Octavia’s life in Canterlot has not gone as planned.
Now feeling alienated and alone, her despair has reached a new low point. But in her darkest hour, the earth pony devoid of confidence and hiding a shameful secret is confronted by her deepest fears when an old friend visits.
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I had a friend that confided in dolls, toys, inanimate objects that will never talk back or belittle you.
Octavia commonly is written as a pony who sticks to a routine and absolutely needs everything to go a certain way or it's all wrong. any deviation from the structured normal could lead to a meltdown and maybe taking out that frustration on others, almost like an OCD complex that traps you in.
think twilight from lesson zero. her inability to not fuss over a scheduled friendship letter (one she arbitrarily set) get the best of her ends up with an enchantment causing a whole town to fight each other. for Octavia, Vinyl is usually the one to push back against her stuctured, OCD life. I've seen a mix of stories where octavia snaps, to where she loosens out of her own world and eventually relaxes more, taking things as they come without trying to perfect every waking moment.
but in between those bouts with friends and even enemies, we all need to unwind somehow, and not many stories are written covering that for most of the ponies. it's not a side of Octavia that's written very often, and I'm curious to see where you go with this. ponies in her daily life being bullies, or setting those high expectations over her, she needs an escape somewhere. didn't expect anyone to use dolls though. videogames tend to be my escape
oh, and you'll find lots of willing prereaders to catch the gramatical errors. if you managed to write all this by yourself, you've done very. I could use you as a prereader
That Was lovely. I fell this is going to be a new take on The Octavia and Vinyl thing..... That's the best i could think to phrase it.....
EDIT: WHO DOWN VOTED THIS? I WILL FIND THEM AND HORRIBLY MIAM THEM!
Wait, is that pony vecotor made with that pony creator thing. But i've never seen it like that so it took me a while to reconzize it, so it means you story already sucks- NO i'm just kidding, i achualy have to give you(or whoever made it) points. Now on to the story!
Ps, i know this will piss off everyone, but... TTTHHHHIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDD!
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This is very good. Depressing, but very well done. Can't wait to see where Octavia goes from here.
Well done, and pretty well written.
On to the next!
I wish I could favourite this multiple times. Amazing work!
octavia and vinyl are best plushies lol, I wonder if vinyl had anything to do with the her doll putting a hoof over the octy plushy's shoulder
I put off reading the first chapter for a couple of days because of the length. I saw this update when I got on and decided to read it. This story is really good. It was missing a good amount of commas and had some other grammatical errors but nothing that really disrupted flow. The detail was great and I found myself empathizing with Octavia throughout the story. I have found that stories with long chapters like this rarely disappoint.
I'm glad to hear you are continuing this. I hope it continues soon. Keep up the great work.
P.S. Have my eye.
Can't wait for the next part! Really want to see how Vinyl is able to help Octavia with her problems.
It's all so well written and it reminds me so much of a friend of mine that it's uncanny.
Have a thumbs up, and follow!
I was a little surprised to learn that Octavia's dolls wear clothes, but other than that I adored this whole chapter. Sure, it might be nice to actually see how things pan out for Octavia from here, but honestly, I think this is a perfect conclusion.
I found this (again) in my read later, after having read the first chapter.
My immediate question was this: Why isn't this in my favorites? What is wrong with me?!
I am glad to say I have remedied the situation.
As for the story: Excellent way of ending it. Honestly a little early in my opinion, but it works anyway.
I can't wait for whatever you do next. Onwards! And don't stop, you're good at this. You all are.
'The mare... the mare... the mare... the mare.'
This is a promising story, but Lavender Unicorn Syndrome makes it grating to read, especially in the first paragraphs. I think it would work much better if you took out just about every instance of Octavia being referred to as 'the mare' or 'the gray mare' or 'the musician' and simply used pronouns instead.
There are a lot of grammatical errors, broken sentences and, like I said about the first chapter, huge amounts of LUS.
And yet I actually started to care about the characters and read through to the end. I guess that speaks to the credit of the story's other aspects. 
By the way, this story somehow made me think of David Bowie's song "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide":
'OH NO LOVE, YOU'RE NOT ALONE!'
Finally finished this. Have a thumb.
Some errors, but still enjoyable.
Well written. I wouldn't have thought a fic about this subject matter could have been enjoyable to read, but it was. Looking forward to the next fics in the series.
Yet you're drinking directly from the glass, aren't you, Octavia?
And then I combine with chocolate-flank and graham cracker-flank to form S'moresicorn!