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Background Pony #96BA
I’ve recently seen a doctor who episode named “The Zygon inversion” and in this episode the Doctor do a speech which could work very well here. I did the appropriates modifications:
Radiant Hope: You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You’re not superior to ponies who were cruel to you. You’re just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who’ll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they’re prepared to forgive. Why don’t you break the cycle?
Rabia: Why should we?
RH: What is it that you actually want?
Rb: War.
RH: Ah. And when this war is over, when – when you have the homeland free from humans, what do you think it’s going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you’re very close to getting what you want. What’s it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want umbrum to go to work? What’ll be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well? Oh, You don’t actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming child in history, Rabia, you don’t actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you’ve killed all the bad crystal ponies, and it’s all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?
Rb: We’ll win.
RH: Oh, will you? Well maybe – maybe you will win. But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keepts turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
Rb: Then why are you still talking?
RH: Because I’m trying to get you to see. And I’m almost there.
Rb: Do you know what I see, Radiant? Just two ponies against all of us, a good chance of victory.
Princess Cadance: My magic will take you out!
[Radiant Hope sighs.]
RH: And we’re off! Hooves on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who’s going to be quickest? Who’s going to be the luckiest?
PC: This is not a game!
RH: No, it’s not a game, Princess, and I mean that most sincerely.
Rb: Why are you doing this?
PC: Yes, I’d like to know that too. You set this up – why?
RH: Because it’s not a game, Princess Cadance. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it’s always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who’s going to die. You don’t know who’s foal are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they’re always going to have to do from the very beginning – SIT DOWN AND TALK! Listen to me, listen. I just – I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It’s just a fancy word for changing your mind.
Rb: I will not change my mind.
RH: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away. You could let us walk right out of that door, and you could stand your revolution down.
Rb: No, I’m not stopping this, Radiant. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they’ll let us go after what I’ve done?
RH: You’re all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? “Look at me, I’m unforgivable.” Well here’s the unforeseeable, I forgive you. After all you’ve done. I forgive you.
Rb: You don’t understand. You will never understand.
The Doctor: I don’t understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I’ve lost my family, everypony turn on me for being different, my world was shattered, my only fried/love interest was twisted beyond any form of recognition, I spent every day wondering what when wrong, asking how I could have fixed it, feeling so mad at myself for not having done enough, and the ones I believed to be my friends manipulated me all this time. And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight… Til it burns your hand. And you say this – no one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will ever have to feel this pain. Not on my watch.
 
Too bad Radiant Hope instead decided that ‘it’s okay that I use these ponies and minotaur to get what I want, I was able to tempt them into doing bad, or they’d already done bad, so who cares what happens to them? Once the Umbrum are free, they’ll get rid of all the bad guys including Chrysalis and these selfish losers.’
Background Pony #B991
I’ve recently seen a doctor who episode named “The Zygon inversion” and in this episode the Doctor do a speech which could work very well here. I did the appropriates modifications:
 
Radiant Hope: You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You’re not superior to ponies who were cruel to you. You’re just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who’ll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they’re prepared to forgive. Why don’t you break the cycle?
 
Rabia: Why should we?
 
RH: What is it that you actually want?
 
Rb: War.  
RH: Ah. And when this war is over, when – when you have the homeland free from humans, what do you think it’s going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you’re very close to getting what you want. What’s it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want umbrum to go to work? What’ll be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well? Oh, You don’t actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming child in history, Rabia, you don’t actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you’ve killed all the bad crystal ponies, and it’s all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?
 
Rb: We’ll win.
 
RH: Oh, will you? Well maybe – maybe you will win. But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keepts turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
 
Rb: Then why are you still talking?
 
RH: Because I’m trying to get you to see. And I’m almost there.
 
Rb: Do you know what I see, Radiant? Just two ponies against all of us, a good chance of victory.
 
Princess Cadance: My magic will take you out!
 
[Radiant Hope sighs.]
 
RH: And we’re off! Hooves on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who’s going to be quickest? Who’s going to be the luckiest?
 
PC: This is not a game!
 
RH: No, it’s not a game, Princess, and I mean that most sincerely.
 
Rb: Why are you doing this?
 
PC: Yes, I’d like to know that too. You set this up – why?
 
