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AleximusPrime


MLP artist and fanfic writer. Known for Flurry Heart's Story and My Little Sister is a Dragon.

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  • Monday
    I Can't Afford to Lose You music

    Whoops. I just realized I forgot to make an Author's Note on Ester Dracos Chapter 6 that links the tune to the "I Can't Afford to Lose You" song. Here it is:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/17yLAbD7LicbbBTbNETOOqqckfUbMrVNP/view

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  • 1 week
    Nightwatch's Flaws

    Before we get started, just letting you all know, I have chapter 6 of Ester Dracos in progress, but there's a song in it which I'm composing, and as per the usual, it is taking a while to finish. After some difficulty, I have managed to come up with a tune now. It sounds good, I'm just getting to a more challenging section and it might complicate things. I actually have the first chapter of

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  • 2 weeks
    New FHS Episode titles and synopses for Season 2 (eps 4-9)

    I wanted to wait till after MBFPW was finished since the description for ep 4 is a bit spoilery, but it's been done for a while now so here are more titles and synopses, and this time I'm going to reveal a whopping 6 of them! I was still deciding on some of their titles, but I have them all now, so here we go!

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  • 5 weeks
    Chapter titles for FHS?

    I was just thinking about how I give unique titles for the chapters in My Little Sister is a Dragon, but not for Flurry Heart's Story. The reason for this is because back when I first made MLSiaD, it was just supposed to be one quick little chapter and I didn't feel like calling it "Chapter 1" when there wouldn't be any more, but that quickly changed when I decided to add more to it. FHS just

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  • 7 weeks
    Aster's voice

    I don't usually do this, but I gotta let you guys know before you read chapter 2 of the Ester Dracos Arc cuz otherwise his dialogue might sound a little weird in your head. Aster's voice sounds like Robin Williams and has a personality very similar to him, joking around and speaking in funny voices every so often.

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Apr
16th
2023

FHS/MLSiaD Q&A April 2023 · 7:38pm Apr 16th, 2023

Now time for the answers to your guys's questions from last week! If your question wasn't answered, it could be because someone else already asked it, I couldn't understand it or answering it would lead to spoilers I'm not ready to give. Anyway, let's see what we've got:



FoundFamily from FIMfic asks: Will you do a villain that WON'T be reformed?

Yes, in fact I’ve already introduced a few that are irredeemable but I won’t say who they all are. I’d like you guys to figure that out.

SpikeSmolder Fan from FIMfic asks: Will the drake sibs (Spike/Buttercream) try to play matchmaker for their certain pony sibs?

I have thought of it. Barb will need some suitors to determine who will be the next king of Nordo Dracos. Her time to lead won’t come for a while so I’m not sure that will be happening real soon, but I like to think Northerns mate for life so she could choose a husband long before she becomes the queen. As for Scorch and Singe, they may or may not already have girlfriends of their own.

SpikeSmolder Fan from FIMfic asks: Will Spike be introducing his little sister to some O&O sessions?

Oh Butter already knows how to play Ogres and Oubliettes. Nightwatch has some pals that play a lot of tabletop with him, but they’ll be introduced later.

SpikeSmolder Fan from FIMfic asks: Are there more MLSIAD chapters coming soon in between FHS stories?

Yup! I might do another one this year, but I might at least try to get done with “My Big Fat Pink Wedding” first.

Captain Irons from FIMfic asks: Now that Buttercream has been introduced to FHS, will we start seeing characters from MLSIAD making appearances in FHS?

Yes and I am super stoked to introduce them!

Captain Irons from FIMfic asks: Do you plan to do a time skip or have Flurry Heart, her friends, and everyone else grow older and/or change over course of your story?

I am planning on doing a time-skip, yes. That won’t be for a while though. Season 1 is all in one summer so it will take place over the course of about 3.5 months. I am planning on having S2 start not long after S1. Not sure how long S2 will go or when S3 will start, but I’m already thinking a bit too far ahead.

Captain Irons from FIMfic asks: Will Spike be spending more time with his dragon family and will they play a part in FHS?

Butter will be the one we will see most of, but I have an upcoming episode that takes place in Nordo Dracos again and I might see if I can have the others drop by to visit if the writing calls for it.

StarzGecko from FIMfic asks: Now that Cozy is reformed, will we see her first night with her mother or more of them in the future stories?

I have actually thought of doing a short 1-chapter story about Cozy the night after the Sorceress was defeated where she gets to know Melody. Cozy will be in the stories to come with more roles to play. We’ll probably see more of her than Melody, but I will definitely be using Melody more too.

StarzGecko from FIMfic asks: What was the progress on making Melody?

