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When faced with an impossible request, what will Spike choose to do? To make matters worse, that request comes from his elderly brother in all but blood, Shining Amor. Will he agree to protect the most prized treasure of his brother?
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You ever thought about doing a more in-depth Spike-Cadence shipping? Clearly you have the talent to pull off anything you set your mind to, but this story does peek my interest to see how you would pull one off.
we do not like the death
I'm fine. Really I'm FINE!
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Personally, I wish Spike had told Shining, "I will - think about it. It's too heavy to make a snap decision on it, even for you big brother. Besides, you still have to talk my sister and niece into it."
It's too early in the morning for these feels to be up!
Great story. Love the pairings, the past, present and future one's, plus the battle warrior Flurry is a really nice touch.
Great job!
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death is an abomination
THis was alovely story. I love the fact that Shining went with the old fashinoned "marry you dead siblings spouse to preserve their honor." It makes sense, and is tragic all the same. Lovely story.
I think the main thing that stopped me from enjoying this story as much as I wanted to was all the confusion over what limbs the ponies have. At times you say 'hooves', but then there are a ton of seeming typos where the ponies have fingers and hands. It comes up a lot over the course of the story and it kept throwing me out of it.
Hmmmmmm
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I mentioned hooves once with Flurry and only then. They are anthros. It's one of the tags. Think Baron Engel's style anthros.
I really, really enjoyed this... but marry her? Like... he can't just keep bring a brother? Does Shining also want him to marry Flurry? Or Twilight? They'll both be around for years, and they have just a close connection to Spike as Cadance does. He's been Cadance's brother in law for nearly two centuries, right? For some odd reason, asking him to marry her just gives off "Paddle faster, I hear banjos" vibes to me.
I've had a very similar idea kicking around in my head—Shining saying goodbye to his immortal family—but the idea of Shining asking Spike to marry his wife is just... creepy, maybe? He even said it'd just be for companionship, so... why marriage? That's pressure to put on a guy. Why not just a simple, "Take care of them. You're the big bro now" or something.
Iunno, like I said, I really dug this, and any excuse for Shining and Spike being bros is top tier for me. But while the emotions were great, the message just... eugh.
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Ah, sorry! Think I missed the tag, and the cover image with pony Shining threw me off
god damnd i hate you T-T i am crying my eyes out like a child and my heart hurts T-T
but the story is so beautiful, so well writen, after i started i was unable to stop
My tears. They may be little, but they still came out
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yeah, i mean, not to be mean, but is it really necessary to have the story anthro? I had to mind-edit it to normal-show-style for personal preference-reasons.
10713214 While I agree that the marriage part was a bit too much, the one that made the request for this story followed the reason and traditions of honor, rather than familiarity and symbolism.
Thanks for the read!
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Were... you responding to me? Because the site seems to think you're talking to a nine year old comment. o_O
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LOL! Yeah!
Edit: Seems it fixed itself.
I WANT MORE!
Ohh Gabby 😭 dragons do live a long time and that kind of hurts that you will outlive the loved one 😔
Man that's so sad 😞
I love this.
Look on the bright side Spike. You get to be igloo buddies with Shining now
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Well it isn't uncommon for a man to take his brother's wife once he dies in some societies. Mostly this was to ensure that the widow wouldn't be left to fend on her own in a time where women couldn't hold property or earn a living. In a royal setting, while I can't think of any off hand, I'm sure it's come up for hereditary or stability reasons. So all and all I wouldn't say it's ass-bonkers crazy no.
Death, the first friend and ONLY true ally
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Five of the six royals in Equestria are mares, not counting Blueblood because he doesn't appear to have nay real power. In fact, outside of the royal blood lines, Equestria seems to be completely egalitarian. Shit, several times the show made it quite clear that Cadance was the true ruler of the Empire, as almost any time major decisions were made, she was there, not Shining. There would be no reason whatsoever for Shining to be worried about Cadance retaining her title. I mean, she had hers before he had his!
But I know, I know, the commissioner asked for it, so the author made it happen. I left my initial comment before I knew that. Still kinda silly, IMHO.
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I wasn't implying that was the case here, just that it isn't that uncommon of an idea in general.
In this case of course it is more of an emotional support between immortals.
In any other setting then MLP immortals tend to dive into hedonism and decadence to ward off ennui, so your adopted bro marrying your widow isn't really that bad.
Sweet, but...weird.
This was really great, we don't get enough brotherly love between this two. The marry thing maybe a bit strange, but I'm not against it. May have felt more natural if he just ask to take care of her, then that led to something more. But as is it was still a really great read, the loving interactions between the two was lovely to read, and Flurry's bit was also uber cute.
Nice work
Huh. That's... not the kind of request I expected.
I expected something like "Once I'm gone take care of my little Sister and my daughter. Watch over them for me.", but of course that would have been too obvious.
Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
Now this broke me.
Great story!
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How so?
ouch
just ouch
thanks for the feels trip, even if it dug in a little hard
I won't lie, tears were shed. Great piece of writing!
A bit strange for Spike to marry his cousin but I guess if you live as long as dragons, alicorns and Discord does that the request is not as strange as you would think. Damn, this was heartfelt and depressing all rolled into one. Amazing job. Also I too like the ship of Spike and Gabby.