The battle of the Hoof ended 9 years ago. For some ponies, the scars are still fresh in the mind. As Threnody, a young heartmender working with the Followers of the Apocalypse will find, sometimes the hardest step is getting a Patient to speak.
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Threnody got a wing boner.
"Glitter and a very awkwardly flirting Bubblegum"
Should those be reversed?
"fuckhead!” He shouted"
"" he"?
"reaching into a saddle bag and withdrew a potion"
"saddlebag" and "withdrawing"?
"straight while she heals."
"heals?"?
"set right.” She said"
"," she"?
"facing each of them in turn"
"each of us"?
"“Rumor also has it,” Bubblegum went on, “That they were a supplier for earth pony slaves in Fillydelphia,” he said, his expression grim."
The second section in quotes is tagged twice.
"rolled over onto my belly, and stretch out my"
"belly and stretched out"?
"feel pretty.” I admitted"
"feel pretty,” I admitted"?
"Then added"
Extra space?
"as she laid there on her belly"
"lay"?
"she did was lay there with that"
"lie"?
I do believe the meme is appropriate here: "Stupid sexy Blackjack."
Also, ADVENTURE!
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Fixed. Ack, sorry this chapter wasn't super polished, everyone...
Argh, I hate you for being so awesome! I can't but want more of this story! Keep it up you wonderful being! Exclamation points! Don't worry too much about it not being pristinely shimmering with polish, it's the plot that's so flippin' sweet
Sincerely,
A very content Yogi
Awesome chapter can't wait to read more!!!!
hahahah, I ship Blackjack and Thernody so much Its cute~
Good show!
YAR HAR HAR FIDDLEE DEE-
A BOTTLE OF BLACKJACK FOR LITTLE THRENODY~
I AM A PIRATE!
I think Blackjack understands approach/avoidance. She'll let Threnody take things at her own pace. Good blackjack. Have a snack cake.
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I do promise! I have been trying really hard to balance good storytelling with making sure I don't traumatize my readers. Probably has something to do with me being a therapist myself!
I really thought the malice, pain and the sudden emptiness when someone died casued by the fight to have a more obvious effect on Thernody, or was it because she was far enough away from them that she remained largely unaffected by their emotions and the sudden disapperance of said emotions ?
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At that moment, she was really running on instinct. She knew that if she didn't move, she'd get shot. So even though what happened was weighing on her, at the moment, the more pressing concern was the pony in raider powerarmour.
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XD Chapter 8 was up when you posted this! Chapter 9, however...
8151441 So in a way her fight or flight instincts protected her from the worst of it
....Is it sadistic of me to be curious how she will react when not running on fear and instinct
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Well, she is doing a bit better, given the fact that she's gotten over the freeze response and didn't just sit there in the middle of a fight. Though it hitting her that the battle happened will likely make it for an interesting day.
8151790 Looking forward to it
8149462 Yay^^
Okay, finally caught up. Like I said before, this story is great so far^^ Actually, I think I can start saying just "is great" without "so far" part, I doubt that this story could suddenly stop being so good^^
Watching Blackjack struggle with... well, everything, having to continue living after all that happened in PH, and how she still doesn't think she deserves forgiveness is tough, but it's part of the course. I can wait to read more about Threnody attempts at helping her and see how it goes^^
>> Heartshine
I think you are starting to right Blackjack better than Somber. I can't stop smiling when she puts Thren in those pout modes! And her randomness factor, spot on. Keep up the good work!
TMW Threnody reminds me of the OC i am working on, Hell I even got her a self-destructive partner.I kinda enjoy where this story is going, and am looking forward to reading more of it
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So, that scene was fucking brutal to write. Some back story on it, the line where Threnody reveals that what her mom had said after sending her back repeatedly to 'help' the Mayor actually came from a conversation I had with someone. And I could not get it out of my head. In my line of work, vicarious trauma is a thing, chapter 5 was both cathartic and... well, hopefully made everything feel more 'real'. In a way that makes you want to root more for Threnody, not a bad way.
... Or to want to see Blackjack apply a lead pipe to the Mayor's head. One of the two.
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Pipes are actually made from steel or copper, depending on their purpose. Sorry but I had to point that out since lead pipes aren't a thing and I'm very science picky.
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AHHH! tmw you thought you came up with a brilliant line, only to realise you accidentally ganked it from a really good song you forgot about! >///<
8170345 I'm loving this story hope you go make more!
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Thank you so much! I am glad you are loving it! I am hoping to get with Somber sometime in the next two weeks to start working on Chapter 9. EFNW and getting a cold sort of threw off my update schedule a little bit, but not too much.
8173933 Cant wait,
Awe man! I smell an epic adventure on the horizon!
After learning about all the different factions/groups/characters early on in Project horizons, I'm getting that same sense of being overwhelmed as I did back then. Can't wait to explore more of it!
*IMMEDIATELY likes, favs, and follows author*
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I know dat feel, sis.
as *I* started?
The description kinda reminds me a bit of one of these things!
