I know this is the equivalent of dropping an atomic bomb on fanon. So please, I would like to defend myself in saying that this is not me stating theory as fact. Only that I had a moment of: "Why is this making more sense than it should? I should write about this."

Thank you for your time. If you have questions, be nice and polite, and I'll do my best to give you answers.

Love and Tolerance!

Kobalstromo

The fires of the burning effigies of you will be glorious indeed koba. You've disregarded a couple years of fanon and made Lyra into something wholly new. You will be remembered fondly.

lyra is awesome

Ah...uhm...well...just....

That is all.. I must go cry in a corner over the beauty of this..

~Parajack

>>360220360220

Lots of love and thought went into this. Glad you enjoyed it!

>>360239360239 I can tell.. I DEMAND AN EPILOUGE! No pressure though, but this has alot of potential for getting an epilouge! Anyway, Great story man!

~Parajack

>>360240360240 We will see.

>>360243360243 Indeed we shall!

~Parajack

This is... beautiful

Hello folks! Stalin and Co. here, bringing another installation of stalinview!

Are you ready, crew?

Yes boss!

Defenetely!

Let's dig into Finding your voice by Kobalstromo!

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"A soft mint green glow seeped out of an open window as the world slept. Music, gentle and calm seemed to carry itself on the nightly winds, drowning out the usual midnight melody with something more emotional."

Perfect beginning! *hic* Misha Loves poetry! And vodka! Misha likes vodka more, but poetry is still good!

*Rolleyes*

"green"

Lyra is not green, She's mint green! Mint cant be described as just green, green is a color of leaves, for example.

It can be little confusing

"<3"

Stalin knows what this smiley means, but still when he looks at this he imagining cyclops cat

What? I thought it means "less than three"

...Fool

"Lyra jumped and fumbled with the juice box she had accidently tossed in the air"

It must be pretty hard to hold juice box with two hooves.

And much more harder to penetrate it with tubule

Why are these colts behaving like high-school ghetto bullies?

Guess there are ghettos in Equestria.

"A miniature, harp like object that appeared to be made of polished gold"

That's the hell of donation i should say. I guess thre shall be harmonica, incrusted with diamonds and platinum trumplete...

""That was excellent, Carrot Top!""

Again. Poor Golden Harvest. Bronies don't like your name...

OVERVIEW:

This is VERY GOOD, inspiring story. No, seriously. I can't say anything bad about it. At all!

Nor can i! It's Amazing! *hic* and poetic too!

Nothing to do here for me, then.

VERDICT: STALIC COMMANDS TO READ IT!

>>360278360278 Completely uncertain of what just invaded my comment page. All I know is that COMRADE APPROVE OF STORY. BRING MORE VODKA FOR CELEBRATE.

I liked it. Well done, Bravo

>>360278360278 Vodka is good, table is good, Ivan make table for to place vodka and glass on for you. Is good for health.

I, for one, am all for the multi-verse/timeline theory: which means that we can have various takes on many, many different things, and they don't have to ruin another person's fanon/head-canon.

On the note of the story, it was well written, and presented a unique take on one of the fandom's favorite characters - and while quirky, human-obsessed Lyra is my favorite - know that your Lyra will hold a spot in my heart. Thanks for the story.

>>360326360326 This is a snippet of "My Lyra". Who says shes not human obsessed? She just has other things on her mind in this story.

>>360325360325

Of course it is! Vodka is good! That's why i want to kill thet fellow Discord for turning my vodka into tea in previous Stalinview

Heh-heh

HERE YOU ARE! I'll KILL YOU! *RAWR!*

Also, if someone wants to know more about Stalinviews, read my blog

Very nice work! And yes, you basically dropped a giant bomb on all previous fanon X) I personally like this better, but previous fanon has achieved critical mass at this point and I doubt there's any stopping it now. Regardless, this is excellent.

>>361119361119 my only qualm is that mister robot put this story in the queue at 3 am... I think the time of submission killed this fic.

beautiful beautiful

amazing

I don't know why but in my mind it seems to me that melody that Lyra play sounds like this

Liked. Twilight and music are fun together.

>>361119361119>>361421361421>>361428361428

I just got a PM saying I should take this version of Lyra and continue her story. Question is, who else feels I should extrapolate on what I've done?

