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

[CTrees]

"I suppose it would be helpful if we caught a few more with their pants down." Zatanna pulls a face-. "Metaphorically. They don't-"

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Funny enough, Renegade had to deal with that particular placement of magical bugs:

I don't rush, or swing my fist or do anything that implies for a moment that I'm not in full possession of my faculties. I simply reach forward with my left hand, grab the chief bugfucker by the neck and hoist him up. This Is Not Your Place

"What are you-?!"

I then tear off the bugfucker's trousers, the elephantine insect which long ago replaced his auto-emasculated genitalia dangling free. It hisses at us.

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[Someguy Somewhere]

"It was a manifestation of corruption and you compelled it to be honest."

She winces. "Right."

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As that fellow from hades said in JLU:

"I'm a demon. The truth hurts."

 

[Signaller]

That's hilarious and cathartic.

 

[boo600]

Funny enough, Renegade had to deal with that particular placement of magical bugs:

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Yes, but that insect engaged in parasitism, replacing the genitals like certain ticks replace fish tongues. The worms, as avatars of political corruption, would likely draw blood directly from the aforementioned organ, so as to serve as a stand-in for political cartoons regarding sexual acts. I would post some, but the ones I'm aware of all come from the modern day, and are thus disallowed on this site.

 

[teikan]

Not really? We see dragons and breezies living just fine? Its just the ponies were hidden by G5!Twilight's spell

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what about griffins, changelings, yaks, buffalos?

Where was their food coming from?

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Some Pegasi grew ornamental plants in pots on the clouds—which, of course, was not enough...

Equestria has nationwide weather management. Literally everyone encounters pegasus ponies.

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Yes, but in theory, some farming clan could close its borders and withdraw.

To my, very limited, understanding, magic itself isn't gone, just pony (possibly "person") magic.

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Nope, all the magic in the world vanished. The old Discord struggled immensely to use his powers in G5 because of the crystals.

at least the Student Six were decent enough characters on their own?

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no

G5, despite claiming to be a sequel to G4, was pretty much just using it to artificially gain interest from the G4 fanbase due to it mostly doing its own thing and playing loose with the lore of the previous gen.

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but still canon.

I'll take your word for that. I hope not, because if they are then I'd feel bad for them when they try getting a job without any qualifications or skills.

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They are children closely connected to the leaders of their respective nations, having acquired a significant number of political ties within this institution. It is the rest of the students who truly deserve hope.

Wait, she told ponies? And they didn't immediately put aside their differences in order to violently stop her?

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Apparently not, but Canterlot isn't lying in ruins for nothing.

Edit: Wait a moment, wait a moment. Rainbow Dash was still alive when this was happening? Rainbow 'I live to fly' Dash had the magic that allowed her to do that yanked from her body by Twilight Sparkle, and she was okay with that? While presumably still being friends with the rest of the Mane Six? What? I was assuming that this was happening long after the other five died, and Twilight was already spiralling.

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Yes. She was clearly very upset, but she didn't try to stop her. Nah, the others were almost certainly alive.

 

[Frozen20XX]

what about griffins, changelings, yaks, buffalos?

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The show didn't get far enough to tell us what happened. But just because we don't see them doesn't mean they're extinct or anything.

Although Spike revealed that, like the ponies Unity Crystals, all dragon magic was stored in a 'Dragon Stone', meaning that it wasn't just Twilight who gathered her peoples magic in a crystal. Quite literally, its possible all the rulers went along with it; presumably because they trusted Twilight that it was a way to keep the magic safe from Opaline.

Some Pegasi grew ornamental plants in pots on the clouds—which, of course, was not enough...

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Well, if they can't fly or manipulate the weather anymore, they had nothing else better to do but learn how to farm.

Nope, all the magic in the world vanished. The old Discord struggled immensely to use his powers in G5 because of the crystals.

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Well, the spell keeping Equestria hidden from Opaline was still up and the ponies still had Cutie Marks. So, more accurate to say that 99% of the magic was gone.

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Well, in my opinion they were decent (Gallus was my fav). But I can respect yours.

but still canon.

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Unfortunately.

They are children closely connected to the leaders of their respective nations, having acquired a significant number of political ties within this institution. It is the rest of the students who truly deserve hope.

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Silverstream was a princess... the rest were pretty much just random civilians. Heck, Gallus was living on the streets prior to the School of Friendship being founded.

Though the fact the Spirit of Harmony seemingly choose them as the next generation of Elements means they probably got a lot of good will.

Yes. She was clearly very upset, but she didn't try to stop her. Nah, the others were almost certainly alive.

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When Spike appeared in G5, he actually seemed baffled that the ponies lost magic, implying that either it wasn't apart of the -proposed- plan or somehow every race BUT the isolationist ponies managed to keep their magic... because unlike the ponies, the other races had their magic stored in one crystal instead of three.

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"Because we don't want you going extinct, Agent Pharynx. Your population needs the capacity to produce grubs, or you don't have a future."

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This just reminded me of some fics I read where Thorax suddenly gained the ability to produce changeling eggs as a result of his ascension to a Changeling King. Those were funny.