Twilight has settled into her new castle, which now feels like a home thanks to her friends. The only problem is she's still not sleeping and still finding excuses to keep herself busy. The last few weeks had been particularly stressful. She thought that once everything calmed down her life would get back to normal, but something that happened affected her more deeply than she thought.
Rainbow Dash can tell something is wrong. She wants to know if she can help.
Editing by Formerly Committed and JetstreamGW.
Also available in Dramatic Reading form! Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
Chapters (3)
Holy shit, look who’s back! I’m looking forward to this.
Twidash from bats!?
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I know right? I was super excited too. We seem to frequent the same stories btw, or at least you comment in a lot of the ones I read.
Anyway, this was a very neat idea. Thank you for gracing the site with your work once again.
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. It's funny because it's true.
Ya never disappoint, bats.
Read a few of your stories, and I'm glad that your doing new ones. Hope to see more soon :) I'd like to wonder what Spike thought of Dash being there all the time, I know main characters are Twi and Dash, but he lives there too. =x I bet he'd feel guilty of Twi hiding her nightmares from him.
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Who?
Dang, Twilight totaly has a bad case of PTSD, and I can't blame her, this story is really good man, Keep It Up!
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Shhh, shh shhh. No more words.
This is cute.
A Lovely little story. The romance was so... subtle. It took its time building up, but it did so naturally. It felt more genuine, not forced.
Love the fluffy shippy parts.
Where is Spike in all of this? O.o
Otherwise, such a nice story!
When you brought up the buzzsaw I laughed pretty hard, mostly because while I suspected what it actually was I mostly got caught up in the thought of someone randomly starting a chainsaw under the circumstances.
A creative mind is capable of terrifying things.
I'm not normally one to preemptively upvote, but this is bats doing TwiDash, that's about as guaranteed as you can get.
I’d like to imagine that Spike randomly walked in one morning, saw them together, and then refused to mention or inquire about it due to fearing the theoretically awkward answer.
I'm so happy, thank you for this. It's been too long without a quality twidash fic.
That was really cute and sweet. I love how naturally you had them come together.
bats, you are tied with Cloudy Skies in my book for the best TwiDash out there. I re-read Spellbound Fireflies like once a year. Would that I had more than one upvote to give.
Okay, this is not only the best Twidash story I've read this year (no offence, Kodeake), but also one of the best explanations of how alicorn magic works that I've ever seen. Twilight's reflection on the relationship between love and friendship was amazing, and it left me wondering why I took the distinction between the Princess of Love and the Princess of Friendship at face value for so long. And the payoff at the end? Pure bliss.
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Let me google that for you.
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it's post traumatic stress disorder.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
And then when she woke up, she realized she missed everything and had an angry Spitfire waiting for her.
Loved the story!
Shouldn't it be "Rainbow trailed off and grimaced," Or am I just reading it wrong.
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*sighs*
No, you're right, just an error that somehow got missed in the three million rounds of edits. Fixed now. Thanks for the head's up on it!
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Goddammit!
Ah yes, good Twidash. I can feel it flowing through my veins once more. It's been too long, and as expected Bats provides with a sublime specimen, both of their characters and their relationship. Always a pleasure to read.
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None taken. I'm not so full of myself (Yet!) that I think I can outdo Bats.
I'm very glad there seems to be no lingering crushes acted upon in this story so far. :)
Nice. :D That went just the way I wanted it to.
I enjoyed that this fanfiction felt more like one close friend being there for another rather than romance for most of the story. And the premise—Rainbow Dash being Twilight's distraction of choice out of her five best friends—would have worked without the aim of indulging one's ship, too.
Pinkie Pie was probably a very good contender in the "most likely not to notice" department, especially since this is set after Testing Testing 1, 2, 3 and before Party Pooped (her party archives disqualify her from Twilight's unobservant folder, in all likelihood), but I can't blame Twilight for choosing to spend her time with Rainbow rather than with Pinkie.
I found the dream sequences to be where the narration shone. Short and to the point where Tirek's executions of Twilight's friends are concerned, beautiful and evocative when magic is mentioned. I loved the entirety of Twilight's last nightmare.
I was surprised to see Rainbow mimic a key turning into a lock rather than pretending to zip her lips closed when she promised to keep Twilight's issue secret.
I feel the line "She dragged her gaze up to Rainbow and forced out, “One more time?”" from the first paragraph would have read better as its own, second paragraph.
Finally, I liked these lines:
And what I consider the most powerful line of the story:
Love it
Poor twi! Thank God rainbow is a sweetheart ❤️ These dreams really do seem like nightmare fuel
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They... Uh... they are, in fact, nightmares.
Was that unclear? I feel like that was fairly clear.
Ooooooohhhhh yes another dose of bat's twidash. I can feel it through my veins bringing me back to life again XD
Is this a romantic fantic I want to listen but I want to know if it's romantic or not I'm in to comedy romance sad and horror mlp fanfic so if someone can tell what this fall under thanks
This is beautiful and it's such a slow burn. It's slow enough that the build-up is expeceted and unexpected. And it's fast enough to not be boring or too drawn out. It's really good.
Also, I think the song "I Believe in You" by Micheal Buble kinda fits with this fanfic.
This is just so good. This is one I've read multiple times and it doesn't matter how many times I've read it it hits just as hard as it did the first time. Just phenomenal.
Well it's certainty been a long time since I read a good story with these two. I was excited as hell to see this as I looked through the recent entries for Twidash, since it's not really a huge thing anymore.
There were a couple of things I just adored about this. One is how well you depicted PTSD. The way Twilight reacted to it, especially when it got worse was spot on, and quite realistic to how I imagine most people would react to such a tragic event like the death of loved ones. Two is how you didn't really have to force Twi and Rainbow together, it kinda made sense and felt like a pretty natural reaction as the story went on. But the biggest I think for me was how well Rainbow was done. The entire first chapter especially, with how she took the situation seriously while also being quite apprehensive on what to do feels exactly like how she would handle such a situation.
So yeah, this ruled dude. Can't believe you had this kicking around for 5 years. Makes me want to try and use the fleet of old ideas I have kicking around on my hard drive.
Ok bats. You- that was amazing. Honestly I read a few of your stories a while ago and they were great. And you just keep outdoing yourself! Not to put pressure on you, but man, dude you’re awesome!
PTSD + Twilight + Rainbow =
this masterpiece!
You earned my fav and vote!
Doc: "You have 10 minutes to live "
Me: *reads this*
Doc: "But this will take 15 minutes-"
Death: "Never mind. I W I L L W A I T "
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Glad you liked it.
Thank you.
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Thank you, that's so sweet of you to say. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Delightful story, extremely good.
That was an amazing fanfic and I listen to it skijaramaz- tone shift did a great job on the narration and the voice actors did great too and you did great as well on writing the fanfic