Love is felt in many different ways. Twilight loves her friends as friends; she would put her life on the line for any of them at the drop of a hat, and often does. She loves her family, and would go to whatever length needed to protect them and, if needed, help them in any way. She has loved as a lover, felt the tug of her heart for another pony, and the wish to always be in their embrace, never missing their body or voice. She has always kept these feelings separate.
When her dear friend, and undoubtedly family member Princess Celestia suffers an injury, she asks Twilight for help, and of course, Twilight is more than willing to assist in any way she can... at least, that's what she wants to tell herself. When the task at hoof requires loving a friend as a lover, things can get a little complicated.
Takes place some years after season 8.
Credit to this fella for the cover photo.
*reads synopsis*.....you have my interest.
Nigga you need to space out your summary a bit. Paragraphs are your friend.
Otherwise, this is an intriguing tale!
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Fine, paragraph nazi.
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Oh yah you betcha
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Will I peak your interest more if I say that the description actually left out another major concept in this story?
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maaaaaaaybe
Interesting really interesting
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Glad you think so! Certainly stick around, I'll be updating this as fast as I can.
Looks good so far. How long do you think this will be?
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15k to 20k. I'm hoping to keep it short.
I have a hunch I know where this is going.
I'll be interested to see if I'm right.
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Oh? And what might that hunch be?
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That Twilight and Celestia's unnamed lover are one in the same.
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Excuse my retardation, but elaborate a little bit.
Do you mean that Twilight has always been Celestia's lover? Or Twilight and Celestia have loved the same pony?
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The former.
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I just realized I left out something really important. That's fine, it'll make for a more surprising chapter 2.
Man, I just love that cover art so much...
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AAAH!
DUDE. IT GOT FEATURED!
I WOKE UP JUST NOW LITERALLY HAVING A BAD DREAM ABOUT SOMEONE DISLIKING ALL MY SHIT AND I WAKE UP TO FIND THE STORY FEATURED. WOO!
*ahem*
Yes, btw, i do have occasional bad dreams about FimFic.
This seems like a very meta and interesting story. I have to watch this one..
I have my suspicions about how Twilight's journey to the past will go, and am very intrigued to see if they align with the story itself.
Couldn't they just use a stray feather or something? They don't even need to ask her for it in the past, surely she's lost a few over the years.
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You'd think she'd have lost a few during the fight with Chrysalis, at least.
Like previous commenters, I'm guessing that they're about to set up a stable time loop in which Twilight was Celestia's lover all along - in the distant past, at least..
So what happens when Twilight meets Celestia's real lover?
I really enjoy the setup here. So many possibilities that can happen. Specially in that its an actual completed time loop where Twilight IS in fact Celestas lover and all these events were meant to happen.
So many possibilities along with really good writing. Nothing is worse than reading a description and getting your hopes up to be let down by bad writing.
So I'm rooting for you here. I look forward to seeing how your story pans out greatly!
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Well, I like to think of myself as a good writer, so hopefully I shall not fail!
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Good lead-ins and buildup. So far so good!
Gonna have to work on your words here. Seen you use some homophones, like bare instead of bear and peak instead of pique, along with missing capitalizations, improper punctuation, and the like. The wiring is pretty good though, just those grammatical issues.
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Well, considering I didn't employ my editor on this one I suspected such would happen. I do thank you for pointing these things out. I've always been pretty terrible with comma splices and such. I spend all my time working to make the dialogue and narration as good as possible, and truth be told, I hardly give attention to the technical stuff.
No one ever really complains.
One of my biggest pet peeves, so there's no way I won't mention it, and most people don't actually care about grammar, because they also read a lot of the garbage that infests the site. A sad truth, but the lack of mention or 'care' shouldn't push you to just ignore it. It's not quite as important as proper story telling, but still something that you shouldn't just foist over to your editors. After all, if you don't take steps to try and fix it yourself, you'll never learn the proper way to deal with those errors.
How does one go about "loving a friend as a lover"?
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I suppose you'll have to find out in future chapters... or rather, past chapters.
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Also, are you referring to my use of the work 'peak' in;
because if you are I'm like 99 percent sure that's correct. I didn't use the word peak anywhere else in this story.
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Nah, it was in a comment down here, I think, but it was at the forefront of my mind when I was typing it out.
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This one.
What a strange premise...
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Hopefully a premise I can make a good tale out of! I do hope you've enjoyed the story thus far, and shall continue to as I write it.
I really hope you continue this.
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I am continuing it. I'm on a bit of a hiatus right now because of my new job and a lack of will to write. Everyone needs a break at some point.
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Take your time.
feed me more of this nigga
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b-b-but muh Life In Boxes
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nigga, words must flow
"Celestia! I have come from the future!"
"Indeed? And why have you done so, Twilight?"
"I need a feather from your left wing."
"I have several questions."
"Time shenanigans."
"But—"
"Time. Shenanigans."
"There are days when I fear you've learned a bit too much from Pinkie Pie. Very well."
(Or, on that note...)
"Yeah, no."
"Excuse me?"
"'Don't tell your friends' was a terrible plan with Tirek, and it's a terrible plan now."
"Twilight, we cannot let the ponies know—"
"It's fine, Celestia. Telling a secret is the fastest way to lose a friend—"
"For-EVER!"
"Hi, Pinkie. We need you to go back in time to get a feather from Celestia's currently missing wing."
"Huh. Okay. I'm just gonna compartmentalize my shock and horror and such until afterwards."
"Twilight, I don't see how—"
"You would ask questions if I asked you for a feather. Can you honestly say the same of Pinkie?"
"... Well when you put it like that..."
"Exactly!"
Or, you know, just pluck her in her sleep one night.
But I can hardly expect everyone involved to behave with perfect, flawless rationality during such a traumatic episode. The justification for the premise is a touch flimsy, yes, but I'm still looking forward to seeing what happens from here. Sorry for spending so much of the comment poking fun at the story.
Please, continue this story!
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I plan on it in the future! I've got the whole thing planned out and everything, I'm just too focused on my current story Life In Boxes.
I'm glad you enjoy it, though!
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I guess not.
Thanks anyway. We'll miss you. See you around, dude.