Legend doesn't know about Scion.
A Friend In Need [WORM/MLP]
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I wonder if the times she gets no answer correlate to the possibility of one or both returning to Equestria before they can be killed and thereby moving beyond Cauldron's reach.
He's a core member of Cauldron and they haven't even told him the real reason for Cauldron's existence? Legend is the only member of the Triumvirate who doesn't know the truth about Scion... Guess he's not as much a core member as I thought. Not telling one of your top capes the organization's entire reason for existing is just asking for him to shoot you in the foot without realizing it.
Other possibilities probably include Discord intervention and befriending of Scion and/or one or more Endbringers.
Do you mean befriending or Befriending?
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I think it's interesting that they don't spend much time working on the worst case scenario: that Luna and Twilight trot on back to Equestria without stopping Scion.
This shows that they assume the ponies will be kind and helpful while simultaneously being suspicious of their motives.
This shows that they assume the ponies will be kind and helpful while simultaneously being suspicious of their motives.
Richardson
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The worst case scenario would be entirely because they're untrusting dicks who decide not to share critical, need-to-know information.
Was this canon too? I honestly can't remember at this point. I thought it was just the Case 53s he didn't know about.
Rajvik_wolfboy
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no he knew about Scion, they just didnt tell him about the experimentation
Anzer'ke
Anarchism Ho!
Yep, he knew almost nothing about them. Which was key as he was the first perspective we got out of them.
On the other hand... they could easily destroy the world on accident. No conversion burrow needed.
From Requiem for a Dream part 3 (Flame Dancer)
The other pony! There was another pony like Twilight, Twilight knew her! Oh I hope she's okay, Twilight needs someone so badly…And maybe, if, if she knows how to go back to Twilight's home, I can go too, away from this, away from that other me, forever
"Miss Luna... when you go home... take me with you?"
Luna recalls the poem on the statue... yes... YES.
"Of course! In fact, give us ALL your poor yearning to be free. This shall be my greatest working yet! It shall span the globe and create a bridge between your world and mine. Any tired masses wishing to move to Equestrian need merely wish upon my name to be free and it shall be done!"
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Reasons for immigration to Equestria?
"Mom and dad wouldn't get me a pony."
"College loans."
"Was about to get robbed."
"Truck broke down... figured screw it, may as well start fresh somewhere new."
"Looking for my daughter. We wouldn't get her a pony."
From Requiem for a Dream part 3 (Flame Dancer)
The other pony! There was another pony like Twilight, Twilight knew her! Oh I hope she's okay, Twilight needs someone so badly…And maybe, if, if she knows how to go back to Twilight's home, I can go too, away from this, away from that other me, forever
"Miss Luna... when you go home... take me with you?"
Luna recalls the poem on the statue... yes... YES.
"Of course! In fact, give us ALL your poor yearning to be free. This shall be my greatest working yet! It shall span the globe and create a bridge between your world and mine. Any tired masses wishing to move to Equestrian need merely wish upon my name to be free and it shall be done!"
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Reasons for immigration to Equestria?
"Mom and dad wouldn't get me a pony."
"College loans."
"Was about to get robbed."
"Truck broke down... figured screw it, may as well start fresh somewhere new."
"Looking for my daughter. We wouldn't get her a pony."
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
At this point, he does not know about Scion, they didn't inform him about Scion being responsible for the end of the world until later in the timeline.
Walker of Paths
All Things Die
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No. He didn't. Mind the entire sequence of events with Legend and Kid Wins lie detector.
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Once more, praise the Beta work of Deadpan!
Chapter 13 Part 1 / ??
"Now tell us Twilight Sparkle," Luna interjected suddenly with seriousness, "what dost thou know of thy new form?"
As Twilight tried to process the non-sequitur, she noted that the princess had cast a privacy charm as she spoke. The air around them now occasionally sparkled as the magic suffusing it interacted with the matter and energy contained within the effect. With only a cursory examination of the working, Twilight could tell that the spell was more complex than the privacy charms normally employed by unicorns as it still allowed outside sound in. She started to examine it further, thinking how it could be restructured to avoid the sparkling, when a hoof nudged her gently in the side.
