Could the Mane 6 survive in the Tokyo Jungle?

[KillerKingBakudan 702]

The Return of Harmony just took a dramatic twist. Discord doesn't just turn the Mane 6 against each other. He never gives Twilight or Rarity their horns back, and he never gives Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy their wings back. To make matters worse, he drops them in the Tokyo Jungle.

Tokyo Jungle is an animal survival game from Sony. I highly recommend you buy this on PSN if you haven't. It's probably the best non-competitive game I've played in years.

The premise is that a scientific experiment in Tokyo went wrong. The world's entire human population is transported to a distant future (with the exception of a single office worker). All that's left are the animals. There's a pretty big assortment of domestic and wild animals to choose from. There are also prehistoric animals that were transported from the past by the aforementioned experiment, and even a few robot dogs that the humans built as an emergency backup plan. The gameplay is essentially about fleeing from, or killing other animals, looking for food, marking territories, eating and ranking up to attract a mate, and changing generations before dying of old age. Because Tokyo's industrial complex has been abandoned, you also have to deal with air pollution. 

Along the way, you get to collect items that can restore health, stave hunger, boost stamina and reduce toxicity levels. You can even pick up clothing items that can boost your stats or even give you special enhancements, like resistance to poison or heightened invisibility at night.


Just for shits and giggles, Discord sends a handful of earth stallions to go with the Mane 6, in case they decide to change generations before inevitably croaking. 

Under normal circumstances, the Mane 6 would fare in this hostile world just fine. But they're all essentially earth ponies now, and with all six of them at each other's throats, there's no doubt they're better off surviving on their own. And because they've been "discorded", Fluttershy no longer has the ability to win the trust and affections of other animals. 

How far do you think each of them would go? Edited December 17, 2014 by Lord-Pomegranate

[Hol Horse 1]

LMAO! Good question! I love this game!

Hmmm, the Mane 6 have no way of getting back to Equestria, so you're basically asking how long each of their bloodlines would last, yes? I guess that would depend on if the Unicorns' and Pegasi's descendants can still inherent their horns and wings or not.

If yes, Rainbow Dash's and Fluttershy's bloodlines would have it easier than the rest because they could just fly away from all the animals trying to eat them. The toxicity would still be a problem of course, so I could see Twilight's bloodline having the next best survival chances because they could use their magic to clear the pollution.

If not, I'd say Dash's bloodline still has the edge. She's still a really fast runner, and if that could carry over to her fillies and grandfillies, they could spawn way more generations. Give them some items to upgrade their attack power, and they'd be on par with the two thoroughbreds and the zebra. Man, that would be such a dangerous family. Applejack's would have the next best survival record just out of strength. The rest of them would just get eaten.

Discord would have to send a lot more stallions than just a handful btw. Can't have them all inbreeding with each other. LOL 

[Countess Noodle 607]

No they would die as soon as the dinosaurs appeared maybe even sooner to the lions. If they somehow survive all that, then the Homo Erectus will K.O them definitely should they reach 100 years. :comeatus:  Ponies gonna get pwned.

[Hol Horse 1]

LOL. Those Homos would end most of them for sure, but I still say Rainbow Dash's bloodline continues for as long as it wants. I once got to 140 years with the panther. The only reason I died was because I was too old and I didn't mark all the flags to mate in time. But with Dash's speed, the Homos can't catch her or her descendants, so getting food items, claiming territories and finding dirty males wouldn't be a problem for them. The only thing that could really kill them is boredom.

[KillerKingBakudan 702]

Hmmm, the Mane 6 have no way of getting back to Equestria, so you're basically asking how long each of their bloodlines would last, yes? I guess that would depend on if the Unicorns' and Pegasi's descendants can still inherent their horns and wings or not.

 

Discord would have to send a lot more stallions than just a handful btw. Can't have them all inbreeding with each other. LOL 

 

Nope. There's no inheriting wings or horns. Discord's thought it through. To keep them from "cheating", he changed them down to the genetic level.

 

Yeah, he could send more stallions, but I figure he'd limit them just to see if the Mane 6 would get desperate and start mating with the horses that are already there. That would look pretty funny. 

Edited December 18, 2014 by Lord-Pomegranate

[Hol Horse 1]

Oh, that'd be creepy for them wouldn't it? It's as practical as trying to mate with an ape, so I can see Discord laughing his ass off if the situation made them crazy enough to try it.

There's also that original problem with their behavior after they got changed in Return of Harmony. They couldn't get along, so with that negative change in personality, it'd be especially difficult for Pinkie and Fluttershy to even mate with an Equestrian stallion. The other four weren't hostile so much as greedy, dishonest and disloyal, so even if they talked a stallion into mating, their families would become highly dysfunctional and split. They'd be at a disadvantage against other animals because the fillies would not have any siblings/lives to back them up. 

Still, one is all it takes to make progress in the game with any animal. And Rainbow's fillies still have the best odds, even if don't stick together. 

[KillerKingBakudan 702]

There's also that original problem with their behavior after they got changed in Return of Harmony. They couldn't get along, so with that negative change in personality, it'd be especially difficult for Pinkie and Fluttershy to even mate with an Equestrian stallion. The other four weren't hostile so much as greedy, dishonest and disloyal, so even if they talked a stallion into mating, their families would become highly dysfunctional and split. They'd be at a disadvantage against other animals because the fillies would not have any siblings/lives to back them up. 

That's not necessarily true. I remember Fluttershy complimenting Angel for trampling over Twilight after Discord gave him and the other rabbits long legs. The Mane 6 might not love their own families, but I think it's just as plausible that each of them would stick together and cooperate for the sake of pissing the other five off.