> Spirits don't want to be Demons. > by Aced4Remakes > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Aaron, I find myself sitting inside a room of white. There was no real definition to this, it all looked the same wherever I looked, the only thing that really stands out to me is the desk in front of me. It is mahogany. On this desk is a peice of paper and three items; a broken glass panel representing Discord from MLP FiM, a golden helmet with horns, and the Wabbajack. I felt like I should know these items from something, another story perhaps? I swear that I wrote about these three things at one point. I pick up the paper and read it: Hello Mr A {REDACTED} I am pleased to inform you that you are the latest winner of our ongoing competition! Sadly, there are only three items left to give away. BUT, luckily for you, we at the Void Merchant Guild are letting you choose your fate. We don't usually do this, but you are the best fit for all three roles and seeing as you are too LAZY to go to a con, we just kidnapped you instead! Brilliant, is it not? Now, whatever you do, DO NOT~This is covered by a coffee stain~ Okay, now that I have got the warning out of the way. Choose your fate! You will be stuck in White for eternity if you do not. On a side note: please hurry up, Faust has booked the White and that appointment is in thirty minutes. Yours sincerely, Merchant Bob (I quit Hydra some time ago.) I put down the letter. I find it amusing that Hydra Bob has a better job, probably pays more too, selling at comi-con in multiple dimensions must require alot of work. Wait... If I have truly been kidnapped by the Merchants Guild, I will be recognised as a Displaced! Crap, I will be recognised as Displaced... With this thought in mind, I look towards my three choices. On closer inspection, I see that the glass panel represents Discord, and going by the obvious theme, I can deduce that I will have to choose between Discord, Loki and Sheogorath. I believe that being displaced as Discord has the most potential, as a Frost Giant with daddy issues and a Daedra who loves cheese both have limited potential magically.... I reach towards my choice, Discord. With the glass panel in my hands, I start to feel a tugging sensation behind my navel. The chair I'm sitting on is pulled out from under me and I fall backwards into the abyss. Then the pain started. I woke up with the feeling of grass under me, with stone rubble all around me. My eyes open, I see a strange figure standing over me, it looks rather ugly, uglier than I was as a human. Its eyes narrow at me: "I can hear you, stop your monolog and stand up already!" I stood up, coming face to face with the being that can only be Discord himself. He looks older than he does in the show, much older, graying fur and wrinkles and dull scales. With the rubble around our feet, I can see that he only just broke out of his statue. I ask him why he is old. His posture slouches down and he frowns as he tells me. "I'm old, human, older than this planet infact. As far as I know, I'm the only version of me that is this old." He straightens up, smirks and his eyes gain a spark that was not there. "Now, I see that the Merchants have given me an heir -you in fact- and that involves me giving you all my powers and abilities, best part is that you are young, you have more creativity than an old man. Also, my old age restricts my powers by quite a bit, so you will be alot more powerful as well. My powers were once on par with the Eldrich, my little human heir, and you will get to have it all!" He is happy, dancing and swimming and skipping around me. "Also, you get to look like anything you want, you could even become me in appearance, though I don't recommend that one if you plan to make friends." He looks sad at the mention of making friends, I realise that this version of Discord won't get the chance to become friends with Fluttershy, he knows he will be dead before that happens. I accept being his heir, but I thought I would become a displaced Discord and there would be two of us running around, guess not then. He tells me that transferring his power will cause a wave of magic that alicorns could feel, they would not know what it was but they will bring every guard with them after the wave stops, and by then, he will have disintergrated completely, leaving only me in the garden. I know how to deal with it, so I say we do it here so they can feel his last burst of chaos. He grins a sadistic grin and agrees, we start the power transfer immediately. I come back to my senses to see myself standing alone, first thing I do is use my abilities to collect all the rubble from Discord's prison, I melt it all down and formed a tombstone out of it. Using my new abilities, I compress it down and heat it further, intent on forming both black and white marble. When Im done, the tombstone is in a white and black checkerboard pattern. it says his name and under it a statement... "A DEAD WORLD IS A MONUMENT TO ORDER, IN ORDER TO KEEP IT ALIVE YOU NEED CHAOS" It seemed fitting that I put that. Next, I conjured roses in all the colors of the rainbow, made it so they never wilt, and placed them in front of the