Lightning and Moondancer's herd plan to celebrate Hearts'n'Hooves day the Hollow Shades way, which is another thestral word for 'orgies'. Wallflower Blush plans on reforming Hollow Shades of their debaucherous ways. Only one of these can succeed.
After all, why should anything change in this nice little town? Everypony here had a job, had a purpose. The last crime that had occurred in Mareville had been about forty odd years ago done by some young colt who wanted an extra piece of candy at the store. The strong sense of community was something that they all held with pride. Sure they didn’t follow the trends and fashions of the rest of Equestria. Maybe their tiny hospital, more of a clinic really, didn’t have the latest gizmos. So what if their library was behind on times with all their books being hoof written? Everything here was pleasant as could be. To the ponies living here, the rest of Equestria should strive to be more like them! Then maybe there would be fewer gods of chaos, bug queens, and so on running across Equestria.
Dear GODS this place sounds boring
So it was little surprise to find that nearly all the ponies here were members of the Sol Invictus Church.
Do these guys by any chance view Celestia as the perfect image of purity and wholesomness ?
Their parents would often forget to bring Wallflower along whenever they went out to eat or on family outings, to busy beaming with pride at Pearly’s mere existence. There wasn’t even a single picture of Wallflower in her parent’s home.
...these parents are horrible
“In today’s sad world, we will need to be ever more vigilant,” continued the mare. “We need to safeguard the innocent who are not yet fully pledged members of the Sol Invictus. We need to root out those who dare to practice such vile acts so that Equestria may be purged. The wicked will have their influence removed so that we can live in true harmony! But to do this, we will need to expand our numbers so that it will be harder for the vile ones to hide. As such, many of you who volunteered at our last meeting will go out and join others dedicated to our cause all over Equestria.”
This is a cult, this is without a doubt a cult
Pearly White naturally got the loudest send off, with ponies shouting how she was sure to recruit the most while she was in the Crystal Empire.
Wow... Pearly sure has her work cut out for her dosen't she
“Think less of me?” repeated Wallflower to herself. “That would actually be an improvement.”
Ouch
But hey it could almost be worse... you could be Pearly trying to go up aginst Cadance on her home turf
She reminds me of the mom from Moral Oral. Never feeling like she has a place in the world, and inevitably latching onto the first person to make her feel needed.
Churches like these are why I've lost a lot of faith in organized religion, since they seem to just be tools for overly controlling busybodies to force their will on others while maintaining their public image (and possibly hiding their own misdeeds).
Awesome, great to see a new story from you.
Ugh! Right in the feels!
This is an absolutely lovely start! I've said it before, but I can't help but hope for the best for Wallflower.
Dear GODS this place sounds boring
Do these guys by any chance view Celestia as the perfect image of purity and wholesomness ?
...these parents are horrible
This is a cult, this is without a doubt a cult
Wow... Pearly sure has her work cut out for her dosen't she
Ouch
But hey it could almost be worse... you could be Pearly trying to go up aginst Cadance on her home turf
She reminds me of the mom from Moral Oral. Never feeling like she has a place in the world, and inevitably latching onto the first person to make her feel needed.
Churches like these are why I've lost a lot of faith in organized religion, since they seem to just be tools for overly controlling busybodies to force their will on others while maintaining their public image (and possibly hiding their own misdeeds).
I'm getting some serious Anti Saloon League vibes from this Sol Invictus.
And we all know how that went.