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** Jossed, but just barely. Leo did indeed fight Vulcan, [[spoiler: but lost.]]
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Given Reality Check's enjoyment of giving characters like Ted {{Humiliation Conga}}s, it may be Leo who begins it.
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Given Reality Check's enjoyment of giving characters like Ted {{Humiliation Conga}}s, it may be Leo who begins it.it.
[[WMG: Darth Vulcan will eventually have his [[ThePsychoRangers dark counterpart]] of the Mane Six]]
He's started with Artful Dodger, as his personal apprentice, he could be considered the dark version of Magic. Then there's the Broken Birds, who could fill in with Loyalty.
[[WMG: Darth Vulcan will eventually have his [[ThePsychoRangers dark counterpart]] of the Mane Six]]
He's started with Artful Dodger, as his personal apprentice, he could be considered the dark version of Magic. Then there's the Broken Birds, who could fill in with Loyalty.
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If realism is also played up, a sword is not exactly the most ideal of weapons to use against a fully armored opponent if you have little idea what you're doing (which is Vulcan's situation) as unless you know where to aim and more uncommon in media techniques like murder strokes and halfswording (which if done wrong is a good way to cut up your hands) you're very unlikely to actually penetrate it, while Leo's chosen weapon is a mace, which historically is an anti-armor weapon. While yes, Vulcan has guns, they're not exceptionally advanced ones, and armor that isn't magically reinforced and upgraded can withstand firearms of the type he possesses, and that's not taking Leo's shield into account.
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If realism is also played up, up (which seems likely, as Leo explicitly points out his choice of a mace instead of a sword is how many years of training it takes to actually learn how to use one effectively), a sword is not exactly the most ideal of weapons to use against a fully armored opponent if you have little idea what you're doing (which is Vulcan's situation) as unless you know where to aim and more uncommon in media techniques like murder strokes and halfswording (which if done wrong is a good way to cut up your hands) you're very unlikely to actually penetrate it, while Leo's chosen weapon is a mace, which historically is an anti-armor weapon. While yes, Vulcan has guns, they're not exceptionally advanced ones, and armor that isn't magically reinforced and upgraded can withstand firearms of the type he possesses, and that's not taking Leo's shield into account.
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If realism is also played up, a sword is not exactly the most ideal of weapons to use against a fully armored opponent if you have little idea what you're doing (which is Vulcan's situation) as unless you know where to aim and more uncommon in media techniques like murder strokes and halfswording (which if done wrong is a good way to cut up your hands) you're very unlikely to actually penetrate it, while Leo's chosen weapon is a war hammer, which historically is an anti-armor weapon. While yes, Vulcan has guns, they're not exceptionally advanced ones, and armor that isn't magically reinforced and upgraded can withstand firearms of the type he possesses, and that's not taking Leo's shield into account.
With all things taken into consideration, the only advantage Vulcan has over Leo in an actual fight is the Alicorn Amulet, and the magic countering enchantments Leo's equipment possesses could turn even that against him if he's not careful.
With all things taken into consideration, the only advantage Vulcan has over Leo in an actual fight is the Alicorn Amulet, and the magic countering enchantments Leo's equipment possesses could turn even that against him if he's not careful.
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If realism is also played up, a sword is not exactly the most ideal of weapons to use against a fully armored opponent if you have little idea what you're doing (which is Vulcan's situation) as unless you know where to aim and more uncommon in media techniques like murder strokes and halfswording (which if done wrong is a good way to cut up your hands) you're very unlikely to actually penetrate it, while Leo's chosen weapon is a war hammer, mace, which historically is an anti-armor weapon. While yes, Vulcan has guns, they're not exceptionally advanced ones, and armor that isn't magically reinforced and upgraded can withstand firearms of the type he possesses, and that's not taking Leo's shield into account.
With all things taken into consideration, the only advantage Vulcan has over Leo in an actual fight is the Alicorn Amulet, and the magic countering enchantments Leo's equipment possesses (namely, intended to absorb magical attacks and turn them into a power up for his mace) could turn even that against him if he's not careful.
With all things taken into consideration, the only advantage Vulcan has over Leo in an actual fight is the Alicorn Amulet, and the magic countering enchantments Leo's equipment possesses (namely, intended to absorb magical attacks and turn them into a power up for his mace) could turn even that against him if he's not careful.
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Leo is a larper, and thus actually skilled in combat with weaponry. Vulcan is not, and admits as much when fighting Sombra. In addition, Leo is wearing magically enhanced armor, intended to grant him a chance in fighting a magic user. All this means that if things DID turn into a melee battle, it's most likely to end in Vulcan being outmatched and handed a loss due to being UnskilledButStrong vs. someone who's actually Strong ''and'' Skilled. Leo also seems intelligent enough to figure this out on his own and exploit it.
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Leo is a larper, and thus actually skilled in combat with weaponry. Vulcan is not, and admits as much when fighting Sombra. In addition, Leo is wearing magically enhanced armor, intended to grant him a chance in fighting a magic user. All this means that if things DID turn into a melee battle, it's most likely to end in Vulcan being outmatched and handed a loss due to being UnskilledButStrong vs. someone who's actually Strong ''and'' Skilled. Leo also seems intelligent enough to figure this out on his own and exploit it.