tombstone. I know I have an audience now and I don't care, they have chosen not to approach me right now. I sit down, crosslegged, in front of the tombstone. I don't know how long I sat there, staring at it, but the sun has moved a good distance now. I felt two presences next to me, Luna and Celestia, sitting down with me. They are devoid of any armor, and both have tears in their eyes. "I don't have his memories, only his experience." I say to them. They look at me, just staring silently. "It is strange," I say, "Knowing how to do things I could not ever percieve less then a day ago" They seem confused at this, I realise that I have not introduced myself to them, "My name is Aaron, Discord chose me to inherit his powers." "There is usually rubble after a statue breaks," Celestia says, "What happened to it?" she asks. I say nothing at that, I just nod my head towards the tombstone. She realises what I have done with it and nods her head as if confirming it in her mind. Just then, I felt what seems to be a spear jab me harshly in the back, it is then that I remember there being several dozen guards in this area. "What should we do with the freak, your highness?" I heard. I frowned at that, so did the princesses. Celestia was about to speak up, but I beat her to it. I turn around and face the guard, standard white fur and polished brass. I rise my left eyebrow and speak, "Freak am I?" I ask in a Voldemort-esque voice, he nods his head rapidly, "I cannot be the freak," I say to him. He gets angry at this opens his mouth to ask why. At this point I am standing up, a full head over him. I cut him off from speaking, "I cannot be called a freak, especially by someone who is threatening another with a pair of dildos." I point at his spear. He looks down at his spear only to find a dildo, stallion-shaped dildos, in each hand. The other guards are snickering at him now, the princesses holding back giggles. "From the size of those dildos, I guess you could be compensating for something, possibly your name?" I ask him, looking into his eyes deeply with a searching look. The guard looks at me with fear in his eyes, he knows he is about to be humiliated. I then look around and see that the guards all look the same, except for the one with the purple star on his chest. I shrug my shoulders and just look at him with a dismissive look. "Ah well, I guess you would be compensating for something at least. What do you think Small Shaft?" I look him directly in the eyes as I say it. The guards, after hearing his name, burst out in laughter. Small Shaft faints in humiliation and shock. The princesses are trying so hard not to laugh, Luna fails to hold it in, and laughs just as hard as the guards. While they are all distracted in their laughter, I just calmly snap my fingers and appear in what looks like the throne room. Sadly, Princess Celestia was not as distracted as I thought. She teleported in a few seconds after myself. I predicted this and set up a table and two chairs for us. She eyed me warily, sitting down in the chair opposite to mine. The table was made of mahogany. "What are you?" She asked, "Human, or I was." I replied, "Was?" "Me gaining Discords powers must of changed something genetically, it's either that or the pain I experienced entering this world changed my body to allow me the ability called the manipulation and reconfiguration of energy." She looked at me like I was insane, I probably was, to be honest. "Or," She said, "Your kind have always had magic and the pain was from your body not being used to it" I thought about it deeply, even stroking my chin. "Nah..." I said, while shaking my head. She looks a bit calmer now, probably because I seem normal in this situation. I sense six figures running towards the throne room -I know who they are- and gave Celestia a cheshire's grin. She looked unnerved at that so I tuned it down to a more human-like grin, she still looked unnerved. "Oh Princess~" I sang, "How would you like to play a prank on the Elements of Harmony?" She tentatively agreed, and asked me what I will do to them. "Simple, I will play the villain, you just need to play along." She put her head into her hands and asked how that would work. With a flash of light, I took on the appearance of a younger Discord. She looked shocked, that is, until she started to grin happily. There was a flash of light, and the stage was set, the actors are all in their positions ready to play their part... > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am so sad that I did not have enough time to describe the plan to Celestia fully, I believe that she has assumed that I would do exactly as Discord himself would do. It is a logical assumption, I did say I had all his experience. Sadly, I also said that I do not have his memories. MLP FiM is a cartoon meant for children, it is not real. This world is already proven to not fully be canon, what with a dying Discord and anthro ponies being present instead of the normal Discord and normal ponies. Just so you veiwers know, I will be following Discord's plan, vaguely. Now though, I am watching the room that stores the actual Elements themselves as this is where our prank