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I have finally caught up on this story. I finished reading Horizons over a year and a half ago and was shocked at how dang much I missed Blackjack when I started this. I love how first Somber had written her and how you are now writing her such that her evolving maturing is being brought forward in such a smooth and engaging way from Project Horizon's start to now! The quality of that quality of growth in her didn't even sink in for me until I read one of Somber's replies to a Deviantart comment about Blackjack so many moons ago.
‘direct continuation’ in the blurb feels super accurate in the way in which Blackjack’s memories are brought into presence too! I’m actually surprised that every time she brings something up that I can remember it (except whenever it was that she was torn in half); some of Horizons’ scenes still haunt me once in a while
Threnody is incredibly relatable and I find myself 100% on board with her as a believable character. How she thinks is so authentic -its irregularities only add to that- and I like the ways she stands up for herself. I didn't get Glory vibes about her until Threnody was thinking about Glory at Miramare, and it seems that anypony that isn’t as combat experienced as Blackjack and anypony that is being helped by Blackjack though her capacity for violence is going to have some a similarly-feeling aspects to their relationship.
The Heartmenders concept I really like, and Pine Sap's not knowing about Heartmenders is a neat way for the reader to excuse themselves for not having known about this new (for this specific AU line that is) type of special talent. It’s like a response to the ‘there are no therapists’ trope (~"there are therapists but we can't help everyone at once you guys- gives us some slack!!"), and I like the realistic limitations they face considering their organisation’s resources. At first I was comparing the Heartmenders to Deanna Troi’s type of empathy, but the vocabulary you/the Heartmenders use (and especially Threnody’s introduction of how Heartmenders are taught to express in words the emotional hues and intensities and textures) lends itself considerable richness in description more than The Next Generation ever had (although there are a lot of ST novels I haven't read yet).
Although I obsviously favour Blackjack and Threnody overall in the story, I find it interesting that while Sandalwood and Slate were introduced well, it somehow felt that Glitter Bomb, Cinnemon, Dry Clean Only, and Caledonia were introduced in a way that suggested they, like Blackjack, are established characters from another story (are they in other stories too?). Alternatively however, because we experience the story through Threnody, it makes sense that she wouldn't introduce her previous acquaintances/friends the same way as she would strangers. But also, maybe my concentration just lapsed there and I need to make the time to reread.
I was wondering: when Blackjack undid their pipbucks, since she wasn't mentioned to have needed to use special tools, does that mean that these are some new or/and more casual model of pipbuck? I just thought I remembered reading somewhere that pipbucks were supposed to be really hard to remove without taking the leg with it unless you had the tools...
Love the story. Holy cow. Thank you and Somber and all the proofreaders for making it happen.
Moar? How soon until we get moar?
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Yes moar, Heartshine. Gives us moar please and thank you!
Looking up at her as I started to preen my wing.
This story has found a welcome place in my SUCC powered favorites list, because it's just that good
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Fixed!
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Tasty
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Your profile picture both amuses and simultaneously terrifies me. XD
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Uh, the 2nd one. Sort of like the Grenade Rifle from Fallout NV. The launcher in NV fires rifled 40mm grenades, hence my reason for referring it as such. That's the reason why I gave Bubblegum's grenade rifle a name, Thump-Thump, as homage to the special rifle you can get from Nellis Air Base if you help out the Boomers.
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Thx. I hate it when someone comments but it doesn't show up.
Take THAT, Bethesda!
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whole EC1041 was a joke upon Bethesda's quest system :p
Man I feel Threnody's pain with making choices. Especially when everyone around you is looking at you waiting for you to answer and all eyes and ears are on you. Hate those moments. Every time I have to deal with one if those choices I mentally break down. Good to know I'm not the only one that does that. :)
As a portlander that made me laugh harder then it should have.
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I mean... my guess is you've been to the Dalles. THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE! That said, as someone who lives near Tillamook, calling it Ticklemoose cracked me up.
Lies, with a hint of tsundere.
Fate agrees with me, apparently.
On a whim, they head north, and there are mountains and pine trees and... they're not going to Equestrian Pacific Northwest, are they?
Oh, they are.
I have no idea where that fits on a map, since I thought there was an ocean bordering the north from Friendship City all across Hoofington. I'm not sure why, since Junction City is in the opposite direction, aside from because they can. And I don't even care, because that's awesome.
...Thren, I think you're continuing to miss the part of the context here where her attitude towards sex is different than yours, and if the "use" were of a different form or content the answer before might have been different.
Give you a couple of those, especially the first and last, but somehow I don't think #2 and #3 were that great. :P
I feel like that was probably more relevant before the bombs fell.
Well, Glory was probably malnourished/starving after hiding in the floor for a week before they first met, so there's that...
Heh, some mixed messaging there compared to the start of the chapter, BJ.
Returning to the fold at last!
Last time I was here this was the last chapter, time to see what fun and surprises await me!
a line from the online comic "Schlock Mercenary" comes to mind:
"you know what they call flying soldiers on a battlefield? SKEET."
I’m not sure if I’m shipping blackjack and Threnody or want them to have a sister like relationship.
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And both types of relationships at the same time would be a bit weird