Re: [GRIMDARK] Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons Discussion

[FeatherDust]

Black Pony Mountain's gonna be important, ain't it. This is like the second time it's been specifically dismissed as not important, and this is definitely creepier.

I know, right?

That's an incredibly powerful defense spell it's got going.  A megaspell level "don't notice me" spell, if it's able to affect perceptions from a site dozens of miles away, if not more...

I thought that was actually creepier than the Goddess. The Goddess was a mental invasion, but it's big and overt. This is so subtle that it's terrifying.

[FeatherDust]

Who said there were only 5 chapters left?

Somber mentioned at the end of the chapter that there were probably only about five chapters left, give or take an epilogue or two.

Wait, what? That's not what it --

I hope that Thunderhead will post the link  be finished in 1-2 chapters, the core in 2-3, and the story in 5.  Then done... hard to imagine.

Well, firstly (actually, firstly, I'm pretty sure that the "post the link" thing is a typo, but I try not to edit author's notes too much), I expect that, whatever estimate Somber gives, the actual number of chapters will be more than that.  Secondly, I believe that that five is just for the stuff after the Core (the details of the stuff not being specified for reasons of spoiler prevention), putting the total estimate at 8-10 chapters.

Okay, yes, that's the same way I read it -- Five chapters from now we'll just be finishing the Core, and AFTER THAT, it's five MORE to finish the story.  (And yes I'm seeing that as a low estimate as well.)

[WavemasterRyx]

Ah, but if they did wash off, would he be white, black... or pink?

My immediate thought would be white. But I'd say pink for comedy's sake, heh.

[FeatherDust]

I thought the dreams were a bit short, but I don't feel like they should be longer. Blackjack is finally having "normal" dreams and those don't last very long to begin with.

But are they normal?

The first of this kind of dream was more like one of Psalm's memories of a geology class, with people Blackjack knows inserted into the roles; a mix of memories and dreaming.

I'm not convinced this isn't the same thing.  She's picking up the general outline from somewhere else and re-interpreting it with faces and personalities she knows already...

BJ lost Folly at the Celestia.  Don't worry.  Somepony found it.

Oh, whew, that is such a relief!  I'm sure, after all, that whoever now has Folly couldn't possibly have any bad intentions!  :D

That brings up an interesting point.

Blackjack had just fired Folly to destroy the Celestia; it was empty when she lost it.  All known Silver Bullets are in cases that appear to be DNA-locked to Twilight Sparkle.

So who else could possibly open one to get anything to shoot with it?

Whoever might of found Folly, almost every bullet they've come across has been in a bio-locked case, the only exception I recall being the dissected bullet.
Is there going to be another ministry mare descendant?

...yes, that.

Unless they are able to build a brand new shell... Cognitum.

[FeatherDust]

*cue TVTrope marking this as a literal "Noodle Incident"*

Heh, I hadn't thought about that, it's been a while since I went to TVTropes.  Though I don't know, would it be more fitting as a 'subverted' Noodle Incident possibly?

Not A Subversion, of the Square Peg, Round Trope variety. A subversion means you specifically set up the audience to expect a trope to be used, and then fail to use the trope or use it in a surprisingly reversed way; an incident that happens on screen right in front of us that happens to involve noodles is not at all related to a Noodle Incident.

A Noodle Incident is something vaguely referred to but never directly addressed on-screen.  The only subversion I can think of would be something like,
Bert: "Heh, this is just like that time in Manilla with the grease pit and the monkey."
Phil: "Oh, you mean that time I was visiting my grandparents in Manilla when a rogue monkey stole my grandmother's beloved pearl earrings and ran off with them, and I chased him through the whole town, and when I finally caught him, we both rolled down a hill and wound up crashing into the grease pit out back of the Fry Daddy and it took a week before I didn't smell like rancid grease?"
Bert: <long pause> <through gritted teeth>  "...yes.  That time."

[Moodyman90]

Thus why I put normal in quotations. Honestly I have no idea what normal for Blackjack would be now haha.

[SilentCarto]

Ch. 60 Commentary:

Can I gush? Of course I can, it's my post, why am I asking you? This chapter was just amazing. I think this is my favorite chapter for a long time! A great contrast with the previous chapters, too. Maripony had this sense of unstoppable dread, with BJ getting dragged along whether she liked it or not and the reader knowing what's about to happen. This chapter, on the other hoof, was a wild, wooly, utterly unpredictable thrill ride. I loved how the shift in setting provided so much opportunity for sudden reversals and unexpected opportunities (and a decent dose of hilarity!) I think pretty much everyone just got a wrench thrown into their plans (except maybe Cognitum), and it'll be fascinating to see how it all shakes out.

