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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Sucks for Question and Black Orchid. At least Empress is okay. Vincent Edge suffered that, became a living broadcaster strong enough to affect Paul, and is now doing charity? I guess his fear of God is stronger than any self loathing he may feel for being duped.
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When Paul and friends went to the Aztec afterlife they fought a resident there that was enslaved to it.
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1st May 2013
18:35 GMT
"And where do you think you're going?"
Discord stops mid-step, rotating his head around to face me. "Fourth star on the right, and straight on 'til tea time!"
A tiny star and a cup of tea run out of nearby room, spot Discord with a start and then dash down the corridor.
Discord rolls his eyes. "And now I'm playing catch-up. Did you want something?"
He looks me over a little cautiously, his eyes floating out of his face and towards the Sword for a moment before he grabs them and hides them behind his back.
"I wanted to say 'well done'." He shoves his eyes back into his face, blinking hard. "I only stopped threatening you because T'Charr demonstrated that Lords of Chaos didn't have to be total arseholes-."
"You are aware that he eats people, aren't you?" He shrugs. "Not that I have a problem with it; you flip a coin-"
He clicks his fingers, turning into a flipping coin.
"-and sometimes-"
The coin lands, showing the 'tails' side, animated, with a dragon killing a knight in the background and the animated image of Discord in the foreground pointing his thumb at them.
"-you get tailed."
"That was a bit weak."
"So was the knight."
The image clicks its fingers, and the coin vanishes, Discord reappears, and I carry on with my speech.
"The point is, rather than just being a minor pest, you've created chaos in a way which helps Equestrian civilisation."
"I swear-" He puts his right paw over the left side of his chest. "-that it was completely unintentional. But are a few extra alicorns really that useful? I-" He clicks and flashes, appearing in the air with a colourful shirt, a round woven hat, a acoustic guitar and a spliff. "-was getting some fairly chaotic vibes from them, man."
"My problem isn't with chaos. Every society needs change, and that change will frequently be uncomfortable and messy. My problem was with your destructive self-indulgence." I snort. "It's a little funny, actually. Sunset thought that Celestia could turn anypony she wanted into an alicorn and was refusing her out of spite. When in reality she couldn't. And now Sunset can, and wouldn't mind it if everypony became an alicorn, the only people showing interest are the sort who want it for status. And it only provides status if it has a limited spread. And the process requires a magic expert. But you and the Crusaders, you found a way to do it without a magic expert. Just a connection to one another and an exchange of power."
Discord shifts awkwardly, hippy guise abandoned.
"And anyone can try and do that; make friends, find a powerful artefact and get to it! It's brilliant, selects for the most driven people who still manage to maintain social bonds, and means that they can stop bothering Sunset. You've made what the 'natural' way requires public knowledge, levelling the playing field."
He scratches his chin. "That sounds like it might be interesting. But more alicorns doesn't really equal more chaos. Quite the opposite, in my experience."
"Oh, come on. Nightmare Moon was more chaotic in two minutes than Celestia was in a thousand years."
"MMmmmmmmmmm… True. I'm still annoyed I missed it. And that I didn't cause it."
"So while I'm here and favourably disposed towards you, what do you want?"
He blinks. "I… Beg your pardon?"
"See, I know that Celestia did that whole 'shape up or get turned to stone' thing, but… That's not how I work."
"Yes, I remember."
"What do you want out of life? How can we live together in a way both of us like? Because no one made you help the Crusaders. You did it because you enjoyed it."
He grins, hunching his shoulders, claw and paw rubbing together. "I've never made Twilight hyperventilate like that before."
I nod. "The point is, in a purely chaotic universe, someone like Twilight couldn't exist. And when she does, just a little extra chaos can have the most amusing results."
"Hm." He frowns thoughtfully. "I suppose that you may have a point. I'm just not sure that I can just… Give up widespread chaos like that."
Hm. "So… Widespread chaos, yes. Focused relative chaos, yes. The destruction of Equestrian civilisation… No?"
He squints. "Did you have something in mind?"
"Well, you said it yourself. Ponies use the magic of Harmony. What if they had… Other options?"
He waves his claw. "I tried, but it turns out that ponies can only take so much chaos."
"But they can all take some?"
"Yes?"
"And they're not all at one with pure Harmony all of the time?"
He looks mildly appalled. "I couldn't exist here if they were."
"So let us imagine the world like a living thing, the plants as lungs and so forth-"
"And ponies as a skin infection." He holds up his left hand, and-. Suddenly it's magnified, and I can see tiny little six-legged ponies crawling between his scales and biting him, and then getting sent flying as he scratches.
I scrabble back-. And it was a magnifying glass.
He grins at me.
"-and the magic energy glowing around binding it all together in Harmony as the blood. So what if there was a second circulatory system?"
He clicks, and the magnifying glass vanishes. "Go on. This sounds..? Good?"
