#mlp accord

[to-headmare-twilight]

Root of Harmony and Root of Evil

I'm supposed to be writing chapter three. Instead I'm making an AU of my AU where my four gods do not share bodies and are instead a dumbass little family BWHAHAHA

"THAT'S MY PLANET I'M NOT LETTING YOU TOUCH IT"

"BUT IT'S SO BORING! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A DAY NIGHT CYCLE—"

"YES I DO HAVE IT! I MOVE THE SUN EVERY 12 HOURS AND THE MOON EVERY—"

"WHY? JUST MAKE THE PLANET MOVE AND MAKE THE MOON MOVE WITH THE PLANET"

"BUT THEN THEY'LL MOVE ERRATICALLY AND I DON'T WANT THAT"

[more sibling arguing]

"... Wife. I shall give them a weapon, so that only the strongest twin prevails."

"Husband, do not."

"Then have them summon you to deal with their squabbles! I am tired of hearing it!"

Giggles.

Grumbles.

Sibling arguing continues.

[applejewel-and-pinkamena]

After witnessing thousands of Fluttershys die, Discord spent one whole cycle attempting to kill himself. Here we have a registry of his experiences, feast your eyes!

1. He turned himself into a chocolate bar. Recovered himself after 3 minutes, and it hasn't worked since then.

2. He made 100 perfect clones of himself fight him to the death. Discord won.

3. He asked Tirek to absorb all his powers and murder him. Survival instincts kicked in after the fact and he regenerated his powers, this happened seventeen times until Tirek refused to cooperate any longer. Tirek's magic returned to normal the next morning.

4. He deleted himself from existence in body and spirit. Walked it off.

5. He created a rock so heavy even he couldn't lift it, right on top of his head. Proceeded to lift it when survival instincts kicked in.

6. He summoned a warrior of unimaginable strength and commanded the cosmic forces of detiny to inevitably bring forth Discord's death through this vessel. Gusty the Great conjured the power of the God of Hyperdeath and had an anime flashback, and unleashed Unconcealed Godmode and attacked with the energy of the soul of the universe, this did nothing to Discord, who swatted her into dust by accident.

7. Discord got himself into a fight with Golb. Golb's mere presence raised Discord's power superexponentially, and viceversa, since both creatures are Immortal, they kept fighting for a thousand eons before a single second passed and they went their separate ways.

8. He summoned Accord, and asked him to put him out of his misery at any cost. Accord got him to commit to therapy sessions, these are still scheduled every week for Discord.

9. Discord activated "Let There Be Light" in his own face. No effect.

(...)

16. Discord hacked into the source code to delete all his files irreversibly. Seemed successful for about thirteen seconds, until he spontanously returned.

(...)

24. He targeted the platonic concept of "Chaos" and attacked it until it was wiped from the Multiverse. After he ceased to exist or to have ever existed, Chaos naturally returned to existence retroactively and this whole event was entirely undone, Discord tried this again an unknown amount of times.

(...)

31. Nullified every law of physics and ontology (up to and including "I Think Therefore I Am") in an immeasurable radius around himself, and including himself, so as to prevent the most basic conditions for his existence. No effect.

(...)

57. Summoned a stronger anime protagonist, who used the power of friendship, motivational flashbacks, overpowered abilities, plot armor and the "Multiversal Annihilator of Doom", and gave her a power boost whilst Discord lowered his own stats to zero, she was told everything was riding on her defeating the Lord of Chaos. Cherilee managed to destroy Discord's physical, hyperdimensional and spiritual forms, but couldn't hurt his metafictional or conceptual forms, she was deleted afterwards.

(...)

190. Discord turned all his stats deep into the negatives and rammed himself into Supermassive Black Holes for several trillion years between his therapy appointments for a whole month.