begins. Oh look! here they are now! The Mane Six come charging in, quite strange, they were outside the throneroom a minute ago and this room is half-way across the castle plus I know there are anti-teleport wards in place. Twilight leads them. "Princess! We came as fast as we could after we felt that blast! Is it another test?" asked Twilight Sparkle, "No, my faithful student, it is not a test. But it is good that you six came here, we need your help to stop this new threat." replied Celestia looking all grave and serious, the look does not suit her at all. All six ponies look worried at this, what could this new threat be? Where is Luna? Where are the guards? (P.S. They are still recovering from their little laugh earlier) "What threat Princess?" asked the Mane Six, all of them ready to serve their country, I shivered as their chorus did not sound natural. Pinkie Pie narrowed her eyes at a glass panel, one that shook unnaturally. The others ignored her. "An old foe from mine and my sister's past has returned to cause chaos, to do this, we need the Elements to imprison him once more!" said Celestia, walking towards an ornamental door. Celestia charged a bit of magic into her horn, from this I can say that everyone's magic signature is unique and that is how she locked it, and shot a bolt of pure magic at the lock in the door. Yes, would be a bit awkward to bend your head down and use your horn as the key in an anthro world, wouldn't it? The door slid open silently then disappeared into the walls. Step 1, Secure the Keys *Cough* Elements. Now that I know where they are, I can make them disappear for a short while. "Forget the Elements, I want the box!" exclaimed Rarity. The box opened to reveal that the Elements of Harmony are gone, everyone gasps, even Celestia. "I guess we do just get the box," said Rarity. And now I enter the picture. My evil laugh echoes throughout the room. Everyone looks around fearfully, except Pinkie Pie. "Show yourself Discord!" Celestia demands angrily, lighting up her horn with magic. Everyone is in a combat stance now. "Now, now, Celly. That is no way to treat an old friend." I say, taking control of a little glass Discord and prancing throughout the glass panels. Celestia shoots a bolt of magic at the panel I am in, it shatters. "My old friend is dead," replied Celestia,"You are not him, only a pale imitation of what he once was," She was really angry now. Foreshadowing much? She uses her magic to destroy every window, giving me no choice but to leave them. Pinkie begins snorting and laughing. "Pinkie, this is not funny! Stop laughing at me!" Twilight says furiously. Meanwhile, I do a little shuffle on her head, still in the form of a little glass Discord. I stop fooling around, she is right, it is not funny. I jump off Twilight's head and reform into a full size Discord, frowning and sulking. Everyone is confused at that, why would he stop messing around? "Oh Twilight," I said, shaking my head, "If you wanted me to be serious then you only should of asked." I walk up to her and look into her eyes. "I feel sorry for you, dear Twilight," I say, "All that power under your belt, yet you are so naïve." I tilt my head to the side, as if curious, "Tell you what, I will give you a little bit of help." I stand up straight, my claw and paw clasped together behind my back. I look all of them in the eyes at the same time, I have multiple eyes, and then face Celestia with only two eyes on my head. " I will give you all a bit of help because I feel sorry for you all, you think you have a chance to defeat me? Then I shall give you that chance, heed my words: 'Twists and turns are my master plan, find the elements back where you began'," Their little faces lit up, they thought they could defeat me, "However, If you go to the wrong place, you will have failed, and Princess Luna and the entire guardforce will remain mine." I end with vicious smirk on my face, they probably now think I will make them my slaves. Logical assumption, yet they know nothing of me. I snap my claws, and disappear. I simply teleported myself to the side of the room and made myself invisible, yet they do not need to know that. From my position, I can see that it all proceeds as it does in the show, Twilight mumbling about "Twists and turns" whilst walking over to the window. She spots the maze and assumes that the Elements are in there. I remembered that the guardforce and Luna are down there, so after the Mane Six left I teleported them all to the throne room, I also added a notice-me-not onto Discord's tombstone so that the ponies ignore it on their way to the maze. Wait, Pinkie may see through it, so I also added a sign onto it that says to play along and to not mention the tombstone. After this, I revealed myself to Celestia then dropped my Discord appearance. She was holding back her laughs, same as me. After we knew for certain that they were gone, we repaired the windows, sound-proofed the room and had a massive laugh at the expense of the Mane Six. After we stopped laughing, I dropped the sound-proofing spell and teleported us both into the throne room. She stumbled a bit but caught her balance quickly. We ended