Widdershins

@Blitz Boom & @Icy Creation *Sound of chair creaking from leaning too far back sarcastically and over-dramatically* Now looks, alls ah'm sayin' is this ain't Necessary Murder. Ya know me, I can sure go for some legitimate, unavoidable Murder. Specifically if its some good black humor in there too, but... *Shove!* She hAs FlOatIng SwEEts! Best Mare Horse Ice Thing! *Shuddering, Excited intake of breath* Give her to me. I call dibs. ... Look, I ain't sayin' sacrifice every newcomer here to me, your Patron Elritch Horror of this thread...... I just like bending others to my will by showing that their powers mean ultimately nothing. It's kinda, Like, our Thing, Yo. I'm like a good Punching Bag, yo. ...I can't stop going Yo, yo. And I don't know where this notion of dual narrating as if two entities were present in the formation of the post. I don't do that. Yeh, we wouldn't do something so predictably inane. That's, like, a sign of a diseased mind or whatever the trope label of that is. Besides, that would just be an easy enough writing trick after all. Mundane, really. ....So who wants to see me do my new trick of erupting nests of knives out of my eyesockets?!!? What? NO!!

Ya see, the downside to having Knives for Eyes is that you can't SEE yourself with Knives for Eyes. Knives don't really reflect light! ... I mean, they DO, but.... And here I wait for someone to ask me "You alright, Man?" to which I will immediately respond with "No. Not at all. Thanks for asking."

@Blue Midnight So, ah, you want fully unresistable, unlimited power... to the point where she has the death of hundreds of innocents on her hooves from a young, impressionable age... and you still want her to be functioning member of society despite the capacity to lose full control of herself, be a hazard to life as a whole... and not be a drooling basket case? Because I think most beings have their minds collapse from far less than seeing their parents die by their will. Backstory a little too unnecessarily dark. You can ask Blitz Boom, I kinda have a thing against that, lol You mentioned not knowing how to have her backstory without giving her Lethal? Simple. We've seen in the show that infants have the capacity to shoot magic wildly, Twilight herself forced her own parents to turn into cacti... which I imagine is a painful process, then having to live with the fact your child can do that to you. We had here, in your example a young filly past the culturally accepted age of wild, dangerous magic shooting off ice beams that, while not fatal still hurt a ton and took a long time to heal from. The town was rightfully wary, but not hateful and she found it hard to live in her parents town with the rightful doubt from the rest of the town that she might hit them at any time and moved away from her still-living parents eventually. Not every backstory has to involve parent death and being a social pariah. Her having a second, murderous form doesn't seem to impact or change anything. As I can hardly tell the two apart, since you initially didn't label them with different names. I wouldn't tell you what to do, but she doesn't have to be a Windigo. She could just be an ice-based unicorn and all that still work. Cover-ups don't happen in Equestria. Sure, we DO have a canonical secret shadow government agency of Super Spy Ponies, but.... yeah, towns get wrecked all the time in Equestria and no one gives it a second thought. When the parasprites left Ponyville they destroyed the next town over. Pretty sure I've seen the Main Six pull the rug out from the only economy source in a town and ponies went on living and just found new places to live. One can't underestimate the importance of widescale drama happening in Equestria. Like, one of the ruling queens of this government went mad, they formed a holiday in rememberence and she's right back in power now days like her takeover totally didn't cause countless deaths back then. But I digress. It just seems a lot just happened to your character to make them a Ticking Timebomb. Way she is, I dunno if she can go into town and have a nice chat without narration of how she's having a mental breakdown about what to do when she inevitably murders this next town. Which is doubly ironic, because that's basically what I'm roleplaying right now!! Oh, and if the Sonic Rainboom had special effects on ponies, it would happen a lot more then since RD has done that several more times by now and no ponies have shown up saying her race at the Flyer's Competition completely rewrote their lives. Oh, and P.S. I'm not actually a deciding factor here. Blitz Boom makes the decisions around here. I just like to talk!

I do feel the urge to remind you about severity of magic in Equestria. Need I bring up the fact that Twilight Sparkle, a leading member of society, has a spell which transforms field mice into what is essentially Semi-Sentient Functioning Members of their Society. Sure, Cinderella reference and all but turning animals into horses carries a bit of a dark side in this world. Oh, and not to mention Starlight Glimmer has a legitimate Full Mind Control that she's used numerous times on the show. Like, fully overwriting her friends personality to her will. It's important to keep in mind that this world hinges upon the premise of "Everything is all better by the end of the episode, no matter how bad things get." Discord can bend reality to his whims. If he wants to go bad, not a thing could stop him.... apart from his wanting a true friendship now. I do believe we have seen full calcification into solid stone in the show. Long as there's a more powerful reversal spell, it's all good. Think the important thing to keep in mind is that you can't have a character in this world with a power that's just "the best at doing it." Automatic Death isn't as permanent or as dramatic as it should be. And I say this as a roleplay who adores collateral damage. Though.... I do acquiesce that something like this is antithetical to roleplay. Flashfreezing somebody may be possible... but then we'd have to go on a side story to cure said victim and the results of said action ontop of kinda removing a character instantly without them a chance to react.... so, no. Not good in roleplay. I can see a bit of separate characters in here that would explain the prevalent contradictions B.B mentioned. I feel there's a sort of Nightmare Moon-esque thing going on here. A sort of possession if you will. I feel its not so much important HOW a character got to be what they are, but how that impacts how they interact with others. Think a lot of OC creators kind of forget, is that they get caught up in making their characters combat capable... then forgetting that roleplaying requires more talking and social interaction than fighting.

