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- Pallet town, Kanto
[X] Candidate 3: Genevieve Talonuelli
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
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jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
I'm honestly not getting why people are going for Talonuelli. Sure she gets us an 'in' with Wingbardy (amusing her father goes for it since she wasn't offered/she didn't put her name forward)
And the QM has also pointed out that she's a diplomatic mine field:
Heck there could be repercussions just from us asking for her hand even if the father says no.
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- MN
you know I originally picked Genevieve Talonuelli (option 3) at first mostly because I thought it would be funny to go full science with 3 learning options a turn. However after thinking about it I'm actually thinking she might actually be a really good choice in the long run. By that I mean as things are going right now a war with Aquileia isn't so much a question of "if" but a question of "when" and if we're able to beat Aquileia then having Genevieve as a wife would probably make integrating Wingbardy much MUCH easier seeing how the princess of Wingbardy would be married to the king of Griffonia.
Either way though I will be happy with whoever we chose.
Either way though I will be happy with whoever we chose.
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- Borderworld, Xen
[X] Candidate 3: Genevieve Talonuelli
I like this option because it gives us more potential manpower(Griffonpower?) And more Projected power. We already kinda have a way in with the Trade states via trade, I'd also like to point out that its inevitable that Aquileia will go to war with us so having Wingbardy as our Ally would be better than having them as a Neutral Party.
ON THE OTHER CLAW! If this was an option I'd vote for marrying a Changeling Queen. No favouritism here, nopeerino.
I like this option because it gives us more potential manpower(Griffonpower?) And more Projected power. We already kinda have a way in with the Trade states via trade, I'd also like to point out that its inevitable that Aquileia will go to war with us so having Wingbardy as our Ally would be better than having them as a Neutral Party.
ON THE OTHER CLAW! If this was an option I'd vote for marrying a Changeling Queen. No favouritism here, nopeerino.
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- The Shadowlands
Don't want to rain on people's parade... but a random, attractive female gryph out of nowhere with no name that seems unusually interesting and engaging and knew exactly how to catch and hold our attention? Dollars to donuts she's a Changeling.
Edit: and ninja'd, good to see peeps being properly paranoid though, CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
Edit: and ninja'd, good to see peeps being properly paranoid though, CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
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- Depends on how much of a troll Zelretch is today!
...Go oooonnn. Cause it almost seems like your saying that's a bad thing.
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- The Shadowlands
Well... while I personally have nothing against Changelings, the only reason they'd target a king is to control him and become the power-behind-the-throne using mind-control magic, which would actually be quite a coup for them, as it means they'd have at least a generation to fully infiltrate our kingdom and bleed it dry of anything shiny and/or useful. If they're lucky, they could remain in power for decades, if not centuries, but yeah, for us that'd be a problem. The only hive we see in canon belongs to Chrysalis, and her hive? They don't want to negotiate, they don't want to co-exist, they don't even want to rule, they want to dominate. They want to take and take until nothing is left and then move on to the next host like a swarm of parasites.
If they were an actual nation, instead of a swarm of particularly stealthy raiders, we might be able to work out a deal. Unfortunately that's extremely unlikely to happen, we'd try, and we'd fail, and our people would pay the price for our mistakes. Better to just avoid entanglement with the Changelings entirely at this point.
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- California
It wouldn't be but there is an incredible high chance that if she were a changeling then she would be serving someone else; I.e. a changling Queen.
Meaning her loyalties would be split, and that she would most likely side with her people over Garrick.
If that's the case I want to guess at three potential outcomes:
1)She pulls a kill and replace and we eventually need to decide if we stay with a Yandere stalker of a different species. I vote yes because don't piss of a race of discount alicorns.
2) She didn't have enough of a network set up and was far enough away that she didn't get the message that we were looking for a marriage candidate in time, and she eventually comes to us as a potential ally, it hurts both of them but they remain friends.
3) Gabriella dies, entirely possible if she leads her soldiers from the front and an enemy gets lucky. Desperate for allies to help with the war effort now that our best general is dead and morale is low, and now lacking a bride, Ms. Mysterious approaches us with an offer we can't refuse. A deal with the devil, one we can't afford to refuse, besides, even if we could would we want to?
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- The Shadowlands
Also pointing out that if I were a Changeling Queen, trying to set a Valuable Target up with an infiltrator of the gender they prefer is the absolute last thing I'd do, instead I'd pair them with a bug that has absolutely no way of becoming interested in them, and that they themselves would not be interested in if their true form were ever revealed*. And I'd do that specifically to avoid the possibility of divided loyalties, and infiltrators falling in love with their targets (or at least sympathizing enough that they become compromised). That old literary trope is as old as dirt, and only a fool, or someone exceptionally confident, would ignore it.
*I.E. straight male Changelings would seduce straight male targets, straight female Changelings would seduce straight female targets, etc.
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- Germany
[X] Wait
Don't write my omake again!
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Doesn't Wingbardy not have much in the way of an army? That's half the reason we did/could do the latest diplomacy action in the first place.
They have about half of our or Aquilea's numbers.
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Not to mention that if we marry Genevieve there is a possibility that Aquileia won't attack us as we and Wingbardy would have bigger army than them and would be willing to go to negotiating table as any victory in a war would be impossible for them at that point.
Basically this is what those two marriages offer.
[] Candidate 1: Gabriella Montefeathertro
Offers alliance with one of the cities in the Feathersian Leauge and connection to other cities, but it isn't certain that they all will support us.
Contact to mercenaries, but we will have to pay them though.
[] Candidate 3: Genevieve Talonuelli
Offers us alliance with Wingbardy. Now there is a reason why Wingbardy wasn't attacked by any of its stronger neighbours, because if we attack it Aquileia will intervene and together with them will win a war.
Basically if Wingbardy doesn't have a clear interest to ally with us (Dukes daughter becoming a Queen ) they will stay neutral and there probably isn't much either side can do about it. Cuz whoever attacks them first losses the war and choosing a side without a big gain simply isn't in their interest as most of the battles would then be fought on their territory.
Basically this is what those two marriages offer.
[] Candidate 1: Gabriella Montefeathertro
Offers alliance with one of the cities in the Feathersian Leauge and connection to other cities, but it isn't certain that they all will support us.
Contact to mercenaries, but we will have to pay them though.
[] Candidate 3: Genevieve Talonuelli
Offers us alliance with Wingbardy. Now there is a reason why Wingbardy wasn't attacked by any of its stronger neighbours, because if we attack it Aquileia will intervene and together with them will win a war.
Basically if Wingbardy doesn't have a clear interest to ally with us (Dukes daughter becoming a Queen ) they will stay neutral and there probably isn't much either side can do about it. Cuz whoever attacks them first losses the war and choosing a side without a big gain simply isn't in their interest as most of the battles would then be fought on their territory.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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- Canada
Relax, this one's all yours.Don't write my omake again!
It seems I don't have the time.
Write away
- Location
- Maryland
It seems I don't have the time.
Write away
If you want to write up something, I'll wait to give you an opportunity. It's going to be some time before I put up the interlude anyway.
What were you planning on writing about?