Afterthoughts On Chapter 1 & 2 Of Order Of Harmony

If you're reading this blog and you have not read 'Order of Harmony Season 1 – The Magic Of Friendship' Chapter 1, Disaster Strikes, and Chapter 2, The Adventure Begins, I suggest you do so before reading this blog, as it does contain a multitude of spoilers.

I'd like to open this blog up with an exclamation. Holy cow! That shadow creature had some pretty sick moves there that put the mane six in a bind, if you catch my drift. It seemed to have no problem handling whatever the girls threw at it individually, and even that synchronous attack they pulled on it at the end didn't phase it.

At first it seemed to be vulnerable to magic, as Starlight sliced through its tentacles with those sharp scissors. But that all seemed change after it formed an aura of magic around it. At the very least, the aura protected it against magic that was directed at it.

There actually is an unexplained reason for this immunity that will be revealed in later chapters, but for the time being, the shadow creature seems to be well-nigh unstoppable.

And is this attack related to the minotaur-goat? If so, how? Are the two in league together, or did one merely take advantage of the situation the other presented? Moreover, the minotaur-goat seems to have planned this for a long time, as he revealed just before he took Twilight into another dimension.

There's a lot of questions that arose from the first chapter. It would appear from the second chapter that this minotaur-goat, a draconequus who goes by the name of Eternus, has taken Twilight Sparkle to this other-worldly dimension that is similar in nature to Discord's chaos dimension.

In the mean time, I'd like to discus some things I do have in store for this story. While I do like action sequences, you can rest assured that I will not make every chapter about fighting, and I believe that this is evident from chapter two. I firmly believe that the adventure and the suspense leading up to the climactic battles will give the battles more impact, more meaning. And they are more interesting than the fights themselves. Not that I can't appreciate a good fight.

That being said, this story seems to follow D&D format to some degree. Everything is normal, then suddenly something big happens that leads them all to the start of an epic adventure. And hopefully, at the end, there will be a bigger event that turns everything upside down? Maybe?

I put a lot of thought into the making of this story. One particular aspect was Applejack. When I got to her dialogue, I started to go too deep into trying to get her accent right that I looked at what I was saying in the story and didn't like what it looked like. I pulled back from that and just went with what I was trying to make her say instead. I used a guide from like 3 years ago to help me understand how to write her dialogue better. I think I'll start trying that out on Apple Bloom as well in my other fanfiction (it shouldn't be too bad off in the first place, so I probably have nothing to worry about there)

The setting of this story takes place early on in season 6 of the show, some time after Starlight reacquaints herself with Sunburst. For the sake of the story's plot, I portrayed her as being slightly more wounded emotionally than I otherwise would have if this had taken place later on in the season. From here, we will get to see Starlight's character grow. As this story does lead to a break with the events of the show, I will have to put the AU tag in my story.

I'm trying a few new things I haven't tried before in my writing. You might notice that there are certain parts where I have described the scenery instead of describing how they felt. I'm pretty sure this isn't a novel idea, but it came to me as I was writing this that it may be a more interesting way of portraying their emotions, both from the writer's perspective and from the reader's perspective.

That's really the only the only thing new I feel I am bringing to the table with this fanfiction, although if you noticed something I had not please feel free to tell me in the comments below. If it is brought to my attention, I can make it more pronounced in following chapters and play around with the ideas, and it might even help me write out some of my scenes. As these first two chapters should be my shortest two chapters in the season, I bet I'll need every writing trick at my disposal for the following chapters.

At first, I was planning on this only being about the adventure Starlight and the rest of the harmonies of magic partake in, but after writing out Princess Luna's scene, I find it hard not to imagine her taking her own role in getting to the bottom of this. It will certainly be interesting to see where her journey takes her in conjunction with Starlight's own. That being said, the central protagonist of this story will remain Starlight Glimmer.

The whole idea for this story popped into my head several weeks ago when I thought of how the lessons Princess Celestia was passing off to Twilight Sparkle was now being passed off to Starlight Glimmer, and the significance of this event struck out to me as something that could potentially pass off the narrative from Twilight Sparkle's perspective to Starlight Glimmer's perspective. In other words, her own story.

This idea was became more profound and clearer when I finally watched the season 6 finale. Hopefully, the ideas that set in my mind to start in this story don't, in a way, become predictions of the show later on down the road. However, this could very well be the case. What I had in mind for Starlight, I mean, not the destruction of Ponyville. That would be terrible.

My closing thoughts on this story for the time being fall to what comes next in the series. I believe it would be interesting to see her learn about all of the aspects of friendship. I mean, that is the general concept for this season of Order of Harmony. You know, aside from rescuing Twilight from an insane God-like entity.

And as you may have guessed from the reference at the end of the chapter, I have decided to start out with honesty. Aside from this making sense in a geographical way, Starlight is struggling to gain the confidence she needs to lead her friends to victory. This could possibly stem from her past experiences with her village.

Well, I think that's all for now, folks. Stay tuned for next month's issue of “Order Of Harmony”. And if you want to read more of my works, I will be producing, or at least trying to, at least one chapter/story every week as per my new schedule I have set for myself. I can't wait to write more!

Peace and read on!