Not your usual HiE story. The show is known as My LITTLE Pony right? So how would a human do in Equestria if we took that to it's logical conclusion? Rated T because I don't see how this story could possibly become M ever. Not my first written FiMfic, but it is the first one I'm willing to post. DISLCLAIMER: If you recognize it, I don't own it! I only own myself.
I was originally planning to only post this on my fanfiction.net profile, but then I decided since I already have a profile here, why not post it here as well?
Chapters (5)
Has potential, liked and tracked. I'm interested where this story will go.
Well, I am now ready for a season finale Tireck vs protagonist!
My first impression of this story is that you must have gotten your Gulliver's Travels mixed up. He's supposed to be in the Country of the Houyhnhnms, not in Lilliput! err... Then again, it's sort of both.
I love the Rainbow cuddles!
I love this more
Oh, neat, I wasn't expecting this to ever come back again. Must have been on my watch list for almost a year now.
I take it someone's not fond of sushi.
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Actually, I absolutely love sushi. I even love sashimi. Thing is, sushi is chemically cooked, but more importantly, it didn't just come out of the ocean all slimy and whatnot, but even MORE importantly, it's not alive. Sashimi is the stuff that's purely raw fish, but even that is cut and cleaned and prepared and not wriggling and alive.
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Can't say I've ever had cooked sushi, chemically or otherwise, but eh, I've seen people eat worse either way.
I just said someone, I didn't say who I was talking about.
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All sushi is chemically cooked. If it's completely raw, it's not sushi. It's sashimi.
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My local sushi place seems to disagree, but it's really not something I would want to have an argument about. In any case, it was just meant to be a little joke, because the character seemed to feel so strongly about it. Don't mind me.
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Yeah, I get what you mean. Sorry about that.
As for the joke, I did get a laugh out of it, so there is that too. :)
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Glad to hear it.
Yay, this story is still going.
I was afraid it would never update.
???
Why so few comments?
I was thinking about this story recently - glad to see it updated!!
Also, yes.... correcting spacing for EVERY LINE will leave you cursing.
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Yeah our 'Gulliver' seems to be a bit of a pansy.
Glad he manned up a bit when he was gobbling down Pinkie's stash.
He can't feel ok receiving this hospitality with no effort though.
### "....I need to work for these favours!"
### "Mmmm those cupcakes were good! But I need to take a shit now."
### "Um, maybe I could be a Deep Sea Diver.... One less thing to worry about you know?"
6576768 XD Wow I didn't even think of that. Good thing my character has a giant forest that no one likes! XD
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That forest is about to be turned into a pretty shitty place.Poor Zecora.
Was rereading to remember this story before I read the new chapters, and caught this:
Should be "you're".
Note: that is in the middle of Pinkies talk.
I think that should be "any".
Nice! I hope you the next update comes this year though.... Lol, had to go back and reread the first chapters to remember the story. Curious to see where you take it. Looking forward to the next chapter.
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Wow. I'm kind of shocked you caught that. I certainly didn't considering it was hard for me to actually see past the giant clusterbuck of no spaces or punctuation for an entire run on sentence. Nice catch!
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That one I should've caught. Unfortunately I've found that as I've gotten faster at typing, my accuracy sometimes slips when I'm trying to type at a speed fast enough to keep up with my speed of thought. It's difficult and sometimes things like that get left in the dust. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
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Unfortunately I have no idea when this will be updated. I have several incomplete stories that I often jump between as I come up with new ideas for them, which is sometimes rare and random. Even this being updated was almost completely on a whim from my brain. It didn't help either that the original chapter 4 I had was kind of awful. It had it's good points, but for the most part, I'm glad I accidentally skipped over it when I did a quick reread over what I had for this story, cause I probably would've gotten just as stuck with it as I had the last time and this update never would have happened.
He should look at Applejack and say,
Its not the food I'm worried about. Whatever goes in, must eventually come out.
