It was a beautiful sunny day in Toronto. The skies were crystal clear with the brilliant sun beaming down, heating everything with it's warm embrace. Birds were singing and the bright, vibrant colours of the city were brought to life.
Connor was walking down the street, casually humming a tune and enjoying the suns warm embrace. He, soon enough, found his way home, unlocked his door and entered. He closed the door behind him and instantly made his way to the couch.
Connor quickly jumped on the plush couch and clicked on the T.V.
He took a bit of time to reflect: he was about 18 years old and had an amazing job that payed well, a nice house with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and laundry room and was currently in a relationship with the best, beautiful girl that ever existed. There was just one small problem though:
He hated it.
All of it.
He gridded his teeth together just thinking about it. He didn't mind that his job allowed him to maintain a decent lifestyle, that he had a nice house and a nice girl. But, to him, it was all so BORING! If this was all life had to offer him, than it wasn't very much. He wanted to have fun; see the world, enjoy himself and have some interesting stories to tell. But he didn't have enough money or time to do so.
He groaned in boredom as the news came on and did one of his favourite pass times: channel surfing. As dozens of programs flew past his eyes, one specific one caught his attention.
It was a program about gods: all powerful deities that could level cities with a flick of their wrist. They kept peace and balance for all creation and had limitless amounts of power. These kind of things made him grin and made his vast imagination run rampant as he visualized himself as one of these beings.
He turned of the T.V and sighed. "What I'd do for that kind of power," Connor muttered to himself as he slowly picked himself up off the couch. "I'd have limitless amounts of power, enough strength to level mountains and finally be capable of escaping this hell hole people call 'a living.'"
Connor slowly made his way upstairs to his bathroom to take care of some 'business' and quickly gazed at himself in the mirror. What looked back was his usual self: messy brown hair people often mistake for black, deep emerald green eyes and some fuzz beginning to grow on his upper lip. 'I need to shave.' He thought to himself as he proceeded to do his business before proceeding downstairs and glance at his watch which proudly displayed the time of 6:30 pm.
"6:30 huh?" Carter said to himself in thought. He glanced outside and noticed the sun was nearly at the point of setting and shrugged. "Yeah, I can go for a walk."
Connor enjoyed his walks. They were the one thing he could actually look forward to in his day. Today, he decided to take a stroll through a park next to his house and, perhaps, watch the sunset. The thought of taking a casual stroll brought a small smile to his face and, soon enough, was out the door and making his way to the park.
The park was an amazing place to enjoy a simple stroll: large trees covered the landscape and blocked out most of the suns rays, deep twisted roots sprang up every so often giving people a common, irritating obstacles in the road, and to end it off, a large clearing at the end with an old, lone willow tree providing the best view of a sunset.
Connor walked down the worn, old, dirt path enjoying the time alone to think to himself about random ideas that seemed to spring out of nothingness.
'If I could become a god what would it be?'
'Maybe a fun god?'
'No way. Thats unoriginal. Any other ideas?'
'Element god?'
'Cool... But to common. Next idea!'
'God of insanity?'
Connor raised an eyebrow at this random idea. Now that he thought about it, being a god of insanity would actually be pretty fun! Every idea had a little bit of crazy behind it, everyone had a little bit of crazy within them as well. So that meant... He would become a god that basically created the mind, made every single idea that came into existence and something enjoyable for himself as well.
'Not bad brain... Not bad at all.'
'Thanks!'
'Next order of business gentlemen?
'... I got nothing.'
'Ditto.'
'Ooh a gate!'
'Look a falling leaf... Wait. A gate?'
Connor glanced to his left and sure enough, right before him stood a small wooden gate leading directly into a tree.
He raised a curious eyebrow at the odd phenomenon. He had walked down this path thousands of times and saw that tree thousands of times. That gate was never there before.
Curiosity getting the better of him, he walked up to the small gate and inspected it closely before trying to open it. He gave it a push and nothing happened. Than pulled it and received similar results.
Connor decided to assume that the gate was probably a pull than a push and began tugging on the small handle with more and more effort. "C'mon you son of a bitch..." He growled at the door before giving it a mighty heave and breaking the door right off the tree.
Connor held the small door in his hand as his thought process kicked in.
'Shit, shit, shit!'
'It's broken!'
'Everyone, calm your balls. On the bright side, we got the gate opened and learned it is, indeed, a push gate.'
'What about the gate? We broke it!'
'Alright. As far as anyone knows; it was broken to begin with. If anyone asks, witch they won't so don't worry, this gate looked totally broken when we first saw it, agreed?'
'Agreed.'
Connor shook the thoughts out of his head and glanced at where the gate once proudly stood. Inside of it was not what he was expecting: darkness. Not like night time darkness, but pure darkness. It seemed to ripple as he brought himself slowly closer to it. He quickly reconsidered what he was about to do and asked himself.
'All those in favour of touching the mysterious dark blob that may or may not kill me say "aye."
'Aye.'
'All those against this idea can go fuck themselves.'
