A candle to light your way... entry one · 6:08pm Aug 7th, 2014
Of all the places in Ponyland, the worst of all of them has to be Tartarus. a dismal, underground abyss of darkness and despair. It is the one place all ponies dread going, and I know that because I have taken a number of ponies beyond counting there. I have seen the sorrow and regret of the ponies who I've guided on that journey, and it fills my herat with saddness that I must take them there.
My name is Twilight Sky, and I am a purple Pegasus from Hoofkaido. My mane is a light pink, and my cutie mark is a flickering candle. I am a cousin to the unicorn Twilight you are more farmiliar with, though we were raised together like sisters. And just as she walks through the dreams of living ponies, I have the unfortunate and grim task of guiding ponies to the afterlife.
Upon the death of a pony's corporeal form, I arrive to claim the now-intagible soul, and start it on it's way. The grieveing family members usually cannot see the spirit of the departed, but as I am still mortal they can see me. The sight of the pony reaper is usually cause for mourning, as any doubts they had that thier loved ones are doomed has disappeared. Leaving the weeping family behind, and take the spirit of the once living pony up and away from his former life.
As we go along, the bodiless soul tells me of the deeds of thier life- they cannot hide anything from me, as in thier spirit state all truth stands revealed before the world. Then the horsemaster grants me the knowledge to take these souls where they need to go. For the wicked, a journey to Tartarus is thier last ride. It always pains me to take them down that rocky path to the underworld, a mournful fate from which the revcently-dead pony will never return.
Cerberus pays no attention upon my approach, as he is used to the sight of me going in and out by now. I take the soul past the many many cages at the enterance, the prisions that contain the unholy enimies of Ponykind- of Grogar the moon-slayer, of the spirit forms of Levan and Sombra. Then we alight of the river of souls- called the river Styx in Fort Rainbo Dash, and the Sanzu river by the ponies of Hoofakido. I leave the muornful dead off quickly, and must flee before the other spirits draw near to me.
As I take flight, I see the countless numers of hungry ghosts draw near, thristy for the blood of living ponies. These wretched creatures were bad ponies in life, and now must pay the price in eternal torment. I do not know who many of these wretched souls are, thier eyes now pupiless and hollow, thier moaning and despair echoing through all of Tartarus. But a pitiful few I can now identify thanks to what Cheerilee, Applejack, and Spike have told me.
Below me are the mares Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara, offering untold wealth to the Pegasus ghosts who can bring me down. The Pegasus could never reach me, of course, as the none of the spirits can fly off the desolate, rocky ground in Tatarus once they touchdown. Elsewhere, I cna see the brothers Film and Flam, trying to sell bottles of fake blood to the other hungry ghosts- a meaningless gesture, as all the wealth and riches of this place are all worthless to these damed souls now.
No one wants to spend thier eternity, in this place of endless mist and smoke. The water here tastes like sulfur, and the food, counjured up from the very thoughts of the spirits, always tastes rotten and maggot-filled. Below me, I can hear the howling and battering on his cage bars by the demonic true form of the arch-devil Tirac, and I know it's time to go. As I leave the cursing and angry forms of ponies such as Wish Shine and Sun Shimmer, I make my ay back towards the surface once more.
It's a grim serivce I must perform for ponykind, but it's not entirely all bad. It is also my duty to guide the souls of the just to the Friendship Gardens, and there are far more ponies who make that journey at the end of thier lives than travelers to Tartarus, a fact for which I am truly greatful. In my next entry I relate to Paradise, I will tell you of the joys of taking a pony to an eternity in paradise, instead of to an eternity in punishment.
Twilight Sky
Ponyland's grim reaper
I cannot imagine what it is like to do that task...
"Letter Ambassador!"
Huh? Alright hand it over *reads the letter* Aurum get your flank over here, I need you to translate this letter, I think it's in Classical Equinic... hmm... I can only read the name I think... Ter...Terra Victoria. Holy Mothers of Concordia it can't be.
-Sirocco Highwind
((The letter will be revealed for the next blog, which will give me enough time to not to start a flame war over certain characters being in Hell))
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(To be fair, Diamond Tiara and silver Spoon were given ZERO redeeming traits on the show. And what they did in some of my stories... yeah they got whats they deserved!
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((They are also kids and there are character who have done far worse in the series who are beloved by the fandom))
Is she trying to behave like Discworld's Death?
What about Lightening Dust?
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(I know you don't read my stories, but she did some ot so nice things as an adult, and silver spoon was right there with her;
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/183080/20/my-little-short-stories-2-paradise-edition/dominate )
Wow, Twi, my cousin, Twi
that's sounds kind of creepy there..
And I always knew Wish would end up there someday. I'm glad our relatives aren't there, though.
Tartarus sounds like a very nasty place to be, even for a few moments. I hope that there isn't one cell reserved for me because I worship Alicorns.
Cdt. Bronze Shield.
((2351659 I doubt it. In Discworld, only wizards see Death in person for one.
2351613 He's right, CP. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon (though mostly DT) were far from being nice mares in his stories. They were the main reason Ponyville stopped being Ponyville we know in FiM - La Vallett1))
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((I know, I know. Its just one of my biggest annoyances with the fandom is the endless bashing of the two while at the same time elevating to near sainthood character who have done far worse. They're kids, yes they should be punished but not by the CMC doing the same damn thing to them as they did to the CMC... Tornado teh saving grace here is that you said they are here for what they did as adults.))
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No way.
Diamond Tiara did plenty!
Dying at the hooves of one of her own subjects to prevent her friend's death...
Visiting her great great great and so on grand daughter's dreams in order to keep her on the right path...
Visiting the funerals of the fillies she used to bully...
Becoming an alicorn and the embodiment of the element of forgiveness...
Leading the rebellion to stop the insane descendant of the Harmony Bearer Pinkie Pie from eliminating all non-pink ponies with pink manes...