Already did! Several weeks ago... Have I, uhh…. am I being too ambitious? Expecting several other players to cooperate while I play simultaneously... what, eight characters? Heh, you know how it is trying to get schedules to align! I already got the joke and I hadn't even seen your OC yet. Now I have. Let the Sass begin. I guess her full name is.... */Drumroll*… Icy Ice?!!? But props on a dual-form character. It's not quite clear why she is what she is aside from giving her a host of powers, but I can't say no to Ice elemental magics. Though I do have a few issues. One among them is... *Cue Valley Girl Accent* Uhm? Like? WindaGAH? That's, like, a SPIRIT? Pretty sure thah don' DO thait. Who are we kidding. WE technically count as a spirit! But I'm playing the Snob. Don't ruin my snobbery, Me. It would stand to reason a very particular set of circumstances to have a corporeal Windigo (Oh, just noticed that again. We don't have wEndigos in Equestria. As that's a vampiric, cannibal yeti monster. ...yes, kind of lost a bit of epic in the Kids' Show translation, yes?) that would be an interesting tale! As for another thing... purely on a design side of things.... yeah, that Venus Symbol is extremely obvious. Thinking myself over now, think that's why symbols don't look good on cutie marks because it looks a little more like an actual Branding Iron mark rather than a symbol. Not to mention the symbol doesn't seem to have anything else to do with the character and works much more as just a Human symbol rather than a pony concept. But that's not really anything that effects anything in the long run. As for her personality.... hmm, reading more that she's defensive of friends, willing but perhaps a bit stubborn to be talked into new things, a real kind of Low-Temperature gal ... guess you could say her personality is quite... Cooooold! Yes, this entire post has been building to that. Yes, a pretty bad joke there I must admit. I'll try to curb myselfs. Ah ahm afraid yor pleas fall upon deaf ears, mah hot-blooded frand. For such tactics don't work... Upon dah Cold-Hearted! Enough already, I've got to stop this. What keeled dah Dinosaurs? … MAH PUUUUNS!!! Seriously though, I've caused at least one Mass Extinction event by bombing that hard at a Comedy Club.

I am thinking here, maybe, @Blitz Boom that eventually your Officer is gonna have to get between Shortstack and @Sekel's Dazzle Gleam. So, what I'm thinking here is your officer gets in there first, then Scarcity comes to spectate with Sunny Flush in tow. Then Sunny can take care of Shortstack… Because who knows how to better take care of their siblings then the other ones who had to live with their shenanigans? Also, we're gonna have to work on Flit since I don't think she's coming back...

The sliding scale of the quality of being a Pure Good Pupper. As in: "I really need work on my Purepperate." Parq