'....'
'Thought so'
With his mind made up, he quickly brought a finger up to the mysterious dark blob and poked it. When he pulled his finger back out, some of the darkness was on the tip of his finger and quickly spreading to the rest of his hand, than to his arm, his chest, stomach, legs, feet, and finally his face. He finally blacked out as the darkness engulfed him entirely.
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Darkness... That was all Connor could see: empty, cold, endless darkness. He blinked in fascination.
'Am I... Dead?' He thought to himself as he stared into the abyss. Eyes peering around in hopes of finding anything to show he was alive, anything to escape the darkness, but was only greeted by more of the endless black.
'So... I found some random, dark ball thing and it turns out it kills me?'
'Sounds about right'
'Alright... The people who were against this idea can stop fucking themselves I suppose.'
'... Do you hear something?'
'Yeah... Sounds like... voices?'
Connor focused his ears more intently and listened. As a matter of fact: he could hear voices. Not in his own head, but actually outside voices. Very faint, but they were there: witch gave Connor hope that he was not dead.
"How..... Doctor?"
"Still alive....... Unconscious....... may wake up in......... minute."
A bright beacon light shone into the darkness, drawing Connor like a fat kid to a cheese burger. The light grew more and more intense until he was looking around a room.
The room was bleached white. No matter where he looked, He saw the same boring colour all over the room. The only place that didn't hold the sickening white colour, was the window, which held the bright sun witch was too hard to look at. Than there were the horses in front of him... Wait... That doesn't sound correct...
He glanced directly in front of him and saw seven equines standing before him. Each of them looked like a colour out of a box of crayons. Brown, orange, cyan, lavender, yellow, pink, and white: horrible, dreadfully bland white.
'Odd...' Connor thought to himself. Besides the fact that there are horses directly in front of me, I never think this way. I suddenly hate the colour white even more now... And now I have the urge to rip off her skin...'
'NO! No, no, no, no! Not making a mess yet!
Connor stared at the ponies and they stared back. Time ticked on ever so slowly. The feeling of anticipation was so thick, someone could cut it with a knife... No, a bodybuilder would have to cut it with a hunting knife, that was how thick it was.
'SOMEONE DO SOMETHING DAMMIT!!!!'
His pleas were somehow heard as the lavender pony, a unicorn/pegasus mix by the looks of it, stepped forward and spoke.
"Hi. I'm Twilight Sparkle. And who might you be?"
Not bad so far. I await the next chapter.
You'll get it soon. Don't worry.
You've caught my interest. Definitely following this story.
2753423 In the next few chapters... Shits gonna get real
2753504
yay
*Reads description* "If you were a god what would you represent?" The... goddess... of... the... internet?
Well, that's a very boring and overused way to estabolish your characer's appearence. You should sprinkle the descriotion like so: the wind blew through his (color) hair... blah blah blah, plot plot plot... Mud on his favorite (style) shirt. Don't do the info dump.
Also, you sound like you work for the redundancy department of redundancy. Quit that job.
Twilight sounds out of character. Human in Ponyville and the first thing out of her mouth is not a barrage of questions?
All that aside, I like this story. Let's see where it goes.
Why does the intro remind me of My Little Dashie?
Good. But you need an editor or something. One reason: Witch= magic user that is usually depicted with a long nose, pointy hat, and riding on a broomstick. Which= the term that is used when proper grammar is applied.
like a fat kid to a cheeseburger...
brilliant.
2754718 sorry. My bad I'm still trying to get the hang of things.
2753748 Just telling you now: Connor actually becomes a pony so thats why Twilight is so casual around him.
2755117
Oh, that makes sense.
2755217 But, nonetheless, thanks for the advice
like and a watch,good job
2755377 thank you my friend
2756529 not a problem, I love stories starting out because the grow with the authors
2755117
He gets turned into a pony? Well, that's no fun. Turning into a pony is to cliché. If he really does become the ton of insanity, it would make sense for him to not make any sense. To do that, being either a human or a pony would make far too much sense. Maybe a Draconequus, or a chimera, or some other creature that more accurately represents insanity... I take back my excluding of being a human. Nothing comes even close to matching the human race in a contest of "lowest sanity levels".
Speaking of the word too,
Too should be written here. The extra "o" IS important.
P.S. Dionysus called. He heard that someone was trying to rip of his title of "God of Insanity".
2753658 So a 'mad goddess'?
It'd be pretty cool to start a universe like this
Kinda like a reversed CGoTG
You become a god of an aspect/idea/element and cool Pantheon of Gods shit happens until that one guy is like Zeus and fucks up everything (and all the women too)
Let's see of this tickles mine fancy
2758604 Uhh.. Maybe? I'm not sure.
Which, not witch Only mistake I saw grammar wise. And congratulations on your first MLP fic seems its gonna be a real success LIKED and FAVORED
GO SHEOGORATH!
2758538 thanks for those ideas! And sorry for that little slip up and as for Connor becoming anything besides a pony... Well just read on and see.
