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The Letter J


"You are a weird combo of Pinkie Pie and Sweetie Belle." -Ausbrony "You're actually Discord, aren't you?" -Ausbrony, again

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Twilight Sparkle and Iron Will find themselves (and each other) on a balcony. And thanks to circumstances, it doesn't look like they'll be leaving anytime soon. This can only lead to shipping.

Cadance is going to be insufferable for weeks.


Now with a fantastic reading by the inestimable obabscribbler.


This story was written for a game of Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder. If you want to know what I mean by that, look here or here. And if you want to read more fics written for the game you can find them here (well, you'll be able to find them there eventually. There aren't any others there yet because this is the first one).

This story ships Star Student Twilight with Iron Will using the Stuck on a Balcony All Night ship.

And thanks to Not_A_Hat for help with this thing.

Cover art is a combination of:
Background: Canterlot Castle Balcony by 90Sigma
Iron Will, Assertiveness Trainer by SpaceKingofSpace
A Degree in PPP by thediscorded
Night Background by Proenix
Mare In The Moon by WhiteStrum

Chapters (1)
Comments ( 28 )

I love this

This was... surprisingly adorable.

I'll ship it.

This is actually pretty cute.

I was thrown into fits of d'aww! Twi's love of books was so cute. Well played!

I love this so much right now.

This story was weird, but awesome. Great idea. I can't wait to see how this progresses.

Oddly enough, I now ship this

This could have been a one off silly fanfic for your game, but you made it something awesome.

Particularly this sentence:

At least, she hadn’t been since the day Cadance had told her that she couldn’t marry a book (which was probably for the best; it would be nigh impossible for Twilight to pick one that she loved more than all the others, and it might get jealous when she inevitably read other books).

That's golden stuff right there.

And I loved the idea that Minotaurs do not have pronouns in their language. It fits the rules of the world so well.

I didn't remember Iron Will using third person so heavily. Now I want to see a shipfic of Iron Will and Trixie based entirely around that.:pinkiehappy:

This is very good. Twilight is as adorkable as she should be and Iron Will is, as Twilight notes, oddly endearing. Very sweet, very nice. I kinda want to see more.

Happy writing.

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Well, to be honest, I did kind of turn up his third person-ness in this story. In the episode, he doesn't do it when it would just sound ridiculous (he says "Iron Will's my name," not "Iron Will's Iron Will's name") or when he doesn't feel confident. So it might just be a persona he puts on.
But for the purposes of this story, I'm saying that it's because by the time that episode rolls around, he will be much more fluent in Equestrian. Though he might just be holding onto some of it intentionally for his seminars.

Now I want to see a shipfic of Iron Will and Trixie based entirely around that.:pinkiehappy:

...Did you peek at my notes?
I actually do have some ideas for a Trixie/Iron Will fic, but I won't be writing it unless I happen to end up being able to make that combination in the game. Or if it doesn't happen, I might do it after the game for fun. We'll see.

Dang, this is the most adorable shipfic with Twilight ever! <3 Keep up the awesomeness!

Hi there. I hope you don't mind, but I liked this fic so much, I've put together an audio version on YouTube.

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Oh, I definitely do not mind at all. In fact, I feel quite honored. While I admit that it has been a while, I have quite enjoyed listening to your fanfic readings before. And your rendition of this story was as great as any others I've heard from you. I have a hard time imagining this story being done any better than this. So thank you for that. If you ever want to do a reading anything else I write, then you have my full permission to do so (though I suppose that would require me to get back to writing here). And I heard on the video that you're planning to go to Bronycon this summer. Well I'll be there too, and I just might have to give you a hug if I find you there now. :twilightsmile:

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This was great. :D

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Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :twilightsmile:

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I loved this story, so I decided to draw a picture in honor of it. Hope you like it :D

5957008 Oh man, that is awesome! This is the first time someone has done something like this for me before. Thank you so much! You just made my day. :pinkiehappy:

I wonder if trixie got her education in minoa too :D

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It's possible. My headcanon, at least as far as this story is concerned, is that she has some sort of connection to Minoa and the minotaurs, though I haven't decided quite what that connection is yet. I might write a story about it someday.

6008309 That would explaing her constantly using her name, whatever she speaks.

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Exactly. If I do get around to writing an Iron Will/Trixie fic, it will probably involve Trixie going to school in Minoa, growing up in Minoa, and/or being raised by minotaurs. Or something like that. I haven't decided exactly how it will go yet.

cute :twilightsmile: :heart: (We need an Iron Will emo, guys) When´s the sequel out?

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That's an excellent question. Maybe this summer? I don't know; I make no promises. I haven't written anything in quite a while now, but I do want to get back into it. Actually, I haven't read anything on this site in over six months now, but I do still pay some attention to what's going on over here.

And I do have a half-finished story about Sunset Shimmer that I'll probably finish up and post before I write a sequel to this one.

Very interesting, rarely rarely see pre-episode 1 Twilight in fics

Twilight laughed. “If everyone there uses their own names as much as you do, then I’m sure you wouldn’t.” Twilight’s expression suddenly became contemplative as she went into “research mode.” “Actually, do all minotaurs refer to themselves in the third person like you do? Why do you do that?”

I mean Trixie does a third person when she talks to people

I got to say this is a interesting story but also cute so Twilight feels awkward in a party not because of her status because the other fancy ponies trying to one up or even hate her for her status but then Iron Will came along and both of them actually had a pretty interesting conversation and even having a little good moment between them and she's even afraid about being in a relationship and iron will ask for a dance which she was afraid but she wants to take Iron Will speech and go for it and it turns out it was very nice and I got to say this was a very unique shipping that never seen before keep up the good work

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