(FoE side fic) A look into the life of Prancer Thistledown, a Talon Mercenary initiate. Following his brief rise, and sudden fall before joining the heroes of another adventure
That was an entertaining chapter! The Awesome: Nameless seems kinda interesting. At least the way he handled the conversation with that one guy early in, and the way he got dealed into the card game with his weapons and whatnot. He seems to carry himself well, even if his past might have been something unsavory (Guise of Chaos's Ripple comes to mind, but this guy seems considerably more collected.), he's alright thus far. Kinda. Though I get the impression a reveal with this guy is probably gonna blow up all over Prancer, regardless of if the reveal directly involves him or not.
The Fun: Oh neat, a game of cards. And Prancerwhatshisface seems to be learning how to play it by... playing it. Neat! Yay for hanging out with friends! Or. Something.
The Surreal: Man things got kinda nuts as Prancer got drinking. Aaaand it just so happens that I like weird, surreal, bizarre, mindscrewy, whatever the frigs. And this had a lot of weird, surreal, bizarre, mindscrewy, whatever the frig his drunknness was. YAY!~ And the whole friends-seen-as-family-nightmare-perspective thingy or something.
The Sad: Considering how he just had his first binge drinking experience and his exposure to it from associating it with how his mother used it, he's all set up for a self destructive life of alcoholism. As he learns more, he might not derp as hard as that first time, but it seems like he'll probably end up trying to use it to make the hurt go away. And eventually probably follow the rest of the patterns his mother seems to have followed. Plus the fact that he's having dreams about committing suicide reinforces that likely end. I suppose if it weren't tagged as tragedy and instead as adventure or something, I'd assume they'ld learn from what they suffered through, struggle, and become a better and stronger being for it.
I feel sorta bad, but since I also liked how out of it he was, I had fun with that part and then it was OK in terms of my pleasure-tainment VS do-not-want factor. ^.^ Or. Something.
Chapter was about as long as the typical Project Horizons chapter and took me a while to get through. (I think I had been listening on and off to my Text to Speech conversion for about four nights now?) Was a mostly fun misadventure though.
3925539 Thank you so much for your very thorough review! It's nice to have a pony out there to help "keep me honest" in it all! I'm also quite glad that you enjoyed it!
A side note; I was *SO* nervous about the poker game turning out well, but it seems to have gone just ducky! I am very happy to hear that everypony I've talked to liked it!
Anyways, thank you again, and Prancer will continue on doing the very best he can!
B-but... eyepatch...
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So close, I know... but no eyepatch...
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You're a horrible tease with that!
That was an entertaining chapter!
The Awesome: Nameless seems kinda interesting. At least the way he handled the conversation with that one guy early in, and the way he got dealed into the card game with his weapons and whatnot. He seems to carry himself well, even if his past might have been something unsavory (Guise of Chaos's Ripple comes to mind, but this guy seems considerably more collected.), he's alright thus far. Kinda. Though I get the impression a reveal with this guy is probably gonna blow up all over Prancer, regardless of if the reveal directly involves him or not.
The Fun: Oh neat, a game of cards. And Prancerwhatshisface seems to be learning how to play it by... playing it. Neat! Yay for hanging out with friends! Or. Something.
The Surreal: Man things got kinda nuts as Prancer got drinking. Aaaand it just so happens that I like weird, surreal, bizarre, mindscrewy, whatever the frigs. And this had a lot of weird, surreal, bizarre, mindscrewy, whatever the frig his drunknness was. YAY!~ And the whole friends-seen-as-family-nightmare-perspective thingy or something.
The Sad: Considering how he just had his first binge drinking experience and his exposure to it from associating it with how his mother used it, he's all set up for a self destructive life of alcoholism. As he learns more, he might not derp as hard as that first time, but it seems like he'll probably end up trying to use it to make the hurt go away. And eventually probably follow the rest of the patterns his mother seems to have followed. Plus the fact that he's having dreams about committing suicide reinforces that likely end. I suppose if it weren't tagged as tragedy and instead as adventure or something, I'd assume they'ld learn from what they suffered through, struggle, and become a better and stronger being for it.
I feel sorta bad, but since I also liked how out of it he was, I had fun with that part and then it was OK in terms of my pleasure-tainment VS do-not-want factor. ^.^ Or. Something.
Chapter was about as long as the typical Project Horizons chapter and took me a while to get through. (I think I had been listening on and off to my Text to Speech conversion for about four nights now?) Was a mostly fun misadventure though.
3925539 Thank you so much for your very thorough review! It's nice to have a pony out there to help "keep me honest" in it all! I'm also quite glad that you enjoyed it!
A side note; I was *SO* nervous about the poker game turning out well, but it seems to have gone just ducky! I am very happy to hear that everypony I've talked to liked it!
Anyways, thank you again, and Prancer will continue on doing the very best he can!