Good luck in Vegas, Somber! Watch out for Fiends!

Editing:

[SilentCarto]

And this MDW can teleport and has wings . . . interesting. I guess the wings could be mechanical but more likely the armor has built-in teleportation capability, or there is armor to cover the wings, even if the user doesn't have them. Can't say which, just yet, but I'm leaning toward the latter.

I'm not quite prepared to accept that she can teleport. It may just be a special effect to disguise her cloaking.

Is that a jab at Homage? I might just be reading in something not intended. Not that she was presented as a 10kw bulb originally, but still.

More like a barometer of Chicanery's incomplete view of events. He saw Pip with some mare named Homage, but he has no idea who she is or how significant she is.

Most incomprehensible of all was a strange pink filly with a toy gun that somehow brought down beams of light from the skies.
This . . . makes some weird canon things happen. I'll just hope that that one's (seriously, horrendously) terrible Nightmare isn't part of PH.

You're taking what happens inside the head of a mad Canterlot ghoul as canon? :) (Assuming the Nightmare stayed inside Puppy's head, that is. I haven't actually read past chapter two.)

Nice to see Glory's mom again, and I guess the thing keeping everyone down is the ambient Enervation field? This should be good, and it's interesting that she seems to be at least somewhat in control.

More importantly, whatever it is that's knocked everyone out doesn't affect Boo. I'm not surprised that BJ isn't affected, since she's got super-organs that resist toxins and some kind of magical protection, but the blank? What the heck are you, Boo?

Yeah, I didn't want to say that KKat almost certainly made a mistake considering the context of her one use of "laser," but to paraphrase Dr. Farnsworth, I was thinking it loudly.

Pfft, like Kkat's writing is even remotely error-free.

I tried to make lasers= incineration beams and plasma - disintegration spell. But Raptor plasma cannons kinda mehed that.

Well, plasma is a disintegration spell, they just happen to call it "plasma" too. I'd personally prefer to avoid using the word "plasma" as much as possible without making the wording super-awkward.

Loved your observations and I'm glad I gave you some laughs. Things are going to go down hill rather quickly the next two chapters... but now BJ is tough enough to handle it.

That's the best part of the roller coaster!

[SilentCarto]

However, you should leave.  Thunderhead law enforcement will be occupied tomorrow, so you should just pad your ship again and go home.

I just realized this means MDW saw them enter Thunderhead. Not sure what that means yet, but... hmm.

[O. Hinds]

Is it bad that I really want 'The Adventures of Royal Guard Blackjack & Her Friendly Friends' as a thing now?

…Well, I guess we've got an idea for one of the PH spinoffs now. :D

My immediate thought would be white. But I'd say pink for comedy's sake, heh.

:)

[quote="SilentCarto"]

Ch. 60 Commentary:

Can I gush? Of course I can, it's my post, why am I asking you? This chapter was just amazing. I think this is my favorite chapter for a long time! A great contrast with the previous chapters, too. Maripony had this sense of unstoppable dread, with BJ getting dragged along whether she liked it or not and the reader knowing what's about to happen. This chapter, on the other hoof, was a wild, wooly, utterly unpredictable thrill ride. I loved how the shift in setting provided so much opportunity for sudden reversals and unexpected opportunities (and a decent dose of hilarity!) I think pretty much everyone just got a wrench thrown into their plans (except maybe Cognitum), and it'll be fascinating to see how it all shakes out.

Good luck in Vegas, Somber! Watch out for Fiends!

Editing:

Ah, thank you.

No need to tell this in the past perfect tense.

No, because Blackjack is describing something that happened prior to her saying this; since the story is told in past tense, simple past tense here would put it in the story's "present"… I think. That's how Blackjack was able to describe what the inside looks like.

I would advise you to make this "books that had been old".

Sorry, but why?

I supposed that the Enclave would have liked to cover it up entirely, but when a balefire bomb went off, some ponies were likely to notice.

Sigh… I still think that that sentence is fine as is, but, given the sheer number of people pointing it out as an error, I'll put your correction in.

[Third Wind]

SilentCarto

No need to tell this in the past perfect tense.

