Bevendre

mwpriddypinkie:

fleurmod:

Something’s been bothering me about people being upset over my portrayal of Celestia.

It’s not that they’re upset about it, as I’ve said before, I anticipated a little backlash.

It’s that some haven’t considered that the situation with Papi is not unlike a happy ginger Hitler marching into London with a flotilla of zeppelins and planes a year after the bombings in WWII, and asking if things are cool.

Erm.

Hitler ordered concentration camps and caused the Holocaust, among numerous other things. Technically, those were war crimes, I think. And that’s aside from all the deaths caused by battle and bombing civilian locations.

Chrysalis, on the other hand, captured and replaced a high-ranking official, incapacitated a military commander, assaulted a leader of a nation, and had her changelings (apparently) round up civilians during the invasion. Maybe later she would have done something horrible, but technically she never violated the theatre of war.

What I’m saying is, yes, there would be tension, but it would not be nearly as much as you’re insinuating.

You are looking at the theatre of war as a whole, whereas I am making the comparison from the perspective of the British during and shortly after the war.  Bear in mind that the Holocaust was not public knowledge during the conflicts, and therefore wouldn’t be in the minds of the British as they were hiding from an attack.

The point of the comparison is that the leader of a force who are virtually identical to another, who in very recent memory has been extremely hostile, has walked up to the doorstep of the very place just attacked and asked if things could be alright.

I compare Papi in this case to a ‘happy ginger Hitler’ because I feel the comparison apt in this situation.  She is seen as the leader of what appears to be an army, and looks very similar (to ponies) to Chrysalis, just with a different color scheme.  The comparison has nothing to do with the full scale extent of war crimes or the like, just the appearance and assumptions of the moment.