@Crow Oh no, don't tell me it's him?!

I like villains. VILLAINS damn you

edited 19th Jun '12 3:41:02 AM by gingerninja666

@CDRW: Maybe it's a general kind of magic energy that the user can tweak to have different properties.

@ginger: Him who? You're going to need to be more specific.

@Crow Lionheart

I'm always interested in member of hive, collective or anything similar you got separated from those and slowly become individual. I loved this in Star Trek. Also she is expy of Super Mutants in player team, who are my favorite companions.

@ginger And just because someone is villain it's not make me interested.

And Stygnus (or what name of that batpony) is only interesting because in my headcanon he is pony Barney Stinson and try to sleep with all mares pretending to be mute.

Lionheart was awesome, I could see him more.

edited 19th Jun '12 3:46:58 AM by DeathCloud

I'd actually be MORE interested in Lancuane if she DIDN'T have ANY personality or individuality.

It works like this for me:

• No Personality: Interesting
• Lots of Personality: Interesting
• A little personality:Not interesting

I couldn't STAND Lionheart.

edited 19th Jun '12 3:48:45 AM by gingerninja666

Nope, his name is Stygius and he only appeared three chapters ago.

Also, I know you like villains, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy other characters from time to time. In fact ...

Yeah.

YEAH

@Crow

... he doesn't have the RCV, does he?

and yes, but I need a villain as an anchor. I can't read the story JUST for Blackjack and co.

Hence why I'm praying I'll like Steel Rain

edited 19th Jun '12 3:52:04 AM by gingerninja666

Actually, he speaks in the super high pitched sounds bats use for echolocation. Which in practice makes him effectively mute to anypony without bat ears. So he carries around a sign Derpy style.

edited 19th Jun '12 3:54:44 AM by Crowfall

Pfff I prefer my headcanon where he pretend to me mute as dating tactic or maybe because of challenge.

@ ginger Lancuane don't have that little personality.

That's how Stronghooves look like, with tiny horn instead wings.

edited 19th Jun '12 3:57:34 AM by DeathCloud

@Death Well, I haven't noticed much of her personality. Then again, I didn't like Rampage at first either. Maybe she gets REALLY interesting later on.

I think I also dislike the fact that she's SPECIAL.

edited 19th Jun '12 3:58:51 AM by gingerninja666

Every Fallout character is SPECIAL

The party consists of an immortal with multiple personalities, a cyborg, and Rainbow Dash. Lancuane isn't really that special.

I just... I get the impression that if she didn't have a strong personality of her own, and if she were a completely ordinary alicorn, then I'd like her a lot better

Compared to ordinary alicorns. Forget it, my mind works weirdly

edited 19th Jun '12 4:03:42 AM by gingerninja666

But according to you, she doesn't have a strong personality.

For the record, I kind of agree. I tend to forget she's in the room with everyone unless she's doing something, which you wouldn't think should be possible for an alicorn.

As I said, she's in this weird void for me where she has too much personality to be interesting as a representative of a hive mind like race, but too little to be interesting as a character beyond that gimmick.

and again, the fact that she's special also skewers the fact that she's from a hive mind

edited 19th Jun '12 4:08:54 AM by gingerninja666

I don't know if I'd consider being an emotional garbage dump to be special, but okay.

sigh... what I mean is. Right from the off she's not like other Alicorns. She's unique.

If I was writing this story, I'd have her be a completely ordinary alicorn chosen arbitrarily by the Goddess to go into Hoofington (since as she explained, the pain of one alicorn in Hoofington is manageable) . When we first see her she's EXACTLY like ANY other Alicorn, but as she travels with BJ and co, and as the area of Hoofington takes it toll on her, she slowly grows more and more apart from the goddess and begins to show hints of her true personality.

As things stand, she STARTED off with too much personality.

Ah, but what the fuck do I know?

edited 19th Jun '12 4:21:13 AM by gingerninja666

She was separated from Unity before joining BJ. So it work to me.

Which is EXACTLY my problem, Death!

I don't think it makes much difference because, as you've said, it isn't like she does anything anyway.

Whatever, she is my Anchor in this.

@Crow but as she stands her presense means nothing. Nothing.

It's a bit like the problem I had with Zuko. A redemption story ISN'T interesting if the redempee is already well on his way to redemption before the story even starts.

Same here. A "growing individuality and personalized sense of self" story isn't interesting if the character is already well on her way down that road from the beginning

Zuko was for me more interesting than any other Fire Nationalist (excetp Iroh).