Blushing, she let go of the formulas trying to take shape in her head and refocused on Luna. "Um…I have wings now?"
"Verily, that is so," Princess Luna said with mirth. "Hast thou perhaps noticed aught else?"
"I'm half a hoof taller?" Twilight replied with a sheepish shrug, not quite understanding what the princess was getting at.
Princess Luna's right fore-hoof raised from the ground and made it halfway to her face before she gave a sigh and let it return to the earth. "What of thy magic? Didst thou not take notice of anything else in battle with those fell creatures."
Twilight frowned and, with some distaste, tried to remember how her magic felt underneath the fear and desperation of her emotions. After a moment, her eyes widened and she turned her concentration simultaneously inward and outward.
"I…I…it's so…it's too much…it's me, but it isn't me…Luna, what…why…why? I'm not me anymore!" Her breathing sped up and she half-reared in instinctive panic before she was wrapped in a fierce hug of strong legs and soft feathers. She returned the hug, desperate for the princess' solid form and reassurance. She let her thoughts slip away and took slow deep breaths filtered through the reassuring scent of Luna's fur. She wasn't sure how long they kept that position before Luna spoke again.
"Be at ease, Twilight Sparkle. Thou art thyself, no magic hath changed that, but for both good and ill thou art now far more than thou were." Princess Luna said calmly.
Twilight sniffled a little, confusion and shock morphing into tears. "I…I don't understand, Princess."
"Nay, nor do we. Nor do we think understanding is possible, but we shall tell thee what we ken." Princess Luna paused as she disentangled herself from the hug and shifted her position on the grass so that she was laying directly beside Twilight. She gently stretched a wing over the smaller mare's back and after a moment continued speaking.
"Didst thou ever think it queer that Equestria's Sun doth orbit the planet? For the seasons to require management? For Night and Day and thus all life to be dependent on two individuals?"
"…No?"
Princess Luna let out a melancholy chuckle, "Ha, ha. Of course thou wouldst not, 'tis all thou hast ever known. But 'tis strange and even unnatural. Long ago, long enough that even we sometimes wonder if 'twere but an imagined fancy, Equestria much resembled this Earth. Night and Day, summer and winter, they came and went as they pleased, without need or warrant from those of us that lived with them. How do you suppose such a system as the one thou hast known could have formed naturally?"
Twilight hesitated and thought about it, and as soon as she thought about it the answer was obvious, it couldn't. "I, it couldn't. I, I, remember asking I think, when I was young, but the adults used the voice, and I stopped asking."
"The voice?" Luna inquired.
"The one adults use when you're being silly, or naive, or stupid and they don't want to say so."
"Ah, we know of this voice. Often we wonder how far our ponies might have progressed were it not for such." Princess Luna replied.
"But, if," Twilight paused and collected her thoughts and condensed them into the question she really wanted to ask. "What happened?"
"Many things," Luna replied and a sad expression swept across her face before she caught it and turned it rueful. "Far too many to be told of before yon unguided sun finisheth its decent. We suppose all could be rendered such: Discord in his madness ripped all natural order asunder and Sister and I in our hubris thought we could mend it. Doth thou recall our words when thou used the Elements of Harmony in battle?"
Twilight thought back, but it was hard to remember. At the time she felt as if she was being stretched across some vast distance, too thin almost to retain coherent thought. "You said, something, you said that, that harmony doesn't have or recognize boundaries? That if I didn't stop…That if I didn't stop I would change everything!" Twilight whipped her head around so that she could look directly in the Princess' eyes.
"Aye, thou seest it clearly now. Would that there had been someone to share similar wisdom with us. No one and nothing touched by Harmony comes away unchanged. For all our years and experience it remains mostly inscrutable to us, but this we have seen. For those able to take up its mantle, its acts are influenced, but not governed, by their desires. Long ago, after living a long nightmare of chaos, we and our sister desired order."
Twilight lay still, the revelations having stunned her into immobility. It was too much to take in. It upended all she thought she knew about her home, her history, the princesses, and magic itself. At the same time it explained so much, all those questions and niggling doubts, all of those things that didn't quite fit together. It was like realizing who the culprit in a mystery was and seeing the whole story in a new light because of it. There were quite a few things she still didn't understand, but one stood out to her. The question that started this conversation in the first place.