No, because Blackjack is describing something that happened prior to her saying this; since the story is told in past tense, simple past tense here would put it in the story's "present"… I think.  That's how Blackjack was able to describe what the inside looks like.

Sorry, but Blackjack isn't saying anything, it is story's "present", isn't it?

[FeatherDust]

And this MDW can teleport and has wings . . . interesting.

I'm not quite prepared to accept that she can teleport. It may just be a special effect to disguise her cloaking.

It could be that, but it looked like a teleport, and Blackjack described it as such, so we really have no reason to decide it wasn't one.

For that matter, we didn't actually see that she had wings.  We saw that the all-concealing power suit had wings, which isn't the same thing.  We didn't see Mare Do Well flying on 'em, so we can't be sure.  She might've been a teleport-capable unicorn under the hat, using a cloudwalking spell (which is common knowledge among the Tower-dwelling unicorn population).  Anyway, Rampage reported that MDW on the surface sometimes uses powerful magic to fight, other times unarmed or guns.  I think that alone supports the idea that MDW is continuing as a persona shared by many individuals.

All of which doesn't exclude Ghoul-Dash, Robo-Dash, or Cyborg-Dash from having been the founding member, of course.  It's entirely possible.  (And I could totally see the head of the Ministry of Awesome commissioning a realistic brain-scan droid from Apple Bloom to cover for her when she wanted to get out of the office or something.)

But, I think it's more likely that Dash's fate remains a mystery, and MDW is just a legacy passed down through two centuries as the non-face of an utterly secret organization.  And when the authorities got too close, they provided a scapegoat to deflect suspicion (or possibly Spruce tried to copycat, too awkwardly to be accepted in to the order, and they turned him in as a handy scapegoat).

[O. Hinds]

SilentCarto

No need to tell this in the past perfect tense.

No, because Blackjack is describing something that happened prior to her saying this; since the story is told in past tense, simple past tense here would put it in the story's "present"… I think.  That's how Blackjack was able to describe what the inside looks like.

Sorry, but Blackjack isn't saying anything, it is story's "present", isn't it?

She's narrating from the story's (past tense) present something that happened in the story's past.

[Scienza]

Black Pony Mountain's gonna be important, ain't it. This is like the second time it's been specifically dismissed as not important, and this is definitely creepier.

I know, right?

That's an incredibly powerful defense spell it's got going.  A megaspell level "don't notice me" spell, if it's able to affect perceptions from a site dozens of miles away, if not more...

I thought that was actually creepier than the Goddess.  The Goddess was a mental invasion, but it's big and overt.  This is so subtle that it's terrifying.

Aye. There's definitely something big there, an Ursa Major by most accounts.

Speculation:

Also, is Dream Blackjack who she'd be in show canon?

Who said there were only 5 chapters left?

Somber mentioned at the end of the chapter that there were probably only about five chapters left, give or take an epilogue or two.

Wait, what?  That's not what it --

I hope that Thunderhead will post the link  be finished in 1-2 chapters, the core in 2-3, and the story in 5.  Then done... hard to imagine.

Well, firstly (actually, firstly, I'm pretty sure that the "post the link" thing is a typo, but I try not to edit author's notes too much), I expect that, whatever estimate Somber gives, the actual number of chapters will be more than that.  Secondly, I believe that that five is just for the stuff after the Core (the details of the stuff not being specified for reasons of spoiler prevention), putting the total estimate at 8-10 chapters.

Okay, yes, that's the same way I read it -- Five chapters from now we'll just be finishing the Core, and AFTER THAT, it's five MORE to finish the story.  (And yes I'm seeing that as a low estimate as well.)

...

*rereads*

I have brought dishonor upon my family. I will now read an incoherent Twilight fanfic in penance.

[Valikdu]

Also, is Dream Blackjack who she'd be in show canon?

...I haven't even thought of that. I was just associating those dreams with Happyhorn, for some reason.
Well, people were interrupting me while I read.

It goes without saying that I'd read a story about that too, if it existed.

I have brought dishonor upon my family. I will now read an incoherent Twilight fanfic in penance.

SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!

[Scienza]

Also, is Dream Blackjack who she'd be in show canon?

...I haven't even thought of that. I was just associating those dreams with Happyhorn, for some reason.
Well, people were interrupting me while I read.

It goes without saying that I'd read a story about that too, if it existed.

