Dream log, epic Fluttercord edition · 6:00pm Dec 29th, 2023
Had a dream during a nap that is perfectly suited to be a story; I'm not even sure I need to tweak it.
So in the dream, Fluttershy was dying of old age, and Discord couldn't fix it. (She also had insulin-resistant diabetes, but that's kind of less important.) Discord was very upset by this, and decided to take drastic steps to prevent it.
If you follow me here, you probably know that in my MLP headcanon, Discord is one of multiple chaos avatars throughout history. One dies and another arises within 50 years or so. One of the chaos avatars, remembered now as Mother Coyote, had a son who was sickly and dying. So she fed him her own heart, making him the chaos avatar known as the trickster Coyote. Chaos avatars can be killed, but they don't die of natural causes. Coyote became unaging, and his mother died.
I also have a headcanon that chaos avatars can travel to the land of the dead and retrieve people they love, but there are a lot of caveats. It works best with someone who died by violence who was otherwise healthy, because there are a lot of limits on Chaos' ability to make bodies healthy. Discord could bring a dead Fluttershy back in a new body by displacing a creature's soul and giving her their body, but Fluttershy has forbidden him to do that.
So instead, he takes out his own heart and tricks Fluttershy into eating it. This kills him and makes her the chaos avatar, who cannot die of old age. She instantly transforms to a chaotic form, but young and healthy, and he dies.
But Fluttershy, now the chaos avatar, knows the same things Discord knew about a chaos avatar's ability to bring back the dead. So she decides to travel to the land of the dead to bring Discord back.
Am I actually going to write this? Who knows, I have twelve million unfinished fics to get through first and this fandom is kinda dying. But goddamn that is an awesome idea and I would like to write it.
(Yes, I am kind of obsessed with stories of people coming back from the dead, or people going to the land of the dead to save their loved ones. You noticed?)
Damn, I would totally read the fyay out of that premise. In fact, my first impulse after hearing "Who knows." was to start writing it myself… and then I remembered I have zero clue how to do the Adventure tag well. :P
Either way, thanks for sharing! On the off chance you do decide to write this, I'll be among the first in line to check it out!
oh my god, that sounds amazing :O
Hell, I'd read it.
Sounds awesome! I do hope you write it. And even if the community has shunken and activity has wound down, I guarantee you have lots of devoted fans who would LOVE to read your stuff! We are here, trust me
I'd love a story like this as long as it's filled with sorrow and despair đź‘€ this sounds like it could be such a good tragedy and maybe even a villain origin story for a discord version of fluttershy. Beautiful idea
I definitely feel you with not wanting to add another story to the pile of dozens of other half-written (or not written at all yet but still existing in your head for years) ideas, but dammit this sounds like an amazing idea and I'd love to read it if it ever comes to fruition
Would Discord really inflict that (being the Chaos avatar) on Fluttershy though? Seems like it would be more of a burden on her.