What the hell is "Fallout: Equestria"? · 8:20pm Nov 23rd, 2013
Creating an entirely original work, made of entirely archetypal elements, is quixotic. There will always be overlaps and comparisons with previously explored themes, characters, and phlebotinum, whether known or not.
My editor has recently brought to my attention an integral plot device in my story could be misconstrued as being copied directly from "Fallout: Equestria". It may be a sacrilege for me to say, but I haven't read "Fallout: Equestria" or any of its companion fics. I haven't played any of the Fallout video games. In fact, this particular device had been conceived before I had even joined FimFiction and knew that pony-fics existed. I have no frame of reference.
I intend on reading it after I finish "Source" and before continuing "The Center Cannot Hold". That won't be for several months.
The item in question is a spell called "Thief of Days", inspired by White Wolf's "World of Darkness" PnP RPG material, and it summons a spirit that can tear out a pony's memories and allow others to view them later. The spirit itself can be bound to any object, and the 'target' loses the aforementioned memory unless they can recover it from the spirit. The memory container can only be activated through the application of a spell, so either a unicorn or a storage crystal containing unicorn magic. Apparently, something similar exists in "FoE", and he suggested I rewrite around it.
In short, I'm not.
Is any story featuring deer ripping of "It's a Dangerous Business?" That's fallacious.
I could care less. The nose plays.
Chapter 7 is half done, because that half was originally part of chapter 6. Ironically, it works better that way. Watch out for every sixth chapter. Six is bad.
FO: E is the most popular fic in this fandom in terms of attention, though in my honest opinion, and my opinions as an albeit shitty, but aspiring writer, it deserves absolutely none of the attention it has been given. To put it bluntly, if you wish to know what they thought you were ripping off, the things found within the story Fallout: Equestria were called "Memory Orbs," and what they did was allow you to view certain scenes of the past and the experiences contained within as a kind of spectator to the action. They were a reoccurring device in the setting to allow exposition as to what happened pre-war with the ministries and such.
Don't worry about it though. Literally everything in FO: E is taken from something else in the sense of straight-up idea-ripping so to say someone is copying FO: E is both asinine and laughable. Good luck writing. From what i've seen of your work the ideas you have in mind are at least different than that of the overused concepts that have become the norm in this fandom.
Just play fallout 3 if you want the exact same experience as you would get reading FO: E. Funny thing is it's a big fucking joke in the fallout community that people who started on fallout 3 claim to be 'true fans' of the series, when 99% of the time they have only played that and the more recent New Vegas, which im certain Kkat has done.
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Yeah, I'm married with children. I haven't played a video game in a decade.
You should read Fo:E, it's really good (actually it's my favorite book!)
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I've heard mixed reviews, though I'll take that under advisory.
I'm sure I'll get to it.
Fo:E gets just as much undeserved hate as it gets undeserved praise. Yes it's obvious that the memory orbs were an exposition construct, but they are also woven into the main story arc as an integral part of the plot. The ability to store, replay and even remove your original memories is used to allow the character to accomplish an important task that would not be possible without them. And the way that it is revealed that this is happening is genuinely well done. One other feature they have is that they trap the user into the memory until it is finished playing back. So I say it's unfair to simply call them a contrived exposition tool as if that's all they are.
For my own Fo:E crossover fic, it takes place during the great war, and the motivation behind the memory orb development is a key ingredient to my story's main arc.
As for the story itself, yes I highly recommend it. It's definitely worth the read. It doesn't have to be a literary masterpiece to be an exemplary story. The character development alone is worth the time reading it.
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Everything, no matter how brilliantly integrated, begins as a device.
Devices, of course, have varying complexity.
Ugh. Old stuff but I have to nitpick at it. (Grammar nazi ;) )
It is "I could NOT care less" if you want to make any sense.
Would you use "I agree with you in 100% = 'I could agree more' "?