
| dragonSpike #114765 1 year ago |
Should have moved the second text up, and made it
"Use indirect, half-flanked methods to stop them, only to lead them to the tools of your demise." |
| Anonymous #114768 1 year ago |
"half-plotted" fits better |
| Anonymous #114778 1 year ago |
This was why I always thought they were more tests than anything, as though Luna was trying to break free and trying to mold the cast into the beings that would save her. |
| Anonymous #114785 1 year ago |
Well, in the same vein, she comes back cackling and talking about eternal night... and what does she give them? Storm, gloomy, horrible darkness?
Nope. A rather peaceful, beautiful night. I really don't think Nightmare Moon was all that "evil"; just fed up with people ignoring the work she did. |
| DoctorDreidal #114787 1 year ago |
^either way, eternal night would really fuck shit up. |
| Rogue-kun #114789 1 year ago |
Luna was secretly influencing Nightmare Moon to free herself from the possession, that fits 8) |
| Anonymous #114794 1 year ago |
^^ In our world. In that world, who knows; maybe Luna would've used some of her magic to keep the plants and everything else healthy in the absence of Sunlight.
Or if she weren't able to do that, maybe she'd have lost her nerve after a couple weeks and chilled out on her own. |
| YenaMuffin #114800 1 year ago |
I have to agree with you, #114785, the night sky was rather nice. Kinda makes me wonder if, back then, Luna had the same problem that the mane 6 seems to have- when their special talent doesn't work or isn't appreciated, they go a bit crazy, like Fluttershy did when the animals ignored her at the Gala. I can picture Luna being one of those intenstly devoted artist types, creating the massive beautiful canvas of the night sky, only to have no one notice it. The longer that happens the more upset she gets until she snaps. |
| Anonymous #114906 1 year ago |
It's the classic villain trope of "assuming the heroes are poorly motivated idiots". Without that, you lose 90% of all the plots ever made.
Which is why writing a story with the Seven Deadly Sins as villains is awesome, because when Pride is their leader it makes perfect sense for him to assume that they're poorly motivated idiots. |
| CranialHeartache #115599 1 year ago |
This. So much this. |
| Anonymous #116082 1 year ago |
Luna is a TEENAGED god. She really is trying to hard to be "evil". She probably don't even realize the implication of an eternal night and just do it because she assume that everybody hates "her" night.
SEE NO MORE SUN. NO MORE BIG SIS WHO GET ALL THE ATTEBTION. TODAY AND FOREVER EVERYPONY LOOK AT ME, ME, ME! HAHAHAHA! |
| Anonymous #117415 1 year ago |
^ this |
| feather #117425 1 year ago |
haha half-flanked |
| Anonymous #247632 1 year ago |
My theory was that, on a subconscious level, Luna was restraining Nightmare Moon's powers. It wasn't completely restrained, but enough that she didn't nuke the six Welders of Harmony...just to be sure. |
| Anonymous #668589 8 months ago |
@082 She was stuck on the moon for one-thousand friggin' years. Cut her some slack. |
| Anonymous #668597 8 months ago |
@082 She was stuck on the moon for one-thousand friggin' years. One thousand. Try to wait just one thousand minutes doing nothing, and you think that's painful?
Cut her some slack. Otherwise I agree. |