There once was a pony who could forge magic, not magic items but but Magic Cores. This is the story of the Magic Smith and what became of her legacy.
This was simply an idea that popped into my head and I had fun writing it, it was originally inspired by the comic Heart Smith and if you haven't seen it I would highly recommend reading it. I hope you enjoy.
*Note about this stories update schedule
This story is a sort of pet project I work on when I have time and the inspiration hits. Because of this updates to the story are very irregular and range from taking a few days to a long time but that also means that this story will be the only story on my page to always have the status of Incomplete. I write this story either fun and to relax my mind or to knock the dust off my writing skills when I've been gone a while so the quality of the story and the writing varies from chapter to chapter. It is also not properly edited because it is typed on this site in the moment and posted once I feel done with a chapter.
Hmmm. A past version of Twilight that could fix magic cores. I can see it. Wonder if Present day Twilight is a descendant or a reincarnation of the smith.
Would be interesting to see Twilight awakening to the powers the Smith had when she stumbles across the ancient hammer.
I really liked this one off. It has simple origins but much to unpack. It’s a tale of only one stallion but there is much more deeply embedded in the characters and the story. Choked me up near the end. Good story and good writing.
This is very similar to this not sure if it's a coincidence or not
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I was going for reincarnation, and if this is continues then yes Twilight will regain this ability. However there can be no story without conflict.
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It was meant to be simple, more often than not I spend more time creating the setting and planing the story out that it gets to complicated or I turn it into a giant project. The best example of this was my Returning Home story. It took off way to fast.
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The original comic was actually the inspiration for this, I actually bought a copy of it I enjoyed it so much. I didn't know it was dubbed though, cool.
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Well I'm happy to have shared it with you but I personally think it's a little to close to the original but as is it's got enough differences to stand out
continue? please.
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I've been getting a lot of people wanting it to continue so what similarities and such will be wiped away if I do a chapter two. When I started to write this I wanted the first chapter to to follow the same plot as the comic so I could toy with it later. I have a lot of ideas for this story but I'm hesitant to do more.
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Make sure it's no little foal in a hospital in the end
If this is a past life twilight bade or not it really good please update when u can i I would love to read more. So thanks for the alwsom story
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I may be trapped in the void but I'm not some heartless monster.
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Well good luck to you
awwww, this was a sweet one-shot
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True. I'd read a continuation of this.
Nice story
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Why do people keep saying that? Conflict does not make a story good, or even worthwhile. Yes I do wan't to see more of this.
But there better be a 100% good reason for any conflict other than some delusion that it's required.
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Conflict doesn't always mean battle or fighting, it simply means that there mist be something to progress the story. The conflict could be a simple argument or even a someone suffering from the past.
Interesting. Though I have to wonder what damages cores in the first place.
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I thought it would be like staining magic to a breaking point, there are a lot of fanfictions where unicorns experience something like magic burn out and I often wonder what would happen of somepony decided to push their magic in that kind of situation. Would they have there magic completely shattered, would they die or would something else happen?
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Makes sense.
Love the adaption from the heart smith, if you do decide to continue it, I'd keep reading. However I'm sure if it needs to be continued, I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of how to do so anyway.
Besides it's just a story.
Before I read this, I must know: What are Magic Cores?
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It's what gives ponies their magic, a more in depth explanation is that it's their soul or at least a part of it. Without it ponies are like when Starlight removed their cutie marks, combined with the effects of Discords personality altering thing.
This promises to be good with twilights painting. But I must ask how long do her living paintings last
This is a rather interesting concept.
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So let me know if I got this straight, the Magic Smith exhausted her magical core dry and THEN Twilight came to existence soulless and magicless?
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If you didn't understand what was going on that's ok, to understand the story you really have to pay attention to the wording. Everything has a double meaning and something are metaphorical while other things are literal. It's a fine line that is hard to walk but this story has done it amazingly well so far.
The Magic Smith was Twilight and always was Twilight but she wasn't given name or life, when she was finally given a Life she became the Magic Smith because that was the purpose she was given it wasn't an actual name. Note that when the stallion in the chapter 1 story asks if Twilight is the Magic Smith she says this:
She never says that's her name because she doesn't have one.
When Twilight returned to life after giving up her magic core to the filly she didn't completely return or perhaps it's better to say that she was damaged when she returned. She doesn't remember who or even what she was and her soul was destroyed, the Elements of Harmony fixed her but it's only temporary.
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Ok, thanks for the explanation, I love your work not only on this fic, but your others too, I was just a little lost
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Understandable, while this will be one of my more laid back and humor filled stories it will also be my most ambitious. Each of my stories are fragmented and this one plays a big part.
The pictures don't work
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all pics are broken for me to
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There was an announcement on the site that all hosted pictures on the site are broke. I don't know what's going on but your not the only one with problems and I can't fix it.
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I saw that i wonder why
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Pictures are back!
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One out of two aint bad
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The second works on the off days, I'm looking for a replacement.
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Alright
I wanna read that neighpon story it sounds interesting
Is the magic smith comic a webcomic ar a physical one, I was looking around for it and couldn't find it. So if you have a link or know the artist's name I would appreciate it.
The Magic Smith was my own creation however it was based off of the comic book called The Heartsmith. I tried to find the website I bought my physical copy from but it's either sold out and unavailable anymore or I just couldn't find it. Either way the physical copy is not around anymore however one of the people who commented on this story previously linked a YouTube video of the comic to me, I posted it here.
I hope you enjoy it as it's one of my favorite comics and the people who dubbed it did really well.
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Cool, I saw the story this was based on.
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Knew she was inspired by Ink Sans
She doesn’t like checklists
Cannot wait for update!
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This version of Twilight is not as restrained as the original, she's random and hated being restrained or confined and that's what checklist do. When I started this story I wanted to create a being similar to Pinkie Pie; a character that seems to have little perhaps no restraint or even cohesion in their actions. Not in the sense of Discord who is random to be random, but more of one who is random without even knowing it as to them everything they do is perfectly understandable and logical. To Twilight the world and all ponies in it are restrained and limited, she can't understand why ponies do what they do. However to other ponies Twilight is unpredictable and at times downright crazy in her actions as she follows a logic they can't seem to grasp. I suppose that both parties are correct from a certain point of view.
I suppose in a way you could say that before Twilight gave her magic core to the filly she was as close to whole as she could get but when she came back she seemed to lack something and I think that something was two things; the first was a sustainable power source for her magic and emotions, the second was her control or perhaps a better word would be restraint. When she has no magic she seems to be a wind up toy that's run out but just like a wind up toy as soon as she is wound she shoots off in an out of control manner. Perhaps for her to once more become who she once was she need to regain her control as we know she has at least some source of emotion and magic even if it's temporary.
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So make the white ink do what it was supposed to?
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That would be too easy, beside the white ink was designed to give a permanent source of emotion and magic not control.
UPDATE YEAH!!!!!!!!
Deep
Cool story, looking forward to more.