Out of context scene that could (not) be part of chapter 2 · 5:23am May 8th, 2015
In regards to the story Actually I'm dead:
Well, I was practicing the act of speed writing whatever that comes to my mind (that's how this fic came to be BTW) and I got this:
Trixie was-- Wait, I'm dead, aren't I? Does that means that everything is over for me, even the old act? How can the Show go on if the main actress is dead?
Come to think about it. If I died, then everything I did, everything I was and everything else is finished now? If that so, what I'm supposed to do? It's not like I'm six feet under and resting in peace. Maybe I can't rest because I'm not quite full dead? It's not like these things came with a manual. How one of my masters used to it? Oh yeah, the 'great mystery'.
Heh, quite a letdown it's been so far. Still around, still kicking. Heck, I haven't even got a funeral. I wonder how it could be.
I mean, there's that old dessert civilization burying their dead with all their possessions, inside magnificent temples that have lasted thousands of years. I wonder if I could get enough ponies to build something like that for me. Maybe a giant statue of myself, with acetylene-lamps in the eyes. That would be quite a spectacle and would surely assure that I won't be forgotten.
Nah, I'm-- I mean, I wasn't that celebrated in my last days. Hmm, interesting how some things get easier to accept since I died. Maybe it's because now I know that it's all over that I don't care anymore.
Heck, I would gladly just burn everything behind me and walk away, like that tribe of the old north, placing the deceased inside his boat and setting it on fire so the spirit could be free from its mortal boundaries. Hey! That may work. All I need is some matches and my old-- oh, right. I don't have that one anymore. Wow, being dead gets only depressing when I think on how I ended my life. Quite a contradiction, isn't it?
Anyways, as a roani my body should be kept whole and untouched after death. Whoa! I got it, how could I forget my own tribe's rites? I mean, even if I was never raised as a roani, nor in contact with an actual tribe, my mother was still a roani, which means that I'm a roani too. This may work. All I need is some alcohol, a coffin, a blackberry bush and my closest family and friends to-- Well, now I'm dead in the inside too.
Okay, if the dessert burial depends on the fans I lost and the norse one on the cart that I also lost and my own people's rites need the family and friends I never had then, what do I do? How did I even get into this mess?
Not sure what I should do with it, but enjoy while I come up with the rest.
Interesting bit of introspection there. Should be more interesting when other ponies show up for both reactions and for Trixie to have someone else to talk to.
Oh, and it's desert you want, not dessert. A dessert burial sounds like something Pinkie Pie would be involved in.
It's a nice detail that she knows so many cultural details. Also very Trixie: "Hmm, I'm dead. Maybe I can get ponies to build me a extravagant tomb and venerate me for posterity."
Also...
Twilight: Oookay... let me get this straight. You baked Trixie into a cake?
Pinkie Pie: Her testament did say "dessert burial", so I thought...
Twilight: You're not expecting anypony to... eat that thing, do you?
Pinkie: Silly Twilight, this isn't that kind of fic! Although I suppose the outer layer would be okay.
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I'm still working on the detail, but I think that the first scene should, at least, explain what got Trixie into 'blue screen' mode (or is it azure screen?).
And right now I'm thinking on what kind of burial would plan each of the Mane Six. Heck, I'm now literally seeing Twilight listing all the possible ways a pony can be buried while Trixie literally tries to finish the job in order to escape the rant.
: Oh, and there's also neighpon's tradition of wearing white to symbolize sadness. It comes from...
*doing her best imitation of Shao Kahn*: Finish me!
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Well, you know I like the idea of Trixie being a 'daughter of the road', so she knowing about various cultures by memory is a given. And to have Trixie reaching the same idea as Bender? My favorite line, right there.