Notes for Chapters 36-39 of The Siren · 1:56am Jul 6th, 2023
These are the notes for Chapters 36-39 of my fanfic The Siren. Don’t read until after you’ve read the chapters, as we're pretty deep in spoiler territory by now.
Chapter 36
“Party of One”
Actually, more like “Party of One”. Anyway, some dialog in this chapter was taken from the screenplay of the episode in question, which was written by Meghan McCarthy.
Because Rainbow Dash remembered everything.
Please re-use the sound effect from earlier.
Chapter 37
The grepp
This is based on the Dungeons & Dragons monster known as the grell:
Rather insanely for a monster that looks like a flying brain, it doesn’t actually eat memories.
My name for the creature comes from the UNIX command “grep”, which is used to find something.
The gainsayer
I don’t have a specific monster in mind for this. The back tentacles came from the D&D displacer beasts, particularly the rather-disturbing 3rd Edition version:
Chapter 38
Rozetri’s species
If you’re a certain type of science-fiction nerd, you probably think you know everything about Rozetri’s species. (Dalek, if you really must know.)
Well, I will admit I started with those guys…and then I went in my own direction. So please don’t complain about Rozetri having a metallic voice in her native form. My Slugs have Dalek-style voices even outside their machines, so there.
Chapter 39
“Princess Cadance was born as a pegasus…”
Cadance origin story taken from Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell, by G.M. Barrow.
