ORAR 1: Chrysalis In Leather Pants

So this whole mess came about when I began to notice all the plot holes, logical fallacies, and characters being idiots present in the finale. A quick trip to the TV tropes Analysis Page for MLP: FIM* helped me figure out logical explanations for most of those, but they also raised other issues, and throughout I found Chrysalis’s actions to be rather counterproductive. These problems would form the basis of the second half of Luna’s speech. Still, the issue was mostly laid to rest, so I thought little more of it.

Then I noticed in the clip of the changelings being thrown over the horizon that Chrysalis seemed to disappear in a flash of light not unlike Twilight’s teleportation spell. Even though I knew it was probably just artistic license to show she was well and truly gone, I couldn’t help but jump on it a bit. For a while, wild theories bounced in my skull about where she could have gone, but this didn’t really lead anywhere either. (Though at one point I entertained the notion of a three-way crossover with Bionicle and Acceleracers, based on Kathleen Barr’s other roles as evil manipulative villainesses.)

Earlier than either of those two, back when the finale first arrived on YouTube, I went onto Fimfiction.net and was blown away by the amount of Chrysalis/Changelings-In-General redemption fics, most of which were portraying her as ‘tragically misunderstood, it’s not her fault at all, Discord did it…’ And you know what? I went ‘blech.’ **

After my crossover idea, I revisited some of these out of curiosity, and found my opinion unchanged. But then I was reminded of an older idea of mine (It won’t ever see the light of day now, but before I ruined it by bogging it down with stupid additions like Tirek and another return of Discord, it was about Luna manipulating Twilight and her friends back into mentally healthy states after their breakdowns in Season one.) and everything fell into place.

Earlier yesterday, I finally decided to write a first draft of Chapter one, which ended up being about 900ish words and pretty much inferior in every way. I sent it off to my good friend Emeral Bookwise (Check out his stuff; he’s one of the best contributors to the Lunaverse after RDD herself) but then called it back immediately upon realizing just how bad it was. I went through a brief funk that lasted all of three hours, before watching some episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise somehow inspired me to go back and really give this story the effort it deserved. ***

And so you have Day One in Of Responsibility And Redemption.

And to the crowd following DIM; don’t worry. In fact if anything, writing this has given me the final push to help dislodge the writer’s block I was experiencing! You’ll have Rarity’s Adventures On Mata-Nui soon enough! (Spoilers: Rarity is on Mata-Nui.: P)

*The metaphor of the glass of water/tidal wave actually came from there, so unfortunately I can’t take credit for that.
**Now admittedly from the way things have gone so far in ORAR, It seems I’m doing the same, but wait until next chapter and that perception might change. ;)
***Pfft, I can’t keep a straight face reading that last part aloud!