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i never forgot this fic! i actually was in the middle of rereading it when i saw that it had updated!
YAY featured! Loooong overdue.
You know, maybe it's my personal bias, because I'm a Discord fan and I prefer the "not completely evil" variant of him, but I actually believe him here, because he has a really good point. Celestia doesn't know that Discord and his team are hiding in caves, exhausting themselves, barely staying one step ahead of her soldiers, so she has no way to know that Discord isn't a smooth Machiavellian mastermind... but he is not in a situation that a master planner would have chosen to end up in.
Discord falls into the character archetype of Trickster, and Trickster viewed from the outside often looks like a master of the Xanatos Gambit right until everything falls apart for him, and sometimes even then, but Trickster viewed from the inside -- from his own POV or the POV of his friends and allies, who can see him without the smokescreen he presents to his enemies -- is the archetype I call The Man With The Plan. The Man With The Plan is a rather ironic name because things *never* go according to his plans, and he is constantly falling from one crisis to the next, but because of his amazing ability to think on his feet and rapidly adapt to changing circumstances, he usually comes out on top, and does so in a way that make his enemies think he planned it that way all along. Examples of The Man With The Plan include John Constantine (Hellblazer, Vertigo Comics); Miles Vorkosigan, Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga; and John Crichton, Farscape.
So it is a much better match to Discord's character archetype for him to have summoned Calamity without being able to fully control the creature or thinking through where it'd end up, only to be left up a creek when it goes to the wrong place and causes so much damage it ends up being killed, and then lying about that to Twilight to persuade her to free him, than for him to have had some master plan that involved summoning Calamity, leading to Spike being killed, leading to Twilight being vulnerable to his manipulations. And it is a much better match both to Discord's archetype and to what's actually happening to imagine that Discord lied about planning all of this in order to taunt Celestia and screw with her head and make her think he is much more in control of this situation than he actually is, than to imagine that a sophisticated master planner who's manuevering everyone like puppets would think it was a good idea to end up in a series of caves, pushed to exhaustion and the limits of his magic.
So I think he's telling the truth this time. Or most of the truth, anyway.
IT LIVES!!!
*Sigh*
I DID actually forget this fic, and I'm really not in the mood to re-read through all those words. When chapter's are a mere 1000-3000 words then I don't mind it so much, but not this.
Well...I suppose if the next chappy comes out sooner than this one did, then I'll try to skim through the previous chapter's in order to remember the general shit that went down. I know it involved Spike dying because of Celestia's callous but unfortunately needed plan, but that I still wanted her to get spanked anyway.
The floor is yours dear author. Let's see what you've got
Usually I forget almost everything about a fic that hasn't updated in a long time. But, as goes in this story, you wrote parts that are memorable, like the scene between Discord and Celestia just before, and when Fluttershy kills someone, ect...
To be honest, almost every fic I read have memorable moments like that, but at least here, it's constant.
"from the outside"
Of course not, Rarity, what gave you that idea?
I have a feeling that it's not the only lie Discord told... He's definitely up to something...
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Thanks for the correction
As for Discord being up to something, I leave that question up to your active imagination
Because of how original this fic is I do remember the main plot points, even though you take a long time to update. Anyways, I just hope this story ends with all of the mane six together and united, no matter what side they are on. Stand united and die protecting your friends.
So Discord was fucking around with Celestia all along, or is he?
M-m-mid...August?...
Time to wait.
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Understandable, I'll try my best to get it done
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Thanks As for the ending, I have something... interesting in mind. That, and the fact that I'm almost definitely going to write a sequel, leaves me a lot of room to... test the limits of their friendship, shall we say
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WeYou might never know...
Just kidding
All will be revealed in time.
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My apologies
On the bright side, at least it's not going to take me six months
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Funnily enough, I read FoE after coming up with Calmity's namesake, and I still picture that pegasus for a few seconds before I picture my own original creation ;___;
Damn you, Kkat, and your ability to create memorable characters
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Glad to hear it, have a moustache of appreciation, on the house:
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Fuck it, have another :P:
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What you've said makes a lot of sense, especially your part on 'The Man With The Plan' and his ability to adapt and change to come out on top of many a situation. This is almost exactly how I envisioned Discord would be from the beginning :D. Given that he's the self-proclaimed Master of Chaos, change and adaptability would have to be second nature to him in order for him to get himself and his party through the challenges they've already faced, never mind what will undoubtedly come in the future.
That being said, I don't completely rule Discord out as a meticulous planner, either. Whenever I imagine Discord planning, I see him clearly mapping out his options with genius level insight and nigh-psychopathic coldness, as well as evaluating the pros and cons of each situation extremely carefully, but leaving himself a great deal of wriggle room with which to experiment or adapt as he sees fit. This would contrast with, for example, Twilight, who I imagine would spend hours upon hours attempting to plan for every occurrence and have a contingency set in place for each one, but be quite disconcerted if something were to occur that did not go similar to the plan.
Yeah...
I have no clue what is going on
However reading the previous chapter should jog my memory, but I might suggest a recapp chapter of things you think are important. Like have the characters lament on all that has happened so far.
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That would actually be a good idea, although I don't know whether I'd be able to manage it without it seeming like I've just tried to force it in after a hiatus.
I'll give that some thought, thanks
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Thank you very much for that. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it!
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Precisely!
The question still remains as to whether or not he really was telling the truth or not, however.
I shall be waiting for updates, no matter how long <3
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And I shall try to keep to my update schedule, no matter how bad I am at it
Pretty much just power read through this entire thing, very good story. Here is hoping it gets updated soon!
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Glad to hear it! The next update is planned for the 20th of this month!
Oh come on, it's not like that for the most readers. I can clearly remember stuff I've read 2-3 years ago
Great read so far btw