>>361470361470

Hmm... kind of depends upon if you can find a direction for it. To me is seems like the kind of story that could wind up open ended with no idea how to continue it.

>>361491361491 if I did, it could run parallel to the parent story, or it could diverge and take Lyra and Bon-Bon off on a seperate story line.  If I did the separate story line, I think I know what the end destination would be.

I don't know, I'm going to see how much support this one gets before I determine whether I should use my idea for a continuation or not.

>>361470361470

Ahem.... as a pre-reader for Equestria Daily, and considering I just gave the okay for this to go up on the site... I'm voting for you to continue, if you have it in you.

This was beautiful, and heart-wrenching, moreso because I'm a musician and singer myself IRL.  I for one would love to see more.

>>361526361526

I... You... *dumbstruck silence*

... Thank you. I.... I'm still devoted to the work of fiction I'm co authoring. But if this becomes something huge. I will continue.

FOR AN ALTERNATE FANON! (J/K, I just want to make people smile.)

But thank you. I'll do my best.

Love and tolerance,

Kobalstromo

I'd say make it a separate story line, but part of OWoC's universe. Toss in nods in each, but don't worry too much about syncing things and making them completely relevant to one another.

>>361584361584 I like it, if I decide to continue. (and I probably will.) that is most likely the route I'll take.

Honestly my only issue is having Lyra in a ponyville school. She was at Celestia's school for gifted unicorns in episode 1. Aside from that, no nuke. In fact I liked the concept very much

*Hipster glasses*

I liked this fic before it was submitted.

>>361976361976 The flashback takes place YEARS before her assumed age in Episode one. Both Bon-bon and Lyra were approximately Applebloom's age, Lyra had just moved to Ponyville. The discovery of her intimate connection with music and it's magic would have been the grounds for her to have transferred to Celestia's school for gifted unicorns later on in life. In another sense, Lyra could also have just happened to be passing through Canterlot on that day. Nopony really knows.

As for the rest of your post... Thank you! Glad so many people are able to make sense of it and enjoy it!

Love and tolerance!

Kobalstromo

also it can't be that bad an idea if you have 30 likes to your story.

>>362005362005 you should see my other fic.

continue this parallel with Wings pretty please

ok, I'll go do that now.

Holy carp... well give this one time? *tracks other story for later reading*

Oh geeze, that was a good short and sweet story.

Can't wait to read the chapter of Twilight's story that deals with that!

Don't worry about what fans think, everyone is entitled to their own take on how things are.

That was...pretty awesome. And isn't that the point of fanon? Everyone has their own. Yours is excellent. Heh, being an empathetic reader can be weird. As soon as I realized she was mute, I didn't say a word, not even soft muttering until the story was finished. Very evocative.

>>363380363380 ^_^ thanks.

All of your comments make me smile on the inside. Thank you everyone!

Mind = blown

(in a good way )

that. is. so. freaking. awsome!!!

>>364894364894 blame the atomic fanon-bomb for that. Sorry.

>>358860358860 Well really, these characters don't have much "canon" to them...so it's kinda silly for other people to bash your fanon of them. "OMG UR FANON GOES AGAINST POPULAR FANON!1!" , yeah, that's kinda...dumb.

Seeing different fanon interpretations break off from the norm/popular is always nice!

Oh, and you're on EQD. Inb4 this story is in the Popular Stories at the top of the page!

>>368031368031 I only put that disclaimer there because I was ready to expect opposition. That's all!

Top of the page? Not likely, we will see! Thank you all!

Love and tolerance,

Kobalstromo

Congrats on hitting EQD 'stromo!

>>368199368199 Thanks to you and all the readers for being awesome and supporting me.

Without you guys there is no drive.

Love and Tolerance,

Koba

Tonight's viewer brought to you by the letters E Q & D

Well done little bit there.

The only thing that I didn't like about the deviation from fandom was the lack of a romantic relationship between them. Ah well, the equal lack of anything preventing that helps to balance that out. :P

But really, this story was fantastic, and I really liked this incarnation of the characters. It's more dynamic then many, and definitely original.

Anyone else think of Sona from this?

