With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

'the broken' not just 'broken'

'boulder' not 'bounder'

'to Luna' not 't Luna'

'stomps' not 'stamps'

 

Despite the fact they can both fly, there's still that instinctive fear of falling, isn't there?

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"Not in the time we have been present, at least... We suspect there may have been times she wished to do so to some..."

Well, she isn't dead. I suppose that means she's doing well.

"Yes, we kind of knew that. Went and found the ancestral Earth pony homelands myself!"

Hey, someone who doesn't ascribe to the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things!

I suspect if not for her royal dignity, she'd be facehoofing...

Well done, Mr Zoat! That form of speech is actually used correctly! No, seriously, folks, 'Wherfore Art Thou' is not asking about a location, but a state of being. Juliet was not asking where Romeo is, but why he had to be born a mortal enemy of her family...

I'd be amazed if it were present anywhere in Canterlot. Celestia is probably well acquainted with its effects, if only from experience...

You've taught her well. She knows not to assume anything about a foe. Even where they might attack from.

Ah, her psionics did get turned into a magic equivalent.

We're one of the best land animals in the water... I don't know of any other primate who swims as well as humans do.

Around Grayven, strange is relative. You and he are both magical winged unicorns, talking to magical ponies in a land of magical ponies.

Heh, Casual dialogue while their friend is basically fighting for her life, more or less. This is why I love this story...

And that can only do so much, regrettably...

To be honest, this is Maud Pie we're talking about. I doubt she shows much enthusiasm towards anything outside of rocks.

Yes. Case in point, that broken balcony that Princess Luna happens to be standing on...

Getting such amazing Avatar vibes here. Though Toph Bei Fong she ain't...

I suppose Maud might pull her punches, though given that earlier rough draft involving her...

Still, it's a start! Foal steps, Grayven. Got to learn to stand before you can stomp.

Honestly, Grayven, you should know who she is, shouldn't you? Call yourself a fan? ...Wait, did she appear before the end of season three?

Haha, Lynne is such a treat!

Not quite so interesting now, is it? Such a child.

A technicality! You assume things would be the same after a thousand-plus years of separation?

And that is so perfectly Maud. Oh, the next chapters of Grayven will be such fun...

Bad move, Sunset, now you've got no footing! Can't fight if you can't stand!

And preferably in a form that doesn't threaten to collapse the palace, much less the city.

Well, this put a smile on my face. Looking forwards to more ponies, Mr Zoat.

Spoiler: Quite a few Corrections

Question mark, surely?

A boulder the size of a car...

I turn my head to Luna...

I nod. "Hominids are.

Sunset's eyes widen as she's caught halfway.

...but she can't get the leverage...

...the grey mare keeps firing spears at her.

 

Bulk Biceps: YEAAAAAHHHH!

 

Holy retcons Batman!

 

Yeah. Uh. Maud does some crazy things sometimes.

 

That wasn't in the nation of Equestria.

I'm always dubious of the phrase 'one of the best'.

Oh, no, the balcony is gone. They're standing in the bit of the room that was next to the balcony.

Thank you, corrected.

 

I don't remember what chapter it is, but when Paul offered to completely heal her old injury, Thana said that would be a bad idea, as the Silver City really doesn’t like it when other pantheon mess with them (while at the same time they think it is okay for them to mess with other pantheons). Paul would remember that and suggest it to Hades, who then requests that Thana's burn be healed.

 

In that case, probably.

 

Not neccessarily. Zoat has mentioned a liking of the Triptych Continuum in the past...

...and unless this is just Maud being Maud, it suggests that earth pony magic works by Triptych rules, presumably with a similar tradition of secrecy.

 

Missing word, but I'm unsure what it is.
Also, 'second 'and' should be 'at'.

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All the bad 'rock music' jokes... You can have 'Space Rock', so, can you have 'Ground Rock', too?

Nice to see Maud in the actual story... She really doesn't do subtle, does she?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Maud is as subtle as a boulder to the face and we love her for it

 

Man. Maud is really putting that Rocktorate to work.

 

This sentence looks like it's missing "breath"

 

I'd assume more of a desire to not end up involved in whatever is going on if it doesn't concern him...it also seems to imply that this kind of thing is relatively common for Sunset to end up involved in for training purposes

 

Never mind. I just saw Torriz beat me to it.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Thank you for the link on that one.

I kept reading 'Benitoite' as 'Bentonite', and was kinda curious how the mysterious magical pony power was halted by what is effectively industrial strength kitty litter.

EDIT: I do have to wonder at times why crystals get all the good PR some times when it comes to all the magical mumbo jumbo, when geology has so many other interesting substances.

 

I mean, I assume that the two of them could do it in the same way that a normal human magic user can in human form with a bit of adaptational work, albiet at signifigantly reduced effect.

 

The fandom basically turned her into an Earthbender from Avatar the last air bender.

Silver can kill werewolves and sometimes vampires.

Gold is the only thing that can completely seal demons, witches and souls away.

Bronze is an alloy and may not be magical but if you had bronze in the coast while your enemies had easily to rust iron swords, you won.

 

Brown chicken, brown cow!

 

I'd say it would be more emulation than anything else.

Magic as is usually practiced in this work is a skill that anyone can be trained to do. Which is how it is in DC comics, except that magic also has an energy requirement, and if you have the energy you can just brute force it without the skill.

That's not how it is in MLP.

In MLP, magic is innate. Pegasi innately have weather control magic. Unicorns innately have telekinesis. Changelings are innately empathic shapeshifters.

Yes, there is an academic scholarly tradition in MLP, but that would be "Training the Gift of Magic" as tvtropes would coin it. It's not something that can just be taught to everyone anymore than in Charmed or Harry Potter or The Familiar of Zero or the Merlin tv show or the Fate series.

As demonstrated in Equestria Girls. Neither Twilight nor Sunset had magic abilities after being humanized. It couldn't just be a lack of background magic, because even when they did get magic later on in the series Sunset had to re-learn magic from scratch. In fact it was a point that Sunset despaired because she thought Twilight would have figured it out already.

So could Zatanna emulate the feats with her logomancy? Sure, but it would have shit all to do with how Earth ponies do it, just like she could emulate Shirou from Fate by saying "Summon all the swords" backwards.

Edit: Actually DC does have magical metahumans, like Black Alice's ability to steal magical powers, Misfit's teleportation, Nightshade's umbrakinesis, originally Raven's empathy, but those so gifted may or may not bother to learn magic.

 

I can just imagine her as one of those women who put themselves through college using her special skills, her skills being smashing heads open with rocks in the pit.

 

And don’t forget forged/magnetised iron against creatures of the Fae!

or humble, unalloyed, soft copper- relatively cheap, easily worked- and for those who trade/fight at sea, incredibly effective at keeping ones ship, be it a pinnace,clipper or liner, from slowing from fouling!

 

A pony version of The Black Queen, if you will

 

You missed the bit where people posted a bunch of stuff showing Earth pony's with superpowers to convince Zoat they actually had them.

 

Like whatever they want it to be.

 

Reminds me of the time they stress-tested the Ace of Winchesters in Atlantis.

 

'smoke' not 'some'

'bench. Then' not 'bench Then'