It also reminded me of Happyhorn too. In my headcanon multiverse, Happyhorn is Blackjack in FoE proper (no Goldenblood, OIA, etc.) Rarity's still doing some equivalent of Project Eternity, and the war's going on, but the additions to the canon aren't there. 

You could also probably say that the dreams are Blackjack's "mended" (I use this term in the loosest possible sense, since this is still Blackjack we're talking about) brain recreating a nicer version of the Happyhorn simulation.

I have brought dishonor upon my family. I will now read an incoherent Twilight fanfic in penance.

SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!

[cb5]

Speculation:

Personally I think the Eater of Souls is a alicorn inside the star metal.  If it's called star metal then it obviously comes from a star, and when blackjack died she saw a alicorn go supernova.  So that means the star the alicorn was linked to is dead, the question is what happened to the alicorn?  All non-hydrogen elements came from stars.  The matter that we are made of came from stars.  When the super massive stars at the beginning of the universe went supernova all of the elements we come to love were created.  Equestria was made from the explosion of a star.  All planets were made from stars.  Our sun was made from the original stars in the universe.  It's not that big of a stretch to guess that star metal came from a star or that the Eater Of Souls came from a star either.

If that is true then wouldn't that mean the eater of souls is a alicorn from one of the stars at the beginning of the universe?

It is theorized that our universe is part of a larger multiverse.  The multiverse theory states that our universe is a m-brane in a massless energyless universe, and that the big bang wasn't the only big bang to have existed.  The reason being is that energyless space is extremely unstable and that it destabilizes and in a instant the big bang happened.  Eventually our "universe" will go through entropy decay until all our matter and energy dissapates into to near nothingness and then probably another universe will be born.  At the beginning of our universe super massive stars were born made from hydrogen, then they lost energy rapidly cause the larger a star the faster it goes through it's energy, when it hits iron game over it dies.  The iron in your frying pan is the ultimate destroyer in the universe cause it EXPLODED a star.  I'm not even talking about massive amount, rather when iron hits the internal fusion reaction in a star it starts a rapid chain reaction in which it creates heavier and heavier elements none of which produce enough energy to keep the fusion reaction going until it dies.  Then the fusion reaction stops and if it's large enough it explodes and creates our planet and such after a long time.

How does this tie into FoE and mlp?

If their universe was made in a similar way then that would mean magic and "souls" or what have you are a type of energy that was created from stars as well.
Meaning:
1)The EoS is a alicorn.
2)The EoS's supernova is what created celestia, luna, equestria and such.
3)Magic is a type of energy.
4)Magic was created in the center of stars as well.
5)Magic probably is a type of radiation.  It could be something like their universe follows a difference set of rules and that a type of radiation in our universe follows different rules in their.  It would explain balefire bombs cause that would mean the radiation from a h-bomb instead of emitting gamma radiation and such would exert "magic" radiation instead.
6)That would mean magic is effected by gravity due to Celestia and Luna having no clear origin in any FoE lore or mlp canon, but exist.  Meaning the stars' and planets' gravity well causing "magic" radiation to get sucked up like regular matter and thus Celestia and Luna are magically brewed beings.
7)Enervation is a magic "gravity" well sucking up "magic" instead of letting it dissapate.
8 )The reason why Celestia and Luna exist, but not a equestria alicorn is that there's no life on the sun or moon thus the magic that would have normally gone into making a alicorn in equestria went into life instead.

Tl:dr; What if instead of gamma radiaton a universe had "magic"?

I hope that Thunderhead will post the link  be finished in 1-2 chapters, the core in 2-3, and the story in 5.  Then done... hard to imagine.

Don't worry take your time.  If you need to expand the chapters any bit do so.  If you need to take more time to make them then we can wait.  Just do what you need to do to write the story, just don't wrap it up too fast.

[Derpmind]

So I haven't gotten around to that re-read yet, but I just realized this:

I raced past the living room, where my little sister Boo waited impatiently in her soft pink dress. “You’re not dressing up? You should dress up. Mom, make her dress up!”
“Ugh! We don’t have time,” I groaned. “He’s not going to care if I’m not all frou-froued up!”

We need speculation on who 'he' refers to. Is it P-21? Stygius? Lancer? It is of utmost importance!

What else Russian perspective would you like apart from telling that PH is awesome?

Two questions please: What's the address for that imageboard, (I can't find it for some reason,) and will stuffing it through google translate give a semi-inteligible translation?

[Scienza]

Tl:dr; What if instead of gamma radiaton a universe had "magic"?