191. He created a bomb made out of the combined magic of over a quadrillion crushed, smelted and refined Discords mixed with Magic Thorns (magical items characterized for absorbing outside magic and releasing it back as their own magic), Condensed Singularities and a side of Tachyon Destabilizers; he lowered his stats to absolute zero, reprogrammed his abilities to N/A, and had the Wheels of Fortune and Fate in full inversion before detonating the payload right by his side. Failure.

(...)

???. Discord seized control of the writing of the applejewel-and-pinkamena tumblr blog and had his existence purged

No Effect

[night-dweller13]

They wouldn’t get along.

[to-headmare-twilight]

Hahahee. You guys got me thinking about these two.

Here's a reminder: they share a body, and only one can be active at a time. You either get Discord or Accord, never both!

A neat thing to mention about them is that Discord is experimental by nature and there is something so magnetic about mortals. Discord cares most for Root because she makes the most interesting little mortals ever (whereas Grogar only makes beasts, hardly capable of holding a conversation). That's why, out of all the four gods, I think Discord is the most likely to want to have a relationship with mortals (be it friendly or romantic or sexual or any other way). The problem is that he still sees mortals as toys; objects to be used or, at best, pets to be cared for. He quite literally has a god complex, which is to be expected of a literal god.

Twilight and Fluttershy noticed this pattern and intend to fix it (they want to try their best to make Discord see ponies as mental and emotional equals to him. Perhaps that would get him to empathize with them and finally be able to connect to them in a healthy way).

Oh, dudes. Discord/Accord can give up control of the body to the other (and that often happens when they become bored or content of the world as it is. Thus, it's common to see Accord when the world is too chaotic, and see Discord when the world is too orderly). Grogar/Root can't do that; their existence is parallel to the circumstances around them. If there's Harmony in the world, Root gets to stay. If there's no Harmony, Root will weaken until she can no longer stay awake, and Grogar takes over to shake things up again.

Accord made a dollhouse and the lack of movement weakened Root. Accord became mildly interested in sharing his creations with Grogar, but then he went and made his beautiful dollies move and- eugh, seek to eat, have sex, wander around aimlessly, kill... Accord was so happy with his perfect little world where nothing happened unless he willed it so, but ... yeah, sigh. This was the first time Accord gave up control (it was partially a tantrum, partially a way to escape his frustration of losing control of his world!)

A funny thing to emphasize is that Root appears when there's Harmony and weakens when it weakens. This means that if there's too much Chaos (to the point where no one can hear anypony else), she weakens. Too much Order (when there's only one voice)? She weakens too. I really like that, those gods regulate each other and in turn, they keep the universe running.

Also, for those curious: Discord is willing to have friends, have lovers, have sex, even children if he's feeling experimental enough. Accord wants NONE OF THAT, literally EW EW EW why would you ever want to ruin a perfectly sanitized solitary existence? Disgusting!!!

Root is fascinated by how mortals work ("aren't they just wonderful? Look how different they are, how they connect to each other, how they love...") and Grogar is annoyed at how Root keeps overcomplicating things. Who needs philosophy? Empathy? The world is made to experience life to the fullest, not to sit and think about things that mortals can't even live long enough to enjoy. "Please just let the children eat eachother, Root. It grows character." /j

[to-headmare-twilight]

accord has been mentioned in a good few posts, so im wondering what your interpretation of him is like and if he'll show up in the au? also i love your art and this au ^^

Thank you so much!! :D

Truth be told, as important as Accord is to my lore, he likely won't make an appearance in the story except in mentions or stories.

But since we're on the subject: I see Accord as this super duper mega stickler, but is just as creative as Discord! He likes to create things, but he prefers them to be perfect little machines: predictable, perfect, unchanging. Accord and Discord both have the same powers, but use them differently.

Accord was the one who created Time, Physics, Biology... Imagine a little dollhouse the size of the entire universe. He was having so much fun making perfect systems of stars and planets and little biospheres and and and...

