Best OC Sniper pony name · 3:32am Sep 23rd, 2014
Dead Center.
I thought of it today, and it is the awesomest name ever for a sniper pony who loves the thrill of blowing his targets' brains out.
He shall be an antihero in a story set within a totally reimagined gritty noir Equestria, which would be pretty much like Earth... that is to say, pathetically nonmagical, which is why all the characters will be filled with angst and apathy. Because they are little ponies but have no magic, not even the unicorns, which is even more lame that Earth could ever be! I mean, seriously, unicorns with NO MAGIC? God, I'd be amazed they all didn't kill themselves in despair over the pointlessness of their existences! They'd be all like, "WHY THE BUCK DO I HAVE THIS USELESS LITTLE NUB OF A HORN ON MY HEAD!! I keep banging it into things and it hurts! WHYYYYY!!"
And then there's the pegasi. Obviously they can't fly with those tiny wings unless they have magic giving them a major leg up! They'd probably be the first mass suicide victims.
No alicorn princesses either obviously... and the planet has to go around the Sun... and nature works the way it does on Earth.
So, I guess it'd be a world of all Earth ponies. And they can't exactly hold anything with plain pony hooves... so no complex buildings or machines or tools or writing... Hmm, and Dead Center can't exactly fire a gun, or even have a gun since ponies without magic couldn't possibly build one...
So I guess to compensate I'd have to make them anthro and give them fingers.
Which means... it'd basically be just a general furry fic... Huh... I haven't even started writing and already the story sucks and seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with the show I'm supposedly basing it on.
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Oh well, no need to write that, then! (and this is why grimdark nonmagical Equestria will never work as a plot!) 
But seriously, this is a my little illustrated example of why once you alter the canon on too many fundamental levels in a fanfic it's NOT MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC ANYMORE!!! And the more one tries to jam the canon characters into it, the worse it ends up since invariably it begins to contradict itself in tone, setting, and characterization; or, the characters possess the names of the canon cast, but nothing of their nature. In which case, it's just a random story with familiar names and settings tacked on for popularity.
Well, it started out interesting anyways
... Maybe as a spinoff of the "dream" series by totallynotabrony? What do I know, I can't write.
2476563 It was a rather extreme example of how far too many fanfic writers don't bother to think of how drastically different Equestria would be with the major changes they randomly throw into it.
Internal plausibility, in-world common knowledge, in-world historical relevance, general common sense and experience, and temporal continuity... these are some very crucial aspects to keep in mind when constructing a good fantasy world.
And then there are the characters, tone, themes, settings, societal structures... so very much to consider!
Lazy fanfics do things like tossing characters from other series into a world with no explanation and then taking such events far too seriously despite the absurdity of the notion or radically altering a crucial historical event and then assuming everything in the present day still turns out basically the same.
2477562 I just thought the name was funny.
Also, something like that would fit 'a dream' because the whole story is just a ridiculously overblown crackfic.
As a legitimate story, it's just plain stupid. I'm not a fan of guns-in-equestria stories. Or heavy violence, for that matter.
2478239 *evil grin* Oh I could give you such a massive list of overrated grimdark and HiE stuff to troll....
2478598 Oh dear.
2479480 Well, I could... but that'd take so much time.
I'd have to look them all up again since I don't have any other them favorited... it'd take hours... and end up feeling like work... and seeing them again would only send my rage into overdrive and I'd start working on that Apocalypse Bomb thing in my basement and maybe finish it this time and blow the world up... and then I'd never get to see Season 5 and rant about how it stinks with Dan and Mr. Sherman.
No, I'd better hold off fow now.