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The newly-crowned Princess Twilight Sparkle meets a dark foe from the past. Deals, dark magic and dangerous trope savviness ensues.

This is perhaps my longest, as well as my darkest,MLP comic yet. I know a lot of folks dislike King Sombra because of how little we know of him, but personally, I find that what little is known about him is pretty damn awesome. Obsession with crystals aside, Sombra is probably one of the most dangerous villains the Mane 6 has faced yet, only beating him at the last second through on-the-fly decision-making and pure, blind luck. Hopefully season four will flesh him out further.


On a side note, any comments about tentacle rape or "I've seen enough hentai blah de blah de blah" will be deleted. Yes, even if you add "jk" at the end or stop writing halfway to say "oh no I can't say that lol I'm so ironic". I'm saying this because I want to keep the number of meme-vomiting dipshits parroting the same joke over and over again to a minimum.


EDIT: Okay, over 1500 faves and 500 comments later, I'm going to answer a couple common questions:

Q: Will you continue this comic?
A: Probably not. Even before I sat down and first sketched it out, I had planned to keep the comic open-ended as it is now. I have no plans or ideas on how to continue this, because frankly, at the moment any attempts at coming up with a sequel will just seem forced. But who knows what the future holds? We'll see.

Q: Can I write a fanfic based off of this?
A: You certainly can, as long as you give me credit. Also once you do write it, send me a link! I'd love to read it.

With that said, thank you for all the faves and comments, especially the ones sparking friendly debate and insightful thoughts.
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~CloudtheLegend2005 2 days ago
Twilight: Fine... Maybe there is a part of me that is like you... But, I've made my choice dark magic, light magic, it doesn't matter... I'll use what I can to help others... This conversation is over...
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~snakebloodprince 3 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
well I can say this: "for all that's happened in this one comic page, the whole this could just be a dream twilight is having that shows her worry that the dark magic she used has corrupted her. which could lead to a fairly decent story if used properly and given that some thing strange happens that twilight ultimately has no control over, and it was somehow related to this (possible) dream." And that is my take on this comic.

P.S. nice art work, and I love the whole lion king scar on Sombra's face.
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~Jarkes 3 days ago
I'm going to pretend that this is all a dream, since we already know that Sombra was killed off for real at the end of Crystal Empire, part 2.
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*Omny87 3 days ago
That's one way of looking at it, yes. I've purposefully left it open to interpretation.
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~hook1990 May 16, 2013
season 4 plot done
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~PhysicistEarthPony May 13, 2013  New member
I'm pretty sure fear, enslavement, and conquest counts as earning.
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*Girlfoxgirl May 12, 2013  Student Writer
Epic comic! ^^ Awesome to see them being so badass. =D Very neat pot to this comic!
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Mood: Anger ~Bacxaber May 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
BULLSAUCE! Twilight, you did NOT earn your damn wings! You did NOT get there by friendship and magic! Now, you don't have slaves (yet), but you mooched off of your hardworking friends and got immortality for it! HOW DARE YOU. Even SOMBRA is a much better person then you. BE ASHAMED.
(Disclaimer: I am not raging at the author of this submission, I am simply raging at Twilight)
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~immblueversion May 12, 2013
Ohoho! Is funny because Twilight is NOT immortal (or at least won't be outliving her friends, according to the writers), and that she obtained her wings after attaining an ultimate understanding of the magic of friendship that she would have otherwise not understood had she not studied it for 64 consecutive episodes in the first place! Ohh...
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Mood: Stupefied ~Bacxaber May 13, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
AHA! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THAT THEORY, HAVE YOU?!

The theory goes like this. Twilight IS immortal, and will outlive the rest of the Mane 6. But she'll always have friends, because she will meet new ones after the older ones die out. So, because of this constant continuity, she is never without friends, thus "can't outlive" friends as a whole.
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