And then Discord came in and SCREWED EVERYTHING UP !!! Suddenly, climate began to change ALL BY ITSELF because Discord decided it was too ANNOYING to make clouds the PROPER way (making each one by hand!!!!), creatures were made in COMPLETELY WRONG WAYS ("Discord why are my plants NOT GROWING THE EXACT SAME WAY, ALL OVER MY BIOSPHERE ??? DISCORD") and everything got WORSE when Grogar got involved— suddenly his creatures were acting on their "own wills" and following their "instincts" to— eugh, reproduce... Accord was so relieved to return to his senses while Root was active, but then he was BETRAYED because that nasty nasty Root decided that she LIKED the little creatures (horrible mockeries of HIS perfect creations) and even gave them HIGHER THOUGHT ???

Overall he's like SUPER autistic and SUPER OCD. Discord is his Twin Opposite because if they existed simultaneously, they'd kill eachother 😭

[to-headmare-twilight]

Do "Twin Opposites" share an existence in a way? Like only accord *or* discord can manifest in the world at one time etc etc.

Exactly! If one is active, the other is not. Such is the rule of the universe.

Hehehe. It's because I really liked the concept shown in the comics during the Accord arc. In that arc, Discord willingly gives up control of his body and mind to become Accord. Discord still exists, but in the veeeery back of the mind, and is unable to take back control of the body until Accord gave up control.

[applejewel-and-pinkamena]

The Supreme Creator overlooked his cheapest creation yet, a landscape containing a world but a pale imitation of other worlds, and he frowned

"I miss my wife Accord, i miss her a lot"

"I see, and do you feel this way often, Lord Discord?" Asked Accord, who was writing this conversation down in a notepad, really trying to depict every single detail of Discord's pained expression on the paper.

"I feel this way constantly, i am as tired as a mule" and so he summons a very tired mule to express his feelings "no offense", the mule trots away in fear.

"Would you say the exercises i suggested to you in our last session have had any effect?" And so Discord summoned a flashback of his week.

Flashback 1: Discord tries yoga! And why, he sure feels pretty relaxed stretching himself into infinity, and turning himself into a chakra and cosmic energy and whatnot, then he checked out the Kamasutra, and began crying uncontrollably at his crippling loneliness.

Flashback 2: Discord begins meditating, he falls asleep for a year, thankfully he wakes up just three hours later for supper, and promptly falls asleep again.

Flashback 3: Discord tries making clay vases, he has quite a great time, and a good time it is indeed to make clay sculptures, he makes a sculpture of Fluttershy, and after finishing it, he cries uncontrollably for 7 hours.

Flashback 4: Discord remembers nice moments in his life, hanging out with Fluttershy-

"I think you get the gist"

"I do, you are in severe pain because Fluttershy-"

"The only pony to have ever lived, died, and it was my failure to stop Grogar that killed her, and ever since i have had to recreate her and the world around her just for it to be wrecked again each time. That pains me, Accord, i am in pain, do you know pain?"

"I-"

"Of course you know pain! I MADE you out of my pain, your purpose is to put me out of my misery! You are my misery! I HATE YOU ACCORD!" Discord begins crying uncontrollably tiny versions of himself, who join in his pathetic display, that's right, pathetic display, Discord is pathetic.

"WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!?!?! I'M SORRY I AM SO SOOOORRRYYYY!!!!" Discord's contrast is lowered and his tears smell like imprisonment

Accord sets the notepad down and gives a handkerchief to Discord

"For today, that will be enough, i am sorry to have bothered you, for what it counts"

"The feeeling is sobbing mutual"

And so Accord went back to his Order dimension to pour over his notes and manuscripts for the one billionth time. Discord just stared at the landscape again, and at a clay sculpture he can't bear to get rid of, he wipes his tears into a very slow and distressed mule, and he appreciates that, at least, this world may know salvation if he works hard enough. Why if he just bears the weight of the world in his shoulders over, and over, and over and over again, he may finally be of use to somepony! God knows he has not been of any use before the world ended, and that merits judgement, and Discord knows very well how God judges him, judges him spoiled and rotten.

[night-dweller13]

I’m redesigning Accord, heres some drafts.