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To give it some credit, it did go “ding” when a Zygon was near… It just didn’t do it very accurately in terms of which direction… Which is really the important thing here.
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Exactly! That’s what I thought! That device is fucking inaccurate as shit and we now know The Empress is just a fucking shapeshifter.
Wish its true, but Celestia fucked up big time
Day of the Doctor.
>…that wouldn’t arouse as much suspicion since they’re in her shadow.
Maybe. I’d assume that since telekinesis is kinda child’s-play, seeing a unicorn interact without it would be something that would stick out for most ponies. Especially if we’re talking guards that would need to hone every advantage they could muster (and telekinesis/magic seems like it would be quite the advantage).
>Speaking of, have we seen any of the other unicorns around her use magic?
Not that I can recall. Going over the previous pages, it looks like most of the ponies under her command are earth ponies (or ambiguous given they wear helmets that could be hiding their horns). Also, looking back, there was one in the background of >>1085930 that wasn’t using magic to push her cart. Perhaps she is the one the Doctor figured out.
>The Doctor thought the Queen of England was one when it was the horse…
I haven’t seen the Dr Who eps related to this device. It’s good to know that, according to that show’s canon, the detector might not be as absolute as Dr Whooves is making it out to be.
@Xidphel
She also spilled my glass of chocolate milk. ;_;
Twilight left the toilet seat up!
Well they only needed to make Twilight have magic. If other ponies around her didn’t use magic, that wouldn’t arouse as much suspicion since they’re in her shadow.
Speaking of, have we seen any of the other unicorns around her use magic?… I don’t think so…
Which, of course, makes sense to our theory, but also lends credit to the idea that the circuitry funnels magic, and it’s only for Twi to be able to use magic.
If the others had used magic, then that would indicate that they, too, have magic channeled at them, and shouldn’t have made this thing go “ding”, if the magic channeling keeps it from going “ding”, which we’re depending on being the explanation why The Doctor though Twi wasn’t one.
But also, The Doctor thought the Queen of England was one when it was the horse, so, there’s that for his (in)accuracy with the device. If any one in the room were a Zygon (which we now know was the case), then it wouldn’t have done really any differently than if Twi were or weren’t one.
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True. And it was referred to as a “psionic circuit board”(source). Tho I’m not sure that that part isn’t on other eggs… I mean we only really saw the circuit part when Dr Whooves got really close to the egg, and all the other eggs have always appeared at a distance IIRC.
It also would be kinda strange they’d only do that sort of trick for one pony rather than all of them (if the intention of the circuitry was to be stealthy).
Only the giant cocoon had all the circuitry on it, though.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Since many of the particulars of the Zygons have yet to be introduced in the comic, we could speculate a lot of possibilities about how they might be fooling the Doctor and company.
Although if the Zygons could redirect psionic energy from existing ponies, I imagine they would’ve already done that with all the ponies stuck in cocoons under Twi’s palace. A lot of the Zygons closest to Twi would probably be afforded very similar levels of protection from the Doctor’s detector. And that would make it a bit odd that he would’ve been able to use the detector to find Zygons among Twi’s personal guard during that dinner scene. (Or at least I think that’s what was implied by the detector’s first appearance at >>1102171.)
>Also, Spike wasn’t around to hear The Doctor say that.
True. It will be interesting to see how that information asymmetry plays out in the coming pages.
Ah, but maybe his Zygon detector was thrown off because whoever’s masquerading as Twilight is redirecting Twilight’s psionic signature to themself and their own psionic signature to the giant cacoon?
Somewhat horrific to imagine just sapping somepony’s magic (or rather, milking them of it constantly whenever you need some), but Tirek’s drained magic, so it’s possible to transfer it around like that.
Also, Spike wasn’t around to hear The Doctor say that.
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It was stated by Dr Whoves a few pages back: >>1248776
He dismissed the idea that a Crimson Changeling could be replacing Twilight because he witnessed Twilight using magic and because he scanned her with his Zygon detector.
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How do they even know that? Why do they think that? Where did that information come from? “Zygons can’t be alicorns”, said who?
Magic can’t melt steel beams.
Fine, Zygons can’t do alicorns, but what about an actual changeling? How do we know that’s not Chrysalis or another queen hopped up on alien tech?
Sorry, the thing is that the concept formed on the mind of many of the resistance. I mean Spike was probably on Twilight’s side for years. But after the changes started he just started to believe what others were probably saying, I mean look at him! I can imagine Spike as his dearly and most loyal guardian, he is a fucking dragon and even under this lights he loved her (and probably still loves her) as his closer friend ever, but as the clues continue to point to Twilight as the only apparent threat it is just natural he would doubt.
I’m sure Spike was on her side for years and years before becoming the leader of the resistance. I also want to believe that the “fake Twilight” acted so well that it somehow seemed believable.
You do have to admit, though, it is getting kinda annoying that this comic is going out of its way to paint Twilight in the worst possible light. Namely how every character just jumps to the conclusion that Twilight turned traitor, instead of possibly suggesting that she may have been replaced by a changeling or some other shapeshifter. And those who do suggest she had been replaced are merely dismissed or told otherwise.
I think your just trying to find things to bitch about at this point.
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Red lightsabors included