>>12662 The Fall of Twilight Sparkle Keep trying, Twilight Sparkle. Maybe the magic of friendship can help you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some chaos to wreak. Twilight Sparkle's spirit is hurt, but not crushed, as after Discord abandons her and her arguing friends to roam free and spread chaos, she still holds out hope when she deduces that some clue of the Elements of Harmony must be in the book back at the Golden Oaks Library. At the library she finds it, and her friends antics are wearing her thin and she has grown frustrated, but interestingly, she doesn't get discorded nearly as fast as the others, as the others at this point would've cracked, at least judging from the maze.
Anyways, Twilight Sparkle, after much hassle, gets the Elements of Harmony on her friends and they almost activate but fizzle out. One detail I didn't notice till my second watch through of this, Discord when the Elements start to glow and cause them to levitate, briefly looks concerned. I don't recall ever noticing that before. I guess that helps explain his overconfidence later.
Discord though, now is happy, he has won, and he finally breaks Twilight Sparkle's spirit and as er friends separate, Twilight in her anger and sadness finally succumbs to being discorded herself. Curious though, in comparison to the others, Twilight Sparkle is still of sound mind. She is corrupted in a sense, but not crazy. I have two guesses on this: 1):Discord didn't use mind control on Twilight because he wanted to specifically break her spirit and enjoy torturing and messing with her some later on. 2): Discord himself calls the Element of Magic the most powerful and elusive of them. Similar to how Twilight couldn't activate the Elements of Harmony without the other five, Discord maybe couldn't do that as easily to Twilight Sparkle as the others. These aren't mutually exclusive either. I don't have much to say on the antics of her friends to much, humorous except for the fact that I really do feel for Twilight a bit here. I also love the background chaos details!