Wow... that is some intense theorizing. I don't think that the EoS is an alicorn though, or at least not in the same sense that any of the princesses were alicorns. I think it's something more akin to Discord except ramped up by a thousand. A deeply malicious and intelligent neutron star, its immense physical and metaphysical mass sucking in all that approaches. It's seen as a whirling maelstrom of damnation because it's a whirling maelstrom of damnation. It's not an alicorn in the starmetal, the alicorn is the starmetal.

That, or it's that goddamn space whale.

I raced past the living room, where my little sister Boo waited impatiently in her soft pink dress.  “You’re not dressing up?  You should dress up.  Mom, make her dress up!”
“Ugh!  We don’t have time,” I groaned.  “He’s not going to care if I’m not all frou-froued up!”

We need speculation on who 'he' refers to. Is it P-21? Stygius? Lancer? It is of utmost importance! 

Goldenblood?

[cb5]

Tl:dr; What if instead of gamma radiaton a universe had "magic"?

Wow... that is some intense theorizing. I don't think that the EoS is an alicorn though, or at least not in the same sense that any of the princesses were alicorns. I think it's something more akin to Discord except ramped up by a thousand. A deeply malicious and intelligent neutron star, it's incredible physical and spiritual mass sucking in all who approach. It's seen as a whirling maelstrom of damnation because it's a whirling maelstrom of damnation. It's not an alicorn in the starmetal, the alicorn is the starmetal.

That, or it's that goddamn space whale.

The EoS could have been a alicorn before it's star died, but yeah it's probably not a 100% alicorn anymore with it's star dead. If it still has a physical body that it could walk around in it probably is not going to be a pretty sight at all.

[Scienza]

Tl:dr; What if instead of gamma radiaton a universe had "magic"?

Wow... that is some intense theorizing. I don't think that the EoS is an alicorn though, or at least not in the same sense that any of the princesses were alicorns. I think it's something more akin to Discord except ramped up by a thousand. A deeply malicious and intelligent neutron star, it's incredible physical and spiritual mass sucking in all who approach. It's seen as a whirling maelstrom of damnation because it's a whirling maelstrom of damnation. It's not an alicorn in the starmetal, the alicorn is the starmetal.

That, or it's that goddamn space whale.

The EoS could have been a alicorn before it's star died, but yeah it's probably not a 100% alicorn anymore with it's star dead.  If it still has a physical body that it could walk around in it probably is not going to be a pretty sight at all.

Given the enemies that Blackjack's fought so far, that actually really wouldn't surprise me.

Especially if it is Black Pony Mountain.

[cb5]

Tl:dr; What if instead of gamma radiaton a universe had "magic"?

Wow... that is some intense theorizing. I don't think that the EoS is an alicorn though, or at least not in the same sense that any of the princesses were alicorns. I think it's something more akin to Discord except ramped up by a thousand. A deeply malicious and intelligent neutron star, it's incredible physical and spiritual mass sucking in all who approach. It's seen as a whirling maelstrom of damnation because it's a whirling maelstrom of damnation. It's not an alicorn in the starmetal, the alicorn is the starmetal.

That, or it's that goddamn space whale.

The EoS could have been a alicorn before it's star died, but yeah it's probably not a 100% alicorn anymore with it's star dead.  If it still has a physical body that it could walk around in it probably is not going to be a pretty sight at all.

Given the enemies that Blackjack's fought so far, that actually really wouldn't surprise me.

Especially if it is Black Pony Mountain.

I was thinking more along the lines of a super lich ghost zombie alicorn with it's guts falling out and evaporating into nothingness and every step it takes anything it touches dies instantly as the victim's soul is sucked instantly out with it constantly saying, "make us whole" and every time it touches a victim you can see the victim's soul get sucked out and part of the alicorn's body you can see a head and hooves under the alicorn's skin of it's victim mouthing and hear in your head the words, "help me" psychically before being silenced.

[SilentCarto]

To state the obvious, the fact Dawn showed up in time to kill the Councilor can't be a coincidence. No, my thing is... if the whole house has been affected by the sleep spell, who let the Councilor in? And what more, was Dawn waiting for them, or just happened to show up and start killing them anyways? Only thing I can safely say is that Dawn did not go out of her way to kidnap the Councilor and all her guards just to slaughter them in the house, they somehow got in the house and was killed when they was deeper inside.

