//------------------------------// // ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Author's Notes // Story: Unforgiven Winter // by Rambo //------------------------------// ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) This may seem long but it's not. At the very end I explain references so it's not like it's part of the whole "why I wrote this" thing. Well hello their friends! Let me be out of the Rambo character for this ONE small... 1000 word chapter or so about the stupidity, laziness, and un-reliable author known as RAMBO. Let me first start off by saying this, this story is GOOD but then towards the endings and such I lost my touch if you all didn't realize it. I don't blame anyone for hating on it or such, It really is a mess at the end, although I did like how I finished the good ending! That was really well thought of, right?! Well let me start off by saying that purpose of this "chapter" is to tell you why this story started and why it took so long to write. If you want the whole lead up as to why I even thought writing would be a great start and such, i'll post about it on some blog entry? (is that what they're called?). That crappy spam stuff that appears when you "Watch" someone. This is story strict oriented. The lead up also involves the whole "Joining the herd" b.s and whatnot. Well anyways... LAST TIME YOU EVER SEE A POST ON THIS STORY! LAST TIME! Why I wrote this... What was originally supposed to be 5 chapter long regular story became a HUGE 80,000 word novel I never planned to do. It was ORIGINALLY supposed to be, Twilight remembers about her friends from Canterlot and went to visit them only to find out they died. The sad Twilight goes to their graves to give her final words and is intercepted by their ghosts. They reunite for one last night and say they're goodbyes. End.... this story is NOTHING like what I was originally going to write! Why did I write all this? Because my dumbass was playing Silent Hill and I wanted it to be like a Silent Hill adventure! And Chapter 2... is what made this all possible godamnit. This story was supposed to be finished in September but I procrastinated, got lazy, lost interest, and was too far in to quit. I'm an idiot and viewers... your commando Rambo... lied to you so many times. Whenever I said "I have the next chapter done, releasing it next week!" and it took like a month till it's release, it was just another way of saying "I didn't write jack s*** for 2 weeks but i'm sure I will before next week! So stay tuned for a half-assed chapter I wrote the day before release!" I just felt like I had to lie to please but that wasn't the case. For my first fic, it was a really bad idea to start a story this large. The original idea was for the best, a medium story. I wanted to challenge myself and I challenged myself way too much. How all this happened though was because of Chapter 2, "Bazaar". I was playing BF3 on "Grand Bazaar" and was at the time watching a Resident Evil 4 playthrough AND thinking about the Silent Hill concept and bada-boom, out came that chapter. Combining the Bazaar scenario, with Tyco (The merchant from RE4), and Silent Hill - Shattered Memories came out to be a fantastic write! I had so much fun writing it all down but... I got carried away. I wanted to add an antagonist, why not Timberwolves right? So when I uploaded chapter 2, the next day people said they liked it. What to do? I know! Why not just have the Timberwolves play the role as a barrier from preventing Twilight from finding about the death of her friends? The Timberwolves were never meant to kill her, just preventing Twilight from being emotionally hurt. FANTASTIC IDEA!!! then I played more video games... Rome: Total War is an example. For playing too many video games, I shaped the story in the wrong direction. The story plot and ideas alternated more than 30 times as each chapter progressed. OC's were NEVER a prime subject, they were always flat background characters in this story and for a good reason too, nobody likes OC's falling in love with a Mane 6 character. I tried to steer away from that but it would contradict my entire story! Stacking more and more trouble onto my story, I was just too stressed to write. I only wrote at least 20-80 words until I quit for the day. There were many missing parts but I couldn't bear torturing you all any longer. For example, when Twilight ventured into the cave at "Breach" chapter, there was supposed to be a chapter of the struggle and fight going on outside and how Victor and Charlie swooped in to spray lead into the timberwolves. Didn't write it. So in the end my friends and viewers, this story starting from chapter... 9 (Revelations) was all written from the top of my head as I continued. There was no more pre-writes and no more time, I had too much schoolwork. Such a turn of events because of stupidity, can you believe that? I hate myself for writing this story because it became such a mess towards the end but I feel so satisfied to know I ended it at last... but when i think back to it I'm actually happy i wrote this. It's the first time I ever broke my limits. This story on it's own is the backbone of how I became a brony and i'm happy for that. The good ending was kinda created from the ending of Silent Hill - Shattered Memories while the bad ending was created from Dark Souls - Dark Lord ending. Again, video games played a role. Time to finish my stupid story "Insane Clown Posse goes to Ponyville and gets flamed" now. It's been on hiatus for... 4-5 months. Thank you for reading this friends. Oh! And for future stories, they'll be 1-3 chapter long shorts of stupid and HILARIOUS fictions like Bill O'rielly does. Please go check him out if you want PURE laughs. Short and dumb stories can easily be written within a week. Next story: Twilight Sparkle plays: Dark Souls. Vietnam and Game references "Time to dance with the angels", Syra (or shiarika in this case) says that a few times because I was busy playing Ace Combat 6: Wings of Liberation at the time. During the game, the enemy forces would always say "Go dance with the angels". I got a habit of saying it for a few weeks. "Lost my leg in 'NOM" Twilight says this in Chapter 2. Where it came from? Easy. I wanted to make a tacky joke out of this so i did and oh lord was it bad. Ya'll have better have clicked the dislike button for how bad that joke was. "Hamburger Hill" now I forget who, but either Twilight or Rarity say this in Chapter 2 when walking back to Ponyville. Hamburger Hill was also known as Hill 137 but the movie itself was a fantastic Vietnam movie. The twins Victor and Charlie. One with a red coat and gold mane (Victor) and his brother had the same colors but was inverted, meaning he had a gold coat and red mane. Viet Cong = VC. In military terms the "V" would be "Victor" and "C" would be "Charlie" hence why the gooks/NVA were named "Charlie". Their colors were inspired by the Vietnam flag. "The Guerilla Factory" (mentioned in the evil epilogue) is a book about the training of Green Beret soliders. You know who else was a Green Beret? I was. 'Ol Reliable was Hubert's old transportation machine when he was at war alongside Victor and Charlie. As I mentioned a few times, this was a helicopter. Hubert matches just nicely into this since his name was Hubert, full name for the nickname "Huey" and what helicopters were used in 'Nam? The HUEY HELICOPTER. BABY!!! Kale Sheridan the one who loves Twilight, had only half his name inspired. Sheridan is from the Sheridan M551 Light Tank used in Vietnam. Tyco the Merchant in the Bazaar chapter was inspired from the Resident Evil 4 merchant. God I just love that guy. HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS GUY? The whole "turning to ice" concept was used from Silent Hill - Shattered Memories There are more references but let's not drag this on. These are just some of the many I included in the story.