While performing her duty of tending to ponies' nightmares, the newly returned Princess Luna comes across an acquaintance. A very old, very petrified acquaintance.
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Krixwell
Just another brony from Norway. I swear I have nothing against Twilight Sparkle.
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Pretty good. Though it does leave me wondering just where Luna was when Discord broke out...
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Probably already in the garden. She might have been the one who managed to alert Celestia he was breaking free as it happened and was the first to be locked up as a result.
Yeah, this was a pretty fun read. I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel with Discord breaking out and maybe paying Luna a visit. Perhaps Luna is sleeping and Discord decides to visit her dream. Of course, he ends up in a nightmare from when he originally ruled Equestria and, as such, he gets to see his chaos from Luna's and other ponies eyes.
I like this one, man!
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I like the ways both of you think.
Guarana. Huh. Gonna need to reference that, sometime.
Nice story!
Huh, I'm honestly surprised to see this hasn't been featured yet. It's certainly of sufficient quality.
A fine little story. Perspective is everything, yes?
A neat little idea! Thanks for sharing!
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I would read that
This was a nice neat story to read before going to bed
I just reread this story, and I happened across something. This: schadenfreude. Now, don't lie, you wrote this entire story just so you could use that word in a sentence, didn't you lol.
Also, I love this paragraph just as now much as I did the first time round. It's what ultimately lead me to rereading this story.
That first sentence, especially......Ooh, the entire thing is just so well written. Well done my fellow wordsmith, well done.
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to give it a reread!
Schadenfreude is a good word, though it always mildly bothered me that English just borrowed the word straight as it was from German rather than translating it like Norwegian did (skadefryd). Then again, a direct translation into English -- damage joy -- sounds awful, so maybe it's for the best.
My personal favorite thing about that paragraph you quoted is that it works with either interpretation of Discord's behavior and motivations in this fic. Either it's real and the nightmare exaggerates the whimsicality and breathlessness into that suffocating "drowned clown" feeling, or he's faking and that's just how his dreamscape feels in general but it's so marked by his villainy that Luna assumes it's a nightmare. I don't think I was actually planning for the ambiguity when I first wrote that paragraph, but I like how it ended up working out.
By the way, all my fics so far are loosely in the same continuity, in that while you don't need to read one to understand another, I consider them all canon to each other (there's also a slight overlap in OCs between my longer ones). The only way that really manifests in this fic is that the way the dreamscape works is based on what I'd established about it in my first fic, Dreamers and the Moon. So I guess this is me going "*nudge nudge* if you like how the dreamscape works here, I've done and will do more of that in Dreamers *nudge nudge*"
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I haven't read any of your other stories, aside from this one. And it wasn't quite the way you have the dreamscape function that made me like that paragraph. I just really liked how you described the whole thing. I'd give specific examples, but that'd just lead to me posting the entire paragraph again, lol. If you ever right a direct sequel to this with Discord escaping from his prison and invading Luna's dreams, I'd be first in line to read it.
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I'm just glad you liked it.
That's totally fair.
One thing I wished while reading this fic was that it would end with the revelation that this event inspired Luna to petition for Discord’s freedom and thus led to the decision to try and reform him via Fluttershy. As it happened, we didn’t go there, but it wasn’t shot down either. So I guess I’m sharing this thought on the hopes that you’ll consider that possibility in any future writings of Discord in this continuity
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That is certainly something that might have happened as a result of this, yeah. The entire premise here was founded on the idea that Luna has a better position than anypony else to understand and empathize with Discord's situation when confronted with the fact that he's conscious in there, after all.
Add the fact that she knows what it's like to turn evil and how somepony like that can be brought back to the side of good, and you've got somepony who may well have argued in favor of attempting redemption.
I'm a little reluctant to follow up on this story from Discord's perspective, because I'd probably have to collapse the wave function on something I left deliberately ambiguous with this ending. But it does ostensibly share a continuity with all my (current) other stories, so it's not out of the question that Luna's perspective and the events following this could come back up in Dreamers or Reflections some day, or in a future story.
...you might have given me an idea for later in Reflections, actually. Thanks!