TPhoenix-born Rising - The Ascension of Sunset Shimmer
MLP: FiM
Equestria Girls
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Drama
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The day of ascension has come. After 300 years, a new phoenix shall hatch, and with that, one child with great potential shall be chosen to be reborn in its flames. But, when a young orphan is chosen, it throws everything into chaos.
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Human
Alt. Universe
Celestia
Philomena
Sunset Shimmer
Raven Inkwell
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Dec

29th

2021

Kestrel maturation as an analog to a growing phoenix chick · 7:57pm Dec 29th, 2021

Hey all.

So, good news. Over the winter break, I managed to carve out a little time for myself to re-work my outline for the final part of book two of Phoenix-born rising. It still needs work, because I'm not happy with some of the recent parts, but it feels good to have a chance to write "not job application / thesis" stuff for a bit. So, things are underway.

In the meantime, Robert E. Fuller (a British naturalist) recently posted a documentary on a pair of kestrels raising a clutch of eggs all the way to fledging, and since I based the process of Phoenix maturation on the maturation of a falcon chick, I figured everyone might enjoy seeing the process unfold.