"You don't really use your whole power, so why not… Donate it to a good cause? Form a heart of pure chaos and implant it into the world's chest to beat in counterpoint with Harmony. Or whatever the literal manifestation of what I just described is."
"Hmm. That would make.. everything a little chaotic. But I would be… But then everyone would be…"
He looks bewildered.
"I'm-. I'm actually going to need to think about that one." He stares blankly into space. "This has never happened to me before."
"Imagine a world full of Pinkie Pies-." I consider Equestria's current Pinkie Pie supply situation. "Fuller of Pinkie Pies.
"I… Can't decide."
I frown as his body starts to… Bubble and wobble. "Um. Are you alright? Should I get Flutterh-?"
He pops, dozens of tiny Discords exploding in all directions! Some stumble around in confusion, one floats into the air with a rapidly rotating beanie propeller and the rest-.
I wince as they throw themselves at each other, wrestling with all of their miniature might. After a few moments the corridor has descended into five or six piles of flailing Discords, the star and the teacup nervously poking their 'heads' out from around the corner to watch.
Um.
Time for me to be somewhere else.
18:35 GMT
"And where do you think you're going?"
Discord stops mid-step, rotating his head around to face me. "Fourth star on the right, and straight on 'til tea time!"
A tiny star and a cup of tea run out of nearby room, spot Discord with a start and then dash down the corridor.
Discord rolls his eyes. "And now I'm playing catch-up. Did you want something?"
He looks me over a little cautiously, his eyes floating out of his face and towards the Sword for a moment before he grabs them and hides them behind his back.
"I wanted to say 'well done'." He shoves his eyes back into his face, blinking hard. "I only stopped threatening you because T'Charr demonstrated that Lords of Chaos didn't have to be total arseholes-."
"You are aware that he eats people, aren't you?" He shrugs. "Not that I have a problem with it; you flip a coin-"
He clicks his fingers, turning into a flipping coin.
"-and sometimes-"
The coin lands, showing the 'tails' side, animated, with a dragon killing a knight in the background and the animated image of Discord in the foreground pointing his thumb at them.
"-you get tailed."
"That was a bit weak."
"So was the knight."
The image clicks its fingers, and the coin vanishes, Discord reappears, and I carry on with my speech.
"The point is, rather than just being a minor pest, you've created chaos in a way which helps Equestrian civilisation."
"I swear-" He puts his right paw over the left side of his chest. "-that it was completely unintentional. But are a few extra alicorns really that useful? I-" He clicks and flashes, appearing in the air with a colourful shirt, a round woven hat, a acoustic guitar and a spliff. "-was getting some fairly chaotic vibes from them, man."
"My problem isn't with chaos. Every society needs change, and that change will frequently be uncomfortable and messy. My problem was with your destructive self-indulgence." I snort. "It's a little funny, actually. Sunset thought that Celestia could turn anypony she wanted into an alicorn and was refusing her out of spite. When in reality she couldn't. And now Sunset can, and wouldn't mind it if everypony became an alicorn, the only people showing interest are the sort who want it for status. And it only provides status if it has a limited spread. And the process requires a magic expert. But you and the Crusaders, you found a way to do it without a magic expert. Just a connection to one another and an exchange of power."
Discord shifts awkwardly, hippy guise abandoned.
"And anyone can try and do that; make friends, find a powerful artefact and get to it! It's brilliant, selects for the most driven people who still manage to maintain social bonds, and means that they can stop bothering Sunset. You've made what the 'natural' way requires public knowledge, levelling the playing field."
He scratches his chin. "That sounds like it might be interesting. But more alicorns doesn't really equal more chaos. Quite the opposite, in my experience."
"Oh, come on. Nightmare Moon was more chaotic in two minutes than Celestia was in a thousand years."
"MMmmmmmmmmm… True. I'm still annoyed I missed it. And that I didn't cause it."
"So while I'm here and favourably disposed towards you, what do you want?"
He blinks. "I… Beg your pardon?"
"See, I know that Celestia did that whole 'shape up or get turned to stone' thing, but… That's not how I work."
"Yes, I remember."
"What do you want out of life? How can we live together in a way both of us like? Because no one made you help the Crusaders. You did it because you enjoyed it."
He grins, hunching his shoulders, claw and paw rubbing together. "I've never made Twilight hyperventilate like that before."
I nod. "The point is, in a purely chaotic universe, someone like Twilight couldn't exist. And when she does, just a little extra chaos can have the most amusing results."
"Hm." He frowns thoughtfully. "I suppose that you may have a point. I'm just not sure that I can just… Give up widespread chaos like that."
Hm. "So… Widespread chaos, yes. Focused relative chaos, yes. The destruction of Equestrian civilisation… No?"
He squints. "Did you have something in mind?"
"Well, you said it yourself. Ponies use the magic of Harmony. What if they had… Other options?"
