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Published: 2018-07-28 10:35:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 11326; Favourites: 103; Downloads: 130
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Please do NOT post errors or corrections to this page, please post them to my profile page instead.Shadows of the Past is a continuation of my previous web Comic "Without Magic ", in which Twilight was tasked with finding out out "what makes her special as a pony" outside of magic. You do not need to have read Without Magic in order to enjoy Shadows of the past, though some scenes will make more sense if you have.
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Please see my disclaimer before reading\commenting, and be aware that this comic contains some darker or more political content that might be not be appropriate for Snowflakes\Millennial, people who are easily triggered, or those who cannot deal with ideas that conflict with their own.
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I've added this in as an analogue to the real world.
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Either that or more pony toys.
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i saw marco dias, and star butterfly as ponies...
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Fluttershy approves
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So Slender Man(pony) is not a suspect and he cares about zebras? Interesting.
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Or he's just trolling her?
Or it's not Slendermane at all.
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The sign on the door, and the lettering on that butterfly pony's scissors. Both are too tiny for me to read.
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The lettering on the scissors says Marco. The sign on the door is a racist notice saying no Pegasus, No Griffon, no Zebra.
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ugh i just caught up and now I want more curse your excellent writing and anti sjw jokes.
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I feel like Star Butterfly should be an earth pony. At least assuming that this is now, after season 3.
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I was goign to make her an Alicorn on account of her being a Princess, but as she uses magic she's a Unicorn.
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Because ... real life.
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Canter-lot,Β jewel of the citiesΒ
And the seat of power of the royal sisters.
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(sorry, had to do this 
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Yeah, I'm with Twilight on this one:Β
Β = Gee, this EBI sounds just as 'in-the-dark' and illogical as the inept investigators described in the flash game "True Blue Scootaloo".
Β Oh, is this the EBI's folder of findings? (quickly absorbs the folder's contents)Β
Β They think I was thereΒ on that day? Wrong. I was at the Equestrian Olympics.... Β Princess, I have ironclad alibis for these dates in question; this is a charlatan's sham of a conclusion.Β Β Β
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I see a couple of alien infiltrators up in the top panel.
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More Timey Wimey Shenanigans?
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What timescale is 1000 moons in Equestria? Their moon works so different from ours, it is visible every night, never at day, so 1000 moons could just be the same as 1000 days is equestria. Or maybe not.
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It's actually much less complicated than that. A "moon" is a real world measurement.
A moon is a month. In fact, in many languages the word for moon and month are either the same word or are derived from the same word. English, being one of them.
For example, in Equestria Girls the great world mirror opens every 30 moons, which is just under 3 years. And we can see from year book and trophies scenes that everything that Sunset Shimmer has done comes in units of 3. She's been Queen of the fall formal 3 times, and so on. Meaning that she's been there for 3 years. This ties up with the comics where she betray's Celestia just before Twilight gets her cutie mark.
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Equestria Girls plays on Earth, so that makes sense, but why would a royal guard in Equestria use an Earth-moon based measurement?
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Because the writers based many things in the show on things in the real world?
The days of the week, and the months of the year in Equestria are the same as on Earth.
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I guess they did, i canΒ΄t really recall any good examples though. But it wourld be really counter-intuitive otherwise, and the show is for kids.
But one thing I have to point out, although "a Moon" as a timescale was the same as a month in past times, this isnΒ΄t true anymore. The length of a month was increased, so that a year contains 12 months. A Moon is the time the moon takes to reach the same spot in the sky relative to the sun, which takes roughly 29,5 days. That is less than the average length of a month.
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That's true for the Gregorian calendar, which is the one that's used in the West, but many other cultures use a Luna calendar in addition to the Gregorian calendar. China, for example uses a dual calendar system. They use the Western calendar for convenience when dealing with day to day things but the Luna calendar for festivals and religious events. It's why Chinese new Year isn't the same day every year.
People still call a month a moon, even if it's not technically accurate.
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Was gonna say the same thing, less than 3 years. A lunar orbit of Equus is one night, not near 30 like ours.
Also to PerfectBLue, E.B.I. = Questrian Bureau of Investigation??? E does not equal Q ??? (It hurt my grammar bone)Β Β
I'm convinced the anti-zebra thing is because their skinny (fur only at the tip) tails, don't cover their privates as well as a fluffy pony tail. Prudish ponies!
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Okay, why is Star and Marco in the first panel? Also I'm liking where this is going.
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Are those dimension scissors that Star is carrying?
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until the info we have, is impossible, because the missing ponies where happen in the magic- disaster-no-unicorn incident with twilight
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This version of the MLP universe is so weird it's intruiging and confusing. Heck, it seems that Twilight is unaffected by the mystery guy's voice.
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I'm not sure that I'd said anything to her yet.
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Exposed? Well now I know who that voice is, narrator.
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Cut and paste error. I should have said that I'd not written it saying anything to her.
The narration is in the beige rectangles. The black boxes are an in universe character.
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No tricks, that's how it is. The black speech bubbles are an in universe character that interacts with other characters, the beige rectangles are the out of universe narration that is specifically there for the audience. The characters can't see it or interact with it.
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That was good, I do hope that they can figure it out, and clear Twilight's name.
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BURN IT DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!!!
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I know that is not like Twilight, but anypony would bee offended right now. If the EBI is suspecting her, is even more critic and more personal for her, to resolve that mistery, so she can clean heer namee. And she forbides her to investigate, does Celestia thinks that she is guilty or she doeesn't trust her?
That would be any pony, Twilight problably would nod and carry on.
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Probably wanting to protect her from accusations of 'evidence tampering' or 'false arrests' when it gets solved.Β If she's a suspect, having her investigate could hazard the investigation.
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She was without magic, for an assignment that Celestia herself imposed on her, and now she is suspect from a crime that Celestia knows that she has nothing to do with. The least she could do is put herself in the line, and back her up of the accusations of the EBI.
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This discussion is about why Celestia isn't letting her investigate.Β That's something completely different.
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And risk the EBI suspecting Celestia of being an accomplice in the crime knowing her connection to Twilight? Twilight is already seen as a villain to the common pony now. If Celestia raises a hoof in her defence, she will become a target for literally everyone in Equestria. Monarchs are not above the law. Hell in many ways they are much more vulnerable to it than the common person. Even if she doesn't get stripped of her title and sent to prison, her public image could be ruined forever, and many in Equestria would be seeing her as a tyrant protecting a murderess and demanding that all Alicorn rulers be removed at best, removed violently at worst.
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You're currently on page 27 of a 100 or so page comic.
I've already scripted pages that answer most of your questions. Y'all is just gonna have to wait and see.
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Excellent! Can't wait!
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