You mean the process? Well like I’ve said before, I was originally going to have both of Cozy’s parents show up when she is the Sorceress, and they were going to be more careless and irresponsible to her in the past but now regret it. I did away with this and thought it could be just her mother and the father is either unknown or we’ll see him later. I’m not sure I ever thought too hard about her design, but I wanted her to look a bit like Cozy, which is how she got her hair. For some reason, I also kept picturing her as a unicorn, but she stayed a pegasus. I’m still surprised no one noticed how similar she was to Cozy back when I first revealed her in 2020, but maybe no one bothered to mention it. Some started to figure it out though and it became quite evident the moment I introduced her and Cozy was revealed to be the Sorceress in “Oh, Mother, Where Art Thou?”.

StarzGecko from FIMfic asks: Was there anything you wished to improve of in the past stories you’ve made?

This is a good question. Honestly, aside from some grammatical and spelling errors or some awkward dialogue I notice while re-reading the older stories, I don’t really regret a lot of what I’ve done in terms of plot. I do think sometimes “Maybe I should have done this instead”, but surprisingly, I’ve never had much serious afterthought about it. I think and plan these stories well in advance and they are subject to change, but that is how it should be with any author writing fiction, so I guess I’m doing something right! With older older stories like “Switchy Pie” or even a few little elements here and there in “AotA: Chaos Rising”, I do sometimes think harder on how they could be improved.

Dupontsimon from FIMfic asks: The Pinkie and Cheese wedding story won't be the same as the Canterlot Wedding, would it? I never liked how they mistreated Twilight in the first half.

Yeah, that was a bit unfair to Twilight. As great as that episode was, there were some weird things like the fact that Twilight didn’t know her brother was dating Cadance that whole time. Anyway, whatever similarities there are to “Canterlot Wedding” in that story, I will try to make it a bit different and Flurry will not undergo the same treatment Twilight did.

SudokuBrony from FIMfic asks: In MLSiaD, why does Luna speak normally and not like the Old Time Equestria ("Thou speakest of", for example) like she did in Luna Eclipsed? Only example I found was, “FAIR THEE WELL, CHILDREN!”

Well if you notice in chapter 8, when Luna first comes to meet Nightwatch, Buttercream and Noctura, she apologizes for not speaking in the Royal Canterlot Voice because she is still traumatized over what happened with Nightmare Moon and is in the process of healing. It would have been too much for her to talk like that after what she went through, but she did still speak like a person from older time.

SuperSonicHeroes from FIMfic asks: How far in advance do you have the series planned out? I see that you have the first 13 stories planned and listed (plus the interlude) but how much after that have you worked out?

Right now, I have titles and short synopses ready for pretty much all of Season 1, but not every episode has a full summary drafted and many things are still subject to change. I don’t have anything drafted yet for S2; it’s just in my head at this point because I want to focus mostly on completing S1. I have already thought ahead for certain events in future seasons and I have a basic idea for what I want the finale to be like, but the latter changes from time to time. Also, I have most of what I want to happen in MLSiaD summarized or at least conceptualized. That series will have fewer (yet longer) episodes and obviously ends well before FHS. Its final episode right now is planned to happen some time around when “Ending of the End” occurs. More to come later.

SuperSonicHeroes from FIMfic asks: Who is your personal favorite character to write for in the series, both canon and OC?

For OCs, I love to write for characters like Stormy and Buttercream. Their dialogue is really cute and silly, and as a result, canon characters like Pumpkin, Pinkie and Discord have the same effect. When doing more serious or deeper characters, I found it really fun to work on Noctura, Scorpan, or Night Shade. Villains like the Brotherhood members, the Cult of Eternal Night, and Zeb and Svengallop are also fun to make the as evil as possible. It’s quite an experience to be able to bounce back and forth between these different themes for characters.

Lps604 on Deviant Art asks: In FHS, when will Flurry Heart get her cutie mark?

I’m honestly not sure yet. I still don’t know what it should be or how she gets it, but I feel like it should be a big deal when it does happen. Right now, that’s not in my mind yet so it’s not in Season 1. Maybe Season 2?

y0-ka13 from Deviant Art asks: For FHS will there be more graduate 6 appearances?

Definitely! There’s actually a story coming up that focuses on them! The series is about Flurry and her friends, but I do want to try and give those 6 enough moments and character development.

AceBlazewing from Deviant Art asks: Now that Cozy Glow's true identity has been revealed, what would you interpret her rook chess piece cutie mark to represent? Would the Crusaders perhaps be able to help her decide what to do with her talent going forward?

I can’t say right now what it represents, but I have plans to make an episode like that, because that is definitely something that needs answers. There has to be focus on Cozy as a protagonist for at least one episode and I also want to make one that has the CMC playing a big role.

AceBlazewing from Deviant Art asks: Which story aspect did you find the most fun or challenging to explore and build upon: Spike's dragon family, or Cozy's backstory?

