Hindrance: Pacifist

Value:
8

Description:
Ponies with this hindrance don’t think it right to go around shootin’ folk just for looking like pirates. Or even for being pirates. Or, in some cases, even for shooting at you first! Pacifists take “do no harm” to an extreme, and will try to reason with whoever or whatever is attacking them whenever they believe it is possible. Only when all other options are exhausted will a pacifist pony resort to violence, and even then only in self-defense, or in defense of their friends. Hostages, for example, will not be allowed to come to harm if a pacifist pony has any say. Pacifist ponies aren’t fools; if they’ve had to shoot a member of a specific group in defense of themselves of their friends before, they’ll probably not try to reason with any other members of that group unless they can do so safely. They’ll still try to avoid hurting them if possible, though, and will feel quite badly about it if somepony comes to harm in a way that they feel they could have prevented. This may trigger a guilty conscience.