"Princess, I, I'm not sure what to say other than to thank you for saving me from making, I'm not sure mistake is a big enough word, but something like that. But what does that have to do with…" She trailed off and shook her wings in emphasis.
"Thou art welcome Twilight. Glad we are to return the favor of thine aid to us in our dark hour. For thy question, we must again plead ignorance and say that all we know comes from our and our sister's deductions, with little bedrock upon which to build. We believe that a rare few individuals, through quirk of mind, luck, and circumstance are able to forge, through the use of the Elements, a deep connection to the fundaments of magic itself. Upon our transformation we were no longer as we were, for we were woven into the tapestry itself, with our talents the thread. Tell us, what hast thou learned in thy studies of friendship since our sister sent thee unto Ponyville?"
Twilight needed hardly a second before she answered. "That friendship is one of the most powerful forces there is. Not only in the way that true friendships better the lives of the ponies involved and touch the lives of those ponies and those ponies connected to them in innumerable ways, but even more than that, in a very real way, magic at its most fundamental is the connection between everything. That connections between ponies are perhaps the most powerful expression of magic that exists because it has to be consciously created. The emotions, thoughts, and will of the ponies creating that connection resonate with and amplifies magic. It breaks down all known theories of magic and physics. You get vastly more out than can be accounted for."
She blushed a bit as she realized she had perhaps let herself get a little carried away in her enthusiasm for the topic, but Princess Luna simply smiled.
"A fine answer, and a far better one than we could have given. Now what dost thou believe the consequences would be if an individual held sway over such a force, such an idea, like we and our sister do over the Night and Day?"
"I can't even begin to…" Twilight stopped talking and looked up at Luna, first with confusion that morphed into incredulity, then dread. Luna simply stared back at her.
"You can't be…you can't mean…no!"
"Harmony careth not for pony limitations. With those so bonded, it joineth to a pony's talent and magic and weaveth it into the fundaments themselves. With thee it hath found a partner more suited than all I believe have come before. For is not thy talent magic, and thus as thou spoke, friendship and the connections between all things?"
"I, It, it's just not possible. Princess, I'm, I'm just, well…me." Twilight stated, trembling once more.
"Indeed, as we assured thee when thou looked upon thouself. However what thou art, can no longer, if it was ever applicable, be just anything. 'Tis a frightful responsibility Princess Twilight Sparkle, but we and Celestia will be with thee and assist thee all that we can." Princess Luna replied tightening her one-winged hug.
"Princess? I'm not…Can, can I give…there's no way back is there?"
"Can one unbirth a foal? Nay, Twilight. More years than can be reckoned were spent searching for such an answer. Once one has merged with the fundaments of the cosmos, thou art a part of its tapestry forever."
"What if we die?" Twilight asked, the thought springing up immediately.
"Even Discord feared finding the answer to that question. The universe would continue, this we are certain of. As great as we may be, we are but one meager bit of it that happens to think about itself. However, what happens when a part of the universe, no matter how small, dies? We do not know Twilight Sparkle, but we fear the answer and least of all for our own continuance."
"Why me?"
"Who else? Destiny, luck, duty, our sister's meddling? All of these, none of them. In matters such as these, looking for an answer is a mummer's folly. Know this though, as grateful as we are to be free of our madness and our lunar prison, and as necessary as it was, for we could not be held forever, neither Celestia nor ourselves would have set thee upon this path had other avenues been available. Celestia knew that shouldst thou succeed in using the Elements, 'twould be the beginning of a journey that could not be un-tread. She knew and though her reasons for such and for not informing thee were sound, she knew also that 'twas a disservice to you. Guilt is heavy upon her withers, and our own, for what is necessary is not always what is right."
"I…I need some time to think." Twilight said, standing up suddenly and startling Luna into standing as well.
"Twilight we-"
"No, I need time to…absorb this. It's too big. I know it's real, but it's going to take some time for me to accept it." Twilight said cutting off Luna's response. "But nothing you have said is going to make me any less your or Celestia's friend." She stepped forward and threw a quick wing hug around Luna before turning and trotting quickly out of the privacy spell's influence. As she made her way further down the shore of the lake, she caught the briefest glimpse of tears forming in the princess' eyes.