I had a lot of fun coming up with things for Spike’s family. One day at work I thought about “rage mode” and then the idea of Sludge coming in while he himself is in rage mode hit me and it all really came together well. I created a lot of interesting lore for the Northern Drakes and I’m glad I went somewhere with Spike’s lineage and gave him an actual family. That was definitely a fun one and the challenge was explaining how they missed Spike all these years. Putting the location of the town Butter was raised in right between Canterlot and Nordo Dracos helped explain it as well as the fact that the roc turned around to find Butter’s egg it dropped and that’s when Celestia saw it and rescued Spike’s egg. For Cozy’s backstory, that one was more of a challenge, but I had fun nonetheless. I am also not quite done with developing some of her backstory and there is definitely more to say about Melody. I have thought of making a short story about Twilight finding the old orphanage Cozy was raised in and tracking down the owner(s) and confronting them about her.

Jayvron13 from Deviant Art asks: My first question would be about Age of The Alicorns: Chaos Rising. I read it but I saw that it was unfinished. Why is that?

I have neglected to update that story for several years now because let’s just say I am a lazy bum. For real though, I do need to finish writing it. There is a huge moment coming up in AotA:CH that won’t have much of an impact on my readers now since they’ve probably forgotten how that story went or how it was building up. I might go back and make massive corrections to the grammar and dialogue so it gives people incentive to go read it if they haven’t already or re-read it to catch up on what is going on.

Jayvron13 from Deviant Art asks:Any upcoming stories' summaries you can share at the moment? If there aren't, when can we expect the reveal?

I have quite a few stories with synopses and titles ready to reveal, but I’m waiting because one of them I am still deciding the title of and another has some slight spoilers in its synopses for “MBFPW”. If I reveal some upcoming episodes, it will probably just be 3 and hopefully that will be soon.

Jayvron13 from Deviant Art asks:Is there any new info we can expect? Any Locations, Characters, both new and old etc?

Definitely. There are several big locations and characters to be revealed in MLSiaD. Ester Dracos, the home of the Eastern Drakes will be the focus of an upcoming MLSiaD episode. There’s also a new location and species in an upcoming FHS episode that has to do with some characters from G1, but I won’t say which ones. Oh and we’ve already met Allegra, but I have yet to show her design and she will have a role to play in an upcoming episode too.

Noah13442 from Deviant Art asks: When you're done with the first half of the series, will there be another half?

Uh…if there’s one half, that implies there will be a second. I’m guessing you mean a second season? Cuz yes, I am going to definitely do a second season since there’s way more to tell after S1.

Noah13442 from Deviant Art asks: Will you do another set of the upcoming characters?

Yes, once I have enough designed and can show them as silhouettes.

Noah13442 from Deviant Art asks: Just like Cozy Glow as the new Starlight Glimmer, will there be other foals that will represent Sunset Shimmer, Trixie, and Sunburst?

Maybe. I don’t plan on forcing that, but there will be a few others joining the supporting cast, they just might not be too similar. I don’t want to copy everything about the canon show, but there’s heavy inspiration from it. Cozy and Starlight’s situations were far different, but I can see her having some of the same nervous mannerisms as Starlight now that she’s reformed.

Trucy Sparkle from Deviant Art asks: Could you give us a hint as to what Zeb and Erebus have planned for Equestria?

I think it’s kind of obvious now with some of the dialogue at the end of “Fillie Jean”, but Erebus’s power is to feed off negativity and Zeb is directly assisting him, with the goal of seeing Equestria drown in darkness. Svengallop and his associates are all trying to build up a culture to subvert that of Equestria’s, but what they don’t know is they are inadvertently working for Zeb and by that extension, Erebus. Erebus basically has control of the entertainment industry in a sense and he’s going to feed off of all the hatred the ponies of Hinnywood have for the royal family. There is an even darker truth behind Erebus, but that will be revealed much later.

TrucySparkle from Deviant Art asks: Are you going to ship the remaining main 6 with anyone? (Who do you plan to ship Twilight, Fluttershy and Rarity with?)

Well I’ve already made it obvious through Butter’s dialogue in “GNYD” who Twilight will be shipped with, but for Fluttershy and Rarity, it’s a bit of a tough one. I have a stallion in mind for Fluttershy, but Rarity I’m stuck on at the moment.

TrucySparkle from Deviant Art asks: Is Flurry Heart ever going to get a little sibling?

Maybe?

BrickMaster2022 from Deviant Art asks: If they're still alive at this point, are Percy and Penny from Age of Alicorns going to appear in Flurry Heart's Story?

