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F$@kin' Stupid Idea · 10:56pm May 25th, 2013
Trying to do idea generation today and came up with the seemingly brilliant idea of some magic attack draining senses from the mane six, so that they end up with one sense each (Pinkie only has Pinkie Sense, because rules never quite apply to the Pinkie Pie).
I say seemingly brilliant because HOW THE EFFING FEFF DO YOU WRITE PONIES WITH ONLY ONE FRIGGIN' SENSE DAMMIT?!
This idea's way beyond me. Maybe it'll be something I can try eventually, but I can't even do dialogue! No idea how I'd do it.
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Serious. The title is 'Insensate', and I'm still kind of hashing out the whys and whats of it, but there's a lot of ways it could go. (I don't really do comedy much, or at least I haven't tried with any MLP fic yet. One of the stories I'm working on, Rarity's Night Off, is a comedy of a sort, though.)
Sounds like an awesome idea you have there! They'd have to really work on working together in order to get through stuff, eh? And then they all combine together to form
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Understatement, but yeah. I'm not sure how to get them past it, honestly; most of them being unable to sense basic stuff like 'pain' is going to be virtually impossible to write and (at least in my mind) almost impossible to overcome.
I'm considering having their senses be 'compensatory', i.e., the one who can still see can see better than ever, the one who can hear can hear like a safecracker, etc. So Pinkie's Pinkie Sense gets ramped up to 11, and between that and the other super-but-lone-senses, they might have a chance to fix what's happened.
Eh. The idea's still percolating, really. It just struck me as funny, as if my brain was trying to give me impossible story ideas on purpose. "The mane six all get shot in the head and have to negotiate with Death to try to come back! The mane six all get their wings and legs and horns get chopped off by robots! The mane six are suddenly teleported into deep space and have to find an oxygen source in less than ten seconds!"
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So perhaps, all the ponies' senses are extremely dulled (can barely see, can barely hear) except for that one sense of theirs which becomes super
humanlyequinely good. At that point, the story becomes the Disability Superpower variety.Sounds pretty awesome to me!
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That is actually a much better idea; if they're dulled, then I can still feed in information from those senses, it'll just be distorted or faint.
I think you might have actually fixed the story.
Although the yelling is going to deafen Fluttershy in the first five seconds.
"AH CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHAT?"
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That sounds like a hilarious scene.
So, what will everyone's senses be?
Pinkie Pie gets her Pinkie Sense of course, which once boosted would basically allow her to predict the future. I bet she'd be a martial arts master with power like that.
But, such power still wouldn't be perfect, because knowledge of the future changes what will happen! She'd be like Paul Atreides at that point!
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Well, this is tentative, and SPOILERS, so yeah:
Twilight's sight becomes amplified.
Dash's taste becomes amplified.
Applejack's smell becomes amplified.
Fluttershy's hearing (obviously) becomes amplified.
Rarity's touch becomes amplified.
Pinkie, of course, only gets her Pinkie Sense, but it becomes a sort of two or three second window on the future. So she can still communicate with the others, by sensing what'll happen if she does different things.
They can all still talk (of course) but most of them can't hear each other or see well enough to avoid obstacles, I'm thinking. And they can feel just enough to stay balanced and on their hooves, but only under ideal circumstances; if they're pushed, or distracted, or trying to run, they fall over their own feet (except Rarity).
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Makes sense to me.
Would be a great story for talking about cooperation. Perhaps part of what kicks off the story is a fight between the mane six in which they all argue with each other? And then this happens and they quickly have to get over their current differences in order to operate properly.
Maybe Trollestia's behind it all as a way to purposefully end the dispute.
(no idea where you wanted this story to go, just tossing ideas out there)
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I haven't gotten that far. (Although I like the idea of it being set up with a fight first, honestly. I feel like this is an idea I could turn into an episode-like fic, instead of my usual veering off into Tragic! Consequences!)
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If I may say so, I think this would work much better as a comedy than a tragedy.
I mean, the fight can totally set up a sense of consequence and purpose to the madness, but ultimately there is too much potential for silly antics to spend all the fic's time on the dark stuff!
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I think you've got a point, and maybe I'll finally write a damn comedy!
I would be pretty damn pleased if that happened . . .
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Hooray for comedy!
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Neal Stephenson posed a thought experiment similar to this in 'Anathem' (somewhat derived from Husserl's theories on the conscious mind) known as 'the fly, the bat, and the worm'. It wasn't a story, as such, but it might be germane to your current problem. It basically discusses how the 'pure forms' of these creatures (a fly being only sight, a bat being only hearing, and a worm being only touch) might communicate and overcome traps or similar obstacles.
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Well, this is probably going to end up a comedy, so I figure I'll go with the 'extremely weakened senses', not the complete absence.
I am not good enough to pull the complete absence version off. I know this. Maybe someday, but not right now.
This has great potential for a comedy, but it is possible to make it serious if celestia grants them the ability to communicate telepathicly so they are not completely helpless, but it wouldn't help with consentration it you have 4 mares and 1 pinkie pie shouting in your head.