If realism is also played up, a sword is not exactly the most ideal of weapons to use against a fully armored opponent if you have little idea what you're doing (which is Vulcan's situation) as unless you know where to aim and more uncommon in media techniques like murder strokes and halfswording (which if done wrong is a good way to cut up your hands) you're very unlikely to actually penetrate it, while Leo's chosen weapon is a war hammer, which historically is an anti-armor weapon. While yes, Vulcan has guns, they're not exceptionally advanced ones, and armor that isn't magically reinforced and upgraded can withstand firearms of the type he possesses, and that's not taking Leo's shield into account.
With all things taken into consideration, the only advantage Vulcan has over Leo in an actual fight is the Alicorn Amulet, and the magic countering enchantments Leo's equipment possesses could turn even that against him if he's not careful.
Given Reality Check's enjoyment of giving characters like Ted {{Humiliation Conga}}s, it may be Leo who begins it.
If realism is also played up, a sword is not exactly the most ideal of weapons to use against a fully armored opponent if you have little idea what you're doing (which is Vulcan's situation) as unless you know where to aim and more uncommon in media techniques like murder strokes and halfswording (which if done wrong is a good way to cut up your hands) you're very unlikely to actually penetrate it, while Leo's chosen weapon is a war hammer, which historically is an anti-armor weapon. While yes, Vulcan has guns, they're not exceptionally advanced ones, and armor that isn't magically reinforced and upgraded can withstand firearms of the type he possesses, and that's not taking Leo's shield into account.
With all things taken into consideration, the only advantage Vulcan has over Leo in an actual fight is the Alicorn Amulet, and the magic countering enchantments Leo's equipment possesses could turn even that against him if he's not careful.
Given Reality Check's enjoyment of giving characters like Ted {{Humiliation Conga}}s, it may be Leo who begins it.
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It's been clear that the Amulet is much too intelligent to not have something of its own planned, and Ted will be likely left holding the bag of whatever it is that the Amulet truly wants.
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It's been clear that the Amulet is much too intelligent to not have something of its own planned, and Ted will be likely left holding the bag of whatever it is that the Amulet truly wants.wants.
[[WMG: Eventually Leo will get into a melee fight with Vulcan and give him a major defeat.]]
Leo is a larper, and thus actually skilled in combat with weaponry. Vulcan is not, and admits as much when fighting Sombra. In addition, Leo is wearing magically enhanced armor, intended to grant him a chance in fighting a magic user. All this means that if things DID turn into a melee battle, it's most likely to end in Vulcan being outmatched and handed a loss due to being UnskilledButStrong vs. someone who's actually Strong ''and'' Skilled. Leo also seems intelligent enough to figure this out on his own and exploit it.
[[WMG: Eventually Leo will get into a melee fight with Vulcan and give him a major defeat.]]
Leo is a larper, and thus actually skilled in combat with weaponry. Vulcan is not, and admits as much when fighting Sombra. In addition, Leo is wearing magically enhanced armor, intended to grant him a chance in fighting a magic user. All this means that if things DID turn into a melee battle, it's most likely to end in Vulcan being outmatched and handed a loss due to being UnskilledButStrong vs. someone who's actually Strong ''and'' Skilled. Leo also seems intelligent enough to figure this out on his own and exploit it.
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[[WMG: The Alicorn Amulet will either completely take over Ted's body, or the Amulet will manipulate him into creating an independent body for itself and discard Ted like garbage.]]
It's been clear that the Amulet is much too intelligent to not have something of its own planned, and Ted will be likely left holding the bag of whatever it is that the Amulet truly wants.
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[[WMG: Vulcan will eventually try to deconstruct and take advantage of something...only for his assumption to turn out to be completely and utterly wrong and blow up in his face.]]
The author is known for putting people like Ted through the ringer, and while his actions are SUPPOSED to be seen as wrong by the audience (no matter what the audience has said, the author is outright disturbed by their perception), he's yet to make a really big mistake assuming the state of things he's trying to manipulate. Eventually, he'll make such a mistake, resulting in his actions being shown for what they really are and blowing up big time in his face.
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* Jossed. This Equestria already had problems underneath the surface, it's just that Vulcan's actions have managed to make them apparent. The fic is also intentionally deconstructing Princess Celestia's mother figure tendencies and the monarchy style of rule over all by showing how bad things can go even if the ruler on the throne is a righteous, well intended person, and how trying to be as a doting mother to her subjects blinds her to their faults until the consequences blow up in her face.
