There Are Monsters at the Door | An Afterword on Unmeant Things

Writers find meaning in umeant things.

(Get the irony?)

Fanfiction is the epitome of that. It's things possible within a material's premise... that's unlikely to happen inside its canon. Yet, if a fanfiction is written well, it feels believable to the reader.

I'm much the same. I might be the last person writing Spike ships (or even Spike stories) and could be the one few that still goes back to read past stories about him. When it comes to deleted stories about him, many of those stories are gone unless you know what to look for. 

(One of these days, I'll compile a list of great-but deleted Spike stories for those interested)

A while back, in a quest to save money, I had decided to download a bunch of emulators and, looking at a list of the greatest games of all times, downloaded every classic that a 'gamer' should play.

This involved the Metroid series. 

Metroid: Zero Mission sees Samus returning to her home planet, Zebes. She was raised by Chozos. Relics of them are left behind, which, as you can see in that photo, she curls into a ball into their palm. They then sit down, recharging her with their lingering strength, before powering down for good. 

(Yes. I know you can go back, and they will refill you again. But this is more so needed for the game design than story purposes.)

I liked the idea of that. Distant/absent love for a daughter of these long-gone species. They offer a power-up of some sort as well. But it was more so Samus, curling into a ball, being held and refilled, that interested me. 

I had this absent idea where Spike would come to serve Celestia in the future as a knight of some sort. He would be like John Wick in his silence and competence. Celestia would yearn to become close to him as a mother.

But with her son so well by himself—she never dared to intrude her feelings onto him.

The two ideas above are combined into this story. 

It wasn't meant to be anything more than the above. Something was done to tickle my fancy and have an idea leave my weighted mind. I wish I had prepared to craft a plot that added a bit more 'oomph to the story. But, as it stands, it will serve well as a testament to that past desire. 

Maybe, one of these days, I'll get it right, but, for now, at least it is written.
~ Yr. Pal, B

Comments

[Daneasaur]

Spike stories, well written ones, are difficult to find. Few address those core emotions and what-if situations. I attempted to address some of them in the story I wrote, using another character as a reason for him to do into detail on a past event or correct a misunderstanding.

Thus, I look forward to reading this one.