Ah, so he was still an asshole then.

Ah well, I suppose it's too much to ask to assume that someone wrote him mellowed out a bit with age. This fandom does love it's assholes. OR rather, it loves inflating its assholes to an absurd and unreasonable degree.

@kegi To be fair, he doesn't go nuts until after he becomes a ghoul. (and Ghouls almost invariably go nuts anyway)

He just seems kinda pissed at her in all the pre-megaspell notes and such

Thanks for that, Ginger. I needed that laugh. I've suddenly decided that if I continue reading Projet Horizons, I'll treat every scene with Goldenblood as a temporary Genre Shift into a comedy.

EDIT: By the way, Kegi, in case you don't know, the sequal to the awesome fanfic My Little Alicorn is basically a Blueblood redemption fic. (Of course, he was even more of a jerk in the original fic than in canon, but the sequal is doing a decent job of portraying him in a sympathetic light.)

edited 13th Jun '12 9:23:36 AM by Sereg

Hey guys, I just finished liveblogging chapter 2 of CRISIS: Equestria. The link is in my signature.

edited 13th Jun '12 9:23:07 AM by CDRW

Oh yeah, that's all fair enough.

It's just at this point I'm more disappointed with how the fandom treats Blueblood as a character, blowing him wildly out of proportion and constantly baying for his blood. He's consistently taken form someone who's a bit self-centered to enormous levels of egomania, if he isn't portrayed as outright evil(though I realize that's not the case HERE).

He HAS potential to be an interesting character, but damn if people ever utilize it. A single trait envelopes his entire being, and nobody bothers to give him any depth beyond it. Even when he IS the focus of a story he rarely starts with any other character beyond "ME!"

Oh, and by the by: Does anybody know a good place to buy a heatsink and thermal gel?

@Sereg it only lasted for that one scene for me.

I've only read two of his scenes, and kegi's right, he's just tiresome. Like he's the ONLY character who's allowed to say anything intelligent in any scene he appears in.

A physical location or online?

@ Sereg I just skips every scene with him. And in my headcanon that scene with Celestia in chapter 44 ended with her banishing him to Nighosphere with forever punishment of eating bananas.

@ Kegisak: To be fair, he was portrayed as an enormous egomaniac in the episode. That was his only defining characteristic. You can't get a much worse portrayal than having a prince completely reverse all the rules of chivalry.

edited 13th Jun '12 9:25:01 AM by CDRW

has anyone else been seeing an ad for Pony Vs. Pony: Battle is Magic?

I swear I never saw that before I started coming to this thread. damn advert server.

edited 13th Jun '12 9:33:44 AM by Blissey1

@Kegs: Skip the standard consumer retail, go to a system builder's store.

@Ginger: Pity.

@Kegi: Made an edit possibly relevant to your interests. The author actually implied that he felt guilty of doing exactly what you're talking about in the original fic and wanted to make up for it (I think, "This means one of my favourite fics gets a sequal! Awesome!").

@Death What happens in that scene?

@Mio: Either or, really.

@CDRW: Which is true, yes. but he appeared for all of five minutes, I'd expect people to fill in the gaps somehow. Even when I was writing him at his egomania-est I still had to develop some things beyond that.

Just, you know, get creative. It's impossible for someone's ego to consume their entire existance, no matter how narcissistic they are. Give a CAUSE to it, maybe. Fill it out a little bit.

Each of the other antagonists always gets something else in every story that they're in, whether they're the villain or protagonist. Sure, some of them are cliched in and of themselves, but they're always there. Emotional vulnerability, envy, trauma, depression... but Blueblood is always EXACTLY the same as he was in the episode, with no attempts to fill in the blanks. He exists in the fandoms mind as a punching bag, someone you won't feel bad about hating, and it bothers me a bit.

@Sereg: Huh, that's interesting, actually. May have to look at it.

edited 13th Jun '12 9:32:11 AM by kegisak

I completly forgot about Youtube when I was looking for Rv B stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tYtZeq0slw

@Death What happens with Tia in chapter 44?

I can agree with that. I wonder if that says something about us as a fandom. "Everyone has redeeming features no matter how bad they are, unless they're self-absorbed."

edited 13th Jun '12 9:33:59 AM by CDRW

@Kegi: In that case try Tigerdirect or Newegg.com

Hi guys

(it's me posting from a civil court)

@ gingerninjaShe showed up in his workplace angry at him because he's not allowing her to see Twilight, and it went downhill from there.

Hi Fallen!!

edited 13th Jun '12 9:35:16 AM by DeathCloud

Hey Fallen

If you can tell us, what's your relevance to the case?

@ Kegi: I agree.

Hey Fallen! sounds neat.

@CDRW: Well, that's a bit more optimistic than my interpretation: I had assumed Blueblood got the raw deal because he's the only one who isn't a woman.

I mean, as far as the minor antagonists go, not the proper villains. All villains are subject to leather pants regardless of circumstance.