Chapter 13 Part 1 / ??
"Now tell us Twilight Sparkle," Luna interjected suddenly with seriousness, "what dost thou know of thy new form?"
As Twilight tried to process the non-sequitur, she noted that the princess had cast a privacy charm as she spoke. The air around them now occasionally sparkled as the magic suffusing it interacted with the matter and energy contained within the effect. With only a cursory examination of the working, Twilight could tell that the spell was more complex than the privacy charms normally employed by unicorns as it still allowed outside sound in. She started to examine it further, thinking how it could be restructured to avoid the sparkling, when a hoof nudged her gently in the side.
Blushing, she let go of the formulas trying to take shape in her head and refocused on Luna. "Um…I have wings now?"
"Verily, that is so," Princess Luna said with mirth. "Hast thou perhaps noticed aught else?"
"I'm half a hoof taller?" Twilight replied with a sheepish shrug, not quite understanding what the princess was getting at.
Princess Luna's right fore-hoof raised from the ground and made it halfway to her face before she gave a sigh and let it return to the earth. "What of thy magic? Didst thou not take notice of anything else in battle with those fell creatures."
Twilight frowned and, with some distaste, tried to remember how her magic felt underneath the fear and desperation of her emotions. After a moment, her eyes widened and she turned her concentration simultaneously inward and outward.
"I…I…it's so…it's too much…it's me, but it isn't me…Luna, what…why…why? I'm not me anymore!" Her breathing sped up and she half-reared in instinctive panic before she was wrapped in a fierce hug of strong legs and soft feathers. She returned the hug, desperate for the princess' solid form and reassurance. She let her thoughts slip away and took slow deep breaths filtered through the reassuring scent of Luna's fur. She wasn't sure how long they kept that position before Luna spoke again.
"Be at ease, Twilight Sparkle. Thou art thyself, no magic hath changed that, but for both good and ill thou art now far more than thou were." Princess Luna said calmly.
Twilight sniffled a little, confusion and shock morphing into tears. "I…I don't understand, Princess."
"Nay, nor do we. Nor do we think understanding is possible, but we shall tell thee what we ken." Princess Luna paused as she disentangled herself from the hug and shifted her position on the grass so that she was laying directly beside Twilight. She gently stretched a wing over the smaller mare's back and after a moment continued speaking.
"Didst thou ever think it queer that Equestria's Sun doth orbit the planet? For the seasons to require management? For Night and Day and thus all life to be dependent on two individuals?"
"…No?"
Princess Luna let out a melancholy chuckle, "Ha, ha. Of course thou wouldst not, 'tis all thou hast ever known. But 'tis strange and even unnatural. Long ago, long enough that even we sometimes wonder if 'twere but an imagined fancy, Equestria much resembled this Earth. Night and Day, summer and winter, they came and went as they pleased, without need or warrant from those of us that lived with them. How do you suppose such a system as the one thou hast known could have formed naturally?"
Twilight hesitated and thought about it, and as soon as she thought about it the answer was obvious, it couldn't. "I, it couldn't. I, I, remember asking I think, when I was young, but the adults used the voice, and I stopped asking."
"The voice?" Luna inquired.
"The one adults use when you're being silly, or naive, or stupid and they don't want to say so."
"Ah, we know of this voice. Often we wonder how far our ponies might have progressed were it not for such." Princess Luna replied.
"But, if," Twilight paused and collected her thoughts and condensed them into the question she really wanted to ask. "What happened?"
"Many things," Luna replied and a sad expression swept across her face before she caught it and turned it rueful. "Far too many to be told of before yon unguided sun finisheth its decent. We suppose all could be rendered such: Discord in his madness ripped all natural order asunder and Sister and I in our hubris thought we could mend it. Doth thou recall our words when thou used the Elements of Harmony in battle?"
Twilight thought back, but it was hard to remember. At the time she felt as if she was being stretched across some vast distance, too thin almost to retain coherent thought. "You said, something, you said that, that harmony doesn't have or recognize boundaries? That if I didn't stop…That if I didn't stop I would change everything!" Twilight whipped her head around so that she could look directly in the Princess' eyes.
