No knowledge of the IDW Reflection comics is necessary to read this; it's just the framing device for a pair of parallel ponies feeling responsible for the actions of their counterparts.
Going on six years after the Reflections Incident that nearly tore apart both canon and inverted Equestria, the latter timeline is finally safe under Sombra's benevolent watch. No urgent correspondence has gone through the Mirror Portal since things re-stabilized, but it wouldn’t be much of a story if things remained that way.
This is an entry in the Snippet Series, an anthology of old oneshots I (and my good buddy Str8aura) wrote based around interesting pics I found. New ones will be posted every Thursday for the foreseeable future.
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Cozetta Glasgow? That's an interesting name for her.
The name makes me chuckle. Is the redundancy intended? If not, maybe you could make it something like "Introduction to Principles of Theoretical Magic".
Yes, I'd like to see this expanded. It's a very compelling idea.
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Ack. It wasn’t; that was purely the result of hastily giving the fic a 1:00 AM once-over before hitting “Publish.” Sleep-deprived edits are the worst edits. I’ve fixed it thanks to your keen eye, though.
As for Cozy’s full name, thats an ancient headcanon I’ve been sitting on for almost a year. Finally found a fic where it felt natural to bring up.
I for one would love to see this expanded. Just this brief snippet of interaction between Sombra and Cozy(Or should I call her Cozetta here?) certainly interests me!
Also the implcation that Main World Sombra just refuses to stay dead.
Practically canon, really.I would love to see where this battle goes.
REALLY great Mirrorverse one-shot. Loved the alternate Cozy's backstory as well as the details of the efforts that went into keeping the good Sombra's reputation intact until he recovered from the madness he took in while absorbing the evil from his universe's Celestia and Luna (though I DO feel sorry for both Sombra AND the good Chrysalis concerning what happened to the latter). Plus the details of the alternate Fizzy/Tempest was another good touch. And, yeah, I could see the main Sombra simply refusing to stay dead (of course, I could ALSO see Grogar being quite real and beyond peeved about Discord stealing his identity) AND coming up with that new fear spell.
More would be nice. I’d also add the series tag for the comics.
Yes. I love stuff related to the reflections comics. Quality stories involving them seem far to rare.
Well written, enjoyed reading this, and if I had to side with someone it would proberbly be Cozetta, although admittedly she's been through a lot, and I haven't seen enough of this universe to be fully disillusioned with it (like the one in cannon), so I'm more than a little biased. I do understand why Sombra feels like he has to respond and I have to applaud him for it; he's proberbly the reason this universe turned out as well as it did.
I liked the Reflections arc of the comics, but I thought the ending was stupid, so I’m glad you “fixed” it. I don’t remember Sombra talking so informally, though. I also thought Trixie would take Twilight’s role as the unicorn who becomes a princess, because she’s shown as an alicorn on the same wall of stained-glass windows as good Chrysalis.
I tried writing a fanfic set in Mirror Equestria once, but I gave up because I was only motivated to write Pokémon crossovers at the time, and I didn’t want to bog the story down with TWO alternate universe elements.
Very nice! Extremely well written! I'd like to see more of it!
I suppose that any story set after the season 9 finale that involves some kind of Big Bad has to kinda ignore the implication that Twilight and Co. probably mastered the power of Harmony and likely can use it at will now. Otherwise, you have to explain why any serious threat doesn't get immediately Rainbow Lasered.
This was awesome.
Reading through the snippets, this does intrigue me! If you do revisit it, I'd be darn happy to see this continued. Concept has me hooked, to say the least!
I wonder what Mirror Tirek would be like? He’s the only member of the Legion of Doom who’s unaccounted for in this fanfic.
Full blown story please.
si, quiero que sea una serie completa, porque? me encataria como Sombra se golpea a si mismo Hahahahahahaha es ilarante hahahahaha
Is saying "monarchism" rather than "diarchism" intentional?
Q: How bad can you feel for a fictional character?
A: Yes!
The question in the author's note seems... a weak one in this particular scenario. He has a unique ability to help (immunity to fear magic). To paraphrase Spider-Man "With specific or unique power, comes specific or unique responsibility."
But to give my answer to the question: I would say that he lacks any culpability for his counterpart's actions... if it weren't for him being uniquely suited, he would have had no more responsibility that against any other threat that he might have gone through the mirror to assist against.
"Once more into the breech..." *Salutes the brave King with RL tears in his eyes.*