He waves his claw. "I tried, but it turns out that ponies can only take so much chaos."
"But they can all take some?"
"Yes?"
"And they're not all at one with pure Harmony all of the time?"
He looks mildly appalled. "I couldn't exist here if they were."
"So let us imagine the world like a living thing, the plants as lungs and so forth-"
"And ponies as a skin infection." He holds up his left hand, and-. Suddenly it's magnified, and I can see tiny little six-legged ponies crawling between his scales and biting him, and then getting sent flying as he scratches.
I scrabble back-. And it was a magnifying glass.
He grins at me.
"-and the magic energy glowing around binding it all together in Harmony as the blood. So what if there was a second circulatory system?"
He clicks, and the magnifying glass vanishes. "Go on. This sounds..? Good?"
"You don't really use your whole power, so why not… Donate it to a good cause? Form a heart of pure chaos and implant it into the world's chest to beat in counterpoint with Harmony. Or whatever the literal manifestation of what I just described is."
"Hmm. That would make.. everything a little chaotic. But I would be… But then everyone would be…"
He looks bewildered.
"I'm-. I'm actually going to need to think about that one." He stares blankly into space. "This has never happened to me before."
"Imagine a world full of Pinkie Pies-." I consider Equestria's current Pinkie Pie supply situation. "Fuller of Pinkie Pies.
"I… Can't decide."
I frown as his body starts to… Bubble and wobble. "Um. Are you alright? Should I get Flutterh-?"
He pops, dozens of tiny Discords exploding in all directions! Some stumble around in confusion, one floats into the air with a rapidly rotating beanie propeller and the rest-.
I wince as they throw themselves at each other, wrestling with all of their miniature might. After a few moments the corridor has descended into five or six piles of flailing Discords, the star and the teacup nervously poking their 'heads' out from around the corner to watch.
Um.
Time for me to be somewhere else.
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Not necessarily.
He may have just made three potential Nightmate Moons.
If everyone is super then no one is.
I mean, Discord can be said to be a magic expert.
You've only dealt with less than a handful before this.
Maybe try to run some tests to see if it's safe and that it doesn't blow up the planet.
Please don't.
We don't need you causing any more existential crisis today.
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Probably the right reaction, yes. Make a strange suggestion, get a silly result, best not to be around to get the blame.
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So... now the balance is on more problems than he's fixed, then? Unless/until this gets a good result at the end, of course.
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Don't misquote 'Peter Pan at an Englishman, Discord. You don't get to poke your nose in like that without the risk of getting it bopped. I'm sure the Renegade has some matters to discuss with you.
Oh, don't act like it's an inconvenience, Discord. You know you can catch up to them in an instant, un-fun as that is.
Still nervous about having his power shorn away from him, eh? I wonder who the local lord of Order for Equestria is, though.
Watch out, it's probably double-headed.
Feh. More fun to lay the dragon than attempting to slay it.
Yes, very much so. But he can be excused for being off his game. You do terrify him.
I'm not sure the Equestrians see it that way, but I suppose it's harder to see changes form the inside.
They're children. Of course they're chaotic.
A definite case of 'those who seek power are often the least suited to it'.
And hopefully such people do have good reasons for seeking the power. Then again, you could be truly evil with a circle of close, trusted allies... Nor is good always nice.
And would have destroyed Equestria outright given time. But she didn't.
Ooh, haven't seen that prompt in some time. OL has the benefit of seeing that all the time thanks to the Honden...
Fuck up, you get a few chances. If you prove unrepentant, well... He has the Sword.
There is that. His biggest problem is boredom. Entertain him, and he can be incredibly useful.
One extreme without the other would be especially boring, after all.
Heck, if his chaos works out for the better, that's a bonus.
...Oh, that sounds terrible.
The Chaos supplement. Good for you in a balanced diet of Harmony and Chaos. Please consult your local thaumaturgical expert.
It'd be hard to be. Even the Mane Six don't embody their aspect all the time.
Please don't give him ideas, Renegade. The last thing they need is planetary-scale body horror.
Heh. He got you there.
Hmm... Do any of the other sapient races of Wilson have their own magical super-structure system?
...With safety locks to prevent someone from using the full power, or doing something overly destructive, I hope? Also, nice plan. It worked out for Sauron.
It's a big idea, I know. Maybe make your brain bigger to contemplate it?
...Oh, god, please, no.
Renegade, did you manage to break Discord?
He's really divided about this, isn't he?
Oh, no. You break the reality-warper, you stick around to take the consequences.
I just cannot see this ending well, somehow. I mean, given Discord, it could well end up with two ponies fighting over his 'heart' in the giant volcano it was made, while war erupts across the world... No, wait, that was 'Lord of the Rings'. Still, anything is better than the canonical future of this world...
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Thank you, corrected.
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...still got some extra code lurking here.
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Remove the brackets.
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Thank you, corrected.