My back door feels uncomfortable now

Why the heck is Applejack suddenly as big as nightmare Rarity? We getting a scaling problem?

@Background Pony #DB6E  
That’s still bad since it’s bouncing off things like Not-Rainbow-Dash and a falling tree, not being repelled.

@Background Pony #DB6E  
Yes, I can see how it’s meant to work. The problem is not in the presentation, but just how unbelievable that is. This spell makes the sword travel at high speeds, and alters it’s trajectory every time it hits an element. It somehow steers around obstacles, and can hit a moving target exceeding mach one. And at the end of it all, it hit Rarity in her crescent valley despite the fact that originally our caster was facing Rarity.
 
con·triv·ance  
kənˈtrīvəns/  
noun  
noun: contrivance
 
a device, especially in literary or artistic composition, that gives a sense of artificiality.
 
I am left shaking my head asking ‘how?’

Oh. My. Gosh.

@Steel  
I never saw it as trick shots, it seemed pretty obvious the sword was homing to each of the elements and then returning back to the one who sent it off, who then proceeded to fling it at Nightmarity’s exposed weak spot (perhaps with another homing spell to make sure it went in).

@thps48  
Nah, I’ve read it. The problem is that you seem to be saying that the writers of FiM having an inability to keep a consistent system makes it okay to pull out any old bullshit and have it be believable in a work of fanart. And you’re wrong, because while FiM has shown many potential ways for magic to work, it’s at least consistent within each episode. Each of those writers makes shit up, but they stick to what they made up, and it makes some sense within its own context.
 
This expects me to believe magic can do finely calculated trick shots and somehow come out at the end traveling at just the right angle to go right up the cooter. I can believe Twilight lifting a bear. I can buy her altering the destinies and memories of her friends. I can even buy that a table can make closed time loops. This, nonsense up there strains my credibility beyond that. Do you get me now?

@Steel  
I’m assuming you’ve not actually been listening to what we’ve been saying…

@thps48  
It still makes more sense than this, which is saying something.

@Steel  
FiM magic has zero consistency as well. Hell, Mr. Mxyzptlk is more logical than FiM characters at times. >3<

@Spiritus Arcane In the end, fiction always follows its own rules, but it’s more believable when it has some degree of consistency. This isn’t even trying.
 
“It crazy until crazy word isn’t fit it anymore. It’s become chaos now…”
 
I think we need a new word for this setting. Chaos doesn’t do it justice.

@Spiritus Arcane  
That’s why you never use magic from the finals/premieres when determining magical properties.

@Steel @Meanlucario  
I used magic missile as an example. Obviously what was used was something much more advanced. Chain lightning, for another example, is perfectly capable of bouncing between multiple targets depending on caster level. And yes, different world, different magic rules…and Equestria’s magic rules usually fall under ‘magic does whatever the plot says it does.’ Especially when it comes to stuff like the Elements.

@Spiritus Arcane  
Magic missile is a single target spell, it doesn’t try to hit six moving targets.

@Spiritus Arcane  
There’s a difference between a magical arrow (that what I figured these things looked like) and a wooden object bouncing off everything. Also, different universes, different rules for magic.

@Steel  
Dude, level one D&D/Pathfinder spell Magic Missile: a basic attack spell that hits whatever it’s pointed at, no attack roll needed, no chance to dodge, which means it can track its target to ensure the hit. Is it that far fetched to believe that a far more advanced spell could be put on an object, especially one like the sword which is already connected to harmony, to bounce it off the other elements to soak up power before attacking Rarity?
 
That it hit her in the cooch is the only thing really silly about it.

@thps48  
I’m just talking about the calculations necessary to somehow make that shot. The unicorn used a spell to fire this thing off like a bullet, okay, fine, but unless they were somehow guiding it into the elements (which were never ever blocked by environment, there was apparently a direct line of sight shot to the next) without being able to see the elements… there are so many variables here I can’t even explain how lubricious this is. Magic has rules, of a sort. This is not magic, it’s just silly.

@Steel  
Why? Telekinesis isn’t always constrained by the laws of motion… <_<

@Spiritus Arcane  
A spell… that made a sword fly in a ricochet to all five elements, who were in motion (in the case of one, at faster than sound speed) then somehow hit Rarity in the plot.
 
No, you’re right, that’s not contrived, that’s laughably impossible. That’s more miraculous than actual miracles. That’s Starlight Glimmer level bullshit.

@Steel  
Not exactly contrived, as our mystery unicorn probably put a spell on the sword so it’d do that.
 
Also, this is why you don’t just throw weapons away, kiddies.

You can say the Junior’s sword penetrated Rarity.

Thousand years of DEATH!!
 
Or
 
Injecting Love!!

Her anus right now:
 

uterus severely damaged