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* In justification of much of the snark, however, the author has posted an entry consisting of nothing but the morally, ethically, and flat-out logically questionable choices made IN CANON by Princess Celestia. [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/512724/lets-list-the-ways-celestia-has-screwed-up-and-sometimes-nearly-gotten-us-all-killed There are over fifty entries.]] As to the nobility, while they are incapable of directly controlling Celestia's decision to let Nightmare Moon and Discord roam free, they have been hampering her by indirect routes, using the authority they have to obstruct Luna's efforts to trim the Royal budget, for instance, and harassing her loyal thestrals via academic propaganda and dietary legislation.... much in the way gun control advocates in the legislature skirt their way around the Second Amendment: you can still bear arms, you just can't wear them openly, carry them concealed, keep them in your car, bear them on "government property" (which is nearly every public venue), leave them sitting loaded in your home, own them without a gun lock, "brandish" them, or fire them in any open or closed area save on a second Tuesday in a Leap Year....
Celestia lets this indirect rebellion go on, at face value to allow her little ponies some autonomy-- but in truth because she has been a Neglectful Benevolent Mother Figure for centuries, and doesn't want to be the Heavy.
Celestia lets this indirect rebellion go on, at face value to allow her little ponies some autonomy-- but in truth because she has been a Neglectful Benevolent Mother Figure for centuries, and doesn't want to be the Heavy.
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Perhaps due to the Alicorn Amulet being exposed to extradimensional energies, he is able to subconsciously rewrite Equestria to match his personal views. Why else would the setting bend so much to his would-be criticisms? Why would Celestia and Luna make such questionable decisions? Why would the nobility be capable of holding so much influence over Celestia's policies when in-show they're demonstrably toothless and Celestia is unilaterally able to let two of the greatest threats to Equestria walk around?
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Perhaps due to the Alicorn Amulet being exposed to extradimensional energies, he is able to subconsciously rewrite Equestria to match his personal views. Why else would the setting bend so much to his would-be criticisms? Why would Celestia and Luna make such questionable decisions? Why would the nobility be capable of holding so much influence over Celestia's policies when in-show they're demonstrably toothless and Celestia is unilaterally able to let two of the greatest threats to Equestria walk around?around?
*In justification of much of the snark, however, the author has posted an entry consisting of nothing but the morally, ethically, and flat-out logically questionable choices made IN CANON by Princess Celestia. [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/512724/lets-list-the-ways-celestia-has-screwed-up-and-sometimes-nearly-gotten-us-all-killed There are over fifty entries.]] As to the nobility, while they are incapable of directly controlling Celestia's decision to let Nightmare Moon and Discord roam free, they have been hampering her by indirect routes, using the authority they have to obstruct Luna's efforts to trim the Royal budget, for instance, and harassing her loyal thestrals via academic propaganda and dietary legislation.... much in the way gun control advocates in the legislature skirt their way around the Second Amendment: you can still bear arms, you just can't wear them openly, carry them concealed, keep them in your car, bear them on "government property" (which is nearly every public venue), leave them sitting loaded in your home, own them without a gun lock, "brandish" them, or fire them in any open or closed area save on a second Tuesday in a Leap Year....
Celestia lets this indirect rebellion go on, at face value to allow her little ponies some autonomy-- but in truth because she has been a Neglectful Benevolent Mother Figure for centuries, and doesn't want to be the Heavy.
*In justification of much of the snark, however, the author has posted an entry consisting of nothing but the morally, ethically, and flat-out logically questionable choices made IN CANON by Princess Celestia. [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/512724/lets-list-the-ways-celestia-has-screwed-up-and-sometimes-nearly-gotten-us-all-killed There are over fifty entries.]] As to the nobility, while they are incapable of directly controlling Celestia's decision to let Nightmare Moon and Discord roam free, they have been hampering her by indirect routes, using the authority they have to obstruct Luna's efforts to trim the Royal budget, for instance, and harassing her loyal thestrals via academic propaganda and dietary legislation.... much in the way gun control advocates in the legislature skirt their way around the Second Amendment: you can still bear arms, you just can't wear them openly, carry them concealed, keep them in your car, bear them on "government property" (which is nearly every public venue), leave them sitting loaded in your home, own them without a gun lock, "brandish" them, or fire them in any open or closed area save on a second Tuesday in a Leap Year....
Celestia lets this indirect rebellion go on, at face value to allow her little ponies some autonomy-- but in truth because she has been a Neglectful Benevolent Mother Figure for centuries, and doesn't want to be the Heavy.
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[[WMG: Darth Vulcan is having a FisherKing type effect on Equestria]]
Perhaps due to the Alicorn Amulet being exposed to extradimensional energies, he is able to subconsciously rewrite Equestria to match his personal views. Why else would the setting bend so much to his would-be criticisms? Why would Celestia and Luna make such questionable decisions? Why would the nobility be capable of holding so much influence over Celestia's policies when in-show they're demonstrably toothless and Celestia is unilaterally able to let two of the greatest threats to Equestria walk around?
Perhaps due to the Alicorn Amulet being exposed to extradimensional energies, he is able to subconsciously rewrite Equestria to match his personal views. Why else would the setting bend so much to his would-be criticisms? Why would Celestia and Luna make such questionable decisions? Why would the nobility be capable of holding so much influence over Celestia's policies when in-show they're demonstrably toothless and Celestia is unilaterally able to let two of the greatest threats to Equestria walk around?
