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Twenty-five years after the death of Twilight Sparkle in battle a legend begins to spread. As sailors gather in a port tavern they recount stories. And one such story is an encounter with the avenging ghost of Twilight Sparkle and her vessel, the Friendship.
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Many years have passed since that brave ship went down
And those cold icy waters now are still and they're calm
Many years have passed, but still I wonder why
The worst of all must fight and the best of all must die.
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Oh hey, I've been waiting to see this again! Still hair-raising in that wonderful way.
Darn it, I gotta stop listening to the song cause it's got me tearing up.
I... So... Want... Context...
This was awesome, but really, much too brief. Good job.
Fuckin beautiful just fuckin beautiful
Okay. The whole 'Grief Stricken Celestia' thing, for 25 years no less, was kinda ridiculous. Keeping Chrysallis' head mounted on the way was especially creepy and over the top. So I really wasn't expecting much from this fic after the first few paragraphs.
However, as a framing mechanism for a filk song, it's... Well, tolerable would be the more accurate term I suppose.
The lyrics themselves however, were quite entertaining and well done and, obviously, the heart of the story. So good job there!
I had actually pondered doing an MLP version of this song myself at one point... Though I had been trying to think of a way to convert it to an air-ship battle. Perhaps with Rainbow Dash as captain.
Oh, and for those who aren't familiar with the original song...
7784360 First off, thank you for linking the original. I wasn't sure if I should, so I held off. Secondly, fair comment on the story surrounding the song. Considering the brevity of the story I wanted to punch hard and while I don't necessarily agree with your points I do understand them and can see your reasoning on them.
Third, what do you think of the version sung by Dockery? I'm not a fan of some of her lyric changes but there is no denying that she puts a lot of power into the lyrics.
Anyway, have a great weekend!
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I understand that you want the brief snippets surrounding the song to pack a punch, but, in my opinion at least, you went a bit beyond packing a punch and into heavy handed or farcical. But since it's just window dressing for the song, it can get away with that.
As for the song, I've never seen that version before. It's not bad, and some of the changes in the lyrics work even better than the original. Alas, I am one of those people that, when they first hear a song, the original latches into their brains and remakes almost always sound 'wrong.'
I actually only discovered all of these old 80's era sci-fi filk/folk songs recently, and I've found many of them quite entertaining. Dawson's Christians is one of my favorites. On of my other favorites is "Some Kind of Hero." I'd be interested in seeing how you might go about ponifying that one.
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Fair enough about the heavy handed. I'm still kinda new at this writing thing
"Some Kind of Hero" would be interesting to do. I could see it being based around Starlight Glimmer saving a bunch of ponies and her trying to tell others she is no hero because of her former misdeeds. It would be interesting to try.
I could almost see another Twilight song based around "Eumenides". Tirek kills her friends, and the Nightmare gives her the power to avenge them.
idk why but i can imagine Celestia just sailing on unprotected ships so she could see if the tale is true. Or an epic fight between the Dutchmare and the Friendship would be intresting....
Honestly the idea of a ghostly Twilight continuing to protect Equestria is strangely appealing to me. I like the song too but the story it presets is very amusing.
If anything, this story deserves a like for pointing me to Carmen Miranda's Ghost... I salute you!
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Ah yes, the S.S. Friendship.
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XD I actually thought Celestia was going to go out on an unprotected barge. Just to see if it was true.
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I'm honestly surprised no one ever made a video of your MLP version of the song. After listening to the original, I kinda want to hear someone sing your version
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Thank you for that. I've done enough SCA Bardic to want to hear it myself, and also enough to know that while my enthusiasm would be great, singing it myself would be a terrible idea.
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Same here. I have a horrible voice. But perhaps you could reach out? I'm sure there's someone in our wonderful Brony community who would like to do it
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So let me know what happens if you do decide to reach out and find someone who will do it
Sequel please, maybe describing what happened or at least have Celestia meet Twilight again
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This was based off of a song to which the author made a parody of. So not sure sure how a sequel would work
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Aw.
Interesting ghostly song. Though I'd love to know more about this AU you made for this story.