Indoctrination theory? In my MLP?

@ClownDicks  
Where she said that?

@ClownDicks  
It’s not clear from the animatic whether she’s being possessed or transforming by her own magic. And keep in mind, Word of Faust doesn’t carry as much weight anymore, the current show runners have already contradicted her (alicorn cadence, etc…)

@Background Pony  
But it’s not the other way. Get shreked.

>About to let the Nightmares into Equestria  
>Sheepard shows up  
>Try to grenade him  
>He says some words  
>Damn it, shut up, stop talking you asshole  
>He keeps talking  
>Had enough of this shit  
>Shoot self
 
DOWDOWdowdowdowDOWDOWdowdowdow

@ClownDicks  
Yeah, even if it’s Word of Faust I still think it’s more interesting the other way. But we’ll see what happens in S4. Hard to say from the animatics.

@Background Pony  
Except, and this is something Faust said while she worked on the show so it’s canon, Luna’s turn wasn’t entirely voluntary either.

This is something I didn’t like about the comic. Nightmare Rarity was clearly possessed, and that’s just not as interesting as if she would have given into it on her own accord.
 
Yeah, they tried a little to do the whole nightmare sequence where she’s “convinced”, but it’s clear from her words later on that Rarity was not the one talking while in “nightmare” form.
 
Luna, on the other hand, was filled with hatred and bitterness for her sister and became Nightmare Moon because of it, on her own accord. Then there’s always that possibility that anypony could become a nightmare if they give into their hate. Just works better as an allegorical friendship lesson and all.

@PonyPon  
Possession/mind control is steering their actions as if they were a RC car, indoctrination is persuading them that what you want is also what they want, so they do it of their own volition and with all the cleverness they can muster.

@ClownDicks  
No, they were corrupted by demons of the Shadow Realm.

@ClownDicks  
So we’re kind of back to square two on finding out who or what is responsible for this horror of horrors.

@Evowizard25  
Except it turns out that the “demons” were moon critters that were themselves indoctrinated.

@ClownDicks  
I’m just saying. Those shadows were demons. Demons don’t ‘indoctrinate’. They corrupt or possess. That is the nature of demons.

@PonyPon  
Indoctrination is more… subtle, compared to straight up mind control. Not done all at once.

@Evowizard25  
This isn’t Warhammer rules, ya mook.

@ClownDicks  
I’ve seen someone play it. I went and asked him, he says they’re the same thing.

See, this is why I don’t think we’ve seen the last of the Nightmare forces. True, they’ve been exorcised from the Moon’s inhabitants, BUT THEY ARE STILL OUT THERE!

So what you’re saying is, that all the people possessed by daemons of the Ruinous Powers are indoctrinated?….Cause Rarity and Luna were possessed by demons.  
Demons of shadow and darkness, but demons all the same.

@PonyPon  
You ever played Mass Effect?

I am somewhat of a pleb, what’s the difference?