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"You weren't willing to risk the future of the citizens of the crystal empire in an effort to guarantee your own. Far better that I have a student who undertands the meaning of self sacrifice than one who only looks out for her best interests,"

Twilight: risks her hearts desire and future to save a group of strangers

Sombra: Enslaves his own subjects in an effort to get his desire

Reaching.....

Twilight is a 'mix' of daylight and nights darkness, you can't have twilight without both.

Sombra - Shadow is a 'mix' of (day)light and (nights)dark you can't have shadow without both.

OMBC! - Sombra was a previous student! Twilight v1.0 !

Ooh! I like this guess! Now I hope it's true!

He didn't honestly talk much. I kinda liked that about him, made him a bit more mysterious and up to more interpretation.

That being said, his name always makes me think this:

It's no coincidence; the word sombrero evolved out of the word sombra because a hat provides a useful shadow to keep the wearer cool.

Celestia's magic just makes a new window, I suppose. I like the idea that there are potentially an infinite number of windows so that all major historical events will be immortalized.

Could you scan it so it's smooth and even?, I'd like to try vectoring it for everypony

I'm sorry I didn't notice this request until now. I have a scanner so I can try doing this sometime.

4. IS IT CANON? The comic is set within show continuity, and is done in cooperation with the show staff. This is as close to the show as it gets without having it animated. I personally say yes, but it is really up to the individual to decide.

Ah, OK then!

6. WILL THERE BE HUMANS? No. We will not be changing the direction set by the show, nor will we introduce elements that do not fit the show.

No Megan cameo? Aw...

What I'm wondering is whether this can be considered canonical. I mean they have the permission from the writers and creators of the show and from Hasbro. So if stuff happens in the comic can it be considered canon or "fanon" or some sort of side-canon?

It might be like the Adventure Time comic where it officially follows several seasons up to a point then makes its own canon. In this case the comic might take place after season 2 ended and ignore season 3 to allow more freedom in storytelling. I hope not, but I admit it would allow for a very flexible format.

I recall someone saying that somewhere else, and I recall the argument for that being, basically, "He's a voice actor. He can do other voices besides Discord." Kinda like how the voices for Dash and AJ are the same VA. Same with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, if I remember right. de Lancie isn't stuck with just doing the voice of Discord, that's just been his only roll so far.

In other words, if da Lancie is still working with the MLP team, he's probably going to be voicing a different character.

That's certainly true, although looking at his animation roles de Lancie tends to stay with a single character. Still, I'm not even sure if it's true that he recorded more.

Anyway, I have no objections to an overarching arch just as long as it can be finished by the time the show ends. I'd hate to have FiM finish on a cliffhanger.

That would be so hilariously cruel.

Yes, I got hints that this season might have more of a story arc, mostly from brief lines from Celestia and Luna. I'm quite excited to see how it will play out.

Also, popularity has nothing with reoccurrence. Discord never came back, and I'd say he's pretty friggen popular.

Reportedly, John de Lancie claimed to have done more recording for the program, which if true must mean Discord is coming back in some manner.

Basically, I find it hard to believe that the writers would do so well on the other villains and somehow drop in skill when writing Sombra unless he was written that way for a specific reason. So what are your thoughts and opinions?

I have the impression that the writers wanted to try a villain that wasn't grand and hammy like Nightmare, Discord, and Chrysalis. The traps he had set up tells me that Sombra was a very cunning, organized type, which leads me to like him quite a bit. He reminds me of the Lich from Adventure Time, being a powerful villain of few words, a lot of savvy, and very little to go by in personality. Yet it seems like the Lich was immediately popular with fans while Sombra isn't, though that might be tied into their appearances. Sombra is a murky, armored Unicorn. The Lich is a horned rotting human (?) corpse in a cloak with unpleasantly exposed gums and teeth.

I found this to be an enjoyable start. I look forward to seeing how it unfolds!

Thank you very much, Phil! I really feel motivated for this now. I hope I can make longer chapters in the future.

I am so very looking forward to this. Anything to help fuel more inspiration for this setting.

Posted on FIMFiction, my new story The Magic and the Night.

Princess Celestia has invited Twilight and her friends to spend Hearth's Warming Eve with her and Luna at Canterlot. But when Twilight is arrested for a crime she didn't commit, Luna is convinced that it has something to do with why she became Nightmare Moon so long ago. Twilight and Luna must clear Twilight's name and confront the secret behind Nightmare Moon before she takes over again, embarking on a journey through a frozen forest into a the deepest reaches of their own fears. A romantic horror story for the holidays!

I absolutely loved this premiere. The first time I rewatched the same two episodes in the same day. Sombra is likely now my favorite villain on the program. I'm glad the writers wanted to do something different from the previous hammy, over-the-top villains from earlier who make big speeches on how victory is theirs. He said very little, but his traps convey to me a very cautious, organized, and prepared mind. Also, unlike Discord and Chrysalis, Sombra never just assumed he had the heroes defeated totally, allowing them to take him out with a surprise attack. Instead he was undone by something that wouldn't have occurred to him to plan for. I'm unsure if I want him to return though; I kind of like not knowing much about Sombra.

I loved the songs too. Can't get enough!

Overall, these might be my favorite episodes so far, and I look forward to what the future brings.

As far as I can tell, the English word "alicorn" to refer to a winged unicorn is fairly resent with the earliest mention being in 1984. in the Piers Anthony Bearing an Hourglass. "Alicorn" as a unicorn horn goes back considerably further, and so has only been referring to unicorns for me, although I would imagine that a winged unicorn's horn would also be called "alicorn".

I always hated "alicorn" because that traditionally was the name of a unicorn's horn. I welcome any alternative names for the flying unicorns.

Sorry, I forgot that this wasn't 2013.

I hope they start making magazines like that for the countries you guys live in. Mine too.

Unfortunately I had to tear it out of the magazine, and since it was done imperfectly there was some minor ripping down the center.

From the French magazine I bought in Paris, this lovely Celestia poster!

Turn it over, and...

Pinkie Pie!

Did they say when it's being released?

Sometime in November 2013.

I like what I see so far. I hope Comixology will carry them so I can buy and read them on-line.

I wonder if these stories will be canon or like the Adventure Time comic have their own continuity after a certain point for freedom of storytelling. There are definite good points and bad points to either approach.

I'm glad you like his. Phil is so good with the cute pony romance stories.

Thank you then.

All right. To be fair, I did label it as a crossover on FIMFiction just to make clear that I didn't make the idea by myself but was inspired by a different work.

Thank you. I want to finish it before October. Unfortunately I lost the notes I made for the next chapter, but it wasn't hard to remember.