up standing in front of the throne and in front of us were a lot of dazed and confused guards. I waved at Small Shaft, who is awake now. Luna sat on Celestia's throne. We quickly told her what we had done, she tried to laugh but ended up coughing instead. I conjured a glass of water for her and she whispered her thanks. I had gotten an idea, we can ALL have a laugh at the expense of the idiots! I snapped my fingers and transfigured the entire throne room into a movie theatre, It ended up looking like a fixed up, modernised Kino der Toten. This caused the guards to become even more confused, this is because they are not used to such chaos and it is disorienting to them. After they all calmed down, they got the idea to sit down so they could enjoy whatever is about to come on. I sensed that the Mane Six was about to enter the maze, so I started the show. "Now, everybody, I give you 'Follow the Idiots, Volume 1'," I announced. "Right girls! The Elements are in this maze, let's go get them!" screamed Twilight Sparkle. "But Twilight, what about the second part of his warning?" asked Pinkie Pie. "Don't worry Pinkie, I can tell that he is lying, he's not going to make them all into slaves!" shouted Rainbow Dash, ready to kick the latest baddies ass so that she can go nap some more. Fluttershy facepalmed, being the one of the smartest ones here, she knew what Pinkie was talking about and as normal everyone is ignoring Pinkie. She wonders if she will be able to get her voice back in time to remind of it, but having a serious cold a few days before this has turned out to be quite horrible indeed. "Let's go get to Elements darlings, just think of how the Princesses will reward us!" said Rarity, ever so generous, that one. "Tha maze don't feel right, we shouldn' go in," aparrently Applejack can tell that I did not even mention the maze and that this is not the right area, but she still follows them because she is loyal to her friends. But still they entered the maze. Twilight told them all to take different entrances -wait, she lived at the castle for years, did she not explore the maze even once?- so they can be sure that at least one of them makes it into the center. As they step into their entrances, they hear a click and the maze shoots up behind them, separating them from eachother. They hear no sound behind them, they were cut off from the world completely. Their wings and horns disappeared with the sound, Rainbow Dash landed on her ass. I watched as Celestia put her head into her hands, she has realised how doomed Equestria would be if I took the path of Chaotic Evil. I widen my eyes and quickly summon a moral compass, Phew, still Neutral and only leaning a small bit into Chaotic. I dispell the compass, though Luna does shoot me an inquistive glance when I do so. I hold up a sign to her that says 'Checking the time, I have to go annoy the Mane Six soon', she nods her head at me in acknowledgement. The moral compass is a rather private thing to some people. I stand up and leave the sign on the chair for Celestia. I don the Discord appearance and snap my claws, I disappear and reappear at the maze, ready to intercept each one on their path. Fluttershy is annoyed, she has been walking for what felt like ages -but in reality it was a few minutes- before she came across this clearing. This clearing shouldn't be here, as the only clearing is the middle of the maze, and that is not this big. Discord sits on a wooden bench, it is mahogany, reading a magazine that says Quibbler on the front. Granted, it is upside down but it seems too normal for a so-called Spirit of Chaos. Yes, she had read about him in school, but she didn't expect for him to be this young, this lively. She saw a gateway on the other side of the clearing and set her course towards it. "Did you know that nargles can steal anything, even your love? They even look just like those you trust, but they are not them," she heard him say, "Daddy Chaos says that they are the reason that no-one pays attention to what is right in front of them, such as the stone-pone conspiracy." She continued walking, it is no hope, she doesn't see herself getting any closer to the gate, and Discord is just walking with her now. "Why are you ignoring me? Is it because the blasted long-horners consider me Loony? The crumple-horned unicorn fixes everything, makes you forget and repairs all that was damaged. The last crumple-horn was Sombra, he made his people forget all that he did to them at the time," he says to Fluttershy. "But you wouldn't know that would you? Care to let an old lad tell you his story? How he became what he was today?" He walks closer to her now, she ignores him. "I see..." He says to Fluttershy, he has stopped walking but she still walks. "You know, I was going to turn you cruel, the exact opposite of your element." He admitted. "I see that I do not need to do such a thing to you. You are already not KIND enough to listen to an old man ramble. Well then, have a good day then." He disappears and Fluttershy falls fowards. Fluttershy catches her balance and then realises she has been walking in place the entire time. A few moments later she reaches the gate and turns