The Mare Rides Again · 8:09pm Jun 6th, 2014
Many of you have demanded it, so I'm happy to report it is here.
Sequel to When The Mare Comes Around:
Rae Jay, the merged personality of Rachel Shelton and Applejack Apple, finally catches a break. After surviving all the attempts on Rachel's life, she's on her way to reunite with her friends in New York City, this time with governmental support. She's going to get a little shut-eye, reconnect with her friends, then take on Discord and bring Harmony to Earth.
Except, it can't ever go smooth.
One phone call later, and Rae Jay is up to another batch of thrilling heroics, deep in an enemy compound, facing down a small army of trigger-happy, pony-hating bigots, all to save her friends. With only the Element around her neck and a fangirl CIA agent at her back, Rae Jay's odds aren't looking too good. And that's just a warm-up before taking on a mad god of chaos, and who knows what tricks he has up his scaly sleeve.
Why can't it ever go smooth?
I'm really excited to offer this to you guys, and I hope you enjoy RJ's continued adventures.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ahem.
Is there anywhere I can find an explanation for the PonyEarthvese setting? When I read Mare Comes Around, I took a look around the PonyEarthverse stuff when the whole personality merging thing showed up without any reason. I'm sure it's explained in some stories but honestly all the ones I found were either uninteresting or just not well written enough for me to read, and I couldn't find a simple write-up anywhere of how the setting worked either. I understand a lot wasn't explained in Mare Comes Around because it's assumed that readers would already be familiar with the setting, but since it's the only one I've read...
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PEV setting works like this: you wake up one day as a pony! (or changeling or maybe even dragon!) For better or worse, the mind came with the body and brains don't work so well with two separate and distinct beings hanging out in them. Eventually one wins out with the lesser personality filling in gaps, or they merge with a new personality being born. Depending on the personalities involved, this can take days or even a couple of hours- it's up to the writer.
I chose to treat the merge as a harmonious thing where the pony and human balance one another out and even if one personality becomes dominant, the end result is a much more mature and levelheaded character. Not that mature and levelheaded characters still can't make bonehead decisions or get overwhelmed, as I hope to demonstrate in the sequel.
Hope that helps! Enjoy!