2766142 In the next chapter Connor discovers that he's a pony and I'm basing his colouring off of Sheogoraths suit!
2764908 I'm getting a boatload of complaints about witch and which so I'll make sure I'll correct them. Thanks for the congrats and thank you even more for the like and fave!
I'm back from the weekend everypony! Chapter two coming soon!
2766883 AWWWW YAH
Almost there! 1900 words so far! I'll hopefully have chapter two done by (Tops) Tuesday.
2761037 IT'S JACKIE! THE MAD GODDESS OF THE INTERNET!!!!
2766900 I actually enjoy this story, i've scrolled past it a million times thinking 'Not worth my time', But as it turns out this is really worth my time.
Keep on writing, I saw your comment about turning Connor into a pony, a little unoriginal but with some extra work it may be good, A suggestion how ever: Make him into a creature of pure insanity, He is - After all, a creature of pure insanity, Like Discord, He's an creature of pure chaos, so his whole body is just... Discorded.
You could turn Connor into the elements of insanity.
It would be quite the sight, and it actually insipired me to write my own story about Gods, which would be a nice brake from my usual 'Human > Murderer > Judgement > Death' stories.
2769100 Good to know you love my story I am fully aware that the idea of Connor becoming a mere pony is nothing special, but I'll try my hardest to make him as special as I can.
And the idea of making Connor a creature of pure insanity... Yes. I like this idea greatly.
The "Elements of Insanity" would require 6 users and... Well that would be damn interesting.
Maybe I'll make a sequel...
And, I'm glad that I inspired you to make a new version of stories. I'll make sure to read some of your stuff. Maybe give some input
So I'll leave it at a question: What god would you write about?
2769135 The story itself will be called 'Insanity' and i'm basing this around your story, This will actually be my first ponyfied story i've ever written.
I will put up Seven gods, one of them being Connor, And have him overcome multiple tasks and such to cause Equestria to succumb into insanity, but this won't be one-sided!
I'll introduce a new OC, The eight God... God of Sanity, as cliché as it may sound this is the best I can come up with, but instead of having Connor and Roland (Yes, that's the name I picked) fight to nail and bone, i'll have them be brothers, Brothers which did not come into existance before Roland was tossed out of his own world the same way Connor was, Roland had the same idéa as Connor, but then he thought 'In a world where everyone is insane... Wouldn't a God of sanity be good to have?', So Connor and Roland will end up as brothers and friends, unaware that Connor is trying to corrupt the world with insanity, Roland goes on with his life as normal.
And unaware that Roland is attempting to influence his sanity into Equestria, Connor will have a heck of a ride trying to figure out why and how his insanity is being blocked.
2769135 Also, i'm not gonna release the story before chapter 2 is out, or even write too much on it, you've put me on thin ice if you want me to write a full-fledged story from this one chapter.
And sorry for my attitude, i've had a sore morning.
2769162 Trust me: Your gonna have quite the ride for on that. I'll give you some key details about how I plan the story so try and contact me privately instead.
And we've all had rough mornings at least once in our life You'll make it.
2769178 Okey, i've already started writing on my story, and I don't know if it'll even turn out readable, never written a story like this, But i'm good at one thing thankfully - Insanity, Knowing that i'm bearly sane myself.
Hmm it seemed a bit to rushed for my tastes. But you could just be doing that because you wanted to get onto equestria. Still good though.
2768284 By the way, i'm going away a full month for Spain between 2013-07-01 to 2013-08-07, So if you can get up your next chapter by then, it'll be great :)
I've already written two chapters.
I think they're about 1k words each, I don't know tho.
I'll write up to chapter 5 then i'll wait for the next chapter.
2769292 Yeeaaahhhh... Sorry if you think it's rushed
and true I did want to get onto writing about Connor/Mad Minds new life in Equestria ASAP.
2768295 Oh you made my day!
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How about, instead of Sanity, Reason perhaps. Stability could also be a good one. Fortitude (Mental) could work as well.
2768295
You're implying a God/ess of the Internet could be anything but mad.
2758538
Well, one of our kind did invent Twilight. . . The book series, that is.
And the pony as well, come to think of it.
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The god of Dimensions, the Keeper of the Inter and Extra-Dimensional Causeways, and the Guardian/Repairman of the Dimensional Boundries (Which, of course, look like Swiss cheese due to all of the Crossovers going on.). Also known as "That Guy That Throws People Into Other Dimensions For The Entertainment." TGTTPIODFTE for short.
2771358 seems legit
2771328 I'm portraying him quite weak minded, but still being able to hold his Sanity agains the god of Chaos and god of Insanity, so Stability is out of the picture, I don't know how i'dd pull of 'Reason' because i'm already 3 chapters complete in, just starting on the 4th, i've been portraying Roland as the Angel of Sanity more like it, being a new god and all, he can just bearly stand up to the two most insane creatures to ever exist: Mad Mind and Discord.
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Three chapters . . . In thirteen hours?!
2771457 He's crazy. And a bro. I like this guy