@Serving Spoon  
Forgive me, it’s been a bit of time since I read the reveal of her character. I just remembered what I think was the early book explanation and forgot the actual backstory.
 
Thank you for reminding me! She’s a surprisingly complicated character compared to how she initially comes off as. I remember thinking she was going to be annoying and edgy and she turned into quite a little favorite.

@ydvoku  
It wasn’t a pole through her brain.
 
Arloste gave up her memory after her daughter Hope was murdered. Her husband; Priest probably preformed the procedure of extracting her memory and putting it in an orb that was then left by either Priest or Arloste in Twist’s old apartment at Miramare Air Base in case Arloste wanted her memory back. She didn’t become “Rampage” until she killed a Reaper by that name and took the name for her own.
 
Blackjack broke into the apartment and took the orb and viewed it looking for clues as to Rampage’s true identity. She saw Twist carve the Phoenix Talisman out of her own chest and place it in her mortally wounded daughter.
 
Her birth name is Peppermint.

So is this Sergeant Twist or Marauder Twist? Oh wait, this could be pre service Twist, she cut her mane short after hooking up with Big Mac and The Marauders. I think it even mentioned she got a buzzcut in true enlisted military fashion.

@Background Pony #2ACA
 
oh right, yeah girl-on-girl usually gets to be an exception. I suppose I should say that it’s common for male sex to always be tied closely to violence. I’m just glad stygius was even in there at all. it was… nice to see sex not result in… death.

@redweasel  
Morning Glory and Blackjack had some good, clean kinky fun early on. Before Stygius.

@AaronMk
 
game of thrones started in 1996, sorry. martin is ooooooooollllllllllllldddddddd
 

there isn’t nearly as much fighting, compared to what? game of thrones? I agree game of thrones was more about droning on about family obligation and royalty than anything. I was trying to say both stories strongly associate sex and violence. the nicest sex I remember from PH involves blackjack trying to remind herself not to tear his face off half the time, and the rest were just… violence, conquest and rape. sex for the purpose of hurting people.
 
I don’t blame somber in particular though. that shows up in a lot of popular culture, because for some reason, people seem to think it’s perfectly okay to indulge in even the most disgusting and revolting tabboos, as long as it’s very clear that you are not enjoying it. I call it the war on fun.

@redweasel
 
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think Project Horizons predates Game of Thrones a little bit. I could be wrong though; I’m not going to bother checking the dates. But whether or not Somber drew inspiration from the Game of Thrones fantasy of being “Fantasy That Your Cousin Chad Likes” is checked by how Somber has talked at ends about how he’s a big anime fan, and at least in much later chapters it shows when direct comparisons can be drawn to animes like Full Metal Alchemist. He somehow fucks that up when he doesn’t grasp the distilled essence of the anime in and of itself, because he’s continually contradicting himself or missing the point; like FMA has some things to say about souls and the effect of colonialism via Japan’s history with the Ainu people of Hokkaido island.
 
Somber’s mistake is that it’s violence for the sake there-of because all he consumes is anime and other visual media. I read a lot, and a lot more since the first time I read PH and I can say with confidence that there isn’t nearly as much fighting as PH has, or even core FoE for that matter. This might be overlooked if PH had been first written as a graphic novel, or something visual because the impact of violence comes at its visual spectacle. But when you’re wasting words to describe at every gunfight the feel of the viscera and the smell of gunpowder you’re kind of dragging down the narrative.

@ydvoku
 
oh, I thought the phoenix stone was her body, and the fleshy pony part is just regenerated after the stone consumed their bodies. shows how much I know.
 

I’ve never been able to work and listen to someone talking at the same time. music’s about my limit.
 

what really lost me is when it went into dickinson mode with that stupid fetch quest. “oh we’ll give you your information. as soon as you complete five missions.” I think it could’ve been good if it… ended when blackjack… died.
 
or if it continued as a sequel, like revive her afterwards and have the continued-adventures-of, but at least reestablish the setting and some sort of stability before starting another adventure again.
 
I also didn’t like the violence. it was so… negative about sexuality. considering how popular game of thrones is, I guess I can understand why an author would do that, but it was just so mean…
 
I liked the characters and the setting though, and some of the scenes were very vivid and gripping, so I like the art too. I think my favorite character was… dammit it was scoodle. probably morning glory after that.

@redweasel  
Right. But the ’main’ pony is Twist’s daughter. The other pony’s souls are in the phoenix~~?~~ stone but the body is hers. She lost her memory after getting a pole through her brain.
 
Honestly I cheated, I didn’t read it. I listened to someone read it. And it took me like 120 hours of listening while I worked and cleaned over like 6 weeks. I felt it was good like how an over-the-top popcorn action movie is good. It’s all cliche and violent and super soap-opera-y entertainment. I loved how it just kept building. My favorite character was Psalm. But once she became a more proper character late in the story her original tragic arc kind of lost meaning.

@ydvoku
 
it’s hard to read the whole thing because it’s so bad.
 
I made it about a quarter of the way before skimming the rest.
 
also rampage is six ponies and a zebra if I recall, so only part of her is twist’s daughter.

@Serving Spoon  
Possibly not. For how many fans there are of those books not everyone of them has read them. Which is weird to me but whatever.
 
Or they did what I did and kept stumbling upon spoilers when they would search up a character to see what they looked like.

@redweasel  
You DID know that Rampage is actually Twist’s daughter, right?

@ydvoku
 

 

sniff here we see ideology in its purest sniff form.

more zizekposting please

Wow, someone actually made a picture with Blackjack’s horn small like it’s supposed to be! I was wondering if this was not actually Rampage but there’s no stripes so I guess not.

X3

okay then