Epilogue: Singing Clear and Strong
"Hey trix, wake up. It's almost noon!"
"mrmph" I murmur, sliding out of sleep.
"Come on, wakey wakey, silly filly!"
I grumble, attempting to open my eyes to ascertain the source of sound. The light stabs my retinas and I immediately shut them, but my brief foray into vision allows me to deduce that Starlight Glimmer is in my wagon. Oh, right.
Last night happened.
Oh wow, I think, replaying our discussion in my head. Last night happened!
My new paramour's voice cuts my reverie short. "Come on, sleepy head, time to wake up!"
"Ugh. Please go away," I mumble. "Trixie is nursing a Great and Powerful Hangover."
"I can see that. Do you remember any of last night?"
"Trixie got really drunk and vulnerable and confessed her love for you and then we cuddled. Also you snore like a fucking hydra."
"Yeah, I figured that's why you left. Heh, sorry about that. I think my sinuses are messed up."
"And I think you're literally cursed. I don't understand how anypony can snore that loud."
"Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Twilight and I had to soundproof my room so the whole castle doesn't resonate!"
"Amazing is not the word I would use," I retort, attempting to open my eyes again and quickly regretting it. "But that would explain all the baffling."
"I think you mean acoustic foam, but yeah, that's why."
"Whatever. Nerd. But, um, did you mean everything you said last night? About me being your best friend and never abandoning me?" I brave the evil sunlight to squint at her expectantly.
Starlight reaches across my hammock to hug me. "Every bit of it. Did you mean everything you said about loving me?"
"Of course. Why do you think I got so drunk?"
A grimace. "Trixie, I think you could really benefit from therapy."
"And ruin my massively inflated ego and egregious narcissism? Perish the thought!"
Starlight shakes her head and laughs. "You never cease to amaze me. I don't understand how you can simultaneously be so self-aware but also so oblivious."
"Trixie is a mare of many talents," I reply, beaming.
She makes a show of rolling her eyes. "Riiiight. Well, anyway, I brought you water, eggs, and toast. And sunglasses."
"Awww, you didn't have to do that," I protest, slowly attempting to roll out of my hammock before deciding I will instead spend the rest of my days ensconced in its embrace. Fuck, I drank a lot.
"I know, but I chose to. You're worth it. Now come on, eat up so we can go tell Twilight we're dating and freak her out!"
In a flash I'm on my hooves. "I'm always down to freak out Twilight Sparkle," I reply proudly.
"Yeah, I know. It's kind of one of your defining character traits."
"Finally!"
"Finally?!" we shout in unison.
"Yeah, I've been waiting for one of you to make a move for months!"
"You knew we had crushes on each other?" I ask, nibbling my toast in Twilight's kitchen, sunglasses upon my bloodshot eyes.
Twilight scoffs. "I mean, duh! Neither of you is exactly what I'd call subtle. It was pretty obvious."
"Oh," we both say, blushing in unison. Starlight blushes more than me. The Stoic and Reticent Trixie does not wear her heart out on her sleeve. She is a mysterious enigma.
"Yeah, it wasn't hard to figure out. It took all my willpower not to meddle and to let things progress at their own pace. You know how I love friendshipping."
"Well, thank you, I appreciate your restraint," Starlight replies.
"Of course. A true, true friend helps a friend in need, and sometimes the best way to help is to take a hooves-off approach. Although, I do hope you'll answer one question for me. Trixie, you said you told Starlight you loved her first, right?"
"Indeed. The Impassioned and Highly Emotive Trixie spilled her heart out in splendidly romantic fashion!"
The two mares stare at me. "What? Trixie retracts her previous claim of stoicism. I am consistently capriciously contradictory!"
Starlight rolls her eyes, chuckling, while Twilight simply shrugs. "Huh, well, looks like I owe Cadance 20 bits!"
"You were betting on us?" Starlight my girlfriend asks, incredulously.
Twilight rubs her neck sheepishly. "Look, castle life can get... monotonous. Cadance and I have a few different running bets to liven things up."
Unannounced, Tempest Shadow trots into the castle's kitchen, a sleep mask still dangling from her neck. "Morning Twilight. Morning Starlight. Morning...weird narcissistic blue horse."
Ignoring the tragedy of Tempest being unfamiliar with my Great and Powerfulness, my eyes light up. "Wait, are you two?!" I gesture excitedly between Twilight and Tempest.
Sparkle's eyes dilate. "Not a word!" she growls. "I do NOT need the tabloids to find out I've been sleeping with Equestria's former number one enemy!"
Tempest pops her head back in. "Awwww, you thought I was a bigger threat than the Storm King? I'm flattered!"
