MI Beta, Post 5 · 10:30pm Apr 3rd, 2014
Hello again and welcome to the scrapped concepts of the Maledictum Insania series.
Again, I apologize for having all my projects on hold right now. April will be pretty much the most stressfull month for me.
The last year of my training is a complete mess. It is absolutely unclear if I will become an aproved Kindergarden teacher or not.
My whole future is uncertain at this point. The job I thought I would be able to do for my whole life is no longer fun to me. I am just exhausted, stressed, annoyed, depressed, have to feel guilty for every tiny mistake and I simply don't know how to go on anymore, yet I have to push through.
Oh, here I am, babbling about my life when you are truly here to read your weekly concept. Enough of the chit-chat then.
Alicorn Twilight in MI1
When Celestia and Luna were secretly talking about Twilight's hidden powers in the chapter Prelude in Maledictum Insania 1, I originally planned to turn her into an alicorn. I always found it suspicious how, in the show, Celestia reacted to Twilight during her entrance exam and that she ended up becoming the princess' personal protege. My idea was that she saw a potential demi-goddess in her all along, so she put a lot of effort into guarding Twilight and bringing her on the path to discover her abilities. Twilight's alicorn status would have been a key role to solving the demon-war and possibly even being capable of lifting the curse of madness.
Why was this idea scrapped?
At that point, it was still long before Twilicorn became canon, so an alicorn Twilight seemed really overpowered and overused to me, since so many already did make stories about her ascention. I wanted to stay original. I feared it would displease my audience, turn out cheesy and was just coming way too much out of the blue. So I scrapped the idea.
In the end, I came to the conclusion that I should still make her incredibly powerful, but on the level of an average pony. Instead of making Twilight an immortal demi-goddess of magic, I just gave her the arcane magic abilities of one, turning her into the mightiest mortal pony that ever lived and outdoing even Starswirl's capabilities.
Even though she now is an alicorn in the show, I will remain on the path I set up and keep her as an incredibly mighty unicorn with close-to-lethal organ damage. While I originally wanted to stay as close to the show as possible to emphasize that this is my headcanon and takes place in the same universe as the show does, the ascention of Twilight completely knocked my story off the rails and put it on its own road. But in the end, that's not really a bad thing after all.
That's it for this time. I know that was a bit short, but the less I give away at once, the longer these posts can keep going. As usual, I would appreciate comments and your thoughts.
I'm sure things will get better for you. It might just be the hardest part of the training. I, myself, got stressed studying IT since the lower levels seemed repeated and boring. But when I got further into the advanced stuff, even though it was a bit harder, which I wanted learn, things started getting more interesting and fun.
I prefer Twilight either way to be honest. She just more mature and got wings now. Of course, her alicorn powers had given her more abilities which was needed for that potion, by Zecora, in the prelude to season 4. But I think the idea of her staying unicorn works better in your MI series, keeps her originality since having her flying around with powerful magic will more likely make her friends less handy.
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I for one dislike what they do with twilicorn so far.
The potion in the season opener was nothing but a very convenient plot-device and along with that, Twilight just learned a whole lot of convenient plot-device spells. Pretty stupid.