Dun dun DUUUN!!!
So...please tell me ponyville has a sink hole, or a bottomless pit? Celestia knows a spell for complete deatomization?
Wait, what about hygiene? Not to mention that he is a man. We produce more odor than woman and children. Not to mention it is more pungent. And let's not forget rashes if he doesn't bathe.
And human males aren't...ahem...retractable. So uh, yeah. Oh god I hope he doesn't have a wet dream.
Hope to see an update soon!
Its an alright story so far, and I do look for more.
Have a couple of small issues, though. Please, never again make Pinkie Pie's speech all one giant string. You can have her excitedly delivering a string of fast paced speech without that nonsense. I don't even know what it said as I just skipped it.
Also, you are way overplaying the sunburn bit. I have friends, who are light skinned and burn extremely easy. Sure, if they went around all day without any sunscreen it would probably end up sucking, might even end up with a really nasty sunburn. But only getting it on their arms, neck, maybe face... would not kill them... not even close. And especially not after only a few hours of morning sunshine.
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Pinkie talking in a big string like that was just a one off joke. I doubt I'd do that again anyway.
As for me overdoing the sunburn thing, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you didn't notice that this character is an SI, and I have a policy against lying. I do burn that bad, that quickly, and I did go through that situation with the three hour float down river. Up until that float, my skin was white enough to almost appear grey. After I healed from that ordeal, my skin had darkened the tiniest bit so now I'm just painfully white, rather than almost grey.
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Lol so many interesting suggestions I get for this story! Dealing with waste seems to be a popular one. XD
Honestly though, part of the reason I haven't updated this story in a while is the fact that the most likely scenario to happen next is something along the lines of using magic in some fashion, in this case I imagined an enchanted amulet worn about the neck, that would allow for my character to be shrunk to a comparatively normal size so long as it's worn (it would also be enchanted not to fall off and could only be removed by himself or medical professionals in an emergency). The problem with that is that it basically removes the point of this whole story, since it's supposed to be an interesting take on the HIE topic. If the 'giant' bit is taken out, then it just becomes my version of nearly every HIE story out there, only mine has a weird super power to go with it.
I've been trying off and on to come up with a believable reason that isn't a complete stretch that would explain why he would have to stay a giant despite anything the ponies could, and should, be able to do to fix this comparatively simple issue. But other than the equivalent of 'because reasons', I haven't thought of anything yet.
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...well, dragons are resistant to magic. And I've seen a few fics that give that to humans too. In a world where magic is real and at such a powerful level (Celestia, Luna, Discord) it's hard to avoid literature pitfalls of the fix it button.
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*nods* literary pitfalls, indeed. Magic immunity is something I considered, except that I already wrote that Twilight was able to scan him for magic and found a little. If he were immune, then that scan would have revealed nothing, nada, bubcus. If he were just highly resistant, he's already dealing with, as you said, beings such as Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Magic *cough* Friendship, Discord Lord of Chaos, Princess of the Day Celestia, Princess of the Night Luna, and Princess of Love Cadence. At least one of those, if not some of them combined, should be able to figure something out.
And if I go the route of null magic (usually via touch), Twilight's scan working is a bit iffy, but maybe potentially possible. The only problem is that it pretty much makes my character untouchable for most of the biggest enemies in MLP. He's already stupidly large to the point that only the Ursa Major might challenge him physically. If all he has to do is grab Discord or Tirek to make them impotent... *shrug* That just leaves the exploration of how he'll react to situations and what is done to help him survive. That can only go so far I think. I don't know. Null touch at least is a route I suppose. I'll think about it.
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You said Twilight found alittle magic in him...
What about a limiter? His body could only react to so much magic (say on the level of a medical scan) before it starts having negative consequences. This will leave out benevolent uses of magic as it risk great pain and/or injury, while still allowing for malevolent uses such as attacks.
He stays a giant and he is not op.
Please update