I suspect that Stargazer was coming to capture the "Dashite" and her surfacer friends, either on Moonshadow's say so or after giving Moonshadow a big smile and assuring her that she'd do the right thing. The question, I think, is whether Dawn is under continuous control by Cog or if she's still in charge unless she crosses Cog. If Dawn is in charge, she may have acted to protect her family. If not, then I'm concerned that Cog is setting the household up for a murder rap.

Okay, let me get this straight...NO ONE is stopping them to ask how they got up there? I mean, MAYBE they might not pay enough attention to notice the lack of wings, but the horn should be a dead giveaway and would immediately pull attention to the earth ponies in their number who have no obvious reason to be up-

Remember, Thunderhead does have unicorns. They live in the tower and use the cloudwalking spell to do magical jobs for the city.

Seriously, if I recall correctly, the ministry of awesome was kinda sitting on a lot of funds since its leader uh... kinda lacked the direction the others had. Mostly because she was never cut out for administrative work, anyway, and field work was where the real action was.
But to control the weather throughout Equestria? Sure, it was a weapon. Sure, it was a defense system, too.
And, yeah, sure it meant there'd be no more need for weather ponies. This was industry, though. We could make it, so we did. At least it was protected by a shield that NOBODY BUT RAINBOWDASH should have been able to enter. Not that that stopped Celestia.

Okay, lemme see here... first, remember that the MAw was Equestria's black ops division. Dash didn't just lead the Shadowbolts; that's simply all she did publically (outside of the SPP). Second, the shield was originally keyed to all the Ministry Mares, both princesses, and probably several other higher-ups. But when Celestia invested her soul into the system, shield included, one of the effects was making the shield effectively impermeable to everyone. Thus the Enclave's increasingly frustrated attempts to penetrate it.

I hissed like ruptured steam pipe as I looked at him; he wore some fancy new white power armor. Something about it seemed… familiar.

Ugh, not a bad look for the jerk, but it looks familiar? In a way other than him having worn it before?
White with no armament makes me think "medic", so would Fluttershy of ever worn something like this?

Perhaps it looks similar to Dawn's cyberskin?

What was the weapon he’d mentioned? Had he found Folly? That might be good for one Raptor.

Totally don’t even remember her losing that thing.
Edit from the future:
She didn't lose it on the Celestia, since she showed it to Sanguine in chapter 39.
So... what happened?

She did drop it when she destroyed HMS Celestia. Her having it in Ch. 39 was an error I pointed out in my chapter review, and Hinds corrected it -- you must have an outdated copy of the chapter.

“Yes, you match the advertisement perfectly!” the doctor crowed. “‘Wastelanders!’ And that LittlePip! Ooooh, she can fix my toaster any day.” He then blinked. “No. Really. She can. Darn thing has been broken forever!”

Toaster: IT KNOWS WHAT IT DID

Thanks for the laugh.  

There isn't a poison in existence that could possibly take her out.
Must be magic... though, if that's the case, why wouldn't they hit Boo with it?
I mean, Mare-do-well might want to talk with Blackjack again, but not Boo...
Edit from the future:
Okay, even more confused... why is Boo awake?

That is an excellent question...

[Harmony Ltd.]

In the penultimate chapter, Boo reveal that she was secretly the Eater of Soul all along, and grows wings and a horn.

"THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM"

[Scienza]

In the penultimate chapter, Boo reveal that she was secretly the Eater of Soul all along, and grows wings and a horn.

"THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM"

And it turns out that Boo was Folly all along.

[cb5]

In the penultimate chapter, Boo reveal that she was secretly the Eater of Soul all along, and grows wings and a horn.

"THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM"

[Scienza]

Wait...

I just realized something.

Is Boo getting smarter because Discord went inside her head?

[Harmony Ltd.]

Folly IS the Eater of Souls IS Boo IS Discord

all is clear

[Harmony Ltd.]

Serious time now...

IIRC, Boo was already showing signs of being a "special" blank even before they came into contact with Discord (at least "on-screen"), so the evidences would tend to point to Boo being something special in the first place. If only special in the "one in a million fluke of the system" brand of the matter.

[Harmony Ltd.]

(continuation of my previous post regarding Boo)

She was special in the sense that while the other blanks seemed happy enough to stay close to each other and close from the machine that birthed them until they died of thirst and hunger, Boo actually moved from the herd and started acting as an individual, with some measure of survival instinct.

And what we see today is that her survival instinct is among the things that makes us say that she "has a score of 10 in luck".

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