Scootaloo really looks up to Rainbow Dash, and thinks of her as her big sister. However, Scootaloo doesn't have the number of feats that Rainbow has done, and once she ruins one of Rainbow dash's Daring Do books, she feels like maybe she doesn't deserve to look at Rainbow as her older sibling.
She gets some valuable advice from Eric Reed, someone that once felt that he didn't deserve to look at Twilight Sparkle as his big sister, with the advice that he himself once got from Starlight Glimmer, who he also thinks of as a big sister.
This story takes place after the events of my "A Giant Adventure to Equestria" story, and this story has some spoilers from it.
Here's the link to that story, if you want to read it first, or just curious.
http://www.fimfiction.net./story/427481/a-giant-adventure-to-equestria
Without context, I’m confused. I don’t know if this is a good stand-alone story.
He still does depend on her. Doesn't Eric still need her or Starlight to cast the counterspell on him daily (since it keeps nightmares away at night so has to let him re-shrink).
Perhaps a better version would be :
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It is a good story by itself, but the story A giant adventure in Equestria gives it a lot more poignancy.
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I’ve come around to like this person’s output. So, that’s nice.
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Eric does still depend on Twilight (and Starlight) as far as needing them to recast the counterspell to the Nightmare Prevention Spell, but overall he doesn't depend on them nearly as much when he was still shrunk. But your version of that paragraph still sounds better.
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As the wall in my old drama teacher's office said:
"Those who can; Do.
Those who can't; Teach.
Those who can't teach; Criticize."
I fall into the third category.
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Hang on I just read a giant adventure in Equestria and I'm pretty sure I remember something in the later chapters of the story saying that the magic from The Nightmare prevention spell would gradually dissipate from Eric's body so all the stories after that I just assumed he was full-sized permanently without the need for Twilight or starlight to cast the counterspell anymore 🤔
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The Nightmare Preventiong Spell's magic is very slowly dissipating, but too much of it is still in Eric's body for it to matter much, and it will be like that for many years, though I never give a timetable of it. The final chapter of A Giant Adventure to Equestria bought up how Twilight and Starlight still needed to cast the counterspell when Eric woke up from his dream in his mini-form.
However, Twilight and/or Starlight might become able to cast a permanent version of the counterspell eventually.
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I see, guess the lack of a time table threw me off a bit, no worries just thought I might have missed something
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I try to write these spin-off stories similar to how the episodes in a season of FIM are like (for the most part, so I usually try to leave the timetable of how much time passes between them vague. That and also because of lack of experience in writing has tripped me up a few times, and I even had to retcon how much time passed a couple of times to ensure what happened in the stories actually could happen in this world's continuity.
The good news is that even when I did, what happened was never had to retconned, so I was still able to keep what happened the same.