Message of the Show · 11:27pm January 28th
New chapter! This one's gotten that little bit more of a personal touch to it than the others, for reasons you'll see why. Also, Minuette! Minuette was fun to write.
But uh, I'ma gonna shift tracks and get a little introspective for moment, if that's alright.
I like being meta. Shocking, I know. It's just fascinating sometimes, looking at things from an angle you're not 'supposed' to and challenging the norm, and really, that's the whole point of Meteorite. She's a self-insert, she's me, learning to adapt to a completely different environment, while being a whole other species. And by virtue of being written by me, she's just a character, my ideals and personality crammed into a work of fiction, and nothing more.
And yet, I can't just cut parts of her out. The story may dictate where it expects her to follow through, but it's up to her if she agrees with it. She went on this impromptu adventure, because she wanted to. And the story may now nod sagely and go, 'good, excellent, now do this!' but instead Meteorite is now quietly missing her friends from Earth.
Because I would be missing them.
My friends are important to me. They help me push forward in life, and it's the same for Meteorite. Ten years, twenty, it doesn't matter. My friends were important from the day we met. And the fact that Meteorite can't talk with them anymore doesn't just hurt her, it hurts me.
It's very easy to just ignore the problematic issues your characters have until you're ready to deal with them, if at all. And if I'm honest, I'd rather have not spent this long getting to Canterlot. When I first envisioned this little side-story with Steel, I thought it'd take two chapters, tops. Get in, get out, bing bang boom, onto the next bit of Season 4. Now though? Honestly I've no idea how long it'll be. Maybe six chapters total? Eight? Maybe it'll be its own damn arc of the story. Who knows at this point?
But if getting through the story quickly means ignoring what's important to Meteorite, then that's not the story I want to write.