#ReviveZombies #BringBackFatbacks #Mycaruba~

@Catpone Cerberus Fail at what? Widdershins shrinks a little, continuing to float in a slow, drifting circle around Cerberus like the trailing tail ribbon of a kite in flight. By Flying Cakes, I meant the Parasprites I created, of course! I just got done saying that, didn't I? And by Station, I meant a place which detects things and Weather being whether something was happening somewhere! In this case YOU would be the Weather Station! What a great title for you to have! It's like those broad ears of yours are Radar Dishes! ...Radar, of course, being "Sensory Input Devices." It's all pretty simple, Do keep up! Leeeeeaaaaad the waaay, Mademoiselle! The draconequus trilled out loud while lazily spinning a floating Aileron Roll. * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Sekel DAWN STREAK: Righting himself to lazily glare at the mare, the drake sighs. "I seem to recall you needing to be batted into place like a ball of yarn. For a pony with wings, you sure aren't agile. And I'll have you know I did not choose pillow, these indoor floors of you ponies are every bit as soft as-..." Kaltrop interrupts himself to pause, standing straight up in attention to look at Dawn to beg for explanation of what he had just caught. "...Boyfriend? ...what do you mean? How would that even work, I'd split you in half." He blinks and clarifies to reassert the point towards himself once again. "Seeing as how I could likely rend you in half with the slightest gesture with my powerful, sleek dragony powers." The young drake stretches tall from his sitting position to pose and prove his point at being superior to a pony and likely equally from pride at being given a title as such. At not much more a hoof higher than her (what would be some four or five inches likely) if they were side by side, Kaltrop likely only had length and wingspan on her and in this case, the difference between dragon and pony would sure not seem as great as claimed. DAZZLE GLEAM: Shortstack takes a stomp forward, crunching another cobblestone underhoof with more force than his small limbs, by any logical, scientific reasoning, should be able to do. "I ain' Short!! An' I dinnae ask fer yer name!! Easier ta insult INNIT?! Whal if yee wan a fight than I'll be winnin' et! This-!" The small stallion punctuates his declaration. "...is the part wha ya either Hide or I make ya hide, by buryin' yee in rubble!" and with that he takes another lunge at Gleam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Blitz Boom "What, me?! Nooo!" Blither looked at the older, gray-maned mare, wide-eyed and his head in a slow worried shake.* He began to visibly sweat profusely. "I'm- I am a pony j-just like you! W-why would you think oth-... I-it's not like I'm some magically crafted suit by some random w-wild animal! Who'd walk into a whole town of ponies like that and have a flimsy story s-set up with no way of backing it up?! How crazy would you have to be to do that!" The light blue stallion would hang his head down dejectedly and direct to himself in the same tone "... and terribly unfortunate." "Don't... don't look at me as if I were just some giant, slavering beast bent on devouring your city. I swear. I've always held pony culture in the utmost of respect." With that, Alonsus came barging in at a seemingly opportune time, Blither's head flickering over to him almost instinctively and in sudden, lighter tone. "I think you mean 'Victorious.' ...Sorry, I read a lot. And I have a lot of siblings I try to keep educated too.... when they listen, heh." He said with an abashed chuckle. Behind Alonsus would follow Chop. Judging eyes weren't welcome to Blither... but here, there was a certain, silent connection and unspoken word somehow between one who'd been well-aquainted with numerous rows of predatory teeth and another who'd.... had just as much practice on the opposite end. There was a difference between one who hunted sharks and one who was often on equal "ground" with them. And what Gallimaufry was wasn't too far removed from what sharks were by what numerous theory in books on the matter talked about. Predators tended to pick on prey that looked more like a meal, not one that could meet you hoof to claw. Blither would hardly say that he had much predatory instinct left in him these days so much as a stuffy old ambassador but.... it didn't feel so much like fear as a sudden, internal silence. Blither met his gaze just as coldly. Swinging through emotions seemed to be one of the clear underlying trends of the Cephalli family. From somewhere deep inside, a question bubbled up. "You hunt?" ~~Meanwhile!!!~~ "YEH! But Hugs Heal!" It was Sunny Flush's stance, if she could phrase it in such a way as resolute and learned as some of her brothers could, that you needed to make others feel warm and welcome. That if you broke those barriers, showed yourself to the world what you really were, then you could meet everyone on the most honest and deep level possible. It was Sunny that always kept that flame kindled that the world would see them as a friend and place in the loving world she knew it to be. Even if a great many times they had proven that clearly not always the case. It just meant you kept leaping spread-hoofed into new friends! "So iffen ya hurt wit' a hug, you'd use another hug to heal 'em of it! Simple as that!" After that things got quiet. Old Horsy Lady had started talking to another pony that had come down from the sky. Sunny had taken a shine to this new old mare and wanted to listen to her and took a quiet stand behind her like most little girls did. A bit fidgety and puffed in the cheeks with impatience. She'd never seen a batpony before, at least not recently anyhow, and the urge to hug was building up again, but she wanted to be a part of the conversation again so she waited a turn. She felt that's what Old Lady Horsy would want. Sunny mentally added that note in her head that maybe she should stop thinking of her solely by her age but that idea flew out again as the guard stallion addressed her. "Am I?!!?" Sunny nearly popped as she excitedly burst into a dull roar of appreciativeness. "You found Blither? YAAY!" And so it began once again. What usually started trouble for the family, apart from the numerous brawls Shortstack & Flit got into. Sunny wanted to show her appreciation. Now some stallions wouldn't mind too terribly a greatly affectionate, large, beautiful mare that couldn't keep her hooves off you, but it was often the sheer suddenness. Or her many brothers that took varying levels of offense at you hitting on their only sister who just happened to be the baby of the family. She scooped down in a way that made some older ponies start fainting and others compare to an overloaded cart toppling onto you. You knew it was coming, but not how to stop it. Sunny Flush picked up the burly nightguard like a mother would her newborn colt and started cradling him to her dense, fluffy but strong chest in a big, friendly bear hug. Given enough struggling, sure, she could take the hint. Especially as Officer Stargazer no doubt had strength enough to take down a perpetrator… but if that was warranted when it was clearly a show of affection would be up for debate. Especially judging as she would begin rocking him in her front hooves like a baby. Not enough struggling though... well, there had only been three cases so far where she had crushed the consciousness out of an innocent bystander and that was only because of the difference in size. But those were sad days for Sunny, when hugging was apparently semi-lethal. Somewhat ironic how Sunny's shows of affection had been the only thing to throw them out of Kludge Town in that incident with that one shrimp. Regardless, Scarcity would have the entertaining view in front of her of military stallion being cuddled like a baby in front of her. *You're never going to get over that, are you? It's not how any of that works!!! You never even played that series. *I'm sorry. I couldn't stop myself.

Oh hey! Something I put into my mouth turned out to be chocolate for once!