Twilight facehoofs. Starlight and I glance at each other and grin deviously.
"Hey, Trixie, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"I don't know," I reply. "What are you thinking, best friend and lover?"
"I'm thinking we have some Great and Powerful Blackmail Information now."
And that's why Twilight copyedits my promotional material and gives me free magic lessons.
The (Great and Powerful) End
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this story; for once I put a lot of work into it! And thank you again to my prereaders on the massively-shorter first draft, and Ice Star for help with the gucci cover design! Remember, friendship is magic!
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Thank you all for reading my second story about best ship StarTrix! Leave your favorite StarTrix pics in the comments, as well as anything you liked or disliked about this story!
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Starlight eventual got nasal surgery that greatly reduced her sleep apnea.
And why the hell does this not have more comments?
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Because it just went up an hour ago?
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Date says 2020 for me . . 2 years . .
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That's when the chapters were written, but the story itself was published when I said it was. FimFiction is weird like that.
I am always in favor of more Starlight and Trixie, they're just so adorable!
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Ah, i see . .
never noticed that before.
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Yep! I wrote 2/3 of this about 2 years ago. Finally got it out today so that it wouldn't be more than a year since my last published story. Glad you've enjoyed!
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Agreed! I highly recommend
- MLP: FiM
- Romance
- Comedy
Trixie and Starlight discover witchcraft is real, and do the obvious thing about it..
And now that I finally finished this story, I can finish my raunchier purely comedy story about Trixie tagging Twilight's tree Castle thingy with graffiti!
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Perhaps the other readers were simply overwhelmed with how Great and Powerful the shipping was?
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I suspect this to be the case, not unlike ancient souls rendered mute by the awesome terror of witnessing an angel.
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Two ships I adore in one fic? and so enjoyable too.
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Honestly I hadn't thought about writing this before this comment, but I can promise I already have like 2/3 written another story which is basically 6,000 words of Trixie fucking with Twilight sparkle with Starlight stuck in the Middle
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I'm thrilled you enjoyed it! If the second ship you're talking about is tempest light, then do I have a treat for you!
- MLP: FiM
- MLP: Movie
- Comedy
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*vibrates in excitement*
Weird style but cute.
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Sounds about like my style!
Oh hey, I remember doing that! I’ll give it a read when I can.
Oh, right, there was an epilogue. I was wondering why the story only had three comments. (Look, I've been gradually reading the story all day when I can take a break from work.)
In any case, everything I said before applies, and Twilight and Tempest made for a delightful coda. Thanks again.
Updated link to the original
Was going to ponify the entire lyrics but then I got tired and took a nap. Anyway, more glory to Trixilight—wait no, uhh... Staxie, Glixie... hold on.
GlimGlam and Trixie. TrixiGlam. There. Now they're an 80s power ballad band.
How did you get those sidebar hoofnotes to work properly?
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Did you mean to post a blank comment, or did you type the hoofnote syntax and it got stripped by the renderer?
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Okay now that I'm properly logged in again:
I originally had a great your mom and Rick Ashley and you just lost the game joke baked into my explanation, but alas, I'll keep it simple this time:
[right_insert]unfortunately this doesn’t work on mobile (just shows up as regular full width quote box unless you set the site to desktop view)[/right_insert] [left_insert]shows up like this[/left_insert]unfortunately this doesn’t work on mobile (just shows up as regular full width quote box unless you set the site to desktop view))
shows up like this
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This is just a test
No, really: there is no meaning here
Another sentence of testing
But it does introduce new wrinkles to use1 in my build pipeline
Final thing?
Ok, that was kind of weird2, but now I know how they interact with hoofnotes.
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The other thing is usually you want to put it pretty high up relative to other texts just because of how text wrapping works
This is... slightly different from what you've been publishing recently.
I like it.
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Thanks! But you must be mistaken about recent publishings, since it was exactly a year prior I actually last published anything!
Holy shit this was an absolute riot! These two are perfect for romantic comedies, and you really went all-out here -- and I haven't even touched on the formatting yet! The formatting tricks, art inserts, and footnotes honestly read smoothly and made me chuckle more than once. They really helped highlight what it was like to be in Trixie's head.
Really glad to have helped out with this one.
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this comment made my day. Glad you enjoyed, and glad the formatting worked for you. Did you read it on mobile or desktop mode?
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Laptop! 👉👀👉
upon rereading this, i am struck by and adore how dense this story is. fantastic fic!
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man, that's awesome; the thought that I wrote something good enough to be sought out and read a second time is just filling me with dopamine right now, thank you so much I've got this glowing grin on my face right now!
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say it's dense?
Thanks and have a great day!