"Aye, thou seest it clearly now. Would that there had been someone to share similar wisdom with us. No one and nothing touched by Harmony comes away unchanged. For all our years and experience it remains mostly inscrutable to us, but this we have seen. For those able to take up its mantle, its acts are influenced, but not governed, by their desires. Long ago, after living a long nightmare of chaos, we and our sister desired order."
Twilight lay still, the revelations having stunned her into immobility. It was too much to take in. It upended all she thought she knew about her home, her history, the princesses, and magic itself. At the same time it explained so much, all those questions and niggling doubts, all of those things that didn't quite fit together. It was like realizing who the culprit in a mystery was and seeing the whole story in a new light because of it. There were quite a few things she still didn't understand, but one stood out to her. The question that started this conversation in the first place.
"Princess, I, I'm not sure what to say other than to thank you for saving me from making, I'm not sure mistake is a big enough word, but something like that. But what does that have to do with…" She trailed off and shook her wings in emphasis.
"Thou art welcome Twilight. Glad we are to return the favor of thine aid to us in our dark hour. For thy question, we must again plead ignorance and say that all we know comes from our and our sister's deductions, with little bedrock upon which to build. We believe that a rare few individuals, through quirk of mind, luck, and circumstance are able to forge, through the use of the Elements, a deep connection to the fundaments of magic itself. Upon our transformation we were no longer as we were, for we were woven into the tapestry itself, with our talents the thread. Tell us, what hast thou learned in thy studies of friendship since our sister sent thee unto Ponyville?"
Twilight needed hardly a second before she answered. "That friendship is one of the most powerful forces there is. Not only in the way that true friendships better the lives of the ponies involved and touch the lives of those ponies and those ponies connected to them in innumerable ways, but even more than that, in a very real way, magic at its most fundamental is the connection between everything. That connections between ponies are perhaps the most powerful expression of magic that exists because it has to be consciously created. The emotions, thoughts, and will of the ponies creating that connection resonate with and amplifies magic. It breaks down all known theories of magic and physics. You get vastly more out than can be accounted for."
She blushed a bit as she realized she had perhaps let herself get a little carried away in her enthusiasm for the topic, but Princess Luna simply smiled.
"A fine answer, and a far better one than we could have given. Now what dost thou believe the consequences would be if an individual held sway over such a force, such an idea, like we and our sister do over the Night and Day?"
"I can't even begin to…" Twilight stopped talking and looked up at Luna, first with confusion that morphed into incredulity, then dread. Luna simply stared back at her.
"You can't be…you can't mean…no!"
"Harmony careth not for pony limitations. With those so bonded, it joineth to a pony's talent and magic and weaveth it into the fundaments themselves. With thee it hath found a partner more suited than all I believe have come before. For is not thy talent magic, and thus as thou spoke, friendship and the connections between all things?"
"I, It, it's just not possible. Princess, I'm, I'm just, well…me." Twilight stated, trembling once more.
"Indeed, as we assured thee when thou looked upon thouself. However what thou art, can no longer, if it was ever applicable, be just anything. 'Tis a frightful responsibility Princess Twilight Sparkle, but we and Celestia will be with thee and assist thee all that we can." Princess Luna replied tightening her one-winged hug.
"Princess? I'm not…Can, can I give…there's no way back is there?"
"Can one unbirth a foal? Nay, Twilight. More years than can be reckoned were spent searching for such an answer. Once one has merged with the fundaments of the cosmos, thou art a part of its tapestry forever."
"What if we die?" Twilight asked, the thought springing up immediately.
"Even Discord feared finding the answer to that question. The universe would continue, this we are certain of. As great as we may be, we are but one meager bit of it that happens to think about itself. However, what happens when a part of the universe, no matter how small, dies? We do not know Twilight Sparkle, but we fear the answer and least of all for our own continuance."
"Why me?"
"Who else? Destiny, luck, duty, our sister's meddling? All of these, none of them. In matters such as these, looking for an answer is a mummer's folly. Know this though, as grateful as we are to be free of our madness and our lunar prison, and as necessary as it was, for we could not be held forever, neither Celestia nor ourselves would have set thee upon this path had other avenues been available. Celestia knew that shouldst thou succeed in using the Elements, 'twould be the beginning of a journey that could not be un-tread. She knew and though her reasons for such and for not informing thee were sound, she knew also that 'twas a disservice to you. Guilt is heavy upon her withers, and our own, for what is necessary is not always what is right."
