//------------------------------// // Author Notes. // Story: A Color Divided // by MrDynasty //------------------------------// Author Notes. Story: A Colour Divided. Author: MrDynasty. (Also there is spoilers in the Author Notes, so don’t read this before you read the story… that is… if you want to) My name is Aaron or people may refer me as MrDynasty. What ever you want to call me is fine. In the author notes of my first ever story written, I want to explain what I went through, what I did, my inspirations, my ideas, some questions or things people may not understand and finally, what I plan to do next. My inspirations for the story were the character design, some pictures, the fandom and the main inspiration was the show itself. The show always tends to put both Applejack and Rainbow Dash together in almost every situation or stance that one of them is featured in. Rainbow Dash always tends to be beside Applejack majority of the time one or the other is standing or walking Etc. These gave me ideas on how the two might be a good pair. If you look at the two characters design and personality, they are not too different from each other. Them both having the same voice actor doesn’t affect the connection these two have in terms. Always in the fandom, people tend to pair Rainbow Dash with another mare, the most common of these are Applejack, Fluttershy, then Twilight. Although out of these three, Applejack seems to be the best match in almost every situation. I’ve had a good time seeing what I can do with these two without it getting weird or sexual in any way. My side inspirations came from pictures over the internet and such, looking at a picture makes me think of “How would this happen? What would they do? How do they feel?” There for giving me thoughts on plot designs and casting areas to work with. So my inspirations were the show itself along with it’s fandom and amazing community. I went through allot during the writing of this story, it was a huge pain to write, but it was all worth it in the end, just to express my work and broaden the side of the community’s fandom and expanding to the ever lasting Brony army. I have an emotional connection to the show and it’s characters, so writing them into scene wasn’t hard for me, I just had to adapt each characters role and how they would act in a specific situation, I may not have captured everypony’s tastes, but it’s close enough to compare. In order for me to have gotten every characters scenes right, I had to do allot of research and thought into every scene I had in the story. So I had to paint a picture in my head to what each characters response to every little detail that was placed into the story itself. I had to research every character from top to bottom on a wiki page, I had researched every one of the mane six before the story even started. I had to research on characters like Scootaloo, Applebloom, Ditzy Doo and even Rarity’s stupid cat, Opalescence. I had to research allot more than this, I read all of the wikipedia pages on each of the characters that there was, even to this day, I still do it despite having finished the story and such. Many times I have wanted to rewrite a scene because it never met up to my standards, but instead I just improve on what I’ve got. I may have not made every thing perfect in wordplay, but it’s good enough to capture each one of the scenes form and plot. Some people asked me some questions or places false statements on me for some things, so I want to clear some queries right here In the author notes. I went through allot when writing this story, allot of emotions and stuff. I explain these in my blogs, so I don’t need to explain these here. I try and be as close to the people who view my story as possible. I want to connect with you guys, so my blogs and stuff like that are the best way for me to express myself in a way that I cant in any of my stories. What I’m saying is, I want to be as close to you as possible, and you can help me with this by following me ‘n’ stuff like that. (Note, I use original names from the actual show instead of its fandom) -------------------- Q: Who is Ditzy Doo? A: Ditzy Doo is Derpy Hooves original, non-fan given name. It was originally given to her through the episode Winter Wrap Up, where one of the ponies mentions her name through messing up on the southern birds. Derpy was given this name because of the intended clumsiness of the character. Q: Who is Golden Harvest? A: Golden Harvest is the original name of Carrot Top, it is also the main name on the wikipedia article on her character. Q: Couldn’t you have used other ideas? This seems to cliché and overused. A: Yes, I could have, but I’m lazy like that. This was the best thing I could come up with in a short time span. Forgive me if the story is too unoriginal and has an overused plot idea or mechanic. Also it’s worth noting that this is my first story too. Q: Did you do anything while writing your story? A: I listened to music while writing, most of the music was pony related and by some popular artists. Depending on the mood that I was in, I would listen to specific music that would help me write in a good fashion. One example is when I wrote “The one you Love” I listened to the track from the game Halo Reach known as Ashes. Q: I don’t understand (Stuff) and (Stuff) can you explain it to me? A: I don’t see why not, but understand that this is my first ever story, it won’t be perfect in wordplay. Most of the scenes should be at least, understandable and can easily paint a picture in your head; maybe you just need to read it back. Q: Couldn’t you have done something else with the ending? It was too obvious and not too good. A: A different ending? Yes I could have, but that would have required me to either do the one that I did, or make it a sad ending and let Rainbow Dash leave. Who wants a story to end sad? Q: You say that you did allot of research, how much exactly? A: Well, I had to research the main 6, the cutie mark crusaders, most background characters, almost all of the pets, all the princesses and everyone else that was involved in the story. Even the dragon had to be researched. Q: A hurricane AND a dragon? That’s very unlikely to happen and is just over the top of an incident. A: Very unlikely? When you get woken up from your deep sleep in the middle of the night, how do you feel? A dragon would get pissed if you ask me. It’s a lot more likely to happen that any other disaster in this world, but how would we know in the first place? Dragon’s don’t even exist, and even if they did, we never, ever see them do we? Q: What do you plan to do next? A: I want to leave the vote to you guys to be honest, but besides that, I wanted to write a sequel to Cupcakes 2, you did read that right, I did say Cupcakes 2. Why? Because I want a change from what I write every now and then. Why Cupcakes though? Let me get this off my chest first of all, Cupcakes was terrible and just a torture story, Cupcakes 2 was well plotted out and had a great scheme to it. I would have wanted to continue this style and make a well written plot instead of mindless gore and murder. I would want to show respect to the author of Cupcakes 2 and ask him if I could continue on from where he left off, so I want to get his permission first. Don’t worry, if I do write it, it wont be anything like the first Cupcakes. Q: How long did it take you to write the story in total? A: A month in total, not exactly, but roughly, I had about a two week break starting from April 1st that lasted till the 22nd. But if I worked on it straight, I’d say I could have written it in less than two weeks. -------------------- What idea’s do I have to write next? Here are some of them. A Scootaloo story. Fluttershy X Big Mac. Celestia time travel sad/action story. Fluttershy story. Story with some OC characters. Cupcakes 3. Spike story. Spike X other dragon story. Anything else anyone can offer me is fine too. -------------------- That’s it guys, I hope you enjoyed the story, I will write more stories, but until then, I’ll be waiting for a confirmation on some stories and stuff. ~~~ MrDynasty. Love you all and thanks for the support.