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7/13/2025, 10:43:55 AM
>>42341987
>Discord is a chimaera which means he’s almost certainly artificially created at some point in the past, as clearly all the other chimaeras were
I have to disagree with this. Discord is very different from the other chimeric beings appearing in the show, so I would refrain from comparing them.
Chimeric beings such as the manticore, chimera or Gilda have been treated like completely natural fauna/people in the early seasons because they act the part. Them being treated so casually made the world feel more magical from our human POV. Some of those creatures even speak Ponish or live in societies, whereas others are very animalistic. I would have never assumed them to have been artificially created before the S8 finale.
Seeing creatures like that locked up in Tartarus in S8 was fucked up by itself, but having them split into random critters when G*lly removed magic made things even worse: The very existence of such mythical beasts is reduced to being the product of some high-level unicorn (or Grogar) fucking around.
Now I'm asking, why are those creatures locked up in Tartarus if they could either be tamed by someone like Fluttershy (see: her taming the Manticore in S1E02), or magically separated into harmless lions and scorpions n shiet? Even if the show establishes that using this magic has been prohibited and/or there's currently no wizard strong enough to create or undo chimeras, it would still reduce the vastness of Equestria's marvels to be the workings of ponies: artificial.
Unfortunately, Twilight has been shown to turn a bird into a winged orange/ a frog into a legged orange, so perhaps Equestria really is a pony-centric hellscape like that. They already control the weather, constellations, the EoH; the Everfree Forest is vilified for being outside of their control. Celestia even ordered for the taming of Discord!
The show specifically didn't show how Discord reacted to the removal of all magic, but >G5 and other instances of sucking his magic (Tirek; Bewitching Bell) didn't cause him body horror. Tirek didn't split into a bull and ape, either. Gallus didn't turn into a kitten and Blueberry Sour Cream McNuggies. So perhaps there's a compromise to be made:
Some chimeric beings were possibly created by the likes of Grogar (or fused via natural magic processes?), and some chimeric beings were not. We don't know which is which in most cases.
After all, pegasi can be argued to be chimeric themselves, but they're not considered chimeras at any point in the show; they're ponies. Faust's Chosen Ones.
tl;dr: Discord isn't necessarily a chimera, so draconequi aren't necessarily chimeras despite being chimeric.
>Discord is a chimaera which means he’s almost certainly artificially created at some point in the past, as clearly all the other chimaeras were
I have to disagree with this. Discord is very different from the other chimeric beings appearing in the show, so I would refrain from comparing them.
Chimeric beings such as the manticore, chimera or Gilda have been treated like completely natural fauna/people in the early seasons because they act the part. Them being treated so casually made the world feel more magical from our human POV. Some of those creatures even speak Ponish or live in societies, whereas others are very animalistic. I would have never assumed them to have been artificially created before the S8 finale.
Seeing creatures like that locked up in Tartarus in S8 was fucked up by itself, but having them split into random critters when G*lly removed magic made things even worse: The very existence of such mythical beasts is reduced to being the product of some high-level unicorn (or Grogar) fucking around.
Now I'm asking, why are those creatures locked up in Tartarus if they could either be tamed by someone like Fluttershy (see: her taming the Manticore in S1E02), or magically separated into harmless lions and scorpions n shiet? Even if the show establishes that using this magic has been prohibited and/or there's currently no wizard strong enough to create or undo chimeras, it would still reduce the vastness of Equestria's marvels to be the workings of ponies: artificial.
Unfortunately, Twilight has been shown to turn a bird into a winged orange/ a frog into a legged orange, so perhaps Equestria really is a pony-centric hellscape like that. They already control the weather, constellations, the EoH; the Everfree Forest is vilified for being outside of their control. Celestia even ordered for the taming of Discord!
The show specifically didn't show how Discord reacted to the removal of all magic, but >G5 and other instances of sucking his magic (Tirek; Bewitching Bell) didn't cause him body horror. Tirek didn't split into a bull and ape, either. Gallus didn't turn into a kitten and Blueberry Sour Cream McNuggies. So perhaps there's a compromise to be made:
Some chimeric beings were possibly created by the likes of Grogar (or fused via natural magic processes?), and some chimeric beings were not. We don't know which is which in most cases.
After all, pegasi can be argued to be chimeric themselves, but they're not considered chimeras at any point in the show; they're ponies. Faust's Chosen Ones.
tl;dr: Discord isn't necessarily a chimera, so draconequi aren't necessarily chimeras despite being chimeric.
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