Aw, I’m glad to see some people still care about Percy and Penny! They’d be much older now, but I do like the sound of that. The thought has also crossed my mind to use some of the characters seen in “Super Dragon Warriors” but in their current older forms.

sgtalexwoods55 from Deviant Art asks: Will we be seeing Capper, Grubber, Gilda, Gabby, the other Pillars or the Parrot Pirates anytime soon?

Grubber already briefly appeared in “Tirek vs Scorpan” as a servant for Twilight. The others may also appear, but we’ll definitely be getting all the Pillars at some point.

KaijuLord100 from Deviant Art asks: I am still wondering if Flurry Heart’s Story will feature an Equestria Girls adventure, where Flurry will travel through the mirror portal for some reason (perhaps chasing a new villain like her aunt so long ago) and meet the human counterparts of her friend or something like that?

I am having a hard time crossing over with the Equestria Girls dimension. I like EqG but didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as the show, and its timeline gets really confusing, so it is difficult to use that. For example, they are humans with normal lifespans, so how do we go back in time with characters like Celestia and Luna? It’s all so confusing, but I may figure something out.

KaijuLord100 from Deviant Art asks: Will we be seeing anymore MLP G1 characters appear in FHS, such as Catrina, the Bushwoolies, Megan, and/or the witch, Hydia, and her daughters, Draggle and Reeka?

One of these is appearing in an upcoming episode, but I won’t say who right now.

KaijuLord100 from Deviant Art asks: If Tirek, Cozy Glow, and (I assume) Chrysalis were gonna be reformed so soon anyway, then what was Grogar’s motive for freeing them?

What makes you think Grogar freed them? Or that Chrysalis will reform soon? ;P

Sazerlite from Deviant Art asks: Do you ever struggle with having to juggle so many characters? (i.e. mane 6, student 6, pillars, Flurry and friends, villains, new characters, etc.)

Definitely. When there are scenes that include a lot of characters, it can get stressful choosing which ones should speak at any moment and not leaving out others from the conversation. Also, having to put “X said” or “replied Y” after their quotes can get tiring when you’re bouncing back and forth between more than two characters. Now if you mean in a broader sense, it’s tough to have a lot of characters to choose to use in stories or have episodes about. Flurry and her friends are my main priority, but I also want to be able to give other characters the spotlight. For example, “Go North, Young Dragon” was about Spike, but there’s also an episode coming up that focuses on the Teachers and one that focuses on former villains and the kids might not even make an appearance in the latter unless it’s a quick cameo.

DrChrisman from Deviant Art asks: When are we going to get Chrysalis?

Soon, my friend. Soon.

Tigerman531 from Deviant Art asks: Any thoughts of bringing King Sombra into the mix? Because I imagined that he'd be another character who would push Flurry to her limits.

I’m also having a hard time figuring out what to do with Sombra. I liked Sombra and think he has potential, but his appearance in Season 9 kind of ruined it. The one in S3 was mysterious and felt like a force of nature, while the S9 one felt more like a joke with his voice and personality and only felt like a threat when we saw him destroy the Elements and raise an army. Because of this, I don’t know how to address these two different versions of Sombra. I did have one thing in mind for a backstory for him, which is wildly different from the comic version, but comic Sombra is already so different from show Sombra anyway, so maybe it wouldn’t matter at this point. Anyway, I agree that he’d push Flurry to her limits and he would make an excellent villain for FHS some day.

EmilyLsArt from Deviant Art asks: Will there be other mythical creatures appearing in FHS and MLSiaD besides griffons, changelings, hippogriffs, etc?

Good question. I haven’t really thought about many real-world mythological creatures to use. I’m mostly going by the show’s lore and using creatures that already exist or building off of them like I’ve done with the 4 dragon species. I might think of something though. If I read up on Greek mythology or something, I will most likely get inspired enough to include one.



Alright, that's all for now! I'm not sure when the next Q&A will be, but I might post one after I am done with at least 3 more episodes so possibly later this fall. Stay tuned for updates!

Comments ( 10 )

Will you do a story about Tex

Well I’ve already made it obvious through Butter’s dialogue in “GNYD” who Twilight will be shipped with, but for Fluttershy and Rarity, it’s a bit of a tough one. I have a stallion in mind for Fluttershy, but Rarity I’m stuck on at the moment.

What about Thunderlane? That’s an underrated ship

Loved seeing the answers to all these questions!

Thanks for the answers to mine & the others questions Alex! :yay:

Course now I wonder what class Buttercream plays during O&O sessions, hope I get to find out soon! :moustache:

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I am embarrassed to say this, but I don't know what "class" she'd be cuz I actually know little to nothing about D&D so I'll have to do research or enlist a friend to help me. :twilightblush:

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Rumble’s brother. The one who rescued Rarity in “Wonderbolts Academy”

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No I mean which one would he be with?

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