In my last update I gave a lot of searing hatred at a fic title My Second Life. Nobody gave a shit, so back to chapter 37 of Fallout: Equestria it is, then.
Anyway, the group escapes while SteelHooves stays behind to ward off the monsters, and Velvet breaks down about how awful it is with the foals and the baby dragons, and then Littlepip narrates about how she’s filled with burning rage but she can’t shoot at anyone. I do love these moments. I have no baddies and I must shoot.
Velvet suggests that they find the megaspell that’s still pumping it out so they can stop it, so that gets added to the to-do list. And now a memory orb! Oh, goodie!
This one’s titled “The Apple Orb,” complete with bold font. I guess this is more important than all those non-titled ones that didn’t have bold font. In it, SteelHooves murders Zecora. Not a whole lot to say there.
Resuming back to present, Littlepip shoots down a spritebot with the zebra rifle to keep it from killing them with its speakers. I didn’t comment on this in the Arbu chapter, but it makes a "pfft" sound. So I can’t help but imagine the gun making dismissing laughter at the story around it. That, or it’s made by Nerf.
Anyway, walking, walking, balking at the dead ponies, and then they arrive at the Ministry of Peace, and Velvet decides maybe she doesn’t want to go inside because she doesn’t think she can cope.
She goes into there and stares at a diorama of Fluttershy being adorable, and apparently contemplates stealing the model but can’t bring herself to take her away from her friends. And
Wait a minute. Littlepip’s shtick at the start of the chapter seems to basically amounts to “I find these memory orbs near the end of this chapter in one of the ministries, pardon me while I randomly throw them at you during the course of the chapter.” So here we have Littlepip getting a revelation about something... and then the story apparently has her going right back to her pre-revelation state. Fuck, try wrapping your head around that.
Anyway, Velvet is being annoying as usual. She starts showing distress about how the Ministry of Kindness is in such dismal shape. What was she expecting? Disneyland?
And... then apparently she barges onto the stage and starts acting out Fluttershy’s part from the memory orb... And Littlepip, for some ridiculous reason, isn’t yanking the idiot out of the cloud. So Velvet Remedy stands there delivering the fucking speech while the party members gawk, and she doesn’t pull her out until she finishes the speech.
Hey, remember that thing I said in the last update how I should probably be grateful for Littlepip being a bit more intelligent than her merry band of idiots? I take it all back!
Littlepip’s justification is something about how she probably needed to do that in order to cope with the knowledge of Fluttershy’s ministry having invented the megaspells or something... because she’s a performer? Oh, bullshit. Bullshit bullshit bullshit. “Yeah, I’m gonna just let my friend nearly get herself killed because I have a hunch it might be good for her.” I can buy Velvet Remedy becoming unhinged, but on Littlepip’s part this just looks fucking stupid. Then again, this isn’t the first time she’s shown a brazen disregard for her friend’s safety, so moving on.
So anyway, moving on, Littlepip finds the final bobblehead doll. “Be Pleasant,” it says. That’s funny. And then more bullshit about “corrupted kindness.” Thankfully I ran a word search on the chapter and that’s the second and last time it comes up in this chapter. Fucking phew.
Anyway, the visit isn’t a complete waste, as they find their medical supplies in Fluttershy’s office.
“Theses”? Did Velvet Remedy turn into Gollum? Or are these ponies part of her grad studies requirement?
And now Littlepip has turned into a vegetarian as a result of Arbu. Character development, I guess. Then a whole debate between Velvet and Calamity about vegetarianism and cannibalism, don’t care, moving on.
“Ah reckon y’all will say somethin’ you’ll regret first.”
Oh goody, more lifting lines from the show. Because that’s totally clever and not forced at all.
And by the way, you know how much I complain about Littlepip and Homage’s relationship? Yeah, sure, it has no real development to speak of (and before you type “20.5” allow me to let out a pre-emptive “fuck you”) and it’s really annoying a lot of the time. But it has rare occasions when their relationship is actually kind of cute. At least it gets a reaction out of me - Velvet and Calamity are just dull and they don’t seem to be going anywhere. And for all Littlepip’s “they looked they were an inch away from either hitting each other or making out” I sure don’t feel a lot of chemistry between them. You could take their hooking up thing out of the story and I don’t think you’d lose a whole lot. I might give credit that their relationship actually develops from being acquaintances to being romantically involved, but once it gets to that I don’t think anything really happens. Littlepip and Homage kinda just hook up because Littlepip’s horny, but even if that’s annoying it’s at least, well, justified I guess. With Littlepip her frustration and lack of a sexual outlet is a fairly major part of her characterization so being presented with a love interest (albeit one who has very little characterization outside of being said love interest) is a big break for her. There’s no such significance with Velvet or Calamity. It also doesn’t help that I think Calamity and Velvet are more annoying than Littlepip at the moment.
Anyway, alicorns attack, and they talk about bringing heads to the “Nightseer.” I take it that’s the alicorn baddie. Alright, time for bets! Will this new villain be a baby-eating villain or a moustasche-twirling villain? I’m putting my money on “baby-eating villain,” personally.
And now in the skirmish, Littlepip is drenched in cloud-contaminated water! And then as she’s rescued by her friends she passes out in time to go to a memory orb, which is where I’ll leave off for now!
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