RH: Because it’s not a game, Princess Cadance. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it’s always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who’s going to die. You don’t know who’s foal are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they’re always going to have to do from the very beginning – SIT DOWN AND TALK! Listen to me, listen. I just – I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It’s just a fancy word for changing your mind.
 
Rb: I will not change my mind.
 
RH: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away. You could let us walk right out of that door, and you could stand your revolution down.
 
Rb: No, I’m not stopping this, Radiant. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they’ll let us go after what I’ve done?
 
RH: You’re all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? “Look at me, I’m unforgivable.” Well here’s the unforeseeable, I forgive you. After all you’ve done. I forgive you.
 
Rb: You don’t understand. You will never understand.
 
The Doctor: I don’t understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I’ve lost my family, everypony turn on me for being different, my world was shattered, my only fried/love interest was twisted beyond any form of recognition, I spent every day wondering what when wrong, asking how I could have fixed it, feeling so mad at myself for not having done enough, and the ones I believed to be my friends manipulated me all this time. And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight… Til it burns your hand. And you say this – no one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will ever have to feel this pain. Not on my watch.
Background Pony #2818
@Background Pony #B3FC
He’s a member of a chaotic evil race, like IDW Chrysalis.
 
No. Technically Sombra is not anymore one of them. Initially he was, but after, however, the others, to get him out from the prison in way that in the future he could free them, they have turned him into something different. It is not a normal pony, but not even a Umbrum. He is the first and only specimen of a new species. To Chrysalis then we saw that she is not to be considered evil, because in this issue we have had confirmation that the Changeling is a need to feed on love (because she said that, after conquering Equestria, they could not let the Ponies sinking into despair, otherwise she and the others could not feed themselves.). It doesn’t seem that she can choose about this.
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@Background Pony #B3FC  
You should at least read it before being so unreasonably judgemental. It’s a legit story.
 
Like the part where he’s constantly sick because the even the kingdom of Good TM and Pure TM rejects him before they figure out why.  
And he keeps wannting to go to the Crystal Faire except the Crystal Heart basically burns his #&@ing skin if he tries to go near.
 
So he’s basically just sick all the time and feared by everyone until he basically goes “you know what? I can just give up and be what everybody expects me to be, and then I can take revenge on those jerks who treat me like a freak and destroy that Heart that makes me ill all the time”.
 
Cue Hope who won’t take the world’s bs and keeps trying to bring back the person the colt Sombra could’ve been even though nopony, not even Sombra believes it at that point.  
Plus she basically gives up alicornhood (which the Heart predicts would’ve been her destiny) because she’s not willing to go “hurr durr destroy evil” like Twilight would presumably.
 
It’s an exceptional story esp. when you consider the show basically created Sombra as this random guy with zero personality.
Evowizard25

@Background Pony #B3FC  
Actually, no. It’s more complicated than that. You see, the Umbrum are a race of dark spirit like creatures that feed on hatred, similar to the sirens in that way. Sombra was a little colt Umbrum who was crafted a new body and in the process lost his memories of ever being an Umbrum. He was found outside the Empire where he was raised by a rather caring caretaker, had a good friends, and quite possibly was fond of Princess Amore.
 
While his race was heinous, he wasn’t until he gave into his depression and anger as well as allowing the Umbrum to ‘twist’ his mind. So it isn’t ‘he was born evil’. You know, like how Hellboy is a daemon but he’s not evil.
Background Pony #A05C
@orbsah  
So…he wasn’t a unicorn who turned evil because his girlfriend died. Or some guy who got into bad magic and was corrupted by it like Inspiration Manifestation suggested. Or anything remotely interesting, for that matter.
 
He’s just Evil TM
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I wonder if anyone has realized these are basically identical to the moon creatures, except ugly.
 
someone needs to fire andy’s therapist.
Background Pony #A05C
So….Sombra was possessed by evil? Exactly like Nightmare Moon?
 
Fortunately, the show already retconned that.
MeshGearFox
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oh she not beb
 
unless she is and this is the afterlife
 
oh my God, what an awful word  
After all the breath and the dirt  
And the fires that burn  
And after all this time  
And after all the ambulances go  
And after all the hangers-on are done  
Hanging on to the dead lights  
Of the afterglow