"I…I need some time to think." Twilight said, standing up suddenly and startling Luna into standing as well.
"Twilight we-"
"No, I need time to…absorb this. It's too big. I know it's real, but it's going to take some time for me to accept it." Twilight said cutting off Luna's response. "But nothing you have said is going to make me any less your or Celestia's friend." She stepped forward and threw a quick wing hug around Luna before turning and trotting quickly out of the privacy spell's influence. As she made her way further down the shore of the lake, she caught the briefest glimpse of tears forming in the princess' eyes.
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So, Twilight is now to magic what Celestia and Luna are to the Sun/day and Moon/night? The Equestria version of Mystra?
deadpan29
Strangely Stoic
In Interlude 27 we get a flashback to the meeting on June 21, 2011 in which they reveal things to Legend. Up to that point, he didn't know about Scion, he didn't know what Contessa actually did, and he'd had suspicions about the case 53s but they hadn't actually told him.
Again, in canon that was June 21st. In this story, this meeting is happening sometime late May 16th or early May 17th.
As far as he knows at this point, Cauldron is about trying to make heroes to counteract the tendency towards villainy in those who go through the trauma of "natural" triggers, and holding society together long enough to solve various problems. He knows Cauldron experiments with the formulas. He doesn't know they are releasing the Case 53s into the "wild" with memory wipes. He probably doesn't know just how many major villains are actually cauldron capes.
deadpan29
Strangely Stoic
TOP SECRET//SI-OMICRON 3478-TRINKETS//PRT KEYHOLE-GOLDEN OBELISK//NONONPROT
TS//SI-O 3478-TKS//PRT K-GO//NNP
TS//SI-O 3478-TKS//PRT K-GO//NNP
May 17, 2011
From the desk of Chief Director Costa-Brown:
Modified Master/Stranger protocol case Triangle/Sunflower is to be enacted with regards to the following parahumans:
▪ Agent Argent – Millennium Four
▪ Alexandria – Protectorate
▪ Arbiter – Protectorate
▪ Carapacitator – Compumob
▪ Chevalier – Protectorate
▪ Chubster – Compumob
▪ Clockblocker – Ward
▪ Cloister – Haven
▪ Count Eta – Compumob
▪ Dauntless – Protectorate
▪ Dispatch – Protectorate
▪ Dovetail – Protectorate
▪ Dragon – Guild
▪ Elegance – Millennium Four
▪ Escutcheon – Haven
▪ Exalt – Protectorate
▪ Faultline – Faultline's Crew
▪ Fierceling - Independent
▪ Frenetic – Millennium Four
▪ Gregor the Snail – Faultline's Crew
▪ Halo – Haven
▪ Hew – Crew Q
▪ Inscribe – Earth Incorporated
▪ Kid Win – Ward
▪ Labyrinth – Faultline's Crew
▪ Lady Photon – New Wave
▪ Laserdream – New Wave
▪ Legend – Protectorate
▪ Megaburn - Independent
▪ Mistress Lambda – Crew Q
▪ Myrddin – Protectorate
▪ Narwhal – Protectorate/Guild
▪ Newter – Faultline's Crew
▪ Penitent - Haven
▪ Rosary – Haven
▪ Semiglare – Millennium Four
▪ Shadow Dynamo - Independent
▪ Shadow Stalker – Ward
▪ Skitter - Independent
▪ Spitfire – Faultline's Crew
▪ Strider – Independent
▪ Tattletale – Undersiders
▪ Uber – Uber and Leet
▪ Vista – Ward
On May 15, 2011 Twilight Sparkle utilized a powerful parahuman ability to attack and ultimately defeat the Simurgh. In addition to neutralizing the Simurgh, the ability transformed the local urban landscape into fertile grassland, and healed those present of injuries both recent and old. While aspects of this ability appear to be beyond the grasp of available Thinkers, debriefing of some of those present has indicated some form of mental component to the power as well. Earlier in the battle, Thinkers were able confirm that Twilight Sparkle was using an ability to interfere with the Simurgh's scream. Twilight Sparkle herself has described a subset of her abilities and those of the Simurgh to be somehow related, but opposed to each other. These factors, by themselves, would be cause enough for heightened scrutiny of those directly involved. However, PRT investigators in case file PRT-BB2011001598 have reconstructed evidence of a prior use of this ability and the implications of their investigation are troubling.