>>368259368259 I demand to know your summoner name. Now.

This is beautiful

moar?

>>368474368474 Working on the epilogue right now, to be followed shortly after by "Songs of the Silent."

Your cries for more have been heard.

Love and tolerance,

Kobalstromo

Oh my Celestia, it was beautiful. On a different note, buck you for making me cry.

>>368536368536 I'm sorry...

Very nice.  Any established fact can be overturned with a good enough reason.  No fanon is sacred, and if you've got a moving enough story to tell even canon can be overridden.  Carry on.

>>368754368754 hang around for 5-10 minutes. I've an epilogue for you all.

Screw fanon, this was beautiful.

Plus I never liked that everyone wants to ship these two together. They seem rather over-eager to do it.

But truly... that was a beautiful and heartfelt piece. I loved it muchly, sir. Thank you for making and sharing it.

>>359300359300

Really? We don't even have 'a couple years of fanon' yet.

That was amazing. I love it!

Wow... Color me impressed! Ya did a fine job with this idea.

ONWARDS TO CHAPTER 2!

That song needs to be made. I would try to do it, but I'm just starting composing, and I can't sing.

That was a lovely and touching story. Your take on Lyra and Bon-bon was a sweet change.

"candybutt"

roody-poo

Lyra is best pony.

That was wonderful. So many manly tears

GO for it Lyra! Don't You ever give up!

This is beautiful. Excellently done. I'm kind of sorry that I can't implement this version of Lyra in my current stories.

This is by far, the most beautiful thing I have every read, and this is coming from someone who read My Little Dashie and cried. I absolutely LOVED this chapter! You have effectively won the Internet. Brohoof to you /)

Great storytelling! I'm gonna press the favorite button, now

Excuse me...this is by far one of the greatest stories I've ever read

Wow That was beautiful.... just beautiful. Of course not 'just' beautiful, it wasmore than that. It was .... excellent, wonderful, great, fantastic, heartwarming and much more. Thank you for writing this story. It deserves to be famous!

P.S. This story reminds me of "One Day, They'll Throw Flowers" by ScyStorm, and if you havn't read that, you should! It's a wonderful read. Just sayin'.

Hey.

See all this fanon?

*Throws it out the window*

You are a god amongst men/ponies.

This is beautiful. Now I just have to find the proper tune to go along with Lyra's lyrics.

This has got to be one of the best ways to have a mute character 'speak'. Someone has got to make a full version of this. The fandom is really dedicated, so I don't see why someone wouldn't be able to.

I think the weirdest thing is that I didn't cry. I just felt warm and fuzzy inside.

Pony on, you magnificent bastard.

This was beautifle man

I always thought Lyra would be mute. I seriously couldn't stop thinking "Sona" though. This was a  great story, well written. ONTO THE EPILOUGE!

You know what? Buck popular fanon, this is what I'm going to be thinking of Lyra and Bon-Bon as from now on.

Excellent job! Touching and all around awesome.

This is amazing. Very beautiful, too.

>>360239360239 All I'd like to say is that you made Lyra seem awesomererer. I've said the first bit so many times I need more awesome.

!!! I this!

Rate: 5 trollestias!

This story was amazing! my favorite part was in the song. "I refuse to be quiet, I demand to be heard. This music I play is as good as your words.

Though I'll never speak... I'll reach for the sky. Just because I can't talk, doesn't mean I won't try..." To me, that was pure poetry. Keep writing amazing stories.

Toolkit

:I grew man tears....

And so glad you did not do the stupid 'human things with Lyra.

But again......... man tears. )

That was quite a lovely, hearwarming read. I was really impressed by the little song you came up with for Lyra's "Voice". please bring more to me. and stalinview=epic win. i lol'd after reading it.

Great, now fics where Lyra talks seem weird, and some form of liquid is coming from my eyes.

Thanks alot.

Manly tears were shed this day.

And it was beautiful.

>>371590371590 yes I agree she is made to seem 202,202,020% cooler

"I refuse to be quiet, I'll fight to be heard. This music I play is as good as your words.

Though I won't speak like you, I'll still reach for the sky. You say it's not possible? Just watch me try."

I will take this to heart good sir, truly inspirational.

