Something I've Wanted To Do For A Long Ass Time · 11:15pm Oct 4th, 2012
Fair Warning:
If you aren't caught up the story so far, this will contain spoilers for you. From this point, they will be entirely unmarked. Finish what's there so far, or read at your own risk. The choice is yours.
Allo all. This deals with the characters. I have some information that's been swimming in my head for literally months that I just need to pour out of my skull, as well as some questions.
Questions first. Any answers at all are appreciated, and for the love of god if you have any criticisms (about mentioned characters/topics or unmentioned) be as harsh as you please. I aint postin' this to feel good, I wanna know what you guys wanna read.
1. The Six. I know you guys don't know a whole hell of a lot about them yet (blame my hellishly disorganized writing style), but whaddya think so far? I know it's an extremely broad question, and I apologise for that.
2. Characterisation of the mane six.I know I kinda handwaved the coldness with the whole mind magic gig. I feel pretty damned bad about that, and I want to rectify it. I will be doing so in the next chapter. Are they working in context of the story, or do you think I be draggin' my arse back to the drawing board?
3. The Princesses. Same as the above, pretty much. Like how I write em? Dislike how I write 'em? Think I should have worked with archaic English for Luna like I did in Gan Teidal? Any comments at all about them?
4. The Keeper. Whoooo buddy. I've been seeing mainly good comments about this guy, but I still wonder about him. Want him to play a bigger part in the story? Want more scenes from his perspective? Want me to expound on his backstory (I've been thinking about a chapter entirely dedicated to him before he became The Keeper)? Want me to put him on a bus for the next fifty thousand words?
5. Everything else character related. Thoughts, comments, criticisms, what have you. If you wanna say it, I wanna hear it.
Information Dump
I have songs that I connect with some of the characters. I wanna share 'em. Here they are. If you have songs that make you think fit any of my characters, post 'em! Especially the ones missing from the following list:
Luna: Master Of Shadows or He Who Brings The Night
Celestia: Archangel or Phoenix
Applejack: Strength Of A Thousand Men
Rainbow Dash: Ironwing
The Blood Guard as a whole: Protectors Of The Earth
The Keeper: Redemption or Awaken The Giant. That second one will make a lot more sense later on.
Riese: Atlas
The General: Black Blade
The Six as a whole: A Beast I Am or Victorious March
Character Notes:
All of this will be posted within the next few chapters. None of it is story related, just appearances of The Six. I've left them pretty fluid so far mainly because I couldn't pin them down in my skull. Well, I recently sat my ass down and spent a good couple of hours detailing them. I have backstories as well, but you don't get to see those just yet. Soon.
These are kinda dry and disjointed 'cause they're straight from the notes I use in my writing. Nothing ground breaking, just wanted to get it out there in case I go through a period of writer's block again. This story does that to me a lot.
The General (Forza):
Tribe: Unicorn
Appearance: Grey coat and mane, light blue eyes. Tall and rather thinly built. No identifying marks of any kind aside from cutie mark, which is a silhouette of a sword and shield. Most who see him without his armour find him extremely plain to look at. Voice is plain, described as forgettable.
Riese:
Tribe: Earth Pony
Appearance: Dark red coat and mane, extremely dark green eyes. Giant in height and build, inches short of Celestia. Cutie mark is a pony holding the world on its back. Voice is very deep and resonant.
Kvall:
Tribe: Unicorn
Appearance: Very dark grey, nearly black coat and a sharply contrasting pure white mane, pale yellow eyes. Small in height and slight in build. Cutie mark is a white X with a small red dot in the centre. Voice is raspy and high pitched.
Bliksem:
Tribe: Pegasus
Appearance: Pale yellow coat and pale green mane, eyes match his mane. Average in height and lean in build, very little fat or muscle but well toned. Cutie Mark is a single bolt of yellow lighting arcing around a pegasus.
Trauer:
Tribe: Unicorn
Appearance: Pale red coat and mane with much sharper and brighter red eyes. Average height and strongly built. Cutie Mark is the yin-yang symbol, both sides black with a white dot.
Hassen:
Tribe: Unicorn
Appearance: Black coat and gunmetal grey mane, eyes also gunmetal grey. Slightly taller than average with a stick thin build, often described as “twiggy”. Cutie mark is the life rune. 
How about Iron by Woodkid for the Keeper?
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You must be an Assassin's Creed fan?
But, on a serious note, I quite like that combination.
Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away,
where innocence is burned... in flames.
A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead.
I'm frozen to the bones, I am.
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A soldier on my own, I don't know the way.
I'm riding up the heights... of shame.
I'm waiting for the call, the
handon the chest.I'm ready for the fight... and fate.
It dose fit him rather well, especially the fourth verse.
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Fourth verse is one hell of a lot more fitting than you realise, in some ways.
402904 I'm glad you like my recommendation
Backstory for the keeper? You have my attention.