Evidence strongly indicates that Twilight Sparkle made use of this same ability against the parahuman Burnscar of the Slaughterhouse Nine on April 23, 2011. Effects upon Burnscar include complete healing of her namesake facial scars and apparent significant and long-lasting modification of her psychology. All subsequent observations of the subject, now operating under the identity Flame Dancer, indicate that her previous psychotic disorders have been replaced by emotional dependency on and loyalty towards Twilight Sparkle. Civilians in the vicinity of this earlier use of this power reported a feeling of peace or contentment afterwards. In addition, a small area was terraformed into a park-like landscape. This result is very similar, if smaller in scale, to the effect on the land around the final confrontation with the Simurgh.
Due to the similarities of these events, and the confirmed mental effects in the earlier incident, Master/Stranger protocols are hereby ordered to be enacted on the individuals known to have been exposed to this effect on May 15th and those suspected of being present during the similar incident on April 23rd. Burnscar/Flame Dancer has been confirmed as being clearly Mastered, and will therefore be handled separately.
Case Triangle modifications to the protocols are enacted due to the significant parahuman power and influential positions held by several of the individuals under suspicion of possible Master influence, as well as potential effects on diplomatic relations with Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle. Case Sunflower modifications are enacted due to likely but unconfirmed Thinker abilities on the part of the aliens. It is essential that the covert and unobtrusive aspects of M/S case Triangle/Sunflower protocols be maintained. Consequences of the subjects or the alien visitors becoming aware of these suspicions could prove disastrous, whether the suspicions prove to be true or false.
Rebecca Costa-Brown
Chief Director (PRT)
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Richardson
CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
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*Slow Clap of Irritation.*
I never really got why Cauldron made villain capes on purpose in the first place. I mean it seems very deleterious to the goal of holding society together. Even if their most important goal was defeating Scion, they knew that holding together a society was their best chance at having the strength to beat him.
Bolded the important bits. There IS a reason Cauldron makes villains: villains cause trauma to civilians, trauma causes trigger events, trigger events create new capes without the mess, fuss, and expenditure of resources to generate a vial. Cauldron is looking for a magic bullet cape to beat Scion. They don't know what they need, so they're using a shotgun approach, trying to get as wide a range of powers as they can in the hopes that SOMETHING will be able to kill Scion. I'm pretty sure Contessa came up with this plan.
Power and propaganda. Control.
It probably started off harmless. "If you get powers be a hero don't be a villain!"
Later a means to political power. Once the world is convinced all capes are either heros or villains... and YOU are the agency that gets to dictate which is which...
Incidentally, that's probably what led to 3 endbringers. Eidolon truly believing in the hero / villain paradigm. The Triumverate... three heros who needed three villains.
Note how much political power the PRT has in cannon. It's crazy. In the aftermath of Leviathan, we find that the Triumverate can Birdcage people, even children, without trial.
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deadpan29
Strangely Stoic
I...don't know...how to interpret that.
- Location
- first line of the army of light.
i believe that it was directed at the projected ideas of the PRT and not at you. the reason for the clap is that it is a valid projection of the possible ways that the PRT would look at the situation.
Xero Key
Flying high, spinning webs!
Correct action Rebecca considering your lack of knowledge, but seriously stupid. If Twilight really wanted to hurt you or turn you into slaves, she would do it without hesitation like the Simurgh. If you just come out and admit that you're suspicious, Twilight will apologize and you can find out that altering minds is a side effect of stripping away darkness forcibly and imposing light so that one may witness and be judged on their actions free of their own delusions.
Honestly the PRT seems ready for the Coversion Bureu though, and would probably be able to fight it off.
Honestly the PRT seems ready for the Coversion Bureu though, and would probably be able to fight it off.