You know, apart from the fact that it ends in characters I like dying horrible, I actually don't have a problem with the backstory stuff in Fallout Equestria. Apart from the fact that I keep finding myself going "Another memory orb? Seriously?" every time it happens.
#305807Tiggers Are GreatMon, 19th Nov '12 3:10:00 PM
Maybe Anti-Magic or Friendlessness?
By the way, a question that's occurred to me: is King Sombra a crystal pony? I don't think they said one way or the other. For all we know, he was just like Trixie, a unicorn with little magic who discovered dark powers and went From Nobody to Nightmare. Hoo, boy...that could make for some Fridge Horror right there!
Oh, Equestria, we stand on guard for thee!
#305808d RoyMon, 19th Nov '12 3:11:12 PMfrom Buffalo, New York
@Applelight - While I am also taking about personality, it is closer to the elements.
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#305809Applelight LimitedMon, 19th Nov '12 3:12:25 PMfrom Manehattan to Canterlot
#305810Perpetual LurkerMon, 19th Nov '12 3:13:45 PM
@Gex Don't import drama here. There's nothing any of us can do about it besides get angry and say things we'd regret. Especially concerning Tumblr drama.
#305811PannicMon, 19th Nov '12 3:14:21 PM
I don't think EQD would really care to report on drama, either.
#305813d RoyMon, 19th Nov '12 3:22:30 PMfrom Buffalo, New York
This is outright criminal activity, and we need to shut them down.
No heroes, no villains, only people.
#305814Geek Code RedMon, 19th Nov '12 3:26:19 PM
My first experience with this was back in early 2011. I was browsing Fanfiction.net, the Call of Duty section, when I came across a Nazi Zombies crossover with My Little Pony. I read a little, asked why this had been created, and moved on.
Now Ashleigh Ball is voicing a Nazi Zombies character. Pretty much come full circle.
"The desire to be Batman is non-gender-specific."
#305815EnlongMon, 19th Nov '12 3:28:06 PMfrom The Magitek Holyland
Thankfully, Return of Harmony showed us a lot of what those opposites would be
Anti-Laughter would be something like... dispassion? Hatred? Sort of a mean-spiritedness that tries to take happiness out of everything/refuses to see the good in anything.
Anti-Kindness would, of course, be Cruelty. A sadistic desire to hurt people.
Anti-Generosity would be Greed. Focusing on nothing but one's own gains and goals. We saw that that leads to a sort of paranoia that everyone else wants to swindle you.
Anti-Honesty would be Deception, yes. Not just telling lies, but a sort of all-over dishonor and lack of ethics. We saw Applejack progressing from a few bad lies to playing herself up as the only one who was trying to fight Discord and such.
Anti-Loyalty would be... I can't think of a word, but a way of thinking where you are looking out for yourself, and only yourself. "Screw you, got mine."
Anti-Magic? Honestly, I find that Magic is almost disingenuous to the element itself, but I suppose that's fitting for one that had no name before. I'd say the opposite of Magic would be a sort of Faithlessness. Note that Twilgiht lost her colors when she lost her faith in her friends, just as she realized the truth of the Elements when she realized how much she believed in her new friends way back in episode 2.
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#305816storyyellerMon, 19th Nov '12 3:42:23 PMfrom Appleloosa
I sense something great going on
Unfortunately, you seem to have missed the Barney discussion.
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#305817kegisakMon, 19th Nov '12 3:44:03 PM
Aquastriaheaddesk
#305818PannicMon, 19th Nov '12 3:45:23 PM
The Barney discussion? Man, I wish I'd been present for that.
#305819EnlongMon, 19th Nov '12 3:45:32 PMfrom The Magitek Holyland
I think that reversing the characters' actual traits would be somewhat similar to reversing the elements.
However, I kind of find that a few of them already have a bit of the opposite personalities buried under their most visible personality traits. See: Rainbow Dash in Sonic Rainboom, Rarity in the same episode and also Sweet and Elite and Green Isn't your Color, Fluttershy in Putting your Hoof Down, and Pinkie in Party of One. They have some issues buried down that are shockingly different than what they normally appear to be.
edited 19th Nov '12 3:45:57 PM by Enlong
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#305820storyyellerMon, 19th Nov '12 3:45:46 PMfrom Appleloosa
Super Gex, posting stuff like that is against the rules.
Also, I wonder what the Aquestria stuff would do to my fanon about Pony!Bioshock.
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#305821Japanese TeethMon, 19th Nov '12 3:48:48 PMfrom Meinong's jungle
@Enlong: I think you pretty much got it wrapped up there.
The only thins I'd add is that the anti-magic/friendship thing would probably include an element of deliberate isolation born out of pride; the idea that one doesn't need to interact with others. A really extreme degree of aloofness.
Also, I don't think Rarity was really acting against her element in Green Isn't Your Color; the entire problem was that she felt greedy but actively fought against it because she knew she'd be a bad friend if she didn't.
@Gex: That sucks, but we have rules against importing drama from other sites for a reason. The last thing we need is drag this site into it too.
#305822Applelight LimitedMon, 19th Nov '12 3:51:36 PMfrom Manehattan to Canterlot
@ Enlong
You make me wonder...could a pony with a personality the opposite of one of the mane six have the same element as them?
Like Trixie? Or early Twilight?
edited 19th Nov '12 3:52:17 PM by ApplelightLimited
#305824EnlongMon, 19th Nov '12 3:54:32 PMfrom The Magitek Holyland
Perhaps... One opposite to Rainbow Dash would perhaps have a deep-rooted inferiority complex and more visible fear of failure. However, it could be that a person like that would be Loyalty. They would come through for her friends in their hour of need, working through her own anxieties in that moment an-wait.
Did I just write Fluttershy?
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#305825LopinyMon, 19th Nov '12 3:54:38 PMfrom somewhere
You thought I wouldn't come back, didn't you?
Apart from the episode (which I found was among the show's funniest), what else did I miss?