snarky personality in a narrator lets me get away with all kinds of lemony jokes in the narration and prose. I wanted a funny narrator anyway, so I went with one that has plenty of character.
As for how, you're right that Discord did rejoin the spirits at the end of HFoCC. But this story doesn't take place at the end of that story, it takes place during the years Discord was imprisoned the first time.
2048497 But I thought love and harmony only got transformed into cadence and philomenia when discord got locked away the second time, like when screw ball had to die
...Sorry, but yea