back with a sad frown on her face. She wonders if she should have been a bit nicer to him, after all, he just seems to be an old man looking for a laugh. She walks through the gate, never noticing her own colours dulling into horrid shades of gray, if she did, she would have just ignored it. Pinkie Pie is quite the observant pony. She instantly noticed that something was wrong when she entered the clearing. Her entire body shook, and after that she looked around expecting a massive doozy. After looking around, she found the only thing out of place to be a bench with a magazine on it. When she got close, she barely managed to get a look at the title. This is because it faded out of existance, like a mirage, as soon as she got too close to it. Instead, a chair appeared. Above the chair was the sign 'Sit 4 Insta-Win' and she felt herself pulled to sit there. She tried resisting, but couldn't fight her own body, she was currently trapped in her own mind, only allowing control over her eyes. After sitting, a red light blazed and a klaxon sounded. Ropes and chains tore out of the ground, wrapping around her tightly, but not tight enough to hurt her. "Oh dear, It seems that we have a dirty little cheater." Said Discord, appearing from the left side of her vision. "I cannot allow your attempt at cheating go unpunished, you know," he tells Pinkie. "What? You set this up! I was dragged towards it!" Pinkie yelled, regaining control of her mouth somehow. "I know, but I put up a warning circle to warn people not to step too close to it." said Discord, pointing towards a circle that was not there before. Suddenly, a lightbulb appeared above Discord's head. He reached up and waved it away, it sprouted wings and flew away, only to be struck by lightning when it was far enough way so they wouldn't be hurt. "I have the most perfect idea on how to punish you!" he exclaimed, "I will let you in on a few, most horrifying, truths." he says, eyes wide and a sadistic grin. "Truth Number One: Everyone is laughing at you, not with you." He pulls up a tv and sets it in front of her. It shows a few video-clips of other ponies laughing at her when she is telling jokes. Her hair is flat. "Truth Number Two: You are not funny at all." He turns up the volume so she hears herself telling jokes she knows that she would never tell, horrible ones. A few tears escape her eyes. "Truth Number Three: This whole think is a prank." Her eyes widen in shock as she can now recall things from earlier that kept slipping her mind. A slight quiver of the Princesses lips, no harmful magic being cast, Discord's lack of chaos and Discord's tomb-stone... Discord's tomb-stone? "Who... Who are you?" she asks 'Discord'. "Me? Well I am basically Discord Jr." He replies. "sadly, in order to continue this prank, you need to be discorded. Do not worry, it simply means you lose your color and become the opposite of what you are meant to be" Her eyes widen in fear at that. "Oh, don't look so horrified! I'm not actually going to do that to you! Do you think you can play along?" he asks, she nods her head fast. "Good, close your eyes and hold your breath." She does just that. She feels a sensation of wetness, as if she had fallen into a puddle of paint. "Open," Discord Jr says. She finds herself now standing in front of Discord, despite being chained to the chair before. She looks at her hands and notice that they are gray. She looks around and sees an exit surrounded by flashing signs saying 'This way my loyal minion' and variants of it. Discord gave her one peice of advice on how to act: "Remember, Pinkie, They are not laughing with you, they are laughing at you." Rainbow Dash was so sure of herself. High aspirations, high expectations and high standards. Although Rainbow herself did not live up to them herself, she did have them. Without her wings she felt naked, with that thought in her mind she trudged fowards, intent in getting her wings back, no matter the cost. Discord watched her enter the clearing, knowing that this will be the easiest one yet. "Hello Rainbow Dash," he said, she stopped to glare at him. "What do you want?" she asked him, hoping he would go and die. "I want to ask you a question," he said. She crossed her arms and raised her left eyebrow, Discord continued, "What would you give up to get your wings back?" Her eyes lit up. "Anything," she answers. "Anything?" he parrots back, Rainbow Dash falters but holds firm and nods, a serious look on her face. "Even your loyalty to your friends?" "Yes," she says, thinking that he is joking. Discord just shrugs his sholders and taps her on the forehead with his pointer-claw. "There you go then, fly away, they don't need you anyways." A gray Rainbow Dash looks at her wings with joy, when she heard him speak, she flew away to Ponyville. She looked back once and her colour flickered back for a second, but the grayness came back, she continued on her set path. Applejack is known as nothing more than a common farm-pony by many. Few remember that her mother is a unicorn, and that Applejack learned quite a bit in how to sense magic and avoid it. With this knowledge, she knew that Discord was following her through this