Pittauro
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oh? Is this actually canon to the quest? Was Copper's Realization/Sacrament power about maintaining a large number of social contacts more easily?To contrast, Copper Secateur's transient view of relationships and resentment over being treated as lesser by many different ponies drove her to interpret her Grail expression through the lens of cultivation, planting seeds within other ponies and nurturing them into new emotions on a large scale, allowing her the opportunity to maintain a much larger social web at the expense of increased upkeep costs and a lesser degree of power over each individual relationship.
From these two Hour-connections, the conflict between Velvet and Copper can be synthesized into the conflict between the Black-Flax and the Ring-Yew, and later between the House of the Moon and the House of the Sun. Near the inciting incident, both Copper and Velvet were sworn to Moth as members of a cult, each embodying aspects of their connected Hours. Velvet spoke little with other members of the cult and was widely considered to be a myth, echoing the ideas of the Black-Flax's namelessness and love of hidden secrets. Likewise, Copper enacted the Ring-Yew through the encompassing of lower-status cultists and cultivation of new growth. However, when their guiding figure vanished, only Copper remained true to her prior allegiance, Velvet instead taking the Knock-Wound as an opportunity to dedicate herself to the Meniscate and fully align herself with the return of Luna as a primary goal.
Velvet and Copper really took opposite approaches to the cult. Copper was basically there all the time making "friends" and minions, being the center of attention.
Velvet was there so little that it ended up being extremely easy to eventually convince them we were never a part of the cult in the first place.
Furthermore, this paper draws a connection between the guiding principle of the cult, Moth, and each participant's relationship towards it. Velvet enacted Lantern, descending into Moth, while Copper enacted Grail, ascending into Moth. This paper notes that Velvet deserted the cult at her first opportunity – less than halfway through the studied period – while Copper remained loyal to its ideals until the end of the studied period, indicating that approaching a Lore from different directions can contribute to a vastly different interpretation and personal significance of the Lore.
Mh... the cult also gave Velvet and Copper different things, all things considered.
as an Earth Pony Gardener, Copper wanted to feel special, the center of attention, the pony everyone admired.
Velvet cared far more about close personal connections, about her family. She's a noble, but she doesn't care THAT much about it (though of course she finds the perks of her status convenient)
And in the end... Velvet regretted what the cult did, and decided to back down at her first opportunity. We effectively committed to betray the cult when we didn't bring Luna to them, holding only the most slight hope that MAYBE we could eventually come to an agreement from a position of, if not superiority, at least equal standing and power.
I still wonder... if we had talked to her more, what it could have been. I think it was COPPER that once expressed doubts about what the cult was doing and was going to do, and nobody answered her.