Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
"So, let's all be honest with each other." The man's companions both looked up from their drinks, one making sure the hat hiding all her hair and the sunglasses she wore despite being indoors were still in place. "None of us actually trust this guy. Or is that just me?"
"No, can't say I trust him either," the sunglasses-wearing girl responded. "I mean, he comes out of nowhere, knows a lot about us while we know nothing about him, promises us everything we've been wanting, and is very clearly not human." A boy with a tail, seemingly dexterous enough to hold his drink, walked by their table as she spoke. "Or, what passes for it these days."
"It's all too convenient," the third person agreed, nervously fiddling with some of her purple hair as she spoke. "But... do we really need to trust him?" When silence greeted her statement, she decided to press on. "I mean, he doesn't seem to like magic being in the world anymore than we do. And you know the saying, 'The enemy of my enemy—'"
"Is my enemy's enemy," the man interrupted, taking a drink from his thermos. "That's all we should think of him as; he's not our friend anymore than Su..." He paused, looking at the girl with the sunglasses. "Anymore than she is," he finally finished. "I doubt we're anything more than a convenient tool for him to manipulate."
"You're a very pessimistic person, Swirl, you know that?"
The man shrugged. "Life has given me quite a few reasons to be pessimistic," he countered. "For all I know, he's watching us discuss this and is making plans to stab us in the back, or use us as some sort of sacrifice. He knows he has the power in this little arrangement, and power's a hell of a drug."
Neither of his companions could really refute his claim, not that either of them tried very hard to think of a potential counterargument to it.
The purple-haired girl eventually broke the silence. "Still... does it change the situation?"
The man shrugged his shoulders. "Not really, I just wanted to make sure we were all aware of it. So we can plan accordingly."
The sunglasses-wearer raised an eyebrow, a hint of red and yellow poking out from under her hat. "Plan?"
"If we know we're pawns of something with similar goals, we need to plan to make him a means to an end."
The sunglasses-wearer started a bit, then glanced around as if the being they were talking about would suddenly appear. "That's a very dangerous plan," she warned.
"And working for him isn't?" the other girl argued. "We're already doing something that could end very badly for us if something goes wrong, just on the basis that it's the lesser of two evils. Writing something off because it's too much of a risk isn't really an option right now."
"It's a no-win situation otherwise," the man said. "We either blindly work for something that clearly has an agenda, or we give up everything and accept the problems her twisting the world has caused. At least this way, there's a chance for a happy ending."
"Not sure everyone else will see it like that," the sunglasses wearer muttered, "but if it'll mean I can have my life back, I'm game."
"To a means to an end," the man softly toasted, bringing his thermos together with their glasses. "Here's hoping we survive what's coming."
The problem with iconoclasts is that they hold nothing sacred.
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Wait... So is Discord part of the meeting, or, presumably, they're plotting against him... Cool!
OH! Glasses is original!Sunny. So, yep. trying to plan 'gainst Discord.
Typo: "of (a ?) potential counterargument(s ?)"
Hard to hold something sacred when you can only see the problems it has caused.
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Considering this Discord and how he actually likes the new world, he's most likely using them to make this "storyline" progress in a way he can nudge into not-kaboom territory.
While causing the most chaos possible, of course. He's responsible, not a saint!
Given Discords nature I could very much see him supporting a plan against himself.
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If you seen Discord's report on his own magic, the results basically need to be chaotic.
... Twilight's multi-eye from going to him for eye repair was pretty much doomed to failure? 'Cause repair and fixing and stuff, usuallu isn't chaotic... Using Harmony magic for that, on the other hand, may have worked.
the bitter self-absorbed club is the worst
The problem with this group, and the type of people it represents, is that they believe they're doing the world a favor, but in reality, they're only making it worse.
This is good writing!
Yeah, the problem with realism is that there's isn't really a real evil, just people who have different opinions, desires, and goals. Human Sunset just wants her life back, Swirl simply can't cope with the change, and... I actually don't remember who the third person was.
They just want life to go back to normal. At this point, even if they discovered that the change is what was holding their reality together, they'd probably not believe it.
Nice batch of chapters, and my god you love teasing us with the Fae, don't you?
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Third person is Human Starlight Glimmer, who thinks magic is going to lead to either something Lovecraftian crawling its way into reality and breaking things beyond repair, or people messing around with magic will do something to the same effect.
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It wasn't meant as judgement, only a statement of fact.
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At least they're getting somewhat absorbed in one another. I call that progress.
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Perhaps the worst part is that Sunset would readily listen to their complaints if they ever just came out and talked to her.
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Didn't think it was, I just couldn't resist saying it. Almost put it in quotations, but RP in the comments isn't something that I think FimFic thinks highly of.
Oddly enough, I've considered Sunset (and possibly some of the others of the Humane 7) meeting this little group of dissenters, I'm just not sure how I'd want the scene to play out. Especially since Human Sunset's issues aren't something she can easily correct, Swirl's viewpoint runs completely contrary to her own, and Starlight Glimmer... actually has something of a point.
Does SaintAbsol read Schlock Mercenary, perchance? Or is the subversion of this aphorism just that commonplace?
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No, but I do read TV Tropes, and that's a really good line.
Guys, that sounds suspiciously like "We're damned anyway". Nothing good comes out of that pessimistic idea. Might it be better to instead looking for ways to avoid possibly destroying the universe?
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Ironically enough, that's what they think they're doing as it stands. They're all basically anti-magic in their stance, and think that the world would be better off without it; they've all just basically adopted Sunset Shimmer as the focus of their ire and are lashing out at her because of it.
I read the whole thing in one go.
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I disagree about real evil.
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I've heard of that one. Honestly, as justifications for smut go I've heard much worse.
I don't want to be a major pain but I have to say, none of the adversaries you're trying to come up with here are doing anything at all for me. The Fae, the anti-magic bunch. the Wholesome, they... why do they even exist?
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Because I welcome ideas from other sources. None of those forces were my idea, as indicated by the author credits I include in every chapter. As for what they intend with them? That's up to them. I built this sandbox, but I'm not going to micromanage everyone who wants to play in it.
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Sounds like you just described real evil right there. These people are so selfish that they are willing to possibly disable or kill the benevolent god who is working to keep their entire universe together and has helped countless people directly and indirectly, and not even always as a reaction to something involving her to begin with. They would refuse reality because it doesn't fit with what they tell themselves they want.
They put themselves and their petty thoughts so far ahead of the rest of the world they would damn existence itself just to get what they want.
Sounds like every classic villain to me. All the megalomaniacs who'd sacrifice a hundred virgins and raze ten villages to summon forth the dark powers on the night of a blood moon JUST as the heroes are arriving kind of 70s-80s evil.
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The end does not justify the means (well... MAYBE with Starlight's conviction about Cthulhu showing up), thus what Coffee Swirl and original!Sunset are doing is evil, despite their fundamental goals, at there cores.
So yes, people are complicated, but that doesn't mean Evil isn't a thing. One could argue it isn't and even use that as part of the argument (I would disagree, but people.do tend to.disagree with each other), but by itself...
Or am I misunderstanding your position?
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I WAS going to say they could plead ignorance, but I think Sunsets psychic message during the change-over included "gotta do this or all life in the universe dies"?
P.S. Quite frankly, by a certain point in the timeline, we KNOW Chrysalis could fix original!Sunset's problem back to "I can stop wearing hats and sunglasses again." levels. So if that has happened by this point...