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“Turn to stone?” Tomoko asked Sunset as they ate lunch together in the cafeteria with Mary and Yue.

“Yes grandmother Oriana turns people into stone once she’s had it with them. I had two great aunts, grandmother’s other daughters who died in battle. Grandma Oriana turn the races who killed them to stone. They’re still self aware of the world around them but are trap as stone statues. If you think it’s cruel of me in cutting off people’s limbs, popping their eyes or giving them cancer, try being a statue for a couple of hundred years. The ones who were turn back begged to do anything to avoid being turn back to stone. Being turn to stone is by far the worst punishment my planet has,” Sunset said. (1)

“Really?” Yue asked.

“With everything else even with being turn into a brain bot. There is only so much we can do to keep you alive before you just die. The longest a brain bot can survive is only a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand of years. Depending on what race, long lived races brains last the longest after all. But with being turn to stone is you trap forever in stone. There are stone statues that were already ancient when grandmother Oriana was young, who can be brought back to life. And have and they begged to be killed so they wouldn’t have to suffer anymore,” Sunset said.

“That does sound bad, at least with what you do the people you did it to will die. Turning to stone is just a fate worst then death,” Mary said.

“There is also another punishment that is just as bad, memory erase. The person has a selective memory completely wipe away, with no way of ever getting it back. Like ripping pages from a book, no way to recover them as they’re just not there anymore. So the next fighter who spent most of their life learning to fight, I can just have all of their fighting knowledge erased. Making all of the years spent learning the hard won skills completely useless, like how without limbs the skills are just as useless. I can’t decide which I should do. I guess it depends on who it is,” Sunset said. (2)

“You know there’s this loser time wasted or something online saying that all the people you have done that to don’t deserve it and you’re worst then them,” Tomoko said.

“There’s someone saying that the ones who beat other kids sometimes to death, brutally bully, rape and leave lives in ruin aren’t as bad as me?” Sunset asked.

“Yup proud of saying that they side with them even saying you and the other ponies are Nazis,” Tomoko said.

“Oh, just another loser who says anyone who is against them is a Nazi,” Mary said rolling her eyes.

"And saying that Earth be able to beat you ponies, not even caring how even without magic that you ponies have a vast empire with billions of soldiers and even more robots with super advance technology. When, I asked how can Earth beat that they just went and said something about ass pulling something out that isn't realistic in anyway, like a poorly written story where bullshit powers just pop out of nowhere," Tomoko said.

“Yup just a loser with no life and does stuff like this to make themselves feel big and important,” Yue said.

“Just a Karen who wants to feel important,” Sunset said.

“So you’re not going to go and maim them?” Mary asked.

“Time Wasted picked a good name, plain worthless, a nobody who when they die they won’t be remember and be forgotten. Time wasted on a lost cause,” Sunset said.

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Author's Note

1 - Yes what Sunset is doing in cutting off arms and legs or giving people cancer is cruel. But like in cannon of the show people who are transformed into stone are still aware of the world around them. Meaning it’s a fate worst then death as they’re trap in stone not alive but not dead either. With having your limbs cuts off or cancer, at least death will come or you get better one way or another. But stuck as a stone statue is you being stuck as a stone statue, forever till they’re turn back to normal.

So in a way what Sunset is doing in this story is actually kinder then what happen to the villains in cannon. Imprison in stone unable to do anything while being aware of the world around them and unable to die. Which is a fate worst then death.

But would explain why Equestria is in ruins in G5, if Discord could be freed from being turn to stone the other villains could as well. The 3 destroying everything as they were driven insane by being trap in stone and would explain what happen to the other immortals of the show.

Also there is a theory based on King Sombra as his voice and his more arrogant personality that Sombra in Season 9 is a clone or illusion created by Discord as Twilight's "warmup" round. Evidence to support this theory is that he did not kill the Mane 6 after trapping them (supposedly so that they could experience their greatest fear), stood by when Discord made his speech before trying to kill them at Canterlot (though both points could be attributed to overconfidence thinking the Mane 6 were no threat without the Elements), and there is no explanation as to how he faked being destroyed by the Elements (leading to the idea that Discord kept the Sombra battle going long enough for the Mane 6 to realize they could defeat their enemies without the Elements), as well as "Grogar" putting up no argument when Sombra said he would take over the Crystal Empire on his own. That, or Discord had some way of altering his personality or intentionally bringing him back wrong.

Not very clear on what was the deal with Sombra as he held back and that Discord never showed he could bring the dead back to life. A really big plot hole.

2 - Depending on how old the fighter is, having all of their fighting knowledge erased would just be as bad or worst then having them lose all of their limbs. Depending on how rich they are which in fighting settings there are plenty of people who are just rich and learned to fight for some reason. As trying to survive when all you can put on your resume is being a good fighter, really won’t get you a job outside of a few niche jobs.

The rich fighter can have artificial limbs, and they have to be rich as in real life artificial limbs cost thousands. Seeing it’s not just replacing a lost hand with a hook but a entire arm that can move.