Cloudy Skies thought that the biggest day of her life would come when she was to receive an operation to correct her vision, but instead it's the day before when a chance encounter with a strange pony sends her veering sharply off-course.
This was my original story idea for the 2nd Monster Mares contest, before I came to the last minute realization that it was supposed to be themed around Nightmare Night and had to come up with something different.
(Thumbnail is transparently based on that one shot of NMM's eyes in the prologue of the first episode.)
Alternative tagline: Sometimes blind is better.
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I feel like it loses a lot of the tragic element when magic is commonplace enough that she suspects petrification could be reversed. It becomes more of a logistics problem.
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That seems like a rather diminishing way to look at the scenario. Tragedy is not always simply a matter of a character dying, it's about the emotional impacts that happen along the way.
Cloudy Skies has lived with a disability all her life and wanted to finally take the reins and make a difference in someone else's life, and in doing so she only succeeded in hurting herself; even if she is unpetrified, she will now once again be in a vulnerable, uncertain position just like she was when she was blind. Meanwhile Apotropaea has had to sequester herself in the woods for the protection of herself and anyone who would interact with her, and just when someone who might be willing to be friends with her comes along it becomes apparent that they can't be together, and yet she doesn't want to turn away Cloudy Skies either because she can recognize how important this is to her. The ending isn't even that clear-cut either because Apotropaea still can't resist the jadedness that has been instilled in her for so long, she doesn't want to be hurt by the possibility that Cloudy Skies might hate her now.
The entire point of the story is that the characters are driven by these irrational urges that they have, and in all cases they result in things turning for the worse.
Probably: "So, can we still be friends?"
While wearing a blindfold.
Also does the complusion for making ponies go away technically count as mind control?
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The statement is supposed to start with "Oh, you're-" so probably not.
I never thought of it as mind control, it's just supposed to be exactly that, a compulsion, it's a magical effect.