clearing. "What do ya want Discord?" She asked him. Discord was not expecting this, he stuttered for a few seconds before replying, "What makes you think I want something?" He shoots back. "Yer a villain. Villains always want somethin'," She says. Discord is shocked, has he became too much like the real Discord in this prank? He shakes it from his mind and continues. "Well, Applejack, what I want is to play a game with you. Surely you are familiar with two truths and a lie?" He asks. "You also get your Element if you guess the lie correctly." She brightens up a bit at this, surely it would not be too difficult. "I shall take your brightening up as an agreement. Okay here I go; I am Discord, I am human, My favourite book is 'Swords and Shields' by Varric Tethras... Choose wisely Applejack, if you are wrong: you will suffer." "Ah choose 'Ah am human' to be the lie. Everyone knows humans are not real." Applejack decides after a few minutes. Discord grins widely and she knows that she has chosen wrong, but still, humans are not real, right? "You have chosen wrong, and as your punishment, you will be discorded." Discord says as Applejack can feel her own magic drained away from her, she would not like to feel that ever again, and be replaced with the exact opposite of what she was. "Come now Applejack, a few lies never hurt anyone before," he said to her. "Eeyup," she says, "Nothin' wrong with a few lies." Applejack then walks through a gate on the other side of the clearing. Rarity is the most generous pony to ever exist. But still, in order to give stuff away, you need to make more than you spend. Generosity can be profitable if you know how. This is why she could not help herself when she found a giant diamond embedded in a wall inside the maze. She completely disregarded the fact that this diamond belongs most likely belongs to the princesses, after all, it is their maze she found it in. The wall even had the most delicate of carvings, maintained to the point that something must of owned the wall due to the upkeep. It is not natural, for sure, as Canterlot is on the side of the mountain, and the wall is only in the maze. The guards and the princesses sitting in the theatre could only watch as Rarity dug the diamond out of the wall, watching as her color drained out for stealing something that does not belong to her. Generosity makes you one hell of a thief. Twilight Sparkle has reached the centre of the maze. In the. centre of this small clearing is a delicately carved pillar that comes up to her stomach. On top of this pillar is an ornate box, similar to that which the Elements of Harmony was supposed to be in. She opened the box. Suddenly, four ponies burst into the area, all from different directions. They were all excited to see the box and wanted Twilight to open it, except Fluttershy and Applejack that is. Applejack wanted her to close it and Fluttershy just didn't care. Pinkie wanted the Elements to get her friends back to normal and Rarity wanted it all for herself, tugging along a great big rock behind her. Twilight opened it. She found a note, written on a typewriter, all the letters the same and all slightly slanted too: To the Elements of Harmony, This letter will appear if you have followed my help wrong. To get here, in the maze, you would have to disregard the second part of it like the complete and utter idiots you lot are. Better yet, I have turned you all against eachother. Do you want to know what is even better than me causing strife in your ranks? I have been projecting your faliure for the the princesses and the entire guardforce to see it! Now then Sparky, how are you going to defeat me now? _Discord_ P.S. Look up Twilight Sparkle She looks up and sees Discord's face. She then looks around and sees that her friends are all gone, 'how can they just abandon me?' she fumed. She has a look of anger on her face, the anger was greater then Discord has ever witnessed. If she could use magic, she would hit him with a bolt of pure magic, the explosion from the magic colliding with Discord would have leveled the mountain. This is why he gave them an equal chance by taking away the things he could not do. He could not do unicorn magic so he took away their horns. He could not fly using his wings so he took away their wings. "Scared, Sparkle?" He asked tauntingly, "You wish," she replied. His claw touched her forehead, she was powerless to stop it, and she had only one thought on her mind, 'I have no friends left...' I appeared back in the theatre, between the princesses. They saw everything on the screen and they were not happy with some of the things I did. After explaining the Friendship Lesson they all get from this experience, they found only most of what I did was acceptable. I admit, that I did seem a little too much like the real Discord. After that thought I checked my moral compass once more and frowned. I almost qualified as Chaotic Evil after all that, no wonder why I kept feeling bad after each one. I mean, the feeling of wrongness disappeared after what I did with Applejack, but I just thought that was me getting used to playing the villain. I do not want to actually be the villain...