Soon you might have dropped the bomb on other damson but I'm OK with this because this story es AMAZING!

Manly tears were shed.

New and different takes are always welcome, and I prefer this over the basic fanon in any case.

D'AAAWWWWWWWWW

That was beautiful  

Great story and I have to agree with you this does make a lot of sense.

In all honesty, I can only say that I really liked this story!  Instant favorite!  

tears have been shed on this faithful day. this story was truly moving. BRAVO!!! thumbed and fav'd

A most successful and heartwarming piece! I am certainly adding this to my favorites, and shall keep my delighted eyes watching after any other Kobalstromo writings!

I live for these sorts of stories! Yay!

This was lovely, and thanks to you, lyra's lyre-speak is fannon to me. Maybe if more people read this, it could become "real" fannon.

>>467817467817 One can hope. I doubt it though, not enough publicity.

Then again I was never out for publicity anyway.

L&T,

Koba

oh, no publicity? ok, if that's what you'd like, I WON'T share this with fimfic readers on youtube, because you, sir, have earned my respect. *bows like a gentleman*

>>467877467877 I don't stop anyone, I just said I wish to remain humble about it. (and I don't know how I'd spread the word XD)

Read it, loved it, wrote a comment about it... and then my internet died and I lost it all. There's a fail if ever there was one

If I did have to say something, it's that I found quite a lot of grammar errors (and I'm sure as anything no grammar expert)... although that said, they're all really small, like, commas instead of full stops and misplaced semicolons and whatever. It's not a big deal; it's just, considering how good this story was, it'd be nice if maybe they were sorted out so that pedantic ponies like me couldn't call you out on it. Also, I can't say I was too fussed on the way you kept describing ponies with stuff like, 'the blue and pink-maned filly', or 'the mint green filly'. It's not the actual descriptions which bothered me, but the fact that you kept on using them over and over when you could've just used their names... but I guess it's just a personal preference. I don't want to come across as too harsh here

Lyra and Bon Bon (Bon-bon? Bon-Bon? How are you supposed to write that? I'll just go with the way you did it)...

... Um, sorry, I'll start that again. Lyra and Bon-bon's relationship was just about the sweetest thing I've ever read about, and it put a massive smile on my face! And the concert scene was just something else -- when I read it, I really got absorbed in it. And I know you've already had a lot of comments like this, but I've never seen Lyra written this way before, so that was very refreshing to read about. She was also extremely likeable. In the scene where she was being bullied, I just wanted to give her a big hug or something -- I really felt for her.

I've got an absolute ton of stuff to sort out now, but once it's all done, I'm gonna go and read Songs of the Silent. Can't wait!

>>468932468932 Hehe. I'm already aware of my love affair with "lavender unicorn syndrome" and I promise I'll be going back through and revising it myself after I can get some stuff sorted out.

Bon Bon's name was always weird to me because I had 0 idea how I wanted it to look like. But I've finally decided on "Bon Bon" instead of the hyphenated version.

@ the bully scene: I knooooowwww. Especially as I was writing specifically HOW she took her notepad back from Bonnie. I was melting inside as I wrote it down.

Glad you like it, and I'll try to do better in the future. XD

L&T,

Kobalstromo

>>467938467938 There are many fimfic readers on youtube, like azekah (if that's how his UN is spelled), who did a reading of ROBCakeran53's "My Little Dashie."

>>473716473716 Well by all means! If you want to, go ahead and do a reading! you have my support.

ME? Um... I'd need recording equipment, and I'd also need to get over my voice complex...

Captian, It has come to my attention that our army has hit a bit of a.... roadblock. It appears that the recent episode has downgraded silent Lyra from fanon.... to non-canon.

>>480015480015 Says who soldier? This episode proves nothing.

Preconception: Lyra truely has been able to talk this entire time, and I'm just full of malarkey.

Option A:

She was ensorcelled by the changeling queen and Lyra's nature was changed to suit the queen's needs. (seems extremely likely)

Option B: the changling queen brought a few troops with her as a contingency plan, seems like a sound and logical choice if I was invading my enemy's capital. Bring a few soldiers in disguise amirite?

So no, this episode does NOT destroy silent lyra, and I hardly consider her against canon, even with this new development.