Professor Cooke is a pony of principles; anypony who has known him well can testify to that. As an established history professor at Canterlot University, he knows the dangers of opening borders to a hostile nation; his anti-changeling stance may seem harsh, but the safety of Equestria comes first. It's not about the species; it's the cultural dangers of a society of infiltrators, liars, and saboteurs on Equestria's border.
He's going to stand by those principles for the good of Equestria. Nothing can change that, not even one of his closest friends turning out to be a changeling... right?
(Can be read standalone, but serves as a sidefic to The Queen and I Book 2: People and Problems. Click here to see the larger fic 'verse.)
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Fuck christ.
Right in my fuck feels.
Fuck.
Fuck shit... fuck...
uggghhhhhhhh....
*curls into a ball*
*suffers deeply*
6835117 My reaction to your comment: Wtf
Yeah! Set that positive example!
Amusing that you included edits in the letter. Not something that's seen often in fiction, even if it would be realistic. Especially in context.
Well... my feels are really hurting... I don't know if i will make it much longer... Great..... story...... the feels......
6837744 I'm glad that you appreciated it.
And I'm reading this immediately after the last chapter of "Kidnapping, Extortion, and Treason," too...
Some authors just wanna watch the feels burn.
Couldn't they have taken him back to the hive or something? Or brought help with them?
6840235 Someone in extremely critical condition often can't survive being moved.
6840613 True. Couldn't they call for someone?
6840683 They did. That's why Twilight and Chrysalis are there are the end. Read TQ&I Book 2.
6840687 Aah sorry I am doing so now.
The... The feels...
Cya
Raziel-chan
And so it all starts to come together. As I thought, once people realizes that someone they know is a member of the group they're vilifying, once that personal element enters the equation and redefines Us and Them in terms of actual people, everything changes.
It is taking everything I have to not draw parallels to the LGBT community here.
6858350 I find it funny that that metaphor hadn't even occurred to me as I was writing this. Then again, I tend to write for the sake of the characters, and avoid real-life corollaries.
A good ending to the university arc.
7092327 Glad you liked it.
7092835 Two more and I'll have the iqquelverse read. I'll have 20 mins of spare time here and there and I bet the Octavia looking for Cecile is going to be a good one.
For the major bit of the letter that was crossed out, the first one, I appreciate that it was actually made sufficiently illegible that we can't read it either.
I see that Cooke doesn't credit the letter (or the sender) enough to default to using Sharpquill's gender in narration (to the extent the narration takes his voice), instead sticking with "its." Even after using "his" in dialog, and "friend" showing up in reference to Sharpquill in narration. (And yes, it is "his" in TQ&I 2, but I suppose Cooke doesn't know that.) Hmm.
So in this case the fidanity seems to have come after the fact. It's a shame that in his case, it seems that the mere breaking of already existing friendships wasn't enough to make him reevaluate his political position (if I'm interpreting this correctly, and the meeting was not to push for a curtailment of his program).
OW
I need to get back to reading this series, methinks. That hurt my feels in all the best ways.
Damn that was harsh... Its never easy to say Goodbye... R.i.p. Brave Changeling
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Not sure if a death is a 'good Ending' but Its a impressive emotional one...
It was a real accident or a Sabotage?
ow.