Apr
23rd
2021
A Question I Forgot + Updates · 2:28pm Apr 23rd, 2021
Hey, how've you all been doing?
Two things to say today;
One, the next arc of Finding Friends (The Frozen North) it's already planned out, three chapters that will be the prelude to something that I'm sure many of you are waiting to see.
Two, something I wanted to ask before Finding Friends released but I sort of forgot was; What was your favorite scene or chapter of Seeking My Purpose In The World?
Hope you all have a good day.
My favorite was the scene where Luna said that Sunset asked her to kill her. Now, this scene is my favorite because there are a few implications here. First, Luna's life on the moon has killed any concept of sarcasm and she genuinely believed that Sunset wanted to die when she said, "Make it quick," or alternatively, she knows that Sunset wouldn't have left that situation alive but latches onto those words to justify herself to her family. "I would have done anything she asked, but she begged me to kill her without a trace of doubt in her words." This could paint Luna in one of two ways. One, she's a debatable villain who isn't against the idea of using others words and actions against them, even taking them out of context, to enforce her own beliefs and manipulate others with half truths, or she's an antagonistic force who doesn't really understand others because of her displacement which causes her to misinterpret others and form her own conclusions and spread them like facts.
Unfortunately I need to reread the fic again to give you the most concrete answer.
Anyway I like the time when Sunshine with her parents which unfortunately become a tragedy in the end.
It was dark and sad and something that I can't even describe in a story with memory alteration, I feel so small and insignificant and when I'm thinking about the implication and if it happens to myself where something that is MY knowledge is just... you know I'm done talking about it.
Now I can't describe what I feel when answering this, and I can't blame you for it.
I just wish ponies will learn all the lies underneath, that's all.
AND I hope the story will touch Sunshine's mom's fate someday.
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I may have to reread. But I always figured she wanted to die.
My favorite which are many but was when Celestia was talking to a young sunset. For a moment I was even unsure if she was real or not. More over it is very moving when Celestia well very much wrong. And has done wrong. Cares for Sunset?
Any moment with celestia talking with a young Sunset. It just strikes very much in the feels.
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I read it more like she knew, or at least believed, that Luna wouldn't have let her live so she just asked to make it quick.
"This is your end, my old enemy. Do you have any last requests before I end your life?"
"Um... Could you not kill me?"
"Alright."
"... What, like, really?"
"I asked if you had a last request, and that's it. Guess I won't kill you now."
No one would actually think the person giving you a final request would actually accept "don't kill me" as a request. At least that's how I view it.
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Celestia's curse
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Yup before I read the next book. I will read the last one.
When Sunset returned the book.
I hate the elements because it simply mindrapes the target (assuming it doesn't kill or stone them) into being "good". It cheapens it. It also implies that to be harmonious is "good" and one can't have friends without being "good". A few big problems with the show.
I loved the nuances of the characters and seeing Sunset do good, on her own, was great; even if she wasn't a hero for most of the book.
Sadly i don't remember it all too well and some of it is kinda triggering so i might not reread it.
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Don't worry, it clearly left an impression.
She'll have more chances in the new one
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That it did. It was quite a journey with Sunset with Moondancer and Twilight bringing up the rear. Luna too... now that i think on it...
Like that time Sunset and Sunbutt almost remembered what happened as their mental barriers started going down together. After much tears and some begging Sunbutt mindraped themselves back to being happy with the past forgotten. And mind rape it was. Though it was pleasantly different; in that it was just so sad and depressing to see them break down like that instead of rage at the desecration of their minds. We have all been in a situation where we wanted brain bleach and it was extra sad and extra unhealthy to see it applied.
Moondancer's character arc was especially dark and yet healthy at the same time. For she realized her obsession with a person who still didn't give her the time of day. Which she promptly reemed into Twilight for; so cathartic. Instead of going into the dark gutters of depression and self harm (was this the story that had her as a cutter? Didn't much like that part) she used her will and took steps to improve her life and turned to the dark arts! Hmmm... something doesn't sound right in that last sentence...
Then there were those wonderful chapters where the mane 6 (+ important show established character) would hug their favorite tropes, like the idiot ball, and our straight man would lose it. Typically it was Sunset but somepony might of subbed for her while she drowned in a pool of her own blood at the bottom of a crater. I'm not sure if it was sartorial or a pardogy but those chapters were better sold with someone to be the voice of reason.
Then we have Luna; who is so hard to like. In fact i think you went out of your way to manage the opposite. It still angers me to remember how she blackmailed the mane six into helping her find Sunset.
The one part i did not like was the soulscape scenes. Oddly anthro despite neither having a history with hands and not needing to main a single body plan in their plane of existence.
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No, that wasn't mine.
Just like the mind-erase and Trixie's drinking, not all coping mechanisms are the best.
They never were really. I'm not in the 'let's fix things up' train, I just told them with the factor of Sunset watching from the sides. And taking into account who Sunset is, she would have her own version of it.
I'm actually surprised of how effective that scene was. Hopefully she can come back around to be likeable in the sequel. It'll take some effort on her part. Same with Tia.
Yeah, they weren't the best because I couldn't get too into the characters outside of Sunset's story. There's actually an explanation for their bodies and a bunch of stuff about them that will be revealed in the next arc of Finding Friends, so hopefully it can make things have some more sense.